November 19, 2009
Dr. Jason Shearer
University of Nevada Reno
Title: "Nickel Superoxide Dismutase: Probing Why a Metalloenzyme That Should Not Function Actually Does"

November 12, 2009
Dr. C. Daniel Frisbie
University of Minnesota
Title: "Electrical Resistance of Conjugated Molecular Wires 1-20 nm in Length"

October 29, 2009
Dr. Milan Bruncko
Abbott Laboratories
Title: "BT-263, An Orally Bioavailable and Efficacious Inhibitor of Bcl-2 Family Proteins"

October 22, 2009
Dr. Brian Bennett
Medical College of Wisconsin
Title:"Mechanistic Determinants in a Metalloaminopeptidase from Vibrio and Related Bacterial Enzymes"

October 15, 2009
Dr. Zbigniew Dauter
Argonne National Laboratory
Title: "Nobel prize winners with relations to crystallography"

October 8, 2009
Qi-Zhuang Ye
Indiana University
Title: "Catalysis and Inhibition of Methionine Aminopeptidases"

September 24, 2009
Dr. Richard Holz
Loyola University Chicago
Title: "Antibiotic Resistance: Analyzing the Catalytic Mechanisms of Dinuclear Metallohydrolases"

September 17, 2009
Dr. Brian Brennan
Illinois Wesleyan University
Title:"The Development of Novel Therapeutics for the Treatment of Sickle Cell Desease"

August 27, 2009
Dr. Karol Bruzik
University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: "A Novel Phosphatidylinositol-Specific Phospholipase C with trans-Cyclization Mechanism"

April 23, 2009
Dr. Cliff Johnston
Purdue University
Title: "Probing the microscopic hydrophobicity of mineral surfaces"

April 16, 2009
Dr. Susan Richardson
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Title: "Emerging Disinfection By-Products and Other Emerging Environmental Contaminants in Water and Wastewater: What's New."

April 9, 2009
Dr. Gregory Kamykowski
TA Instruments
Title:  "Applications of Rheology for Material Characterization and Performance Predictions"

March 26, 2009
Dr. Wei You
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: "Engineering Bandgap and Energy Levels of Conjugated Polymers for Organic Solar Cells"

March 19, 2009
Dr. Darrin York
University of Minnesota
Title:  "Molecular simulations of ribozyme structure and catalytic mechanism"

March 12, 2009
Dr. Jian  Chen
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Title:  "Functional Organic Nanomaterials and Their Applications"

February 26, 2009
Dr. Catherine Putonti
Loyola University Chicago
Title: "Methods for Identifying Pathogens in Complex Samles"

February 19, 2009
Dr. Steve Burke
University of WI - Madison
Title: "Exploitation of Symmetry in Natural Products Synthesis:  Strategies and Tactics"

February 12, 2009
Dr. John P. Ferraris
University of Texas at Dallas
Title: "Design and Synthesis of Alternative Membranes for PEM Fuel Cells"

January 29, 2009
Dr. David Treering, GIS Specialist
Center for Urban Environmental Research and Policy - Loyola University Chicago
Title: "Geographic Information Systems Specialist, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Policy"

January 22, 2009
Dr. Josh Goldberger
Northwestern University
Title: "Inorganic and Hybrid 1D to 2D device Building Blocks"