UB - University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

2003-04 Seminars

September 3

Robert Najjar
Chemical Hygiene Hazardous Materials Manager – SUNY at Buffalo
Right to know – chemical laboratory safety

September 17

Manoj K. Chaudhury
Lehigh University
Guiding liquid drops on surfaces

September 24

H. Michael Cheung
The University of Akron
Polymerized microemulsions of hema and mma as potential controlled drug delivery devices

October 8

David Sholl
Carnegie Mellon University
Simulating practical and possible uses of gas separation membranes: zeolites, carbon nanotubes, and metal alloys

October 13

Francoise Winnik
Faculte de Pharmacie, University of Montreal
Multidomain polymeric micelles:   design and characterization

October 22

Yaoqi Zhou
Physiology, SUNY at Buffalo
Toward a more accurate energy function of proteins via statistical methods: the power of combining structural knowledge with physical principles

October 29

Andrey A. Markov
The Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Multi scale numerical simulation of strongly coupled two-phase reacting flow

November 5

David S. Corti
Purdue University
Homogeneous bubble nucleation and cavity formation
in superheated liquids

December 3

Jeffrey Skolnick
Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics, SUNY at Buffalo

January 21

Chemical Hygiene Hazardous Materials Manager – SUNY at Buffalo
RCRA Training

January 28

George T. DeTitta
Executive Director, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
Department of Structural Biology, SUNY at Buffalo
HTP Macromolecular Crystallization: Scale-Up Issues Going from 10 to the 2 to 10 to the 6 Experiments Per Annum

February 4

Shekhar Garde
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Water-Mediated Interactions Relevant to Protein Structure and Stability:
Understanding Pressure Effects on Proteins

February 11

John M. Canty, Jr., M.D.
Physiology & Biophysics, Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
SUNY at Buffalo
Adaptive and maladaptive responses of the heart to chronic ischemia

February 18

Eduardo Glandt
University of Pennsylvania
Surface Deposition: Equilibrium, Nonequilibrium and What Lies in Between

February 25

Arindam Sen
Dept. of Cancer Biology, Molecular & Cellular Biophysics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Strategies in localized drug delivery

March 3

Robert K. Prud'homme
Princeton University
Two problems with polymer self-assembly:   polymer-surfactant interactions and making nanoparticles

March 10

Mikhail Khenner
Dept. of Mathematics, SUNY at Buffalo
Modeling of epitaxy on a masked substrate

April 7

Michael B. Lawrence
Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
Biomechanical Control of Leukocyte Targeting of Inflamed Vasculature

April 14

Igor B. Zhulin
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Comparative genomics of signal transduction in prokaryotes

April 21

Julio M. Ottino
Northwestern University
A Window into Complexity: Simple Examples of Self-Organizing Systems

April 28

Ioannis G. Economou
Institute of Physical Chemistry, National Research Center for Physical Sciences, Greece
Modeling of structure and physical properties of complex soft materials with molecular simulation methods