Amanda Witbeck, a student in Matt Wilson's GIS Workshop at the University of Kentucky, discusses the classes community partnership with the Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice.
This Spring, cadets from the Universities of Kentucky and Tennessee competed in the 'Long Rifle' tournament held in Lexington, Ky. The tournament was comprised of various events, including a 5K run, calisthenics, soccer, football, basketball, ultimate frisbee, tug-of-war and dodgeball.
Rituraj Borgohain of the UK Chemistry Department will be presenting a seminar entitled Physicochemical Modifications and Application of Carbon nano-onions For Supercapacitor.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. John Selegue
Anitha Gowda of the UK Chemistry Department will be presenting a seminar entitled Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furan Derivatives Using Electrophillic Ruthenium(II) Catalysts.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Folami Ladipo
Dr. Neeraj Gupta of the UK Chemistry Department will be presenting a seminar entitled Developing Green Technology for the Synthesis of Value Added Chemicals and Biologically Active Compounds.
Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm.
All students welcome!
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Folami Ladipo
This is an opportunity for the department's graduate students, as well as all other interested persons, to discover the research taking place in the Chemistry Department at the University of Kentucky. First-year graduate students are strongly encouraged to attend with their blue sheets, to get signatures from potential research mentors.
Dr. Trevor Creamer of the University of Kentucky's Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Department will be presenting a seminar entitled, The Disordered Regulation of Calcineurin.
Abstract: Calcineurin (CaN) is a highly regulated Ser/Thr protein phosphatase that plays critical roles in learning and memory, cardiac development and function, and immune system activation. Alterations in CaN regulation contribute to multiple disease states such as Down syndrome, cardiac hypertrophy, Alzheimer’s disease, and autoimmune disease. Despite its importance, CaN regulation is not well understood at the molecular level. Full CaN activation requires binding of calcium-loaded calmodulin (CaM), however little is known about how CaM binding leads to CaN activation. I will present evidence that the 95 residue CaN regulatory domain, where the CaM binding region is located, is disordered. The binding of CaM to CaN results in the regulatory domain folding. Folding of this regulatory domain in turn causes an autoinhibitory domain to be ejected from CaN’s active site. It is this binding-induced disorder-to-order transition that is responsible for the activation of CaN by CaM.
Facutly Host: Dr. Jason DeRouchey
Dr. Barbara Finlayson-Pitts of the University of California, Irvine will be presenting a lecture as part of the UK Chemistry Department's Lyle Dawson Lecture Series. It is entitled Understanding Interfaces in Air: The Last Frontier in Atmospheric Chemistry?
Abstract:
Airborne particles are well known to have significant impacts on visibility, health and climate. As a result, being able to predict their formation, composition and properties is critical for the development of effective air pollution control strategies on local to global scales. While a great deal is known about gas phase chemistry in air, less is known about chemistry in condensed phases and even less about “heterogeneous chemistry” at interfaces, yet the latter two are particularly important for understanding airborne particles. Some examples of what we know and what we don’t know about such chemistry will be discussed, with an emphasis on the need for application of a variety fundamental chemical approaches, both experimental and theoretical, to address the key unknowns.
Facutly Host: Dr. Marcelo Guzman
