Schedule of Presentations
Inorganic Background - March 1 & March 8
Non-metal chemistry of NO
Brian
Inorganic coordination chemistry of NO, CO, and O2
Hemoglobin & Myoglobin -
March 15
Coordination chemistry of hemoglobin and myoglobin
Jeff & Tim
S-nitrosylation of hemoglobin, hemoglobin as an NO-transport molecule,
synthetically modified hemoglobin and its use in artificial
blood
NO Biosynthesis & Action
- March 22, April 5
Biosynthesis of NO
Gina, Christine,
Transport and mechanisms of action of endogenous NO
& Aaron
1. neural
2. vascular
NO an an Endogenous Weapon - April 12
Use of NO as a molecular weapon by macrophages
Ryan & Jeremiah
Seminar - Dr.
John Tainer, The Scripps Research Institute, Friday,
April 14, 8:00 a.m.
After linking, scroll down to the section dealing with a paper titled
"Structure of Nitric Oxide Synthase Oxygenase Dimer with Pterin and
Substrate".
Drugs: Synthesis and Action - April 19
Drugs designed to influence NO-mediated processes
Sarah & Jeremy
Virtual NO - April 26
Virtual NO as a component of neural network computing
Kelda
CO Biochemistry - May 3, May 10
Biosynthesis of CO
Cara & Tom
Transport and mechanisms of action of endogenous CO
some
possible alternative topics are italicized
Plant biochemistry of ethylene [biosynthesis, binding via a Cu(I)
protein]
Biochemistry of nitrous oxide (N2O)
Other O2 Carriers (copper or non-heme iron-based)
How
to Do a Real Literature Search
Generally Useful Links
Chemistry
Journals Online
Folke Bernadotte
Memorial Library (Gustavus)
Databases Available
Online to Gustavus Students and Faculty
LUMINA (University of Minnesota
Libraries)
MINITEX
(interlibrary loan and copies of articles from journals not available on
campus)
STNEasy (web-based Chemical
Abstracts)
Chemical & Engineering
News (ACS newsmagazine; searches and full title citations are free;
those among you who are ACS members can download the full articles)
New Scientist (an excellent
British general science magazine)
Science (an interesting site
to browse; subscribers can download complete articles)
Nature
Search Engines
AltaVista
Google
MetaCrawler