Conferences
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Conferences Attended / Invited Lectures, 2004-2015
2015
Australasian and Japanese Joint Meeting of the Societies for Free Radical Research (SFRR A+J), Christchurch, December 2015. Invitation to give an oral presentation entitled “Pulse Radiolysis and Ultra-High Performance Liquid Chromatography/High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC/HRMS) Studies on the Reactions of the Carbonate Radical with Vitamin B12 Complexes.”
Florida International University, Miami, USA, November 2015. Invited lecture entitled “Exploring the Chemistry of Vitamin B12 derivatives with Reactive Oxygen Species.“
Ohio Inorganic Weekend conference at Bowling Green University, November 2015. Yang (Joe) Zhou, M. Saifur Rahman and Anthony Giovengo present posters on their research.
Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Photochemistry at Stonehill College, MA. Yang (Joe) Zhou presents a poster on his research.
Auckland Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry Symposium, April 2015. Invitation to give oral presentation entitled “Evidence for Efficient Scavenging of the Reactive Oxygen Species Superoxide by Vitamin B12.”
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, April 2015. Lecture presented entitled “Exploring the Chemistry of Vitamin B12 Derivatives with Reactive Oxygen Species.”
Kent State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society poster session, April 2015. Anthony Giovengo and Yang (Joe) Zhou present posters on their research.
Kent State University Graduate Student Senate Research Symposium, April 2015. Joe and Sonya give oral presentations. Sonya is awarded the Best Oral Presentation Award for the Physical Sciences section.
University of Otago, Dunedin, March 2015. Lecture presented entitled “Exploring the Chemistry of Vitamin B12 Derivatives with Reactive Oxygen Species.
2014
Ohio Inorganic Weekend conference at the University of Michigan, November 2014. Yang (Joe) Zhou, and Sonya Adas present posters on their research.
45th ACS Central Regional Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA., October 2014. Yang (Joe) Zhou is an invited speaker as part of the “Fresh Faces in Bioinorganic Chemistry” initiative. Rohan Dassanayake and Sonya Adas present posters. Rohan’s poster is also selected for SCI-MIX poster session.
FASEB Summer Research conference on Folic Acid, Vitamin B12 and One Carbon Metabolism, Colorado Springs, August 2014. Invitation to give oral presentation entitled “Vitamin B12 and Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS): Antioxidant properties versus irreversible damage”.
Kent State University/Stark State College Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society poster session, April 2014. Matt Brining, Rohan Dassanayake and Yang (Joe) Zhou present posters on their research. Rohan and Matt receive an Honorable Mentions for their poster presentations.
Kent State University Graduate Student Senate Research Symposium, April 2014. Rohan Dassanayake and Harishchandra Subedi give oral presentations.
Chatham University, Pittsburgh, March 2014. Lecture presented entitled “Serendipity in Science”.
Bowling Green State University, March 2014. Lecture presented entitled “Cobalamins and Oxidative Stress: Exploring a New, Novel Role for Vitamin B12.“
Undergraduate student Mary Waddington presents a poster entitled “Fluorescent Vitamin B12 Conjugates for Cellular Imaging and Biological Assays at the 247th ACS National Meeting in Dallas, Texas.
2013
University of Toledo, October 2013. Lecture presented entitled “Cobalamins and Oxidative Stress: Exploring a New, Novel Role for Vitamin B12.“
246th National ACS meeting at Indianapolis, September 2013. Harishchandra Subedi and Rohan Dassanayake presented posters on their research.
“Metals in Biology” Gordon research conference, Ventura, CA, January 2013. Poster presented entitled “Mechanistic Studies on the Reaction of the Reduced Vitamin B12 Complex Cob(II)alamin wih the HNO Donor Angeli’s Salt: Evidence for Oxidation of a Transition Metal Center by HNO.“
2012
Ohio Inorganic Weekend conference at Wayne State University, October 2012. Rohan Dassanayake gave an oral presentation and Harishchandra Subedi, Andrew Hunt and Yang Zhou presented posters on their research.
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, October 2012. Lecture presented entitled “Cobalamins and Oxidative Stress: Exploring a New, Novel Role for Vitamin B12.“
Invitation to speak at an ACS Symposium on Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry at the 243rd ACS National Meeting in San Diego, March 2012 (declined).
Bioinorganic Chemistry Gordon Graduate Student Research Symposium in Ventura, CA, January, 2012. Graduate students Harishchandra Subedi and Rohan Dassanayake presented posters on their research.
“Metals in Biology” Gordon research conference, Ventura, CA, January 2012. Poster presented entitled “Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies on the Reaction of Cob(II)alamin with Peroxynitrite”.
Cleveland State Interdisciplinary Research Conference, October 2011. Harishchandra Subedi, Rohan Dassanayake and Yang Zhou present posters on their research.
2011
Ohio Inorganic Weekend conference at the University of Cincinnati, October 2011. Harishchandra Subedi gives an oral presentation and Rohan Dassanayake and Yang Zhou present posters on their research.
Invitation to speak at the International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanins (ICPP-7), South Korea, July, 2011 (declined).
8th International Conference on Homocysteine Metabolism, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2011. Poster presented entitled “Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies on the Reaction of Cob(II)alamin with Peroxynitrite”.
2010
FASEB Summer Research conference on Folic Acid, Vitamin B12 and One Carbon Metabolism, Carefree, Arizona, August 2010. Poster presented entitled “Cobalamins and Oxidative Stress: Exploring a Novel, Non-enzymatic Role for Vitamin B12B12“.
“Metals in Medicine” Gordon research conference, Andover, NH, July 2010. Poster presented entitled “Cobalamins and Oxidative Stress: Exploring a Novel, Non-enzymatic Role for Vitamin B12“.
Graduate students Riya Mukherjee, Harishchandra Subedi and Rohan Dassanayake presented posters on their research at the Frontiers of Metallobiochemistry conference at Penn State, Pennsylvania, June 2010.
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, May 2010. Lecture presented entitled “Cobalamins and Oxidative Stress: Exploring a New, Novel Role for Vitamin B12.“
Invitation to speak at the Inorganic/Bioinorganic Reaction Mechanism Meeting of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, in Bamberg, Germany. January 2010 (Unable to travel due to illness in family.)
2009
Invitation to speak at the “Vitamin B12 & Corphins” Gordon research conference, Oxford, UK, August 2009. (Unable to travel due to illness in family.)
Ohio Inorganic Chemistry weekend conference, Cleveland, November 2009. Undergraduate student Noah Plymale presents a poster entitled “Kinetic and Product Studies of the Reaction of Cob(I)alamin with Nitrite”.
School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland. Lecture presented entitled “Cobalamins and Oxidative Stress: Exploring a New, Novel Role for Vitamin B12“.
University of University of Maryland, Baltimore County. October 2009. Lecture presented entitled “Cobalamins and Oxidative Stress: Exploring a New, Novel Role for Vitamin B12“.
National ACS meeting, Washington DC, August 2009. Graduate student Riya Mukherjee presented a poster entitled “Vanadium-vitamin B12 bioconjugates: Potential therapeutics for treating diabetes.” Riya was awarded a travel award from the Inorganic Division of the ACS to attend this meeting.
“Inorganic Chemistry” Gordon Graduate Student Research Symposium in Maine in June, Maine, 2009. Graduate students Hanaa Hassanin and Riya Mukherjee gave oral presentations on their research.
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Conference, Washington, DC, April 2009. Graduate student Edward Suarez-Moreira presented a poster on his research.
2008
University of Michigan, November 2008. Lecture presented entitled “From Vanadium to Vitamin B12: Combining Beauty and Health”.
Wayne State University, November 2008. Lecture presented entitled “From Vanadium to Vitamin B12: Combining Beauty and Health”.
“Chemistry and Biology of Tetrapyrroles” Gordon research conference, Newport, RI, July 2008. Oral presentation entitled “Cobalamins, Nitric Oxide and Oxidative Stress: Exploring a New, Novel Role for Vitamin B12“.
“Metals in Medicine” Gordon research conference, Andover, NH, July 2008. Poster selected for an oral presentation entitled “Vanadium-Vitamin B12 Bioconjugates as Potential Therapeutics for the Treatment of Diabetes”.
NSF Inorganic Chemistry Workshop, June, 2008, Virginia Beach. Oral presentation entitled “Vitamin B12 and Nitric Oxide Chemistry: Mechanistic Studies on the Reactions between Cobalamins (Cbls) and NONOates”.
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, March 2008. Lecture presented entitled “Vitamin B12 Chemistry and Biochemistry”.
2007
Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, October 2007. Lecture presented entitled “Vitamin B12 and Vanadium Chemistry and Biochemistry”.
“Vitamin B12 & Corphins” Gordon research conference, Biddeford, ME, July 2007. Oral and poster presentation by Luciana Hannibal, graduate student, entitled “Synthesis and X-ray Crystal Structure of Nitroxylcobalamin: The Elusive Nitric Oxide Derivative of Vitamin B12” and a poster entitled “Exchange of Beta-Axial Ligands during the Extraction of Cobalamins from Cultured Aortic Endothelial Cells”.
ACS Central Regional Meeting, Covington, KY, May 2007. Oral presentation entitled “Formation of Nitrosylcobalamin by a Reaction between Aquacobalamin and DEA-NONOate: X-ray Crystal Structure and Mechanistic Studies”.
2007
7th Annual Ohio Inorganic Chemistry Meeting, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, November 2006. Oral presentions by two graduate students (Riya Mukherjee and Luciana Hannibal).
FASEB Summer Research conference on Folic Acid, Vitamin B12 and One Carbon Metabolism, Palm Springs, CA, August 2006. Oral presentation entitled “Novel Cobalamin Metabolites”. Postdoctoral fellow (V. Iyer) presented poster entitled “Vitamin B12 Bioconjugates as Potential Agents for the Treatment of Cancer and Diabetes”. Graduate students presented posters entitled “Evidence for Glutathionylcobalamin in Human Aortic Endothelial Cells” (E. Suarez-Moreira) and “Chemistry and Biochemistry of Nitrosylcobalamin” (L. Hannibal; won a student poster award).
ACS Central Regional Meeting, Frankenmuth, MI, May 2006. Graduate student (Riya Mukherjee) presented poster entitled “Structural and Spectroscopic Evidence for Formation of Trinuclear and Tetranuclear V(III)/Carboxylate Complexes of Acetate and Related Derivatives in Aqueous Solution”.
Cleveland State University Regional Interdisciplinary Symposium, April 2006. Graduate student (Luciana Hannibal) presented poster entitled “Synthesis and Characterization of the Biologically Important Nitric Oxide Derivative of Vitamin B12, Nitrosylcobalamin”.
“Metals in Biology” Gordon research conference, Ventura, CA, January 2006. Poster presented entitled “Evidence for Glutathionylcobalamin in Human Aortic Endothelial Cells”.
2005
Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, November 2005. Lecture presented entitled “From Vanadium to Vitamin B12: Combining Beauty and Health”.
“Vitamin B12 & Corphins” Gordon research conference, Oxford, UK, September 2005. Oral presentation entitled “Chemistry and Cellular Biochemistry of Thiolatocobalamins” and a poster presentation entitled “Evidence for Glutathionylcobalamin in Human Aortic Endothelial Cells”.
Ohio Student Research Forum, University of Akron, August 2005. Undergraduate student (Roberto Chavez) presented poster entitled “Synthesis and Characterization of the Vitamin B12 Derivatives, Thiolatocobalamins”.
University of Southern California, April 2005. Lecture presented entitled “Chemistry and Cellular Biochemistry of the Vitamin B12 Derivatives Thiolatocobalamins”.
University of California, Santa Barbara, April 2005. Lecture presented entitled “Chemistry and Cellular Biochemistry of the Vitamin B12 Derivatives Thiolatocobalamins”.
University of California, Irvine, April 2005. Lecture presented entitled “Chemistry and Cellular Biochemistry of the Vitamin B12 Derivatives Thiolatocobalamins”.
CALTECH, April 2005. Lecture presented entitled “Chemistry and Cellular Biochemistry of the Vitamin B12 Derivatives Thiolatocobalamins”.
ACS National Meeting, San Diego, March 2005. Posters presented entitled “Chemistry and Cellular Biochemistry of the Vitamin B12 Derivatives Thiolatocobalamins” and “Characterization of Novel Vanadium(III)/Acetate Clusters formed in Aqueous Solution” (the latter poster presented by Brenda Dougan, an undergraduate student).
“Metals in Biology” Gordon conference, Ventura, CA, January 2005. Poster presented entitled “Synthesis and Reactivity of Biologically Relevant Thiolatocobalamins”.
2004
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, December 2004. Lecture presented entitled “Chemistry and Cellular Biochemistry of the Vitamin B12 Derivatives Thiolatocobalamins”.
University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada, December 2004. Lecture presented entitled “Chemistry and Cellular Biochemistry of the Vitamin B12 Derivatives Thiolatocobalamins”.
5th Annual Ohio Inorganic Chemistry Meeting, University of Akron, Ohio, November 2004. Oral presentions by two students (Edward Suarez-Moreira, Ph.D. student; Brenda Dougan, undergraduate student).
University of Akron, Ohio, November 2004. Lecture presented entitled “Coordination Chemistry at Kent: Vitamin B12 and Vanadium(III) Chemistry”.
FASEB Summer Research conference on Folic Acid, Vitamin B12 and One Carbon Metabolism, Snowmass, Colorado, August 2004. Posters presented entitled “Studies on the Formation of Glutathionylcobalamin: Further Evidence that Glutathionylcobalamin is a Naturally Occurring Form of Vitamin B12” and “Synthesis and Reactivity of Biologically Relevant Thiolatocobalamins” (latter poster presented by E. Suarez-Moreira, current PhD student).
Biomedical Sciences conference, Kent State University, April, 2004. Student poster entitled “Studies on the Naturally Occurring Vitamin B12 Derivative Glutathionylcobalamin” (M. Riggs).
Keynote speaker for Iota Sigma Pi National Honor Society for Women in Chemistry, April, 2004. Lecture presented entitled “Serendipity in Science: Taking Advantage of a Good Thing”.
Cleveland State University, Ohio, March, 2004. Lecture presented entitled “Introducing Glutathionylcobalamin: Mechanistic Studies on a Potentially Important Vitamin B12 Derivative”.
Youngstown State University, Ohio, February 2004. Lecture presented entitled “Introducing Glutathionylcobalamin: Mechanistic Studies on a Potentially Important Vitamin B12 Derivative”.
“Metals in Biology” Gordon conference, Ventura, CA, January 2004. Poster presented entitled “Studies on the Formation of Glutathionyl-cobalamin: Further Evidence that Glutathionylcobalamin is a Naturally Occurring Form of Vitamin B12“.
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