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Conferences Attended / Invited Lectures, 2004-2009

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.

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”.

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”.

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”.

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”.

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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