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Welcome to Feradical's Metalloprotein Research Laboratory


Feradical = Dr. Aimin Liu, Lutcher Brown Distinguished Professor in Chemistry, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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Lectured Courses Taught by Professor Aimin Liu

 

  "This course enriched my soul." — an anonymous student comment from the 2022 spring undergraduate Biochemistry class

 

Semester

/year

Course number

Title / Class
(% of lectures offered by Prof. Liu)

Number of students

Student perceptions

Fall 2016

CHE4303

Biochemistry (Q) (100%)

36 (undergrad)

4.59

Spring 2017

CHE6973

Mechanistic Enzymology (100%)

9 (grad)

5.00

Fall 2017

CHE4303

Biochemistry (Q) (100%)

32 (undergrad)

4.61

Spring 2018

CHE5313

Advanced Biochemistry (100%)

9 (grad)

4.50

Fall 2018

CHE4303

Biochemistry (Q) (100%)

24 (undergrad)

4.59

Spring 2019

CHE5313

Advanced Biochemistry (100%)

8 (grad) + 1 (grad auditor)

5.00

Fall 2019

CHE4953

Biochemistry Topics (52%)

37 (undergrad)

4.65

Spring 2020

CHE4953/5313

Biochemistry Topics (52%)
The second half was offered on-line

16 (undergrad) + 7 (grad)

No evaluation due to COVID-19

Fall 2020

CHE4953

Biochemistry Topics (52%)
offered through on-line

18 (undergrad)

4.36

Spring 2021

CHE5313

Advanced Biochemistry (100%)
offered through on-line

14 (grad)

4.90

Fall 2021

CHE4971

Proseminar (100%)
offered in person

10 (undergrad)

5.00

Spring 2022

CHE4313

Biochemistry II (100%)

39 (undergrad)

4.82

Fall 2022

CHE3313

Biochemistry I (100%)

27 (undergrad)

4.59

Spring 2023

CHE4313

Biochemistry II (100%)

36 (undergrad)

4.69

Fall 2023

BIO3513

Biochemistry I (100%)

30 (undergrad)

ongoing

 

Lectured Courses Taught by Professor Aimin Liu at GSU

Semester

/year

Course number

Title / Class
(% of lectures offered by Prof. Liu)

Number of students

Student perceptions

(on a 5.0 scale)

Fall 2008

CHE6600

Biochemistry I (50%)

29 (grad)

4.8

Spring 2009

CHE4610

Biochemistry II (50%)

3 (under)

5.0

Spring 2009

Chem 6610

Biochemistry II (50%)

31 (grad)

5.0

Spring 2009

CHE6900

Advanced Research Method

19 (grad)

4.8

Summer 2009

CHE6900

Advanced Research Method

15 (grad)

5.0

Fall 2009

CHE4600

Biochemistry I (100%)

1 (under)

3.0

Fall 2009

Chem 6600

Biochemistry I (100%)

30 (grad)

4.4

Fall 2009

CHE6900

Advanced Research Method

15 (grad)

4.6

Spring 2010

CHE4230

Metals in Biology and Medicine (100%)

2 (under)

5.0

Spring 2010

CHE6230

Metals in Biology and Medicine (100%)

19 (grad)

4.5

Spring 2010

CHE6900

Advanced Research Method

22 (grad)

4.8

Summer 2010

CHE6900

Advanced Research Method

15(grad)

4.5

Fall 2010

CHE6600

Biochemistry I (50%)

37 (grad)

4.4

Fall 2010

CHE6900

Advanced Research Method

19 (grad)

4.8

Spring 2011

CHE4610

Biochemistry II (50%)

8 (under)

4.6

Spring 2011

CHE6610

Biochemistry II (50%)

23 (grad)

4.5

Fall 2011

CHE 6900

Advanced Research Method

13 (grad)

4.7

Fall 2011

CHE6600

Biochemistry I (50%)

32 (grad)

4.6

Spring 2012

CHE4230

Metals in Biology and Medicine (100%)

5 (under)

5.0

Spring 2012

CHE6230

Metals in Biology and Medicine (100%)

13 (grad)

4.6

Fall 2012

CHE4600

Biochemistry I (70%)

1 (under)

5.0

Fall 2012

CHE6600

Biochemistry I (70%)

36 (grad)

4.8

Fall 2013

CHE6600

Biochemistry I (70%)

55 (grad)

4.7

Fall 2014

CHE6600

Biochemistry I (50%)

58 (grad)

4.6

Fall 2015

CHE6600

Biochemistry I (50%)

59 (grad)

4.5

 

Note: “Metals in Biology and Medicine” is a new course (5 credits) created at Georgia State University by Professor Liu. It is being offered in alternate years.
An outside independent teaching evaluation is available at Rate My Professors.

 

Invited Lectures/Oral Presentations

Invited Speaker, Catalysis in Natural and Biosynthetic Heme Proteins session, The XIII International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-13), Niagara falls & Buffalo, NY, USA, 23-28 July 2024 (invitation accepted)

Invited Speaker, Cool and Novel Enzymes session, The 2024 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Annual Meeting (Future #DiscoverBMBs), March 23-26, 2024, in San Antonio, TX (invitation accepted)

Invited Speaker, The 28th Enzyme Mechanisms Conference (EMC2024), Grande Beach Resort, Naples, FL, 1/3-1/7, 2024 (invitation accepted)

Plenary lecture, A.I. Scott Symposium & Biological Chemistry Research Symposium, Texas A&M University, October 13 -14, 2024 (invitation accepted)

Invited Inorganic seminar, Department of Chemistry, University of Austin, February 17, 2023 (invitation accepted)

Invited seminar, Department of Chemistry, Trinity University, February 16, 2023 (invitation accepted)

Invited seminar, Department of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences, University of Georgia, November 8, 2022

Invited talk, Metals in Biology Workshop, The 2021 SSRL/SLAC Annual User Meeting and the Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, September 20, 2021 (virtual, online)

Invited seminar, Department of Biochemistry, Texas A&M University, March 31, 2021 (virtual visit, invited by the Graduate Student and Postdoc Association)

Invited colloquium, Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Loyola University, March 25, 2021 (virtual visit)

Invited seminar, monthly SSRL seminar, SLAC, Stanford University, January 21, 2021 (virtual visit)

Invited seminar, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 20, 2020 (virtual visit)

Invited seminar, Department of Pharmacology seminar series, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, October 14, 2020 (virtual visit)

Invited seminar, Joint Graduate Program, UTSA-UTHSCSA, February 7, 2020

Invited seminar, Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, September 19, 2019

Invited speaker, Seventh Georgian Bay International Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry (CanBIC-7), Parry Sound Ontario, Canada, May 21-25, 2019

Invited seminar, Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, May 17, 2019

Invited seminar, Department of Cell Systems and Anatomy Seminar Series, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, November 13, 2018

Invited seminar, Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso, October 12, 2018

Invited keynote, The 2018 International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-10), V. Biochemistry/Hemes (Symposium #38) Munch, Germany, July 1-6, 2018

Invited seminar, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Colloquium Series, Michigan State University, April 19, 2018

Neurobiology Seminar, Neurosciences Institute, The University of Texas at San Antonio, August 24, 2017

Invited speaker, Sixth Georgian Bay International Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry (CanBIC-6), Parry Sound Ontario, Canada, May 23-26, 2017

Invited speaker, the 253rd ACS National Meeting & Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, April 2-6, 2017

Invited speaker, the 72nd ACS Southwest Regional Meeting (SWRM) in Galveston, TX, November 10-13, 2016

Colloquium, Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, September 12, 2016

Seminar, The Institute for Drug Development (IDD), University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, August 11, 2016

Seminar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, March 7, 2016

Seminar, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, February 19, 2016

Seminar, Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, October 26, 2015

Invited Speaker, The 17th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC17), Beijing, China, July 20-24, 2015

Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conference: Enzymes, Coenzymes & Metabolic Pathways, Waterville, NH, July 12-17, 2015

Seminar, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, May 11, 2015

Invited Speaker, The 2015 Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition (FAME2015), Tampa, FL, May 7-9, 2015

Seminar, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, April 29, 2015

Seminar, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, April 16, 2015

Invited Speaker, Enzymes in Drug Discovery, 2015 San Diego, CA, 2/26-27, 2015

Invited Seminar Speaker, Graduate Education Seminar Series, College of Medicine, The University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, January 16, 2015

Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, 11/10, 2014

Invited seminar, Department of Chemistry, School of Sciences, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China, 11/9, 2014

Invited Speaker, The 2nd International Conference on Bio-Trace Elements, Hangzhou, China, November 11/7-11/9, 2014

Invited Seminar, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, 11/7, 2014

Invited Seminar, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 11/6, 2014

Invited Seminar, Shanghai Organic Chemistry Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, 11/5, 2014

Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, University, Nanjing, China, 11/4, 2014

Invited Seminar, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China, 11/3, 2014

Graduate Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 10/27, 2014

Colloquium, University of California, Riverside, CA, 10/1, 2014

Invited Speaker, The 2014 Summer Symposium - Frontiers in Metallobiochemistry III, University Park, PA, 6/04 - 6/07, 2014

Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 10/08, 2013

Short Talk, Gordon Research Conference: Enzymes, Coenzymes & Metabolic Pathways, Waterville, NH, July 12-17, 2013

Invited Speaker, Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Regional Biophysical Consortium, Starkville, MS, 5/30- 5/31, 2013

Seminar, Clemson University, Atlanta, GA, 03/08, 2013

Invited Speaker, The 23rd Enzyme Mechanisms Conference (EMC2013), Coronado, CA, 1/3-1/7, 2013

Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conferences - Protein Cofactors, Radicals and Quinones, South Hadley, MA, 7/29 -8/3, 2012

Seminar, State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, 100191 Beijing, P. R. China, 7/16, 2012

Seminar, Zhengzhou University, Henan, P. R. China, 7/09-7/10, 2012

Invited Speaker, The Frontiers of Bioinorganic and Biophysics Chemistry of Metalloproteins, 7/7-7/8, 2012

Seminar, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7/06/2012

Seminar, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, National Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, People's Republic of China, 7/4-7/5, 2012

Invited Speaker, The 7th International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-7), Jeju, Korea, 7/1-7/4, 2012

Seminar, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, April 26, 2012

Seminar, Department of Chemistry, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida (10/6 -10/7/2011)

Colloquium, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (9/29 -10/1/2011)

Invited Speaker, The 15th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC15). Vancouver, Canada, August 6-13, 2011.

Invited Speaker: 53rd Rocky Mountain Conference - EPR Symposium Snowmass, Colorado, July 24-28, 2011.

Oral Presentation: The 2011 Georgia Cancer Summit. Macon, GA. June 17-18, 2011.

Invited Speaker, The 39th Southeastern Magnetic Resonance Conference (SEMRC), Gainesville, October 22-24, 2010

Seminar, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, September 23, 2010

Invited Speaker, The 6th Sino-US Chem Conference, Hangzhou, P. R. China, June 15 – 17, 2010

Colloquium, Department of Physics, Emory University, December 4, 2009

Inorg-Biochem Joint Seminar, Department of Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, November 3, 2009

Seminar, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, September 15, 2009

Invited Speaker, The 14th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC14), Nagoya, Japan, July 25-30, 2009

Seminar,  Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn University, August 26, 2008

Invited Seminar, Kansai University, Suita, Japan, May 23, 2008

Seminar, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, May 19, 2008

Seminar, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, May 14, 2008

Seminar, Kansai University, Suita, Japan, May 8, 2008

Invited Speaker, The 235th National American Chemical Society Conference. New Orleans, LA, April 7, 2008 (invited by the Division of Biological Chemistry)

Invited Speaker, The 235th National American Chemical Society Conference. New Orleans, LA, April 9, 2008 (invited by the Division of Inorganic Chemistry)

Seminar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, March 28, 2008

Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conferences - Protein Cofactors, Radicals, and Quinones, Ventura, CA, January 20-25, 2008

Seminar, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Seminar Title: October 29-31, 2007

Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conferences - Metals in Biology. Presentation. January 29 – February 3, 2006, Ventura, CA

Invited Speaker, The Inaugural Texas Enzyme Mechanism Conference, January 7, 2006, , Austin, TX

Invited Faculty Seminar, November 21, 2005, the 2005-2006 Pharmacology & Toxicology Seminar Series, organized by the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS

Short Talk: Gordon Research Conferences – Enzyme, Coenzyme & Metabolic Pathways. July 14, 2003, Meriden, NH

Seminar, Jackson State University – NIH-Sponsored SCORE Seminar Series, Jackson, MS, June 13, 2003

Seminar, hosted by the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mississippi State University, MS, February 11, 2003

Seminar, Department of Biochemistry University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, February 14, 2002

Seminar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Long Beach, Ferruary 7, 2002

Seminar, Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry, The University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, Iowa City, IA, January 17, 2002

Seminar, MetalloProtein Interest Group seminars, Center for Metals in Biocatalysis, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, January 15, 2002