UPDATE:
Wesleyan University is suspending in-person classes and campus activities. The University will continue to monitor the public health situation related to the novel strain of coronavirus.
Chemistry Department Colloquium, Spring 2020
Coordinated by Dr. Michelle Personick, Professor of Chemistry
Seminars are held in ESC 058 at 3:30 p.m.
Coffee and refreshments are served before and after the seminar in the vestibule outside ESC 058
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Host |
| Jan. 31 | Prof. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer | Yale University | Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion | Carlos Jimenez-Hoyos |
| Feb. 7 | Prof. David Merkler | University of South Florida, Schramm Laboratory | Cellular Communication: Novel Endocannabinoid-like Lipids, Fruit Flies and Other Insects, N-Acyltransferases, and Subtraction Lipidomics | Erika Taylor |
| Feb. 14 | Prof. Michelle Personick | Wesleyan University | Growing Model Catalysts Through the Tailored Design of Shaped Bimetallic Nanoparticles | -- |
| Feb. 21 | Prof. Mateusz Marianski | Hunter College | Understanding Glycosylation Reaction with Cryogenic Vibrational Spectroscopy and First-principles Methods | Carlos Jimenez-Hoyos |
| Feb. 28 | Prof. Anne Hart | Brown University | Using Invertebrate Genetics to Understand ALS | Alison O'Neil |
| March 6 | Prof. Guy Montelione | Rutgers University | Proteins Flex to Function: The Role of Conformational Plasticity in Molecular Recognition | Colin Smith |
| March 27 | Prof. Elizabeth Meiering | University of Waterloo | Folding, Misfolding and Aggregation of Cu,Zn Superoxide Dismutases in ALS | Alison O'Neil |
| April 3 | Prof. Lesley-Ann Giddings | Middlebury College | Mother Nature Knows Best: Bioprospecting Acid Rock Drainage for Bioactive Metabolites & Characterizing DesB, A Key Enzyme Involved in Hydroxamate Siderophore Biosynthesis | Erika Taylor |
| April 10 | Prof. Jerome Robinson | Brown University | Rethinking Catalyst Design of the "Not So" Rare-Earths to Address Challenges in Sustainability | Michelle Personick |
| April 17 | Prof. Sunhee Choi | Middlebury College | Two Tales of Basic Research Leading to the Development of Drugs Against Cancer and Alzheimer's Disease | Michelle Personick |
| April 24 | Prof. Rich Lavrich | College of Charleston | Microwave Study of Inductive Effects on Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond Strength | Stewart Novick |
| May 1 | Prof. Frank Rossi | SUNY Cortland | Toward a Species-Specific, Eco-Rational Control of the Invasive Insect Cactoblastis cactorum | Erika Taylor |