Chemistry Department

Hall-Atwater Laboratories Room 10
52 Lawn Ave.
Middletown, CT 06459
chemistry@wesleyan.edu
1-860-685-2210
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Chemistry Department Colloquium - Fall 2013

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Host
September 6 Prof. Meredith Hughes Wesleyan University, Department of Astronomy "Planet Formation Revealed by Molecular Spectroscopy." Prof. Stewart E. Novick
September 25

Molecular Biophysics Retreat
Prof. Jamie Williamson 

 Scripps Research Institute "Dynamics of Ribosome Assembly in Cells." Professors David L. Beveridge, Ishita Mukerji and Manju Hingorani
September 27

Prof. Li Deng

 Brandeis University "Development and Application of Biomimetic Catalysis." Prof. Michael A. Calter
October 4 Prof. Arthur Suits Wayne State University "The Third Way: Roaming Radical Reactions."  Prof. Joseph L. Knee
October 11 Prof. Kenneth Leopold University of Minnesota "Molecular Clusters: Structure, Electronic Perturbations, and Incipient Chemical Change." Prof. Stewart E. Novick
October 18 Dr. Dave Dworak Henkel Technolologies "Single Electron Transfer - Living Radical Polymerization: Introduction and Applications." Prof. Michael A. Calter
October 25 Prof. Jens-Uwe Grabow Institut für Physikalische Chemie -Gottfried - Wilhelm - Leibniz - Universität, Hannover "Molecular Rotation Spectra: Structure, Dynamics, and... Particle Physics." Professor Stewart E. Novick
November 1 Prof. Smita Mohanty Auburn University "Pheromone Perception in Moth: Role of Pheromone-Binding Protein." Prof. Erika A. Taylor
November 8 Prof. Elizabeth M. Boon Stony Brook University "Nitric oxide signaling in bacteria: Discovery of a new mechanism for regulating bacterial biofilms." Professor Erika A. Taylor
November 15 Professor Eranthie Weerapana Boston College "Chemical-Proteomic Strategies to Investigate Reactive Cysteines." Professor Rex F. Pratt

Seminars are held in room 84, Hall-Atwater Laboratories at 3:30 p.m. 
Coffee is served outside room 84 before the seminar and 
refreshments are served afterwards in the Chemistry Lounge (Hall-Atwater Laboratory, Room 6).

Chemistry Department Colloquium - Spring 2014

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Host
January 31 Prof. Ognjen Miljanic University of Houston

"Regulated Equilibria and Compartmentalization in Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries."

 Prof. Brian H. Northrop
February 7 No Seminar -- -- --
February 14 No Seminar -- -- --
February 21 Prof. Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong Oregon State University

“Strategic Applications of Chemical Theory and Computations to Organic Synthesis: Discovery of New Mechanistic Themes in Organic Reactions.”

 Prof. Michael A. Calter
February 28 Prof. Christopher Bowman University of Colorado, Boulder "Clicking Polymer Networks Together: Approaches to Form Smart, Functional Polymer Networks from Click Chemistry." Prof. Brian H. Northrop
March 28 Dr. Michael McCarthy Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "Discovery and Molecular Structures of Several Unusual Reactive Oxygen Species." Prof. Stewart E. Novick
April 4 Prof Michael Heaven Emory University "Probing Actinide Bonding using Multiphoton Excitation and Photoelectron Spectroscopy." Prof. Stewart E. Novick
April 11

Prof. Patrick Holland

 Yale University "Nitrogen Fixation using Low-Coordinate Iron Complexes." Prof. T. David Westmoreland
April 18 Prof. Anthony Bishop Amherst College "Small-molecules on/off switches for signaling enzymes: Target-specific inhibition and activation of protein tyrosine phosphatases." Prof. Erika A. Taylor
April 25 Prof. Peter A. Jacobi Dartmouth College "On the Path to Vitamin B12." Prof. Albert J. Fry
May 2 Prof. Jason Sello Brown University "Novel Small Molecules, Targets, and Strategies in Anti-Infective Drug Development." Prof. Rex. F. Pratt

Seminars are held in room 84, Hall-Atwater Laboratories at 3:30 p.m. 
Coffee is served outside room 84 before the seminar and 
refreshments are served afterwards in the Chemistry Lounge (Room 6, Hall-Atwater).