Chemistry Department Colloquium - Fall 2018
Coordinated by Prof. Joseph Knee, Professor of Chemistry
Seminars are held in Hall Atwater HA, 84 at 3:30 p.m.
Coffee is served outside room before the seminar.
Light refreshments will be served afterwards in the Chemistry Lounge at HA, 6.
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Host |
| September 7 | Dr. James Hofrichter | The National Institutes of Health | Sickle Cell Disease, a Lot of History and a Little Hope: Towards a High-throughput Drug Screen | Prof. Stewart Novick |
| September 14 | Prof. M. Belen Cassera | University of Georgia | Targeting isoprenoid biosynthesis for antimalarial drug discovery | Prof. Erika Taylor |
| September 21 | Prof. Nikolai Skrynnikov | Purdue University | When Molecular Dynamics Met NMR Experiments | Prof. Colin Smith |
| Thursday, September 27 | Dr. Angel E. Garcia | Director of the Center for Non Linear Studies (CNLS) at Los Alamos National Laboratory | Biophysical Retreat | |
| October 5 | Prof. Mark Johnson | Yale University | Chemical adventures with cryogenic ion spectroscopy: A new secondary analysis platform for mass spectrometry | Prof. Joe Knee |
| October 12 | Prof. Peter Prevelige | University Alabama, Birmingham | Mass Spectrometry as a Tool for Structural Virology | Prof. Alison O'Neil |
| October 26 | Prof. Danielle Dube | Bowdoin College | Chemical tools to discover and target glycoproteins on pathogenic bacteria. | Prof. Erika Taylor |
| November 2 | Charles Jaffé | West Virginia University | Recent developments in the theory of transitions states. | Prof. David Beveridge |
| November 9 | Prof. Jessica Rouge | University of Connecticut | Using enzymes to control the role of hydrophobic DNA: from nanoscale self-assembly to intracellular gene regulation. | Prof. Michelle Personick |
| November 16 | José Gascón | University of Connecticut | Spectral and Structural Relationships in a Light Harvesting Antenna: A Supramolecular QM/MM approach. | Prof. Carlos Jimenez-Hoyos |
| November 30 | Dr. Christopher Nasveschuk | C4 Therapeutics | Advances in the Medicinal Chemistry of Targeted Protein Degradation | Prof Brian Northrop |
| December 7 | Prof. Steven Wofsy | Harvard University | Sources and sinks of CO, CH4 and CO2 at large scales from atmospheric observations | Prof. Stewart Novick |
Chemistry Department Colloquium, Spring 2019
Coordinated by Prof. Michelle Personick, Professor of Chemistry
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).
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Host |
| February 1 | Lan Cheng | Johns Hopkins University Lab | New advances in excited state theories: Actinides and X-Ray spectroscopy. | Prof. Stewart Novick |
| February 8 | Jason Lam | Wesleyan University | Connecting Renewable Energy with Sustainable Chemical Production: How to Turn Industrial Wastes into Valuable Platform Chemicals Through Electrocatalysis. | Prof. Michelle Personick |
| February 15 | Rene Buell | Wesleyan University | Effects of prior knowledgeon reading to learn concepts in chemistry. | TBD |
| February 22 | Dr. Robert Volkmann | BioPharma Works | CNS Drug Discovery: Relating Molecular Structure to Biological Function | Prof. Mike Calter |
| March 1 | Dr. Rachel Austin | Barnard College | C-O Bond breaking and bond forming strategies: Lessons from biology and heterogenous catalysts | Prof. Michelle Personick |
| March 8 | Dr. Brandi Hudson | Relay Therapeutics | Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Dynamic Visualization of Proteins | Prof. Colin Smith |
| March 29 | Prof. Sara Skrabalak | Indiana University | Strain Engineered Multimetallic Nanocatalysts | Prof. Michelle Personick |
| April 5 | Dr. Willie Vann | Food and Drug Administration | Characterization of Initiation and Polymerization of Polysialic Acid in Pathogenic Bacteria | Prof. Erika Taylor |
| April 12 | Prof. Jie "Jay" He | University of Connecticut | Polymer/Inorganic Hybrid Materials: From Synthetic Chemistry to Catalysis. | TBD |
| April 19 | Prof. Severin Schneebeli | University of Vermont | Bending Polymers into Well-Defined Nanoscale Shapes with Increasing Complexity | Prof. Michelle Personick |
| April 26 | Dr. Jian Zhang | The Molecular Foundry | A Toolbox Approach to Construct Metal-Free Catalysts for Photoredox Catalysis: From Organic Synthesis to Artificial Photosynthesis | Prof. Michelle Personick |