Chemistry Department Colloquium, Fall 2021
Coordinated by Michelle Personick, Professor of Chemistry
Seminars are held at 3:30 p.m.
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Location |
Host |
| Sept. 10 | Prof. Firas Khatib | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | Designing New Proteins and Building De Novo Cryo-EM Structures Collaboratively with Foldit Computer Game Players | Zoom | Colin Smith |
| Sept. 17 | Prof. Ben Elling | Wesleyan University | What are Sustainable Polymers?: Reprocessing Plastics and Beyond | ESC 058 | Michelle Personick |
| Oct. 1 | Prof. Lauren Zarzar | Penn State | Chemical Design of Active Droplets that Swim, Chase, and Interact | ESC 058 | Michelle Personick |
| Oct. 8 | Prof. Ann Kimble-Hill | Indiana University School of Medicine | Understanding the Phosphatidylinositol Lipidome as a Modulator of Breast Cancer Signaling | Zoom | Erika Taylor |
| Oct. 15 | Prof. Nathan Seifert | University of New Haven | Probing Chemical Structure & Dynamics with Microwave Spectroscopy | ESC 058 | Stewart Novick |
| Oct. 22 | Prof. Haotian Wang | Rice University | Electrifying CO2 into Fuels and Chemicals | ESC 058 | Michelle Personick |
| Oct. 29 | Dr. Ben Partridge | Northwestern University | Protein-Based Materials Engineering with DNA | ESC 058 | Michelle Personick |
| Nov. 5 | Prof. Giovanni Gadda | Georgia State University | The Importance of Being Positive: How Flavoprotein Oxidases Effect Oxygen Activation | Zoom |
Erika Taylor |
| Nov. 12 | Prof. Keriann Backus | University of California, Los Angeles | Expanding the Activity Based Chemoproteomic Toolbox | Zoom | Erika Taylor |
| Nov. 19 | Prof. Wolfgang Peti | UConn Health | Protein Phosphatases: Novel Routes for Drug Design | ESC 058 | Colin Smith |
| Dec. 3 | Prof. Richard Morimoto | Northwestern University | Protein Quality Control in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disorders | Zoom | Alison O'Neil |
| Dec. 10 | Prof. Ren Wiscons | Amherst College | Exploring the Roles of Chirality and Defect Structures in Organic Electronics | ESC 058 | Brian Northrop |
Chemistry Department Colloquium, Spring 2022
Coordinated by Dr. Michelle Personick, Professor of Chemistry
Seminars are held at 3:30 p.m.
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Location |
Host |
| Feb. 4 | Prof. Todd Cohen | University of North Carolina School of Medicine | Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease….and What This Means for Therapeutics | Alison O'Neil | |
| Feb. 11 | Prof. Trisha Andrew | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Chemical Vapor Deposition of Soft Materials for Wearable Health Monitoring | Zoom | David Westmoreland |
| Feb. 18 | Prof. Will Gutekunst | Georgia Institute of Technology | Fully Degradable Materials Using Carbon–Sulfur Bonds | ESC 058 | Benjamin Elling |
| Feb. 25 | Prof. Herman Sintim | Purdue University | Novel Chemotypes of Kinase Inhibitors for the Potential Treatment of Recurrent Cancers | Zoom | Erika Taylor |
| April 1 | Prof. Gaël Ung | University of Connecticut | Seeking Chiral Light: Design and Synthesis of Molecules Emitting Circularly Polarized Luminescence | ESC 058 | Brian Northrop |
| April 8 | Prof. Rafael Bruschweiler | Ohio State University | Nanoparticle-Assisted NMR Spin Relaxation for Studying the Dynamics and Interactions of Folded and Intrinsically Disordered Proteins | Zoom | Colin Smith |
| April 15 | Prof. Sara Cherry | University of Pennsylvania | COVID 19: Antiviral Discovery Pipeline | Zoom | Michael Calter |
| April 22 | Prof. Daniel Obenchain | University of Göttingen |
How much can you BENCh? Methods for Modern Experimental Benchmarking |
Zoom | Stewart Novick |
| April 29 | Max Distler | Northwestern University | Using Molecularly Defined DNA Dendrons to Forge New Capabilities at the Nanoscale | Zoom | Michelle Personick |