Chemistry Department Colloquium, Fall 2024
Coordinated by Professor Ben Elling
Seminars are held at 3:30 p.m. in Exley Science 058
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Host |
| September 13 | Prof. Adrian Figg | Virginia Tech | Acrylic Copolymer Structures from Photoredox-Mediated RAFT Polymerizations | Ben Elling |
| September 20 | Dr. Dana Westmoreland | MIT | Structural Dynamics and Electron Transfer: Quantum Dots to Metalloenzymes | Michelle Chen |
| September 27 | No Seminar | |||
| October 4 | Prof. Julia Schneider | Fordham University | Making Organic Semiconductors that Swell or Glow | Brian Northrop |
| October 11 | No Seminar | |||
| October 18 | No Seminar | |||
| October 25 | Prof. Pingua Liu | Boston University | Ergothioneine: a Longevity Natural Product Case Study | Erika Taylor |
| November 1 | Prof. Marcelo Videa Vargas | Rice University | Copper Oxides for the Direct Glucose Electrochemical Oxidation | |
| November 8 | No Seminar | |||
| November 15 | Prof. Jacob Olshansky | Amherst College | Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction using Colloidal Quantum Dots | Michelle Chen |
| November 22 | No Seminar | |||
| December 6 | Dr. Patrick Sarver | Sora Fuel | Decarbonizing Aviation with a Carbonate Electrolyzer | Michael Calter |
Chemistry Department Colloquium, Spring 2025
Coordinated by Professor Natalia Gonzalez-Pech
Seminars are held at 3:30 p.m. in Exley Science 058
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Host |
| January 31 | National Cancer Institute |
Canceled: No Seminar
|
Taylor | |
| February 7 | Prof. Tomoyasu Mani | University of Connecticut | Synthetic Spin Chemistry for Emissive Molecular Qubits based on Spin-Correlated Radical Pairs | Chen |
| February 14 | No Seminar | |||
| February 21 | Prof. Jonathan Ashby | Trinity College |
Fluorescamine - a Dual-Purpose Label for Screening Protein Interaction and Probing Protein Structural Change
|
Gonzalez-Pech |
| February 28 | Prof. Alexandra Strom | Smith College | Iron-Catalyzed Reactions of Ketones: From Amination to Cycloaromatization | Northrop |
| March 7 | Prof. John Galbraith | Marist University |
A Trip Through the Wilderness of Valence Bond Theory: A Survey of the Theory, Some Things I Have Done, and Things I Hope To Do
|
Jimenez-Hoyos |
| March 28 | Prof. Nathan Alder | University of Connecticut | Unraveling the Mechanism of Mitochondria-Targeted Peptides: From Membrane Interactions to Therapeutic Applications | O'Neil |
| April 4 | Prof. Aurelia Ball | Skidmore College | Molecular shape-shifters: Using Computational Biophysics to Reveal Cellular Processes | Smith |
| April 11 | Prof. Benjamin Miller | University of Rochester Medical Center | Watch the whole movie: Integrating Photonic Sensors with Microphysiological Systems to Accelerate Drug Development and Reveal Previously Unknowable Biology | Calter |
| April 18 | Prof. Alfredo M. Angeles-Boza | University of Connecticut | Host Defense Peptides and Metal Ions | Gonzalez-Pech |
| April 25 | Prof. Benjamin McDonald | Brown University |
Chemical and Topological Design of Polymers for Bioinspired Multiscale Soft Materials |
Elling |
| May 2 | Prof. Lydia Kisley | Case Western University |
Super-Resolution Imaging of Complex Materials: Chromatography and Extracellular Nutrients |
Gonzalez-Pech |