Graduate Seminar in Chemistry, Fall 2024
Coordinated by Natalia Gonzalez-Pech & Carlos Jimenez Hoyos
Seminars held on Monday at 12:00 p.m. in Hall-Atwater 84
CHEM 571
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| September 23 | Eric Zanderigo | O'Neil Lab | Investigating Aβ42 Populations in the Secretomes of A.D. Brain Organoids |
| September 30 | Eleas Kobir | Taylor Lab | Targeting LPS Biosynthesis and Transport in Gram-Negative Bacteria in the Era of Multi-Drug Resistance |
| October 7 | Shishir Acharya | Jimenez Hoyos Lab | Cluster Many-Body Expansion |
| October 14 | Jessa Zovinka | Elling Lab | Transition Metal Catalyzed Carboxylation of Terminal Alkynes |
| October 21 | Fall Break | ||
| October 28 | Kat Blejec | Smith Lab |
Probing the Energy Landscape of De Novo Designed Mini Proteins through Temperature-Dependent Studies |
| November 4 | Viki Miseljic | Northrop Lab |
Charge Transport through Single-Molecule Junctions with σ‑Delocalized Systems
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| November 11 | Libby Dickerson | Westmoreland Lab |
Exploring Smart Contrast Agents: Endeavor toward Redox-Responsive Transition Metal Contrast Agents Based on the Cross-Bridge Cyclam Platform
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| November 18 | Evelyn Grandfield | Compatibilization of Polymer Blends: Dynamic Crosslinks and Copolymer Additives | |
| November 25 | Hector Contreras | Calter Lab | Enamine Acylation Enabled Desymmetrization of Malonic Esters |
| December 2 | Kaylah Medvec | Calter Lb | Lost in Translation: Designing Compounds that Inhibit the Production of a Cancer-Loving Protein |
Graduate Seminar in Chemistry, Spring 2025
Coordinated by Michael A. Calter, & Michelle Chen
Seminars held on Thursday at 12:00 p.m. in Hall-Atwater 84
CHEM 571
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| January 30 | Viktorija Miseljic | Nothrop Lab |
Phenazine-Based Aggregation Induced Emission Materials
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| February 6 | Abdulrahman Bashir | Elling Lab | Covalent Adaptable Networks with Selectivity on Bonding and Debonding |
| February 13 | Kat Blejec | Smith Lab | Conformational Control of Fast Asparagine Deamidation in a Norovirus Capsid Protein" by Creutznacher et al |
| February 20 | Libby Dickerson | Westmoreland Lab |
What Factors Connect Relaxivity & CEST Intensity? It Depends: Exploring the pH-Dependent Mechanism of Amide Proton Exchange
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| February 27 | Stephanie Cianchetti | Calter Lab | Electrolyte Additives for Improved Lithium Ion Battery Safety |
| March 6 | Oladele Jimoh | Taylor Lab | Exploring Non-Ribosomal Targets For Aminoglycoside Antibiotics |
| March 27 | Jessa Zovinka | Elling Lab | Silver-Catalyzed Carboxylation of Terminal Alkynes: A Pathway to Sustainable Polyesters from CO2 |
| April 3 | Sophie Chang | O'Neil Lab |
Investigating the Activity and Hypothesized Mechanism of Action of Rocaglamide Analogues
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| April 10 | Owen Rogers | Smith Lab |
Evaluating Miniprotein-Target Simulations for Predicting Deep Mutagenesis
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| April 17 | Justin Bracero | Calter Lab |
Synthesis of Rocaglamide Analogs
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| April 24 | Kaylah Medvec | Calter Lab | Lost in Translation: Designing Compounds that Inhibit the Production of Cancer Loving Proteins |
| May 1 | Eric Zanderigo | O'Neil Lab | A Biomimetic Multiparametric Assay to Characterise Anti-Amyloid Drugs |