Organic-Inorganic Chemistry Seminars - Fall 2016
Coordinated by Dr. Brian Northrop
Professor of Chemistry 

Hall-Atwater 84, 12:00PM, Thursdays

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

September 12

Prof. Brian H. Northrop

Wesleyan University, Department of Chemistry

Orientation

September 22

Steve Frayne

Prof. Northrop’s Lab

"One-Pot Aminolysis/Thiol-Maleimide End-Group Functionalization of RAFT Polymers: Identifying and Preventing Michael Addition Side Reactions"

September 29

Dr. Anna Marie Pyle

Molecular Biophysics Retreat

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

"Structural and mechanistic insights into RNA splicing"

October 13

Sean McDarby

Prof. Personicks Lab

"Improving the Lithium Ion Battery through Nanotechnology"

October 27

Vasileios Drogkaris

Prof.  Northrops Lab

"Photoswitching of Glass Transition Temperature".

November 10 

Andrea Lee

Prof. Westmoreland's Lab

"Redox-Responsive Magnetic Resonance Imaging Probes"

December 1

Yoana Gendzhova

Prof. Calter Lab

"Recent advances in transition metal-mediated C-H activation"

Practice talks are held the week before each presentation.

 

Organic-Inorganic Chemistry Seminars - Spring 2017
Coordinated by Dr. Michael Calter
Professor of Chemistry

Hall-Atwater 84, 12:00PM, Thursdays

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

February 23

Melissa King 

Personick Lab

 "Synthesis of Shaped Nanoparticles with Bimetallic Surfaces via Selective Surface Passivation"

March 9

Dan Laorenza

Westmoreland Lab

 "A 1H relaxometric approach to the solution speciation of Mn(II) complexes"

April 13

Sarah Briggs

Westmoreland Lab

"How many exchangeable water molecules does it take to get an MA degree?"

April 20

Tsagan Ednyasheve

Calter Lab

 "Progress towards total synthesis of Rocaglamide"

May 4

 Prachiti Bhatawdekar

Calter Lab

 "Catalytic, Asymmetric, Interrupted Feist-Bénary Reaction for the construction of Furofuran core"

Practice talks are held the week before each presentation.