Chemistry Department

Hall-Atwater Laboratories Room 10
52 Lawn Ave.
Middletown, CT 06459
chemistry@wesleyan.edu
1-860-685-2210
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Biological Chemistry Seminars - Fall 2023
Coordinated by Dr. Colin Smith, Professor of Chemistry 

Seminars held on Mondays at 12 PM in ESC 139
CHEM587 / MB&B587

 Date

 Name

 Affiliation

 Title
September 18 Aiden Parente / Alexis Papavasiliou Calter Lab An Interdisciplinary Approach to Glutathione Peroxidase Knockdown
September 25 Alex Hinbest Olson Lab Decoding the Matrix: Structure-Guided Exploration of the V. Cholerae Adhesin-Exopolysaccharide Interaction
October 2 Owen Rogers Smith Lab Alchemical Morphing and MD Simulations of SOD1 Deamidation
October 11 Molecular Biophysics Retreat 
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sua Myong, Boston Children's Hospital at Harvard Medical School
Beckham Hall 
October 16 Kat Blejec Smith Lab Probing the Energy Landscape of De Novo Designed Mini Proteins Through Temperature-Dependent Studies
October 23 Fall Break
October 30 Odette Verdejo-Torres Padilla-Benavides Lab Cysteine Rich Protein 2 (CRIP2) is a Cu+ -Responsive Negative Regulator of Myogenesis
November 6 Andrea Baez-Gonzalez Padilla-Benavides Lab Functional effect of Indole-3 Carbinol in the Viability and Invasive properties of Cultured Cancer Cells 
November 13 Denzel Bonilla Pinto Padilla-Benavides Lab (Calter) OBM Inhibits the Migration and Invasive Capabilities of Cancer Cell lines by inducing Mitochondrial Oxidative stress
November 20 Ishraq Wasif Smith Lab Designing/Optimizing Mini Fluorescent Activating Proteins (mFAPs)
November 27 Ranjuna Weerasekera Olson Lab Vibrio Cholerae Biofilm Dispersal: Investigating the Role of RbmB
December 4 Fernando Caballero Thayer Lab Analyzing the Molecular Dynamics of p53

 

Biological Chemistry Seminars - Spring 2024
Coordinated by Dr. Alison O'Neil, Professor of Chemistry 

Seminars held on Mondays at 12 PM in HA 84
CHEM588 / MB&B588

 Date

 Name

 Affiliation

 Title
April 8 Eric Zanderigo O'Neil Lab  Investigating Aβ42 Populations in the Secretomes of Alzheimer's Disease Brain Organoids
April 22 Eleas Kobir Taylor Lab 

In Vitro and In Silico Explorations of the Protein Conformational Changes of Corynebacterium glutamicum MshA, a Model Retaining GT‑B Glycosyltransferase
April 29 Oladele Jimoh Taylor Lab  Exploring Non-Ribosomal Targets for Aminoglycoside Antibiotics
May 6  Drs. Marcus Gibson and Jeremiah Farelli Omega Therapeutics - via Zoom

Working in Computational Genomics and Data Science towards Drug Development