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Chemistry Department Colloquium, Fall 2020
Coordinated by Dr. Personick, Professor of Chemistry

Seminars are held virtually at 3:30 p.m.

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Host
Sept. 4 Prof. Lam Nguyen Laboratory of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Paris Lam's LAMs: Small molecules with Large Amplitude Motions explored by the interplay of microwave spectroscopy, quantum chemistry, and spectral modeling Stewart Novick

Sept.11

 Prof. Shirley Lin  US Naval Academy Copper-Catalyzed, Microwave-Assisted Cross-Couplings of Aryl Halides via a Concurrent Tandem Catalytic Methodology Michelle Personick
Sept. 18 Dr. Thomas Blake Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Environmental Spectroscopy at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Some Recent Results Stewart Novick
Sept. 25 Prof. Beat Vogeli University of Colorado, Denver Exact distance measurement using nuclear and electron magnetic resonance Colin Smith
Oct. 2 Prof. Jillian Dempsey University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Elucidating Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Mechanisms Underpinning the Catalytic Generation of Renewable Fuels T. David Westmoreland
Oct. 9 Prof. Yan Yu Indiana University  Chemistry at the Nanomaterial-Bio Interface Michelle Personick
Oct.  16 Prof. Emily Weiss Northwestern University Colloidal Photocatalysis for Energy Conversion and Organic Synthesis T. David Westmoreland
Oct. 23 Prof. Nozomi Ando Cornell University Evolution of Protein Allostery and Correlated Motions Erika Taylor
Oct. 30 Prof. Pablo Sobrado  Virginia Tech  Targeting siderophore biosynthesis: structure, mechanism, and inhibition of flavin-dependent N-monooxygenases Erika Taylor 
Nov. 6 Prof. Xiaosong Li University of Washington  Manifestation of Spin-Couplings in Computational Molecular Spectroscopies Carlos Jimenez-Hoyos
Nov. 13 Prof. Melanie Chiu Stony Brook University Switchable Catalysts: Fundamentals to Materials Applications Michelle Personick

 

Chemistry Department Colloquium, Spring 2021
Coordinated by Dr. Michelle Personick, Professor of Chemistry

Seminars are held virtually at 3:30 p.m.

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Host
Feb. 12 Prof. Jeremiah Johnson MIT

Cleavable Bonds in Plastics and Gels: What Can We Learn by Breaking Materials Apart?

 Brian Northrop
Feb. 19 Prof. Sen Zhang Univeristy of Virginia

Atomically Precise Nanocrystal Surfaces and Interfaces for Electrocatalysis

 Michelle Personick
Feb. 26 Prof. Lesley-Ann Giddings Smith College The Search for New Natural Products and Biocatalysts Erika Taylor
March 5 Prof. Daryl Bosco UMass Medical School Different Flavors of Protein Misfolding and Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Disease Alison O'Neil
March 12 Prof. Charles Chusuei Middle Tennessee State University Bioanalyte Sensing with ZnO Carbon Nanotube and Silicon Nanowire Electrocatalysts Michelle Personick
March 19 Prof. Al Nelson  University of Washington

Stimuli-Responsive Triblock Copolymer Ion Gels

 Brian Northrop
March 26 Prof. Alison Frontier University of Rochester

New Cyclization Strategies Enabled by the Alkynyl Prins Reaction

Michael Calter
April 2 Prof. Gaetano Montelione Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Proteins Flex to Function: The Role of Conformational Plasticity in Molecular Recognition Colin Smith 
April 9  Prof. Elizabeth Meiering University of Waterloo Natural and unnatural structures of wild-type and ALS mutant SOD1s Alison O'Neil
April 16 Prof. Kara Stowers Brigham Young University Heterogeneous Catalyst Design for Increasing the Activity of Oxidation and Reduction Reactions Michelle Personick
April 23 Prof. Jerome Robinson Brown University  Catalyst RE-design: Leveraging Dynamic and Labile Systems to Address Challenges in Sustainability Michelle Personick
April 30  Prof. Benjamin Janesko Texas Christian University Beyond Hybrid Density Functional Theory  Carlos Jimenez Hoyos
May 7 Prof. Brett McGuire MIT New Frontiers in Cosmic Carbon Stewart Novick