Chemistry Department Colloquium, Fall 2022
Coordinated by Michelle Personick, Professor of Chemistry
Seminars are held at 3:30 p.m.
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Location |
Host |
| Sept. 9 | Dr. Omar Farha | Northwestern University | Smart and Programmable Crystalline Sponges for Protection From Bench to Market | ESC058 | Michelle Personick |
| Sept. 16 | Dr. Marius Clore | NIH | Exploring transient excited states of proteins by magnetic resonance – applications to huntingtin fibril formation and molecular recognition | Zoom | Colin Smith |
| Sept. 23 | Dr. Rob Macfarlane | MIT | Macroscopic Materials from Nanoparticle Assembly | ESC058 | Michelle Personick |
| Sept. 30 | Dr. Derek Frank | Merck & Co., Inc. | Precipitation of Amorphous Solid Dispersions for Improved Material Properties | ESC058 | Brian Northrop |
| Oct. 7 | Erik LaChapelle | Pfizer, Inc. | Optimization and Identification of Brain Penetrant, M4 Subtype-Selective Muscarinic Receptor Positive Allosteric Modulator (M4 PAM) Clinical Candidate | Zoom | Anthony Davis |
| Oct. 14 | Dr. Katherine Hicks | SUNY Cortland | Biochemical Characterization of Bacterial Enzymes Involved in Nicotinic Acid Metabolism | ESC058 | Erika Taylor |
| Oct. 28 | Dr. Zachary Levine | Alto Labs | The Protein Aggresome as an Irreversible Determinant of Cellular Health and Aging | ESC058 | Alison O'Neil |
| Nov. 4 | Dr. Abigail Doyle | UCLA | Data Science Tools for Chemical Synthesis and Catalysis | Zoom | Michael Calter |
| Nov. 11 | Dr. Rachel Letteri | University of Virginia | Leveraging Stereochemistry-Directed Interactions in Tissue-Mimetic Materials | ESC058 | Benjamin Elling |
| Nov. 18 | Dr. James Mayer | Yale University | Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactivity of Molecules and Materials | ESC058 | T. David Westmoreland |
| Dec. 2 | Dr. Sari Sabban | Duke University | Development of a Pan Anti-Allergy Vaccine | ESC058 | Colin Smith |
| Dec. 9 | Dr. Christina Vizcarra | Barnard College | Formin Protein Function: Effects of Small Molecule Inhibitors and Disease-Associated Mutations | ESC058 | Benjamin Elling |
Chemistry Department Colloquium, Spring 2023
Coordinated by Dr. Carlos Jimenez Hoyos, Professor of Chemistry
Seminars are held at 3:30 p.m.
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Location |
Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb. 3 | Prof. Carlos Jimenez Hoyos | Wesleyan University | Our Present and Near-Future Research in Electronic Structure Theory | ESC058 | -- |
| Feb. 10 | No colloquia | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ |
| Feb. 17 | Prof. Puja Goyal | Binghamton University | Role of Structure and Conformational Dynamics in Photoreceptor Protein Function | ZOOM | Carlos Jimenez- Hoyos |
| Feb. 24 | Prof. Ben Levine | Stony Brook University | Connecting Ultrafast Spectra to Ultrafast Dynamics | ESC058 | Carlos Jimenez- Hoyos |
| March 3 | Prof. Irina Bezsonova | UConn Health | Activation Dynamics of USP7 Enzyme and its Role in Hao-Fountain Syndrome | ESC058 | Alison O'Neil |
| March 31 | Prof. Rupal Gupta | College of Staten Island, CUNY | Metal Sequestration at the Host Pathogen Interface by Human Antimicrobial Proteins | ESC058 | Erika Taylor |
| April 7 | Prof. Colin Nuckolls | Columbia University | New Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion | ESC058 | Benjamin Elling |
| April 14 | Prof. Thom Dunning Jr. | University of Washington | Beyond MO Theory: SCGVB Theory of the Electronic Structure of Molecules | ZOOM | Carlos Jimenez-Hoyos |
| April 21 | Prof. Natalia Gonzalez-Pech | Hope College | Iron-Oxide Nanomaterials in the Environment: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | ESC058 | Carlos Jimenez-Hoyos |
| May 5 | Prof. Qiang Cui | Boston University | Machine Learning in QM/MM Simulations and the Analysis of Protein Allostery | ESC058 | Carlos Jimenez- Hoyos |