Chemistry Department Colloquium, Fall 2019
Coordinated by Dr. Joseph Knee, Professor of Chemistry
Seminars are held in room 84, Hall-Atwater Laboratories at 3:30 p.m.
Coffee is served outside room 84 before the seminar and
refreshments are served afterwards in the Chemistry Lounge (Hall-Atwater Laboratory, Room 6).
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Host |
| Sept. 13 | Prof. Chris Johnson | Stony Brook University | From Molecules to Clouds: How do Atmospheric Particles Form from Thin Air? | Prof. Joseph Knee |
| Sept. 20 | Prof. John Dudek | Hartwick College | High Resoltion Infrared Spectroscopy of Molecules with Astronomical and Structural Importance/Relevance | Stewart Novick |
| Sept. 26 (Th.) | Biophysics Retreat | -- | -- | -- |
| Sept. 27 | Prof. Ou Chen | Brown University | Self-Assembly of Anisotropic Nanocrystals From Periodic Superlattices to Aperiodic Quasicrystals | Michelle Personick |
| Oct. 4 | Prof. Joshua Newby | Hobart & William Smith Colleges | What Difference Does an Atom Make? The Geometric Preferences of Chalcogen Heterocycles with Water. | Stewart Novick |
| Oct. 11 | Prof. Denyce Wicht | Suffolk University | The Metabolic Pathway from Dimethylsulfone to Sulfite: Elucidating the Role of Reduced Flavin-Dependent Monooxygenases | Erika Taylor |
| Oct. 25 | Prof. Teri Odom | Northwestern University | Resolving Nano-bio Interactions at the Single-Nanoconstruct Level | Michelle Personick |
| Nov. 1 | Prof. J. Patrick Loria | Yale University | Micro-Millisecond Motions Involved in Enzyme Chemistry and Allostery | Colin Smith |
| Nov. 8 | Prof. Jeremy Lohman | Purdue University | Malonyl-Thioester Isosteres to Enable Enzyme-Structure Function Studies in Fatty Acid and Polyketide Biosynthesis | Erika Taylor |
| Nov. 15 | Prof. Stormy Chamberlain | University of Connecticut - Health Center | Using Human iPSCs to Discover Therapeutic Approaches for Rare Diseases | Alison O'Neil |
| Nov. 22 | Prof. Jane Jackman | Ohio State University | tRNA Processing and Modification: Ancient Enzymes Take on New Roles in Biology | Erika Taylor |
Chemistry Department Colloquium, Spring 2020
Coordinated by Dr. Michelle Personick, Professor of Chemistry
Seminars are held in ESC 058 at 3:30 p.m.
Coffee and refreshments are served before and after the seminar in the vestibule outside ESC 058
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Host |
| Jan. 31 | Prof. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer | Yale University | Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion | Carlos Jimenez-Hoyos |
| Feb. 7 | Prof. David Merkler | University of South Florida, Schramm Laboratory | Cellular Communication: Novel Endocannabinoid-like Lipids, Fruit Flies and Other Insects, N-Acyltransferases, and Subtraction Lipidomics | Erika Taylor |
| Feb. 14 | Prof. Michelle Personick | Wesleyan University | Growing Model Catalysts Through the Tailored Design of Shaped Bimetallic Nanoparticles | -- |
| Feb. 21 | Prof. Mateusz Marianski | Hunter College | Understanding Glycosylation Reaction with Cryogenic Vibrational Spectroscopy and First-principles Methods | Carlos Jimenez-Hoyos |
| Feb. 28 | Prof. Anne Hart | Brown University | Using Invertebrate Genetics to Understand ALS | Alison O'Neil |