Chemistry Department Colloquium, Fall 2023
Coordinated by Professor Ben Elling
Seminars are held at Exley Science 058 3:30 p.m.
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September 8 |
Trinity College |
Chemical and Physical Processes in Drinking Water and Their Impact on Water Quality |
ESC058 |
Erika Taylor |
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September 15 |
Stony Brook University |
Widening the Therapeutic Window: Kinetic Selectivity and Target Vulnerability |
ESC058 |
Erika Taylor |
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September 22 |
Wesleyan University |
Gas Phase Molecular Dynamics and Energetics via Laser Spectroscopy |
ESC058 |
Ben Elling |
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September 29 |
Macalester College |
Aromatic Diimide Isomers and Ions toward Organic Materials |
ESC058 |
Brian Northrop |
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October 6 |
Central University of Haryana |
Novel Nucleic Acid Architectures Leading a Paradigm Shift in Drug Design and Discovery |
ESC058 |
David Westmoreland |
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October 13 |
University of Vermont |
New Sigmatropic Rearrangements for the Synthesis of Guanidines |
ESC058 |
Michael Calter |
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October 20 |
Dartmouth College |
Molecular Recognition Mechanisms of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins |
ESC058 |
Colin Smith |
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October 27 |
Connecticut College |
From Correlation to Causation: Re-examining a role for Chronic Stress in Health Disparities Research |
ESC058 |
Erika Taylor |
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November 3 |
University of Michigan |
Redox Transformations of the Biogeochemical N2 and O2 Cycles Mediated by Earth-Abundant Transition Metal Complexes |
ESC058 |
Carlos Jimenez Hoyos |
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November 10 |
University of Connecticut |
Photopharmacology of Ion Channels for the Modulation of Pain |
ESC058 |
Alison O'Neil |
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November 17 |
University of New Hampshire |
Engineering Tissue-Like Behavior in DNA Based Hydrogels |
ESC058 |
Ben Elling |
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December 8 |
Yale University |
Asymmetric Catalysis in Complex Molecular Environments |
ESC058 |
Michael Calter |
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Chemistry Department Colloquium, Spring 2024
Coordinated by Professor Ben Elling
Seminars are held at 3:30 p.m. in ESC058
CHEM 522
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| February 2 | Prof. Arthi Jayaraman | University of Delaware | Computational Methods for Analyses of Small Angle Scattering and Microscopy Measurement Results from Polymeric Materials | Ben Elling |
| February 9 | Prof. Catherine Drennan | MIT | Revealing the Secrets of Metalloenzymes One Snapshot at a Time | David Westmoreland |
| February 16 | Prof. Yongku Cho | University of Connecticut | Engineering Strategies for Alzheimer’s Disease Biotherapeutics | Alison O'Neil |
| February 23 | Prof. Andrei Alexandrescu | University of Connecticut | NMR Forays Into Some Unexplored Areas of Biophysics: Unconventional Zinc Fingers and Subcellular Metabolomics | Colin Smith |
| March 1 | Prof. Patrick Hrdlicka | University of Idaho | Sequence-Unrestricted Recognition of Double-Stranded DNA Using Invader Probes | Pawan Sharma |
| April 5 | Prof. Seth Herzon | Yale University | Total Synthesis of Securines and Securamines | Brian Northrop |
| April 19 | Prof. Paul Rablen | Swarthmore College | Are CN (and a Few Other EWG’s) Really Meta-Directors in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution? | Carlos Jimenez-Hoyos |
| April 26 | Prof. Austin Evans | University of Florida | Electrochemical Modification and Degradation of Macromolecules | Ben Elling |
| May 3 | Prof. Amy Howell | University of Connecticut | Exploring and Exploiting the Reactivities of Unusual Oxetanes | Michael Calter |