Chemistry Department Colloquium, Spring 2025
Coordinated by Professor Natalia Gonzalez-Pech

Seminars are held at 3:30 p.m. in Exley Science 058

Chem 522

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Host

January 31

Dr. Bakar Hassan

National Cancer Institute
Canceled: No Seminar
Taylor
February 7 Prof. Tomoyasu Mani University of Connecticut Synthetic Spin Chemistry for Emissive Molecular Qubits based on Spin-Correlated Radical Pairs Chen
February 14 No Seminar
February 21 Prof. Jonathan Ashby Trinity College
Fluorescamine - a Dual-Purpose Label for Screening Protein Interaction and Probing Protein Structural Change
Gonzalez-Pech
February 28 Prof. Alexandra Strom Smith College Iron-Catalyzed Reactions of Ketones: From Amination to Cycloaromatization Northrop
March 7 Prof. John Galbraith Marist University
A Trip Through the Wilderness of Valence Bond Theory: A Survey of the Theory, Some Things I Have Done, and Things I Hope To Do
Jimenez-Hoyos
March 28 Prof. Nathan Alder University of Connecticut Unraveling the Mechanism of Mitochondria-Targeted Peptides: From Membrane Interactions to Therapeutic Applications O'Neil
April 4 Prof. Aurelia Ball Skidmore College Molecular shape-shifters: Using Computational Biophysics to Reveal Cellular Processes Smith
April 11 Prof. Benjamin Miller University of Rochester Medical Center Watch the whole movie: Integrating Photonic Sensors with Microphysiological Systems to Accelerate Drug Development and Reveal Previously Unknowable Biology Calter
April 18 Prof. Alfredo M. Angeles-Boza University of Connecticut TBD Gonzalez-Pech
April 25 Prof. Benjamin McDonald Brown University TBD Elling
May 2 Prof. Lydia Kisley Case Western University TBD Gonzalez-Pech