Chemistry Department

Hall-Atwater Laboratories Room 10

Middletown, CT 06459
chemistry@wesleyan.edu
1-860-685-2210

Chemistry Department Colloquium - Fall 2018
Coordinated by Prof. Joseph Knee, Professor of Chemistry

Seminars are held in Hall Atwater HA, 84 at 3:30 p.m.
Coffee is served outside room before the seminar.
Light refreshments will be served afterwards in the Chemistry Lounge at HA, 6.

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Host
September 7 The National Institutes of Health Sickle Cell Disease, a Lot of History and a Little Hope: Towards a High-throughput Drug Screen Prof. Stewart Novick
September 14 University of Georgia Targeting isoprenoid biosynthesis for antimalarial drug discovery Prof. Erika Taylor
September 21 Purdue University When Molecular Dynamics Met NMR Experiments Prof. Colin Smith
Thursday, September 27 Director of the Center for Non Linear Studies (CNLS) at Los Alamos National Laboratory Biophysical Retreat
October 5   Yale University Chemical adventures with cryogenic ion spectroscopy: A new secondary analysis platform for mass spectrometry Prof. Joe Knee
October 12 University Alabama, Birmingham  Mass Spectrometry as a Tool for Structural Virology Prof. Alison O'Neil
October 26 Bowdoin College Chemical tools to discover and target glycoproteins on pathogenic bacteria. Prof. Erika Taylor
November 2 Charles Jaffé West Virginia University Recent developments in the theory of transitions states. Prof. David Beveridge
November 9 University of Connecticut Using enzymes to control the role of hydrophobic DNA: from nanoscale self-assembly to intracellular gene regulation. Prof. Michelle Personick
November 16 University of Connecticut Spectral and Structural Relationships in a Light Harvesting Antenna: A Supramolecular QM/MM approach. Prof. Carlos Jimenez-Hoyos
November 30 Dr. Christopher Nasveschuk C4 Therapeutics Advances in the Medicinal Chemistry of Targeted Protein Degradation Prof Brian Northrop
December 7 Harvard University Sources and sinks of CO, CH4 and CO2 at large scales from atmospheric observations Prof. Stewart Novick

Chemistry Department Colloquium, Spring 2019
Coordinated by Prof. Michelle Personick, 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
February 1 New advances in excited state theories: Actinides and X-Ray spectroscopy. Prof. Stewart Novick
February 8 Jason Lam 九色视频 Connecting Renewable Energy with Sustainable Chemical Production: How to Turn Industrial Wastes into Valuable Platform Chemicals Through Electrocatalysis. Prof. Michelle Personick
February 15 Rene Buell 九色视频 Effects of prior knowledgeon reading to learn concepts in chemistry. TBD
February 22 Dr. Robert Volkmann BioPharma Works CNS Drug Discovery: Relating Molecular Structure to Biological Function Prof. Mike Calter
March 1 Barnard College C-O Bond breaking and bond forming strategies: Lessons from biology and heterogenous catalysts Prof. Michelle Personick
March 8 Dr. Brandi Hudson Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Dynamic Visualization of Proteins Prof. Colin Smith
March 29 Indiana University Strain Engineered Multimetallic Nanocatalysts Prof. Michelle Personick
April 5 Dr. Willie Vann Food and Drug Administration Characterization of Initiation and Polymerization of Polysialic Acid in Pathogenic Bacteria Prof. Erika Taylor
April 12 University of Connecticut Polymer/Inorganic Hybrid Materials: From Synthetic Chemistry to Catalysis. TBD
April 19 University of Vermont Bending Polymers into Well-Defined Nanoscale Shapes with Increasing Complexity Prof. Michelle Personick
April 26 Dr. Jian Zhang The Molecular Foundry A Toolbox Approach to Construct Metal-Free Catalysts for Photoredox Catalysis: From Organic Synthesis to Artificial Photosynthesis Prof. Michelle Personick