Chemistry Department Colloquium, Fall 2021
Coordinated by Michelle Personick, Professor of Chemistry

Seminars are held at 3:30 p.m.

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Location

Host

Sept. 10 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Designing New Proteins and Building De Novo Cryo-EM Structures Collaboratively with Foldit Computer Game Players Colin Smith 
Sept. 17 九色视频 What are Sustainable Polymers?: Reprocessing Plastics and Beyond ESC 058 Michelle Personick
Oct. 1 Penn State  Chemical Design of Active Droplets that Swim, Chase, and Interact ESC 058 Michelle Personick
Oct. 8 Indiana University School of Medicine Understanding the Phosphatidylinositol Lipidome as a Modulator of Breast Cancer Signaling Erika Taylor
Oct. 15 University of New Haven  Probing Chemical Structure & Dynamics with Microwave Spectroscopy ESC 058 Stewart Novick
Oct. 22 Rice University  Electrifying CO2 into Fuels and Chemicals ESC 058 Michelle Personick
Oct. 29 Northwestern University Protein-Based Materials Engineering with DNA ESC 058 Michelle Personick
Nov. 5 Georgia State University The Importance of Being Positive: How Flavoprotein Oxidases Effect Oxygen Activation

Erika Taylor

Nov. 12 University of California, Los Angeles Expanding the Activity Based Chemoproteomic Toolbox  Erika Taylor
Nov. 19 UConn Health Protein Phosphatases: Novel Routes for Drug Design ESC 058 Colin Smith 
Dec. 3 Northwestern University Protein Quality Control in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disorders Alison O'Neil
Dec. 10 Amherst College Exploring the Roles of Chirality and Defect Structures in Organic Electronics ESC 058 Brian Northrop

 

Chemistry Department Colloquium, Spring 2022
Coordinated by Dr. Michelle Personick, Professor of Chemistry

Seminars are held at 3:30 p.m.

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Location

Host

Feb. 4 University of North Carolina School of Medicine Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease….and What This Means for Therapeutics

Alison O'Neil
Feb. 11 University of Massachusetts Amherst  Chemical Vapor Deposition of Soft Materials for Wearable Health Monitoring David Westmoreland
Feb. 18   Georgia Institute of Technology Fully Degradable Materials Using Carbon–Sulfur Bonds ESC 058 Benjamin Elling
Feb. 25 Purdue University Novel Chemotypes of Kinase Inhibitors for the Potential Treatment of Recurrent Cancers Erika Taylor
April 1 University of Connecticut Seeking Chiral Light: Design and Synthesis of Molecules Emitting Circularly Polarized Luminescence ESC 058 Brian Northrop
April 8 Ohio State University Nanoparticle-Assisted NMR Spin Relaxation for Studying the Dynamics and Interactions of Folded and Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Colin Smith
April 15 University of Pennsylvania  COVID 19: Antiviral Discovery Pipeline Michael Calter
April 22 University of Göttingen

How much can you BENCh?

Methods for Modern Experimental Benchmarking

Stewart Novick
April 29   Northwestern University Using Molecularly Defined DNA Dendrons to Forge New Capabilities at the Nanoscale Michelle Personick