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

National Cancer Institute
Canceled: No Seminar
Taylor
February 7 University of Connecticut Synthetic Spin Chemistry for Emissive Molecular Qubits based on Spin-Correlated Radical Pairs Chen
February 14 No Seminar
February 21 Trinity College
Fluorescamine - a Dual-Purpose Label for Screening Protein Interaction and Probing Protein Structural Change
Gonzalez-Pech
February 28 Smith College Iron-Catalyzed Reactions of Ketones: From Amination to Cycloaromatization Northrop
March 7 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 University of Connecticut Unraveling the Mechanism of Mitochondria-Targeted Peptides: From Membrane Interactions to Therapeutic Applications O'Neil
April 4 Skidmore College Molecular shape-shifters: Using Computational Biophysics to Reveal Cellular Processes Smith
April 11 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 University of Connecticut Host Defense Peptides and Metal Ions Gonzalez-Pech
April 25 Brown University

Chemical and Topological Design of Polymers for Bioinspired Multiscale Soft Materials

Elling
May 2 Case Western University

Super-resolution imaging of complex materials: chromatography and extracellular nutrients

Gonzalez-Pech