Events & Seminars

All seminars are held at 4pm in room 304 in the Chemistry Building unless otherwise noted.

Date Speaker (Host) Title
    January 18 Professor Kian Tan
Boston College
(Professor Dean Harman)
Designing the World’s Smallest Enzymes: using synthetic catalysts to control site-, regio-, and stereoselectivity
25 Professor Matt Redinbo
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
(Professor Cameron Mura)
Drugging the Human Microbiome
February
1
Professor Robert Griffin
Massachusetts Institute Technology
(Professor Robert Bryant)
Atomic Resolution Structures of Amyloid Fibrils
15 Professor Zachary Ball
Rice University
(Professor Glenn McGarvey)
Designing enzyme-like catalysts: A rhodium(II) metallopeptide case study
22 Professor Stephen Craig
Duke University
(Professor Linda Columbus)
Mechanochemistry:  From Trapped Transition States to Self-Healing Polymers
March
1
Professor M. Elizabeth Stroupe
Florida State University
(Professors Linda Columbus and Cameron Mura)
Reducing Sulfite: Coupled Proton and Electron Transfer in the Metalloenzyme Sulfite Reductase
April
5
Professor Christopher Easley
Auburn University
(Professor James Landers)
A Few Small Approaches to Study Secretory Dynamics from Endocrine Tissue
12 Professor Eric Mazur
Harvard University
(Professors Kevin Lehmann and Brad Cox)
Nonlinear optics at the nanoscale
*Please note this seminar will be held in PHS 203
19 HECHT LECTURE
Professor Peter Wipf
University of Pittsburgh
(Professor Sid Hecht)
Better Mitochondria Through Imine Addition Chemistry
*Please note this seminar will be held in GIL 130
26 Professor Richard Brennan
Duke University
(Professor Cameron Mura)
How Bugs Escape Drugs

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