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Professional Seminars
Fall 2017
*All Seminars are scheduled for 1 PM, Patricia A. Sullivan Science Building, 301 McIver Street, Rm 201, unless otherwise stated.
Patricia H. Reggio, Ph.D.
Marie Foscue Rourk Professor
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of North Carolina Greensboro
Title: “2-AG Signaling at the Cannaboid CB2 Receptor: A Combined Molecular Dynamics and CB2/Gi Chemical Cross-Linking-Study”
Colin Cameron, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of North Carolina Greensboro
Talk title to be announced soon!
Susanna Widicus, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Chemistry
Emory College
Talk Title: “Prebiotic Astrochemistry in the ‘THz-Gap’”
Liang Li, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry and Canada Research Chair
Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Talk Title: “High-Performance Chemical Isotope Labeling LC-MS for Comprehensive and Quantitative Metabolomics”.
Cassandra Quave, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Human Health
Department of Biology
Emory University
Talk title: “Ethnobotany and the search for novel anti-infectives for the post-antibiotic era”
Kerry McPhail, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Oregon State University
Talk Title: “Genomics-assisted microbial natural products discovery”
Jerry Troutman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Talk Title: “Isoprenoid based tools for bacterial glycobiology”
Webster Santos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Virginia Tech
Talk Title: “The Sphingosine-1-phosphate pathway: Sphingosine kinase as a drug target”
Benjamin Blass, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Moulder Center for Drug Discovery Research
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Temple University School of Pharmacy
Talk Title TBA
Robert W. Huigens III, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
College of Pharmacy
University of Florida
Talk Title: “Phenazine Antibiotics and Indole Alkaloids: New Platforms for Drug Discovery”
Sandra Loesgen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Oregon State University
Talk Title: “Microbial Natural Products in Drug Discovery – New Methods, Screens, and Targets”
Spring 2017
*All Seminars are scheduled for 1 PM, Patricia A. Sullivan Science Building, 301 McIver Street, Rm 201, unless otherwise stated.
Jeff Johnson, Ph.D.
UNC Chapel Hill
Department of Chemistry
Title: “Lemonade from Lemons: The Merits of Stereoerrors in Chemical Synthesis.”
Robert McFeeters, Ph.D.
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Department of Chemistry
Title: “Novel Antimicrobial Approaches: Peptidyl-tRNA Hydrolases & Antifungal Lectins”
Jianjun Wei, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The Department of Nanoscience, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN)
UNCG
Title: “Nanoscale Interactions and Applications: Integrated Nanoplasmonic Sensing & A Fluorescence-Electrochemical Study of Carbon Nano-Dots (CNDs)”
Nicholas Oberlies, Ph.D.
Professor
UNCG
The Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
Title: “Strategies, Approaches, and Results in Pursuit of Bioactive Compounds from Fungi”
Mitchell Croatt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Panel Discussion
The Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
UNCG
Title: “Careers in Fermentation Science”
Alan G. Marshall, Ph.D.
Robert O. Lawton Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Chief Scientist, Ion Cyclotron Resonance Program, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Florida State University
Title: Reading Chemical “Fine Print”: “The Key to Exploiting Nature’s Compositional Complexity”
Christian Melander Ph.D.
Howard J. Schaeffer Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemistry
NC State University
Title: “Marine Alkaloid Derivatives that Reverse Phenotypic and Genotypic Antibiotic Resistance”
Derrick R. J. Kolling, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Marshall University
Title: “Using Algal Manipulation and Bio-inspiration to Develop Alternative Fuels”
SPRING BREAK
Ohyun Kwon, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: “Phosphines and Phosphinocatalysis”
Louis R. Barrows, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Utah
Title: “Natural Products in the Battle Against the Twin Terrors of HIV and TB”
Elizabeth R. Gaillard, Ph.D.
Professor and Director Center for Biochemical and Biophysical Studies
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Northern Illinois University
Title: “Photomodulation of the inflammatory response by human ocular melanin”
SPRING HOLIDAY
Alan K. Jarmusch, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar – Dorrestein Lab
University of California, San Diego
Title: “Untargeted Metabolomics Reveals Information About Our Health, Behavior, and Microbiota”
7th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research
Graduating UNCG Chemistry and Biochemistry Majors
