Professional Seminars
Professional Seminars Archive
*All Seminars are scheduled for 1 PM, Patricia A. Sullivan Science Building, 301 McIver Street, Rm 201, unless otherwise stated.
Jimmy Orjala, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Illinois Chicago
Talk Title: “Drug Leads from Pond Scum (Discovery of Natural Products from Cyanobacteria)”
Ginger Shultz , Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan
Talk Title: “Insights Into the Development of NMR Interpretation Ability”
Chad V. Pecot, M.D.
Associate Professor
UNC Department of Medicine,
Division of Oncology
Director
UNC RNA Discovery Center
Talk Title: “A Cancer Survivor’s Story About Getting Revenge, One Nucleotide at a Time”
Esther Ngumbi, Ph.D. (Talk in Sullivan 101)
RISE Network’s 2023 Steven Nils Ulosevich Speaker
Assistant Professor
Department of Entomology and Department of African American Studies
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Talk Title: “Towards the Understanding of Microbe Conferred and Chemical-Mediated Plant-Insect Interaction”
Leslie Hicks, Ph.D.
Sherman Fairchild Foundation Chancellor’s Science Scholar Term Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Talk Title: “Plant-Derived Antimicrobial Peptide Discovery”
Mike Stieff , Ph.D.
Professor & Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Department of Chemistry and the Learning Sciences Research Institute
University of Illinois Chicago
Talk Title: “Supporting Students’ Visualization Strategies in the Organic Chemistry Classroom”
Aaron T. Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UMBC
Talk Title: “Structural and Regulatory Elements of Post-Translational Arginylation”
Tianning Diao, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemistry
New York University
Title Talk: “Radical Approaches to Biomass and Plastic Waste Upcycling”
David Asai, Ph.D.
Senior Director
Center for the Advancement of Science Leadership and Culture
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Title Talk: “Race Matters”
Mehdi Beniddir, Ph.D. (Wednesday Talk)
Professor
Faculté de Pharmacie
BioCIS Lab
Université Paris-Saclay
Talk Title: “Digging Through the Data: Pursuing the Ideal Natural Product Discovery Scenario”
Leah G. Dodson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Maryland
Talk Title: “Laboratory Astrochemistry Studies
of Transient Radicals and Intermediates”
Ana Bahamonde, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Riverside
Talk Title: “Advancing Asymmetric Light-Mediated Ni Catalysis Using Data Science and Physical Organic Techniques”
Rachel Mata, Ph.D.
Emerita Professor
Facultad de Química
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Talk Title: “Potential Andiabetic Compounds from Selected Mexican Medicinal Plants”
Jay Winkler, Ph.D.
Member of the Beckman Institute
Faculty Associate in Chemistry
Beckman Institute
California Institute of Technology
Talk Title: “Electrons, Holes, and Proteins”
Jack Barbera, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Portland State University
Talk Title: “From Items to Inferences: The Development and Evaluation of Education Research Assessment Instruments”
Christina B. Cooley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Trinity University
Talk Title: “Fluorogenic Polymerization for Signal Amplification and Bioanalyte Detection”
Kimberly Petersen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UNC Greensboro
Talk Title: “Breaking Symmetry: How Chiral Acids Can Be Used to Catalyze Enantioselective Cyclizations”
Regis Komperda, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
San Diego State University
Talk Title: “Measurement in Chemistry Education: Examining the Past and Supporting the Future”
Barry R. O’Keefe, Ph.D.
Director, Molecular Targets Program
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute, NIH
Chief, Natural Products Branch, Developmental Therapeutics Program
Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
National Cancer Institute, NIH
Talk Title: “Biotherapeutics from Nature: Discovery and Development of Novel Bioactive Proteins”
