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.
Preston Manwill, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Talk Title: Insights Into the Insecticidal and Antifeedant Activities of Drimane-type Sesquiterpenes Against Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes
Celebration of Marie Daly!
Nathaniel Grove, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Director of the Center for the Support of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Talk Title: Beyond the Shadowed Forest: The Use of Physiological Techniques to Measure Cognitive Load Changes in Organic Chemistry Students
Firoz Khan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Talk Title: Revisiting an Old Friend: Electronic Structure of Ferricenium – and not Ferrocenium – Ion from Spectroscopic, Structural and Electrochemical Studies
Thomas J. Kempa, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry & Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Tailoring the Flatlands to Harness Quantum Phenomena
Lyniesha Wright Ward, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Talk Title: Supporting the Teaching of Spectroscopy Concepts Using Models
Khyarul Alam, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Talk Title: Development of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Poly N-fused Fluorescent Materials
Sonja Knowles
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Talk Title: Exploring the Chemistry of Fungi
Tennille D. Presley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Physics
Department of Chemistry & Physics
Winston Salem State University
Talk Title: NO Boundaries…Utilizing Thermodynamic and Acoustic Approaches to Establish the Correct Circuitry
Chrissy Stachl, Ph.D.
Director of Education, Outreach, and Diversity at the NSF Center for Genetically Encoded Materials (C-GEM)
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
Talk Title – Belonging and Inclusion: What Does It Take to Improve the Academic Climate of A Chemistry Graduate Community?
Norman H. L. Chiu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Adjunct Professor of Nanoscience
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Talk Title: Methodologies for Improving RNA Analysis and Their Applications
Welcome Back for the Spring Semester!
Zohreh Amoozgar Pharm.D, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow and Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholar
Department of Radiation Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: Reprogramming the Tumor Microenvironment to Improve Immunotherapy
Trixia M. Buscagan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemistry
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Structural Evidence for Nitrogenase Metallocluster Modularity
Hermann A. Wegner, Ph.D.
Professor
Justus Liebig University
Giessen, Germany
Talk Title: Bidentate Lewis Acid Catalysis
Nicholas D. Ball, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Pomona College
Talk Title: Synthetic Strategies toward Fluorosulfurylation of Organic Molecules and Sulfur-Fluoride Exchange (SuFEx)
Justin M. Pratt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Corning School of Ocean Studies
Maine Maritime Academy
Talk Title: College Students Teaching Chemistry Through Outreach: Conceptual Understanding of the Elephant Toothpaste Reaction and Making Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
Jennifer A. Dabrowski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry & A. L. Hook Professor of Science and Mathematics
Chemistry Department
Elon University
Talk Title: Is Sustainable Access to Medicines Possible? Efforts toward Small Molecule Building Blocks.
Erin S. Baker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
North Carolina State University
Talk Title: Applying Advanced Separations and Cheminformatics Visualization Techniques to Complex Multi-Omic Analyses
Robert M. Hughes, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
East Carolina University
Talk Title: A “CofActor” Approach to Exploring Neurodegenerative Pathways in Living Cells
