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.

November 10, 2023

Jimmy Orjala, Ph.D.

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)”

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November 3, 2023

Ginger Shultz , Ph.D.

Ginger Shultz , Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan

Talk Title: “Insights Into the Development of NMR Interpretation Ability”

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October 27, 2023

Chad V. Pecot, M.D.

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”

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October 20, 2023

Esther Ngumbi, Ph.D. (Talk in Sullivan 101)

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”

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October 13, 2023

Leslie Hicks, Ph.D.

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”

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October 6, 2023

Mike Stieff , Ph.D.

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”

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September 29, 2023

Aaron T. Smith, Ph.D.

Aaron T. Smith, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UMBC

Talk Title: “Structural and Regulatory Elements of Post-Translational Arginylation”

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September 22, 2023

Tianning Diao, Ph.D.

Tianning Diao, Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Chemistry
New York University

Title Talk: “Radical Approaches to Biomass and Plastic Waste Upcycling”

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September 15, 2023

David Asai, Ph.D.

David Asai, Ph.D.

Senior Director
Center for the Advancement of Science Leadership and Culture
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Title Talk: “Race Matters”

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September 13, 2023

Mehdi Beniddir, Ph.D. (Wednesday Talk)

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”

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September 8, 2023

Leah G. Dodson, Ph.D.

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”

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September 1, 2023

Ana Bahamonde, Ph.D.

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”

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April 14, 2023

Rachel Mata, Ph.D.

Rachel Mata, Ph.D.

Emerita Professor
Facultad de Química
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Talk Title: “Potential Andiabetic Compounds from Selected Mexican Medicinal Plants”

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March 31, 2023

Jay Winkler, Ph.D.

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”

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March 24, 2023

Jack Barbera, Ph.D.

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”

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March 17, 2023

Christina B. Cooley, Ph.D.

Christina B. Cooley, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Trinity University
Talk Title: “Fluorogenic Polymerization for Signal Amplification and Bioanalyte Detection”

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March 3, 2023

CANCELLED

CANCELLED

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February 24, 2023

Kimberly Petersen, Ph.D.

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”

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February 17, 2023

Regis Komperda, Ph.D.

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”

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February 10, 2023

Barry R. O’Keefe, Ph.D.

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”

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