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.
Judith M. Rollinger, Ph.D.
Professor
Division of Pharmacognosy
Department of Pharm. Sciences
University of Vienna, Austria
Talk Title: “The Exciting Aspects of Nature’s Complexity”
Joslynn S. Lee, Ph.D.
RISE Network’s Spring 2024
Dr. Steven Nils Ulosevich Speaker
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Fort Lewis College
Talk Title: “Training and Engaging Undergraduates Through Place-Based Microbiome and Chemical Research”
Yousong Ding, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Medicinal Chemistry College of Pharmacy
University of Florida
Talk Title: “Synthetic Biology and Enzymology in Natural Product Research”
Amy Keller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes
University of Colorado School of Medicine Anschutz Medical Campus
Research Scientist
Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center
Talk Title: “How Did I Get Here? Trails, Crossroads, and Cliffs in Science”
Eduardo G. de Campos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences
Appalachian State University
Talk Title: “Forensic Analytical Strategies Applied to the Study of Illicit Drugs and New Psychoactive Substances”
Shabnam Hematian, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Talk Title: “Unconventional Approaches for Mediating Redox Reactions”
David C. Lacy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Chemistry Department
University at Buffalo
Talk Title: “Discovery of New High-Valent Mn Compounds Useful for Synthesis”
Todd Harrop, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Center for Metalloenzyme Studies
University of Georgia
Talk Title: “Mimicking Global Nitrogen Cycle Transformations with Nonheme Iron Complexes”
Andrew Riley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Illinois Chicago
Talk Title: “From Leaves and Seeds to Hits and Leads: Natural Product Drug Discovery for Pain and Addiction”
Jeffrey Rudolf, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Florida
Talk Title: “Exploring the Bacterial Terpenome”
Gayan Wijeratne, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Alabama
Talk Title: “Investigating Heme Superoxo and Peroxo Mediated Pathways of Heme Enzymes Using Functional Synthetic Mimics”
Huong T. Kratochvil, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
UNC-Chapel Hill
Talk Title: “Protein Function Through the Lens of Protein Design”
William T. Booth, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medical Laboratory Science
Winston-Salem State University
Talk Title: “UNCG Chemistry Alumni Update: Navigating my Path to a Career in Academia as an Under-Represented Minority”
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”
