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.
Jennifer L. Roizen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Duke University
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”
Robert W. Huigens III, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
College of Pharmacy
University of Florida
Talk Title: “Phenazine Antibiotics and Indole Alkaloids: New Platforms for Drug Discovery”
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: “There and back again: A chemist tale & The Lord of the Ring Stands”
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”
Jerry Troutman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Talk Title: “Isoprenoid based tools for bacterial glycobiology”
Alice Haddy, Ph.D.
Professor of Biophysical Chemistry
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of North Carolina Greensboro
Talk Title: “The role of chloride in photosystem II, or how chloride helped fill the world with oxygen so animals could breath”
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”
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”.
Susanna Widicus, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Chemistry
Emory College
Talk Title: “Prebiotic Astrochemistry in the ‘THz-Gap’”
Colin Cameron, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of North Carolina Greensboro
Talk title to be announced soon!
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”
7th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research
Graduating UNCG Chemistry and Biochemistry Majors
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”
SPRING HOLIDAY
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”
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”
Ohyun Kwon, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: “Phosphines and Phosphinocatalysis”
SPRING BREAK
Derrick R. J. Kolling, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Marshall University
Title: “Using Algal Manipulation and Bio-inspiration to Develop Alternative Fuels”
