2024
Prof. Eugene Chen
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Colorado state University
“From Organometallic & Organic Catalysis to Sustainable Polymers to Mono-Material Product Design”
Dr. Hoby Wedler
Thursday, May 5, 2024
“Nobody can See Atoms: A Journey of Accessibility and Chemical Research for a Graduate Student and Beyond”
Prof. B. Montgomery Pettitt
Thursday, April 25, 2024
University of Texas Medical Branch
“Protein Disorder Coupled to Phase Separation”
Prof. Malika Jeffries-El
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Boston University
“Design and Synthesis of Organic Electronic Materials”
Prof. Robert Waymouth
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Stanford University
“New Catalysts and Processes for Polymer Science: From Catalysis to Functional Materials”
Prof. Moungi Bawendi
Thursday, April 4, 2024
MIT
“From a synthesis for quantum dots to a novel quantum emitter: a journey of nano-explorations”
Prof. Zarko Boskovic
Thursday, March 28, 2024
University of Kansas
“Reaching New Chemical Space with Excited States”
Prof. Tere Padilla-Benavides
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Wesleyan University
“Cysteine Rich Protein 2 is a copper-responsive regulator of skeletal muscle differentiation”
Prof. Robert Tampé
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Gothe University Frankfurt
“From Antigens to Defense: Cellular Machineries in Quality Control and Adaptive Immunity”
Prof. Mohan Srinvasarao
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Emergence of Chiral Structures in Achiral Lyotropic Liquid Crystals”
Prof. Houlong Zhuang
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Arizona State University
“Discovery of Novel High-Entropy Materials via Quantum Computing”
Dr. Andrew Lees
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Fina Biosolutions
“Developing Affordable Conjugate Vaccines: Antigens, Carrier Proteins, Chemistry, and Business”
2023
Prof. Matthew Bogyo
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Stanford University
“Making it stick: how to engineer selective covalent ligands for diverse applications in biology”
Prof. Alexander Ivanov
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Northeastern University
“Big and small: mass spectrometry-based studies of small cell populations, single cells, and ~1 MDa multimeric protein assemblies”
Prof. Baron Chanda
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Washington University School of Medicine
“Mechanisms of ligand- and voltage-activation in pacemaker ion channels”
Prof. Cristian Blanco and Prof. Yajaira Combariza
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Industrial University of Santander
“Tropical Treasures: Harnessing Nature's Bounty for Sustainable Food and Water Applications”
Prof. Michelle Personick
Thursday, October 19, 2023
University of Virginia
“Precision Engineering of Metal Nanoparticle Surfaces for Fundamental Studies of Catalytic Reactivity”
Prof. Lynmarie Thompson
Thursday, October 12, 2023
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Protein Stabilization Plays a Key Role in Signaling by Bacterial Chemoreceptor Complexes”
Prof. Ren Wiscons
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Amherst College
“Conformational Inversion in Heterotriangulenes for Ferroelectric Switching”
Prof. Chen Wang
Thursday, September 28, 2023
City University of New York
“Photocatalysis mediated by the surface chemistry of perovskite nanocrystals: an exploration guided by time-resolved spectroscopy”
Dr. Euna Yoo
Thursday, September 21, 2023
National Cancer Institute
“Dissecting immunomodulatory protease function using activity-based protein profiling and covalent ligand screening”
Prof. Joseph C. Genereux
Thursday, September 14, 2023
University of California, Riverside
“Profiling Proteome Integrity in Response to Environmental Insults”
Prof. Yang Yang
Thursday, September 7, 2023
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Constrained Nuclear-Electronic Orbital (CNEO) Framework: Accurate Vibrational Spectra and Reaction Rates from Efficient Incorporation of Nuclear Quantum Effects”
Prof. Stephen Maldonado
Thursday, May 18, 2023
University of Michigan
“‘Dark’ Voltammetry with Semiconductor Electrodes”
Prof. Christine Thomas
Thursday, May 11, 2023
The Ohio State University
“Incorporating Metal-Ligand and Metal-Metal Cooperativity into First Row Transition Metal Catalysis”
Prof. Brandi Cossairt
Thursday, May 4, 2023
University of Washington
“From Ultrasmall to Giant – Achieving Precision in the Synthesis and Placement of Nanocrystals for Classical and Quantum Light”
Prof. Dorothee Kern
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Brandeis University
“Evolution of Energy Landscapes and its Exploitation for Drug and Enzyme Design”
Prof. Priya Banerjee
Thursday, April 20, 2023
University at Buffalo
“Physical Principles of Biomolecular Phase Separation”
Prof. Rob Coridan
Thursday, April 13, 2023
University of Arkansas
“Exploiting Disordered Photonics for Light Trapping in Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion Applications”
Prof. Joseph Zaia
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Boston University
“Brain Matrisome Glycosylation Alterations in Neurological Diseases”
Prof. Katie Hart
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Williams College
“Traversing protein energy landscapes in the purple valley”
Prof. Derek Stein
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Brown University
School of Engineering
“Wet, Wiggly, Weird, and Wonderful – New Discoveries in Nanofluidics”
Prof. Dan Fabris
Thursday, March 9, 2023
University of Connecticut
“Exploring the Interactions of Drug-like Ligands with Viral RNA by Native Mass Spectrometry”
Prof. Yuanyue Liu
Thursday, February 16, 2023
University of Texas Austin
“Atomistic Modeling of Materials: Charge Transport and Electrocatalysis”
Dr. Melissa J. Moore
Thursday, February 9, 2023
Moderna (Emeritus)
“mRNA as Medicine: COVID-19 Vaccines and beyond”
2022
Prof. Jeremy Baskin
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Cornell University
“Imaging and Editing the Phospholipidome”
Prof. Chunyu Wang
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“Structure Mechanisms and Drug Discovery in Alzheimer’s and Cancer”
Richard Robinson
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Cornell University
“Magic from Magic-Sized Clusters”
Prof. Ian Webb
Thursday, November 17, 2022
IUPUI School of Science
“Exploiting Chemical Modifications for Structural Elucidation by Mass Spectrometry”
Prof. Eric Gale
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Harvard MGH
“Leveraging the Aqueous Chemistry of Iron to Develop Imaging Probes and Drugs”
Prof. Timothy Swager
Thursday, November 3, 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Chemistry of Dynamic Liquid-Liquid Interfaces”
Prof. Laura Kiessling
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Protein-Glycan Interactions in Immunity”
Prof. Andy Gewirth
Thursday, October 20, 2022
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“Materials and Electrolytes for Electrolyzers and Batteries”
Prof. Hao Yan
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Arizona State University
“Designer Nucleic Acid Nanostructures for Programmable Self-assembly”
Prof. Olivier Julien
Thursday, October 6, 2022
University of Alberta
“The role of proteolysis in apoptosis and infectious diseases.”
Prof. Celia Schiffer
Thursday, September 29, 2022
University of Massachusetts Worcester
“Deciphering and Avoiding Complex Mechanisms of Drug Resistance from HIV to SARS-CoV-2 Integrating: Structural Biology, MD and ML”
Prof. Sarah Slavoff
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Yale University
“Dark matter of the human proteome”
Prof. Lan Cheng
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Johns Hopkins University
“Extending accurate quantum chemistry to heavy elements”
Prof. David Clemmer
Thursday, September 8, 2022
Indiana University, Bloomington
“Developing mass spectrometry-based methods for understanding the structures and stabilities of model proteins and protein complexes”
Christopher Lenox
Thursday, September 1, 2022
ThermoFisher
“Exploring and Preventing Cell Culture Contamination”
Prof. Crina NimigeanThursday, April 28, 2022
Cornell University
“Lipid and ligand gating in a calcium-activated potassium channel”
Prof. Gregory Robinson
Thursday, April 21, 2022
University of Georgia
“From N-Heterocyclic Carbenes to Dithiolene-Based Radicals: A Counterintuitive Trek Through Main Group Chemistry”
Prof. Ishac Nazy
Thursday, April 14, 2022
McMaster University
“Vaccine-induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT)”
Prof. Thao Tran
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Clemson University
“Chemical Logic to Design Materials Featuring Topological Spin Textures”
Prof. Richmond Sarpong
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
University of California, Berkeley
Prof. Aleksei Aksimentiev
Thursday, March 31, 2022
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“Toward Single Molecule Nanopore Protein Sequencing”
Prof. Wenjie Dou
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Westlake University
“Strong light-matter interactions at metal surfaces and inside an optical cavity”
Prof. Fikile Brushett
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Redox Flow Batteries for Long-Duration Energy Storage”
Prof. Arthur Tinoco
Thursday, February 24, 2022
University of Puerto Rico
“Using a transmetalative anticancer approach to inhibit ribonucleotide reductase with Titanium(IV) compounds of chemical transferrin mimetic ligands”
Prof. Jia Niu
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Boston College
“Sustainability-Oriented Approaches to Precision Main-Chain Macromolecules”
Prof. Stuart Lindsay
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Arizona State University
“Protein Electronics: How Electrons Get Around in Proteins”
2021
Prof. Renee Frontiera
Thursday, December 2, 2021
University of Minnesota
“Spectroscopic Probes of Plasmon-Driven Chemical Reactions”
Dr. Eman Akam
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Massachussetts General Hospital and Harvard University
“Allysine-reactive Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) probes quantify pulmonary fibrogenesis”
Prof. Jinjun Liu
Thursday, November 4, 2021
University of Louisville
“High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy on Multiple Potential Energy Surfaces”
Prof. Nagarjuna Gavvalapalli
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Georgetown University
“Controlled Synthesis of π-Conjugated Materials Beyond 1D”
Prof. Chenxiang Lin
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Yale University
“Building biomimetic structures with DNA nanotechnology”
Prof. Zhenan Bao
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Stanford University
“Skin-Inspired Organic Electronics”
Prof. Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Thursday, October 7, 2021
Arizona State University
“Hybrid nanomaterials from the self-assembly of proteins, peptides, and DNA”
Prof. Ashkan Salamat
Thursday, September 30, 2021
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Prof. Mingxu You
Thursday, September 23, 2021
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Cellular Imaging and Regulation with Nucleic Acids”
Prof. Michelle Farkas
Thursday, September 16, 2021
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Chemical Biology Approaches for Interrogating the Contributions of Altered Circadian Rhythms and Macrophages to Cancer Aggression”
Prof. Guizhi Zhu
Thursday, September 9, 2021
Virginia Commonwealth University
“Small circular mRNA (circRNA) vaccines for cancer immunotherapy and beyond”
Prof. Lili He
Thursday, May 20, 2021
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for food analysis”
Prof. Bin Zhang
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Phase Separation in Genome Organization”
Prof. Karen Goldberg
Thursday, May 6, 2021
University of Pennsylvania
Prof. Brandi Cossairt
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
University of Washington
Prof. Raffaella Buonsanti
Thursday, April 29, 2021
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
“Colloidal chemistry to design well-defined and tunable nanomaterials for energy applications”
Prof. Qian Cui
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Boston University
“From buried ion-pair to membrane remodeling: electrostatics in atomistic and coarse-grained models”
Prof. Evangelos Miliordos
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Auburn University
“Transition metal chemistry: Catalytic methane hydroxylation and formation of expanded metals”
Prof. Wenjing Wang
Thursday, April 8, 2021
University of Michigan
“Designing protein-based sensors and tools for studying neurodegenerative disease and G-protein coupled receptor signaling”
Prof. Jack Barbera
Thursday, April 1, 2021
Portland State University
“From items to inferences: The development and evaluation of education research assessments”
Prof. Khalid Salaita
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Emory University
“Beyond the central dogma: Repurposing nucleic acids as molecular force sensors, actuators, and motors”
Prof. Manu O. Platt
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Georgia Tech and Emory University
“Things Fall Apart: Proteolytic Networks in Tissue Destructive Diseases.”
Prof. James McKone
Thursday, March 11, 2021
University of Pittsburg
“The Future of Chemistry is Electric”
Prof. Dame Carol Robinson
Thursday, February 25, 2021
University of Oxford
“Protein complexes subjected to tandem mass spectrometry reveal allosteric binding partners”
Prof. H. Tom Soh
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Sanford University
“Continuous measurements of biomolecules in live subjects”
Prof. Hans Mentzen
Thursday, February 11, 2021
UUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
“Continuous measurements of biomolecules in live subjects”
Prof. Luisa Whittaker-Brooks
Thursday, February 4, 2021
University of Utah
“Designer Organic-Inorganic Interfaces for Coherent Charge and Spin Transfer”
2020
Prof. Sujatha Venkataraman
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
University of Colorado Denver
“Targeting Epigenetic Regulators in Pediatric Brain Tumors”
Sarah Lorraine Devos
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Massachusetts General Hospital
Prof. Chris Pickard
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Cambridge University
Prof. Alexandra Zevalkink
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Michigan State University
Prof. R. Graham Cooks
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Purdue University
“Capture of Carbon Dioxide from Room Air in Accelerated Droplet Reactions with Amines: Superacid/Superbase Chemistry at Air/Water Interfaces”
Prof. Jeff Moore
Thursday, October 1, 2020
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Prof. Heather Kulik
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Molecular design blueprints: materials and catalysts from new simulation and machine learning tools”
Prof. Nils Walter
Thursday, September 17, 2020
University of Michigan
Prof. Jessica Houston
Thursday, September 24, 2020
New Mexico State University
“Acquiring fluorescence decay kinetic measurements with on-chip acoustic focusing cytometry”
Prof. Ariane Briegel
Thursday, September 3, 2020
Leiden University
“Structure and function of the bacterial chemotaxis system in pathogens and microbial communities”
Prof. Shannon Boettcher
Thursday, August 27, 2020
University of Oregon
“Nanoscale Probes of Carrier-Selective Catalyst/Semiconductor Contacts in Water-Splitting Photoelectrodes”
Prof. Feng Jiao
Thursday, March 5, 2020
University of Delaware
“Electrochemical CO2 Conversion to Valuable Chemicals”
Prof. Jinsong Huang
Thursday, February 27, 2020
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Progress in Understanding Perovskite Materials and Manufacturing of Efficient and Stable Solar Cells and Modules”
Prof. Weiwei Xie
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Louisiana State University
“Chemistry Perspectives to Novel Quantum Materials”
Prof. Yogesh Surendranath
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Mechanistic Insights Into Selective CO2-to-Fuels Catalysis”
Prof. Jean-Bernard Denault
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Universite de Sherbrooke
“Caspase-7 in a Tale of Two Substrates”
2019
Prof. Wei Fan
Thursday, December 12, 2019
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Development of zeolite catalysts for production of aromatics from lignocellulosic biomass”
Prof. Andrew Ellington
Thursday, December 5, 2019
University of Texas at Austin
Prof. Katherine Henzler-Wildman
Thursday, November 21, 2019
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Beyond inhibition: reversing a bacterial multidrug efflux pump”
Prof. Feixia Chu
Thursday, November 14, 2019
University of New Hampshire
“Elucidating Conformational Space of Hsp90 Molecular Chaperone with Mass Spectrometry”
Prof. Jianing Li
Thursday, November 7, 2019
University of Vermont
“Cross Multiple Scales to Find Better Medicines”
Prof. Joseph Zadrozny
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Colorado State University
“Spin-Bath-Control of Magnetic Relaxation in Metal Complexes”
Prof. Chunyu Wang
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“Structural Mechanisms and Drug Discovery in Alzheimer’s Disease”
Prof. Joshua Sharp
Thursday, October 17, 2019
University of Mississippi
Prof. Ou Chen
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Brown University
“Self-assembly of anisotropic nanocrystals from periodic superlattices to aperiodic quasicrystals”
Prof. Jefferson Chan
Thursday, October 3, 2019
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“Expanding the Chemical Tool Box for Acoustic-based Imaging of Cancer”
Prof. Jessica Rouge
Thursday, September 26, 2019
University of Connecticut
“Using Enzymes to Build, Break and Read Hybrid DNA Nanomaterials: from Nanoscale Self-assembly to Intracellular Gene Regulation”
Prof. George Church
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Synthesis & Analysis of Biopolymers”
Prof. James Fraser
Thursday, September 12, 2019
University of California, San Francisco
“A Song of Ice and Fire: Some Hot X-ray and Cold EM Findings”
Prof. Timothy P. Lodge
Thursday, September 5, 2019
University of Minnesota
“Ionic Liquid/Block Polymer Nanostructures: Remarkably Versatile, Functional Materials”
Prof. Mary Rogers
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Wayne State University
“Synergistic Tandem Mass Spectrometry and Computational Chemistry Approaches for Elucidating Structure, Energetics and Reactivity”
Prof. Abraham Badu-Tawiah
Thursday, May 2, 2019
The Ohio State University
“Panoptic Mass Spectrometry: How and Why?”
Prof. Kwok Fan Chow
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
University of Massachusetts Lowell
“Naked-Eye Electrochemical Sensor”
Prof. Amanda Hargrove
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Duke University
“Deciphering patterns in selective small molecule:RNA interactions”
Prof. Paul J. Hergenrother
Thursday, April 18, 2019
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
“Traversing the Valley of Death in Drug Discovery”
Prof. Daniel Chiu
University of Washington
“New tools for liquid biopsy: rare cells, exosomes, and circulating DNA”
Prof. Robert Langer
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Biomaterials and biotechnology: From the discovery of the first angiogenesis inhibitors to the development of controlled drug delivery systems and the foundation of tissue engineering”
Prof. Elizabeth Nolan
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Metals and Immunity: Exploring the Bioinorganic Chemistry of Calprotectin”
Prof. Charles R. Sanders
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Vanderbilt University
“Molecular Mechanisms for Sudden Death Caused by Mutations in the KCNQ1 Potassium Channel”
Prof. Haipeng Liu
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Wayne State University
“Beyond Albumin-Hitchhiking:Rational Design of Drug Amphiphiles”
Prof. John Straub
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Boston University
“Probing the principles of amyloid protein aggregation from biogenesis to cytotoxicity”
Dr. Reshma Shetty
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Ginkgo Bioworks
“Designing Organisms”
Prof. John F. Hartwig
Thursday, February 21, 2019
University of California, Berkeley
“Selective, Catalytic Functionalization of C-H Bonds with Small and Large Catalysts”
Prof. Debbie Crans
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Colorado State University
“Vanadium Compounds in Oncolytic Virotherapy”
Prof. Clare Grey
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
University of Cambridge
“Developing and Optimising Function of Li-ion and “beyond-Li” Batteries: New Magnetic Resonance and Diffraction Approaches”
2018
Prof. J.D. Tovar
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Johns Hopkins University
Prof. Michael Cohen
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Oregon Health and Science University
Prof. Javier Vela
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Iowa State University
Prof. Ke Zhang
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Northeastern University
Prof. Wei Yang
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Florida State University
Prof. Yi Lu
Thursday, November 1, 2018
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Prof. Britto S. Sandanaraj
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune
“Novel Chemical Technologies for Applications in the Area of Functional Protein Nanotechnology and Molecular Imaging”
Prof. Marc A. Hillmyer
Thursday, October 25, 2018
University of Minnesota
Prof. Matthew Francis
Thursday, October 18, 2018
University of California, Berkeley
Prof. Jack Szostak
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Harvard Medical School
Prof. Frantisek Turecek
Thursday, October 4, 2018
University of Washington
Prof. Eva Nogales
Thursday, September 27, 2018
University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Chris Mundy
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Prof. Christopher Bowman
Thursday, September 13, 2018
University of Colorado Boulder
Prof. Paula T. Hammond
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. Gianluigi Veglia
Thursday, May 10, 2018
University of Minnesota
“Role of conformational dynamics on protein kinase A function and dysfunction”
Prof. Sourav Saha
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Clemson University
“Stimuli-Responsive Functional Materials”
Prof. Lloyd Smith
Thursday, May 3, 2018
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Proteoforms and Their Families – A New Paradigm for Proteomics?”
Prof. Maria Oliver-Hoyo
Thursday, April 26, 2018
North Carolina State University
“Instructional resources designed to promote visualization of chemical phenomena”
Prof. James Wells
Thursday, April 12, 2018
University of California, San Francisco
Prof. Scott Anderson
Thursday, April 19, 2018
University of Utah
“Chemistry on Nanoparticle Surfaces: Size-selected and single nanoparticle studies”
Prof. Krishna Kumar
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Tufts University
“Molecular Design of Peptide and Carbohydrate Based Therapeutics”
Prof. Alexander Deiters
Thursday, March 29, 2018
University of Pittsburgh
“Optochemical Control of Biological Processes in Cells and Animals”
Prof. Sourav Saha
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Clemson University
“Stimuli-Responsive Functional Materials”
Prof. Lloyd Smith
Thursday, March 8, 2018
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Proteoforms and Their Families – A New Paradigm for Proteomics?”
Prof. Eric Jacobsen
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Harvard University
“Seeking Perfect Catalysts”
Prof. Meni Wanunu
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Northeastern University
“Controlling Light, Temperature, and Force in Nanopores for Single-Biomolecule Analysis”
Dr. Matthew Sfeir
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Brookhaven National Labs
“Multiple exciton generation in isolated organic molecules”
Prof. J.D. Tovar
Thursday, February 8, 2018
University of Michigan
“Repurposing aromaticity for organic electronics: making, breaking and stacking pi-circuits”
Prof. Charles Brooks III
Thursday, February 1, 2018
University of Michigan
“Combinatorial Exploration of Chemical Free Energy Space in Receptor – Ligand Discovery and Refinement”
Prof. Peng Yin
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Harvard University
“Nanoscale Construction and Imaging with DNA”
2017
Prof. Karen Wooley
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Texas A&M
“Expanding the Scopes of Synthetic Organic and Polymer Chemistries: Utilization of the inherent stereochemical and functional diversities of natural products to produce unique materials”
Prof. Tarun Kapoor
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Rockefeller University
“Designing Probes for the Chemical Genetic Analysis of Proteins in the AAA+ Superfamily”
Prof. William A. Tisdale
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Excitons, Disorder, and Nonequilibrium Transport in Semiconductor Nanomaterials”
Dr. Stefan Gross
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Agios Pharmaceuticals
“Treatment of Rare Genetic Diseases by Small Molecule Allosteric Activators”
Prof. Yamuna Krishnan
Thursday, October 26, 2017
University of Chicago
“Cell-targetable DNA nanacapsules to study fast signaling in biology”
Prof. JoAnne Stubbe
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Radicals: Your life is in their hands”
Prof. Mahesh Mahanthappa
Thursday, October 12, 2017
University of Minnesota
“Functional Nanoporous Materials Derived from Aqueous Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Self-Assembly”
Prof. Abhishek Chatterjee
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Boston College
“Genetically Encoding Enabling Chemistry to Read and Write Biology”
Prof. Kevin Kittilstved
Thursday, October 5, 2017
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Synthesis and Control of Multifunctional Inorganic Materials"
Prof. Tom Rizzo
Thursday, September 28, 2017
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
“Cryogenic Spectroscopy: From Homochiral Selection to Carbohydrate Analysis”
Prof. Trisha Andrew
Thursday, September 21, 2017
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Vapor Phase Chemistry for Optoelectronic Devices”
Prof. Eric Strieter
Thursday, September 7, 2017
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Prof. Min Chen
Thursday, September 14, 2017
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Single Molecular Analysis of Proteins Using Nanopores”
Prof. Matthew Liptak
Thursday, April 27, 2017
University of Vermont
“Non-Canonical Heme Oxygenases: A New Chapter of Heme-Oxygen Chemistry”
Prof. George Whitesides
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Harvard University
“Simple Diagnostics and Analytics”
Prof. Samuel Houk
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Iowa State University and Ames National Laboratory
“Mass Spectrometry from Atoms to Metabolites: Fundamentals and Applications of ICP-MS and Laser Ablation Electrospray Ionization MS”
Prof. Andreas Martin
Thursday, April 6, 2017
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
“The 26S Proteasome: A Highly Coordinated Protein Degradation Machine”
Prof. John Matson
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Virginia Tech
“Materials for Therapeutic H2S Delivery”
Prof. Stephen Buchwald
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrofunctionalization Processes”
Prof. Isaac Carrico
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Stony Brook University
“Tailoring Chemoselective Chemistries for Demanding Biological Settings”
Prof. Brandon Ruotolo
Thursday, March 2, 2017
University of Michigan
“Structural Biology in the Gas Phase: New Techniques for the Rapid Analysis of Protein Sequence, Structure and Stability”
Prof. Robert Dickson
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Tailoring Chromophore Dark States for Improved Fluorescence Microscopy”
Prof. Chengde Mao
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Purdue University
“Programmed DNA Self-Assembly”
Prof. Nikolay Dokholyan
Thursday, February 9, 2017
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Prof. David Gorin
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Smith College
“O-Methylation with Safe, Stable Reagents”
Prof. Matt Bush
Thursday, January 26, 2017
University of Washington
“Mass Spectrometry, Ion Mobility, and Ion Chemistry: Tools for Characterizing the Structures of Proteins in Solution and in the Gas Phase”
2016
Prof. Liviu Movileanu
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Syracuse University
“Interrogating the Membrane Protein- Detergent Interfacial Dynamics”
Prof. David Vanden Bout
Thursday, November 17, 2016
University of Texas at Austin
“From Single Polymer Chains to Bulk Films: Structure-Photophysics Correlations in Single Conjugated Polymers”
Prof. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Carnegie Mellon University
“Macromolecular Engineering by Taming Free Radicals”
Prof. Stuart Schreiber
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Harvard University
“Chemistry Towards Novel Mechanism- of-Action (nMoA) Compounds in Therapeutics Discovery”
Prof. Carrie Partch
Thursday, November 3, 2016
University of California, Santa Cruz
“Dynamic Protein Interactions Establish the 24-Hour Circadian Clock”
Prof. Tom Mallouk
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Pennsylvania State University
“Assembly and Disassembly of Layered Materials”
Prof. Mark Akeson
Thursday, October 20, 2016
University of California, Santa Cruz
“Three Decades of Nanopore Sequencing”
Prof. Daniele Fabris
Thursday, October 13, 2016
University at Albany
“MS-Based Approaches for Investigating Nucleic Acid Structure and Dynamics”
Prof. Matthew Bogyo
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Stanford University
“Imaging Protease Activity with Small Molecule Probes: Applications to Cancer and Infectious Diseases”
Prof. Thomas O’Halloran
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Northwestern University
Prof. Floyd Romesberg
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Scripps Research Institute
“A Semi-Synthetic Organism with an Expanded Genetic Alphabet”
Prof. Derek Wilson
Thursday, September 15, 2016
York University
“Mass Spectrometry-Enabled Drug Development in Cancer and Neurodegenerative Disease”
Prof. Anna Mapp
Thursday, May 5, 2016
University of Michigan
Dr. Woody Sherman
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Schrodinger, Inc.
“Next Generation Free Energy Calculations in Drug Discovery”
Prof. Jeff Long
Thursday, April 28, 2016
University of California, Berkeley
“Carbon Dioxide Capture and Hydrocarbon Separations in Metal Organic Frameworks”
Prof. Theodore Betley
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Harvard University
“Radical Frontiers in Catalysis”
Prof. Vicente Talanquer
Thursday, April 14, 2016
University of Arizona
“Exploring Student Reasoning to Support Better Teaching”
Prof. Wolfgang Herrmann
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Technische Universität München
“N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: A New Era in Organometallic Catalysis”
Prof. Daniel Nocera
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Harvard University
“Authentic Artificial Photosynthesis: Solar + Water + CO2 to Liquid Fuels at High Efficiency”
Prof. John Matson
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Virginia Tech
“Materials for Therapeutic H 2 S Delivery”
Prof. Veronica Vaida
Thursday, March 24, 2016
University of Colorado
“Building Molecular Complexity with Sunlight at Aqueous Interfaces”
Prof. Jonathan Rudick
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Stony Brook University
“Precision Synthesis of Multifunctional Materials”
Prof. Stephan Link
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Rice University
“Plasmonic Nanoparticles: From Fundamental Optical Properties to Applications”
Prof. Brian McNaughton
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Colorado State University
“Expanding the Functional Utility of Proteins as Research Tools and Therapeutic Leads”
Prof. Adam Braunschweig
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
University of Miami
“Polymer Exotica: Using Brush, Force-induced, and Supramolecular Polymerizations to Address Materials Challenges”
Prof. Timothy Zwier
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Purdue University
“Single-Conformation Spectroscopy of Hydrogen-Bonded Networks: One Good Turn Deserves Another”
2015
Prof. Mitch Winnik
Thursday, October 22, 2015
University of Toronto
“Metal-Chelating Polymers and Lanthanide Nanoparticles for Immunoassays by Mass Cytometry”
Prof. John McLean
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Vanderbilt University
“Targeting the Untargeted: Structural Mass Spectrometry for the Analysis of Complex Samples in Systems, Synthetic, and Chemical Biology”
Prof. Bing Xu
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Brandeis University
“Nanoscale Molecular Assemblies in Cellular Environment: From Molecules to Processes”
Prof. Aaron Esser-Kahn
Thursday, October 1, 2015
University of California, Irvine
“Chemical Biology Approaches to Innate Immune Signaling: Probing a Code Without a Key”
Prof. Theodore Betley
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Harvard University
“Radical Frontiers in Catalysis”
Prof. Paul Thompson
Thursday, September 17, 2015
University of Massachusetts Medical School
“Picking the PADlock: Chemical Probes to Decipher the Roles of Protein Citrullination”
Prof. Carlos Silva
Thursday, September 10, 2015
University of Montreal
“Ultrafast Photocarrier Generation Dynamics in Polymer Solar Cells”
Dr. John Kozarich
Thursday, May 7, 2015
ActivX Biosciences, Inc.
Prof. Cameron Mura
Thursday, September 3, 2015
University of Virginia
“The Sm Superfamily, from Tiny RNAs to Huge Protein Cages”
Prof. Vicki Wysocki
Thursday, April 30, 2015
The Ohio State University
“Characterization of Protein Complexes by Ion Mobility Surface-Induced Dissociation Mass Spectrometry”
Prof. Raymond E. Schaak
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Pennsylvania State University
“Synthetic Design Tools for Complex Inorganic Solids and Nanostructures”
Prof. Eugene Zubarev
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Rice University
“Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Anisotropic Gold Nanostructures”
Prof. Karl Wieghardt
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
“Coordination Chemistry with Organic pi-Radicals: Where are the Electrons?”
Prof. Priscilla L. Yang
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Harvard University
“A Chemical Biology Approach to Antivirals Discovery”
Prof. Jonathon Amster
Thursday, March 26, 2015
University of Georgia
“Cracking the Glycan Code: A Mass Spectrometry Success Story”
Prof. Phil Baran
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Scripps Institute
Prof. Chuan He
Thursday, March 12, 2015
University of Chicago
“Reversible RNA and DNA Methylation in Biological Regulation”
Prof. Nathan R. Neale
Thursday, March 5, 2015
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
“Synthesis and Surface Chemistry of Group IV Nanocrystals”
Prof. Nathanael Gray
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Harvard University
“New Approaches to Old Targets: KRAS, CDK7 and HER3”
Prof. Cameron Mura
Thursday, February 19, 2015
University of Virginia
“The Sm Superfamily, from Tiny RNAs to Huge Protein Cages”
Prof. Steven L. Suib
Thursday, February 12, 2015
University of Connecticut
“Novel Mesoporous Metal Oxides and Their Applications in Catalysis”
Prof. Marco Bonizzoni
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
University of Alabama
“Polyelectrolytes as Supramolecular Hosts in Water: Fundamentals and their Applications”
Prof. Hanbin Mao
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Kent State University
“Mechanochemical Sensing”
Prof. Hao Wu
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Harvard University
“Inflammasomes and Other Supramolecular Signaling Complexes in Innate Immunity”
2014
Prof. Abraham Joy
Thursday, November 20, 2014
University of Akron
“A Library of Polyesters and Polyurethanes with ‘Peptide-like’ Pendant Functional Groups: A New Family of Polymers for Biomedical Applications”
Prof. Paul Aliviasatos
Thursday, November 13, 2014
University of California, Berkeley
“Design and Synthesis of Multicomponent Colloidal Nanocrystals for Catalysis and Solar Energy Harvesting”
Prof. Paramjit Arora
Thursday, November 6, 2014
New York University
“Plucking the High Hanging Fruit: A Systematic Approach for Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions”
Prof. Robert Linhardt
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“Bioengineered and Chemoenzymatically Synthesized Heparins”
Prof. Francisco Raymo
Thursday, October 23, 2014
University of Miami
“Photochemical Strategies to Activate Fluorescence”
Prof. Sarah Stoll
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Georgetown University
“Magnetic Nanostructures”
Prof. Zew Gartner
Thursday, October 9, 2014
University of California
“Building Tissues to Understand How Tissues Build Themselves”
Prof. David Tirrell
Thursday, October 2, 2014
California Institute of Technology
“Reinterpreting the Genetic Code: From Polymers to Proteomics”
Prof. Bryan Krantz
Thursday, September 25, 2014
University of California, Berkeley
“The Molecular Basis of Translocation-coupled Unfolding by Anthrax Toxin”
Prof. Mikhail Zamkov
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Bowling Green State University
“Engineering of Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Nanocrystal Solids for Renewable Energy Applications”
Prof. James Chambers
Thursday, September 11, 2014
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Novel Small Molecules to Interrogate and Manipulate Neuronal Receptors”
Prof. Matthew Holden
Thursday, September 4, 2014
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Caught in the Act: Direct Measurement of Protein Translocation AcrossMembranes”
Prof. Catherine L. Drennan
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Shake, Rattle, & Roll: Capturing Snapshots of Metalloproteins in Action”
Prof. Jonathan R. Lai
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Filovirus Envelope Glycoproteins: Structure, Function, and Inhibition by Peptides and Antibodies”
Prof. Ming An
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Bingamton University
“Towards Drug Delivery via pHLIP insertion in the Plasmamembrane of Cancer Cells at Tumor pHe”
Prof. Dennis A. Dougherty
Thursday, April 3, 2014
California Institute of Technology
Prof. Karen Fleming
Thursday, April 10, 2014
John Hopkins University
“The Versatile β -Barrel Gives up a Novel Hydrophobicity Scale and Other Secrets of the Membrane”
Prof. Bogdan Z. Olenyuk
Thursday, March 27, 2014
University of Southern California
“Overcoming in Vivo Barriers Limiting the Efficacy of Designed Inhibitors Targeting Oncogenic Signaling”
Prof. Steven M. Cramer
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“Molecular Design of Multiple Weak interactions for Selective Multimodal Protein Separations”
Prof. Tobin J. Marks
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Northwestern University
“Thermodynamic Strategies for Designing New Catalytic Processes”
Prof. Mark E. Tuckerman
Thursday, February 20, 2014
New York University
“Protons, Bucket Brigades, and What They Have in Common: Insights from Computer Simulations”
Prof. Champak Chatterjee
Thursday, February 13, 2014
University of Washington
“Chemical Approaches to Study Ubiquitin-like Proteins in Bacteria and Humans”
Prof. Mikhail Zamkov
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Bowling Green State University
“Engineering of Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Nanocrystal Solids for Renewable Energy Applications”
Prof. Steven L. Regen
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Lehigh University
“A Push-Pull Mechanism for Lipid Raft Formation”
Prof. Geoffrey F. Strouse
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Florida State University
“Nanometals in Biophysics and Biomedical Science”
2013
Prof. Facundo Fernandez
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Forensics, Metabolomics and Molecular Imaging with Mass Spectrometry”
Prof. Robert Dempski
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
“New insights into the mechanism of transition metal transport mediated by the human ZIP transporter”
Prof. Ilya Zharov
Thursday, November 14, 2013
University of Utah
“Surface-Modified Silica Colloidal Crystals: Nanoporous Materials with Controlled Ionic and Molecular Transport”
Prof. Daniel Higgins
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Kansas State University
“A Random Walk in the Dark: Following Single Molecules to a Better Understanding of Self-Assembled One-Dimensional Nanostructures”
Prof. David P. Giedroc
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Indiana University
“Transition Metal Sensing and Trafficking in Bacterial Pathogens”
Prof. Matthew Shores
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Colorado State University
“Saving the World, One Spin at a Time”
Prof. Michael Mayer
Thursday, October 17, 2013
University of Michigan
“Single Protein Characterization with Nanopores”
Prof. Peter Schultz
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Scripps Institute
“New Opportunities at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology- from Stem Cells to the Genetic Code”
Prof. Christopher Ober
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Cornell University
“Polymer Brushes: Patternable Structures as Interfaces with the Biological Environment”
Prof. Martin Kirk
Thursday, September 26, 2013
University of New Mexico
“Long Range Electronic Communication and the Donor-Acceptor Paradigm”
Prof. Daniel Schwartz
Thursday, September 19, 2013
University of Colorado
“Single Molecule Tracking at Wet Interfaces”
Prof. Nathan Schnarr
Thursday, September 12, 2013
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Simplified Approaches for Improved Control Over Polyketide Engineering”
Prof. Gianluigi Veglia
Thursday, September 5, 2013
University of Minnesota
“Allosteric Regulation of the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+-ATPase by Phospholamban and Sarcolipin using Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy”
2012
Prof. Valérie C. Pierre
Thursday, December 6, 2012
University of Minnesota
“Imaging Metal-Induced Oxidative Stress: Lanthanides to the Rescue”
Prof. Giancarlo Aldini
Thursday, November 29, 2012
University of Milan
“Covalent and Non-Covalent Binding of Proteins by MS: From Drug Discovery to Chemical Toxicology”
Prof. Ivan Aprahamian
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Dartmouth College
“Hydrazone-Based Switches, Fluorophores, and Sensors
Prof. Siva Rasapalli
Thursday, November 8, 2012
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
“Synthesis of Novel Ansalactams and Oroidin Based Anti-Bacterial Compounds”
Prof. Thomas Laue
Thursday, November 1, 2012
University of New Hampshire
“The Proximity Energy Framework and Biological Systems”
Prof. Vladimir Uversky
Thursday, October 25, 2012
University of South Florida
“Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Health and Disease”
Prof. Richard D. DiMarchi
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Indiana University
“Chemical Biotechnology Applied to Endocrine Hormones”
Prof. Kim A. Sharp
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Pennsylvania State University
“The Biophysics of a Genetic Switch: The lac operon”
Prof. Carthene R. Bazemore Walker
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Brown University
Prof. Frank Bates
Thursday, September 27, 2012
University of Minnesota
“Block Copolymer Micelles: From Delicate Liquids to Tough Plastics”
Dr. Charlie Eads
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Procter & Gamble Analytical GCO
Prof. Bruce Armitage
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Carnegie-Mellon University
“Over the Rainbow: Noncovalent Dye-Protein Complexes for Fluorescence Imaging and Sensing”
Prof. Max Costa
Thursday, September 6, 2012
New York University
“Oxidative Stress and Metals Target Dioxygenases and Effect Epigenetic Programs”
Prof. Julius Rebek, Jr.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology Scripps Institute
Prof. Donald Engelman
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Yale University
“pH-dependent Transmembrane Peptide Insertion: Mechanism and Uses in Tumor Targeting and Drug Delivery”
Prof. Benjamin Spiller
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Vanderbilt University
“Microtubule Regulation by Phosphatases and Bacterial Pathogens”
Prof. Stephen Lippard
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Hydrocarbon Oxidation at Carboxylate-Bridged Diiron Active Sites”
Prof. Robert Bergman
Thursday, April 12, 2012
University of California, Berkeley
“Selective Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions in Water-Soluble Host-Guest Supramolecular Systems”
Prof. Nicolas Polfer
Thursday, April 5, 2012
University of Florida
“Peptide Dissociation Chemistry in Mass Spectrometers Probed by Vibrational Spectroscopy”
Prof. Michael Baldwin
Thursday, March 29, 2012
University of Cincinnati
“Bio-inspired Inorganic Chemistry: Examples in Catalysis and Metal Availability
Prof. Bradley Smith
Thursday, March 15, 2012
University of Notre Dame
“Fluorescent and Chemiluminescent Probes Optical Molecular Imaging”
Prof. Wendell Griffith
Thursday, March 8, 2012
University of Toledo
Prof. Hien Nguyen
Thursday, February 23, 2012
University of Iowa
Prof. Vitali Tugarinov
Thursday, March 1, 2012
University of Maryland
“Methyl-based NMR Evidence for Symmetry in Functionally or Crystallographically Asymmetric Homodimers”
Prof. Wayne Hendrickson
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Columbia University
Prof. John Grey
Thursday, February 9, 2012
University of New Mexico
“Spectroscopic Studies of Aggregates in Conjugated Organic Optoelectronic Molecules and Assemblies”
Prof. Linda Columbus
Thursday, February 2, 2012
University of Virginia
“Membrane Protein Structural Biology: From Micelles to Bacterial Invasion”
2011
Prof. Adam Moule
Thursday, December 15, 2011
University of California, Davis
“Interface Doping in Organic Photovoltaics”
Prof. Steven Buratto
Thursday, December 8, 2011
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Photophysics of Organic Semiconductors Probed by Single Molecule Fluorescence and High Spatial Resolution Chemical Imaging”
Prof. Anne Mason
Thursday, December 1, 2011
University of Vermont
“The Remarkable Tale of How the Binding of Transferrin Primes the Transferrin Receptor to Potentiate Iron Release from Each Lobe at Endosomal pH”
Prof. Robert Continetti
Thursday, November 17, 2011
University of California, San Diego
“Spectroscopy and Dynamics of the HOCO Free Radical”
Prof. James McCusker
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Michigan State University
“Scalability in Solar Energy Conversion: First-row Transition Metal-based Chromophores for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells”
Prof. Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy
Thursday, November 3, 2011
University of Michigan
“Dynamical Structures of Membrane Proteins by NMR Spectroscopy”
Prof. Binghe Wang
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Georgia State University
“Synthetic Lectin Mimics and their Applications”
Prof. Mohan Srinivasarao
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Optics in the Natural World: Iridescent Colors of Butterflies and the Twisted Beetle!”
Prof. Matt Kipper
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Colorado State University
“Sweet Nanomaterials for Tissue Engineering: The Secret Lives of Polysaccharides”
Prof. Hagan Bayley
Thursday, October 6, 2011
University of Oxford
“Engineered Protein Pores for Nanotechnology”
Prof. Benjamin Cravatt
Thursday, September 29, 2011
The Scripps Research Institute
“Activity-Based Proteomics - Applications for Enzyme and Inhibitor Discovery”
Prof. Jeanne Hardy
Thursday, September 22, 2011
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Suicidal Shape Shifters: Conformational Control and Real-time Monitoring of Caspase Proteolytic Activity”
Dr. Amy Newman
Thursday, September 15, 2011
NIDA-IRP
“Dopamine D3 Receptor Antagonists and Partial Agonists to Study Drug Addiction”
Prof. Andréa LeBlanc
Thursday, September 8, 2011
McGill University
“The Role of Caspase-6 in Neurodegeneration and in Alzheimer Disease”
Prof. Daniel T. Kamei
Thursday, May 5, 2011
University of California, Los Angeles
“Cell Traffic Control: Applications in Cancer Drug Delivery”
Prof. Amy Barrios
Thursday, April 28, 2011
University of Utah
“Chemical Probes put Tyrosine Phosphatases in the Spotlight”
Prof. Evan R. Williams
Thursday, April 21, 2011
University of California, Berkeley
“New Insights into Molecular Structure and Solvation from Tandem Mass Spectrometry”
Prof. Thomas E. Bitterwolf
Thursday, April 14, 2011
University of Idaho
“‘And then a Miracle Occurs’ Recent Adventures in Mechanistic Inorganic Photochemistry”
Prof. T. Daniel Crawford
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Virginia Tech
“On One Hand But Not the Other: Quantum Chemical Predictions of the Properties of Chiral Molecules”
Dr. Francesco Pingitore
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Codexis, Inc.
“Characterization of Microbial Metabolites by Mass Spectrometry”
Prof. Stefano Luciano Ciurli
Thursday, March 24, 2011
University of Bologna
“The Chemistry of Nickel in the Urease System”
Prof. Russell J. Stewart
Thursday, March 10, 2011
University of Utah
“Underwater Adhesives Inspired by the Sandcastle Glue of P. californica”
Prof. Wei-Chiang Shen
Thursday, March 3, 2011
University of Southern California
“Effect of Spacer Insertion on the Biological Activity, Production, and Pharmacokinetics of Recombinant Bifunctional Fusion Proteins”
Prof. Brian J. Bahnson
Thursday, February 24, 2011
University of Delaware
“Physiological & Bioscavenger Roles of Phospholipase A2 Enzymes”
Prof. J.D. Tovar
Thursday, February 17, 2011
John Hopkins University
“Topological and Supramolecular Considerations for Organic (bio)Electronics”
Prof. Tae-Hee Lee
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Pennsylvania State University
“Effects of Chromatin Modifications on the Single Molecule Dynamics of Nucleosomes”
2010
Prof. Gregory Verdine
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Harvard University
“Cancer Chemical Biology”
Prof. Harry B. Gray
Thursday, November 18, 2010
California Institute of Technology
“The Solar Army”
Prof. Bradley F. Chmelka
Thursday, November 4, 2010
University of California-Santa Barbara
“Order and Disorder in Nanoscale Inorganic-Organic Materials”
Prof. Neil L. Kelleher
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Northwestern University
“A Technological Tipping Point in Modern Mass Spectrometry: Direct Analysis of Intact Proteins to Map the Endogeneous Human Proteome”
Prof. Ken A. Dill
Friday, October 22, 2010
University of California-San Francisco
“Dynamics and Noise in Small Systems: A Dynamical Principle Called Maximum Caliber”
Prof. James R. Heath
Thursday, October 21, 2010
California Institute of Technology
“Interrogating the Paradoxical Relationship Between Cancer and the Immune System, with Applications to Melanoma and Glioblastoma Cancer Patients”
Prof. Alan J. Kennan
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Colorado State University
“Self-Assembling Peptides That Mimic Viral Fusion Proteins”
Prof. Linda Helen Doerrer
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Boston University
“Putting Metals to Work: Transition Metal Complexes for Electron Transfer and Electron Transport”
Prof. Paul Yager
Thursday, September 30, 2010
University of Washington
“Microfluidics 2.0: Point-of-Care Diagnostics for the Developed and Developing World”
Prof. Scott C. Garman
Thursday, September 23, 2010
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Pharmacological Chaperoning in Lysosomal Storage Diseases: A Structural Perspective”
Prof. George Gokel
Thursday, September 16, 2010
University of Missouri-St. Louis
“Synthetic Channels that Selectively Transport Cations or Anion Through Phospholipid Bilayer Membranes”
Prof. S. Walter Englander
Thursday, May 6, 2010
University of Pennsylvania
“How Proteins Do All of That as Seen by HX. GroEL Function(H-TX). Protein Folding(H-DX). Lipoprotein Structure (MS)”
Prof. Timothy Dore
Thursday, April 29, 2010
University of Georgia
“Developing the Chemistry to Explore Cell Physiology with Light”
Prof. Alan J. Kennan
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Colorado State University
“Self-Assembling Peptides that Mimic Viral Fusion Proteins”
Prof. Brian Kuhlman
Thursday, April 15, 2010
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
“Design of Protein Interfaces and Switches”
Prof. F. Fleming Crim
Thursday, April 1, 2010
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Prof. George Gokel
Thursday, April 8, 2010
University of Missouri - St. Louis
“Synthetic Channels that Selectively Transport Cations or Anion Through Phospholipid Bilayer Membranes”
Prof. C. Russell Middaugh
Thursday, March 25, 2010
University of Kansas
“The Polyanion-World Hypothesis”
Prof. David E. Cane
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Brown University
“Nature as Stereochemist: Unraveling the Complexities of Polyketide Antibi- otic Biosynthesis”
Prof. Kenneth Mills
Thursday, March 4, 2010
College of the Holy Cross
“Protein Splicing: The Ins and Outs of Inteins”
Prof. Geert-Jan Jroes
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Leiden University
“Achieving Chemical Accuracy for a Prototype Molecule-Surface Reaction”
Prof. Brent L. Iverson
Thursday, February 4, 2010
University of Texas at Austin
“Chaos vs. Control: The Chemistry of Large Molecular Systems From Foldamers and Mesophases to Proteins”