Seminar Schedules
Fall 2024
Sept. 16 |
Philip Milner (Cornell University) "Simplifying Synthesis at the Interface of Organic and Materials Chemistry” |
Sept. 18 |
Ivet Bahar (Stony Brook University) "TBD" |
Sept. 23 |
Young-Tae Chang (POSTECH) "TBD" |
Sept. 30 |
Erin Stache (Princeton University) "Light-to-Heat (Photothermal) Conversion Promotes High Activation Barrier Reactions" |
Oct. 2 |
Zibo Li (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) "Photoredox Radiolableing" |
Oct. 7 |
Denise Okafor (Pennsylvania State University) "TBD" |
Oct. 9 |
Anthony Chianese (Colgate University) "TBD" |
Oct. 10 |
Institute of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery Symposium 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Wang Center |
Oct. 14 |
Amit Reddi (Georgia Institute of Technology) "TBD" |
Oct. 16 |
Ting Ge (University of South Carolina) "TBD" |
Oct. 18 |
Chemistry Research Day 11:00 AM – 5:30 PM, Student Activities Center |
Oct. 21 |
Ran Drori (Yeshiva University) "Controlling the Crystallization of Water: From Frozen Food to Energy Sources" |
Oct. 23 |
Marvin Parasram (New York University) "Anaerobic Heteroatom Transfer Reactions Promoted by Photoexcited 1,3-Dipoles" |
Nov. 4 |
Geneva Laurita (Bates College) "TBD" |
Nov. 13 |
Zachary Wickens (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "TBD" |
Nov. 18 |
Leah Dodson (University of Maryland) "TBD" |
Dec. 4 |
Tim Zuehlsdorff (Oregon State University) "TBD" |
Spring 2024
Jan. 25Polly Arnold (UC Berkeley, LBNL)
"A new class of earth abundant metal catalysts for dinitrogen conversion at ambient conditions”
Feb. 1
Seogjoo Jang (Queens College)
"Exciton and Charge Transfer Theories Based on Fermi’s Golden Rule and Beyond"
Feb. 15
Manuel de Lera Ruiz (Merck West Point)
"Decoding Success: The Story Behind the Invention of Antimalarial Clinical Compound MK-7602"
Hans Renata (Rice University)
"Combining Synthetic Chemistry and Biology for Streamlining Access to Complex Molecules"
Feb. 16
Gillian Hatzis (Chem)
"The Editor’s Role in Publishing in Chem and Cell Press"
Feb. 22
Marco Giles (Prarie View A&M University)
"Evaluating the lead complexation activity of amino acid- appended, branched polymers to promote water purification"
Feb. 29
Gael Ung (University of Connecticut)
"Generating Near-Infrared Chiral Light, and other Hot Circularly Polarized Luminescence"
Mar. 1
Christopher Koenigsmann (Fordham)
"One-Dimensional Bimetallic Architectures as Multifunctional Electrocatalysts in Alkaline and Acid Conditions"
Mar. 7
Mariana Torrente (Brooklyn College)
"Histone post-translational modifications in ALS/FTD: New opportunities in neurodegenerative disease."
Mar. 11
GCS and BSD Student Symposium
Mar. 22
Nozomi Ando (Cornell University)
"Diffuse X-ray scattering from correlated motions in protein crystals"
Mar. 28
Sara Mason (Brookhaven National Lab, CFN)
"Unlocking Aqueous Surface Transformations: A Computational Framework"
Apr. 4
Daniel Tabor (Texas A&M University)
"Building Physics-Based and Data-Driven Methods for Efficient Polymer Design and Spectroscopy Simulations"
Apr. 5
Geneva Laurita (Bates College)
"Local Distortions and Long-Range Polarity in Pyrochlore Oxides from Total Scattering"
Apr. 11
Helen Blackwell (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Chemical strategies to intercept and alter bacterial communication pathways"
Apr. 12
Brett McGuire (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"The PAH Revolution: Cold, Dark Carbon at the Earliest Start Formation"
Apr. 18
Abby O'Connor (The College of New Jersey)
"Examining the effects of pyridinesulfonamide-based ligand scaffolds in catalysis"
Apr. 19
Raymond Blackwell (SBU Physics)
"TBA"
Apr. 26
Hiroaki Suga (University of Tokyo)
"Therapeutics based on New Modalities of Pseudo- Natural Peptides, Products and Neobiologics"
May 3
Camille Jones (SUNY Old Westbury)
"TBA"
May 10
Steven Bloom
"TBA"
Fall 2023
Sep. 8
Julie Kovacs (Washington University)
"How Does Nature Synthesize Beta-Lactam Antibiotics? Iron and Cysteine Play a Key Role."
Sep. 14
Yubin Miao(University of Colorado)
"Melanocortin-1 receptor-targeted peptide radiopharmaceuticals for melanoma imaging and therapy."
Sep. 21
Matthew Bird(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
"Pulse radiolysis at BNL: A unique tool to study fundamental processes in photocatalysis"
Sep. 28
Patricia Zhang Musacchio(Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
"Mild Strategies in the Direct Generation of Carbocation Intermediates from C(sp3)–H Bonds; Synthetic Innovation at the Interface of of Drug Discovery and Development."
Oct. 5
ICB&DD Symposium
Oct. 11
Kevan Shokat (University of California San Francisco)
"Preparation of Alkanethiol-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles for Incorporation into Peptoid Nano-Sandwiches"
Oct. 12
Frederick Heberle(University of Tennesse)
"Direct label-free imaging of nanodomains in biomimetic and biological membranes by cryogenic electron microscopy."
Oct. 19
Hans-Conrad zur Loye (University of South Carolina)
"Synthesis and Physical Properties of New Complex Fluorides Containing Transition Metals, Lanthanides and Actinides"
Oct. 20
Carlos Jiménez-Hoyos (Wesleyan University)
"From Approximate to Highly Accurate Wavefunctions in Challenging Molecular Systems"
Oct. 26
Florence Williams (University of Iowa)
"Taking Advantage of Strong Boron-Oxygen and Boron-Fluorine Associations for Chemoselective Reactions"
Nov. 2
Mark Johnson (Yale University)
"Integrating Cryogenic Ion Chemistry and Optical Spectroscopy: Capturing the Molecular Level Mechanics Driving Bulk Chemical Behaviors from Catalysis to the Spectral Dynamics of Water"
Nov. 9
Joseph Fournier (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Vibrational Spectral Signatures and Ultrafast Dynamics of Strong H-bonds Investigated with Cryogenic Ion and 2D IR Spectroscopies"
Nov. 10
Eric Nacsa (Pennsylvania State University)
"Electron Transfer in Organic Synthesis: Electrochemical Dehydration & Radical-Migration-Mediated Olefin Difunctionalization"
Nov. 16
Ellen J. Robertson (Union College)
"Preparation of Alkanethiol-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles for Incorporation into Peptoid Nano-Sandwiches Engaging Undergraduates in Research Lecture Series"
Dec. 1
Chemistry Research Day
Dec. 7
Omar Saleh (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Structure and function in liquid droplets of DNA"
Spring 2023
Jan. 12
Rebekka Klausen (Johns Hopkins University)
"Fragments of Crystalline Silicon via Target-oriented Synthesis"
Feb. 23
Virgil Percec (University of Pennsylvania)
"Helical Chirality and its Emerging Functions Leading to Targeted Delivery of mRNA"
Mar. 2
Josua Schrier (Fordham University)
"Accelerating Exploratory Materials Synthesis with Data, Machine Learning, and Robots"
Mar. 24
Dirk Trauner (University of Pennsylvania)
"Adventures in Neuropharmacology"
Apr. 6
Brenda Rubenstein (Brown University )
"Computing with Molecules: Storage and Computation Using Small Molecules and Their Reaction Networks"
Apr. 13
Todd Hyster (Cornell University)
"Photoenzymatic Catalysis-Using Light to reveal new Enzyme Function"
Apr. 20
Robert Comito (Univeristy of Houston)
"Amine Synthesis by Hydrogen-Atom Transfer and Energy-
Transfer Photocatalysis"May 5
John Hartwig (University of California, Berkeley)
"Catalyzing Organic Synthesis"
Fall 2022
Sep. 15
Andrew Bocarsly (Princeton University)
"Novel Mixed-Metal Electrocatalysts for the Reduction of CO2 to Products Beyond the C2+ Limit"
Sep. 23
Lawrence Ziegler (Boston University)
"Ultrafast 2DIR Spectroscopy in Dense Gas and Near-Critical Fluid solutions: J-scrambling, critical fluctuations and the onset of liquid character"
Sept. 30
Jon Rudick Memorial Symposium
Oct. 6
ICB&DD 2022 Symposium
Oct. 13
Jeremy Fieldblyum (University of Albany)
"Design, Assembly, Processing, and Chemistry of Coordination Macromolecules"
Oct. 20
John Montgomery (University of Michigan)
"Development of Catalytic Methods for Carbonyl Addition"
Oct. 27
Ralph Kleiner (Princeton University)
"Illuminating RNA Biology with Metabolically incorporated Ribonucleoside probes"
Oct. 28
Chemistry Research Day
Nov. 3
Daniella Bucella (New York University)
"Chemical Tools and Strategies to Study Mechanisms of Cellular Metal Homeostasis"
Nov. 10
Christian Bessler (Universitat Hamburg)
"Solvation Dynamics from a Different Angle: Nascent Halogen Radicals observed with fs X-Ray Tools"
Nov. 17
Beth Elacqua (Penn State University)
"Merging Organic Synthesis and Macromolecular Chemistry to Design Efficient Catalysts and Diverse Polymers"
Dec. 1
Jesus Perez Rios (Stony Brook University)
"Few-body processes in chemical physics: ozone formation and van der Waals molecule formation"
Spring 2022
Jan. 21
Paul Zimmerman (University of Michigan)
"Design Reactions & Catalysts with Chemical Computation"
Jan. 28
Darryl Boyd (United States Naval Research Laboratory)
"Slime, Polymers & The Future of Polymer Education"
Mar. 3
Charles McCrory (Univerisity of Michigan)
"The Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 to CO with Polymer Encapsulated Co Catalysts: Modulating Activity and Selectivity by Controlling the Catalyst's Coordination Environment"
Mar. 28
Han Zuilhof (Wageningen University)
"Near-perfection?!: Novel click chemistries for materials chemistry"
Apr. 7
Joseph M. Fox (Univerisity of Deleware)
"Methods for Fast & Inducible Bioorthogonal Chemistry "
Apr. 14
Laura Kiessling (MIT)
Jacob Bigeleisen Lecture -"Microbial Glycans in Health and Disease"
Apr. 22
Tom Muir (Princeton University)
Francis Johnson Symposium -
"Janus Particles: the role of molecular symmetry in epigenetic regulation"
Apr. 29
Makoto Fujita (University of Tokyo)
"Inaugural Ojima Distinguished Lecture"
May 6
Beth Elacqua (Pennsylvania State University)
"TBA"
Fall 2021
Sep. 2
Roland Kawakami (Ohio State University)
"Spin Currents and Spin Dynamics in Dirac Materials"
Sep. 10
Katherine J. Franz (Duke University)
"Infectiously Inorganic: A Metallocentric View of Antimicrobial Activity"
Sep. 17
Justin Wilson (Cornell University)
"Controlling Labile Metal Ions in Biological Systems"
Sep. 23
Anna Krylov (University of Southern California)
"Spin-forbidden Processes and Molecular Magnetism: New theoretical tools for Quantitative Modeling and insight"
Sep. 24
Vincent Pecoraro (University of Michigan)
"Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture , Adventures in Metalloprotein Design: Enhancing Cu Based Enzymatic Catalysis"
Oct. 7
15th Annual ICB&DD Symposium
“Covid-19/SARS-CoV-2 Antiviral Therapeutics Discovery”
Oct. 14
Ashley Head (Brookhaven National Lab)
"Spectroscopic Characterization of Porous Materials for Catalysis"
Oct. 21
Nav Nidhi Rajput (Stony Brook University/MSE)
"MISPR: Materials Informatics for Structure-Property-Relationships"
Oct. 28
David B. C. Martin (University of Iowa)
"New Strategies for Photocatalytic Bond Activation and the Synthesis of Neuroprotective Natural Products"
Oct. 29
Chemistry Research Day
Nov. 18
Johnny Lee (Pfizer outreach visit)
Nov. 19
Jacob Stewart (Connecticut College)
Dec. 10
Katerina Hayashi DuBay (University of Virginia)
Spring 2021
Jan. 29
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Yale University)
“Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion”
Feb. 4
Yumuna Krishnan(University of Chicago)
“Quantitative Chemical Imaging in Immune Cells"
Feb. 5
Tao Wei (Howard University)
“Simulations of Materials Interfacial Reactions”
Feb. 11
Shana O. Kelley (University of Toronto)
Feb. 26
Julia A. Kalow (Northwestern University)
Mar. 4
Yue Qi (Brown University)
Mar. 11
Herman O. Sintim (Purdue University)
“Interrupting cyclic dinucleotide signaling in bacteria and immue cells with small molecules”
Mar. 18
Fernando Uribe-Romo (University of Central Florida)
Mar. 19
Steven D. Townsend (Vanderbilt University)
“Chemistry Driven Glycoscience”
Mar. 25
Jerome Robinson (Brown University)
Apr. 1
Christopher J. Chang (University of California, Berkeley)
Apr. 8
Richmond Sarpong (University of California, Berkeley)
Apr. 9
Justin Wilson (Cornell University)
Apr. 15
Kelly Burke (University of Connecticut)
Apr. 22
Jason Goodpaster (University of Minnesota)
Apr. 29
Jason Sello (University of California, San Francisco)
Fall 2020
Sep. 11
Emily Weiss (Northwestern) - Student invited speaker
“Colloidal Photocatalysis for Energy Conversion and Organic Synthesis”
Oct. 8
ICB&DD Symposium
ICB&DD 14th Annual Symposium, “Frontiers of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery: Nucleic Acid-Based Medicine”
Oct. 22
David Walt (Harvard Medical School)
“Measuring Chemistry and Biology at their Fundamental Limits"
Oct. 30
Priyanka Sharma (Stony Brook University)
"Sustainable Developments Using Plant Biomass"
Nov. 6
Marcy H. Towns (Purdue University)
"Using Symbolic and Graphical Forms to Characterize Student Mathematical Reasoning in a Chemistry Context"
Nov. 13 Adam Cohen (Associated Universities Inc.)
"DOE and the DOE National Laboratories - Our best kept R&D secret?"
Dec. 3 Julia Chan (University of Texas, Dallas)
"Layered Rare-earth Intergrowth Compounds: A Platform for Correlated & Topological Properties"
Spring 2020
Feb. 13
Amber Krummel (Colorado State University)
“Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology of Antivirals Targeting Drug-resistant and Emerging Viruses”
Feb. 27
Wenchao Qu (Stony Brook University)
“A Fluoride-Desilylation Mediated Radiolabeling Approach for Synthesizing 11C-Labeled Radiotracers”
Mar. 5
Joel Miller (University of Utah)
Mar. 13
Jill Millstone (University of Pittsburgh)
Fall 2019
Sep. 5
Jun Wang (University of Arizona)
“Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology of Antivirals Targeting Drug-resistant and Emerging Viruses”
Oct. 3
Keisuke Suzuki (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
“Lessons from Complex Natural Product Synthesis: Cases of Carthamin and Spiroxins”
Oct. 4
Esther Takeuchi (Stony Brook University) *Chemistry Research Day*
“From Medical Applications to the Environment: The Important Role of Energy Storage”
Oct. 10
13th Annual ICB&DD Symposium - "Frontiers of Infectious Disease Control"
Oct. 18
Omar Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley) *Franklin Lecture*
“Reticular Chemistry Leading to Carbon Capture and Water Harvesting from Air”
Nov. 1
Dilip Gersappe (Stony Brook University)
“Structure, Transport and Reactions in Nanostructured Media”
Nov. 7
Catherine Grimes (University of Delaware)
“Breaking Down Bacterial Walls to Understand Inflammation”
Nov. 11
Adrian Roitberg (University of Florida)
“Is Quantum Chemistry Amenable for Machine Learning? Are the Computers Coming for Our Jobs?”
Nov. 13 Benjamin Levine (Michigan State University) “How is Electronic Energy Converted to Heat in Semiconductor Nanocrystals?”
Nov. 14
Frank Keutsch (Harvard University)
“The Chemistry of Stratospheric Solar Geoengineering - Taking the Edge off Climate Change?”
Nov. 21
Peter Chupas (Stony Brook University)
“Unraveling the Chemistry of Energy Technologies”
Spring 2019
Feb. 1
Vincent Rotello (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
“Interfacing Nanomaterials with Biology: From CRISPR to Antimicrobials”
Feb. 7
Cathy Cutler (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
“Development of Novel Theranostics”
Feb. 14
Dario Stacchiola (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Nanomaterials in Operando Conditions”
Feb. 28
Indrajeet Sharma (University of Oklahoma)
“Stereoselective Carbene Annulations for Assembling Complexity”
Mar. 7
Jonathan V. Sweedler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Mar. 15
Sharon Loverde (College of Staten Island)
“Molecular Simulations of Peptide and Polymer Self-Assemblies”
Mar. 28
Rebecca Abergel (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Apr. 11
Yan Xia (Stanford University)
“Building and Breaking Molecular Ladders to Develop Functional Polymers”
Apr. 16
Chad Mirkin (Northwestern University) **Bigeleisen Lecture
Apr. 19
Eugene X. Y. Chen (Colorado State University)
Apr. 26
Tehshik P. Yoon (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
May 2
Catherine L. Grimes (University of Delaware)
May 3
Jill Millstone (University of Pittsburgh)
FALL 2018
8/30/2018
ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE: PROGRESS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Speaker: Amy C. Marschilok (Stony Brook University)
9/6/2018
CHOLESTEROL METABOLIC PATHWAY INSPIRED TUBERCULOSIS DRUG DISCOVERY AND DIAGNOSIS
Speaker: Xinxin Yang (Stony Brook University)
9/12/2018
NATURAL PRODUCTS AND ANTIBIOTICS THAT FORM CHANNELS ACROSS BIOMEMBRANES
Speaker: Michio Murata (Osaka University)
**Biochemistry and Cell Biology Seminar
**12pm in Life Sciences 038
9/13/2018
FROM NITRENES TO LIQUID SMOKE: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS FROM FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES OF REACTIVE INTERMEDIATES
Speaker: Paul Wenthold (Perdue University)
9/21/2018
UNDERSTANDING THE FUNDAMENTAL REACTIONS INVOLVED IN ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGE
Speaker: Anne Co (Ohio State University)
**11am in CHEM 412
10/4/2018
IMIDAZO[1,5-A]PYRIDINE CARBENES AS A STRONG Π-ACCEPTING AND Σ-DONATING NHC: PROPERTIES AND CATALYTIC UTILITIES
Speaker: Fumitoshi Shibahara (Gifu University)
10/15/2018
PLAYING WITH THE MOLECULES OF LIFE
Speaker: Peter Schultz (Scripps Research Institute)
**Francis Johnson Lecture
10/18/2018
MATCHMAKING IN CATALYST-TRANSFER POLYMERIZATION
Speaker: Anne McNeil (University of Michigan)
10/25/2018
PREBIOTIC ASTROCHEMISTRY IN THE ‘THZ-GAP’
Speaker: Susanna Widecus-Weaver (Emory University)
11/2/2018
TOTAL SYNTHESES OF NANNOCYSTINS AND BIOMIMETIC SYNTHESES OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
Speaker: Zhang Wang (University at Albany)
11/8/2018
MOLECULAR ENGINEERING OF HYDROXIDE-ION CONDUCTING POLYMERS FOR ENERGY CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY
Speaker: Chulsung Bae (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
11/15/2018
HALOGEN CHEMISTRY IN THE ARCTIC, AND CONNECTIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Speaker: Paul B. Shepson (Stony Brook University)
11/20/2018
DIVERSITY-ORIENTED APPROACHES TO TAILORING ION-SELECTIVE POLYMER MEMBRANES FOR AQUEOUS AND NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICES
Speaker: Brett Helms (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
11/29/2018
CAVITY-ENHANCED ULTRAFAST SPECTROSCOPY
Speaker: Thomas Allison (Stony Brook University)
12/6/2018
NEW PROTEIN FOLDS AND FUNCTIONS: THE CHEMISTRY OF FAT BIOSYNTHESIS
Speaker: Michael V. Airola (Stony Brook University)
SPRING 2018
1/25/2018
FUNCTIONAL POLYMER MATERIALS DESIGNED FOR ADVANCED APPLICATIONS AND SUSTAINABILITY
Speaker: Karen L. Wooley(Texas A&M University)
Host: Jon Rudick1/26/2018
DEVELOPING AND APPLYING NEW TOOLS TO UNDERSTAND NOW MATERIALS FOR LI AND ‘BEYOND-LI’ BATTERIES AND SUPERCAPCITORS FUNCTION
Speaker: Clare P. Grey(University of Cambridge)
Host: Jon Rudick**FRANKLIN AWARD LECTURE
(3PM @ WANG CENTER THEATER)1/31/2018
TWO-DIMENSIONAL POLYMERS BASED ON THE ANTHRACENE AND TRIPTYCENE MOTIFS
Speaker:Benjamin T. King (University of Nevada, Reno)
2/1/2018
COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF FUNCTIONALIZATION OF C-H, C-C BONDS AND OLEFINS
Speaker:Peng Liu (University of Pittsburgh)
3/2/2018
VOID-CONTAINING MOLECULAR AND SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURES
Speaker: Bing Gong (University of Beffalo)
3/27/2018
CHEMICAL BIOLOGY-ENABLED TOOLS AND STRATEGIES FOR STUDYING BREAST CANCER
Speaker: Michelle E. Farkas(University of Massachusetts Amherst)
3/29/2018
NEW TOOLS FOR CATALYSIS
Speaker: Tomislav Rovis (Columbia University)
4/12/2018
STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTING NICKEL-CATALYZED ALKENE FUNCTIONALIZATION
Speaker: Tianning Diao(New York University)
4/19/2018
SIMULATING BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES FROM NANOMETERS TO MICRONS: FROM PROTEINS AND NUCLEOSOMES TO CELLULAR SCALE CYTOSKELETAL DYNAMICS
Speaker: Garegin A. Papoian (University of Maryland)
4/26/2018
CESIUM EFFECT: MILD & EFFICIENT FORMATION OF CARBON-HETEROATOM BONDS AND SYNTHESIS TOWARDS CANCER THERAPEUTICS, ANTIVIRALS, AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE METABOLITES
Speaker: Ralph N. Salvatore (Southeastern University)
5/3/2018
CHEMICAL STRATEGIES FOR VISUALIZING THE BRAIN'S CIRCUITRY
Speaker: Scott T. Laughlin (Stony Brook University)
5/4/2018
EXPLORING UNCHARTED REGIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC REACTION PATHWAYS
Speaker: Marsha I. Lester(University of Pennsylvania)
5/10/2018
A STRUCTURAL APPROACH TO DETERMINE SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION MECHANISMS IN FLAVOPROTEIN PHOTORECEPTORS
Speaker: Jarrod B. French(Stony Brook University)
5/15/2018
A MULTI-TARGETED APPROACH TO IMPROVING CHEMISTRY EDUCATION
Speaker: Lisa Shah(Stony Brook University)
5/16/2018
DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL CHEMICAL TOOLS FOR ACCESSING UNEXPLORED CHEMICAL SPACES
Speaker: Ming-Yu Ngai (Stony Brook University)
FALL 2017
8/31/2017
RECONCILING EXPERIMENT AND COMPUTATION IN ELECTRON TRANSPORT STUDIES
Speaker: Matthew G. Reuter (Stony Brook University)
Host: Michael Whiite9/7/2017
IMAGING METABOLISM IN VIVO USING RESPONSIVE MRI AGENTS
Speaker: A. Dean Sherry (UT Southwestern)
Host: Eszter Boros9/28/2017
WHY DO WEAKER METAL-CARBON BONDS LEAD TO MORE STABLE COMPLEXES? WHAT'S GOING ON?
Speaker:William Jones (University of Rochester)
Host: Andreas Mayr10/12/2017
DEEP UV NLO MATERIALS: DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS
Speaker:Shiv Halasyamani (Stony Brook University)
10/19/2017
GOBLINS, BRIMSTONE AND CHIPS: UNCONVENTIONAL POLYMERS FOR ENERGY, DEFENSE AND SUSTAINABILITY
Speaker:Jeffrey Pyun(University of Arizona)
10/20/2017
CREATING STIFF GELS, STRETCHY BIOMATERIALS, AND GLASSES THAT FLOW
Surita R. Bhatia (Stony Brook University)
**CHEMISTRY RESEARCH DAY (SAC BALLROOM)
10/26/2017
FROM MOLECULES TO CLOUD DROPLETS: HOW DO AIRBORNE NANOPARTICLES GROW?
Speaker: Murray Johnston (University of Delaware)
Host: Christopher Johnson10/27/2017
DESIGNING TRANSITION METAL PHOSPHIDE NANOPARTICLES AND COMPOSITES FOR EFFECTIVE ELECTROCATALYTIC AND PHOTOCATALYTIC WATER SPLITTING
Speaker: Stephanie Brock (Wayne State University)
11/2/2017
ELECTRIC FIELDS & ENZYME CATALYSIS
Speaker: Steven G. Boxer(Stanford University)
Host: Jessica Seeliger11/3/2017
PALLADIUM-CATALYZED CARBON-HETEROATOM BOND-FORMING REACTIONS FOR THE FUNCTIONALIZATION OF MOLECULES BIG AND SMALL
Speaker: Stephen L. Buchwald(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Host: Kathlyn Parker11/8/2017
EXPLORING MATERIALS FUNCTION AT THE ENERGY FRONTIER
Speaker: Karena W. Chapman(Argonnne National Laboratory)
**1pm in CHEM 41211/9/2017
SYNTHESIS OF INTERCALATION COMPOUNDS WITH TUNABLE CHEMISTRY & STRUCTURE FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE & WATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS WITH ADVANCED PERFORMANCE
Speaker: Ekaterina Pomerantseva(Drexel University)
Host: Esther Takeuchi11/15/2017
NANOSCALE MATERIALS FOR ENERGY STORAGE AND UTILIZATION
Speaker: Peter J. Chupas(Argonnne National Laboratory)
**1pm in CHEM 41211/30/2017
THE TALE OF TWO SWITCHES: HOW P. AERUGINOSA MODULATES BIOFILM FORMATION AND BIOFILM DRUG TOLERANCE
Speaker: Karin Sauer(Binghamton University)**Student-Invited Seminar
Host: Students12/7/2017
EXPLORING AND PROMOTING CHEMICAL THINKING
Speaker: Vicente Talanquer (University of Arizona)
Host: Gregory Rushton**3pm in CHEM 412
12/8/2017
MOLECULAR IMAGING OF CANCER
Speaker: Peter Smith-Jones (SBU, Psychiatry)
Host: Peter TongeSPRING 2017
2/2/2017
FINDING NIMO: EXPLORING THE CONVERSION REACTION OF NICKEL MOLYBDATE ANODE MATERIALS
Speaker: James Pastore (Cornell, Bauer Lecture)
Host: Jon Rudick2/3/2017
MEASURING NON-COVALENT INTERACTIONS OF AROMATIC SURFACES USING MOLECULAR BALANCES
Speaker: Kenneth Shimizu (University of South Carolina)
Host: Gregory Rushton2/16/2017
REPLICATING DAMAGED DNA WITH ARTIFICIAL NUCLEOTIDES
Speaker:Shana Sturla (ETH-Zurich)
Host: Orlando Schärer2/17/2017
THE AQUATIC PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF NATURALLY OCCURRING SENSITIZERS AND ANTIOXIDANTS
Speaker:Kris McNeill (ETH-Zurich)
Host: Orlando Schärer2/23/2017
NANOPARTICLE-FACILITATED MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION-INDUCED RECEPTOR ACTIVATION: IMPLICATIONS ON PHARMACEUTICAL DELIVERY
Speaker: Balaji Sitharaman (Stony Brook University, Biomedical Engineering)
Host: Jon Rudick3/2/2017
BIOMIMETIC POLYMERS - SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL POLYPEPTIDES
Speaker: Timothy Deming (UCLA)
Host: Surita Bhatia3/9/2017
COORDINATION CHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR IMAGING: A MARRIAGE MADE IN VIVO
Speaker: Thomas Meade (Northwestern University) (Franklin Lecture)
Host: Stephen Koch3/23/2017
NONADIABATIC EVENTS IN PHOTOINITIATED PROCESSES IN MOLECULES
Speaker: Spiridoula Matsika (Temple University)
Host: Thomas Allison3/30/2017
DESIGNING BRIGHTER DYES FOR ADVANCED FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY
Speaker: Luke Lavis (Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Host: Scott Laughlin4/7/2017
REACTIONS OF THE SIMPLEST CRIEGEE INTERMEDIATE WITH INORGANIC ACIDS AND ALCOHOLS
Speaker: Craig Murray (UC Irvine)
**11am in CHEM 4124/13/2017
IMPACT OF LOCAL STRUCTURE ON TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS
Speaker: Kenneth Poeppelmeier (Northwestern University)
Host: Peter Khalifah4/20/2017
SEQUENCE MATTERS: HOW SEQUENCE IN COPOLYMERS AFFECTS THEIR PROPERTIES
Speaker: Tara Meyer (University of Pittsburgh)
Host: Melanie Chiu4/21/2017
STRUCTURE, MECHANISM AND INHIBITION OF THE M2 PROTON CHANNEL FROM INFLUENZA A VIRUS
Speaker: William F. DeGrado (UCSF) (Francis Johnson Lectures)
Host: Daniel Raleigh
**Francis Johnson Lecture, 3pm, Frey 1044/27/2017
TOWARDS THE CONVERGENCE OF RATE AND SELECTIVITY IN ORGANOCATALYTIC RING-OPENING POLYMERIZATION
Speaker: Matthew K. Kiesewetter (University of Rhode Island)
5/4/2017
PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY OF SIZE-SELECTED BORON CLUSTERS: FROM PLANAR STRUCTURES TO BOROPHENES AND BOROSPHERENES
Speaker: Lai-Sheng Wang (Brown University)
Host: Christopher Johnson5/5/2017
PROTEIN ENGINEERING – FROM NATURE TO NANOTECHNOLOGY
Speaker: Tijana Z. Grove(Virginia Tech)
FALL 2016
12/8/2016
ORGANIC AEROSOLS AND THEIR ABILITY TO FORM CLOUD DROPLETS
Speaker: Jian Wang (Brookhaven National Lab)
Host: Christopher Johnson12/1/2016
MONOLITHICALLY-INTEGRATED TEXTILE ELECTRONICS
Speaker: Trisha L. Andrew (UMass - Amherst)
Host: Jon Rudick11/18/2016
STUDIES OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Speaker: Victor S. Batista (Yale)
Host: Jin Wang11/17/2016
TO BUILD A BIOFILM
Speaker: George O'Toole (Brown)
Host: Elizabeth Boon11/10/2016
POLYENE-INSPIRED PI-CONJUGATED MACROMOLECULES: DESIGN, SYNTHESIS, AND APPLICATION
Speaker: Agostino Pietrangelo (Rutgers-Newark)
Host: Robert Grubbs11/4/2016
PUSHING THE LIMITS: PURSUING NEW CARBON-RICH MOLECULES AND MATERIALS
Speaker: Nancy Goroff (Stony Brook University) (Chemistry Research Day Keynote Lecture)
Host: Scott Laughlin10/27/2016
PHOTOTHERMAL AND NON-EQUILIBRIUM SELF-ASSEMBLY OF BLOCK COPOLYMERS
Speaker: Kevin Yager (Brookhaven National Lab)
Host: Jon Rudick10/20/2016
CHEMISTS TO A CHEMICAL SYNAPSE: DESIGN, SYNTHESIS, AND USE OF IMAGING PROBES AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS IN THE BRAIN
Speaker: Dalibor Sames (Columbia) (Student-Invited Lecture)
Host:10/7/2016
TWO-DIMENSIONAL POLYMERS BASED ON THE ANTHRACENE AND TRIPTYCENE MOTIFS
Speaker: Benjamin King (U. Nevada at Reno)
Host: Nancy Goroff10/6/2016
ICB&DD SYMPOSIUM
Host: Iwao Ojima
9/29/2016
COLLAGEN-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES AS POTENTIAL TISSUE ENGINEERING SCAFFOLDS
Speaker: Rina Tannenbaum (Stony Brook University)
Host: Jon Rudick9/23/2016
CHANGES IN THE SUPRA-MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF CELLULOSE I DURING TEMPO-OXIDATION. BRINGING TOGETHER NMR, MD, AND XRD RESULTS
Speaker: Tomas Larsson (Innventia)
Host: Benjamin Hsiao9/22/2016
FORAYS INTO AROMATICITY: MAKING, BREAKING AND STACKING PI-CIRCUITS
Speaker: JD Tovar (Johns Hopkins University)
Host: Jon Rudick9/19/2016
MEASURING ONCOGENE SIGNALING IN CANCER WITH PET
Speaker: Michael Evans (UCSF)
Host: Peter Tonge9/15/2016
FROM MOLECULES TO MAN: DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND CLINICAL TRANSLATION OF PET RADIOTRACERS FOR IMAGING APPLICATIONS
Speaker: Henry Huang
Host: Peter Tonge9/8/2016
CHITOSAN-BASED MICELLAR NANOMEDICINE
Speaker: Yizhi Meng (Stony Brook University)
Host: Jon Rudick9/1/2016
STRUCTURAL AND BIOCHEMICAIBITION BY SRC-SPECIFIC PEPTIDIC MACROCYCLES
Speaker: Markus Seeliger (Stony Brook University)
Host: Jarrod French