Seminar Schedules

Sept. 15

Jessica Lamb (University of Minnesota)

 "Harnessing the potential of main-chain dipoles in polymers: New frontiers for physical organic chemistry".

Sept. 29

Arshad Mehmood  (University IACS)

"Predictive Descriptors and Spectroscopic Simulations for Chemical Reactivity and Excited-State Dynamics."

Oct. 17

Wenping Li (Merck)

"PET Tracer Discovery and Application in Neurodegenerative Disorders with AD and PD at Merck"

Oct. 29

Aaron Teator (Kansas)

"Harnessing Reactive Intermediates to Access New Synthetic Polymers"

Nov. 5

Seann Mulcahy (Providence).

“Design and Synthesis of Atropisomeric β-Carbolines”

Nov. 12

Mu-Ping Nieh (UConn)

"Novel Discoidal Lipid Nanoparticles: Formation, Applications and Characterization"

Nov. 14

Sarah Reisman (Caltech)

"Necessity Is the Mother of Invention: Natural Products and the Chemistry They Inspire"

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Nov. 17

Ruibin Liang (Texas Tech)

“Unraveling the functional mechanisms and design principles of photoactive biomolecular systems through multiscale simulations”

Dec. 1

Alexandra Strom (Smith)

"Iron-Catalyzed Reactions of Ketones – From Amination to Cycloaromatization"

Dec. 8

Ulrich Höfer (Marburg)

 "Photoemission Orbital Tomography"

Jan. 23

Ian Tonks (University of Minnesota)

"Strategies in Sustainable Catalysis: Making and Breaking N-N Bonds with Titanium and Synthesizing Polyesters from CO2"

Feb. 10

Daniel Kim (Temple University)

"Applications of Acetal Radicals in Organic Synthesis"

Feb. 19

Robert Baker (Ohio State University)

"Direct Observation of Charge and Spin Dynamics at Catalytic Interfaces Using Ultrafast XUV Light"

Feb. 21

Christine Isborn (University of California, Merced)

"Combining Vibronic and Environmental Effects with Machine Learning in Simulations of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Spectra"

Feb. 26

Mark Levin (University of Chicago)

"Replacing Atoms"

Mar. 4

Matthew Helgeson (University of California, Santa Barbara)

"Data-driven methods to accelerate soft materials formulation and processing"

Mar. 5

Xiang Sun (New York University Shanghai)

"Photoinduced Charge and Energy Transfer in Condensed Phase"

Mar. 12

Xiaosong Li (University of Washington)

"Relativistic Effects in Chemistry"

Mar. 31

Susan Daniel (Cornell University)

"Re-creating Coronavirus Host Cell Entry on a Chip to Characterize Membrane Fusion Properties"

Shelley Minteer (MUST)

"Bioelectrocatalysis for Electrosynthesis"

Apr. 11

Jeffrey Long (University of California, Berkeley)

"Cooperative Adsorption and Gas Separations in Metal–Organic Frameworks"

Apr. 14

Tom Allison (Stony Brook University)

"Cavity-Enhanced Ultrafast & Multidimensional Spectroscopy"

Apr. 16

Cheyenne Brindle (Trinity College)

"PUI Research: A Journey from Trityl to Phosphorescence"

Apr. 18

Todd Martinez (Stanford University)

"Discovering Chemistry and  Photochemistry From First Principles Molecular Dynamics"

Apr. 23

Benjamin Elling (Wesleyan University)

"Strategies for Engineering Ring Strain into New ROMP Monomers"

Apr. 25

Veronique Gouverneur (University of Oxford)

"Rethinking Fluorine Chemistry with Global Challenges in Mind"

Apr. 28

John Gordon (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

"TBD"

Apr. 30

Khalid Salaita (Emory University)

"DNA Mechanotechnology: nucleic acids that sense and generate molecular forces enable a new class of diagnostics"

May. 7

Danielle Dube (Bowdoin College)

"Chemical tools to discover and alter glycans on pathogenic bacteria"

May. 21

Michael Airola (Stony Brook University, Biochemistry)

"TBD"

Sept. 16

Philip Milner (Cornell University)

"Simplifying Synthesis at the Interface of Organic and Materials Chemistry”

Sept. 18

Ivet Bahar (Stony Brook University)

"In silico modeling of protein dynamics toward discovering effective modulators of function"

Sept. 23

Young-Tae Chang (POSTECH)

"Live cell distinction using fluorescent probes"

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. 4

Santanu Datta(Bugworks India)

"From Failures to Success: Discovery of Novel Antibiotics"

Oct. 7

Denise Okafor (Pennsylvania State University)

"Allosteric mechanisms of transcriptional control in FXR"

Oct. 9

Anthony Chianese (Colgate University)

"How does Milstein's Catalyst really work? Identifying the active catalyst in Ru-catalyzed hydrogenation reactions"

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)

"Illuminating heme trafficking and signaling in health and disease"

Oct. 16

Ting Ge (University of South Carolina)

"Molecular Modeling of Ring Polymer Mechanics – Expanding Applicability of Topological Polymer Chemistry"

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)

"Local Distortions and Long-Range Polarity in Pyrochlore Oxides from Total Scattering"

Nov. 13

Zachary Wickens (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

"Selective Synthesis Using Light and Electricity"

Nov. 18

Leah Dodson (University of Maryland)

"Fundamental Reaction Kinetics Studies for Low-Temperature Astrochemistry Applications" 

Dec. 4

Tim Zuehlsdorff (Oregon State University)

"Modeling linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy signals of molecules in complex environments"

Jan. 25

Polly 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"

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 Tennessee) 

"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"

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"

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"

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  (University 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  (University of Delaware)

"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"

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)

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 immune 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)

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"

Adam Cohen  (Associated Universities Inc.)

"DOE  and  the DOE National Laboratories - Our best kept R&D secret?"

Julia Chan (University of Texas, Dallas)

"Layered Rare-earth Intergrowth Compounds: A Platform for Correlated & Topological Properties"

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)

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?”

“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”

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”

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

May 2

Catherine L. Grimes (University of Delaware)

May 3

Jill Millstone (University of Pittsburgh)