Department Seminar
Upcoming Seminar
Atomic-Scale Insights for Batteries and Catalysts Revealed by Cryo-EM
Dr. Yuzhang Li, UCLA
December 6, 2023
4:00pm in HSCI-103
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) won the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 2017 for its ability to elucidate the molecular-scale structure of important biomolecules (e.g., the spike protein of COVID-19), which has had a transformative impact on structural biology. The Li group at UCLA is leading efforts to leverage this powerful technique to have a similar impact in the field of materials science. These efforts have led to significant breakthroughs in our understanding of batteries (Science 358, 506, 2017; Science 375, 66, 2022) and electrocatalysts (Nature Energy 8, 138, 2023), which represent important clean energy technologies necessary for mitigating climate change. New insights then inform parallel efforts in materials innovations (Nature 620, 86, 2023) that will enable transformative technologies.
Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm. All are invited to attend.
Seminar Coordinator
For information and suggestions about our Department Seminar series, please contact the seminar coordinator:
Dr. Fangyuan Tian
Fangyuan.Tian@csulb.edu
Schedule
The following is the schedule for Fall 2023.
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| December 6, 2023 | Atomic-Scale Insights for Batteries and Catalysts Revealed by Cryo-EM | Dr. Yuzhang Li, UCLA |
Previous Seminars
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| November 29, 2023 | Capsid Assembly and Genome Packaging in a Plus-strand RNA Virus | Dr. Rees Garmann, San Diego State University |
| November 15, 2023 | How Did We Get Here? The Unusual Transport Itinerary of a Novel Rab GTPase Accelerating Protein | Dr. Daniel Nickerson, CSU San Bernadino |
| November 8, 2023 | Probing the Kinetics of Apolipoprotein A-I Exchange in Response to Lipid, Particle Size, and Mutation Status | Dr. Mark Borja, CSU East Bay |
| November 1, 2023 | Some Stories from Being a Chemistry Student and Chemistry Professor + A Couple of Dive Videos | Dr. Stuart Berryhill, CSU Long Beach |
| October 25, 2023 | Quantum Dots for Solar Energy Conversion | Dr. Michael Enright, San Francisco State University |
| October 18, 2023 | Engineered Tissues Models for Muscle and Cardiac Repair | Dr. Perla Ayala, CSU Long Beach |
| October 11, 2023 | Not Just for Oxides! Sol-Gel Methods for Nanoparticle Assembly | Dr. Stephanie Brock, Wayne State University |
| October 11, 2023 | Accelerated Decomposition Kinetics of Ammonium Perchlorate via Conformal Graphene Coating | Dr. Alfred Baca, US Naval Research Laboratory |
| October 4, 2023 | Nanostructured Silicon as a Theranostic Tool | Dr. Michael Sailor, UC San Diego |
| September 27, 2023 | Nanospace within Metal-Organic Frameworks: Plenty of Room for Imagination | Dr. Shengqian Ma, University of North Texas |
| September 20, 2023 | Estrogen receptor and testosterone in women and importance of estrogen in men | Dr. Ellis Levin, Long Beach VA Medical Center & UC Irvine |
| September 13, 2023 | Towards Inclusive and Accessible Chemistry Classrooms: Faculty and TAs as Change Agents | Dr. Stacey Brydges, UC San Diego |
| September 6, 2023 | Liquid Crystalline Assembly of Conjugated Polymers | Dr. Shanju Zhang, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo |
| August 30, 2023 | Nanomaterials Interfaced to Photosystem I for BioHybrid Energy Conversion | Dr. David Cliffel, Vanderbilt University |
| August 23, 2023 | Novel properties of plasmonic metal nanostructures for sensing and cancer therapy: A case study of hollow gold nanospheres | Dr. Jin Zhong Zhang, UC Santa Cruz |
The Seminar Archive has Department Seminars from previous semesters.
The Department Seminar is supported by The Allergan Foundation.
