Seminar Archive
The following are Seminars from previous semesters.
Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
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December 8 | The Expanding Amyloid Family: Structure, Stability, Function, and Pathogenesis | Dr. David Eisenberg, UCLA |
December 1 | The Chemical Logic of Natural Product Biosynthesis | Dr. Yi Tang, UCLA |
November 17 | The Role of Electric Fields and Aqueous Solvation for Catalyst Design / From photons to fuels by computation: Modeling electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 on copper electrodes | Drs. Teresa Head-Gordon and Martin Head-Gordon, UC Berkeley |
November 10 | A Tale of DNA Modifications: Chemistry, Biology, and Applications | Dr. Linlin Zhao, UC Riverside |
October 27 | Actin in self-defense: How the cytoskeleton protects neurons during cerebral ischemia and energy stress | Dr. Shelley Halpain, UC San Diego |
October 20 | Small molecule electrocatalysis and interfacial charge speciation | Dr. Hadi Tavassol, CSU Long Beach |
October 13 | Strange things happen at the nanoscale: Spectroscopy, entropy and quantum effects at solid/liquid interfaces | Dr. Tod Pascal, UC San Diego |
October 6 | Reaction Networks and the Metric Structure of Chemical Space(s) | Dr. Dmitrij Rappoport, UC Irvine |
September 29 | Connecting DNA Shape with CRISPR Target Discrimination: Mechanistic Insights Informing Applications | Dr. Peter Qin, USC |
September 15 | Examining the morphology and chemical reactivity of 2D and 3D carbon structures | Dr. Michael Groves, CSU Fullerton |
September 8 | Enzymatic Oxidative Coupling Reactions to Make Protein Therapeutics | Dr. Matthew Francis, UC Berkeley |
September 1 | Anatomy of chemical reactions: Catalytic oxidation of carbon monoxide | Dr. Jerry LaRue, Chapman University |
Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
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April 28 | Development of multitarget inhibitors for the treatment of pain: design, synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular modeling studies |
Dr. Stevan Pecic, CSU Fullerton |
April 21 | Earth-Abundant Metal Catalysis: Mechanisms of CC and C-Heteroatom Bond Forming Reactions |
Dr. Xiaotai Wang, University of Colorado, Denver |
April 14 | Proteins and Drugs Controlling Cancer Cell Division |
Dr. Seth Rubin, US Santa Cruz |
April 7 | The Bioinorganic Chemistry of the Simple Nitrogen Oxides (NOx): Not So Simple |
Dr. George Richter- Addo, University of Oklahoma |
March 24 | The Fifth Element in Disguise | Dr. Shiyuan Liu, Boston College |
March 17 | Single-Molecule Imaging of the Electrochemical Interface |
Dr. Bo Zhang, University of Washington |
March 10 | Recombinant protein-polymers in medicine and biology |
Dr. Andrew MacKay, USC |
February 17 | Uncovering the proteomes and transcriptomes of cellular protrusions using Laser capture Microdissection |
Dr. Karine Gousset, CSU Fresno |
February 10 | Fast and Accurate Quantum Chemistry Simulation for molecular design and discovery |
Dr. Fang Liu, Emory University |
February 3 | Cheminformatics: Using SWIF's to Identify Binding Modes in Non-Covalent Complexes | Dr. Eric Sorin, CSU Long Beach |
February 3 | Stepping into Light: Developing a General Photo- Initiated Hydroacylation of Alkenes |
Dr. Paul Buonora, CSU Long Beach |
Note: most of the Spring 2020 seminars were cancelled due to COVID-19.
Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
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March 11, 2020 | From Photooxidation to Photobasicity: Adventures Exploring Photochemistry with Undergrads | Dr. Andrew Petit, CSU Fullerton |
March 4, 2020 | Oxylipins and HDL, an explanation for pro- and anti-inflammatory activities | Dr. Gregory Shearer, Penn State |
February 26, 2020 | Epitope-Targeting Cyclic Peptides as Chemical Biology Tools | Dr. Min Xue, UC Riverside |
February 19, 2020 | Twists and turns along the path of reactivity-driven methodology development | Dr. Hosea Nelson, UCLA |