Seminar Archive

The following are Seminars from previous semesters.

Fall 2022 Department Seminars
Date	Title	Speaker and Affiliation
October 19, 2022	Uncovering the Roles of Midgut Proteases in the Blood Meal Protein Digestion System of the Aedes aegypti Mosquito	Dr. Alberto A. Rascón, Jr., San Jose State University
October 12, 2022	Multiscaling the CRISPR-Cas Revolution from Gene Editing to Viral Detection	Dr. Guilia Palermo, UC Riverside
October 5, 2022	Evidence-Based Approaches to Curriculum Reform and Assessment	Dr. Melanie Cooper, Michigan State University
September 28, 2022	Exploiting Electron-Rich Molecules to Synthesize Bioactive Natural Products	Dr. Kevin Kou, UC Riverside
September 21, 2022	Using actin to put our heads and hearts in the right places	Dr. Margot Quinlan, UCLA
September 14, 2022	Innovation in Asymmetric Catalysis by Bridging Chemistry and Biology	Dr. Yang Yang, UC Santa Barbara
September 7, 2022	Chemical routes to improve the extraction of gold and silver and to use these metals as nanomaterials	Dr. Juan Carlos Rodríguez Reyes, Centro de Investigación y Conservación del Patrimonio
August 31, 2022	Synthesis and evaluation of dipeptide as novel botulinum neurotoxin inhibitors	Dr. Nicholas Salzameda, CSU Fullerton

Spring 2022 Department Seminars
Date	Title	Speaker and Affiliation
April 27, 2022	Exploring Color and Heat Reflectance Tunability of "Cool" Pigments	Dr. Joya Cooley, CSU Fullerton
April 20, 2022	Exploring the Biochemical Environment of Insulin Secretory Vesicles	Dr. Kate White, USC
April 13, 2022	Electrification and Decarbonization of Chemical Synthesis	Dr. Karthish Manthiram, Cal Tech
March 23, 2022	Atomic and nanoscale characterization of chemical segregation in multiphase ceramics and nanocomposite functional oxides by TEM	Dr. William Bowman, UC Irvine
March 16, 2022	Strategies and Methods for Bioactive Diterpenoids	Dr. Chris Vanderwal, UC Irvine
March 9, 2022	Heterogeneous materials for electrochemical catalysis – using simple tools to understand complex interfaces	Dr. Eleanor Gillette, University of San Diego
March 2, 2022	Dynamic catalytic interfaces: ensembles of metastable states break the rules of catalysis	Dr. Anastassia Alexandrova, UCLA
February 23, 2022	Problematic Proteins: Mechanisms of Protein Aggregation and Dysfunction in Cellular Models of Neurodegenration	Dr. Danny Hatters, University of Melbourne
February 16, 2022	Complex Chemical Mixtures - What is Inside of Them?	Dr. Petr Vozka, CSU Los Angeles
February 9, 2022	Efficient quantum dynamics for two-dimensional electronic and vibrational spectroscopies	Dr. Tomislav Begusic, Cal Tech

Fall 2021 Department Seminars
Date	Title	Speaker and Affiliation
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

Spring 2021 Department Seminars
Date	Title	Speaker and Affiliation
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.

Spring 2020 Department Seminars
Date	Title	Speaker and Affiliation
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