Seminar Archive
The following are Seminars from previous semesters.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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.
| 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 |
