Seminars for 2016

Assistant Professor Jeffrey Warren     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Delivering protons and electrons to active sites in biomimetic and biological systems

Valerie Schmidt, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry
Princeton University, Princeton NJ

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Strategies for Hydrocarbon Manipulation: from alkane functionalization to olefin cycloaddition

Frank Leibfarth, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

New Methods for the Synthesis of Functional Polymeric Materials

Assistant Professor Joshua Price     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Brigham Young University, Provo UT

Time:   10 AM
Room: Kate & Michael Barany Conference Room (117/119 Smith Hall)

Predictive Structure-based Guidelines for Identifying Optimal Protein PEGylation Sites

Allie Obermeyer, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Synthetic modification of proteins to create new biomaterials

Lauren Zarzar, Ph.D.    
Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Dynamic Soft Materials: Gels, Bubbles, and Drops

Professor Ken Wagener     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Florida, Gainesville FL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Raising High Density Polyethylene’s Melting Point by 40°C

Associate Professor Alberto Salleo     (web page)
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Stanford University CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

The materials science of semiconducting polymers: understanding the link between microstructure, materials properties and device performance

Assistant Professor Naomi Ginsberg     (web page)
Departments of Chemistry & Physics
University of California, Berkeley

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Elucidating and Exploiting Dynamic Processes at the Nanoscale in Messy Molecular Materials

Assistant Professor Julie Biteen     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Single-Molecule Imaging and Plasmon-Enhanced Fluorescence: Understanding Bacterial Function on the Nanoscale

Assistant Professor Jason Chen     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Iowa State University, Ames Iowa

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Total Synthesis as a Rich Source of Unexpected Projects

Associate Professor Jeffrey B. Johnson     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Hope College, Holland MI

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Investigation of C-C Bond Activation: Mechanistic Understanding Leading to New Methodologies

Assistant Professor Kevin Brown     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Indiana University, Bloomington

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

No Strain, No Gain: Advances in the Synthesis and Use of Cyclobutanes

Professor Emily Weiss     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University, Evanston IL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Photocatalytic Conversion of Nitrobenzene to Aniline through Sequential Proton-Coupled One-Electron Transfers from a Cadmium Sulfide Quantum Dot

Professor Scott Miller     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Yale University, New Haven CT

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Searching for Selective Reactions on Complex Molecular Scaffolds

Assistant Professor Vlad Iluc     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Secondary Metal-Ligand Interactions: C-H Activation and Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonding in Palladium Carbene Complexes

Associate Professor Sara Skrabalak     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Indiana University, Bloomington IN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Seeding a New Kind of Garden: Synthesis of Symmetrically Stellated Bimetallic Nanocrystals

Research Scientist Louis Pitet, Ph.D.    
DSM, Maastricht en omgeving Nederland

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Implications of block polymer uniformity in confined self-assembly for lithographic applications

Professor M.G. Finn     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Tailored Virus-Like Particles for Biomedicine and Catalysis

Professor M.G. Finn     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Click Chemistry Returns Home: Development and Applications to Materials Science

Professor M.G. Finn     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

New Ventures: Analytical Methods and Polyvalent Catalysis

Professor Coray Colina     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Florida, Gainesville FL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Novel nanoporous materials: In silico design

Professor Michael T. Green     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Irvine

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Exploring the factors that govern biological C-H bond activation

Professor Scott McLuckey     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Creativity with a Capital ‘C’: Laying the Framework for Making a Lasting Difference

Professor Scott McLuckey     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

New Reactions for Tandem Mass Spectrometry I: Proton Transfer and Electron Transfer Ion/Ion Reactions

Professor Scott McLuckey     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

New Reactions for Tandem Mass Spectrometry II: Selective Covalent and Non-covalent Ion/Ion Reactions

Professor Melanie Cooper     (web page)
Department of Chemistry, Science Education
Michigan State University, East Lansing MI

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Evidence-Based Approaches to Curriculum Reform and Assessment

Professor David Milstein     (web page)
Department of Organic Chemistry
Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot Israel

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Design and Applications of Metal-Catalyzed Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry

Professor Martin Zanni     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Exciton transport in thin films of semiconducting carbon nanotubes using 2D white-light spectroscopy

Professor Stephen Lippard     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

How Bacteria Convert Methane to Methanol at the Diiron Center in Methane Monooxygenase

Professor Georg Kresse     (web page)
Center for Computational Materials Science
University of Vienna, Austria

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Many body methods for condensed matter: current status and future developments

Assistant Professor Pavel Nagorny     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Development of new catalytic methods for the synthesis of natural products

Assistant Professor Jeffrey Byers     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Iron-Based Catalysts for the Diversification of a Biodegradable Polymer

Professor Jonathan Sessler     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Texas, Austin

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Expanded Porphyrins: A Personal Journey

Professor Michael Jung     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Los Angeles

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Drug Discovery in Academia: A Successful Case Study

Professor Christopher Chang     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Imaging Transition Metal Signaling in the Brain and Beyond

Associate Professor Munira Khalil     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Washington, Seattle

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Measuring correlated vibrational and electronic motions in molecules

Professor Emeritus Jerry R. Mohrig     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Carleton College, Northfeld MN

Time:   9 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Teaching Inquiry-Driven Organic Chemistry Labs

Associate Professor Elizabeth A. Colby Davie     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Assumption College, Worcester MA

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Beyond Survival Mode: Fostering Scientific Thinking in the Organic Lab