Division Seminars

Chemical Biology

Analytical Seminar Schedule - Spring 2023

Date	Location	Speaker	Title	Host
April 10, 2023	208 Williams Hall	Helen Ayeni	Core-shell morphology of metal nanoparticles encapsulated with silane-coupled porphyrins: investigations with scanning probe microscopy	Garno
April 17, 2023	208 Williams Hall	Suliat Ali	Structure-activity relationships of small molecules designed to inhibit the bacterioferritin-ferredoxin complex and perturb ion metabolism in pathogenic bacteria	Garno
April 24, 2023	208 Williams Hall	Charya Wickramasinghe	Investigation of structures and interactions of Chlamydia trachomatis type III secretion system chaperone proteins Scc4 and Scc1 using recombinant E. coli system	Murray
April 28, 2023	210 Choppin Hall	Olajumoke Helen Olubowale	Final Defense: Synthesis and Characterization of Porphyrin-Encapsulated Nanoparticles: Investigations with Scanning Probe Microscopy	Garno

Chemical Biology Seminar Schedule- Spring 2023

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host
TBA

Inorganic Seminar Schedule- Spring 2023

Date	Location	Speaker	Title	Host
February 28, 2023	Williams 201	Prof. Xiaojian Bia, LSU Physics and Astronomy	TBD	Maverick
March 7, 2023	Williams 201	postponed	postponed	Maverick
March 21, 2023	Williams 201	Alex Van Alstine and Karen Marroquin	Switchable Cobalt-Catalyzed Hydrogenation, Anticancer Effects of a Ruthenium Oligothiophene Complex	Maverick
March 28, 2023	Williams 201	JP Grundhoefer	Ferrocene-Derived Metallosupramolecular Structures	Maverick
March 28, 2023	Williams 201	Robert Herman	Modular Synthesis of Carbon Nanohoops using Alkyne Metathesis	Maverick
April 4, 2023	Williams 201	Thimira Kandabadage	Photoconductivity in the Chalcohalide Semiconductor, SbSel: a New Candidate for Hard Radiation Detection	Maverick
April 4, 2023	Williams 201	Gayomi Samarakoon	[C(NH₂)₃]₂Zn(CO₃): A Guanidium-Templated Ultraviolet Nonlinear Optical Material	Maverick
April 11, 2023	Williams 201	Uthpala Ekanayaka	A Crystalline Monomeric Phosphaborene	Maverick
April 11, 2023	Williams 201	Spencer Watts	Palladium pnictide oxides N₁₀Pd₃As₈O₁₀ and Sm₁₀As₈O₁₀	Maverick
April 18, 2023	Williams 202	Professor Sourav Saha	Electrically Conductive Metal-Organic Frameworks	Maverick and Garcia-Lopez
April 25, 2023	n/a	No Meeting, will be rescheduled for the fall	n/a	Maverick
May 2, 2023	Williams 201	Courtney Baumberger	exit seminar: Ligand Modification of Mo(VI) dioxo complexes towards investigation of photocatalytic C-H activation	Maverick
May 8, 2023	Choppin 210	Ruchika Sharma	exit seminar: Redox and Host-Guest Reactions of Transition Metal Complexes	Maverick
May 10, 2023	Choppin 210	Senuri Jayawardana	exit seminar: Reactivity of a Self-Assembled Cage Catalyst with Endohedral Acid Groups	Maverick
May 10, 2023	Choppin 210	Sheila Njorge	Fine Tuning Alkyne Metathesis Catalysts	Maverick
May 11, 2023	Choppin 210	Ruchika Sharma	Dissertation Defense- Redox and Host-Guest Reactions of Transition Metal Complexes	Maverick

Macromolecular Seminar Schedule- Spring 2023

Date	Location	Speaker	Title	Host
March 3, 2023	Williams 210	Maria Martinez	The sustainable approach for the use of ground rubber tire to produce self-healing materials	Pojman
March 10, 2023	Williams 208	Stefanie L. Klisch	Concentration Threshold for Membrane Protection by PEO-PPO Block Copolymers with Variable Molecular Architectures	Xu
April 14, 2023	Williams 208	Bailee Barrett	Modulating the micellar assembly of sequence-defined ionic peptoid block copolymers by ionic monomer position and external stimuli	Xu
April 21, 2023	Williams 208	Sulochana Mudiyanselage	Enhanced Ion Condutivity through Hydrated, Polyelectrolyte-Grafted Cellulose Nanocrystal Films	Xu
April 28, 2023	Williams 208	Brecklyn Groce	Cationic Frontal Polymerization: Applications, Additives, and Kinetics	Xu
May 9, 2023	302 CAMB	Christopher J. Van Leeuwen	Influence of Mechanical Stress on Silica Particle Distribution in Polymers	Xu

Organic Seminar Schedule- Spring 2023

Date	Location	Speaker	Title	Host
January 31, 2023	Williams 210	Jake Barras (Rivas Group) and Estefania Armendariz (Kartika Group)
February 7, 2023	Williams 210	Edward Mureka (Mechanism)
February 14, 2023	Williams 210	Jullyane Matushima (Mechanism)	1-Fluoro-1-sulfonyloxylation of Alkenes by Sterically and Electronically Tuned Hypervalent Iodine: Regression Analysis toward 1,1-Heterodifunctionalization	Garcia-Lopez
February 21, 2023	Williams 210	No Seminar
February 28, 2023	Williams 210	Helder Ombui; Mistura Olajuwon	Organocatalytic Aza-Michael/Mannich Cascade Reaction: Synthesis of Enantioned 3,3'-Spirooxindole ý-Lactams; tert-Butyl Hydroperoxide Promoted the Reaction of Quinazoline-3-oxides with Primary Amines Affording Quinazolin-4(3H)-ones	Ragains
March 7, 2023	Zoom Meeting ID: 979 7277 3994)	Dr. Enver Izgu, Rutgers University	Building Functional Small Molecules, Lipid Self-Assemblies, and Nucleic Acids for Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology	Garcia-Lopez
March 21,2023	Williams 210	Joshua Beane	Access to Functionalized Thiazolothiadiazoles via the Chemoselective Cascade Heteroannulation of Thioamides with Hypervalent Iodine Reagents
March 28, 2023	Williams 210	Bailey Broderick	Mechanism Talk, PPh3-Mediated Cascade Reaction of 2-Alkynylnitrobenzense and Thioureaus for the Construction of Imiadzo [4,5-b] indole-2-thiones	Garcia-Lopez
March 28, 2023	Williams 210	Caroline Gwaro	Mechanism Talk, Iodine-Mediated C=C double bond cleavage towards pyrido [2,1-b] Quinazolinones	Garcia-Lopez
April 11, 2023	Williams 210	Clara M. Ellis	Literature Review, Ring-to-Thread Chirality Transfer in [2]Roxtanes for the Synthesis of Enantioenriched Lactams	Garcia-Lopez
April 18, 2023	Williams 202	Professor Sourav Saha	Electrically Conductive Metal-Organic Frameworks	Garcia-Lopez and Maverick
April 25, 2023	Williams 208	Soumya Dawn	Incorporation of Light-Activated Molecular Motors on Nanoparticles and Polymersomes to Develop Out-of-equilibrium Materials	Garcia-Lopez
April 25, 2023	Williams 210	Udyogi N. Conthagamage	Synthesis of Photo-Responsive Molecular Shuttle to Modulate Lipid Membranes	Garcia-Lopez
May 2, 2023	Zoom meeting ID:979 7277 3944 PW: Organic	Professor Maciej Walczak	From Molecules to Biologics: Exploring Polarity Reversal Strategies for Novel Therapeutic Opportunities	Garcia-Lopez
May 4, 2023	CAMB 202	James M. Armstrong	Synthesis of an Acinetobacter Baumannii Lipoligosaccharide Subunit	Garcia-Lopez

Physical Seminar Schedule-Spring 2023

Date	Location	Speaker	Title	Host
January 31, 2023	Williams 210	Linda Grabill	A survey of dielectric spectroscopy	Kumar
February 14, 2023	Williams 210	Ryan Morehouse	Literature Review: Efficient Quantum Chemical Calculation of Structure Ensembles and Free Energies for Nongrid Molecule	Kumar
February 28, 2023	Williams 210	Lucas Kurkowski	Simulations of X-ray Probed Transient Metallization	Kumar
March 21, 2023	Williams 210	Linda Grabill	A survey of dielectric spectroscopy	Kumar
March 28, 2023	Williams 210	Mengqi Yang	Simulations of Filtered X-Ray Transient Absorption Spectra and Time-Resolved X-Ray Scattering with Real-Time Time-Dependent Functional Theory	Kumar
April 11, 2023	Williams 210	Golam Azom	Developing Neural Network Forcefields for Graphene-Oxide Water Interfaces at Different Oxidation Levels	Kumar
April 18, 2023	Williams 210	Min Chen	First-principles Simulations of Attosecond Transient X-ray Absorption	Kumar
April 25, 2023	Choppin 210	Professor Daniel Tabor, A&M University	Developing Multiscale Simulation Tools for Efficient Polymer Design and Spectroscopy Simulations	Kumar

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