Division Seminars

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