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Past Events & Seminars

Mar 06
Phillips Lectures (Day 2) - James Fraser - University of California San Francisco

Title: "Creating new inhibitors to SARS-CoV-2 Macrodomain using Fragments, Neutrons, and Entropy!"

Abstract: SARS-CoV-2  counteracts the immune response through the action of the nsp3... View »

2:00pm
Mar 05
Phillips Lectures (Day 1) - James Fraser - University of California San Francisco

Title: "Generating enzymatically active artificial proteins using large language models"

Abstract: AI models like AlphaFold have enabled us to "read" the genome and produce predictions of... View »

2:30pm
Feb 29
Herman Sintim - Purdue University

Title: Novel cancer therapeutics targeting cancer intrinsic and extrinsic pathways.

Abstract: Kinase inhibitor (KI) therapy has revolutionized cancer treatment. Thus far the FDA has... View »

2:30pm
Feb 27
Psaras McGrier - The Ohio State University

Title: The Synthesis and Design of Functional Covalent Organic Framework

Abstract: Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are an advanced class of crystalline porous polymers that are composed... View »

2:30pm
Feb 15
Suzanne Bart - Purdue University

Title: Harnessing Multi-Electron Redox Chemistry to Access Unprecedented Actinide Moieties

Abstract: Actinide elements have reactivity that is very different from their transition... View »

2:30pm
Jan 11
Matthew Disney - Scripps Research

Talk title: Sequence-based design of small molecules targeting RNA

Abstract: "One major scientific challenge is to understand biological pathways and to exploit the targets within them for... View »

2:30pm
Dec 07
Mary Van Vleet - Spelman College

"Systematically-improvable first-principles force fields: case studies on water and benzene"

See more of Dr. Van Vleet's research on her Google Scholar site: ... View »

2:30pm
Dec 01
Kaufman Lectures (Day 2) - Ron Naaman - Weizmann Institute

Chiral Molecules and the Electron Spin-How Charge is Transferred in Curved Systems?

See more of Dr. Naaman's research on his website: ... View »

2:00pm
Nov 30
Kaufman Lectures (Day 1) - Ron Naaman - Weizmann Institute

The Electron’s Spin and Chirality- a Miraculous Match

See more of Dr. Naaman's research on his website: https://www.weizmann.ac... View »

4:00pm
Nov 16
Tatyana Smirnova - North Carolina State University

Local Electrostatics of Lipid Bilayers, Lipid-Protein Systems, and Bio-Nano Hybrid Materials by Spin Labeling EPR

See more of Dr. Smirnova's research on her website: ... View »

2:30pm
Nov 03
Courtney Roberts - University of Minnesota

"Access to “Inaccessible” Arynes and Redox Chemistry Using Transition Metals"

See more of Dr. Robert's research on her website: Roberts Group... View »

11:00am
Nov 02
Lisa Fredin - Lehigh University

"Modeling Photoactive Organic Materials"

See more of Dr. Fredin's research on her website: Fredin Group... View »

4:00pm
Nov 02
Andy Ellington - UT Austin

Probing chemical space with evolution and with computers

See more of Dr. Ellington's research on his website: The Ellington Lab

Abstract:... View »

2:30pm
Oct 26
David Shultz - North Carolina State University

"Photoinduced Electron Spin Polarization of Stable Radicals Using Ligand-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Chromophores"

See more of Dr. Shultz's research on his website:... View »

2:30pm
Oct 19
Tyrel McQueen - Johns Hopkins University

Quantum Materials

See more of Dr. McQueen's research on his website: https://occamy.chemistry.jhu.edu/

Abstract: Chemistry is all... View »

2:30pm