Nicholas D. Ball (Associate Professor of Chemistry, Pomona College)
Date: September 9, 2022
Seminar Title: "Sulfur-Fluoride Exchange (SuFEx) Chemistry as a Tool Toward Drug Discovery"
Lesley-Ann Giddings (Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Smith College)
Date: September 16, 2022
Seminar Title: "The Search for New Microbial Natural Products and Biocatalysts"
Hannah Sayre (Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University)
Date: December 2, 2022
Seminar Title: "Broad-Spectrum Photocatalysis"
Spring 2023
Christine Isabella (Scientist, Apriori Bio, Inc.)
Date: February 17, 2023
Seminar Title: "Assay development: from microbiome discovery to next-generation vaccine design"
Shahir Rizk (Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Indiana University South Bend)
Date: March 31, 2023
Seminar Title: "Protein Engineering: Art and Science"
Pamela V. Chang (Associate Professor of Immunology, Cornell University)
Date: April 7, 2023
Seminar Title: "Deciphering the chemical crosstalk of host-gut microbiota interactions"
Holly Rudel '17 (Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Yale University)
Date: April 21, 2023
Seminar Title: "Strategic design of sustainable materials for drinking water treatment"
Fall 2021
Peter Agbo (Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Date: September 17, 2021
Seminar Title: "Terraforming Technologies: Chemical Solutions to Climate Change"
Spring 2022
Can Ozbal (CEO, Pure Honey Technologies)
Date: April 1, 2022
Seminar Title: "A Career in Biotech: Serendipity and Opportunity"
Krystle McLaughlin (Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Vassar College)
Date: April 22, 2022
Seminar Title: "Exploring the Structural Basis of Conjugative Antibiotic Transfer"
Fall 2020
Jeremy Baskin (Corneal)
Date: September 11, 2020
Seminar Title: "Chemical Tools that IMPACT Liquid Signaling"
Ron Zuckermann (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
Date: September 30, 2020
Seminar Title: "Folding Sequence-Defined PeptoidPolymers into Protein-Mimetic Nanostructures"
Lubos Mitas (North Carolina State University)
Date: October 27, 2020
Seminar Title: "Quantum Monte Carlo many-body methods: introduction and recent progress"
Carol Parish (University of Richmond)
Date: November 2, 2020
Seminar Title: "Deploying classical and quantum computational chemistry to solve molecular problems in chemistry and biology"
Fall 2019
Linda Doerrer (Associate Professor of Chemistry, Boston University)
Date: September 13, 2019
Seminar Title: "From Metal-Containing Lanterns to Planes with Sulfur"
Miles Johnson (Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Richmond)
Date: September 17, 2019
Seminar Title: "Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies of Aminophosphine Ligands for Transition Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling"
Jillian Dempsey (Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina)
Date: October 4, 2019
Seminar Title: "Elucidating Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Mechanisms Underpinning the Catalytic Generation of Renewable Fuels"
Ian Tonks (Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Date: October 18, 2019
Seminar Title: "Ti Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer Reactions: Harnessing the TiII/TiIV Redox Couple for New Transformations"
Ratmir Derda (Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Alberta)
Date: November 1, 2019
Seminar Title: "Genetically- Encoded Technology in Synthetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology"
Paul Chirik (Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University)
Date: November 8, 2019
Seminar Title: "Re-imagining the Periodic Table: Responsible Use of the Elements for 21st Century Sustainability"
Ashlee Howarth (Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University)
Date: November 22, 2019
Seminar Title: "Metal-Organic Frameworks for Adsorption and Detoxification of Hazardous Analytes"
Spring 2020
Colleen O'Loughlin (Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Bates College)
Date: February 14, 2020
Seminar Title: "The Role of the Pyrazinone Products of the pzn Gene Cluster on Healthy Skin"
Jahan Dawlaty (Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Southern California)
Date: February 21, 2020
Seminar Title: "Spectroscopic Explorations of Electric Fields and Light Driven Acid/Base Chemistry"
Lindsey Madison (Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Colby College)
Date: February 28, 2020
Seminar Title: "How Theoretical Chemistry and Elusive Wave Functions Reveal the Nature of Intermolecular Bonding: Throwing the Dice to Solve the Schrödinger Equation"
Daniel Polasky (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan)
Date: March 27, 2020
Seminar Title: "Evaluating Therapeutic Protein Structure with Native Mass Spectrometry"
Huw Davies (Professor of Chemistry, Emory University)
Date: April 10, 2020
Lesley-Ann Giddings (Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Middlebury College)
Date: April 17, 2020
Seminar Title: "Mother Nature knows best: brioprospecting acid rock drainage for bioactive metabolites & characterizing DesB, a key enzyme involved in hydroxamate siderophore biosynthesis"
Gary Molander (Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania)
Date: May 1, 2020
Seminar Title: "Single Electron Processes Enabling Organic Synthesis"
Fall 2018
Jennifer Helble (Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard Medical School)
Date: September 28, 2018
Seminar Title: "Imaging the immune response to Chlamydia trachomatis"
David Snead (Director of Research, Medicines for All Institute)
Date: October 26, 2018
Seminar Title: "Medicines For All Institute: Expanding Global Access to HIV Treatments"
Ta-Hsuan Ong '10 (Technical Staff Member, Lincoln Lab, MIT)
Date: November 2, 2018
Seminar Title: "Ultrasensitive Mass Spectrometry Development at MIT Lincoln Laboratory"
Katherine Mirica (Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Dartmouth College)
Date: November 9, 2018
Seminar Title: "Multifunctional Materials for Chemical Sensing and Microelectronics"
Spring 2019
Geneva Laurita (Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Bates College)
Date: February 1, 2019
Seminar Title: "Investigating the structure-property relationships in pyrochlore oxides towards the design of polar electronic components"
David Griffith '00 (Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Willamette College)
Date: February 15, 2019
Seminar Title: "Following carbon in the Arctic and estrogens in sewage using the tools of environmental chemistry"
Erika Taylor (Associate Professor of Chemistry, Wesleyan University)
Date: February 22, 2019
Seminar Title: "Heptosyltransferase I: Exploring Function and Dynamics to create better Inhibitors for GT-B Enzymes"
Jayaraman Sivaguru (Professor of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University)
Date: March 21, 2019
Seminar Title: "Lightning the Way for a Sustainable Future – Manipulating Photoreactivity of Molecules and Materials"
Anton Vidal (ICREA Research Professor, Catalan Institution, Barcelona)
Date: March 29, 2019
Seminar Title: "Efficient catalytic systems for the stereoselective formation of C-H, C-B and C-C bonds"
Christopher Ziegler '92 (Professor of Chemistry, University of Akron)
Date: April 12, 2019
Seminar Title: "Three Stories of Serendipity in Inorganic Synthesis"
Douglas Johnson (Director of Chemical Biology & Proteomics, Biogen, Cambridge, MA)
Date: April 19, 2019
Seminar Title: "Application of Chemical Biology Probes and Bioorthogonal Chemistry in Drug Discovery"
Jeremy Baskin (Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University)
Date: May 3, 2019
Seminar Title: "Chemical Tools that IMPACT Lipid Signaling"
Fall 2017
Malika Jeffries-El (Boston University)
Date: September 8, 2017
Seminar Title: "Making Molecules"
Bertrand Garcia-Moreno (John Hopkins University)
Date: September 22, 2017
Seminar Title: "Proteins as pH Sensors and Switches"
Brett Fors (Cornell University)
Date: September 29, 2017
Seminar Title: "Development and Applications of New Synthetic Strategies for Polymer Science"
Judith Herzfeld (Brandeis University)
Date: October 20, 2017
Seminar Title: "Cheap Electrons: a sub-atomistic force field based on semi-classical valence electrons"
Lou Charkoudian (Haverford College)
Date: November 3, 2017
Seminar Title: "Capturing the transient interactions of proteins involved in natural product biosynthesis"
Jacob Corn (University of California, Berkeley)
Date: November 10, 2017
Seminar Title: "CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, from therapy to mechanism"
Lisa Prach (Infectious Disease Researcher, University of California, San Francisco)
Date: November 10, 2017
Seminar Title: "Towards malaria elimination: evaluating an ultra sensitive rapid diagnostic test and measuring asymptomatic malaria in Namibia"
Amanda Nienow (Gustavus Adolphus College)
Date: November 17, 2017
Seminar Title: "Imazethapyr Herbicide: Photodegradation in aqueous solution, on epicuticular waxes, and on plant surfaces"
Spring 2018
Andrew Kennedy (Bates College)
Date: February 2, 2018
Seminar Title: "Targeting the Tet Enzymes to Enhance Cognition"
Julie Millard (Colby College)
Date: February 16, 2018
Seminar Title: "Coffee, Cigarettes, and Your Genes: Cytochrome P450's Role in Detoxification"
Karena McKinney (Colby College)
Date: February 23, 2018
Seminar Title: "Can’t See the Forest for the Trees: The Emission, Oxidation, and Impacts of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds from New England to the Amazon Basin"
Sarah Luppino '10 (Ph.D. at MIT) - Inaugural "Dana Walker Mayo Lecturer"
Date: April 6, 2018
Seminar Title: "Design and Synthesis of Polycyclic Conjugated Hydrocarbons via the Incorporation of Bifunctional Diels-Alder Building Blocks"
Lauren Webb '00 (The University of Texas at Austin)
Date: April 13, 2018
Seminar Title: "Electrostatic and Electrodynamic Fields in Lipid Bilayer Membranes"
Nikki Pohl (Indiana University)
Date: April 16, 2018
Seminar Title: "Challenges in the Synthesis and Analysis of Carbohydrates"
William Pomerantz (University of Minnesota)
Date: April 27, 2018
Seminar Title: "Inspiration from Fluorination: Chemical Biology Approaches to Probe Molecular Recognition Events in Transcription"
Sarah Munchel (Scientist, Applied Genomics Illumina)
Date: May 4, 2018
Seminar Title: "Next Generation Sequencing for your Health: Developing new applications for the clinic"
Fall 2016
Kathryn McMenimen (Mount Holyoke College)
Date: September 9, 2016
Seminar Title: “Chaperoning Protein Misfolding Diseases: Identifying Small Heat Shock Protein Assemblies”
Ethan van Arnam (Harvard University)
Date: September 23, 2016
Seminar Title: "Antibiotics from ant symbionts: New molecules with unusual genetic origins"
Patricia O'Hara (Amherst College)
Date: September 30, 2016
Seminar Title: "Tales from the Grove: The Chemical Story of Olive Oil"
Alessandra Ferzoco (Harvard University)
Date: November 4, 2016
Seminar Title: "A Custom Mass Spectrometer Built to Study How Solvent Influences Excited State Energy Transfer"
Mark Lucci (Treasury Wine Estates)
Date: November 11, 2016
Seminar Title: "Vinification and Science: A look at the integration winemaking and science from grape to glass"
Enrique Peacock-Lopez (Williams College)
Date: November 18, 2016
Seminar Title: "Temporal and Spatial patterns in Chemical Self-replication"
Anthony Rappe (Colorado State University)
Date: December 2, 2016
Seminar Title: "Photoconversion using earth abundant catalysts, the Diels Alder reaction as an illustration"
Margot Paulick (Union College)
Date: December 9, 2016
Seminar Title: "Cell-permeable analogs of trehalose for the preservation of mammalian cells"
Spring 2017
Alex Peroff '08 (Pine Research)
Date: February 3, 2017
Seminar Title: "Electrochemical studies of Pyridinium Catalyzed Reduction of Carbon Dioxide and Alternative Careers in Chemistry: Electrochemistry in Academia and Industry"
Mary Watson (University of Deleware)
Date: February 9, 2017
Seminar Title: "Nickel-Catalyzed Cross Coupling Reactions of Amine and Alcohol Derivatives"
Michelle Farkas (UMass Amherst)
Date: February 17, 2017
Seminar Title: "Looking at Disease in a New Light: Chemical Biology-Enabled Tools and Platforms for Studying Cancer"
Helen Blackwell (University of Wisconsin)
Date: February 24, 2017
Seminar Title: "Synthetic ligands for the interception of bacterial communication: New languages, new outcomes"
Kristopher McNeil (ETH Zurich)
Date: March 31, 2017
Seminar Title: "Environmental Photochemistry: From Triclosan to Dioxins"
Lan Cheng (John Hopkins)
Date: April 7, 2017
Seminar Title: "Relativity Throughout the Periodic Table: Scalar Relativity, Spin-Orbit Coupling, and Spin-Vibronic Interaction"
Katharina Bilotti '10 (Brown University)
Date: April 28, 2017
Seminar Title: "Base Excision Repair: Kinetics in Context"
Chuck Jakobsche (Clark University)
Date: May 5, 2017
Seminar Title: "From organic synthesis to chemical biology"
Fall 2015
Jimmy Wu (Dartmouth College)
Date: September 11, 2015
Seminar Title: "Total Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Several Nuphar Alkaloids and their Derivatives"
Andrew Parsons (Amgen)
Date: September 25, 2015
Seminar Title: "Synthetic Methods and Process Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry"
Scott Bearman (Colorado Blood Cancer Institute)
Date: October 2, 2015
Seminar Title: "BMT 101. An Introduction to Blood and Marrow Transplantation"
Lisa Marcaurelle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Date: November 13, 2015
Seminar Title: "Diversity-oriented synthesis for the discovery of novel therapeutics"
Elizabeth Colby-Davis (Assumption College)
Date: November 20, 2015
Seminar Title: "Efforts Toward the Synthesis and Structural Revision of the Natural Product Montamine"
Spring 2016
Terry Gullion (West Virginia University)
Date: February 2, 2016
Seminar Title: "Determining Molecular Structure in Solids using Magic-Angle Spinning NMR"
Marilyn Gunner (City College of New York)
Date: February 19, 2016
Seminar Title: "Proton gradients: The Cellular energy storehouse"
Anthony Carrasquillo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Date: February 26, 2016
Seminar Title: "Formation and Chemical Evolution of Organic Aerosol Particles from Radical Intermediates"
Kevin Rice (Colby College)
Date: March 11, 2016
Seminar Title: "Exploring the mechanisms of action for an experimental anticancer agent"
Mike Boyce (Duke University)
Date: April 8, 2016
Seminar Title: "Control of ER-to-Golgi vesicle trafficking by intracellular protein glycosylation"
Christina Woo (Stanford University)
Date: April 15, 2016
Seminar Title: "Chemical glycoproteomics in immunology"
George O'Toole (Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College)
Date: April 29, 2016
Seminar Title: "To build a Biofilm"
George Shields (Bucknell University)
Date: May 6, 2016
Seminar Title: "Water, atmospheric chemistry, and Global Warming: what do we know and how can we help?"
Fall 2014
Thomas Baker (University of Ottawa)
Date: September 12, 2014
Seminar Title: "Wood Eye! Selective Aerobic Oxidation of C-C Bonds in Lignin Models using Base Metal Complexes: A Comparison of Oxovanadium and Copper Catalysts"
Paul Cheong (Oregon State University)
Date: September 18, 2014
Seminar Title: "Strategic Applications of Chemical Theory and Computations to Organic Synthesis and Material Science"
Don Ellmore (Wellesley College)
Date: September 26, 2014
Seminar Title: "Design and Characterization of Histone-Derived Antimicrobial Peptides"
Bill Wuest (Temple University)
Date: October 3, 2014
Seminar Title: "Draining the Moat: A Natural Produce Inspired Approach to Combat Biofilms"
Spring 2015
Jennifer Koviach Cote (Bates College)
Date: February 13, 2014
Seminar Title: "Synthesis and Anti-Oxidant Activity of Phenlypropanoid Glycosides"
Peter Woodruff (University of Southern Maine)
Date: April 3, 2015
Seminar Title: "Harnessing enzymes to synthesize probes against pathogenic mycobacteria"
Michael Ardolino (Harvard University)
Date: April 10, 2015
Seminar Title: "Catalyst Design, Methodology Development and Mechanistic Studies in Asymmetric Organo-Organometallic Catalysts"
Joseph Dinnicenzo (University of Rochester)
Date: April 17, 2015
Seminar Title: "Revised View of Electron Transfer Dependence on Free Energy"
Robert Hettich (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Date: April 24, 2015
Seminar Title: "Development of protegenomic approach for the characterization of the functions and metabolic activities of the human gut microbiome”
Daniel Lim (Yeshiva University)
Date: May 1, 2015
Seminar Title: "Ongoing Research at Yeshiva University in Synthetic Methodology and Chemical"
Fall 2013
Jennifer Kohler (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
Date: September 7, 2013
Seminar Title: "Capturing Glycoconjugate Complexes with Metabolically Incorporated Photo-Sugars”
John Dawson (University of South Carolina)
Date: October 16, 2013
Seminar Title: "Understanding Heme Enzyme Catalyst Starts With their Active Site Coordination Structure: Identifying Heme Iron Axial Ligands Using Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy"
Dave Gorin (Smith College)
Date: October 25, 2013
Seminar Title: "Methylation of Oxygen Nucleophiles with Safe, Stable Methylating Agents"
William Arnold (University of Minnesota)
Date: November 8, 2013
Seminar Title: "From Triclosan to Dioxins: How your Handsoap Leads to an Unanticipated Environmental Problem"
Dave Yarkony (John Hopkins University)
Date: November 22, 2013
Seminar Title: "Accurate Nonadiabatic Dynamics: Putting Your Best Foot Forward"
Christopher Aeppli (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences)
Date: December 6, 2013
Seminar Title: "Where did all the oil go? The Chemistry of Oil Weathering after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill"
Spring 2014
Geoffrey Davies (Northeastern University)
Date: February 7, 2014
Seminar Title: "Measuring the Retained Water and Sequestered Organic Carbon Contents of Soil Profiles in Aroostook and Piscataquis Counties, Maine USA"
Alfred Voskian (Syska & Voskian Consulting)
Date: February 13, 2014
Seminar Title: "Polymers: The Chemistry Behind Plastics"
Clay Bennett (Tufts University)
Date: February 28, 2014
Seminar Title: "Reagent Controlled Approaches to Stereoselective Glycosylation Reactions"
Eben Cross (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Date: March 28, 2014
Seminar Title: "From Cook stoves to Combustion Engines: How Real-Time Aerosol mass spectrometry is Improving our Understanding of the Climate and Air Quality Impacts of Combustion Emissions"
Eric Hansen (Pfizer Corporation)
Date: April 11, 2014
Seminar Title: "Commercial Route Development of a SMO Inhibitor For the Treatment of Cancer"
Daniel Pippel (Johnson & Johnson)
Date: April 25, 2014
Seminar Title: "Decade + of Early Stage Process Chemistry at the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson: Concepts and Applications"
Isaac Krauss (Brandeis University)
Date: May 2, 2014
Seminar Title: "Combining Organic Synthesis and Directed Evolution to Design HIV Vaccine Candidates"