Spring Seminars are on Fridays from 11:00 AM to 11:50 AM in Arey 05 (except when noted otherwise).
Spring Seminar Series
| Seminar Date | Seminar Time | Speaker Name | Affiliation | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2/16/18 | 11:00a.m. | Professor Keith Woerpel | NYU | “Stereoselective Addition Reactions to Carbon Electrophiles: Conformational Analysis, Stereoelectronic Effects, and Reactivity” 02.16.18 Seminal Flyer |
| 2/23/18 | 11:00a.m | Professor Julie T. Millard | Colby | "The Chemist's Code of Conduct" 02.23.18 Seminal Flyer |
| 3/2/18 | 11:00a.m. | Joshua Kritzer | Tufts | "Controlling Biology with Constrained Peptides" 03.02.18 Seminar Flyer |
| 3/9/18 | 11:00a.m. | Professor Christine Caputo | University of New Hampshire | "Hybrid Photocatalytic Systems for Solar Fuels Generation" 03.09.18 Seminal Flyer |
| 3/16/18 | 11:00a.m. | Tim Lewis | Broad Inst. (Harvard) | I. Discovery of DHODH Inhibitors to Treat Leukemia II. PDE3 Modulators to Treat Cancer 03.16.18 Seminal Flyer |
| 3/23/18 | 11:00a.m. | Karena McKinney | Colby | "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" 03.23.18 Seminal Flyer |
| 3/30/18 | NO SEMINAR | SPRING BREAK | _____________ | ________________ |
| 4/6/18 *Joint Department of Chemistry, Geology, and ES Seminar | 11:00a.m. | Eric Roy | Hydroviv | Hydroviv: How A Charitable Response To A Public Health Crisis Accidentally Turned Into A Tech Startup 04.06.18 Seminal Flyer |
| 4/13/18 | 3:00p.m. Keyes 105 | Eben Cross | Aerodyne | "Can low-cost air quality sensors inform the way we understand (and avoid) local air pollution?" 04.13.18 Seminal Flyer |
| 4/20/18 | 11:00a.m. | Chris Hamann | Albright College | "Terpene Cyclization: The Portal to a Chiral Wonderland" 04.20.18 Seminal Flyer |
| 4/27/18 *Joint Department of Chemistry and Geology Seminar | 1:00p.m. Arey 05 | Dr. Jim McManus | Bigelow Laboratory | “How changes in the lake level impact the chemistry and geology of the world's second deepest lake: Lake Tanganyika”. 04:27:18 Seminar Flyer |
| 5/3/18 | CLAS CHEMISTRY Honors projects Diamond 145 1:00 pm - 2:55 pm | Presentations: Smith, Danielle M. ('18): Examining molecular markers of fertility in the male germline of the soapberry bug, Jadera haematoloma Smith, Erika ('18): Haloferax volcanii for carotenoid production Srour, Noura ('18): Silicon and tin substituted halocyclopropanes: approaches to strained cyclic allenes and new carbenes Wen, Yuewei ('18): Generating Strained Heterocyclicalkynes | _______ | -------- |
| 5/11/18 | 11:00a.m. | Student Presentations: Amanda Loya: Transcriptional analysis of human leukemia cells treated with the experimental anticancer drug laromustine Grace Uwase: Investigating phosphorylation patterns and their effect on the activity of transcription factor TaABF1 in imbibing cereal grains Omolara Akingba: Phosphorylation of the wheat transcription factor TaABF1 in response to abscisic acid and gibberellin: A story of purification | _______ | -------- |
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