Seminar Schedules

Spring 2026

Feb. 2	Prof. Nicola Pinna (Humboldt University of Berlin) "Non-hydrolytic sol-gel chemistry to functional hybrid materials"
Feb. 9	Prof. Demyan Prokopchuk (Rutgers University - Newark) "Leveraging Weak C-H Bonds for Synthesis and Electrocatalysis."
Mar. 9	Prof. Erin Carlson (University of Minnesota) "Bacterial Resistance: Threats and Therapeutics"
Apr. 1	Prof. Joshua Kretchmer (Georgia Institute of Technology) "Real-time simulations of ultrafast electron relaxation dynamics"
Apr. 3	Prof. Deb Hung (Broad Institute) – GCS Student-Invited Seminar "Chemical Genetic Interaction Profiling for anti-TB small molecule discovery"
Apr. 6	Prof. Jun Yong Choi (Queens College, CUNY) "Computer-Aided Design and Development of Novel Inhibitors as Therapeutic Candidates"
Apr. 8	Prof. Andrew Goodwin (University of Oxford)
Apr. 10	Prof. Pat Holland (Yale University) – Franklin Award Lecture "Breaking it and fixing it: new chemistry with nitrogen."
Apr. 13	Prof. André Isaacs (Holy Cross) – BSD/GCS Student-Invited Seminar, Engaging Undergraduates in Research Lecture Series "A Click Chemistry Approach to Nitrogen Heterocycles and Inclusive Excellence"
Apr. 15	Prof. Vicki Grassian (University of California, San Diego) – C4E Seminar
Apr. 17	Prof. Eric Jacobsen (Harvard University) – Ojima Distinguished Lecture "Seeking Generality and Cooperativity in Asymmetric Catalysis"
Apr. 20	Prof. Yan Yu (Washington University in St. Louis) "Illuminating the Chemistry Driving Immune Defenses"
Apr. 22	Prof. Uttam Tambar (UT Southwestern Medical Center) "Development of Chemical Reactions to Advance Drug Discovery"
Apr. 24	Prof. Chi Ting (Brandeis University) "Chemical and Biocatalytic Synthesis of Natural Products"
Apr. 27	Prof. Li Zhu (Rutgers University - Newark)
Apr. 29	Prof. Lisa Szczepura (Illinois State University)
May 1	Prof. Craig M. Crews (Yale University) - Francis Johnson Lecture
May 6	Prof. Burcu Gurkan (Case Western Reserve University) – Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture Series

Fall 2025

Sept. 15	Jessica Lamb (University of Minnesota) "Harnessing the potential of main-chain dipoles in polymers: New frontiers for physical organic chemistry".
Sept. 29	Arshad Mehmood (University IACS) "Predictive Descriptors and Spectroscopic Simulations for Chemical Reactivity and Excited-State Dynamics."
Oct. 17	Wenping Li (Merck) "PET Tracer Discovery and Application in Neurodegenerative Disorders with AD and PD at Merck"
Oct. 29	Aaron Teator (Kansas) "Harnessing Reactive Intermediates to Access New Synthetic Polymers"
Nov. 5	Seann Mulcahy (Providence). “Design and Synthesis of Atropisomeric β-Carbolines”
Nov. 12	Mu-Ping Nieh (UConn) "Novel Discoidal Lipid Nanoparticles: Formation, Applications and Characterization"
Nov. 14	Sarah Reisman (Caltech) "Necessity Is the Mother of Invention: Natural Products and the Chemistry They Inspire" Click here for more event details
Nov. 17	Ruibin Liang (Texas Tech) “Unraveling the functional mechanisms and design principles of photoactive biomolecular systems through multiscale simulations”
Dec. 1	Alexandra Strom (Smith) "Iron-Catalyzed Reactions of Ketones – From Amination to Cycloaromatization"
Dec. 8	Ulrich Höfer (Marburg) "Photoemission Orbital Tomography"

Spring 2025

Jan. 23	Ian Tonks (University of Minnesota) "Strategies in Sustainable Catalysis: Making and Breaking N-N Bonds with Titanium and Synthesizing Polyesters from CO2"
Feb. 10	Daniel Kim (Temple University) "Applications of Acetal Radicals in Organic Synthesis"
Feb. 19	Robert Baker (Ohio State University) "Direct Observation of Charge and Spin Dynamics at Catalytic Interfaces Using Ultrafast XUV Light"
Feb. 21	Christine Isborn (University of California, Merced) "Combining Vibronic and Environmental Effects with Machine Learning in Simulations of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Spectra"
Feb. 26	Mark Levin (University of Chicago) "Replacing Atoms"
Mar. 4	Matthew Helgeson (University of California, Santa Barbara) "Data-driven methods to accelerate soft materials formulation and processing"
Mar. 5	Xiang Sun (New York University Shanghai) "Photoinduced Charge and Energy Transfer in Condensed Phase"
Mar. 12	Xiaosong Li (University of Washington) "Relativistic Effects in Chemistry"
Mar. 31	Susan Daniel (Cornell University) "Re-creating Coronavirus Host Cell Entry on a Chip to Characterize Membrane Fusion Properties"
Apr. 7	Shelley Minteer (MUST) "Bioelectrocatalysis for Electrosynthesis"
Apr. 11	Jeffrey Long (University of California, Berkeley) "Cooperative Adsorption and Gas Separations in Metal–Organic Frameworks"
Apr. 14	Tom Allison (Stony Brook University) "Cavity-Enhanced Ultrafast & Multidimensional Spectroscopy"
Apr. 16	Cheyenne Brindle (Trinity College) "PUI Research: A Journey from Trityl to Phosphorescence"
Apr. 18	Todd Martinez (Stanford University) "Discovering Chemistry and Photochemistry From First Principles Molecular Dynamics"
Apr. 23	Benjamin Elling (Wesleyan University) "Strategies for Engineering Ring Strain into New ROMP Monomers"
Apr. 25	Veronique Gouverneur (University of Oxford) "Rethinking Fluorine Chemistry with Global Challenges in Mind"
Apr. 28	John Gordon (Brookhaven National Laboratory) "TBD"
Apr. 30	Khalid Salaita (Emory University) "DNA Mechanotechnology: nucleic acids that sense and generate molecular forces enable a new class of diagnostics"
May. 7	Danielle Dube (Bowdoin College) "Chemical tools to discover and alter glycans on pathogenic bacteria"
May. 21	Michael Airola (Stony Brook University, Biochemistry) "TBD"

Fall 2024

Sept. 16	Philip Milner (Cornell University) "Simplifying Synthesis at the Interface of Organic and Materials Chemistry”
Sept. 18	Ivet Bahar (Stony Brook University) "In silico modeling of protein dynamics toward discovering effective modulators of function"
Sept. 23	Young-Tae Chang (POSTECH) "Live cell distinction using fluorescent probes"
Sept. 30	Erin Stache (Princeton University) "Light-to-Heat (Photothermal) Conversion Promotes High Activation Barrier Reactions"
Oct. 2	Zibo Li (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) "Photoredox Radiolableing"
Oct. 4	Santanu Datta(Bugworks India) "From Failures to Success: Discovery of Novel Antibiotics"
Oct. 7	Denise Okafor (Pennsylvania State University) "Allosteric mechanisms of transcriptional control in FXR"
Oct. 9	Anthony Chianese (Colgate University) "How does Milstein's Catalyst really work? Identifying the active catalyst in Ru-catalyzed hydrogenation reactions"
Oct. 10	Institute of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery Symposium 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Wang Center
Oct. 14	Amit Reddi (Georgia Institute of Technology) "Illuminating heme trafficking and signaling in health and disease"
Oct. 16	Ting Ge (University of South Carolina) "Molecular Modeling of Ring Polymer Mechanics – Expanding Applicability of Topological Polymer Chemistry"
Oct. 18	Chemistry Research Day 11:00 AM – 5:30 PM, Student Activities Center
Oct. 21	Ran Drori (Yeshiva University) "Controlling the Crystallization of Water: From Frozen Food to Energy Sources"
Oct. 23	Marvin Parasram (New York University) "Anaerobic Heteroatom Transfer Reactions Promoted by Photoexcited 1,3-Dipoles"
Nov. 4	Geneva Laurita (Bates College) "Local Distortions and Long-Range Polarity in Pyrochlore Oxides from Total Scattering"
Nov. 13	Zachary Wickens (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "Selective Synthesis Using Light and Electricity"
Nov. 18	Leah Dodson (University of Maryland) "Fundamental Reaction Kinetics Studies for Low-Temperature Astrochemistry Applications"
Dec. 4	Tim Zuehlsdorff (Oregon State University) "Modeling linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy signals of molecules in complex environments"

Spring 2024

Jan. 25	Polly Arnold (UC Berkeley, LBNL) "A new class of earth abundant metal catalysts for dinitrogen conversion at ambient conditions”
Feb. 1	Seogjoo Jang (Queens College) "Exciton and Charge Transfer Theories Based on Fermi’s Golden Rule and Beyond"
Feb. 15	Manuel de Lera Ruiz (Merck West Point) "Decoding Success: The Story Behind the Invention of Antimalarial Clinical Compound MK-7602" Hans Renata (Rice University) "Combining Synthetic Chemistry and Biology for Streamlining Access to Complex Molecules"
Feb. 16	Gillian Hatzis (Chem) "The Editor’s Role in Publishing in Chem and Cell Press"
Feb. 22	Marco Giles (Prarie View A&M University) "Evaluating the lead complexation activity of amino acid- appended, branched polymers to promote water purification"
Feb. 29	Gael Ung (University of Connecticut) "Generating Near-Infrared Chiral Light, and other Hot Circularly Polarized Luminescence"
Mar. 1	Christopher Koenigsmann (Fordham) "One-Dimensional Bimetallic Architectures as Multifunctional Electrocatalysts in Alkaline and Acid Conditions"
Mar. 7	Mariana Torrente (Brooklyn College) "Histone post-translational modifications in ALS/FTD: New opportunities in neurodegenerative disease."
Mar. 11	GCS and BSD Student Symposium
Mar. 22	Nozomi Ando (Cornell University) "Diffuse X-ray scattering from correlated motions in protein crystals"
Mar. 28	Sara Mason (Brookhaven National Lab, CFN) "Unlocking Aqueous Surface Transformations: A Computational Framework"
Apr. 4	Daniel Tabor (Texas A&M University) "Building Physics-Based and Data-Driven Methods for Efficient Polymer Design and Spectroscopy Simulations"
Apr. 5	Geneva Laurita (Bates College) "Local Distortions and Long-Range Polarity in Pyrochlore Oxides from Total Scattering"
Apr. 11	Helen Blackwell (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "Chemical strategies to intercept and alter bacterial communication pathways"
Apr. 12	Brett McGuire (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "The PAH Revolution: Cold, Dark Carbon at the Earliest Start Formation"
Apr. 18	Abby O'Connor (The College of New Jersey) "Examining the effects of pyridinesulfonamide-based ligand scaffolds in catalysis"
Apr. 19	Raymond Blackwell (SBU Physics) "TBA"
Apr. 26	Hiroaki Suga (University of Tokyo) "Therapeutics based on New Modalities of Pseudo- Natural Peptides, Products and Neobiologics"
May 3	Camille Jones (SUNY Old Westbury) "TBA"
May 10	Steven Bloom "TBA"

Fall 2023

Sep. 8	Julie Kovacs (Washington University) "How Does Nature Synthesize Beta-Lactam Antibiotics? Iron and Cysteine Play a Key Role."
Sep. 14	Yubin Miao(University of Colorado) "Melanocortin-1 receptor-targeted peptide radiopharmaceuticals for melanoma imaging and therapy."
Sep. 21	Matthew Bird(Brookhaven National Laboratory) "Pulse radiolysis at BNL: A unique tool to study fundamental processes in photocatalysis"
Sep. 28	Patricia Zhang Musacchio(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) "Mild Strategies in the Direct Generation of Carbocation Intermediates from C(sp3)–H Bonds; Synthetic Innovation at the Interface of of Drug Discovery and Development."
Oct. 5	ICB&DD Symposium
Oct. 11	Kevan Shokat (University of California San Francisco) "Preparation of Alkanethiol-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles for Incorporation into Peptoid Nano-Sandwiches"
Oct. 12	Frederick Heberle(University of Tennesse) "Direct label-free imaging of nanodomains in biomimetic and biological membranes by cryogenic electron microscopy."
Oct. 19	Hans-Conrad zur Loye (University of South Carolina) "Synthesis and Physical Properties of New Complex Fluorides Containing Transition Metals, Lanthanides and Actinides"
Oct. 20	Carlos Jiménez-Hoyos (Wesleyan University) "From Approximate to Highly Accurate Wavefunctions in Challenging Molecular Systems"
Oct. 26	Florence Williams (University of Iowa) "Taking Advantage of Strong Boron-Oxygen and Boron-Fluorine Associations for Chemoselective Reactions"
Nov. 2	Mark Johnson (Yale University) "Integrating Cryogenic Ion Chemistry and Optical Spectroscopy: Capturing the Molecular Level Mechanics Driving Bulk Chemical Behaviors from Catalysis to the Spectral Dynamics of Water"
Nov. 9	Joseph Fournier (Washington University in St. Louis) "Vibrational Spectral Signatures and Ultrafast Dynamics of Strong H-bonds Investigated with Cryogenic Ion and 2D IR Spectroscopies"
Nov. 10	Eric Nacsa (Pennsylvania State University) "Electron Transfer in Organic Synthesis: Electrochemical Dehydration & Radical-Migration-Mediated Olefin Difunctionalization"
Nov. 16	Ellen J. Robertson (Union College) "Preparation of Alkanethiol-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles for Incorporation into Peptoid Nano-Sandwiches Engaging Undergraduates in Research Lecture Series"
Dec. 1	Chemistry Research Day
Dec. 7	Omar Saleh (University of California, Santa Barbara) "Structure and function in liquid droplets of DNA"

Spring 2023

Jan. 12	Rebekka Klausen (Johns Hopkins University) "Fragments of Crystalline Silicon via Target-oriented Synthesis"
Feb. 23	Virgil Percec (University of Pennsylvania) *"Helical Chirality and its Emerging Functions Leading to Targeted Delivery of mRNA"*
Mar. 2	Josua Schrier (Fordham University) "Accelerating Exploratory Materials Synthesis with Data, Machine Learning, and Robots"
Mar. 24	Dirk Trauner (University of Pennsylvania) "Adventures in Neuropharmacology"
Apr. 6	Brenda Rubenstein (Brown University ) "Computing with Molecules: Storage and Computation Using Small Molecules and Their Reaction Networks"
Apr. 13	Todd Hyster (Cornell University) "Photoenzymatic Catalysis-Using Light to reveal new Enzyme Function"
Apr. 20	Robert Comito (Univeristy of Houston) "Amine Synthesis by Hydrogen-Atom Transfer and Energy- Transfer Photocatalysis"
May 5	John Hartwig (University of California, Berkeley) "Catalyzing Organic Synthesis"

Fall 2022

Sep. 15	Andrew Bocarsly (Princeton University) "Novel Mixed-Metal Electrocatalysts for the Reduction of CO2 to Products Beyond the C2+ Limit"
Sep. 23	Lawrence Ziegler (Boston University) *"Ultrafast 2DIR Spectroscopy in Dense Gas and Near-Critical Fluid solutions: J-scrambling, critical fluctuations and the onset of liquid character"*
Sept. 30	Jon Rudick Memorial Symposium
Oct. 6	ICB&DD 2022 Symposium
Oct. 13	Jeremy Fieldblyum (University of Albany) "Design, Assembly, Processing, and Chemistry of Coordination Macromolecules"
Oct. 20	John Montgomery (University of Michigan) "Development of Catalytic Methods for Carbonyl Addition"
Oct. 27	Ralph Kleiner (Princeton University) "Illuminating RNA Biology with Metabolically incorporated Ribonucleoside probes"
Oct. 28	Chemistry Research Day
Nov. 3	Daniella Bucella (New York University) "Chemical Tools and Strategies to Study Mechanisms of Cellular Metal Homeostasis"
Nov. 10	Christian Bessler (Universitat Hamburg) "Solvation Dynamics from a Different Angle: Nascent Halogen Radicals observed with fs X-Ray Tools"
Nov. 17	Beth Elacqua (Penn State University) "Merging Organic Synthesis and Macromolecular Chemistry to Design Efficient Catalysts and Diverse Polymers"
Dec. 1	Jesus Perez Rios (Stony Brook University) "Few-body processes in chemical physics: ozone formation and van der Waals molecule formation"

Spring 2022

Jan. 21	Paul Zimmerman (University of Michigan) "Design Reactions & Catalysts with Chemical Computation"
Jan. 28	Darryl Boyd (United States Naval Research Laboratory) "Slime, Polymers & The Future of Polymer Education"
Mar. 3	Charles McCrory (Univerisity of Michigan) "The Electrochemical Conversion of CO₂ to CO with Polymer Encapsulated Co Catalysts: Modulating Activity and Selectivity by Controlling the Catalyst's Coordination Environment"
Mar. 28	Han Zuilhof (Wageningen University) "Near-perfection?!: Novel click chemistries for materials chemistry"
Apr. 7	Joseph M. Fox (Univerisity of Deleware) "Methods for Fast & Inducible Bioorthogonal Chemistry "
Apr. 14	Laura Kiessling (MIT) Jacob Bigeleisen Lecture -"Microbial Glycans in Health and Disease"
Apr. 22	Tom Muir (Princeton University) Francis Johnson Symposium - "Janus Particles: the role of molecular symmetry in epigenetic regulation"
Apr. 29	Makoto Fujita (University of Tokyo) "Inaugural Ojima Distinguished Lecture"
May 6	Beth Elacqua (Pennsylvania State University) "TBA"

Fall 2021

Sep. 2	Roland Kawakami (Ohio State University) "Spin Currents and Spin Dynamics in Dirac Materials"
Sep. 10	Katherine J. Franz (Duke University) "Infectiously Inorganic: A Metallocentric View of Antimicrobial Activity"
Sep. 17	Justin Wilson (Cornell University) "Controlling Labile Metal Ions in Biological Systems"
Sep. 23	Anna Krylov (University of Southern California) "Spin-forbidden Processes and Molecular Magnetism: New theoretical tools for Quantitative Modeling and insight"
Sep. 24	Vincent Pecoraro (University of Michigan) "Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture , Adventures in Metalloprotein Design: Enhancing Cu Based Enzymatic Catalysis"
Oct. 7	15th Annual ICB&DD Symposium “Covid-19/SARS-CoV-2 Antiviral Therapeutics Discovery”
Oct. 14	Ashley Head (Brookhaven National Lab) "Spectroscopic Characterization of Porous Materials for Catalysis"
Oct. 21	Nav Nidhi Rajput (Stony Brook University/MSE) "MISPR: Materials Informatics for Structure-Property-Relationships"
Oct. 28	David B. C. Martin (University of Iowa) "New Strategies for Photocatalytic Bond Activation and the Synthesis of Neuroprotective Natural Products"
Oct. 29	Chemistry Research Day
Nov. 18	Johnny Lee (Pfizer outreach visit)
Nov. 19	Jacob Stewart (Connecticut College)
Dec. 10	Katerina Hayashi DuBay (University of Virginia)

Spring 2021

Jan. 29	Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Yale University) “Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion”
Feb. 4	Yumuna Krishnan(University of Chicago) “Quantitative Chemical Imaging in Immune Cells"
Feb. 5	Tao Wei (Howard University) “Simulations of Materials Interfacial Reactions”
Feb. 11	Shana O. Kelley (University of Toronto)
Feb. 26	Julia A. Kalow (Northwestern University)
Mar. 4	Yue Qi (Brown University)
Mar. 11	Herman O. Sintim (Purdue University) “Interrupting cyclic dinucleotide signaling in bacteria and immue cells with small molecules”
Mar. 18	Fernando Uribe-Romo (University of Central Florida)
Mar. 19	Steven D. Townsend (Vanderbilt University) “Chemistry Driven Glycoscience”
Mar. 25	Jerome Robinson (Brown University)
Apr. 1	Christopher J. Chang (University of California, Berkeley)
Apr. 8	Richmond Sarpong (University of California, Berkeley)
Apr. 9	Justin Wilson (Cornell University)
Apr. 15	Kelly Burke (University of Connecticut)
Apr. 22	Jason Goodpaster (University of Minnesota)
Apr. 29	Jason Sello (University of California, San Francisco)

Fall 2020

Sep. 11

Emily Weiss (Northwestern) - Student invited speaker

“Colloidal Photocatalysis for Energy Conversion and Organic Synthesis”

Oct. 8	ICB&DD Symposium ICB&DD 14th Annual Symposium, “Frontiers of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery: Nucleic Acid-Based Medicine”
Oct. 22	David Walt (Harvard Medical School) “Measuring Chemistry and Biology at their Fundamental Limits"
Oct. 30	Priyanka Sharma (Stony Brook University) "Sustainable Developments Using Plant Biomass"
Nov. 6	Marcy H. Towns (Purdue University) "Using Symbolic and Graphical Forms to Characterize Student Mathematical Reasoning in a Chemistry Context"
Nov. 13	Adam Cohen (Associated Universities Inc.) "DOE and the DOE National Laboratories - Our best kept R&D secret?"
Dec. 3	Julia Chan (University of Texas, Dallas) "Layered Rare-earth Intergrowth Compounds: A Platform for Correlated & Topological Properties"

Spring 2020

Feb. 13	Amber Krummel (Colorado State University) “Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology of Antivirals Targeting Drug-resistant and Emerging Viruses”
Feb. 27	Wenchao Qu (Stony Brook University) “A Fluoride-Desilylation Mediated Radiolabeling Approach for Synthesizing ¹¹C-Labeled Radiotracers”
Mar. 5	Joel Miller (University of Utah)
Mar. 13	Jill Millstone (University of Pittsburgh)

Fall 2019

Sep. 5	Jun Wang (University of Arizona) “Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology of Antivirals Targeting Drug-resistant and Emerging Viruses”
Oct. 3	Keisuke Suzuki (Tokyo Institute of Technology) “Lessons from Complex Natural Product Synthesis: Cases of Carthamin and Spiroxins”
Oct. 4	Esther Takeuchi (Stony Brook University) Chemistry Research Day “From Medical Applications to the Environment: The Important Role of Energy Storage”
Oct. 10	13th Annual ICB&DD Symposium - "Frontiers of Infectious Disease Control"
Oct. 18	Omar Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley) Franklin Lecture “Reticular Chemistry Leading to Carbon Capture and Water Harvesting from Air”
Nov. 1	Dilip Gersappe (Stony Brook University) “Structure, Transport and Reactions in Nanostructured Media”
Nov. 7	Catherine Grimes (University of Delaware) “Breaking Down Bacterial Walls to Understand Inflammation”
Nov. 11	Adrian Roitberg (University of Florida) “Is Quantum Chemistry Amenable for Machine Learning? Are the Computers Coming for Our Jobs?”
Nov. 13	Benjamin Levine (Michigan State University) “How is Electronic Energy Converted to Heat in Semiconductor Nanocrystals?”
Nov. 14	Frank Keutsch (Harvard University) “The Chemistry of Stratospheric Solar Geoengineering - Taking the Edge off Climate Change?”
Nov. 21	Peter Chupas (Stony Brook University) “Unraveling the Chemistry of Energy Technologies”

Spring 2019

Feb. 1	Vincent Rotello (University of Massachusetts Amherst) “Interfacing Nanomaterials with Biology: From CRISPR to Antimicrobials”

Feb. 7	Cathy Cutler (Brookhaven National Laboratory) “Development of Novel Theranostics”

Feb. 14	Dario Stacchiola (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Nanomaterials in Operando Conditions”

Feb. 28	Indrajeet Sharma (University of Oklahoma) “Stereoselective Carbene Annulations for Assembling Complexity”

Mar. 7	Jonathan V. Sweedler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Mar. 15	Sharon Loverde (College of Staten Island) “Molecular Simulations of Peptide and Polymer Self-Assemblies”

Mar. 28	Rebecca Abergel (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Apr. 11	Yan Xia (Stanford University) “Building and Breaking Molecular Ladders to Develop Functional Polymers”

Apr. 16	Chad Mirkin (Northwestern University) **Bigeleisen Lecture

Apr. 19	Eugene X. Y. Chen (Colorado State University)

Apr. 26	Tehshik P. Yoon (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

May 2	Catherine L. Grimes (University of Delaware)

May 3	Jill Millstone (University of Pittsburgh)

FALL 2018

8/30/2018

ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE: PROGRESS AND OPPORTUNITIES

Speaker: Amy C. Marschilok  (Stony Brook University)

9/6/2018

CHOLESTEROL METABOLIC PATHWAY INSPIRED TUBERCULOSIS DRUG DISCOVERY AND DIAGNOSIS

Speaker: Xinxin Yang (Stony Brook University)

9/12/2018

NATURAL PRODUCTS AND ANTIBIOTICS THAT FORM CHANNELS ACROSS BIOMEMBRANES

Speaker: Michio Murata (Osaka University)

**Biochemistry and Cell Biology Seminar

**12pm in Life Sciences 038

9/13/2018

FROM NITRENES TO LIQUID SMOKE: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS FROM FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES OF REACTIVE INTERMEDIATES

Speaker: Paul Wenthold (Perdue University)

9/21/2018

UNDERSTANDING THE FUNDAMENTAL REACTIONS INVOLVED IN ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGE

Speaker: Anne Co (Ohio State University)

**11am in CHEM 412



10/4/2018

IMIDAZO[1,5-A]PYRIDINE CARBENES AS A STRONG Π-ACCEPTING AND Σ-DONATING NHC: PROPERTIES AND CATALYTIC UTILITIES

Speaker: Fumitoshi Shibahara  (Gifu University)

10/15/2018

PLAYING WITH THE MOLECULES OF LIFE

Speaker: Peter Schultz (Scripps Research Institute)

**Francis Johnson Lecture

10/18/2018

MATCHMAKING IN CATALYST-TRANSFER POLYMERIZATION

Speaker: Anne McNeil  (University of Michigan)

10/25/2018

PREBIOTIC ASTROCHEMISTRY IN THE ‘THZ-GAP’

Speaker: Susanna Widecus-Weaver (Emory University)

11/2/2018

TOTAL SYNTHESES OF NANNOCYSTINS AND BIOMIMETIC SYNTHESES OF NATURAL PRODUCTS

Speaker: Zhang Wang  (University at Albany)

11/8/2018

MOLECULAR ENGINEERING OF HYDROXIDE-ION CONDUCTING POLYMERS FOR ENERGY CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY

Speaker: Chulsung Bae (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

11/15/2018

HALOGEN CHEMISTRY IN THE ARCTIC, AND CONNECTIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Speaker: Paul B. Shepson  (Stony Brook University)

11/20/2018

DIVERSITY-ORIENTED APPROACHES TO TAILORING ION-SELECTIVE POLYMER MEMBRANES FOR AQUEOUS AND NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICES

Speaker: Brett Helms  (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11/29/2018

CAVITY-ENHANCED ULTRAFAST SPECTROSCOPY

Speaker: Thomas Allison  (Stony Brook University)

12/6/2018

NEW PROTEIN FOLDS AND FUNCTIONS: THE CHEMISTRY OF FAT BIOSYNTHESIS

Speaker: Michael V. Airola  (Stony Brook University)
SPRING 2018

1/25/2018

FUNCTIONAL POLYMER MATERIALS DESIGNED FOR ADVANCED APPLICATIONS AND SUSTAINABILITY

Speaker: Karen L. Wooley (Texas A&M University)
Host: Jon Rudick

1/26/2018

DEVELOPING AND APPLYING NEW TOOLS TO UNDERSTAND NOW MATERIALS FOR LI AND ‘BEYOND-LI’ BATTERIES AND SUPERCAPCITORS FUNCTION

Speaker: Clare P. Grey (University of Cambridge)
Host: Jon Rudick

**FRANKLIN AWARD LECTURE
(3PM @ WANG CENTER THEATER)

1/31/2018

TWO-DIMENSIONAL POLYMERS BASED ON THE ANTHRACENE AND TRIPTYCENE MOTIFS

Speaker:Benjamin T. King (University of Nevada, Reno)

2/1/2018

COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF FUNCTIONALIZATION OF C-H, C-C BONDS AND OLEFINS

Speaker:Peng Liu (University of Pittsburgh)

3/2/2018

VOID-CONTAINING MOLECULAR AND SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURES

Speaker: Bing Gong (University of Beffalo)

3/27/2018

CHEMICAL BIOLOGY-ENABLED TOOLS AND STRATEGIES FOR STUDYING BREAST CANCER

Speaker: Michelle E. Farkas (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

3/29/2018

NEW TOOLS FOR CATALYSIS

Speaker: Tomislav Rovis (Columbia University)

4/12/2018

STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTING NICKEL-CATALYZED ALKENE FUNCTIONALIZATION

Speaker: Tianning Diao (New York University)

4/19/2018

SIMULATING BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES FROM NANOMETERS TO MICRONS: FROM PROTEINS AND NUCLEOSOMES TO CELLULAR SCALE CYTOSKELETAL DYNAMICS

Speaker: Garegin A. Papoian (University of Maryland)

4/26/2018

CESIUM EFFECT: MILD & EFFICIENT FORMATION OF CARBON-HETEROATOM BONDS AND SYNTHESIS TOWARDS CANCER THERAPEUTICS, ANTIVIRALS, AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE METABOLITES

Speaker: Ralph N. Salvatore (Southeastern University)

5/3/2018

CHEMICAL STRATEGIES FOR VISUALIZING THE BRAIN'S CIRCUITRY

Speaker: Scott T. Laughlin (Stony Brook University)

5/4/2018

EXPLORING UNCHARTED REGIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC REACTION PATHWAYS

Speaker: Marsha I. Lester (University of Pennsylvania)

5/10/2018

A STRUCTURAL APPROACH TO DETERMINE SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION MECHANISMS IN FLAVOPROTEIN PHOTORECEPTORS

Speaker: Jarrod B. French (Stony Brook University)

5/15/2018

A MULTI-TARGETED APPROACH TO IMPROVING CHEMISTRY EDUCATION

Speaker: Lisa Shah (Stony Brook University)

5/16/2018

DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL CHEMICAL TOOLS FOR ACCESSING UNEXPLORED CHEMICAL SPACES

Speaker: Ming-Yu Ngai (Stony Brook University)
FALL 2017

8/31/2017

RECONCILING EXPERIMENT AND COMPUTATION IN ELECTRON TRANSPORT STUDIES

Speaker: Matthew G. Reuter (Stony Brook University)
Host: Michael Whiite

9/7/2017

IMAGING METABOLISM IN VIVO USING RESPONSIVE MRI AGENTS

Speaker: A. Dean Sherry (UT Southwestern)
Host: Eszter Boros

9/28/2017

WHY DO WEAKER METAL-CARBON BONDS LEAD TO MORE STABLE COMPLEXES? WHAT'S GOING ON?

Speaker:William Jones (University of Rochester)
Host: Andreas Mayr

10/12/2017

DEEP UV NLO MATERIALS: DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS

Speaker: Shiv Halasyamani (Stony Brook University)

10/19/2017

GOBLINS, BRIMSTONE AND CHIPS: UNCONVENTIONAL POLYMERS FOR ENERGY, DEFENSE AND SUSTAINABILITY

Speaker: Jeffrey Pyun (University of Arizona)

10/20/2017

CREATING STIFF GELS, STRETCHY BIOMATERIALS, AND GLASSES THAT FLOW

Surita R. Bhatia (Stony Brook University)

**CHEMISTRY RESEARCH DAY (SAC BALLROOM)

10/26/2017

FROM MOLECULES TO CLOUD DROPLETS: HOW DO AIRBORNE NANOPARTICLES GROW?

Speaker: Murray Johnston (University of Delaware)
Host: Christopher Johnson

10/27/2017

DESIGNING TRANSITION METAL PHOSPHIDE NANOPARTICLES AND COMPOSITES FOR EFFECTIVE ELECTROCATALYTIC AND PHOTOCATALYTIC WATER SPLITTING

Speaker: Stephanie Brock (Wayne State University)

11/2/2017

ELECTRIC FIELDS & ENZYME CATALYSIS

Speaker: Steven G. Boxer (Stanford University)
Host: Jessica Seeliger

11/3/2017

PALLADIUM-CATALYZED CARBON-HETEROATOM BOND-FORMING REACTIONS FOR THE FUNCTIONALIZATION OF MOLECULES BIG AND SMALL

Speaker: Stephen L. Buchwald (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Host: Kathlyn Parker

11/8/2017

EXPLORING MATERIALS FUNCTION AT THE ENERGY FRONTIER

Speaker: Karena W. Chapman (Argonnne National Laboratory)

**1pm in CHEM 412

11/9/2017

SYNTHESIS OF INTERCALATION COMPOUNDS WITH TUNABLE CHEMISTRY & STRUCTURE FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE & WATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS WITH ADVANCED PERFORMANCE

Speaker: Ekaterina Pomerantseva (Drexel University)
Host: Esther Takeuchi

11/15/2017

NANOSCALE MATERIALS FOR ENERGY STORAGE AND UTILIZATION

Speaker: Peter J. Chupas (Argonnne National Laboratory)

**1pm in CHEM 412

11/30/2017

THE TALE OF TWO SWITCHES: HOW P. AERUGINOSA MODULATES BIOFILM FORMATION AND BIOFILM DRUG TOLERANCE

Speaker: Karin Sauer (Binghamton University)**Student-Invited Seminar
Host: Students

12/7/2017

EXPLORING AND PROMOTING CHEMICAL THINKING

Speaker: Vicente Talanquer (University of Arizona)
Host: Gregory Rushton

**3pm in CHEM 412

12/8/2017

MOLECULAR IMAGING OF CANCER

Speaker: Peter Smith-Jones (SBU, Psychiatry)
Host: Peter Tonge
SPRING 2017

2/2/2017

FINDING NIMO: EXPLORING THE CONVERSION REACTION OF NICKEL MOLYBDATE ANODE MATERIALS

Speaker: James Pastore (Cornell, Bauer Lecture)
Host: Jon Rudick

2/3/2017

MEASURING NON-COVALENT INTERACTIONS OF AROMATIC SURFACES USING MOLECULAR BALANCES

Speaker: Kenneth Shimizu (University of South Carolina)
Host: Gregory Rushton

2/16/2017

REPLICATING DAMAGED DNA WITH ARTIFICIAL NUCLEOTIDES

Speaker:Shana Sturla (ETH-Zurich)
Host: Orlando Schärer

2/17/2017

THE AQUATIC PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF NATURALLY OCCURRING SENSITIZERS AND ANTIOXIDANTS

Speaker:Kris McNeill (ETH-Zurich)
Host: Orlando Schärer

2/23/2017

NANOPARTICLE-FACILITATED MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION-INDUCED RECEPTOR ACTIVATION: IMPLICATIONS ON PHARMACEUTICAL DELIVERY

Speaker: Balaji Sitharaman (Stony Brook University, Biomedical Engineering)
Host: Jon Rudick

3/2/2017

BIOMIMETIC POLYMERS - SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL POLYPEPTIDES

Speaker: Timothy Deming (UCLA)
Host: Surita Bhatia

3/9/2017

COORDINATION CHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR IMAGING: A MARRIAGE MADE IN VIVO

Speaker: Thomas Meade (Northwestern University) (Franklin Lecture)
Host: Stephen Koch

3/23/2017

NONADIABATIC EVENTS IN PHOTOINITIATED PROCESSES IN MOLECULES

Speaker: Spiridoula Matsika (Temple University)
Host: Thomas Allison

3/30/2017

DESIGNING BRIGHTER DYES FOR ADVANCED FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY

Speaker: Luke Lavis (Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Host: Scott Laughlin

4/7/2017

REACTIONS OF THE SIMPLEST CRIEGEE INTERMEDIATE WITH INORGANIC ACIDS AND ALCOHOLS

Speaker: Craig Murray (UC Irvine)
**11am in CHEM 412

4/13/2017

IMPACT OF LOCAL STRUCTURE ON TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS

Speaker: Kenneth Poeppelmeier (Northwestern University)
Host: Peter Khalifah

4/20/2017

SEQUENCE MATTERS: HOW SEQUENCE IN COPOLYMERS AFFECTS THEIR PROPERTIES

Speaker: Tara Meyer (University of Pittsburgh)
Host: Melanie Chiu

4/21/2017

STRUCTURE, MECHANISM AND INHIBITION OF THE M2 PROTON CHANNEL FROM INFLUENZA A VIRUS

Speaker: William F. DeGrado (UCSF) (Francis Johnson Lectures)
Host: Daniel Raleigh
**Francis Johnson Lecture, 3pm, Frey 104

4/27/2017

TOWARDS THE CONVERGENCE OF RATE AND SELECTIVITY IN ORGANOCATALYTIC RING-OPENING POLYMERIZATION

Speaker: Matthew K. Kiesewetter (University of Rhode Island)

5/4/2017

PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY OF SIZE-SELECTED BORON CLUSTERS: FROM PLANAR STRUCTURES TO BOROPHENES AND BOROSPHERENES

Speaker: Lai-Sheng Wang (Brown University)
Host: Christopher Johnson

5/5/2017

PROTEIN ENGINEERING – FROM NATURE TO NANOTECHNOLOGY

Speaker: Tijana Z. Grove (Virginia Tech)
FALL 2016

12/8/2016

ORGANIC AEROSOLS AND THEIR ABILITY TO FORM CLOUD DROPLETS

Speaker: Jian Wang (Brookhaven National Lab)
Host: Christopher Johnson

12/1/2016

MONOLITHICALLY-INTEGRATED TEXTILE ELECTRONICS

Speaker: Trisha L. Andrew (UMass - Amherst)
Host: Jon Rudick

11/18/2016

STUDIES OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Speaker: Victor S. Batista (Yale)
Host: Jin Wang

11/17/2016

TO BUILD A BIOFILM

Speaker: George O'Toole (Brown)
Host: Elizabeth Boon

11/10/2016

POLYENE-INSPIRED PI-CONJUGATED MACROMOLECULES: DESIGN, SYNTHESIS, AND APPLICATION

Speaker: Agostino Pietrangelo (Rutgers-Newark)
Host: Robert Grubbs

11/4/2016

PUSHING THE LIMITS: PURSUING NEW CARBON-RICH MOLECULES AND MATERIALS

Speaker: Nancy Goroff (Stony Brook University) (Chemistry Research Day Keynote Lecture)
Host: Scott Laughlin

10/27/2016

PHOTOTHERMAL AND NON-EQUILIBRIUM SELF-ASSEMBLY OF BLOCK COPOLYMERS

Speaker: Kevin Yager (Brookhaven National Lab)
Host: Jon Rudick

10/20/2016

CHEMISTS TO A CHEMICAL SYNAPSE: DESIGN, SYNTHESIS, AND USE OF IMAGING PROBES AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS IN THE BRAIN

Speaker: Dalibor Sames (Columbia) (Student-Invited Lecture)
Host:

10/7/2016

TWO-DIMENSIONAL POLYMERS BASED ON THE ANTHRACENE AND TRIPTYCENE MOTIFS

Speaker: Benjamin King (U. Nevada at Reno)
Host: Nancy Goroff

10/6/2016

ICB&DD SYMPOSIUM

Host: Iwao Ojima

9/29/2016

COLLAGEN-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES AS POTENTIAL TISSUE ENGINEERING SCAFFOLDS

Speaker: Rina Tannenbaum (Stony Brook University)
Host: Jon Rudick

9/23/2016

CHANGES IN THE SUPRA-MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF CELLULOSE I DURING TEMPO-OXIDATION. BRINGING TOGETHER NMR, MD, AND XRD RESULTS

Speaker: Tomas Larsson (Innventia)
Host: Benjamin Hsiao

9/22/2016

FORAYS INTO AROMATICITY: MAKING, BREAKING AND STACKING PI-CIRCUITS

Speaker: JD Tovar (Johns Hopkins University)
Host: Jon Rudick

9/19/2016

MEASURING ONCOGENE SIGNALING IN CANCER WITH PET

Speaker: Michael Evans (UCSF)
Host: Peter Tonge

9/15/2016

FROM MOLECULES TO MAN: DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND CLINICAL TRANSLATION OF PET RADIOTRACERS FOR IMAGING APPLICATIONS

Speaker: Henry Huang
Host: Peter Tonge

9/8/2016

CHITOSAN-BASED MICELLAR NANOMEDICINE

Speaker: Yizhi Meng (Stony Brook University)
Host: Jon Rudick

9/1/2016

STRUCTURAL AND BIOCHEMICAIBITION BY SRC-SPECIFIC PEPTIDIC MACROCYCLES

Speaker: Markus Seeliger (Stony Brook University)
Host: Jarrod French