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Dr. John M. Butler
6:00pm
Chemistry Building Auditorium
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Jefferson Chan
3:30pm
MEC
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University of California at Berkeley
Professor Amy Herr
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
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Harvard University
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3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
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Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, Department of Chemistry
Dr. Rebecca Pompano
3:30pm
MEC 205
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Fellow, Herr Lab| University of California, Berkeley
Julea Vlassakis
4:00pm
PLSB 403
Dr. Huong Kratochvil | University of California, San Francisco
Designed hydrophobic gaskets enable the formation of transient water wires for proton channel selectivity
3:30pm
ZOOM
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ExxonMobil
Professor Glen Alliger
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Professor Rebecca Lai
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
Dr. Paulo Zaragoza |University of California, Berkeley
Tuning the Reactivity Landscape of Metalloenzymes: From Active Site Modifications to Long-range Dynamic Effects
3:30pm
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University of Virginia (Department of Chemical Engineering)
Dr. Rachel Letteri
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
Antibody affinity reagents and reproducibility: Strategies and challenges for the renewable diagnostics and therapeutics antibodies
UVA - Antibody Engineering & Technology Core
Professor Bhupal Ban
3:30pm
Dell 2 Room 100
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Indiana University, Bloomington
Dr. Sara Skrabalak
3:30pm
Monroe Hall Room 110
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University of Pittsburgh
Professor John Keith
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
Dr. Alisha (Jonesy) Jones | Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany
Modulation of MALT1 pre-mRNA structure by hnRNP proteins regulates T-cell activation
2:00pm
ZOOM
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Virginia Commonwealth University
Dr. Samy El Shall
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
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University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Professor Paulo Almeida
3:30pm
MEC Room 205
Department of Chemistry Kickoff Seminar
Professor Mike Hilinski
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) 205
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Ireland Lecture | Dr. Paul Wender | Stanford University
3:30pm
Olsson 120
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University of Colorado at Boulder
Professor Amy Palmer
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
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Cornell University
Professor Héctor D. Abruña
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
Transition metal catalyzed hydroarylation of Olefins: New catalysts for alkyl and alkenyl arenes
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University of Virginia
Professor Brent Gunnoe
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building
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Drexel University
Dr. Yury Gogotsi
3:30pm
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Confessions of a cunning collaborator: Strategies for sustaining a successful research agenda at a PUI
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Elizabethtown College
Professor Kristi Kneas
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
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University of Kentucky
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3:30pm
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Strategies for analysis of intact proteins by 21 tesla FT-ICR mass spectrometry
3:30pm
MEC 205
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
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Dr. Michael Katz | Memorial University of Newfoundland
3:30pm
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Alfred R. Baber Chair in Organic Chemistry and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Organic and Organometallic Chemistry | Queen's University
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3:30pm
Gilmer Rm 390
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3:30pm
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Olfactory Receptors in Vascular Macrophages Drive Atherosclerosis by NLRP3-Dependent IL-1 Production
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3:30pm
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Marie Payne Graham Lecture| On the Nature of the Entropic Bond | 7:00 pm | Gilmer 390
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7:00pm
Gilmer 390
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University of California, Berkeley
Professor Dan Nomura
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
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UNC Chapel Hill
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3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
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Yale University
Professor Jim Mayer
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
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University of Delaware
Dr. Feng Jiao
3:30pm
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Professor Paul Steinhardt | Princeton University
3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
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University of North Carolina Asheville
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3:30pm
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University of Chicago
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
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3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) 205
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Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Murray Goodman Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dr. Neal Deveraj | University of California, San Diego
3:30pm
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3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
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Cornell University
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3:30pm
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Wayne State University
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3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
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University of Minnesota
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3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
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3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
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University of California at Davis
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3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
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3:30pm
Gilmer 390
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
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University of California Riverside
Professor Yinsheng Wang
3:30pm
NEW CABELL HALL ROOM 168
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Stanford University
Professor Matthew Bogyo
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
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Princeton University
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3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
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3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
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University of North Carolina
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3:30pm
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Colorado State University
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3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Bldg (MEC) 205
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3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Bldg (MEC) 205
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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Bristol-Myers Squibb
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3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Bldg (MEC) 205
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University of California, Irvine
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3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
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University of Washington
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3:30pm
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Princeton University
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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University of Richmond
Professor Michael Leopold
3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
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Ohio State University
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3:30pm
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University of Florida
Professor Robert Huigens
3:30pm
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University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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3:30pm
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Virginia Commonwealth University
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3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
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Texas A & M University
Professor François Gabbaï
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Bldg (MEC) 205
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George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Dr. Chad Mirkin
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
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West Virginia University
Professor Brian Popp
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
Leyte Winfield
3:30pm
MEC 205
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Washington University in St. Louis
Professor William Tolman
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Room 205
tranSci Lab for Real World Chemistry and Creative Communication
3:30pm
Olsson 120
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry, American University
Dr. Alexander Zestos
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
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UVA Department of Chemistry
Professor Robin Garrod
3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
3:30pm
TBD
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UVA Department of Chemistry
Professor Ken Hsu
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Room 205
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University of North Carolina
Dr. Jerry Meyer
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Christopher Cummins
3:30pm
MEC Building Rm 205
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Monash University: Director, Monash Centre for Catalysis
Professor Cameron Jones
3:30pm
TBD
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University of Mississippi
Professor Davita Watkins
3:30pm
MEC Room 205
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Rutgers University, Newark
Dr. Frieder Jaekle
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Professor Gerald F. Joyce
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
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Virginia Commonwealth University
Dr. Frank Gupton
6:00pm
Gilmer Commons (Gilmer 190)
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University of California, San Diego
Dr. Jin Zhang
3:30pm
MEC 205
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University of South Carolina
Professor Aaron Vannucci
3:30pm
MEC Rm 205
Dr. Alicia O. Hernandez-Castillo | Fritz Haber Institute, Max Plank Society, Germany
Multiplexed Approach to Broadband Rotational Spectroscopy: From Complex Gas Mixtures to Chiral Analysis
3:30pm
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University of Arizona
Dr. Lucy Ziurys
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering (MEC) 205