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Seminars Archive

Spring 2025

Hosted by: Sen Zhang
3:30pm
MEC 205
Hosted by: Michael Hilinski
3:30pm
MEC 205
Hosted by: Students
3:30pm
MEC 205
Hosted by: DEI Committee
3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
Hosted by: Sen Zhang
4:00pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
Hosted by: Marilyne Stains
4:00pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
Hosted by: Brent Gunnoe
4:00pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
Hosted by: Michelle Personick
3:30pm
Gilmer Hall Rm 390
Hosted by: Marcos Pires
4:00pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
Hosted by: Marcos Pires
4:00pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304

Fall 2024

Hosted by: Ian Harrison
3:30pm
Hosted by: Marcos Pires
3:30pm
MEC 205
Hosted by: Jetze J. Tepe
3:30pm
12:00am
King Family Vineyard
Dr. Joshua Figueroa | University of California, San Diego
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
Hosted by: Linda Columbus
3:30pm

Confessions of a cunning collaborator: Strategies for sustaining a successful research agenda at a PUI

Elizabethtown College
Professor Kristi Kneas
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
Wayne State University
Dr. Hien Nguyen
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
Dr. Sharon Neufeldt
3:30pm
TBD
University of Kentucky
Professor Peter Kekenes-Huskey
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Room 205
Hosted by: Prof. Sen Zhang
Dr. Catherine Murphy
4:00pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
Scripps Research Institute; La Jolla, CA
Professor Dale Boger
3:30pm
Columbia University
Dr. Jingguang Chen
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Professor Jeff Aube
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
Florida State University
Dr. Mike Roper
3:30pm
Dr. Kate Waldie
4:00pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
University of North Carolina
Dr. Jillian Dempsey
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
Professor Cynthia Lundgren | Army Research Laboratory
3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
Princeton University
Dr. Paul Chirik
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
Dr. Xingchen Ye
3:30pm
GIL 301
UNC Chapel Hill
Professor Matt Lockett
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Susanna L. Widicus Weaver
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
3:30pm
Gilmer 390
Hosted by: Professor Ken Hsu
University of California, Berkeley
Professor Dan Nomura
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Dr. Brett McGuire
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Bldg (MEC) 205
University of Delaware
Dr. Feng Jiao
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
3:30pm
MEC 205
Yale University
Professor Jim Mayer
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
Hosted by: Professor Ken Hsu
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Professor Richard Olson
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Bldg (MEC) 205
David Berkowitz
4:00pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
University of North Carolina Asheville
Professor Amanda Wolfe
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
University of Washington
Dr. Ashleigh Theberge
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
Dr. Heather Spinney | DOW (Midland)
3:30pm
TBD
Professor Paul Steinhardt | Princeton University
3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
Dr. Skip Brenzovich
3:30pm
TBD
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor Shannon Stahl
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) 205
Professor Eric Herbst
3:30pm
Physics 203
Professor Thomas Mallouk | Penn State University
3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
Dr. Paul Robustelli
4:00pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
Cornell University
Professor Barbara Baird
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
Professor Angelo Cacciuto | Columbia University
3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
University of California at Davis
Professor Philip Power
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
University of Minnesota
Professor Christy Haynes
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
4:00pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
University of California Riverside
Professor Yinsheng Wang
3:30pm
NEW CABELL HALL ROOM 168
Hosted by: Professor Ken Hsu
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Professor Eric Brustad
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
4:00pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
Hosted by: Professor Ken Hsu
Stanford University
Professor Matthew Bogyo
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Dr. Chad Mirkin
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
Hosted by: Professor Ken Hsu
Professor Eric Brustad | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
tranSci Lab for Real World Chemistry and Creative Communication
3:30pm
Olsson 120
Colorado State University
Professor Chuck Henry
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Bldg (MEC) 205
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, American University
Dr. Alexander Zestos
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
Hosted by: Sen Zhang
Shouheng Sun
3:30pm
MEC 205
Yale University
Professor Scott Miller
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
University of North Carolina
Dr. Jerry Meyer
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom
Hosted by: Eric Herbst
Arthur Suits
3:30pm
MEC 205
Senior Research Chemist
3:30pm
TBD
University of California, Irvine
Professor Jennifer Prescher
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
Princeton University
Professor David MacMillan
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Bldg (MEC) 205
Hosted by: Dr. Sen Zhang
University of Chicago
Dr. Dmitri Talapin
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
Hosted by: Brent Gunnoe
Ned West
3:30pm
MEC 205
Professor, Ohio State University
Chris Jaroniec
3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
4:00pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
North Carolina State University
Professor Carol Hall 
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
Rutgers University, Newark
Dr. Frieder Jaekle
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
Younan Xia | Professor, Behrens Departamento de Quimica Inorganica Facultad de Quimica Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
University of California, San Diego
Dr. Jin Zhang
3:30pm
MEC 205
Hosted by: Charlie Machan
Mike McGuirk
3:30pm
MEC 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
Hosted by: Cliff Stains
Stephen Miller
3:30pm
Fellow and Special Assistant to the Director of Forensic Science, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Dr. John M. Butler
6:00pm
Chemistry Building Auditorium
University of Florida
Professor Robert Huigens
3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Jefferson Chan
3:30pm
MEC
Hosted by: Marcos Pires
Damien Thevenin
3:30pm
MEC 205
Hosted by: Cliff Stains
Aaron May
3:30pm
MEC 205
Virginia Commonwealth University
Professor Frank Gupton - NOTE: Lecture is on Thursday at 7:00 PM
3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, Department of Chemistry
Dr. Rebecca Pompano
3:30pm
MEC 205
Hosted by: Charlie Machan
Robert Comito
3:30pm
MEC 205
Texas A & M University
Professor François Gabbaï
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Bldg (MEC) 205
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
West Virginia University
Professor Brian Popp
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) 205
Hosted by: Sid Hecht
Cynthia Burrows
3:30pm
MEC 205
Washington University in St. Louis
Professor William Tolman
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Room 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
UVA Department of Chemistry
Professor Robin Garrod
3:30pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
Hosted by: Graduate Students
Zakiya Wilson-Kennedy
3:30pm
MEC 205
UVA Department of Chemistry
Professor Ken Hsu
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Room 205
Hosted by: Sen Zhang
Robert Meulenberg
3:30pm
MEC 205
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Christopher Cummins
3:30pm
MEC Building Rm 205
Monash University: Director, Monash Centre for Catalysis
Professor Cameron Jones
3:30pm
TBD
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
Hosted by: Marilyne Stains
Jordan Harshman
3:30pm
MEC 205
University of Mississippi
Professor Davita Watkins
3:30pm
MEC Room 205
Hosted by: Linda Columbus
Marcos Pires
3:30pm
MEC 205
Leyte Winfield
3:30pm
MEC 205
Ireland Lecture | Dr. Paul Wender | Stanford University
3:30pm
Olsson 120
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Professor Gerald F. Joyce
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
Hosted by: Linda Columbus
Brian FuglestaD
3:30pm
MEC 205
Virginia Commonwealth University
Dr. Frank Gupton
6:00pm
Gilmer Commons (Gilmer 190)
Hosted by: Dean Harman
Paul Wagenknecht
3:30pm
MEC 205
University of South Carolina
Professor Aaron Vannucci
3:30pm
MEC Rm 205
11:00am
Dell 1, 105
University of Arizona
Dr. Lucy Ziurys
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering (MEC) 205
Hosted by: Professor Ken Hsu
Dr. Linda Hsieh-Wilson | CalTech
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
University of California at Berkeley
Professor Amy Herr
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
10:00am
Dell 1, 105
Hosted by: Professor Ken Hsu
Harvard University
Professor Suzanne Walker
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
3:30pm
Hosted by: Professor Don Hunt
Strategies for analysis of intact proteins by 21 tesla FT-ICR mass spectrometry
3:30pm
MEC 205
Fellow, Herr Lab| University of California, Berkeley
Julea Vlassakis
4:00pm
PLSB 403
ExxonMobil
Professor Glen Alliger
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
Dr. Michael Katz | Memorial University of Newfoundland
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
Alfred R. Baber Chair in Organic Chemistry and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Organic and Organometallic Chemistry | Queen's University
Dr. P. Andrews Evans
3:30pm
Gilmer Rm 390
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Professor Rebecca Lai
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
Leyte L. Winfield
4:00pm
Chemistry Building Rm 304
University of Virginia (Department of Chemical Engineering)
Dr. Rachel Letteri
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
Division Head/Professor Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation
Klaus Ley, M.D. | La Jolla Institute for Immunology
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom
12:00am

Marie Payne Graham Lecture| On the Nature of the Entropic Bond | 7:00 pm | Gilmer 390

Dr. Sharon Glotzer | University of Michigan
7:00pm
Gilmer 390

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
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Bldg (MEC) 205
Indiana University, Bloomington
Dr. Sara Skrabalak
3:30pm
Monroe Hall Room 110
University of Pittsburgh
Professor John Keith
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
Penn State University
Dr. Raymond Schaak
3:30pm
MEC 205
Virginia Commonwealth University
Dr. Samy El Shall
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
Hosted by: Dr. Sidney Hecht
Ionis Pharmaceuticals
Dr. Frank Bennett
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Professor Paulo Almeida
3:30pm
MEC Room 205
Davidson College
Dr. Mitch Anstey
3:30pm
Olsson Hall Room 011
2:00pm
CHEM 204
Department of Chemistry Kickoff Seminar
Professor Mike Hilinski
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) 205
University of Colorado at Boulder
Professor Amy Palmer
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building Rm 205
University of Chicago
Dr. Aaron Dinner
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
Cornell University
Professor Héctor D. Abruña
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC) Rm 205
Dr. Sloan Siegrist | University of Massachusetts
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Murray Goodman Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dr. Neal Deveraj | University of California, San Diego
3:30pm

Transition metal catalyzed hydroarylation of Olefins: New catalysts for alkyl and alkenyl arenes

University of Virginia
Professor Brent Gunnoe
3:30pm
Mechanical Engineering Building
5:00pm
Chemistry Lobby
Drexel University
Dr. Yury Gogotsi
3:30pm
Location: Monroe Hall Rm 110
3:30pm
Chemistry Zoom Meeting