Previous Colloquia
September 23, 2016
Naomi J. Halas ’86, NAS,NAE, Director Smalley-Curl Institute, Professor, Rice University
September 30, 2016
John Wai, Ph.D., Vice President of Medicinal Chemistry, WuXi App Tec, Shanghai, China
“Discovery of HIV Integrase Inhibitors: From diketoacid hit to Raltegravir and beyond”
October 21, 2016
Graduate School Presentations, Chemistry Faculty
October 28, 2016
Jason Schmink, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Bryn Mawr
“Palladium-Catalyzed Cross Coupling of Corey-Seebach Reagents”
January 29, 2016 at Bryn Mawr
Christine P. Piro, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Franklin and Marshall College
"Is it easy being green? Probing GFP solvation environments and tuning spectrophotometric properties using unnatural amino acids"
Katherine A.(Kallie) Willets, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, Temple University
"Super-Resolution Imaging of Plasmonic Nanostructures"
March 25, 2016 at Bryn Mawr
Emmanuel Skordalakes, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
"Structure Function of Telomerase and Cancer Therapeutics"
September 11, 2015 at Bryn Mawr
Jay E. Wrobel, Ph.D., Vice President, Academic Relations, Fox Chase Cancer Center
"Report on Two Ongoing Projects: Riluzole Prodrugs for Matastatic Melanoma and RNA Virus Egress Inhibitors as Broad Spectrum Antiviral Therapeutics (including Ebola)."
September 25, 2015 at Bryn Mawr
Alexandra Viscosi and Stephanie Tse '13, Chemours Company Informational Session
October 2, 2015 at Bryn Mawr
Jeffrey G. Saven, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Department of Chemistry
"Designing Proteins, Protein Assemblies and Crystals"
Ana-Rita Mayol, Associate Director, Masters of Chemical Sciences Program, Informational Session
October 30, 2015 at Bryn Mawr
William M. Wuest, Ph.D., Temple University, Department of Chemistry
"Draining the Moat: A Natural Product-Inspired Approach to Combat Bacterial Biofilms"
January 23, 2015 at Bryn Mawr
Faculty Research Presentations for undergrads.
January 30, 2015 at Bryn Mawr
Mary P.Watson, Ph.D., University of Delaware, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
“Metal Catalysis of Non-traditional Electrophiles"
February 6, 2015 at Bryn Mawr
Nicole Sampson, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Department of Chemistry
“Cholesterol Metabolic Pathways in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Opportunities for Tuberculosis Drug Discovery and Diagnosis”
February 13, 2015 at Bryn Mawr
Krishna Mehta, Johnson Matthey
Informational Session
March 27, 2015 at Bryn Mawr
Glenn P. A.Yap, Ph.D., University of Delaware, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
"Three Milestone Structures from the X-ray Crystallography Laboratory"
April 10, 2015 at Haverford
Undergraduate Poster Session
April 17, 2015 at Bryn Mawr
Karen Brewer, Hamilton College, Department of Chemistry
Synthesis and Spectroscopic Studies of Rare Earth Doped Sol-Gel and Nonocrystalline Materials"
September 19, 2014 at Bryn Mawr
Stephen T. Miller, Ph.D., Swarthmore College, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
"A Chat over Dinner: Bacterial Communication and the Link to Central Metabolism"
September 26, 2014 at Bryn Mawr
Alexandra C. Viscosi, Associate Investigator, DuPont Company
October 24, 2014 at Bryn Mawr
A Public Seminar sponsored by Chemistry.
Matt Ruben, Ph.D., Coordinator, Public Speaking Initiative, Bryn Mawr College
November 7, 2014 at Bryn Mawr
Abigail G. Doyle, Ph.D., Princeton University, Department of Chemistry
“New Reagents and Strategies for Nucleophilic Fluorination”
November 14, 2014 at Bryn Mawr
John S. Magyar, Ph.D., Barnard College, Department of Chemistry
“Structure, energetics, and spectroscopy of proteins from psychrophilic, hydrocarbonoclastic marine microorganisms”
November 21, 2014 at Bryn Mawr
Helen K. White, Ph.D., Haverford College, Department of Chemistry
"Examining the Persistence of Oil and Dispersant Compounds following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill"
December 5, 2014 at Bryn Mawr
Joseph M. Fox, Ph.D., Natalee Smith '08, University of Delaware, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
"Strained Milecules: Tools for Enabling Chemical Synthesis, Biology and Materials Science"
January 23, 2015 at Bryn Mawr
Faculty Research Presentations for undergrads.
January 30, 2015 at Bryn Mawr
Mary P.Watson, Ph.D., University of Delaware, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
February 6, 2015 at Bryn Mawr
Nicole Sampson, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Department of Chemistry
February 13, 2015 at Bryn Mawr
Krishna Mehta, Johnson Matthey
April 3, 2015 at Bryn Mawr
Glenn P. A.Yap, Ph.D., University of Delaware, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
April 10, 2015 at Haverford
Undergraduate Poster Session
April 17, 2015 at Bryn Mawr
Karen Brewer, Hamilton College, Department of Chemistry
February 21, 2014 at Bryn Mawr
Kevin P. Bateman, Senior Research Scientist, Merck Research Laboratories
"Small Molecule Mass Spectrometry and Drug Discovery"
March 21, 2014 at Bryn Mawr
Vincent L. Pecoraro, Ph.D., John T Groves Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan
"De Novo Designed Hydrolytic and Redox Active Metalloprotein Catalysts"
March 28, 2014 at Bryn Mawr
Rajeswari M. Kasi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut
"New Polymers for Responsive Membrane Applications"
April 18, 2014 at Bryn Mawr
Craig A. Townsend, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University
"Penicillin and the Beta-Lactam Antibiotics. Diverse Chemical Solutions to Evolutionary Convergence"
April 25, 2014 at Bryn Mawr
Kay Michille Brummond, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
"Expanding Nature's Toolbox of Biologically Relevant Compounds"
September 27, 2013 at Bryn Mawr
Mary M. Kirschoff, Ph.D., American Chemical Society, Director, ACS Education Division
"Green Chemistry and Sustainability"
October 4, 2013 at Bryn Mawr
Krishna Mehta, Johnson Matthey
"Emission Control Technologies"
October 25, 2013 at Bryn Mawr
Dr. Shane W. Krska, Principle Scientist, Merck & Co.
"The Transformative Power of Catalysis for Drug Research and Development"
November 15, 2013 at Bryn Mawr
Dr. Louise Charkoudian, Haverford College
"Harnessing the Energy of Bacterial Ensymatic Assembly Lines to make New Molecules"
November 22, 2013 at Bryn Mawr
Benjamin Williams, Bryn Mawr College
"Structural and Chemical Reactivity of a Pterin-Dithiolene Complex Modeling the Molybdenum Cofactor"
December 6 , 2013 at Bryn Mawr
Marisa C. Kozlowski, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Department of Chemistry
“Adventures in Oxidative Bond Forming Reactions: Development and Applications in Natural Product Synthesis”
February 8, 2013 at Bryn Mawr
Erika Merschrod '94, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Memorial University (Canada)
"Beyond the Nanoscale: Opportunities and Challenges in Hierarchical Materials"
March 1, 2013 at Bryn Mawr
Alison E. Holliday, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Swarthmore College "Investigating the Chirality of Clusters using Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry"
March 22, 2013 at Bryn Mawr
Eric J. Schelter, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania "The Sustainability of the Rare Earth Elements: Exciting Opportunities for Inorganic Chemistry"
April 19, 2013 at Bryn Mawr
Jennifer Gaudioso, Manager of International Biological Threat Reduction Program, Sandia National Laboratories "Infectious Diseases: Where's the Line between Public Health and Security?" April 26, 2013 at Bryn Gaudioso, Manager of International Biological Threat Reduction Program, Sandia National Laboratories "Infectious Diseases: Where's the Line between Public Health and Security?" April 26, 2013 at Bryn Mawr Deidre Sandrock, Research Chemist, Milliken & Company Title: TBASandrock, Research Chemist, Milliken & Company Title: TBA
September 14, 2012 at Bryn Mawr (Recruitment Session with Dupont)Mawr (Recruitment Session with Dupont)
Kaylee (Wendell) Lint and Steph Vrakas, DuPont Corporation
"DuPont Industrial Careers for Chemists"
September 27, 2012 at Haverford College at 4:15
Richard Ebright, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Rutgers University, Waksman Institute
November 9, 2012 at Haverford College
Sarah Michel, Associate Professor, University of Maryland "Metalloregulatory Proteins: Linking Metal Ion Binding to DNA/RNA Recognition"
November 16, 2012 at Haverford College
Dr. Liliya Yatsunyk, Swarthmore College
Interactions Between Human Telomeric DNA and Quadruplex Specific Ligan, NMM" January 27, 2012 at Bryn Mawr College
Joel Rosenthal, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
"Chemistry of Consequence to Renewable Energy: Multielectron Catalysts for Conversion of Sun Light to Liquid Fuels"
February 10, 2012 at Bryn Mawr College
Cherie Kagan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Electrical And Systems Engineering, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
"Understanding and Engineering the Surface of Semiconductor Quantum Dots For Low-cost High Performance Solar Cells"
February 24, 2012 at Bryn Mawr College
William Dichtel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cornell University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical biologyDichtel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cornell University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical biology
"Bottom-up Synthesis of Structurally Precise 2D and 3D Organic materials"
March 16, 2012 at Bryn Mawr College (Recruitment session with Dupont)
Brad M. Rosen, Ph.D. and Danielle K. Carlin '06, DuPont Corporation
"DuPont Industrial Careers for Chemists"
March 23, 2012 at Bryn Mawr College
Alison J. Frontier, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Department of Chemistry
"Navigational Surprises in Organic Synthesis"
March 30, 2012 at Bryn Mawr College
Geoffrey Hutchison, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry
"Rational Design of Molecular Materials: Molecular Springs, Solar Cells and More"
April 11, 2012 at Haverford College
Stephen Lippard, Ph.D. (HC '62), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Structural & Mechanistic Studies of Bacterial Multicomponent Monooxygenases"
April 13, 2012 at Haverford College
Terry Newirth Symposium, Sharpless Auditorium Keynote Address by Julius Rebek, Jr., Professor Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute "Molecular Behavior in Small Spaces"
April 20, 2012 at Haverford College Reza Ghiladi, Ph.D., (HC '95), North Carolina State University "The Dehaloperoxidase paradox: Exploring Globin and Peroxidase Functions at a Single heme Active Site"
Friday, September 9, 2011 at Haverford College
E. James Petersson, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Chemistry
"Toward Protein Motion Capture: Thioamides as Minimalist Chromophores to Monitor Protein Dynamics"
Friday, September 16 , 2011 at Bryn Mawr College
Michael J. Zdilla, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Temple University, Department of Chemistry
Exploration of Low Coordinate Manganese Cluster Chemistry: Reactive Clusters Inspired by the Tetramanganese Water Oxidation Catalyst of Photosystem II"
Friday, September 16 , 2011 at Haverford College
Jannette Carey, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University, Department of Molecular Biology
TBA
Friday, September 23 , 2011 at Bryn Mawr College
Gerald J. Meyer, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Chemistry
TBA
Friday, September 30 , 2011 at Haverford College
Sheila Jaswal, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Amherst College, Department of Chemistry
TBA
Friday, October 21 , 2011 at Haverford College
Michael Hagerman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, Union College, Department of Chemistry, NY
"Self-assembled clay/polymer nanoassemblies for LED and solar applications"
Friday, October 28 , 2011 at Haverford College
John Asbury, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Penn State University, Department of Chemistry
TBA
April 1 , 2011 at Bryn Mawr College
Michael F. Summers, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore
"New Insights into the Mechanism of HIV-1 Assembly"
April 8, 2011 at Bryn Mawr College
David M. Chenoweth, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Department of Chemistry
"Modulating Nucleic Acid Structure with Small Molecules"
April 15 , 2011 at Haverford College
Steve Corcelli, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
TBA
April 22 , 2011 at Haverford College at 2:45
Ken Brown, Ph.D., Georgia Tech, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
TBA
September 10 , 2010 at Bryn Mawr College
THE POSTER SYMPOSIUM FOR SUMMER SCIENCE RESEARCH
Campus Center Main Lounge, 11:00 am -2:00 pm
Refreshments will be served.
September 17 , 2010 at Bryn Mawr College
Mark F. Reynolds, Ph.D., Saint Joseph's University, Dept. of Chemistry
SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION BY NOVEL HEME=BASED GAS SENSING PROTEINS
September 24 , 2010 at Haverford College
Shelli Frey '01, Ph.D., Gettysburg College, Dept. of Chemistry
October 22, 2010 at Haverford College
Jeffery G. Saven, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Chemistry
TBA
October 29, 2010 at Bryn Mawr College
Patricia C. Ryan, Ph.D., Principal Toxicologist, Biological Safety Assessment, MedImmune LLC
APPLYING CELL BIOLOGY RESEARCH TO PREDICT AN APPROPRIATE HUMAN DOSE FOR A NOVEL ONCOLOGY THERAPY
November 5, 2010 at Haverford College
Cara M. Santelli, Ph.D., Smithsonian Institute, Dept. of Minerals Science
TBA
November 12, 2010 at Bryn Mawr College
Joshua Schrier, Ph.D., Haverford College, Dept. of Chemistry
IMPROVING GRAPHENE WITH SCISSORS AND A HOLE-PUNCH
November 19, 2010 at Haverford College
Steven A. Corcelli, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
TBA
December 3 , 2010 at Haverford College
D. Howard Fairbrother, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Chemistry
TBA
January 22 , 2010 at Haverford College
Rob Dickson, Georgia Tech
TBA
February 19 , 2010 at Bryn Mawr College
Scott McNeill Sieburth, Temple University, Department of Chemistry
FUN WITH PHOTOCHEMISTRY, OR HOW TO MAKE STRAINED, COMPLEX MOLECULES IN ONE EASY STEP
March 19, 2010 at Bryn Mawr College
Phillip D. Hustad, The Dow Chemical Company
AN INDUSTRIAL R&D SUCCESS STORY: DISCOVERY, COMMERCIALIZATION, AND RECENT INNOVATIONS IN OLEFIN BLOCK COPOLYMERS
April 9, 2010 at Bryn Mawr College
Cassandra L.Fraser, University of Virginia, Department of Chemistry
TBA
April 16, 2010 at Haverford College
David W. McCamant, University of Rochester, Department of Chemistry
TBA
April 23, 2010 at Bryn Mawr College
Karin Musier-Forsyth, Ohio State University, Department of Chemistry
EXPLOITING TRICKS VIRUSES USE AS NEW TARGETS FOR ANTI-HIV THERAPY
September 11 , 2009 at Bryn Mawr College
Monica Chander, Bryn Mawr College
"Redox sensing by SoxR: alerting the cell to oxidative stress (and more?)"
September 25, 2009 at Haverford College
Michael Massiah, Department of Biochemistry, Oklahoma State University
"How a protein structure reveals function: Midline-1 and Opitz G syndrome"
October 2, 2009 at Bryn Mawr College
Adam Matzger with Leila Foroughi '05, University of Michigan
"Controlling Crystal Polymorphism: Pharmaceuticals to Proteins"
October 30, 2009 at Haverford College
Clifford Kubiak, University of California, San Diego, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
"Important Things You Never Learned About Inorganic Mixed Valency: Ultrafast, Non-Arrhenius, Solvent, and Proton Coupled Electron Transfers"
November 6, 2009 at Bryn Mawr College
Cynthia A. Maryanoff, Distinguished Research Fellow, Convergent Product Development, Cordis, a Johnson and Johnson Company
"Split view: Process Chemistry on KL4/ Toolbox for Drug-eluding Stents"
November 13, 2009 at Haverford College
Stefan Bernhard, Carnegie Mellon University
"Efficient Transition Metal Catalysts for the Photogeneration of Hydrogen"
November 20, 2009 at Haverford College
Veronika Szalai, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
"Metals in your Mind: How Copper Interacts with the Amyloid-beta Peptide of Alzheimer's Disease"
December 4, 2009 at Haverford College
Pedro Marenco, Bryn Mawr College, Department of Geology
TBA