Fall 2019 Chemistry Colloquia
3:00 p.m. | Lecture 4:15 p.m. | Refreshments
Sept 13, 2019
Shaughnessy Naughton, Ph.D.,'99, 314ACTION
Title: "314 Action: Scientists in public policy, advocacy and elected service"
Sept 27, 2019
Gary A. Molander, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Single Electron Processes to Enable Organic Synthesis"
Nov. 1, 2019
Courtney C. Roberts, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Title: "Hey Look Ma, I Made it! How We Make Organic Molecules Using Inorganic Chemistry"
Nov. 8, 2019
Catherine A. Eichhorn, Ph.D.,'07, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Title: "Structural Insights into the 7SK core RNP, a major regulator of eukaryotic transcription"
Spring 2019 Chemistry Colloquia
5:15 p.m. | Park Science Atrium| Pizza Dinner
6 p.m. | Lecture
Feb. 4, 2019
Kevin P.C. Minbiole, Ph.D., Villanova University
Title: "The Renaissance of QACs: Forging Novel Antiseptics and Reevaluating Bacterial Resistance"
March 4, 2019
Mark D. Ellison, Ph.D., Ursinus College
Title: "Understanding and Controlling Molecular and Ionic Flow through Carbon Nanotubes"
April 1, 2019
Nozomi Ando, Ph.D., Cornell University
Title: To be announced.
Fall 2018 Chemistry Colloquia
5:15 p.m. | Park Science Lobby| Pizza Dinner
6 p.m. | Lecture
Oct. 22, 2018
Sean J. Elliott, Ph.D., Boston University
Title: "The Metalloprotein Electric: discovery and inquiry of novel redox enzymes"
...and Other Important Events
Nov. 5-16, 2018
Search Candidate Lectures
To be announced.
Spring 2018 Chemistry Colloquia and Other Important Events
4 p.m. | Park Science 180 | Refreshments |
Jan. 29, 2018
Faculty Research Presentations
Feb. 5, 2018
Deanna L. Zubris, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, Villanova University
"Polymer Chemistry and Catalytic Applications"
Feb. 12, 2018
Olga Karagiaridi, Ph.D., Lecturer in Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College
"Synthesis and Characterization of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) that are Difficult to Access De Novo"
March 5, 2018
Yan Kung, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College
"The Search for Structure: Crystallographic Studies of Isoprenoid Biosynthetic Enzymes"
March 26, 2018
Graduate School Application Process
April 16, 2018
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Ph.D., Penn PORT Fellow, Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
"Genetic Interrogation of Neural Circuit Mechanisms for Pain"
Previous Colloquia
Sept. 11, 2017
Melanie Cree Green ’99, M.D., Ph.D., Center for Women’s Health Research, University of Colorado
“Using Chemistry to Improve Women’s Health”
Sept. 25, 2017
Syun-Ru Yeh, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"Structure and Function of Human Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase (IDO) and Tryptophan Dioxygenase (TDO): It Takes Two to Tango"
Oct. 23, 2017
Bradley R. Miller, Ph.D., Bucher-Jackson Postdoctoral Fellow, Bryn Mawr College
"Structural and Functional Investigation of Natural Product Producing Enzymes"
Nov. 6, 2017
Douglas Gisewhite, Graduate Student, Bryn Mawr
"Pyran forming Mo-1,2-enedithiolates revealed as chemical chameleons"
Jan. 23, 2017
Graham Dobereiner, Temple University
"Lewis Acid Additives in Organtransition Metal Chemistry"
March 20, 2017
John W. Tomsho, Ph.D., University of the Sciences
“Design and Synthesis of Boronic Acid HIV Reverse Transcriptase (??) Inhibitors”
March 27, 2017
Junwei Shi, Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
“CRISPR-Based Genetic Screening Toolkits for Cancer Dependency Identification”
Sept. 23, 2016
Naomi J. Halas ’86, NAS,NAE, Director Smalley-Curl Institute, Professor, Rice University
Sept. 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”
Oct. 21, 2016
Graduate School Presentations, Chemistry Faculty
Oct. 28, 2016
Jason Schmink, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Bryn Mawr
“Palladium-Catalyzed Cross Coupling of Corey-Seebach Reagents”
Jan. 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"
Sept. 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)."
Sept. 25, 2015, at Bryn Mawr
Alexandra Viscosi and Stephanie Tse '13, Chemours Company Informational Session
Oct. 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
Oct. 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"
Jan. 23, 2015, at Bryn Mawr
Faculty Research Presentations for undergrads.
Jan. 30, 2015, at Bryn Mawr
Mary P.Watson, Ph.D., University of Delaware, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
“Metal Catalysis of Non-traditional Electrophiles"
Feb. 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”
Feb. 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"
Sept. 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"
Sept. 26, 2014, at Bryn Mawr
Alexandra C. Viscosi, Associate Investigator, DuPont Company
Oct. 24, 2014, at Bryn Mawr
A Public Seminar sponsored by Chemistry.
Matt Ruben, Ph.D., Coordinator, Public Speaking Initiative, Bryn Mawr College
Nov. 7, 2014, at Bryn Mawr
Abigail G. Doyle, Ph.D., Princeton University, Department of Chemistry
“New Reagents and Strategies for Nucleophilic Fluorination”
Nov. 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”
Nov. 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"
Dec. 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"
Jan. 23, 2015, at Bryn Mawr
Faculty Research Presentations for undergrads.
Jan. 30, 2015, at Bryn Mawr
Mary P.Watson, Ph.D., University of Delaware, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Feb. 6, 2015, at Bryn Mawr
Nicole Sampson, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Department of Chemistry
Feb. 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
Feb. 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"
Sept. 27, 2013, at Bryn Mawr
Mary M. Kirschoff, Ph.D., American Chemical Society, Director, ACS Education Division
"Green Chemistry and Sustainability"
Oct. 4, 2013, at Bryn Mawr
Krishna Mehta, Johnson Matthey
"Emission Control Technologies"
Oct. 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"
Nov. 22, 2013, at Bryn Mawr
Benjamin Williams, Bryn Mawr College
"Structural and Chemical Reactivity of a Pterin-Dithiolene Complex Modeling the Molybdenum Cofactor"
Dec. 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”
Feb. 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 Mawr
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
Sept. 14, 2012, at Bryn Mawr
Recruitment Session with Dupont
Kaylee (Wendell) Lint and Steph Vrakas, DuPont Corporation
"DuPont Industrial Careers for Chemists"
Sept. 27, 2012, at Haverford College
Richard Ebright, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Rutgers University, Waksman Institute
Nov. 9, 2012, at Haverford College
Sarah Michel, Associate Professor, University of Maryland "Metalloregulatory Proteins: Linking Metal Ion Binding to DNA/RNA Recognition"
Nov. 16, 2012, at Haverford College
Dr. Liliya Yatsunyk, Swarthmore College
Interactions Between Human Telomeric DNA and Quadruplex Specific Ligan, NMM"
Jan. 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"
Feb. 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"
Sept. 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"
Sept. 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"
Sept. 16, 2011, at Haverford College
Jannette Carey, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University, Department of Molecular Biology
Sept. 23, 2011, at Bryn Mawr College
Gerald J. Meyer, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Chemistry
Sept. 30, 2011, at Haverford College
Sheila Jaswal, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Amherst College, Department of Chemistry
Oct. 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"
Oct. 28, 2011, at Haverford College
John Asbury, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Penn State University, Department of Chemistry
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
April 22, 2011, at Haverford College at 2:45
Ken Brown, Ph.D., Georgia Tech, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
TBA
Sept. 10, 2010, at Bryn Mawr College
The Poster Symposium for Summer Science Research
Sept. 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"
Sept. 24, 2010, at Haverford College
Shelli Frey '01, Ph.D., Gettysburg College, Dept. of Chemistry
Oct. 22, 2010, at Haverford College
Jeffery G. Saven, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Chemistry
Oct. 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
Nov. 5, 2010, at Haverford College
Cara M. Santelli, Ph.D., Smithsonian Institute, Dept. of Minerals Science
Nov. 12, 2010, at Bryn Mawr College
Joshua Schrier, Ph.D., Haverford College, Dept. of Chemistry
"Improving Graphene with Scissors and a Hole-Punch"
Nov. 19, 2010, at Haverford College
Steven A. Corcelli, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dec. 3, 2010, at Haverford College
D. Howard Fairbrother, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Chemistry
Jan. 22, 2010, at Haverford College
Rob Dickson, Georgia Tech
Feb. 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
April 16, 2010, at Haverford College
David W. McCamant, University of Rochester, Department of Chemistry
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
Sept. 11, 2009, at Bryn Mawr College
Monica Chander, Bryn Mawr College
"Redox sensing by SoxR: alerting the cell to oxidative stress (and more?)"
Sept. 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"
Oct. 2, 2009, at Bryn Mawr College
Adam Matzger with Leila Foroughi '05, University of Michigan
"Controlling Crystal Polymorphism: Pharmaceuticals to Proteins"
Oct. 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"
Nov. 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"
Nov. 13, 2009, at Haverford College
Stefan Bernhard, Carnegie Mellon University
"Efficient Transition Metal Catalysts for the Photogeneration of Hydrogen"
Nov. 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"
Dec. 4, 2009, at Haverford College
Pedro Marenco, Bryn Mawr College, Department of Geology