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Spring 2024 Seminars

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Spring 2024

Welcome to the Department Seminar Series – Sping 24. There will be 15 seminars this semester. At the moment, all seminars are in person unless stated otherwise at 3:30 p.m. in SCI 1.220. 
Date/Hostvirtual/in personSpeaker, InstitutionTitle/Area
1/19/2024, Dr. Jeremiah Gassensmithin personDr. Dustin Patterson, UT TylerDeveloping the HK97 Virus-Like Particle as a Nanoparticle Platform for Biomaterials Construction
1/26/24, Dr. Hedieh Torabifardin personDr. Orlando Acevedo, University of MiamiMachine Learning for Chemical Reactions in Solution
2/2/24, Dr. Vladimir Gevorgyanin personDr. Michael Shevlin, MerckHigh-Throughput Experimentation for Chemists: Rationally Designed Large Arrays of Experiments for Solving Complex Chemical Problems
2/9/24, Dr. Andrés Cisnerosin personDr. Charles Brooks, University of MichiganDirecting biocatalyst design through structure-function hypotheses from ancestral phylogenetic reconstruction, molecular modeling and machine learning
2/16/24, Dr.
Jie Zheng		in personDr. Qiaobing Xu, Tufts UniversityOrgan and cell selective delivery using synthetic lipid nanoparticle for gene therapy and gene editing
2/23/24, Dr. Rudi Fasanin person, JO 3.601 9:00 AMDr. Alexander Adibekian, University of Illinois ChicagoChemoproteomics-Enabled Target Identification and Degrader Discovery
3/1/24, Dr. Ronald Smaldonein personDr. William Dichtel, Northwestern UniversityTwo Dimensional Polymers and Polymerizations
3/22/24, Dr. Amandeep Srain personDr. Renée Link, UC IrvineAligning Teaching Values and Assessment Practices with Scalable Specifications Grading
3/29/24, Dr. Filippo Romitiin personDr. David Sarlah, UIUCEmpowering Synthesis: From Unique Methods to Complex Natural Products
4/5/24, Dr. Connor Delaneyin personDr. Jennifer Schomaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison Taming nitrene reactivity with silver catalysts
4/12/24, Dr. Sheel Dodaniin personDr. Alice Walker, Wayne State University Excited state simulations of fluorescent proteins for rational design
4/19/24, Dr. Amandeep Srain personDr. Omar Farha, Northwestern UniversitySmart and Programmable Sponges from Basic Science to Implementation and Commercialization
4/26/24, Dr. Rudi Fasanin personDr. Elizabeth Parkinson, Purdue UniversityUtilizing Biocatalysis and Synthetic Chemistry to Access New Natural Products
5/3/24, Dr. Sheel Dodani in personDr. Luke Lavis, Janelia
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