Chemistry Department Colloquium

Colloquia are held on Fridays at 3:30 p.m. in Hall-Atwater Room 84, located at 52 Lawn Avenue

Fall 2025 Schedule

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Host

September 19

Louisiana State University
The Mobilization of Iron Stored in Bacterioferritin is Indispensable for Metabolic Homeostasis in Gram Negative Bacteria
Erika Taylor
September 26 Boston College Porous Crystalline Frameworks as Light Harvesting and Charge Separation Materials for Solar Fuel Conversion Michelle Chen
October 3 Lafayette College Characterizing the Peptide-Based Quorum Sensing Systems in Streptococcus Gordonii and Lactiplantibacillus Plantarum Natalia Gonzalez-Pech & Oriana Fisher
October 10 Prof. Renee Sher 九色视频 Remotely Probing Electron Movements in Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cell Materials Ben Elling
October 17 Rochester Institute of Technology Rethinking How We Teach Organic Chemistry: Innovations Afforded by Universal Design Michael Calter
October 24 UConn Order from disorder: assembly mechanisms for low complexity domain proteins Alison O'Neil
October 31 Harvard University Controlling chaos: from coherence to calorics T. David Westmoreland
November 7 University of Rhode Island Single-Molecules Sensing for Biomedical Applications and Omics Using Chemically-Tuned Nanopores Natalia Gonzalez-Pech
November 14 Williams College Investigating the Mechanistic Nuances of Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution Brian Northrop
November 21 Yale University Innovations in MRI metabolic imaging T. David Westmoreland
December 5 Eastern Connecticut State University Building Bridges in Cheminformatics: Integrating Research, Collaboration, and Education in Machine Learning–Driven Drug Discovery Colin Smith
December 12 Dartmouth  Total Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of the Nuphar Alkaloids Michael Calter