Chemistry Departmental Seminars
Chemistry Dept. Seminars - Fall 2026
August 23 - 27 - ACS Fall
August 28 - Meredith Hartley (University of Kansas) Host: Whelan
"Lipid Dynamics and Hormone Action in Neurological Diseases with Myelin Damage"
September 4 - Fang Xu (University of Texas, San Antonio) Host: Farber
"Microscopic and Spectroscopic Studies of Novel Model Catalysts on Surfaces"
September 11 - WHITE LECTURE: Teresa Head-Gordon (UC Berkley) Host: Zahra Aghaei
September 17 & 18 - SCHOWEN LECTURE: Barbara Imperiali (MIT) Host: Hartley
Thursday, September 17 - Public Lecture (Reception to follow)
"Sugars, Saccharides, Carbohydrates, Glycans...Even the Naming of This Biomolecule is Complicated"
Friday, September 18 - Scientific Lecture
"The "Ins and Outs" of Initiating Glycoconjugate Biosynthesis at the Membrane Frontier"
September 25 - Samantha Yruegas (Rice University) Host: Shoshani
"Unraveling the Hidden Chemistry of the s-Block: New Lessons in Reactivity and Catalysis"
October 2 - Marvin Parasram (New York University) Host: Tunge
"The Photochemistry of Nitro Compounds for Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Formation"
October 9 - BREWSTER LECTURE: Christine Thomas (Ohio State University) Host: Shoshani
"Applications of Bimetallic Cooperativity in Early/Late Heterobimetallic Compounds to Bond Activation and Catalysis"
October 16 - No Seminar
Fall break begins, Chemical Biology Symposium
October 23 - MAHER LECTURE: James Mayer (Yale University) Host: Zahra Aghaei
"A Physical-Organic Approach to Redox Reactions at Solid/Liquid Interfaces"
October 25 - 27 - ACS-MWRM
October 30 - Annual Department Safety Seminar
November 6 - Ward Thompson (University of Kansas) Host: Farber
November 13 - Netz Arroyo(University of North Carolina): Host: Chang
"Monitoring the Movement of Molecules in the Body via Aptamer-based Electrochemical Sensors"
November 20 - Tim Warren (Johns Hopkins University): Host: Tim Jackson
November 27 - No Seminar
Thanksgiving Break
December 4 - Marissa Weichman (Princeton University); Hosts: Elles/Thompson
"Through the Looking Glass: Spectroscopy, Dynamics, and Chemistry of Molecules in Optical Cavities"
December 11 - No seminar (Stop Day)