Fall 2025 Analytical Seminars

Mondays at 3:30pm in Simons Auditorium, West Campus [unless otherwise noted].

This table lists the dates of all of this semester's analytical seminars. Please check back, as this page is updated throughout the academic year. For more information, please contact Amanda Morrow.

DatePresenter/Topic

August 18

First day of classes – no seminar

August 25

Matt Zupan (Hartley Group) "Uncovering the complex role of microglia in mediating the central nervous system response to demyelination"

September 1 

Labor Day

September 8

Ziyu Zhu (Hartley Group) “Thyroid Hormone Regulation of Oligodendrocyte Lineage Progression: Insights from In Vivo Demyelination Studies and Single-Cell Transcriptomics"

Friday, September 12

Chemistry Departmental Seminar (Werner Lecture): Prof. Martyn Boutelle, Professor of Biomedical Sensors Engineering, Associate Provost Estates Planning, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK 

"Developing Microfluidic Chemical Sensors and Biosensors for Critical Care of Patient Monitoring"

September 15

Suresh Shivanka (Soper Group) “Nanoscale Enzymatic Bioreactors Coupled with Solid-State In-Plane Nanopores for Peptide Fingerprinting”

September 22

Ashten Gentry (Whelan Group) "Addressing Racial Disparities in CA125 Quantification via Targeted Mass Spectrometry"

September 29

Rachel Saylor, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Oberlin College 

“To Fluoresce or Not to Fluoresce: An Investigation of Neurochemicals Implicated in Anxiety using CE-LIF”

October 6

No seminar

October 13

Fall Break/ACS Midwest Regional Meeting

October 20

Bhagya Samarakoon (Whelan Group)“Selection and Optimization of Aptamers for Fallopian Tube Biomarkers”

October 27

Kathryn Riley, Associate Professor, Swarthmore College 

"Recent advances in the analysis of nanoscale materials using capillary electrophoresis" 

November 3

Ruvini O. Rodrigo (Berrie Group) "Investigating the Structure of Genetically Engineered Material-Binding Peptide Assemblies on Gold"

November 10

Nimodi Uduwela (Berrie Group) “Fabrication of Tunable Bimetallic Nano Plasmonic Arrays for Proximity-Enhanced Cascade Enzymatic Systems and Bio-sensing”

November 17

No seminar

November 24

Pramodi Vithanage (Soper Group) “Coupled nano-CE and Resistive Pulse Sensing of Amino Acids for Peptide Sequencing”

December 1

No seminar