Fall 2024 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 26First day of fall semester - no seminar
September 2Labor Day holiday - no seminar
September 9Prabhavie Opallage, Dunn Group, "Enhanced Biomolecular Analysis through Planar Capillary Electrophoresis"
September 16Prof. Carlo Barnaba, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas, "Mechanisms of Metabolic Adaptation: From Single Molecules to Systems Biology"
September 23Caitlin McEntee, Whelan Group, "Characterizing Interactions of MUC16 with Anti-CA125 Antibodies and Natural Killer Cells through Mass Spectrometry" 
September 30Anubhuti Srivastava, Whelan Group, "Selection of Aptamers and Characterization of Antibody Recognition Pattern for Ovarian Cancer Biomarkers"
October 7Mattie Gordon, Soper Group "Microfluidic solid-phase isolation of extracellular vesicle mRNA for gene expression profiling of breast cancer" 
October 14Fall break - no seminar
October 18 (Friday)Special presentation: Wendell Coltro, Federal University of Goiás, Brazil “Microfluidic paper-based analytical devices: Do-it-yourself approaches”
October 21No seminar
October 25 (Friday)Prof. Parry Hashemi, Imperial College of London
October 28Aleesa Chua, Desaire Group - "Addressing Non-Biological Variability in the Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Extracted Lipids from Latent Fingerprints" 
November 4Boluwatife Dosunmu, Soper Group - "Analyzing Extracellular Vesicles as a Biomarker for Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer" 
November 8 (Friday)Adams Lecture featuring Prof. David R. Walt, Wyss Institute, Harvard University, "Why Ultrasensitivity Matters for Clinical Diagnosis"
Faculty Search Seminar Series

Monday, November 11, 4 - 5 pm (1154 Gray Little Hall), “Microfluidic Tools for Realizing Precision Medicine”Dr. Malgorzata Witek, University of Kansas

Thursday, November 14, 4 - 5 pm (1154 Gray Little Hall), “Stochastic Electrochemistry for Tracking Attoliter Enzymatic Activity and Detecting Drugs in Liquid Aerosols”, Dr. Kathryn Vannoy, Leiden University

Monday, November 18, 12 - 1 pm (1146 Gray Little Hall) “Breaking Boundaries in Capillary Electrophoresis: Harnessing Cutting-Edge Detection Techniques”, Dr. Miyuru De Silva, University of Kansas

Thursday, November 21, 4 - 5 pm (1154 Gray Little Hall) “Exploring Functional Nucleic Acids for Biosensor Development”, Dr. Dingran Chang, Northwestern University

November 18Nishama Mohotti, Hartley group "Investigating Lipid Population Dynamics and Cholesterol Ester Regulatory Mechanisms for Targeted Remyelination Therapeutics" 
November 25Deepak Timalsina, Wang Group "Development and Optimization of SPE-UPLC-MS/MS Method for Trace-Level Detection of PFAS in Environmental Samples"
December 2Prof. Ming Zhao, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas
December 6 (Friday) Prof. Lingjun Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chemistry Departmental Seminar
December 9Madeline Isom, Desaire Group - long talk