Fall 2026 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 24

No seminar (first day of classes)

August 31

Braysen Miller (Desaire Group) "Feature Down-Selection to Improve Supervised Classification by Machine Learning on Mass Spectrometry Imaging Data"

September 7

No seminar (Labor Day holiday)

September 14

Dr. Yangguang Ou, Assistant Professor, University of Vermont, "Expanding fast scan cyclic voltammetry at carbon fiber microelectrodes to new molecular spaces"

September 21

Jack Petersen (Hartley Group) "Defining the Mechanism of Cholesterol Esterification in Myelin Damage and Repair"

September 28

Uddala Pasquel Handi (Dunn Group) "Advancing Capillary Electrophoresis for Sensitive Detection & Biophysical Characterization"

October 5

Samson Aruna (Whelan Group) "Towards Early Detection: Capillary Electrophoresis Strategies for Characterizing Glycoproteins and Protein-Aptamer Interactions”

October 12

Jane March (Whelan Group) "Improving detection and sample preparation strategies for ovarian cancer biomarker CA125"

October 19

No seminar (fall break)

October 26

Caitlin McEntee (Whelan Group) – long talk

November 2

Pramuddha Rathnayake (Dunn Group) – short talk 

November 9

Ethan Gomez (Johnson Group) – short talk

November 16

Boluwatife Dosunmu (Soper Group) – long talk

November 23

Tharakee Degambadage (Berrie Group) – short talk

November 30

Aleesa Chua (Desaire Group) – long talk

December 7

Deepak Timalsina (Wang Group) – long talk