CHEMISTRY SEMINAR SERIES
The Department of Chemistry at Georgia State University hosts a weekly seminar series, which presents speakers from academia, industrial corporations and laboratories. The departmental seminars provide a forum where renowned and emerging chemists are invited to present their cutting-edge research and discoveries to Georgia State University students and faculty. Unless otherwise noted, seminars are usually held each Friday at 3:30 PM in 101 Petit Science Center. Refreshments are served at 3:15 p.m. prior to the seminar.
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Spring 2023 Seminars
The seminars will be held in 101 Petit Science Center each Friday from 3:30-4:30 PM (including Q&A). Refreshments served at 3:15 PM prior to the seminar.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
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Friday, Jan. 13th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Reserved by the Chemistry Department | "TBA" | Reserved by the Chemistry Department |
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Friday, Jan. 20th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Reserved by the Chemistry Department | "TBA" | Reserved by the Chemistry Department |
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Friday, Jan. 27th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Reserved by the Chemistry Department | "TBA" | Reserved by the Chemistry Department |
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Friday, Feb. 3rd 3:30-4:30 PM |
Reserved by the Chemistry Department | "TBA" | Reserved by the Chemistry Department |
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Friday, Feb. 10th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Reserved by the Chemistry Department | "TBA" | Reserved by the Chemistry Department |
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Friday, Feb. 17th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Reserved by the Chemistry Department | "TBA" | Reserved by the Chemistry Department |
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Friday, Feb. 24th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Lei Li |
"TBA" | Dr. Giovanni Gadda |
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Friday, Mar. 3rd 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. David M. Jenkins |
"TBA" | Dr. Kostiantyn Marichev |
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Friday, Mar. 10th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Kostiantyn Marichev |
"TBA" | Dr. Giovanni Gadda |
| Friday, Mar. 17th | Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break |
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Friday, Mar. 24th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Bill Wuest |
"TBA" | Dr. Binghe Wang |
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Friday, Mar. 31st 2:00-5:00 PM |
Awards Ceremony | Awards Ceremony | Awards Ceremony |
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Friday, Apr. 7th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Elizabeth Draganova |
"TBA" | Dr. Giovanni Gadda |
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Friday, April 14th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Simone Raugei |
"TBA" |
Dr. Ivaylo Ivanov |
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Friday, April 21st 3:30-4:30 PM |
Reserved | Reserved | Reserved |
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Friday, May 12th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Dong Wang |
"TBA" | Dr. Ivaylo Ivanov |
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Friday, May 19th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Matthew McDowell |
"TBA" |
Dr. Xuefei Li |
Fall 2023 Seminars
The seminars will be held in 101 Petit Science Center each Friday from 3:30-4:30 PM (including Q&A). Refreshments served at 3:15 PM prior to the seminar.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
Fall 2022 Seminars
Fall 2022 Seminars
The seminars will be held in 101 Petit Science Center each Friday from 3:30-4:30 PM (including Q&A). Refreshments served at 3:15 PM prior to the seminar.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
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Friday, Sept. 2nd 3:30-4:30 PM
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Dr. Weiping Tang |
“New Synthetic Methods in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Drug Discovery by Targeted Protein Degradation” | Dr. Lei Li |
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Friday, Sept. 9th 3:30-4:30 PM
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Dr. Sébastien Laulhé |
"Harnessing Electron-Donor-Acceptor Complexes to Enable Photo-Induced Transformations" | Dr. Kostiantyn Marichev |
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Friday, Sept. 16th 3:30-4:30 PM
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Dr. Malika Jeffries-El |
"Design and synthesis of organic electronic materials.” | Dr. Suazette Mooring |
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Friday, Sept. 23rd 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Alberto Perez |
"Predicting binding modes in flexible systems: application to protein-peptide and protein-Nucleic Acid interactions" | Dr. Samer Gozem |
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Friday, Sept 30th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Andrei Sanov |
"Just the Forest, No Trees: Electron Interactions with Molecular Networks" | Dr. Samer Gozem |
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Friday, Oct. 7th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Eric Strieter University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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“Demystifying Deubiquitinases” | Dr. Jun Yin |
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Friday, Oct. 14th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Danzhou Yang |
"DNA G-quadruplex: Structure, Function, and Drug Targeting" | Dr. David Wilson |
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Friday, Oct. 21st 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. David Boehr
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"Allosteric networks in multi-enzyme complexes" | Dr. Donald Hamelberg |
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Friday, Oct. 28th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Daniel Rabinovich |
"Silver Chalcogenone Complexes with Anticancer Activity" |
Dr. Kathryn Grant
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Friday, Nov. 4th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Shalin Pan |
"Advanced Scanning Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Methods for Analyzing Surfaces of Catalytic Electrode Materials" |
Dr. Gangli Wang
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Friday, Nov. 11th 3:30-4:30 PM
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Dr. Vladmir Torchilin |
"Advances in engineering combination nanomedicines" | Dr. Binghe Wang |
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Friday, Nov. 18th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Courtney Aldrich
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"Rationale Design of Antibiotics for Mycobacteria that Overcome Resistance" | Dr. Jun Yin |
| Friday, Nov. 25th | Thanksgiving Break | Thanksgiving Break | Thanksgiving Break |
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Friday, Dec. 2nd 3:30-4:30 PM |
"Dr. Donald Becker" |
“Exploring redox mechanisms in proline metabolism” | Dr. Giovanni Gadda |
Spring 2022 Seminars
Spring 2022 Seminars
The seminars will be held in 101 Petit Science Center each Friday from 3:30-4:30 PM (including Q&A). Refreshments served at 3:15 PM prior to the seminar.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
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Friday, Jan. 14th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Reserved by the chemistry department | “TBA" | Reserved by the chemistry department |
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Friday, Jan. 21st 3:30-4:30 PM |
Reserved by the chemistry department | “TBA” | Reserved by the chemistry department |
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Friday, Jan. 28th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Reserved by the chemistry department | “TBA” | Reserved by the chemistry department |
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Friday, Feb. 4th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Reserved by the chemistry department
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"TBA" | Reserved by the chemistry department |
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Friday, Feb. 11th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Reserved by the chemistry department
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"TBA" | Reserved by the chemistry department |
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Friday, Feb. 18th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Reserved by the chemistry department
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“TBA” | Reserved by the chemistry department |
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Friday, Mar. 4th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Xi Chen University of California, Davis
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"Chemoenzymatic Strategies for Carbohydrate Synthesis." | Dr. Lei LI |
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Friday, Mar. 11th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Alena Moon University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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"An Exploration of Students’ Conceptions of Light and Light-matter Interactions in the Context of Fundamental Experiments" | Dr. Suazette Mooring |
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Friday, Mar. 18th 3:30-4:30 PM |
SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK |
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Friday, Mar. 25th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Ian Tonks |
"Ti-Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer Reactions: Harnessing the TiII/TiIV Redox Couple for New Transformations" |
Dr. Kostiantyn Marichev
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Friday, Apr. 1st 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Jimmie Weaver |
"Contrathermodynamic Catalysis and the Development of Synthetic Photosynthesis" | Dr. Kostiantyn Marichev |
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Friday, Apr. 8th 2:30-5:00 PM |
Awards Ceremony
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Awards Ceremony | Awards Ceremony |
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Friday, Apr. 15th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Konrad Patkowski |
“Adventures in Intermolecular Space." | Dr. Samer Gozem |
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Friday, Apr. 22nd 3:30-4:30 PM |
Dr. Graham Moran
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"Dihydropyrimidine Dehydrogenase: Complex, Cryptic and Just Odd" | Dr. Giovanni Gadda |
Fall 2021 Seminars
Fall Seminars
Seminars will be held each Friday from 3:30-4:30 PM (including Q&A) via Webex until further notice.
Once policies allow, the seminars may commence in 101 Petit Science Center. Refreshments served at 3:15 PM prior to the seminar.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
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Friday, Sept. 3rd 3:30-4:30 PM |
Georgia State University |
“Advanced Computational Modeling of Molecular Machines Involved in Transcription Initiation” | Dr. Samer Gozem |
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Friday, Sept. 10th 3:30-4:30 PM |
University of Rhode Island |
“Good Teaching is Inclusive Teaching – Pedagogy for Meaning and Purpose” | Drs. Dabney Dixon and Suazette Mooring |
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Friday, Sept. 17th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Oakland University |
“Chemical and Biosensors for Continuous Sensing for Environmental and Health Applications” | Dr. Lei Li |
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Friday, Sept. 24th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Northeastern University |
"Unconventional Selection and Optimization Approaches to Find the Right One" | Dr. Binghe Wang |
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Friday, Oct. 1st 3:30-4:30 PM |
San Jose State University |
"Examining epistemic resources students engage to make sense of atomic level representations of precipitation reactions" | Dr. Suazette Mooring |
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Friday, Oct. 8th 3:30-4:30 PM |
The University of Oklahoma |
“Harnessing Metal Carbene Chemistry to Drive Drug Discovery” | Dr. Kostiantyn Marichev |
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Friday, Oct. 15th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Auburn University |
"Metal ammonia complexes: From gas-phase atom-like molecules to liquid metals and novel 2D and 3D-materials" | Dr. Samer Gozem |
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Friday, Oct. 22nd 3:30-4:30 PM |
University of Missouri |
“Glucan Substructures Associated with the Host Adaptation of Influenza Viruses” | Dr. Lei Li |
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Friday, Oct. 29th 3:30-4:30 PM |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
"Adventures with Anomalous Aziridines" | Dr. Kostiantyn Marichev |
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Friday, Nov. 5th 3:30-4:30 PM |
California State University, Fresno |
"Quantum Chemistry: From the General Chemistry Curriculum to the Frontiers of Research" | Dr. Samer Gozem |
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Friday, Nov. 12th 3:30-4:30 PM |
Florida State University |
"Energy of Chemical Bonds as a Driving Force for Organic Reactions: Molecular Springs, Stereoelectronic Frustration, and Electron Upconversion" | Dr. Kostiantyn Marichev |
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Friday, Nov. 19th 3:30-4:30 PM |
University of Cambridge |
"Translational Chemical Biology" | Dr. Binghe Wang |
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Friday, Nov 26th 3:30-4:30 PM |
HOLIDAY | THANKSGIVING BREAK | HOLIDAY |
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Friday, Dec. 3rd 3:30-4:30 PM |
Georgia State University |
"FTIR Difference Spectroscopy for the Study of Pigments in Proteins" | Dr. Samer Gozem |
Spring 2021 Seminars
| Time & Place | Speaker | Title | Host |
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Friday, January 22, 2021 Online: Webex |
Dr. Suazette Mooring |
“From General Chemistry to Biochemistry: Students’ Ideas About Acid-equilibrium Concepts.” | Dr. Samer Gozem |
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Friday, January 29, 2021 Online: Webex |
Dr. Matthias Waegele |
“Elucidating the Molecular Origins of the Product Selectivity of Electrocatalytic Reactions.” | Dr. Samer Gozem |
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Friday, February 5, 2021 Online: Webex |
Dr. Huw Davies |
“Catalyst Controlled C-H Functionalization.” | Dr. Kostiantyn O Marichev |
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Friday, February 12, 2021 Online: Webex |
Dr. Jeremy Mills |
“Rational Design of Fluorescent Biosensors Using Non-canonical Amino Acids.”
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Dr. Jun Yin |
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Friday, February 19, 2021 Online: Webex |
Dr. Liming Zhang |
“Gold Catalysis in Asymmetric Transformations: From Metal-Ligand Cooperation to Stereoselective Glycosylation.”
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Dr. Kostiantyn O Marichev |
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Friday, February 26, 2021 Online: Webex |
Dr. Ginger Schultz |
“The Development of Expertise in Structure Elucidation using NMR Spectroscopy.” | Dr. Suazette Mooring |
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Friday, March 5, 2021 Online: Webex |
Dr. Raphael Franzini |
“DNA-Encoded Chemical Libraries: Of Needles and Haystacks.” | Dr. Binghe Wang |
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Friday, March 12, 2021 Online: Webex |
Dr. Uttam Tambar |
“Stereoselective Functionalization of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons.” | Dr. Kostiantyn O Marichev |
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Friday, March 19, 2021
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SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK |
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Friday, March 26, 2021
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STEM Conference | STEM Conference | STEM Conference |
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Friday, April 2, 2021 Online: Webex |
Dr. Mentewab Ayalew |
“A Link Between Antibiotic Resistance and Metal Uptake in the Model Plant Arabidopsis.” | Dr. Dabney Dixon |
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Friday, April 9, 2021
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CGSA SYMPOSIUM | CGSA SYMPOSIUM | CGSA SYMPOSIUM |
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Friday, April 16, 2021 Online: Webex |
Dr. Allan Gamble |
“Building Linkers for Bioorthogonal Click-to-Release Strategies.” | Dr. Binghe Wang |
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Friday, April 23, 2021 Online: Webex |
Dr. Alejandro Bugarin |
“Triazabutadienes: Photoinduced Synthesis of Anilides, Bisaryls, and Other Useful Building Blocks.”
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Dr. Kostiantyn O Marichev |
Fall 2020 Seminars
Spring 2020 Seminars
| Time & Place | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Friday, January 31, 2020 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Special Seminar | “Chemical Biology Approaches to Understand Bacterial Polysaccharide” | Dr. Kathryn Grant |
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Monday, February 10, 2020 3:45 PM 124 PSC |
Special Seminar | “Biocatalytic Asymmetric Organic Synthesis; Drug Development for Neurodegenerative Diseases” | Dr. Kathryn Grant |
| Friday, February 14, 2020 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Special Seminar |
“The Power of Diazo Compounds in Metal-Catalyzed Cascade Reactions and Cycloaddition”
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Dr. Kathryn Grant |
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Tuesday, February 18, 2020 3:45PM 124 PSC |
Special Seminar |
“Amyloid: Structures, Dynamics and Interactions”
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Dr. Kathryn Grant |
| Friday, February 21, 2020 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Special Seminar | “Rapamycin-inspired Macrocycles as a New Source of Chemical Probes and Drug Leads” | Dr. Kathryn Grant |
| Friday, February 28, 2020 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
Canceled |
Canceled | Canceled |
| Friday, March 6, 2020 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Giulia Palermo |
“Unraveling the Molecular Basis of the Crispr-CAS9 Genome Editing Revolution Through Multiscale Simulations” | Dr. Ivaylo Ivanov |
| Friday, March 13, 2020 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Robert Stanley |
“Extremophilic DNA Repair – Some Like it Hot, and Others Not” | Dr. Samer Gozem |
| Friday, March 20, 2020 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
SPRING BREAK |
SPRING BREAK
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SPRING BREAK |
| Friday, March 27, 2020 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
CGSA Symposium |
CANCELED | CANCELED |
| Friday, April 3, 2020 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
CANCELED | CANCELED | CANCELED |
| Friday, April 10, 2020 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
CANCELED |
CANCELED
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CANCELED |
| Friday, April 17, 2020 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
CANCELED | CANCELED | CANCELED |
| Friday, April 24, 2020 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
CANCELED | CANCELED | CANCELED |
Fall 2019 Seminars
| Time & Place | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Friday, August 30, 2019 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
Georgia State University |
“The Yin and Yang of Medicine: the Story of Carbon Monoxide.” | Dr. Samer Gozem |
| Friday, September 6, 2019 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Kimberly Cortes |
“The Use of Biometrics to Assess How Students View and Cognitively Process Molecular Models Across a Chemistry Curriculum.” | Dr. Suazette Mooring |
| Friday, September 13, 2019 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Jeffrey Johnston |
“New Chemical Tools and Strategies that Enable Discoveries in Natural Product-Based Therapeutic Development.” | Dr. Hao Xu |
| Friday, September 20, 2019 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
American Chemical Society | “Beyond the Bench: Exploring Science Careers Outside of the Lab Coat.” | Dr. Dabney Dixon |
| Friday, September 27, 2019 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. James (JC) Gumbart |
“The “When” and “Where” of Protein Folding.” | Drs. Ivaylo Ivanov & Samer Gozem |
| Friday, October 4, 2019 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Abhishek Singharoy |
“Integrative Modeling of Phenotypes from Atoms.” | Dr. Ivaylo Ivanov |
| Friday, October 11, 2019 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Renee S. Cole |
“Enhancing Learning by Promoting and Assessing More than Content Knowledge.” | Dr. Suazette Mooring |
| Friday, October 18, 2019 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Raquel L Lieberman |
“How does a protein’s structure spell the difference between health and disease? Structure and misfolding of glaucoma-associated myocilin.” | Dr. Jun Yin |
| Friday, October 25, 2019 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Lawrence McIntosh |
“Regulation of ETS Transcription Factors: Auto-inhibition and Fuzzy Complexes.” | Dr. Gregory Poon |
| Friday, November 1, 2019 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Laura Finzi |
“DNA Supercoiling Catalyzes Protein-mediated Loops in DNA Under Tension and Generates Large, Dynamic Topological Domains.” |
Dr. Gregory Poon |
| Friday, November 8, 2019 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Wilbur Lam |
“Engineering Medical Microsystems for Hematologic and Point-of-care Diagnostic Applications.” | Dr. Suri Iyer |
| Friday, November 15, 2019 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Jeffrey Gildersleeve |
“Understanding and Exploiting Immune Recognition of Carbohydrates.” | Dr. Jun Yin |
| Friday, November 22, 2019 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Catherine Murphy |
“Gold Nanocrystals: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Ecology.” | Dr. Ning Fang |
| Friday, December 6th, 2019 3:30 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Yihan Shao
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“Multiscale Modeling of Enzymatic Reactions and Bioluminescence.” | Dr. Samer Gozem |
Spring 2019 Seminars
| Time & Place | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Friday, January 11, 2019 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Tentatively reserved by the Chemistry Department | Tentatively reserved by the Chemistry Department | Tentatively reserved by the Chemistry Department |
| Friday, January 18, 2019 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Tao Liang Princeton University |
“Transition Metal Catalysis Enabled Novel Organic Transformations“ | Chemistry Department |
| Friday, January 25, 2019 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Monika Raj |
“Site-Selective Chemical Modification of Peptides and Applications.” | Chemistry Department |
| Friday, February 1, 2019 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Tentatively reserved by the Chemistry Department | Tentatively reserved by the Chemistry Department | Tentatively reserved by the Chemistry Department |
| Friday, February 8, 2019 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Tentatively reserved by the Chemistry Department | Tentatively reserved by the Chemistry Department | Tentatively reserved by the Chemistry Department |
| Friday, February 15, 2019 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Pavel Anzenbacher Jr. |
“Supramolecular Assays: Fluorescence Sensing of Molecules and Ions.” | Dr.’s Binghe Wang and Samer Gozem |
| Friday, February 22, 2019 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Arsalan Mirjafari Florida Gulf Coast University |
“Ionic Liquids for Addressing Unmet Needs in Energy, Materials and Medicine.” | Dr. Jun Yin |
| Friday, March 1, 2019 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
CANCELED | CANCELED | CANCELED |
| Friday, March 8, 2019 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
CANCELED |
CANCELED
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CANCELED |
| Friday, March 15, 2019 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Massimo Olivucci |
“Recent Progress in QM/MM Automatic Rhodopsin Modeling and its Application to the Search for Fluorescent Proteins.” | Dr. Samer Gozem |
| Friday, March 22, 2019 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK |
| Friday, March 29, 2019 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Lei Wang |
“Genetically Encoding New Chemical Reactivity in Live Cells.” | Dr. George Wang |
| Friday, April 5, 2019 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Xiangming Ji |
“Metabolic Reprogramming In Patients With Lung Diseases.” | Dr. Gregory Poon |
| Friday, April 12, 2019 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
CGSA Symposium | CGSA Symposium | CGSA Symposium |
| Friday, April 19, 2019 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Jacob Durrant |
“Molecular Dynamics Simulations of LARP1, a Cancer-Relevant Drug Target.” | Dr. Donald Hamelberg |
Fall 2018 Seminars
| Time & Place | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Friday, September 7, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. George O’Doherty |
“De Novo Asymmetric Synthesis for Carbohydrate Stereochemical Structure Activity Relationship (S-SAR) Studies.” | Dr. Suri Iyer |
| Friday, September 14, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Thomas Cheatham |
“Convergence, Reproducibility and Accuracy – There are Still Some Surprises in Modeling the Structure and Dynamics of Nucleic Acids.” | Dr. Ivaylo Ivanov |
| Friday, September 21, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Lei Fang |
“Ladderizing Conjugated Organic Pi-systems.” | Dr. Hao Xu |
| Friday, September 28, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Natarajan Kannan |
“Unraveling the Conformational Heterogeneity of Oncoproteins: Implications for Drug Design and Personalized Cancer Therapy.“ | Dr. Donald Hamelberg |
| Friday, October 5, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. H. Lee Woodcock |
“Making the Inaccessible, Accessible: Novel Techniques for Obtaining Accurate QM/MM Free Energies at Affordable Costs.” (+ An Aside About Engineering a Plastic “Eating” Enzyme)
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Dr. Samer Gozem |
| Friday, October 12, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Jen Heemstra |
“Small-molecule Detection and Enantiopurity Measurement Using DNA-based Sensors.” | Dr.’s Binghe Wang & Hao Xu |
| Friday, October 19, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Zhao-Qing Luo |
“Ubiquitination Lessons Taught by a Bacterial Pathogen.” | Dr. Jun Yin |
| Friday, October 26, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Steffen Lindert
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“Computational Protein Structure Prediction Guided by Covalent Labeling and SID Mass Spectrometry Data.” | Dr. Ivaylo Ivanov |
| Friday, November 2, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Hak Soo Choi |
“Targeted Contrast Agents for Bioimaging and Nanomedicine.” | Dr. Maged Henary |
| Friday, November 9, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Oleh Taratula |
“Theranostic Nanomedicine Platforms for Cancer Treatment.” | Dr. Maged Henary |
| Friday, November 16, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Eric Ashley Merck Research Laboratory |
“The Molecules of Medicine and How to Make Them.” | Dr. Hao Xu |
| Friday, November 30, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Zhiqun Lin |
“Permanently Ligated Hairy Nanocrystals with Precisely Controlled Dimensions, Compositions, Surface Chemistry, and Architectures Enabled by Nonlinear Block Copolymers for Solar Cells, Photocatalysis, LEDs and Batteries.” | Dr. Ning Fang |
Spring 2018 Seminars
| Time & Place | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Thursday, January 4, 2018 4:30 PM 124 PSC |
Dr. Alexander Lippert |
“Shaping Light and Matter to Image and Visualize the Chemistry of Life” | Chemistry Department |
| Friday, January 12, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Hien Nguyen |
“Catalyst-Controlled Glycosylation and Fluorination Reactions” | Dr. Hao Xu |
| Tuesday, January 16, 2018 4:30 PM 124 PSC |
Dr. Christopher Kelly |
“Single and Two-Electron Processes Enable Practical Routes to Valuable Synthons” | Chemistry Department |
| Wednesday, January 24, 2018 4:30 PM 124 PSC |
Dr. Maggie He |
“From Shapeshifting Molecules to Walking on Graphene”
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Chemistry Department |
| Friday, January 26, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Shuibing Chen |
“Stem Cell-based Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery” | Dr.’s Binghe Wang and Hao Xu |
| Friday, February 2, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Rafaela Feresin |
“The Promising Role of Berries and Their Bioactive Compounds in Human Health” | Dr. Gregory Poon |
| Friday, February 9, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Xin-Shan Ye |
“Carbohydrate Synthesis: from Oligosaccharides to Polysaccharides” | Dr. George Wang |
| Friday, February 16, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Vladimir Popik |
“Light Chemistry: Photo-“Click” and “Unclick” Reactions, Photo-CORMs, Photo-Nucleases, Etc.” |
Dr. Binghe Wang |
| Friday, February 23, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Matthew Torres |
“Hidden in Plain Site: Enhanced Discovery of Functional Posttranslational Modifications (PTMs) Through Computationally-driven Experiments.” | Dr. Jun Yin |
| Friday, March 2, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Joseph Fox |
“Fast Bioorthogonal Chemistry: Discovery, Development and Applications” | Dr. Suri S. Iyer |
| Friday, March 9, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Linda B. Bloom |
“The Clamp Loader: Lord of the Rings” | Dr. Ivaylo Ivanov |
| Friday, March 16, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK |
| Friday, March 23, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
CGSA SYMPOSIUM | CGSA SYMPOSIUM | CGSA SYMPOSIUM |
| Friday, March 30, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Yan Yu |
“Spatially Organizing Biointerfaces to Interrogate Immune Functions” | Dr. Gangli Wang |
| Friday, April 6, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Tigran V. Chalikian |
“Volumetric Properties of Tetraplex DNA Structures” | Dr. Gregory Poon |
| Friday, April 13, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Andrea Cochran |
“Chemical probe discovery and functional studies for human bromodomain proteins” | Dr. Jun Yin |
| Friday, April 20, 2018 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Shaowei Chen |
“Nanoparticle Electrochemistry: An Interfacial Perspective” | Dr. Gangli Wang |
Fall 2017 Seminars
| Time & Place | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Friday, September 1, 2017 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Modi Wetzler |
“From the Smallest of Small Molecules to Peptides and Beyond: Therapeutic Agents Targeting Intellectual Disability and Behavior” | Dr. Jun Yin |
| Friday, September 8, 2017 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Lacey McNally |
“Molecular Imaging with Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography” | Dr. Maged Henary |
| Friday, September 15, 2017 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Mark Stockman |
“Spaser as a Biological Probe and Theranostic Agent” | Dr. Binghe Wang |
| Friday, September 22, 2017 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Amanda Hargrove |
“Deciphering Patterns in Selective Small Molecule: RNA Interactions” | Dr. Binghe Wang |
| Friday, September 29, 2017 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Thota Ganesh |
“Development of EP2 Receptor Antagonists to Treat Status Epilepticus and Alzheimer’s Disease” | Dr. Binghe Wang |
| Friday, October 6, 2017 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Patrick M. Woster |
“Targeted Therapy Using Epigenetic Modulators” | Dr. Binghe Wang |
| Friday, October 13, 2017 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Florian Muller |
“Pro-drug Derivatives of the Natural Product Enolase Inhibitor SF2312 with Utility in Precision Oncology” | Dr. Maged Henary |
| Friday, October 20, 2017 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Huilin Li |
“Cryo-EM Reveals How Eukaryotes establish the DNA Replication Fork” | Dr. Ivaylo Ivanov |
| Friday, October 27, 2017 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Gufeng Wang |
“Super Resolution Optical Microscopy and Light-Actuated Molecular Machines” | Dr. Ning Fang |
| Friday, November 3, 2017 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Steve Bruner |
“Structural Approach to the Mechanism and Function of Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways” | Dr. Jun Yin |
| Friday, November 10, 2017 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Christopher Easley |
“Fast, Tiny, Bioanalytical Tools for Dynamic Studies of Endocrine Tissue Function” | Dr. Gangli Wang |
| Friday, November 17, 2017 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Daniel L. Comins |
“Chiral Dihydropyridones as Intermediates for Alkaloid Synthesis and Mechanism Studies” | Dr. Binghe Wang |
| Friday, December 1, 2017 3:45 PM 101 PSC |
Dr. Xiaolin Cheng |
“Joining Neutron Scattering and Simulations for Complex Biomembranes” | Dr. Ivaylo Ivanov |
| Special Monday, December 11, 2017 4:00 PM 362 PSC |
Dr. Jeff Wereszczynski Illinois Institute of Technology
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TBA | Dr. Ivaylo Ivanov |
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Department of Chemistry
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Directors of Undergraduate Studies
Joan Mutanyatta-Comar
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Georgia State University
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262 Natural Science Center
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Phone: 404-413-5554
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