Chemistry Graduate Seminar Series

JANUARY 29

GUEST SPEAKER

Genoa Warner, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Newark, NJ

TOPIC

Safer Chemical Design: Avoiding Endocrine Disruption in Plastics

 

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FEBRUARY 12

GUEST SPEAKER

Andrew Rosen, Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Princeton University

TOPIC

Discovering Unique Electronic Structure Properties in Solid-State Materials via High-Throughput Simulations

 

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FEBRUARY 19

GUEST SPEAKER

Georg Jander, PhDProfessor

George L. McNew Distinguished Scientist 

Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and Cornell University 

Ithaca, NY 

TOPIC

Biosynthesis and Function of Cardiac Glycosides in Wallflowers

 

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FEBRUARY 26

GUEST SPEAKER

Dr. Hao Zhu

Professor

Biomedical Informatics and Genomics

Tulane University Medical School

New Orleans, LA

TOPIC

Interpretable AI: data driven and mechanistic modeling for chemical toxicity and drug safety evaluations

 

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MARCH 5

GUEST SPEAKER

Scott L. Anderson

Distinguished Professor

Henry Eyring Presidential Endowed Chair

Chemistry Dept.

Univ. of Utah

TOPIC

Effects of atomically-selected cluster size and cluster-support interactions on electrocatalytic activity

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March 26

GUEST SPEAKER

Guillermo Jimenez-Aleman

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry & Environmental Science

NJIT

TOPIC

Jasmonate Biosynthesis and Signaling: Lessons from Marchantia

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APRIL 2

GUEST SPEAKER

Mark E. Tuckerman

Professor

Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Simons Center for Computational

Physical Chemistry

New York University

TOPIC

Rapid and accurate prediction of molecular crystal structures using topological and simple physical descriptors

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APRIL 9

GUEST SPEAKER

 Arkajit Mandal

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry

Texas A&M University

TOPIC

Microscopic Insights into Cavity Modified Exciton Transport    

 

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APRIL 16

GUEST SPEAKER

Professor Chen Wang

CUNY Queens College

TOPIC
TBA

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APRIL 23

GUEST SPEAKER

Professor Derek Pratt

University of Ottawa

TOPIC

TBA

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APRIL 30

GUEST SPEAKER

Professor Milena Horvat

Jozef Stefan Institute

TOPIC

TBA

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MAY 7

GUEST SPEAKER

Professor Marcia Gonzalez-Teuber

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

TOPIC

TBA