Chemistry Graduate Seminar Series
Welcome to the Spring 2022 Graduate Seminar Series.
Our Graduate Seminars are held every Wednesday at 1:00pm.
Seminar Coordinators:
Dr. Genoa Warner - grw4@njit.edu
Dr. Amir Varkouhi - amir.k.varkouhi@njit.edu
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26
WEBEX:
https://njit.webex.com/njit/j.php?MTID=mdf236ae4dd5372831eabc5948adb47aa
Meeting number (access code): 2621 266 5639
Meeting password: CES
TIME: 1:00PM-2:20PM
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Farnaz Shakib
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry & EVSC
NJIT
Newark, NJ
TOPIC
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2
WEBEX:
https://njit.webex.com/njit/j.php?MTID=mac60e65a05d9f87200c4c8aff88fb2bc
Access code: 2622 118 6331
Meeting password: CES
TIME: 1:00PM-2:20PM
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Chris Kassotis
Assistant Professor
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences &
Department of Pharmacology
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
TOPIC
Novel Environmental Endocrine Disrupting Chemical Mixtures and Metabolic Health Disruption
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9
WEBEX:
https://njit.webex.com/njit/j.php?MTID=mac60e65a05d9f87200c4c8aff88fb2bc
Meeting access code: 26221186331
Password: CES
TIME: 1:00PM-2:20PM
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Melik Demirel
Huck Endowed Chair Professor in Biomimetic Materials
Penn State University
State College, PA
TOPIC
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16
WEBEX:
https://njit.webex.com/njit/j.php?MTID=mac60e65a05d9f87200c4c8aff88fb2bc
Meeting access code: 26221186331
Password: CES
TIME: 1:00PM-2:20PM
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Anindita (Dia) Das
Department of Chemistry
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Tx
TOPIC
Tuning Properties of Group 11 Metal Clusters through Ligand Shell Design
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23
WEBEX:
https://njit.webex.com/njit/j.php?MTID=mac60e65a05d9f87200c4c8aff88fb2bc
Meeting number: 2622 118 6331
Meeting password: CES
TIME: 1:00PM-2:20PM
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Frank C. Spano
Department of Chemistry
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
TOPIC
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2
LOCATION: Tiernan Hall, Lecture Hall 2
TIME: 1:00PM-2:20PM
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Kirk Schanze
Robert A. Welch Distinguished University Professor
University of Texas at San Antonio
Editor-in-Chief of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
TOPIC
Conjugated Polyelectrolytes in Biosensing and Disinfection
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
LOCATION: Tiernan Hall, Lecture Hall 2
TIME: 1:00PM-2:20PM
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. John Reinfelder
Professor
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers
New Brunswick, NJ
TOPIC
Mercury in the marine environment from the Hackensack River to the Southern Ocean
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23
LOCATION: WEBEX
https://njit.webex.com/njit/j.php?MTID=ma36b5af243ef3dd95226eac2f4812268
TIME: 1:00PM-2:20PM
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Gregory C. Fu
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
TOPIC
Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions:
A Radical Alternative to SN1 and SN2 Reactions
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30
LOCATION: Tiernan hall, Lect. 2
TIME: 1:00PM-2:20PM
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Xiaodong Michael Shu
Associate Chair
Department of Chemistry & EVSC
University of South Florida
Tampa, Fl
TOPIC
The Two Interlocked Wheels in Chemistry Research:
Rational Design and Serendipity
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6
LOCATION: Tiernan hall, Lect. 2
TIME: 1:00PM-2:20PM
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Sara Casado-Zapico
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry & EVSC
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ
TOPIC
The New Detectives: Interdisciplinary Forensic Sciences
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2022
LOCATION: Tiernan hall, Lect. 2
TIME: 1:00PM-2:20PM
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Bin Xu
Assistant Professor
Columbia University Medical School
New York, NY
TOPIC
Understanding Genetic Contribution to Neuropsychiatric Disorders Using Patient iPSC Derived Models
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2022
WEBEX:
https://njit.webex.com/njit/j.php?MTID=ma36b5af243ef3dd95226eac2f4812268
TIME: 1:00PM-2:20PM
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Jon M. Fukuto
Professor of Chemistry and Chair
Department of Chemistry
Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, CA
TOPIC
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27
WEBEX:
https://njit.webex.com/njit/j.php?MTID=ma131fda277980d0b2f96c60df7c88c8c
Meeting number: 2621 165 2481
Meeting password: NmbmssWm325
TIME: 1:00PM-2:20PM
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Ameet J. Pinto
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
TOPIC
Managing the drinking water microbiome
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4
OPTIONAL ATTENDANCE
WEBEX:
https://njit.webex.com/njit/j.php?MTID=ma36c0efbccd3176c875d112fbc50a7e4
Meeting number: 2621 165 2481
Meeting password: NmbmssWm325
TIME: 1:00PM-2:20PM
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Luca Grisanti
Associate Researcher
Division of Theoretical Physics
Institute Ruder Boskovic
Zagreb, Croatia
TOPIC
Multiscale modeling of molecular systems and materials: the case of energy transfer