Seminar Archive
The following are Seminars from previous semesters.
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2024 | The Carbonyl-Isocyanide Relationship and Beyond | Dr. Joshua S. Figueroa, UC San Diego |
| May 1, 2024 | Computational Analysis of the Structure of the Kappa-Opioid Receptor for the Development of Selective Antagonists | Dr. Caitlin Scott, CSU Los Angeles |
| April 24, 2024 | Photochemistry in Natural and Engineered Environmental Systems | Dr. Garrett McKay, Texas A&M University |
| April 17, 2024 | From Betty Crocker Homemaker to Chemist in the Kitchen | Dr. Margaret Merryfield, CSU Long Beach |
| April 10, 2024 | Solar Water Splitting using Ensembles of Artificial Photosynthetic Nanoreactor | Dr. Shane Ardo, UC Irvine |
| March 27, 2024 | Quest for the Nature of Noncovalent Interactions Using Energy Decomposition Analysis | Dr. Yuezhi Mao, San Diego State University |
| March 13, 2024 | The Chemistry of the Canopy: A Data-Driven Exploration of Atmospheric Chemistry at the Urban-Biosphere Interface | Dr. Sarah Kavassalis, Harvey Mudd College |
| March 6, 2024 | Nanocrystal Self-Assembly: Designing Materials with Complexity and Function | Dr. Andrea Tao, UC San Diego |
| February 28, 2024 | Measurement in Chemistry Education: Examining the Past and Supporting the Future | Dr. Regis Komperda, San Diego State University |
| February 14, 2024 | From Ab Initio Data to Action: Leveraging Many-Body Potentials for Realistic Simulations of Water Harvesting and Carbon Capture Using Metal-Organic Frameworks | Dr. Francesco Paesani, UC San Diego |
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| December 6, 2023 | Atomic-Scale Insights for Batteries and Catalysts Revealed by Cryo-EM | Dr. Yuzhang Li, UCLA |
| November 29, 2023 | Capsid Assembly and Genome Packaging in a Plus-strand RNA Virus | Dr. Rees Garmann, San Diego State University |
| November 15, 2023 | How Did We Get Here? The Unusual Transport Itinerary of a Novel Rab GTPase Accelerating Protein | Dr. Daniel Nickerson, CSU San Bernadino |
| November 8, 2023 | Probing the Kinetics of Apolipoprotein A-I Exchange in Response to Lipid, Particle Size, and Mutation Status | Dr. Mark Borja, CSU East Bay |
| November 1, 2023 | Some Stories from Being a Chemistry Student and Chemistry Professor + A Couple of Dive Videos | Dr. Stuart Berryhill, CSU Long Beach |
| October 25, 2023 | Quantum Dots for Solar Energy Conversion | Dr. Michael Enright, San Francisco State University |
| October 18, 2023 | Engineered Tissues Models for Muscle and Cardiac Repair | Dr. Perla Ayala, CSU Long Beach |
| October 11, 2023 | Not Just for Oxides! Sol-Gel Methods for Nanoparticle Assembly | Dr. Stephanie Brock, Wayne State University |
| October 11, 2023 | Accelerated Decomposition Kinetics of Ammonium Perchlorate via Conformal Graphene Coating | Dr. Alfred Baca, US Naval Research Laboratory |
| October 4, 2023 | Nanostructured Silicon as a Theranostic Tool | Dr. Michael Sailor, UC San Diego |
| September 27, 2023 | Nanospace within Metal-Organic Frameworks: Plenty of Room for Imagination | Dr. Shengqian Ma, University of North Texas |
| September 20, 2023 | Estrogen receptor and testosterone in women and importance of estrogen in men | Dr. Ellis Levin, Long Beach VA Medical Center & UC Irvine |
| September 13, 2023 | Towards Inclusive and Accessible Chemistry Classrooms: Faculty and TAs as Change Agents | Dr. Stacey Brydges, UC San Diego |
| September 6, 2023 | Liquid Crystalline Assembly of Conjugated Polymers | Dr. Shanju Zhang, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo |
| August 30, 2023 | Nanomaterials Interfaced to Photosystem I for BioHybrid Energy Conversion | Dr. David Cliffel, Vanderbilt University |
| August 23, 2023 | Novel properties of plasmonic metal nanostructures for sensing and cancer therapy: A case study of hollow gold nanospheres | Dr. Jin Zhong Zhang, UC Santa Cruz |
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2023 | Elucidating the role of host proteins in HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 infection | Dr. Peter Ramirez, CSU Long Beach |
| April 26, 2023 | Vascular contributions in dementia | Dr. Zeke Gonzalez, University of Mississippi Medical Center |
| April 19, 2023 | Nanothermodynamics of Metal Nanoparticles Below 4 nm in Diameter | Dr. Francis Zamborini, University of Louisville |
| April 12, 2023 | The Evolution of a Chemical Career | Dr. Tom Maricich, CSU Long Beach |
| April 5, 2023 | Living Materials: Programming Synthetic Materials with Engineered Living Bacteria | Dr. Seunghyun Sim, UC Irvine |
| March 22, 2023 | Compound Semiconductor Technology: Industrial Manufacturing of Materials, Devices Fabrication and Applications | Dr. Partha S. Dutta, United Semiconductors |
| March 15, 2023 | Using Chemical Biology to Address Environmental Challenges | Dr. Matt Francis, UC Berkeley |
| March 8, 2023 | One is the Loneliest Number: Multivalent and Multielectron Processes for Next-Generation Batteries | Dr. Kimberly A. See, Caltech |
| March 1, 2023 | Implementing Digital Badging to Assess Hands-on Laboratory Skills | Dr. Marcy Towns, Purdue University |
| February 22, 2023 | Cytoskeletal regulation by formins: effects of disease-associated mutations and small molecule inhibitors | Dr. Christina Vizcarra, Barnard College |
| February 15, 2023 | Investigating the Role of Arginine Methylation in PGC-1a, a Metabolic Regulator | Dr. Cecilia Zurita Lopez, Chapman University |
| February 8, 2023 | From Remdesivir (Veklury), (−)-Pavidolide B to Clopidogrel (Plavix): Using OChem-I & II Knowledge to Address Diverse Biomedical Challenges | Dr. Yaoqiu Zhu, University of Texas at El Paso |
| February 1, 2023 | Nature inspired multi-activity enzymes for improved carbohydrate deconstruction | Dr. Renaud Berlemont, CSU Long Beach |
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| October 19, 2022 | Uncovering the Roles of Midgut Proteases in the Blood Meal Protein Digestion System of the Aedes aegypti Mosquito | Dr. Alberto A. Rascón, Jr., San Jose State University |
| October 12, 2022 | Multiscaling the CRISPR-Cas Revolution from Gene Editing to Viral Detection | Dr. Guilia Palermo, UC Riverside |
| October 5, 2022 | Evidence-Based Approaches to Curriculum Reform and Assessment | Dr. Melanie Cooper, Michigan State University |
| September 28, 2022 | Exploiting Electron-Rich Molecules to Synthesize Bioactive Natural Products | Dr. Kevin Kou, UC Riverside |
| September 21, 2022 | Using actin to put our heads and hearts in the right places | Dr. Margot Quinlan, UCLA |
| September 14, 2022 | Innovation in Asymmetric Catalysis by Bridging Chemistry and Biology | Dr. Yang Yang, UC Santa Barbara |
| September 7, 2022 | Chemical routes to improve the extraction of gold and silver and to use these metals as nanomaterials | Dr. Juan Carlos RodrÃguez Reyes, Centro de Investigación y Conservación del Patrimonio |
| August 31, 2022 | Synthesis and evaluation of dipeptide as novel botulinum neurotoxin inhibitors | Dr. Nicholas Salzameda, CSU Fullerton |
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| April 27, 2022 | Exploring Color and Heat Reflectance Tunability of "Cool" Pigments | Dr. Joya Cooley, CSU Fullerton |
| April 20, 2022 | Exploring the Biochemical Environment of Insulin Secretory Vesicles | Dr. Kate White, USC |
| April 13, 2022 | Electrification and Decarbonization of Chemical Synthesis | Dr. Karthish Manthiram, Cal Tech |
| March 23, 2022 | Atomic and nanoscale characterization of chemical segregation in multiphase ceramics and nanocomposite functional oxides by TEM | Dr. William Bowman, UC Irvine |
| March 16, 2022 | Strategies and Methods for Bioactive Diterpenoids | Dr. Chris Vanderwal, UC Irvine |
| March 9, 2022 | Heterogeneous materials for electrochemical catalysis – using simple tools to understand complex interfaces | Dr. Eleanor Gillette, University of San Diego |
| March 2, 2022 | Dynamic catalytic interfaces: ensembles of metastable states break the rules of catalysis | Dr. Anastassia Alexandrova, UCLA |
| February 23, 2022 | Problematic Proteins: Mechanisms of Protein Aggregation and Dysfunction in Cellular Models of Neurodegenration | Dr. Danny Hatters, University of Melbourne |
| February 16, 2022 | Complex Chemical Mixtures - What is Inside of Them? | Dr. Petr Vozka, CSU Los Angeles |
| February 9, 2022 | Efficient quantum dynamics for two-dimensional electronic and vibrational spectroscopies | Dr. Tomislav Begusic, Cal Tech |
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| December 8 | The Expanding Amyloid Family: Structure, Stability, Function, and Pathogenesis | Dr. David Eisenberg, UCLA |
| December 1 | The Chemical Logic of Natural Product Biosynthesis | Dr. Yi Tang, UCLA |
| November 17 | The Role of Electric Fields and Aqueous Solvation for Catalyst Design / From photons to fuels by computation: Modeling electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 on copper electrodes | Drs. Teresa Head-Gordon and Martin Head-Gordon, UC Berkeley |
| November 10 | A Tale of DNA Modifications: Chemistry, Biology, and Applications | Dr. Linlin Zhao, UC Riverside |
| October 27 | Actin in self-defense: How the cytoskeleton protects neurons during cerebral ischemia and energy stress | Dr. Shelley Halpain, UC San Diego |
| October 20 | Small molecule electrocatalysis and interfacial charge speciation | Dr. Hadi Tavassol, CSU Long Beach |
| October 13 | Strange things happen at the nanoscale: Spectroscopy, entropy and quantum effects at solid/liquid interfaces | Dr. Tod Pascal, UC San Diego |
| October 6 | Reaction Networks and the Metric Structure of Chemical Space(s) | Dr. Dmitrij Rappoport, UC Irvine |
| September 29 | Connecting DNA Shape with CRISPR Target Discrimination: Mechanistic Insights Informing Applications | Dr. Peter Qin, USC |
| September 15 | Examining the morphology and chemical reactivity of 2D and 3D carbon structures | Dr. Michael Groves, CSU Fullerton |
| September 8 | Enzymatic Oxidative Coupling Reactions to Make Protein Therapeutics | Dr. Matthew Francis, UC Berkeley |
| September 1 | Anatomy of chemical reactions: Catalytic oxidation of carbon monoxide | Dr. Jerry LaRue, Chapman University |
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| April 28 | Development of multitarget inhibitors for the treatment of pain: design, synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular modeling studies | Dr. Stevan Pecic, CSU Fullerton |
| April 21 | Earth-Abundant Metal Catalysis: Mechanisms of CC and C-Heteroatom Bond Forming Reactions | Dr. Xiaotai Wang, University of Colorado, Denver |
| April 14 | Proteins and Drugs Controlling Cancer Cell Division | Dr. Seth Rubin, US Santa Cruz |
| April 7 | The Bioinorganic Chemistry of the Simple Nitrogen Oxides (NOx): Not So Simple | Dr. George Richter- Addo, University of Oklahoma |
| March 24 | The Fifth Element in Disguise | Dr. Shiyuan Liu, Boston College |
| March 17 | Single-Molecule Imaging of the Electrochemical Interface | Dr. Bo Zhang, University of Washington |
| March 10 | Recombinant protein-polymers in medicine and biology | Dr. Andrew MacKay, USC |
| February 17 | Uncovering the proteomes and transcriptomes of cellular protrusions using Laser capture Microdissection | Dr. Karine Gousset, CSU Fresno |
| February 10 | Fast and Accurate Quantum Chemistry Simulation for molecular design and discovery | Dr. Fang Liu, Emory University |
| February 3 | Cheminformatics: Using SWIF's to Identify Binding Modes in Non-Covalent Complexes | Dr. Eric Sorin, CSU Long Beach |
| February 3 | Stepping into Light: Developing a General Photo- Initiated Hydroacylation of Alkenes | Dr. Paul Buonora, CSU Long Beach |
Note: most of the Spring 2020 seminars were cancelled due to COVID-19.
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| March 11, 2020 | From Photooxidation to Photobasicity: Adventures Exploring Photochemistry with Undergrads | Dr. Andrew Petit, CSU Fullerton |
| March 4, 2020 | Oxylipins and HDL, an explanation for pro- and anti-inflammatory activities | Dr. Gregory Shearer, Penn State |
| February 26, 2020 | Epitope-Targeting Cyclic Peptides as Chemical Biology Tools | Dr. Min Xue, UC Riverside |
| February 19, 2020 | Twists and turns along the path of reactivity-driven methodology development | Dr. Hosea Nelson, UCLA |
