Current Seminars
Fall 2026
Mondays from 3:00 to 3:55 PM in CHEM 144. Reception before the seminar starting at 2:30 PM, and after the seminar until 5:00 PM.
| Date | Presenter |
| August 17 |
Laboratory safety presentation – Safety committee |
| August 24 |
No seminar – ACS Fall Meeting |
| August 31 |
G. Andrés Cisneros – University of Texas at Dallas (on Zoom) Computational discovery and characterization of disease variants in their biological context |
| September 7 |
No seminar – Labor Day |
| September 14 |
Xiaoyi Zhang – Argonne National Laboratory Probing photochemical mechanisms with time-resolved synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy |
| September 21 |
Xing Zeng – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center CEND1 routes mitochondrial ATP to hexokinase I at membrane contact sites to drive activity-dependent glucose metabolism |
| September 28 |
Fry Lecture Series: Margaret Faul – Amgen Inc. Transforming molecules into medicines: Innovative case studies in process development at Amgen |
| October 5 |
Michael Brown – University of Memphis "Make no bones about it": The importance of establishing the baseline chemical composition of skeletal remains for post-mortem interval estimation |
| October 12 |
Deyu Lu – Brookhaven National Laboratory Physics-informed AI pipeline for real-time interpretation of X-ray absorption spectra: Theory, data, machine learning and agent |
| October 19 |
No seminar – Fall Break |
| October 26 |
Jing Zhao – University of Connecticut Photocatalysis of CdS based nanocrystals: Effect of hole scavengers, ligands, and metal domains |
| November 2 |
Pulay Lecture Series: Bernhard Schlegel – Wayne State University |
| November 9 | |
| November 16 |
Yang Yang – University of California, Santa Barbara New strategies for stereoselective radical biocatalysis |
| November 23 |
No seminar – Week of Thanksgiving break |
| November 30 |