Events Archive
Seminar
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 - 10:45am
"Designing Earth-Abundant Sensitizers for Solar Fuels Photochemistry"
Solar photocatalysis offers a mechanism to harness the sun’s energy and store it in chemical bonds, creating new fuels. While there are many known fuel-forming catalysts based...
Seminar
Thursday, March 11, 2021 - 10:45am
"Promoting the Activity of Receptor Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases with Transmembrane-Binding Peptides"
Cell signaling by receptor protein tyrosine kinases (RTKs) is tightly controlled by the counterbalancing actions of receptor protein tyrosine...
Seminar
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 - 10:45am
"Imaging molecular force with DNA sensors"
Adhesion molecules on cell surfaces help cells attach to their environment and transduce mechanically-coupled biochemical signal. To understand the mechanical forces involved at the molecular scale,...
Seminar
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 - 10:45am
"Chiral Compounds as NMR Shift Reagents and Catalysts for Curriculum Reform"
Examples of work in my laboratory using cyclodextrins, crown ethers, and resorcinarenes as enantioselective NMR shift reagents will be described. Of special...
Seminar
Thursday, February 11, 2021 - 10:45am
"Graduate Student Career Services Seminar"
The Career Center provides graduate students with extensive resources and tools, customized programming, and career coaching to advance in their respective careers. Ali Erk will share key strategies and...
Seminar
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 - 10:45am
"The application of machine learning to metalloprotein engineering"
Metal cofactors perform a wide variety of essential functions within proteins. Consequently, researchers have been exploring a range of methods to rationally design structures...
Seminar
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - 1:00pm
"Leveraging Nature’s Bacterial Surface Homing Molecules to Combat Pathogens"
Recent emergence of resistance to existing antimicrobials has eroded gains made against communicable diseases in the last century. Today, lower respiratory tract...
Seminar
Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 10:45am
"Development of Gas-Diffusion Electrodes for Iron oxide Nanoparticles Synthesis"
Gas-diffusion electrocrystallization (GDEx)1 provides a new green route for metal recovery to synthesize commercial nanoparticles. This new technology...
Seminar
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 10:45am
"Ultrafast photochemical dynamics in dyes used for solar hydrogen production"
The McCamant lab studies the ultrafast excited-state dynamics that occur following light absorption in solar fuel production systems. Their molecular and nanoparticle...
Seminar
Thursday, November 12, 2020 - 10:45am
"Increased Catalytic Performance Using Porphyrin Linked Metal-Organic Frameworks for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2"
It is practically universally agreed upon among scientists that the climate is warming and needs immediate and pronounced...