Events
2024-2025 Seminar Series
Usual: Tuesdays or Thursdays from 2 PM to 3:15 PM in Reiss 262.
Fall 2024
September 19, 2024

Alex Cartagena, Investigator
Section of Mechanobiology National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Host: Maillard
October 3, 2024

Tom McCusker, Andrew Hoy, Victor Francis
7th Semester Seminar
Host: Maillard
October 10, 2024

Salah El Jamal, Charles Ochonma, Shae London
7th Semester Seminar
Host: Maillard
October 17, 2024

Chenfeng Ke, Associate Professor
Washington University, St. Louis
Host: Gavvalapalli
October 24, 2024

Kurt Piepenbrink, Assistant Professor
University of Nebraska
Host: Brasselmann
November 7, 2024

Tim Ramadhar, Assistant Professor
“The Crystalline Sponge Method: Enhancing the Technique for Small Molecule Structural Elucidation.”
Howard University
Host: Swift
November 12, 2024

Samuel White
Thesis Seminar:
“Post-ICP Chemical Ionization MS: Methods For Elemental Quantification of Fluorinated Compounds”
Host: Jorabchi
November 14, 2024

Lauren Porter, Stadtman Investigator
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
“Fold-switching proteins reveal blind spots in AlphaFold-based protein structure prediction”
Host: Brasselmann
November 21, 2024

Anna Ratliff, Postdoctoral Researcher
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
“Cryo-EM Structures of Ton Motor Subcomplex From Various Bacterial Species Offers Information On Structure And Mechanism”
Host: Maillard
December 12, 2024

Professor Anthony Sinai, Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky.
“Amylopectin dynamics in the chronic Toxoplasma gondii infection: much more than a mere sugar coating”
Host: Roepe
Spring 2025
January 9, 2025

Molly Chehak, Director of Digital Learning CNDLS
Georgetown University
Host: Glick/Swift
January 15, 2025

Dr Pavel Jelinek, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
“Quantum phase transitions in 1D molecular chains”.
Host: Kertesz
January 30, 2025

Matthew Bogyo, Professor, Stanford University
“Chemical Probes for Imaging Cancer and Infectious Diseases”
Host: GSOC
February 6, 2025

Jorge Iniguez-Gonzalez, Theoretical and Computational Physicist
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
“Ferroelectrics, ever more exotic and surprising”
Host: Stoll
February 20, 2025

Akua Asa-Awuku, Professor
University of Maryland
“Aerosols and Droplets: Fundamental Particles in our Evolving World”
Host: Swift
February 27, 2025

Hans-Conrad Zur Loye, Professor, University of South Carolina
“Crystal Growth of New Nuclear Waste Forms and Development of a New Low Temperature Preparatory Routes for Polycrystalline Samples”
Host: GSOC
March 13, 2025

Sam Dunning, Assistant Professor
University of the District of Columbia
Host: Swift
March 20, 2025

Deepak Koirala, Assistant Professor
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Host: Braselmann
April 3, 2025

Jen Wacker, Chemist Staff Scientist in Energy Sciences
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Host: Knope
April 10, 2025

Cancelled
Barbara Reisner, Professor
James Madison University
Host: Stoll
April 17, 2025

James Hodges, Assistant Professor
Penn State University
Host: Zhou
April 24, 2025

Stephen Fried, Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Host: Braselmann