Fall 2021 – SDSU Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Seminars

date speaker title
Sep 03 2021
4:00 PM
GMCS-301
Prof. Jing Gu
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
San Diego State UNiversity
San Diego CA
"Water and Energy Nexus: Microbial Photoelectrochemical Conversion for Fuel generation and Wastewater Treatment"
Host: Andy Cooksy
Sep 10 2021
4:00 PM
Zoom
Prof. Wenwan Zhong
Department of Chemistry
UC Riverside
Riverside CA
"Synthetic Receptor Array for Selective Discrimination and Classification of Macromolecules"
Host: Chris Harrison
Sep 17 2021
4:00 PM
Zoom
Prof. Jane Zhou
Merkert Chemistry Center
Boston College
Boston MA
"Directed Evolution of Reverse Transcriptases to Study Epitranscriptomics"
Host: Erica Forsberg
Oct 01 2021
4:00 PM
GMCS-301
Prof. Jeffrey Gustafson
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
San Diego State Univesity
San Diego CA
"The no spin zone: Atropisomerism as an inspiration for drug discovery and new chemistry"
Host: Doug Grotjahn
Oct 08 2021
4:00 PM
Zoom
Prof. Wei Liu
Department of Chemistry
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati OH
"New Strategies for Copper-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions"
Host: Yong Yan
Oct 15 2021
4:00 PM
GMCS-301
Prof. Byron Purse
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
San Diego State University
San Diego CA
"Fluorescent nucleoside analogues with new properties"
Host: Greg Holland
Oct 22 2021
4:00 PM
GMCS-301
Prof. Samantha Bova
Department of Geological Sciences
San Diego State University
San Diego CA
"Its getting hot in here: Reinterpreted geochemical climate proxies alter understanding of past warm periods in Earth history"
Host: Andy Cooksy
Oct 29 2021
4:00 PM
Zoom
Dr. Jessica VandenPlas
Department of Chemistry
Grand Valley State University
Allendale MI
"Representation use and student success: What we can learn from eye tracking"
Host: Regis Komperda
Nov 05 2021
4:00 PM
Zoom
Dr. Katherine Lazenby
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
San Diego State Univesity
San Diego CA
"Undergraduate chemistry students’ understanding of the nature of scientific modeling"
Host: Regis Komperda
Nov 12 2021
4:00 PM
GMCS-301
Dr. Susan Tsutakawa
Biophysics
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley CA
"Protein Machines: Insights on AI structure predictions, missense disease mutations, and DNA repair"
Host: Manal Swairjo
Nov 19 2021
4:00 PM
Zoom
Prof. Christopher Baker
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces NM
"TBD"
Host: Chris Harrison
Dec 03 2021
4:00 PM
zoom
Dr. Jingbo Louise Liu
Department of Chemistry
Texas A&M University Kingsville
"TBA "
Host: Jing Gu