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Chemistry & Biochemistry

Fall 2025 – SDSU Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Seminars

date speaker title
Aug 22 2025
2:00 PM
GMCS-333		 Dr. Christoph Meyer
Vice President, Specialized Modalities
LONZA Bioscience
Basel, Switzerland		 "Twenty Years in Pharmaceutical Industry - Career Track of an Analytical Chemist"
Host: Bill Tong
Aug 29 2025
2:00 PM
GMCS-301		 Prof. Chris Lorenz

Kings College
London UK		 "Peptide and Protein Interactions Across Scales: Molecular Dynamics Perspectives from Antimicrobial Assemblies to Neuroimmune Signaling and Biomaterials"
Host: Greg Holland
Sep 05 2025
2:00 PM
GMCS-301		 Prof. Young Kwang Lee
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
San Diego State University
San Diego CA		 "Kinetic regulation of Raf kinases on membrane surfaces"
Host: Chris Harrison
Sep 12 2025
2:00 PM
GMCS-301		 Prof. David L. Mobley
School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences and Department of Chemistry
University of California, Irvine
Irvine CA		 "Computational tools to help guide pharmaceutical discovery and design"
Host: Yuezhi Mao
Sep 19 2025
2:00 PM
GMCS-301		 Prof. Tetsuo Iwasawa
Department of Materials Chemistry
Ryukoku University
Kyoto Japan		 "How can we overcome the refractive index-weatherability trade-off in optical materials?"
Host: Byron Purse
Sep 26 2025
2:00 PM
GMCS-301		 Prof. Christal Sohl
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
San Diego State University
San Diego CA		 "Atomic to in vivo exploration of tumor-driving metabolic enzymes…and the early-career scientists behind the discoveries"
Host: Manal Swairjo
Oct 03 2025
2:00 PM
GMCS-301		 Prof. Rees Garmann
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
San Diego State University
San Diego CA		 "Finding and packaging RNA-phage genomes"
Host: Peter van der Geer
Oct 17 2025
2:00 PM
GMCS-301		 Prof. Lisa M. Jones
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego
San Diego CA		 "In-Cell Protein Footprinting Coupled with Mass Spectrometry for Structural Biology Across the Proteome"
Host: Laura-Isobel McCall
Oct 22 2025
1:00 PM
GMCS-301		 Dr. Tom Stratton and Dr. Jon Tripp
Process and Discovery
Gilead Sciences Inc.
Foster City CA		 "Discovery and Development of Lenacapavir; A Breakthrough Treatment Option for HIV Patients"
Host: Byron Purse
Oct 24 2025
2:00 PM
GMCS-301		 Prof. Veronica O'Connor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
CSU Fullerton
Fullerton CA		 "Designing tunable catalysts with data science tools and mechanistic insight"
Host: Tom Huxford
Nov 14 2025
2:00 PM
GMCS-301		 Prof. Robert Zeller
Department of Biology
San Diego State University
San Diego CA		 "Seeing the light: optogenetic approaches for regulating gene activity in ascidians"
Host: Andy Cooksy
Nov 21 2025
2:00 PM
GMCS-301		 Prof. Alina Schimpf
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
U.C. San Diego
San Diego CA		 "Solution-Phase Routes to Solid-State Materials"
Host: Jing Gu
Dec 12 2025
2:00 PM
GMCS-301		 Dr. Esteban Vazquez-Hidalgo
Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
Case-Western Reserve University
Cleveland OH		 "Integrating Allele Specific Expression and Ancestry Modeling to Identify Regulatory Mechanisms in Complex Diseases"
Host: Christal Sohl
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