Fall 2019

DateSpeakerTitle
Friday, Sept. 13Xi Ling
Department of Chemistry
Boston University
"Design and Synthesis of 2D Building Blocks for Electronic Devices"
Friday, Sept. 27C. Robert Matthews
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
"Biophysical insights into the folding of superoxide dismutase: implications for ALS"
Friday, Oct. 25Sarah Perry
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Molecular Engineering of Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials”
Friday, Nov. 8Heather Clark
Department of Chemistry
Northeastern University
"Building an Imaging Toolbox: Nanosensors for In Vivo Imaging"
Friday, Nov. 22Jeremiah Johnson
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Chemical Tools for Investigating the Topology of Polymer Networks"
Friday, Dec. 6Jarad Mason
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
"Manipulating Phase Transitions in Metal–Organic Materials: From Thermal Energy Storage to Porous Liquids"

Spring 2019

DateSpeakerTitle
Friday, Feb. 1Min Chen
Department of Chemistry
University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Building a Nanopore Tool Box for Proteomics Research"
Friday, Feb. 15Young Jo Kim
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of New Hampshire
"Bioinspired Materials for Powering Edible Electronics Devices"
Friday, March 1Mircea Dincă
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Teaching Sponges New Tricks: Catalysis and Charge Transport in Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks"
Friday, March 29X. Peter Zhang
Department of Chemistry
Boston College
“Metalloradical Catalysis for Stereoselective Radical Reactions”
Friday, April 12John Tsavalas
Department of Chemistry
University of New Hampshire
“Mechanistic Insights into Topological Network Formation in Free Radical Co-Polymerization & Implications on Structure/Property Relationships”
Friday, April 26Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli
Department of Engineering
University of Massachusetts Boston
“Engineering the Nano-Bio Interface for Applications in Infectious Disease”