Professor Jared Lewis , Indiana University "Non-Native Enzyme Catalysis” Metalloenzymes perform some of the most remarkable transformations in nature under ambient conditions in complex cellular milieu, but their native reactivity is limited to biologically relevant reactions. Non-native enzyme catalysis brings the exquisite selectivity of enzymes to bear on chemical reactions that did not happen to […]
Professor Alexandra Velian , University of Washington "Molecular Insights into Metal-Support Interactions for Catalyst Design” A central research goal in the Velian group is to create next-generation single atom catalysts poised to harness the cooperativity between the active site and chemically non-innocent supports. To emulate defect sites in inorganic heterogeneous catalysts in a controlled fashion, […]
Professor Gary Pielak , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Abstract and bio to come
Professor Daniel Tabor, Texas A&M University Building Physics-Based and Data-Driven Methods for Efficient Polymer Design and Spectroscopy Simulations Abstract: Our research group focuses on building tools that enable inverse materials design and give new insights into the fundamental chemical physics of liquids, interfaces, and materials. For this talk, we will discuss our progress in two […]
Professor Linlin Zhao, University of California, Riverside Abstract and bio to come
Professor Hans Renata, Rice University Abstract: By virtue of their unrivaled selectivity profiles, enzymes possess remarkable potential to address unsolved challenges in chemical synthesis. The realization of this potential, however, has only recently gained traction. Recent advances in enzyme engineering and genome mining have provided a powerful platform for identifying and optimizing enzymatic transformations for […]
Professor Yutan Geltzer, Kenyon College Abstract and bio to come
Professor Ted Sargent, Northwestern University Materials chemistry for optoelectronics and for decarbonization Abstract: Emerging materials – such as quantum dots, perovskites, and metal and metal oxide nanoparticles – are urgently needed to advance both consumer electronics and large-scale decarbonization of electricity, fuels, and chemicals. I will discuss recent advances in light sensors, solar photovoltaics, and in […]
Professor Yisong Guo, Carnegie Mellon University Abstract and bio to come
Professor Leah Dodson, University of Maryland, College Park Abstract and bio to come.
“Building efficient and transferable generative models of intrinsically disordered protein conformational ensembles” Professor Grant M. Rotskoff, Stanford University ABSTRACT: Nearly half of the proteome is intrinsically disordered, consisting of proteins or motifs that lack a stable secondary structure. Modeling these regions remains challenging, even with tremendous advances in generative models for protein structure prediction. Sampling […]
Christy Landes, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Towards predictive protein separations: Imaging protein dynamics at nanoscale interfaces" Abstract: Recent efforts by our group and others have shown the promise of applying single molecule methods to link mechanistic detail about protein adsorption to macroscale observables. When we study one molecule at a time, we eliminate ensemble averaging, […]