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 […]
Pathways to Your Career Seminar Abstract and bio to come
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
Steven Sibener, University of Chicago A Multiscale View of Dynamical Processes at Surfaces using Molecular Beam Scattering, In Situ Scanning Probe Imaging, and Molecular Dynamics Simulations Abstract: This presentation will highlight recent contributions from our group in the areas of surface chemistry and gas-surface interactions. Information derived from molecular beam scattering experiments, in situ scanning […]
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, […]
Mingxuan Wu, Westlake University "Development of sulfonium and diazonium tools to investigate lysine methylation" Abstract: Lysine methylation is a posttranslational modification (PTM) that regulates many cellular processes. For example, histone H3K27 methylation leads to gene silence as an important type of epigenetic marks. Hypermethylation of histone H3K27 may drive cancer and the methyltransferase EZH2 is […]