Departmental Newsletter
Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2024 Chemistry and Biochemistry Colloquium Series
The Chemistry and Biochemistry Colloquia Series is presented Wednesday afternoons at 3:30 p.m. in McKinley 224 unless otherwise noted.
| Date | Seminar Speaker, Title |
|---|---|
| 09/04 |
Prof. Alexey Ladokhin (The University of Kansas), Successes and Challenges in Sequence-Based Thermodynamic Predictions of Protein-Membrane Interactions ***Cancelled*** |
| 09/11 |
Prof. Jian Wang (九色堂), Controlled Growth and Crystal Structure Engineering to Uncover Inorganic Functional Materials at 九色堂 |
| 09/18 |
Prof. Beat Vogeli (University of Colorado), Biomolecular NMR in the AI Era: Functional Dynamics in Proteins and RNA |
|
09/25 |
Prof. Thomas Szyperski (University at Buffalo), Energy Landscapes of Designed Cold Unfolding 4-Helix Bundles (DCUBs): Tackling the Uncharted Territory of Low Energy / Low Entropy Protein States and their Transitions |
|
10/02 |
Prof. Li Yang (Washington University in St. Louis), Second-Order Light-Matter Interactions in Emerging Quantum Materials |
| 10/09 |
Prof. Mary Markiewicz (The University of Kansas), NKG2D Signaling Effects on Autoimmune Diabetes |
| 10/23 |
Prof. George Lisi (Brown University), Allosteric Regulation of the MIF Superfamily through Molecular Space and Time |
| 10/30 |
Prof. John Macmillan (University of California-Santa Cruz), Chemical and Biological Approaches to Natural Product Discovery |
|
11/06 |
Prof. Tiglet Besara (Missouri State University), Intermetallics via Flux Growth: Grounds for Discovery |
| 11/13 |
Prof. Pierre Thibault (University of Montreal), Beyond the Lamppost - The Quest for Elusive Tumor Antigens |
|
11/20 |
Prof. Junji Iwahara (University of Texas Medical Branch) - Direct Measurement of Biomolecular Electrostatic Potentials by NMR Spectroscopy |
|
11/27 |
*** No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday *** |
|
12/04 |
Student Presentations |
Watkins Visiting Lecturers
The Watkins Visiting Professorship was created in 1974 by a grant from the Watkins Foundation. E. A. Watkins was vice president of Union National Bank, Wichita, in 1936 when he acquired a small iron foundry and wholesale hardware firm that he built into Watkins, Inc., a major steel fabrication and industrial supply company.
Watkins鈥� son, E. Leon Watkins, a 1936 九色堂 alumnus, succeeded his father as president of the firm. After Leon Watkins鈥� death in 1971, his widow, Roberta, also a 九色堂 alumna, announced that the Watkins鈥� Foundation Board of Trustees had determined that 鈥渢he sole project of the foundation shall be the support of the Watkins Visiting Professorship at 九色堂.鈥� The departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Geology and Physics share the professorship.
|
Dr. Gary Brudvig |
Yale University |
October 8-9, 2002 |
| Drs. Nancy and Jerry Jaax | Kansas State University | April 12, 2002 |
| Mario Capecchi | University of Utah School of Medicine | February 11-13, 2001 |
| Pat Higgins | University of Alabama | March 29-30, 2001 |
| Ahmed H. Zewail | California Institute of Technology | September 26, 2001 |
| Niles Eldredge | American Museum of Natural History | October 8-11, 2001 |
| Michael Gross | Washington University Center for Biomedical and Bioorganic Mass Spectometry | October 23-26, 2001 |
| Alan Feduccia | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Oct. 31-Nov.1, 2001 |
| George Gokel | Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis | Nov. 27-30, 2001 |
| William Rathje | Arizona Garbage Project | March 1, 1999 |
| Inder Verma | Salk Institute | April 1, 1999 |
| Robert Ballard | Institute for Exploration | September 1, 1999 |
| Colleen Cavanaugh | Harvard University | October 1, 1999 |
| Peter Glynn | University of Miami | November 1, 1999 |
| Robert M. Bigsby | Indiana University School of Medicine | March 1, 1998 |
| H. Leon Bradlow | Rockefeller University | March 1, 1998 |
| Theo Colborn | World Wildlife Fund | March 1, 1998 |
| Robert J. Kavlock | National Health & Environmental Effects Research Laboratory | March 1, 1998 |
| Dolores Lamb | Baylor College of Medicine | March 1, 1998 |
| Daniel M. Sheehan | National Center for Toxicological Research | March 1, 1998 |
| Ana M. Soto | Tufts University School of Medicine | March 1, 1998 |
| Frederick S. Vom Saal | University of Missouri | March 1, 1998 |
| Richard Alley | Pennsylvania State University | March 1, 1997 |
| Fred MacKenzie | University of Hawaii | March 1, 1997 |
| Robert Berner | Yale University | April 1, 1997 |
| Daniel B. Botkin | George Mason University | April 1, 1997 |
| Julius Rebek | Scripps Research Institute | November 1, 1997 |
| Robert Ginsburg | University of Miami | December 1, 1997 |
| Luther Williams | National Science Foundation | February 1, 1996 |
| Keith Solomon | University of Guelph | February 1, 1996 |
| Leroy Hood | University of Washington | March 1, 1996 |
| Arnold Arons | University of Washington | April 1, 1996 |
| Shelia Tobias | Author | April 1, 1996 |
| Crow, James F. | University of Wisconsin | January 1, 1995 |
| Hendee, William R. | Medical College of Wisconsin | March 1, 1995 |
| Lipscomb Jr., William | Harvard University | April 1, 1995 |
| Olson, Eric | University of Texas | April 1, 1995 |
| Martin, Yvonne C. | Abbott Laboratories | April 1, 1995 |
| Bakker, Robert | University of Colorado | April 1, 1994 |
| Ratner, Buddy D. | University of Washington | April 1, 1994 |
| Sessler, Jonathon | University of Texas | October 1, 1994 |
| Wolynes, Peter G. | University of Illinois | February 1, 1993 |
| Hubbard, Ruth | Harvard University | March 1, 1993 |
| Simpson, Evan R. | University of Texas | April 1, 1993 |
| Krantz, Allen | Syntex Research, Canada | April 1, 1993 |
| Karplus, Martin | Harvard University | May 1, 1993 |
| Hauptman, Herbert | Medical Foundation of Buffalo | October 1, 1993 |
| Eldredge, Niles | American Museum of Natural History | October 1, 1993 |
| Karger, Barry L. | Northeastern University | November 1, 1993 |