Past Events

Past Events

Dissertation Defense - Yu-Chia Chang

Title: Developing Microelectrode Arrays as Multiplex Point-of-Care Diagnostics
McM 311

Dissertation Defense - Natashia Yang

Title: Mass Spectrometry-Based Probing of Nucleic Acid and Protein Higher-Order Structures: From UV-Induced G-Quadruplex Crosslinking to mRNA Footprinting and ApoE4 Footprinting

Dissertation Defense - Savannah Scruggs

“An Enzyme-Coupled Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry Assay for Non-adjacent DNA Photoproducts as Intrinsic Probes for G-quadruplexes in vitro.”
McM 311

Chemistry Seminar with Dr. Junsoo Kim from Northwestern University at 4:00pm

Please join us for Dr. Kim's seminar, titled “Entanglements Make Polymer Networks Stiff, but not Brittle.”
McM 311

Dissertation Defense - Alex Quillin

Chemistry Seminar with Dr. Andrew Wilson from University of Louisville at 4:00pm

Please join us for Prof Wilson's seminar, titled, “Modulating the Microenvironment at Electrode–Electrolyte Interfaces with External Fields”
McMillen 311

Marcus Lecture Series with Dr. Hsian-Rong Tseng from UCLA

Please join us for Dr. Hsian-Rong Tseng's lecture, titled "Harnessing Liquid Biopsy-Derived Molecular Signatures for the Management of Solid Tumors and Alzheimer’s Disease,"
This is the final lecture of the 2025 Marcus Lecture Series

McM 311

Marcus Lecture Series with Dr. Hsian-Rong Tseng from UCLA

Please join us for Dr. Hsian-Rong Tseng's lecture, titled "Translational Opportunities at the Interface of Chemistry and Modern Medicine,"
This is the first lecture of the 2025 Marcus Lecture Series

McM 311

Chemistry Seminar with Dr. Margaret Lange-Osborn from the University of Missouri at 4:00pm

McMillen 311

Chemistry Seminar with Dr. Pratyush Tiwary from the University of Maryland at 4:00pm

Please join us for Dr. Tiwary's seminar, titled "Will Statistical Mechanics Theory and Simulations Stay Relevant in the Age of Generative AI?"
McMillen 311

Chemistry Seminar with Dr. Julia Chan from Baylor University at 4:00pm

Please join us for Dr. Chan's seminar, titled "Stacking Building Blocks of Subunits: A Platform for Quantum Materials"
McM 311

Chemistry Seminar with Professor Tatyana Polenova from the University of Delaware at 4pm

Join us for Dr. Polenova's seminar, titled, “Pushing the Sensitivity and Resolution Boundaries of Magnetic Resonance: Challenges and Opportunities for Chemistry, Molecular Biophysics, and Structural Cellular Biology”
McMillen 311

Chemistry Seminar with Dr. Marcus Weck from NYU at 4:00pm

Join us for Dr. Weck's seminar, titled “Materials Design via Self-assembly: From Supramolecular Polymers to Colloidal Assemblies”
McMillen 311

CGSAC Seminar with Dr. Lisa Balbes of Balbes Consultants, LLC,

McM 311

Chemistry Seminar with Dr. Fun Man Fung from University College Dublin at 4:00pm

Join us on Tuesday, March 18th, for Dr. Fun Man Fung's seminar, titled “Educational Technologies for Learning in STEM"
McM 311

Department Seminar with Dr. Joe Fournier at 4:00pm

McM 311

Weissman Lecture with Dr. Jack W. Szostak from University of Chicago at 11:00am

Please join us for our annual Weismann Lecture Series featuring our guest speaker, Dr. Jack Szostak
McMillen Labs 311

Weissman Lecture with Dr. Jack W. Szostak from University of Chicago at 4:30pm

Please join us for our annual Weismann Lecture Series featuring our guest speaker, Dr. Jack Szostak
Wrighton Hall 300

Dissertation defense - Jovelt Dorsainvil

Title: Electrostatic Drug Loading and Photo-Accelerated Release: Exploring Viologen-Based Materials as Drug Carriers Across Nano, Micro, and Macro Scales
McM 311

Dissertation Defense - Wesley Wagner

McMillen 311 | 10:00am

Dissertation Defense - Wagma Caravan

Farrell Learning & Teaching Center - Holden Auditorium | 2:00 pm

Saturday Science Lecture with L. G. Sobotka on The making of chemical elements from the Big Bang to the laboratory

Lee Sobotka from the Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, will be hosting Saturday's Science Lecture, "The making of chemical elements from the Big Bang to the laboratory". Please note that this is an in-person only event.
Crow 201

Career Discussion with Dr. Mark Allendorf from Sandia National Labs

Louderman 561

Chemistry Seminar with Dr. Catherine Eichhorn from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln at 4:00pm

Join us for Dr. Eicchorn's seminar titled, “Visualizing a Two-State Conformational Ensemble in Stem-Loop 3 of the Transcriptional Regulator 7SK RNA”

Chemistry Seminar with Dr. Tai Kong from the University of Arizona at 4:00pm

Join us on November 7th for Dr. Tai Kong's seminar, titled, "Frustrate a Magnet"
MCMILLEN 311

Award Symposium Honoring Dr. Wencewicz - St. Louis ACS Award Winner

Saint Louis Section ACS Award Symposium in honor of Prof. Timothy Wencewicz
Wrighton Hall 300

Inaugural Armendarez Lecture Series with Professor Carlos Bustamante from UC Berkeley at 11:00am

Please join us for Dr. Bustamante's seminar, titled, "Division of Labor and Mechanism of Translocation in a Ring ATPase"

Hosted by Chem-DEI with support from the Packard Foundation. This seminar is the first of the Armendarez Series, which is organized by Isaac Fuentes (Birman Lab).
McMillen 311

Inaugural Armendarez Lecture Series with Professor Carlos Bustamante from UC Berkeley at 4:00pm

Please join us for Dr. Bustamante's seminar, titled, "The Development of Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy: From Polymer Biophysics to Molecular Machines"

Hosted by Chem-DEI with support from the Packard Foundation. This seminar is the first of the Armendarez Series, which is organized by Isaac Fuentes (Birman Lab).
Simon 1

Chemistry Seminar with Dr. Alireza Ghanbarpour from WashU at 4:00pm

Join us on October 17th for Dr. Ghanbarpour's seminar, titled "Decoding the Secrets of AAA+ Protease Specificity"
McMillen 311

Jaynes Centennial Symposium

Dissertation Defense - Enqi Feng

Thesis title: New Methods to Induce Selectivity in Electrochemical Reactions by Modifying the Electrode Surface
McMillen 311

Chemistry Seminar with Dr. Mike Reppert from Purdue University at 4:00pm

McMillen 311

Chemistry Seminar with Dr. Jeff Greeley from Purdue at 4:00pm

Dissertation Defense - Gray Harlan

Louderman 561 | https://wustl.zoom.us/j/92547609330

Dissertation Defense - Lin Lin

McMillen 311 | https://wustl.zoom.us/j/5253620417

Chemistry Seminar with Dr. Andrew Lowell from Virginia Tech at 4:00pm

Join us on Sept 12th for Dr. Lowell's seminar, titled "Natural product optimization and antibiotic development"

Chemistry Seminar with Dr. Lauren Buchanan from Vanderbilt University at 4:00pm

Join us for Dr. Buchanan's seminar, titled “Advances in 2D IR Spectroscopy of Proteins: Utilizing Vibrational Lifetimes and Transition Dipole Strength Calculations to Enhance Structural Analysis”
McMillen 311

Kennedy Lecture Series with Dr. Squire J. Booker at 11:00am

Please join us for the final installment of our annual Kennedy Lecture series, where our esteemed guest, Dr. Booker, will deliver his second seminar titled "A Radical Solution for C(sp3)–C(sp3) Bond Formation during the Biosynthesis of Macrocyclic Membrane Lipids"
McMillen 311

Kennedy Lecture Series with Dr. Squire J. Booker at 4:15pm

Please join us for the first installment of our annual Kennedy Lecture series, where our esteemed guest, Dr. Booker, will deliver his first seminar titled "The Rise of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance"
TBD