Loyola University Chicago

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

2023 Chemistry Seminars

January 26, 2023
Eddy Tysoe
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Title: "Feeling the Force; Understanding the Effect of Mechanical Stress on Chemical Reaction Rates"

February 2, 2023
Ryan Hackler
Aeternal Upcycling
Title: "Sustainable Alternatives to Petrochemicals through Plastic Upcycling"

February 16, 2023
Pablo Sobrado
Virginia Tech
Title: "Role of protein and flavin motion in the formation of the C4a-(hydro)peroxyflavin intermediate"

February 23, 2023
Mike Reppert
Purdue University
Title: "Bioexcitons by Design: First Steps

March 2, 2023
Jim Sacchettini
Texas A&M University
Title: "TB Drug Discovery: What a long, strange trip it's been"

March 23, 2023
Matthew Holcomb
The Scripps Research Institute
Title: "Expanding the Scope of Docking"

March 30, 2023
Martin St. Maurice
Marquette University
Title: "Guanidine degradation in bacteria reveals iminohydrolase activity in an enzyme family of previously unknown function"

April 20, 2023
Xuhui Huang
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: "Non-Markovian Dynamic Models for Studing Protein Conformational Changes"

April 27, 2023
Shyam Kattel
Florida A&M University
Title: "Computations Guided Catalysts Design"

September 7, 2023
Lisa Utschig
Argonne National Lab
Title: "Photosynthetic Biohybrids for Solar Hydrogen Production"

September 21, 2023
Tatiana Esipova
Loyola University Chicago
Title: Development of Heavy Atom-Free Photocatalysts for Chemical Reactions"

October 5, 2023
Lan Zhu
Medical College of WI (MCW)
Title: "Illuminating the Molecular Mechanisms of G Protein-Coupled Receptors: Insights from Cryo-EM and X-ray Perspectives"

October 19, 2023
J.R. Schmidt
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: "Physically-motivated force fields from symmetry-adapted perturbation theory"

October 26, 2023
Whelton Miller
Loyola University Medical Center
Title: "Lead Identification with Molecular Docking and Biomolecular Simulations"

November 2, 2023
Anna Wuttig
University of Chicago
Title: "Electrocatalytic Syntheses with Interfacial Control"

November 16, 2023
Yee Ling Wu
Loyola University Chicago
Title: "Where is the B cell memory for allergic lung inflammation?"

November 30, 2023
Sayantan Mahapatra
Northwestern University
Title: "Probing Photophysical and Photochemical Processes in a Nanoscale Gap"

December 7, 2023  
Haoyuan Chen
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Title: "Towards Fast and Robust High-Throughput Discovery of Functional MOFs: Force Field Development and Machine Learning Protocols"