Yuzhe Zhang
Room 9341 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Past Events Category: Thesis Defense
Thesis Defense – Dean Jarois
Dean Jarois
Room 9341 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) is responsible for the formation of membraneless organelles in cells and is often regarded as a plausible mechanism for prebiotic compartmentalization. While LLPS has been widely studied with homochiral peptides and …
Physics-informed deep learning for protein dynamics
Bojun Liu
Room 8335, Daniels Building @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
This is the Ph.D. dissertation defense of Bojun Liu, a Ph.D. candidate in Prof. Xuhui Huang’s group.
Crystal Formation and Orientation in Aragonite Biominerals
Connor Schmidt
Room 2401, North Tower, Chemistry Building @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Connor Schmidt’s dissertation defense, titled “Crystal Formation and Orientation in Aragonite Biominerals”. Public session will be held in-person in 2401 Chemistry and virtually on Zoom.
Mechanistic Insights and Synthetic Applications of TEMPO-Mediated Allene Dioxygenation
Ken Lee
Room 9341 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Virtual Meeting Link
Oxidative allene functionalization enables the installation of diverse heteroatoms across three contiguous unsaturated carbons, providing rapid access to valuable intermediates for the synthesis of natural products and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). However, conventional oxidation conditions …
Progress Towards Automated Assignment of Rotational Spectra
Jonathan Rebelsky
TBA @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Rotational spectroscopy probes the lowest energy quantized molecular transitions. When assuming a perfect separation of rotational and vibrational energies, knowing the moment of inertia in three orthogonal axes is sufficient to determine the exact energy …
Perturbing Bimetallic Cores: Synthetic, Spectroscopic, and Computational Investigations of Heterotrimetallic Extended Metal Atom Chains
Samantha Stegman
Seminar Hall (Room 1315) @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
The series of heterometallic extended metal atom chains (HEMAC) complexes of the type M≣M–M’ (M = Cr, Mo, W; M’ = Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) supported by the equatorial ligand 2,2-dipyridylamide (dpa). has been …
Flexible and Foldamer Catalysts
Philip Lampkin
Room 2401, North Tower, Chemistry Building @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Philip Lampkin’s PhD Dissertation Defense
Exploring Students’ Ideas about Molecular Symmetry
Robin Morgenstern
Seminar Hall (Room 1315) @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Robin Morgenstern’s PhD Dissertation Defense
Structural and Functional Studies of Prepilin Peptidase PilD: An antivirulence target in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Christopher Dade
Seminar Hall (Room 1315) @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm