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DTSTAMP:20250613T104134
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250625T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250625T110000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Aldrex Munsayac - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Aldrex Munsayac for their dissertation defense titled \"Shining light (and neutrons) on RNA structure: Small-angle scattering studies of non-coding RNAs and RNA complexes\".\n\n*Date:* Wednesday\, June 25\, 2025\n*Time:* 9:00 a.m.\n*Where:* Room 1706\, Chemistry Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93963827996\nPasscode: GCAU
UID:136107-21877859@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136107
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250619T092351
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250703T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250703T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Reyne Pullen Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Title & Abstract TBD
UID:136151-21877971@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136151
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - A505
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250613T101127
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250703T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250703T150000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Michela Maiola - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Michela Maiola for their dissertation defense titled \"Synthesis\, Characterization\, and Reactivity of Molecular Metal Hydride Clusters\".\n\n*Date:* Thursday\, July 3\, 2025\n*Time:* 1:00 p.m.\n*Where:* Room 1706\, Chemistry Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99713414752\nPasscode: Hydride
UID:136106-21877857@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136106
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250630T091817
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250710T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250710T160000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Hayley Lillo - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Hayley Lillo for their dissertation defense titled \"Multinuclear Nickel Complexes Featuring Unusual Oxygenic Ligands: Hydrogen Peroxide Activation\, Catalase Reactivity\, and Efforts Toward C–H Activation\".\n\n*Date:* Thursday\, July 10\, 2025\n*Time:* 2:00 p.m.\n*Where:* Room 1706\, Chemistry Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98557894255\nPasscode: nickel
UID:136270-21878354@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136270
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250707T100846
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250718T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250718T150000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Andrew Cruz - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Andrew Cruz for their dissertation defense titled \"Outcompeting and Suppressing the Intramolecular Heck Arylation in Bimolecular Palladium-Catalyzed Alkene Difunctionalization Reactions\".\n\n*Date:* Friday\, July 18\, 2025\n*Time:* 1:00 p.m.\n*Where:* Room 1640\, Chemistry Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97176576228\nPasscode: Heck
UID:136349-21878575@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136349
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250707T102346
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250718T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250718T160000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Andrew Bennett - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Andrew Bennett for their dissertation defense titled \"Ionic Cocrystals as Green Oxidizers\".\n\n*Date:* Friday\, July 18\, 2025\n*Time:* 2:00 p.m.\n*Where:* Room A505\, Chemistry Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91648734806\nPasscode: crystal
UID:136350-21878576@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136350
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - A505
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250714T103322
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250722T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:19700101T000000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Simulating Quantum Chemical Dynamics in Condensed Phases: Methodological Developments and Applications
DESCRIPTION:Quantum effects play a critical role in many problems of chemical dynamics in condensed phases. In this presentation\, I will introduce recent progress from our group on the development and application of the hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) method\, a non-perturbative framework for accurately capturing the influence of environmental degrees of freedom on quantum systems. I will first highlight recent algorithmic advances that extend the method’s applicability to more complex systems. These include efficient treatments of the exponential decomposition of bath correlation functions for general spectral densities and low-temperature conditions\, as well as the integration of tensor network techniques to enable HEOM propagation involving thousands of effective modes. Several applications of the HEOM method will then be presented\, including charge transport and separation dynamics in organic semiconductors\; quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer in photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes and related ultrafast spectroscopic phenomena\; and the dynamics of systems under strong light-matter interactions.
UID:136441-21878684@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136441
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250715T093619
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250724T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250724T150000
SUMMARY:Presentation:David Fuller - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join David Fuller for their dissertation defense titled \"Dynamic Chromosome Organization in Bacteria Under Stress\".\n\n*Date:* Thursday\, July 24\, 2025\n*Time:* 1:00 p.m.\n*Where:* Room 1706\, Chemistry Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95684013289\nPasscode: 97023
UID:136457-21878733@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136457
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250714T095513
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250725T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250725T120000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Andrew Holen - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Andrew Holen for their dissertation defense titled \"Chemical Characterization and Quantification of Individual Atmospheric Aerosols in Urban and Remote Environments Using Single-Particle Mass Spectrometry\".\n\n*Date:* Friday\, July 25\, 2025\n*Time:* 10:00 a.m.\n*Where:* Earl Lewis Room\, Rackham Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96644084671\nPasscode: Aerosol
UID:136438-21878675@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136438
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Earl Lewis Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250721T103912
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250804T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250804T153000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Christopher R. Bingham - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Christopher R. Bingham for their dissertation defense titled \"Conformational Modulation and Selective Inhibition of c-Src Kinase\".\n\n*Date:* Monday\, August 4\, 2025\n*Time:* 1:30 p.m.\n*Where:* Room 1706\, Chemistry Building
UID:136557-21878844@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136557
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
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DTSTAMP:20250728T091602
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250806T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250806T110000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Jennalise Ellis - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Jennalise Ellis for their dissertation defense titled \"Bivalent and Allosteric Inhibitors of Abl and Src Kinase\".\n\n*Date:* Wednesday\, August 6\, 2025\n*Time:* 10:00 a.m.\n*Where:* Room 1640\, Chemistry Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/6737455421\nPasscode: kinase
UID:136693-21879024@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136693
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250728T090705
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250806T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250806T133000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Vaidehi Shastri - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Vaidehi Shastri for their dissertation defense titled \"Synthetic and thermodynamic insights for designing degradable polymers\".\n\n*Date:* Wednesday\, August 6\, 2025\n*Time:* 11:30 a.m.\n*Where:* Room 1706\, Chemistry Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97507691301
UID:136691-21879022@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136691
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250728T090041
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250807T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250807T140000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Andrew Beamer - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Andrew Beamer for their dissertation defense titled \"A Molecular Tricopper Model System: Informing Mechanisms in Catalytic Reductions via Robust Structure-Property Relationships\".\n\n*Date:* Thursday\, August 7\, 2025\n*Time:* 1:00 p.m.\n*Where:* Room 1640\, Chemistry Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92675897071\nPasscode: Cluster
UID:136690-21879021@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136690
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250722T094520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250807T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250807T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Merck Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Ryan Shenvi Title: Attempts to deliver on the promise of natural products\n\nRyan Shenvi Abstract: Natural product (NP) total synthesis involves experimental discovery and decision-making at every stage: why this route and not another? Why this intermediate and not its close analog? Why this NP\, optimized for the producer organism’s survival in its ecological niche\, and not a close analog\, optimized for therapeutic use? The vast numbers of options surrounding all possible choices exceed human capacity for evaluation. Our group has begun to make these decisions with the aid of computation. These calculations\, which contain numerous approximations\, are not taken at face value\, but instead subjected to experimental interrogation. If correct\, however\, computational predictions can greatly simplify our choice of reagent\, choice of intermediate (subTGT)\, or even choice of NP target (TGT).
UID:136285-21878394@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136285
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250804T095356
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250814T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250814T160000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Andrew LaDuca - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Andrew LaDuca for their dissertation defense titled \"Secondary Sphere Hydrogen Bonds in a Non-Heme Iron Compound Enhances Small Molecule Activation\".\n\n*Date:* Thursday\, August 14\, 2025\n*Time:* 2:00 p.m.\n*Where:* Room 1706\, Chemistry Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/my/hydrogenbonding\nPasscode: hbond
UID:136971-21879383@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136971
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250808T092811
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250820T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250820T110000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Gillian Robbins - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Gillian Robbins for their dissertation defense titled \"Droplet Microfluidic Solid Phase Extraction for High Throughput Electrospray Mass Spectrometry\".\n\n*Date:* Wednesday\, August 20\, 2025\n*Time:* 9:00 a.m.\n*Where:* Room 1706\, Chemistry Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/my/94925990787\nPasscode: droplets
UID:137317-21880136@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137317
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250808T090944
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250821T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250821T160000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Bridget Murray - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Bridget Murray for their dissertation defense titled \"Advances in Direct-Mass Spectrometry for High-Throughput Screening of Biocatalysts\".\n\n*Date:* Thursday\, August 21\, 2025\n*Time:* 2:00 p.m.\n*Where:* Room 1706\, Chemistry Building
UID:137316-21880134@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137316
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250724T133006
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250822T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250822T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Chemistry Safety Refresher Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Title: Influencing Chemical Safety\, Guiding Tomorrow’s Science\n\nAbstract: Safety in the chemical sciences is too often seen as a matter of compliance — a box to check. Yet safety is far more than a set of rules. It is a rich domain of scientific inquiry\, human behavior\, organizational culture\, and passionate collaboration. While safety principles inform research across all American Chemical Society (ACS) journals\, they find dedicated focus in ACS Chemical Health & Safety (ACS CHAS). In this presentation\, Mary Beth Mulcahy\, Editor-in-Chief of ACS CHAS\, will share stories of articles that have reshaped her own thinking—from a graduate student who lost consciousness while collecting dry ice\, to an international collaboration between Stanford University and India’s Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research following a serious incident with acryloyl chloride\, to a candid discussion of a paper the journal ultimately chose not to publish. Through these examples\, the presentation will invite chemists to see publishing safety articles as a vibrant and essential part of advancing chemical research.
UID:136101-21877850@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136101
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1800
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250826T145809
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250829T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250829T180000
SUMMARY:Rally / Mass Meeting:QuantUM Mass Meeting
DESCRIPTION:📣 Join QuantUM in USB 1230 for our Fall 25 mass meeting! We'll introduce the club\, share our plans for the coming semester\, and play some fun games.\n\nCome to enjoy free food 🍕 and meet peers who share your curiosity for quantum science ⚛️. All years\, majors\, and experience levels are invited. Bring a friend! 😃
UID:138196-21882563@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138196
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Undergraduate Science Building - 1230
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250829T141535
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250903T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250903T140000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Ice Cream + Info on the Grove
DESCRIPTION:Join MDP Staff and representatives from project sponsor JPMorgan Chase on the North Campus Grove for * free * ice cream and information about our upcoming recruitment for 2026 projects!
UID:138240-21882662@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138240
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:The Grove
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250821T140846
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250909T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250909T125000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Chemicals & non-chemicals as stressors in relation to human reproductive health
DESCRIPTION:Registration required: https://myumi.ch/y1q8V\n\nThe Integrated Health Sciences Core's webinar series is an interdisciplinary forum for interested researchers to come together to learn and discuss wide-ranging issues in the field of environmental health. \n\nDr. Lidia Mínguez-Alarcón is a Spanish epidemiologist and her research focuses on identifying chemical and non-chemical stressors of human fertility\, reproductive and cardiometabolic health with special focus on diet-chemical interactions\, paternal contributions to pregnancy outcomes and chemicals mixtures. Dr. Mínguez-Alarcón is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Lead Investigator at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Mínguez-Alarcón received her BPharm from the University of Valencia School of Pharmacy and her MPH and PhD from the University of Murcia School of Medicine. She previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
UID:137902-21881084@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137902
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250827T114921
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Seminar> How cells use chemistry and physics to break and remodel the bones that power their movement
DESCRIPTION:Host: Morgan DeSantis
UID:138248-21882670@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138248
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250807T181856
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Grad School in the Biosciences Panel (PhD and MS)
DESCRIPTION:Graduate students and postdocs from the MCDB department will discuss how to apply to graduate school and what to expect with graduate classes\, research\, and post-degree job searching. The panel will be open to both pre-submitted and live questions.\n\nRSVP: https://linktr.ee/FIRST_Org\n\nIn-Person Location: 1010 BSB\n\nPlease RSVP for hybrid Zoom info.
UID:137225-21879984@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137225
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250909T092730
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250915T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250915T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Gomberg Lecture \"A Spectroscopic View of Aqueous Surfaces: Oceans and Aerosols to Materials\"
DESCRIPTION:Molecule and ion enrichment\, or depletion\, at the ocean surface impacts transfer to marine aerosol and thus chemistry in both scenarios. Additionally\, geochemical weathering\, environmental contaminant capture\, cloud droplet surface electric fields\, and interfacial chemistry of materials provide the vast motivations for studies of interfacial ion pairing\, binding\, and surface prevalence and organization of molecules and ion assemblies at interfaces. This area of science continues to be controversial although there is growing but limited consensus: case in point\, reaction rate enhancements in microdroplets. In this presentation\, interfacial structure of liquid surfaces and the driving forces of such are presented using vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy (VSFG)\, second harmonic generation (SHG)\, Brewster angle microscopy (BAM)\, surface potential\, surface tension\, polarized Raman\, and infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (IRRAS). Some focus is on Fe(III)\, Al(III)\, Ca(II)\, Mg(II)\, and anions from the halide series to sulfate. Binding mechanisms and ion surface activity are not necessarily correlated in that the driving forces of electrostatics and nonspecific dispersion compete with surprising outcomes.  Inherent and applied electric field data from aqueous surfaces is also explored to reveal inherent surface charge that varies significantly with surface structural assembly.
UID:138385-21882884@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138385
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250909T092839
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Probing Molecular Interactions with Label-Free Methods: Biomimetic Interfaces\, Machine Learning and New Forms of Plasmonic Sensing
DESCRIPTION:Understanding protein-ligand interactions at the molecular level is critical for elucidating disease mechanisms and enabling early diagnosis of conditions such as cancer\, neurological disorders\, and neurodegenerative diseases. This seminar will highlight recent work in our lab in the areas of molecular recognition\, characterization of protein binding\, and biomarker detection using the label-free technique of surface plasmon resonance (SPR). Our research integrates biomimetic interface engineering\, novel plasmonic sensing schemes\, and machine learning-based data analysis to address complex analytical challenges. We employ supported lipid bilayers to investigate protein interactions under relevant conditions\, including curved membrane geometries. A glycolipid microarray platform for SPR imaging will be presented for the detection of multiple sclerosis biomarkers\, where machine learning algorithms were used to resolve cross-reactivity issues that hinder diagnostic specificity. Additional topics will include new chip designs\, 3D-printed optical components\, and the use of unconventional aluminum substrates in the Kretschmann configuration for enhanced sensing. Finally\, plasmonic film-enhanced laser desorption ionization process for single cell analysis will be discussed.
UID:138409-21882914@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138409
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250908T104633
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MDCB Seminar> Self-organizing principles of living matter
DESCRIPTION:Host: Ann Miller and Allen Liu\, Mechanical Engineering
UID:138271-21882695@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138271
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250902T103504
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250922T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250922T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Seminar Series in Human Genetics - Monday\, September 22\, 11:00 am
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the kickoff of our Fall Seminar Series in Human Genetics on Monday\, September 22nd in the Kahn Auditorium: “Variations on a theme of structure: leveraging recent relatedness and mixed-membership clustering to gain insights from high-dimensional genomics datasets” by Sohini Ramachandran\, PhD\, from Brown University.\n\nSeminar Series in Human Genetics\nMonday\, September 22\, 2025 \n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\n“Variations on a theme of structure: leveraging recent relatedness and mixed-membership clustering to gain insights from high-dimensional genomics datasets”\n\nSohini Ramachandran\, PhD \nHermon C. Bumpus Professor of Biology and of Data Science\, Brown University\n\nHosted By: \nJeff Kidd\, PhD & Michelle Kim\, PhD \nThe Department of Human Genetics\, University of Michigan Medical School
UID:138607-21883438@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138607
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium, BSRB
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250915T113054
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250922T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250922T171500
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Fluorine Chemistry with Global Challenges in Mind
DESCRIPTION:Talk 1. Fluorine Chemistry with Global Challenges in Mind\nTalk 2. Fluorination under Hydrogen Bonding Phase-transfer Catalysis\n\nTalk 1 Abstract: Fluorochemicals are key for fundamental and applied sciences including applications in medicine\, agrochemistry and material science. The first global challenge that will be discussed in this lecture is the continuous necessity for new diagnostic agents and medicines\, and how our programme on 18F-Radiochemistry for Positron Emission Tomography Imaging can accelerate innovation. The challenges facing the fluorochemical industry will be presented next\, calling for the invention of safe and sustainable manufacturing processes. Specifically\, this lecture will present new pathways to reinvent fluorine chemistry with methodologies that convert fluorspar into critically needed fluorine-containing molecules applying operationally simple and energy- effective methods that bypass the production of dangerous hydrogen fluoride. \n\nTalk 2 Abstract: The economic impact of catalysis is significant contributing 30–40% of global GDP. In this context\, phase-transfer catalysis is a powerful manifold for asymmetric synthesis. Chiral cationic or anionic PTC strategies have enabled a variety of transformations\, yet studies on the use of insoluble inorganic salts as nucleophiles for the synthesis of enantioenriched molecules have remained elusive. A long-standing challenge is the development of methods for asymmetric carbon–fluorine bond formation from cost-effective alkali metal fluorides. In this lecture\, we will describe in details how hydrogen-bond donor catalysts can provide a solution to enantioselective nucleophilic fluorination through controlled fluoride binding.
UID:136052-21877727@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136052
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250915T113054
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T124500
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Fluorine Chemistry with Global Challenges in Mind
DESCRIPTION:Talk 1. Fluorine Chemistry with Global Challenges in Mind\nTalk 2. Fluorination under Hydrogen Bonding Phase-transfer Catalysis\n\nTalk 1 Abstract: Fluorochemicals are key for fundamental and applied sciences including applications in medicine\, agrochemistry and material science. The first global challenge that will be discussed in this lecture is the continuous necessity for new diagnostic agents and medicines\, and how our programme on 18F-Radiochemistry for Positron Emission Tomography Imaging can accelerate innovation. The challenges facing the fluorochemical industry will be presented next\, calling for the invention of safe and sustainable manufacturing processes. Specifically\, this lecture will present new pathways to reinvent fluorine chemistry with methodologies that convert fluorspar into critically needed fluorine-containing molecules applying operationally simple and energy- effective methods that bypass the production of dangerous hydrogen fluoride. \n\nTalk 2 Abstract: The economic impact of catalysis is significant contributing 30–40% of global GDP. In this context\, phase-transfer catalysis is a powerful manifold for asymmetric synthesis. Chiral cationic or anionic PTC strategies have enabled a variety of transformations\, yet studies on the use of insoluble inorganic salts as nucleophiles for the synthesis of enantioenriched molecules have remained elusive. A long-standing challenge is the development of methods for asymmetric carbon–fluorine bond formation from cost-effective alkali metal fluorides. In this lecture\, we will describe in details how hydrogen-bond donor catalysts can provide a solution to enantioselective nucleophilic fluorination through controlled fluoride binding.
UID:136052-21877728@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136052
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250922T105617
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MICDE: Nobel Prize Lectures
DESCRIPTION:The 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry spotlight the reciprocal influence between artificial intelligence and the natural sciences. This MICDE special event examines the science and scientists recognized for foundational advances in neural networks that underpin modern machine learning (Physics)\, and for AI-enabled breakthroughs in protein structure prediction and computational protein design (Chemistry). The lectures will be followed by a moderated panel and an open\, cross-disciplinary discussion.\n\nSpeakers:\n- Charles Brooks\, Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Chemistry\, Cyrus Levinthal Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics\, will talk about the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.\n\n- Veera Sundararaghavan\, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and the Director of Multiscale Structural Simulations Laboratory\, will talk about the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics.\n\n\nThe panel discussion\, followed by the lectures\, will address questions such as: What can AI do for science? How can it support existing ideas and create new ones? What can science do for AI?\n\nPanelists:\n- James Wells\, Professor of Physics\, University of Michigan\n\n- Indika Rajapakse\, Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics\, and Professor of Mathematics\, University of Michigan\n\n- Charles Brooks\, Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Chemistry\, Cyrus Levinthal Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics\n\n- Veera Sundararaghavan\, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and the Director of Multiscale Structural Simulations Laboratory\n\nModerator:\n- Karthik Duraisamy\, Professor of Aerospace Engineering\, Mechanical Engineering and Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences and Samir and Puja Kaul Director of the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering
UID:137247-21879987@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137247
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250826T110332
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute | A New Era in Quantum Optics: From Topological Photonics to Correlated Materials
DESCRIPTION:In-Person: West Hall 411\nZoom:  https://umich.zoom.us/j/91759211821?jst=2\n\nTitle: A New Era in Quantum Optics: From Topological Photonics to Correlated Materials\nAbstract: Quantum optics investigates the interactions between light and matter at their most fundamental level. In recent years\, we have witnessed remarkable advances in controlling individual photons and other excitations\, such as spin\, charge\, excitons\, and phonons\, in solid-state systems. While this progress has primarily been driven by quantum information science (QIS)\, its implications extend far beyond QIS. In this talk\, I will present two key examples. First\, I will review the field of topological photonics\, highlighting how optical nonlinearity can give rise to unique bosonic phenomena—without electronic counterparts—such as topological frequency combs. Next\, I will discuss how optical control techniques can introduce a radically new approach for preparing\, detecting\, and manipulating correlated electronic states. This includes new ways of inducing and enhancing magnetism\, superconductivity\, and topological phases in matter\, as well as the prospect of addressing some of the long-standing questions in the field.\n\nBio: Mohammad Hafezi is a Minta Martin Professor with a joint appointment in the Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments at the University of Maryland and a fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute. He studied at Sharif University before completing his undergraduate degree in École Polytechnique. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 2009. His research interests include quantum optics\, topological physics\, condensed matter\, and quantum information sciences. He is the recipient of several awards\, including the Sloan Fellowship\, the Young Investigator Award of the US Naval Research Office\, and the Simons Foundation Investigator.
UID:135150-21876424@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135150
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250904T082037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:19700101T000000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Mechanism and Phosphine Ligand Design in Homogeneous Gold (I) Catalysis
DESCRIPTION:Abstract TBD
UID:138798-21883931@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138798
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250904T114244
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2025/2026 Single Cell Spatial Analysis Program Monthly Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:In Person and via Zoom\nSCSAP Monthly Seminar Series- KICKOFF SEMINAR\nDate: Monday\, September 29th\, 2025\nTime: 1:00-2:00 PM EST\nLocation: NCRC Building 10 – Research Auditorium\nLunch Provided beginning at 12:30 in NCRC Building 10 Lobby\nSEMINAR WILL NOT BE RECORDED\n\nTITLE: Imaging the microbe-host interface with genome-scale microscopy\n\nFEATURING: \nJeffrey R. Moffitt\, Ph.D.\nAssistant Professor\, Department of Microbiology\, Harvard Medical School\nInvestigator\, Program in Cellular in Molecular Medicine\, Boston Children's Hospital\n\nFor more details Visit: https://singlecellspatialanalysis.umich.edu/monthlyseminarseries/\n \nZoom Meeting Link\n \nMeeting ID: 998 7259 4985\nPasscode: 786053
UID:138806-21883943@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138806
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - Research Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250830T200747
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251005T160000
SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:ID Day
DESCRIPTION:Discover our hidden collections—and show us yours! Bring in your own collected objects for identification by experts in paleontology\, anthropology\, archaeology\, botany\, zoology\, and geology.  \n\nIn celebration of the twenty-fifth annual ID Day\, we will be adding interactive activities with the U-M Herbarium and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology\, as well as providing expert-led guidance and resources on ethical collecting. Come celebrate twenty-five years of bringing U-M expertise to the local community with us!\n\nFree and open to the public. Sorry\, no appraisals given.
UID:138552-21883200@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138552
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250902T105216
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251006T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251006T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Seminar Series in Human Genetics - Monday\, October 6\, 11:00 am
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Series in Human Genetics\nMonday\, October 6\, 2025 \n11:00am - 12:00pm\nNLH\n\n“Harnessing my daughter’s diagnosis to drive novel ASO treatments for neurodevelopmental disorders”\n\nMadeleine J. Oudin\, PhD \nTiampo Family Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, Tufts University\n\nHosted By: \nMiriam Meisler\, PhD \nThe Department of Human Genetics\, University of Michigan Medical School
UID:138608-21883439@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138608
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Medical Science Unit II - North Lecture Hall, MSII
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250918T160510
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T171500
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Organic Synthesis Lecture: Electrification and Decarbonization of Chemical Synthesis
DESCRIPTION:Chemical synthesis is responsible for significant emissions of carbon dioxide worldwide. These emissions arise not only due to the energy requirements of chemical synthesis\, but since hydrocarbon feedstocks can be overoxidized or used as hydrogen sources. Using renewable electricity to drive chemical synthesis may provide a route to overcoming these challenges\, enabling synthetic routes which operate at benign conditions and utilize sustainable inputs. We are developing an electrosynthetic toolkit in which distributed feedstocks\, including carbon dioxide\, dinitrogen\, water\, and renewable electricity\, can be converted into diverse fuels\, chemicals\, and materials. \n\nIn this presentation\, we will share recent advances made in our laboratory on nitrogen fixation to synthesize ammonia at ambient conditions. Specifically\, our lab has investigated a continuous lithium-mediated approach to ammonia synthesis and understood the reaction network that controls selectivity. We have developed non-aqueous gas-diffusion electrodes which lead to high rates of ammonia synthesis at ambient conditions. We will also discuss how water can be used as a sustainable oxygen-atom source and how carbon dioxide can be used to achieve carbon chain extension. These findings will be discussed in the context of a broader range of electrosynthetic transformations which could lead to local and on-demand production of critical chemicals and materials.
UID:138428-21882933@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138428
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251001T112811
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251008T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251008T100000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:SCSAP Hosts: Stellaromics Inc. Tech Talk
DESCRIPTION:IN-PERSON SEMINAR\n3D Spatial Multi-Omics for Neuroscience\, Oncology\, and More\nHOSTED BY SCSAP\nDATE: OCTOBER 8\, 2025\nTIME: 9:00 - 10:00 AM \nLOCATION: NCRC Building 10 –G00S030 South Atrium\n\nThis free tech talk will feature Stellaromics and their Pyxa platform\, the first 3D\, high-plex\, confocal spatial system!! Please come and hear more about how Pyxa can help advance your spatial research!!! Come and meet the team!\n\nFree seminar for everyone!\nFood and Refreshments will be served!! \n\nPlease register to ensure there is enough food for everyone
UID:140131-21886661@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140131
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - South Atrium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250806T152619
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T110000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LSI SciComm Series: Kate Zernike
DESCRIPTION:In 1999 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology publicly admitted that it had discriminated against the women on its science faculty. That \"extraordinary admission\,\" as the front page of the New York Times described it\, set off a reckoning across the country about the lack of women at the highest levels of science.\n\nThe MIT story started with the quiet efforts of 16 highly accomplished female scientists\, led by Nancy Hopkins\, a molecular biologist who had started her career 30 years earlier believing that science was a pure meritocracy and feminism was an unnecessary relic. Kate Zernike\, the author of \"The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the Fight for Women in Science\" will talk about how Hopkins was emblematic of her generation\, and what the next generation of scientists can learn from the experience of the women at MIT.\n\nA book-signing event will take place immediately following the talk\, at 11:00 a.m. in the Rackham Amphitheater.
UID:137203-21879943@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137203
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250923T093152
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute | New architectures for neutral atom quantum computing
DESCRIPTION:In-Person: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project - 2000PML\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91548361604?jst=2\n\nAbstract: I will present recent theoretical and experimental developments on fault-tolerant quantum computing with neutral 171Yb atoms. On the theoretical side\, I will discuss hardware-efficient implementations of error correction leveraging unique features of neutral atom qubits. I will also present experimental realizations of these concepts with physical and logical qubits\, as well as advances in the design and implementation of robust entangling gates. Finally\, I will discuss recent results from a second-generation tweezer array capable of rapid\, continuous mid-circuit atom replacement\, and sketch a path towards unlimited-depth fault-tolerant quantum circuits. \n\nBio\nJeff Thompson is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton\, and is an associated faculty member in the Physics and in the Princeton Materials Institute. His research focuses on developing scalable quantum technologies based on atomic qubits. His group pioneered ytterbium (Yb) neutral atom qubits through a research program spanning fundamental atomic spectroscopy\, the design and implementation of record-fidelity quantum gates\, logical qubit circuits and a novel\, hardware-efficient fault-tolerant quantum computing architecture based on erasure conversion. Thompson’s group is also pursuing the development of modular quantum interconnects using both neutral atom qubits and solid-state rare earth ion defects. In 2024\, Thompson co-founded Logiqal\, Inc. to pursue the development of large-scale modular quantum computers based on Yb qubits.
UID:135177-21876457@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135177
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project - 2000PML
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250911T095055
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:3D Nanoprinting via Controlled Assembly of Molecules
DESCRIPTION:While various 3D printing technology has gained momentum in additive manufacturing\, 3D nanoprinting remains challenging due to its requirement of high spatial precision.  Combining scanning probe microscopy and nanolithography\, microfluidic delivery\, this presentation introduces a new chemistry means\, known as “controlled assembly of molecules”\, which enables 3D nanoprinting. While self-assembly of molecules is relatively well-known and frequently utilized in chemical synthesis and material science\, controlled assembly of molecules represents a new concept and approach. The key to controlled assembly is the fact that ultra-small solution droplets exhibit different dynamics from those of larger ones. This new approach enables delivery of sub-femtoliter aqueous droplets containing designed molecules\, which lead to well-defined features with dimensions as small as tens of nanometers\, as illustrated in the Figure. The initial shape of the droplet and the concentration of solutes within the droplet dictate the final assembly of molecules due to the ultrafast evaporation rate and dynamic spatial confinement of the droplets. Applications of this technology in 3D nanoprinting are demonstrated. The level of control demonstrated in this work brings us closer to programmable synthesis for chemistry\, as such benefit applications in materials science\, additive manufacturing\, and nanobiotechnology.
UID:138401-21882905@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138401
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250912T123303
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251020T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251020T123000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:16th Annual Diane Baker Alumni Award & Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Kate Emery\, MS\, CGC\, is a licensed and certified genetic counselor and the Senior Clinical Program Manager of Genomics at Providence Health\, one of the largest community hospital networks in the US. Kate graduated from the UMGCP in 2015\, having previously earned her B.A. in Biology from the University of San Diego in 2013. She began her genetic counseling career in pediatric genetics and newborn screening before transitioning to her longstanding interest in cancer genetics\, where she provided genetic counseling and participated in multidisciplinary care for patients in Southern California. While in direct patient care\, Kate had the opportunity to develop and oversee screening protocols to identify and refer patients eligible for germline genetic testing at multiple points of care\, including during mammography encounters and from tumor molecular pathology. In 2021\, she moved into a research role at Providence\, coordinating the Genomic Medicine For Everyone (Geno4ME) study\, a pilot project involving research-based whole genome sequencing with a clinical return of results panel. \n\nKate now manages a portfolio of population-scale genetics programs that serve the entire seven-state Providence health system. These programs include inherited cancer and cardiovascular disease screening\, pharmacogenomics\, population sequencing\, and precision oncology initiatives. As part of Providence's Institute for Clinical Innovation\, she and her colleagues are also actively engaged in outcomes and health services research to drive clinical program improvement and innovation.\n\nKate is passionate about community healthcare and utilizing novel service delivery methods to ensure that high-quality genetics services and research opportunities are accessible to all patients. She draws on her background as a genetic counselor and her patient care experiences to maintain a compassionate\, patient-centered approach in her work within population health genetics.
UID:139269-21885218@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139269
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall at Palmer Commons
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250911T092900
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251020T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251020T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Rethinking how we teach organic chemistry: Innovations afforded by universal design
DESCRIPTION:Using sign language to convey a concept or describe a transition state is a powerful way for students to think about the electron pushing formalisms we write on paper and recognize mechanistic trends. Using our hands as models transforms the two-dimensional static framework of writing symbolic drawings on our page into 3-D opportunities for students to conceptualize a molecule or even a transition state. The Sign Language Incorporation in Chemistry Education (SLICE) project was initiated by a group of faculty and Deaf/Hard of Hearing (D/HH) students at the Rochester Institute of Technology to address the language vacuum of STEM signs in organic chemistry. The result of our work has had a positive impact on the classroom culture and performance gains of D/HH students taking the organic chemistry courses.  Now\, efforts have begun to address STEM signs in general chemistry and biochemistry. Our studies are also now exploring the impact of universal design across all students in the organic chemistry curriculum.
UID:138429-21882934@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138429
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251014T112124
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251020T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T180000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Graduate Fellowships for Computational Science and Engineering
DESCRIPTION:Join MICDE for an information session on graduate fellowships in computational science and engineering. Following an overview of existing opportunities\, a panel of recent fellowship recipients will answer questions. The event is primarily intended for juniors\, seniors\, and first-year graduate students\, but is open to all. \n\nRefreshments will be served\; a Zoom option is also available.
UID:140562-21887350@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140562
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:3150 Dow
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251020T135310
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:National Transfer Student Week | Cider and Donuts with the SLC
DESCRIPTION:Come join the Science Learning Center (SLC) for some fall cider and donuts. Learn about SLC programs and services while connecting with professional and undergraduate student staff. This is a drop-in style event where you can come and go as your schedule allows.
UID:140393-21887025@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140393
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:chemistry
LOCATION:LSA Building - 1180 LSA Building, Transfer Student Center
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251007T131929
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T125000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Endocrine-disrupting chemicals and vasomotor symptoms among midlife women
DESCRIPTION:Zoom registration required https://myumi.ch/jJQRz\n\nM-LEEaD's Integrated Health Sciences Core's webinar series is an interdisciplinary forum for interested researchers to come together to learn and discuss wide-ranging issues in the field of environmental health.\n\nRachael Brooks and Jiaxin Wu are doctoral students working with Dr. Sung Kyun Park in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Their research focuses on the potential impacts of endocrine-disrupting chemicals on women's health\, particularly during midlife\, and explores the roles that social determinants may play in these associations.
UID:140391-21887022@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140391
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250930T143021
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:New Approaches to Characterise the Surface and Bulk Compositions of Picoliter Droplets
DESCRIPTION:Aerosols are unique microcompartments central to areas as diverse as climate and air pollution\, disease transmission\, and chemical synthesis. Resolving their roles in each of these areas is challenging. For instance\, the surface composition of aerosol droplets is key to predicting cloud droplet number concentrations\, understanding atmospheric pollutant transformation\, and interpreting observations of accelerated droplet chemistry. However\, direct measurement of the surface properties of aerosol droplets is challenging\, even though such measurements are necessary\, as surface-bulk partitioning is strongly affected by the droplet’s surface area-to-volume ratio. In this presentation\, we will discuss new advances to characterise the equilibrium and dynamic surface properties of picolitre volume droplets\, gaining important insights that bear directly on our understanding of how cloud droplets form in the atmosphere and how chemical reactions may proceed in finite-volume systems. We will also describe a new mass spectrometry approach enabling sensitive\, high throughput chemical analysis of picolitre droplets\, facilitating more robust studies of the factors governing chemical reactivity in microcompartments.
UID:138407-21882912@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138407
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251014T155632
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251022T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251022T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Gomberg Lecture with Andy Borovik \"Biological C–H Bond Cleavage\"
DESCRIPTION:The oxidation of substrates via the cleavage of thermodynamically strong C–H bonds is an essential part of mammalian metabolism. These reactions are predominantly carried out by enzymes that produce high valent metal–oxido species\, which are directly responsible for cleaving the C–H bonds. While much is known about the identity of these transient intermediates\, the mechanistic factors that enable metal–oxido species to accomplish such difficult transformations are still incomplete. For synthetic metal–oxido species\, C–H bond cleavage is often mechanistically described as synchronous proton coupled electron transfer (PCET). However\, data have emerged that suggest the basicity of the M– oxido unit is the key determinant in achieving enzymatic function\, thus requiring alternative mechanisms whereby proton transfer (PT) has a more dominate role than electron transfer (ET). This presentation will describe our research to gain mechanistic insights into how metal–oxido complexes activate C–H bonds. We have used a series of well-characterized Mn(III)– and M(IV)–oxido complexes to show that PT has a dominate role in the activation processes. Our experimental findings led to a proposed PCET mechanism with asynchronous transition states that is dominated by PT. To support this premise\, a new semi-empirical free energy analysis was developed that can predict the relative contributions of PT and ET for a given set of substrates. These findings underscore why the basicity of M–oxido units needs to be considered in C–H functionalization.
UID:138386-21882885@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138386
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251009T075048
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute | Cavity QED with molecular defects coupled to a photonic crystal cavity
DESCRIPTION:In-person: Michigan League - Henderson room (3rd Floor)\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95387296886?jst=2\n\nAbstract:\nWe implement permanent spectral tuning to bring lifetime-limited emitters into collective resonance within an integrated photonic cavity. This addresses a fundamental challenge in solid-state cavity QED: combining multiple coherent quantum emitters with scalable nanophotonics. Our hybrid approach decouples emitter synthesis from nanophotonic fabrication using straightforward techniques that make cavity QED broadly accessible. Building on our previous demonstration of superradiance and subradiance in pairs of molecules [1]\, we now couple several coherent emitters to a single cavity mode through high doping densities. Optically-induced frequency shifting provides long-lived spectral control\, allowing us to tune multiple molecules into resonance and demonstrate controlled formation of collective quantum states [2]. This establishes a scalable platform for many-body cavity QED and opens pathways toward chemically-designed quantum systems where optical properties are engineered through synthetic chemistry. We will also report on progress in our ultracold Li-Cs experiment\, including cooling with the narrow 5D transition [3].\n[1] C. Lange\, E. Daggett\, V. Walther\, L. Huang\, and J.D. Hood\, Nature Physics (2024)\n[2] C. Lange et al.\, arXiv:2406.01917 (2025)\n[3]  Blodgett et al.\, arXiv :2505.10540 (2025)\n\nBio:\nJonathan Hood is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Purdue University. His lab conducts experimental research with ultracold laser-trapped atoms and cryogenic organic molecules. He completed his Ph.D. at Caltech in 2016 with Jeff Kimble\, where he worked on trapping ultracold atoms around nanophotonic structures. He then conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard with Kang-Kuen Ni\, working on laser assembly of ultracold molecules\, before joining Purdue in 2020. He is a recipient of the 2023 NSF CAREER Award.
UID:140187-21886715@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140187
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Michigan League - Henderson (3rd Floor)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250911T091040
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Revealing what’s hidden: optical microscopy of plasmonic nanostructures
DESCRIPTION:Plasmonic nanoparticles have a unique ability to convert light to other forms of energy\, enabling applications as broad as biosensing\, nanomedicine\, (photo)electrocatalysis\, photothermal heating\, and more.  While colloidal syntheses are increasingly sophisticated\, even the best nanoparticle samples have inherent heterogeneity in the size and shape of the resulting structures\, leading to the need for single particle imaging strategies in order to tease out structure-function relationships. Typically\, however\, most correlated structure-function measurements are performed serially\, in which function is measured first\, followed by structure determination. This talk will introduce calcite-assisted localization and kinetics (CLocK) microscopy as a parallel\, rather than serial\, strategy for performing correlated structure-function measurements on single nanoparticles\, highlighting different strategies for obtaining structural information from all-optical images.
UID:138404-21882908@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138404
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251017T144859
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T213000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 23 at 7:00 PM\nMichigan Theater - Screening Room\n603 E Liberty St\nAnn Arbor\, MI 48104. \n\nFilm | Documentary | NR | 1h 36m | 2025\n\nCracking the Code\, narrated by Mark Ruffalo\, is an inspiring story of vision\, perseverance\, and the power of science to change the world. Phil Sharp’s journey from a Kentucky farm boy to Nobel laureate embodies the American Dream and the triumph of entrepreneurial spirit. His 1977 groundbreaking discovery of RNA splicing rewrote the rules of molecular biology and ignited a life-saving scientific revolution\, laying the foundation for an industry that has become a cornerstone of global innovation and economic growth – and transformed the health of billions of patients worldwide.\n\nFeaturing a post-film Q&A with a panel presented by the University of Michigan Center for RNA Biomedicine and U-M Innovation Partnerships\n\nPanelists include:\n\nDr. Amanda Garner - Charles Walgreen Jr Professor\, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Director\, Interdepartmental Program in Medicinal Chemistry\, College of Pharmacy\n\nDr. Muneesh Tewari - Ray and Ruth Anderson-Laurence M Sprague Memorial Research Professor\, Professor of Internal Medicine\, Associate Division Chief\, Basic Research\, Medical School and Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, Medical School and College of Engineering\n\nDr. Nils Walter - Francis S Collins Collegiate Professor of Chemistry\, Biophysics and Biological Chemistry\, Professor of Chemistry\, Professor of Biophysics\, College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\, Program Associate\, Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and Professor of Biological Chemistry\, Medical School\n\nKate Remus\, Senior Associate Director & Business Development Group Lead\, University of Michigan Innovation Partnerships\n\nAdditional panelists TBD\n\nSpecial offer for current U-M students!\nUse the promo code UMRNA to unlock the Complimentary Ticket option. Good for one ticket\, while supplies last. Must show current U-M Student ID for entry.
UID:139238-21885177@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139238
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater Main Screening Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251013T092231
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T135000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Rob King - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Rob King for their dissertation defense titled \"Formation of Derivatized Benzocyclobutenes and Bicyclic Ureas via Palladium-Catalyzed Alkene Difunctionalization\".\n\n*Date:* Friday\, October 24\, 2025\n*Time:* 12:50 p.m.\n*Where:* Room 1706\, Chemistry Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94707056421\nPasscode: BCBs&Ureas
UID:140593-21887381@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140593
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250918T142251
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251027T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Fe-mediated N2-fixation and lessons for other metals: Bridging catalysis\, electrocatalysis\, and photocatalysis
DESCRIPTION:Nitrogen reduction to ammonia is a requisite transformation for life and there is growing interest in developing sustainable technologies for ammonia synthesis using renewably sourced energy. Such approaches may some day lead to distributed on-demand fertilizer production and enable ammonia to be used as a zero-carbon alternative fuel. Our group has had an ongoing interest in fundamental studies of well-defined synthetic catalysts that mediate nitrogen reduction (N2R) to ammonia (or hydrazine). We are especially interested in the operative mechanisms by which these catalysts operate. Most recently\, we have been pursuing the idea that proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) pathways for N2R can be more thermally efficient than step-wise ET/PT pathways and have tested this hypothesis via the development of electrochemical PCET (ePCET) mediators driven at potentials sufficiently anodic that the competing hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is mitigated. We have also designed related electrocatalytic strategies that exploit an ET instead of a PCET mediator. Relatedly\, we are studying catalytic systems that mediate photodriven and (photo)electrochemical N2R. Here\, visible light rather than temperature\, pressure\, or electrochemical potential\, provides the primary driving force needed for catalytic ammonia generation. Again\, we are especially interested in the intimate mechanisms by which these various systems operate.
UID:138396-21882894@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138396
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251017T144919
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251028T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251028T120000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Kason Glover - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Kason Glover for their dissertation defense titled \"Theoretical Developments\, Practical Innovations\, and Investigations of Meaningful Learning in Organic Chemistry Laboratory Education\".\n\n*Date:* Tuesday\, October 28\, 2025\n*Time:* 11:00 a.m.\n*Where:* Earl Lewis Room\, Rackham Building
UID:140836-21887699@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140836
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Earl Lewis Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250925T151716
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251028T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Advancing RNA Structural Biology and Therapeutics: Integrating Physical and Data-Driven Computational Approaches
DESCRIPTION:Emerging biomedical advances from precision medicine to synthetic biology highlight RNA's central role as both a regulator and an information carrier. Since RNA function depends on its 3D structure and conformational changes\, research in this area focuses on the study of RNA structure along with its folding stability\, kinetics\, and interactions with metal ions and other molecules. Key questions include: How can the native fold be predicted from the sequence? For a given RNA target\, how can RNA-small molecule interactions be predicted and potential drug candidates identified? Developing computational tools to address these questions remains challenging due to limited RNA structural and binding data. To predict 3D structure from sequence\, we developed the Vfold pipeline by integrating statistical analysis of RNA structures and molecular dynamics simulations. The Vfold approach showed highly promising results at the international CASP16 competition for biomolecular structure predictions. To design RNA-targeted drugs\, we developed the RLDOCK and SPRank pipelines for physics-based and data-driven predictions of ligand-RNA interactions. These models may become useful tools for understanding the structure-based mechanism of RNA function and for accelerating RNA-targeted therapeutic discovery.
UID:138419-21882923@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138419
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251020T131106
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T171500
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:AbbVie Symposium with Michelle Chang \"Discovery and engineering of new enzymes for biocatalysis\"
DESCRIPTION:Living systems have evolved the capacity to carry out many chemical transformations of interest to synthetic chemistry if they could be redesigned for targeted purposes. Our group is interested in the discovery\, characteristion\, and engineering of new enzymes for biocatalysis with a focus on C-H functionalizing metalloenzymes and their transformations.
UID:138427-21882932@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138427
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251030T102920
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T130000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:The Ethics of Designer Babies
DESCRIPTION:Lydia Dugdale\, MD\nThe Ethics of Designer Babies \nWhat happens when parents can choose their child's traits? Should parents be able to select for intelligence\, appearance\, even personality? Are we on the cusp of enhancing health or creating a world of inequality and control? We will explore these urgent questions and more with Dr. Lydia Dugdale\, MD\, MAR. She is an incredibly accomplished physician and thinker who is recognized as the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center\, the Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics\, and a Co-Director of Clinical Ethics at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. \nShe edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century\, is the author of The Lost Art of Dying and recently completed the manuscript for a forthcoming book on hope. She publishes widely\, including in outlets such as The Free Press\, The Wall Street Journal\, and The New York Times.\n\nHer voice is thought provoking\, which is why she is the first repeat presenter for the Woll Family Speaker Series. You won't want to miss this.
UID:141319-21888579@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141319
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/j/92594074321
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250930T112510
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Shaping a Soft Future
DESCRIPTION:Existing devices—such as phones\, computers\, and robots – are made from rigid materials\, which is in direct contrast to the soft materials that compose the human body. Our group is studying and harnessing soft materials to create devices (actuators\, sensors\, electronics) with tissue-like properties. For example\, gallium-based liquid metal alloys have remarkable properties: low melting point\, water-like viscosity\, low-toxicity\, and effectively zero vapor pressure.  Despite being liquid\, these materials can be patterned into stretchable conductive circuits due to a thin\, oxide skin that forms rapidly on its surface. This oxide can also be separated from the metal as a way to print thin conductors and dielectrics at ambient conditions.  In addition to soft electronic conductors\, we study soft\, stretchable ionic conductors called ‘ionogels’ that contain ionic liquids. We have found simple ways to improve the toughness of these materials. Taken together this work has implications for soft and stretchable electronics\; that is\, devices with desirable mechanical properties for human-machine interfacing\, soft robotics\, and wearable electronics.
UID:138413-21882918@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138413
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251017T132314
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251104T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251104T140000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Christopher P. Woodley - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Christopher P. Woodley for their dissertation defense titled \"Increasing Chemical and Mechanical Electrode Stability Through Structural Modifications in Next Generation Battery Materials\".\n\n*Date:* Tuesday\, November 4th\n*Time:* 1:00 PM EST\n*Where:* Room 3254\, LSA Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94693164963
UID:140827-21887693@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140827
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:LSA Building - 3254
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251010T152423
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251104T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Ligand-Design Approach to Harnessing Metal-Ion Redox Cooperativity
DESCRIPTION:Metal-ion redox cooperativity is a recurrent theme in small molecule binding to and activation by metal surfaces\, cluster cofactors in biology\, and various homogeneous synthetic catalysts. Although readily identified when present\, the criteria that allow for and control cooperative reactivity are incompletely understood\, and partly hindering the design and use of cheaper 3d metals in catalysts for multi-electron redox transformations. Results from our efforts to use ligand design to dictate cooperativity in polynuclear transition metal complexes and the observed resultant small molecule activation will be presented.
UID:138391-21882889@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138391
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251027T132833
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251105T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251105T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Cider and Donuts with the SLC | National First Generation College Student Week
DESCRIPTION:Come join the Science Learning Center (SLC) for some cider and donuts in celebration of National First Generation College Student Week. Learn about SLC programs and services while enjoying some tasty fall treats. This is a drop-in style event where you can come and go as your schedule allows.
UID:141184-21888306@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141184
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:chemistry
LOCATION:1720 Chemistry, SLC Flex Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251015T102239
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute | Quantum computing with atomic qubit arrays
DESCRIPTION:In-Person: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project - PML2000\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99333578305?jst=2\n\nAbstract:\nLarge arrays of neutral atoms are a leading modality in the race towards useful quantum computation. Systems with more than 1000 qubits in 2D arrays and gate fidelities approaching three nines are being developed by many academic and industrial groups. I will present recent progress at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Infleqtion with physical and logical qubit encodings. Interesting challenges remain in scaling the size and performance to the levels needed for quantum utility. Ultimately a modular approach to quantum computation will enable scaling to millions of qubits\, with inter-module connections enabled by photonic links. Recent results on entangling atoms with photons for scaling a modular architecture will be presented. \n\nBio:\nMark Saffman is a physicist working in the areas of atomic physics\, quantum and nonlinear optics\, and quantum information processing. His research team has been a pioneer in quantum computing with atomic qubits. They were the first to demonstrate a quantum CNOT gate for the deterministic entanglement of a pair of neutral atoms. This was done using interactions between highly excited Rydberg atoms. He is currently developing scalable arrays of neutral atoms for quantum computation\, communication\, and sensing applications. \nHe is the Johannes Rydberg Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been recognized with an Alfred P. Sloan fellowship\, a Vilas Associate Award\, the WARF Innovation Award\, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society\, and Optica. He has been active in professional service including two decades as an Associate Editor at the Physical Review\, and is the director of The Wisconsin Quantum Institute. He also serves as Chief Scientist for Quantum Information at Infleqtion.
UID:135179-21876459@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135179
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project - PML2000
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DTSTAMP:20251007T142312
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Bridging Simulations and Experiment to Unravel Electrochemically Driven Membrane Transport
DESCRIPTION:Ion channels\, transporters\, and redox-active membrane enzymes operate in dynamic environments shaped by fluctuating electrochemical gradients\, which drive the movement of charged substrates across biological membranes. Despite great progress\, uncovering the molecular mechanisms of transport—especially under nonequilibrium conditions—remains an outstanding challenge.\n\nIn this seminar\, I will introduce Multiscale Responsive Kinetic Modeling (MsRKM)\, a framework that integrates simulations and experiment to extract transport mechanisms consistent with molecular-level insights and macroscopic observations. By incorporating electrochemically responsive rate constants\, MsRKM allows direct comparison with current-voltage (I–V) profiles and predicts how mechanisms shift under varying conditions.\n\nOur findings show that chemical and electrical gradients—even when equal in Nernstian magnitude—drive fundamentally different transport behaviors. For example\, ClC-ec1 exhibits gradient-dependent mechanisms while the Shaker K⁺ channel requires gradient-shifting off-pathway flux. MsRKM also disentangles the physical origins of voltage- and concentration-dependent current profiles (I–V vs. I–μ) and explains directional flux (rectification) by linking ion binding site locations to voltage sensitivity. \n\nIn an era of rapid advances in computational and experimental techniques\, this work highlights the power of integrating simulation\, experiment\, and mechanistic modeling to uncover molecular mechanisms—providing new insight into how life operates under nonequilibrium conditions.
UID:138402-21882906@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138402
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251106T140954
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251110T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251110T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Monday\, November 10th at 11am in ABC Seminar Rooms\, BSRB. Please distribute.\n--\n \nSeminar Series in Human Genetics\nMonday\, November 10\, 2025\n11:00am - 12:00pm\nABC Seminar Rooms\, BSRB\n \nRonald Wek\, PhD\nShowalter Professor of Biochemistry\, Molecular Biology\, and Pharmacology\; Indiana University School of Medicine \n“Integrated Stress Response in Health and Disease”\n \nHosted By: Noah Helton\, Department of Human Genetics
UID:141595-21889068@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141595
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251014T154237
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Rational Design of High-Performance Electrocatalysts for Future Energy and Material Applications
DESCRIPTION:Electrocatalysis is poised to play a pivotal role in future energy material and chemical manufacturing. The rational design of next-generation electrocatalysts - guided by sound scientific hypothesis - is essential for advancing practical technologies. In recent years\, my team at Argonne has actively explored high-performance electrocatalysts using innovative design and synthesis strategies. In this presentation\, I will first discuss our recent advances in utilizing metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) as tunable precursors for oxygen redox electrocatalysis. This includes the development of platinum-group-metal-free (PGM-free) and ultralow-platinum catalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells [1]\, as well as PGM-free catalysts as viable replacements for iridium for water electrolysis [2]. I will then introduce our recent studies on the selective electrochemical reduction of CO₂ to multi-carbon (C₂⁺) products\, where the reaction pathways and product distributions are profoundly modulated by active-site geometry\, atomic coordination\, and nanoconfinement effects [3–5].\nThe presentation outlines our integrated approach that combines advanced structural and spectroscopic characterization\, computational modeling\, and machine-learning-guided discovery to uncover catalytic mechanisms and guide materials optimization. Finally\, I will discuss the implications of these findings for the scalable design of next-generation electrocatalysts in future energy conversion and storage applications.\n[1] “Ultralow-loading platinum-cobalt fuel cell catalysts derived from imidazolate frameworks” L. Chong\, et. al. Science 362\, 1276–1281 (2018)\n[2] “La- and Mn-doped cobalt spinel oxygen evolution catalyst for proton exchange membrane electrolysis” L. Chong\, et. al. Science 380\, 609–616 (2023)\n[3] “Highly selective electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to ethanol by metallic clusters dynamically formed from atomically dispersed copper” H. Xu\, et. al. Nature Energy\, 5\, 623–632 (2020)\n[4] “Modulating CO2 electrocatalytic conversion to organics pathway by the catalytic site dimension”\, H. Xu\,  J. Am. Chem. Soc.\, 146\, 10357−10366\, (2024)\n[5] “Direct Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to C2+ Chemicals: Catalysts\, Microenvironments\, and Mechanistic Understanding” S. Guo\, et. al. ACS Energy Letter\, 10\, 600−619 (2025)
UID:138418-21882922@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138418
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251106T140311
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251117T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251117T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Monday\, November 17th at 11am in North Lecture Hall\, MSII. Please distribute.\n--\n \nSeminar Series in Human Genetics\nMonday\, November 17\, 2025\n11:00am - 12:00pm\nNorth Lecture Hall\, MSII\n \nMatthew D. Simon\nAssociate Professor\nMolecular Biophysics & Biochemistry\nInstitute of Biomolecular Design & Discovery\nYale University \n\n“Using RNA chemistry to reveal regulation at the transcription start site by established (H3K27me3) and newly discovered (H4Kacme) chromatin modifications.”\n \nHosted By: Sundeep Kalantry\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics
UID:141594-21889067@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141594
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Medical Science Unit II - North Lecture Hall
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DTSTAMP:20251010T152938
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251117T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Gomberg Lecture with Martin Zanni \"Are exciton dynamics in thin films representative of actual solar cells?  Addressing the question using artifact-free ultrafast 2D photocurrent spectroscopy\"
DESCRIPTION:The performance of many photoactive devices is impacted by the dynamics of excitons within the photoactive layer. Typically\, these dynamics are deduced by independently conducted transient absorption measurements on films outside of the device with the assumption that the photophysics in free standing films inform the photophysics of the film inside the device. But there are interfaces in devices that are not present in films and the morphology and atomic packing might be impact by device construction. Moreover\, photoabsorption experiments measure all excitons whereas the best photovoltaic devices are perhaps 20% efficient\, meaning that only 1 in 5 excitons actually produce electricity. Thus\, the conclusions drawn from free standing films might not be directly relevant to devices. This talk will cover results made possible by new advances in ultrafast 2D photocurrent spectroscopy that enable ultrafast exciton dynamics to be directly compared between films and devices. In photovoltaics made from semiconducting carbon nanotubes\, we find that the conclusions drawn from films versus devices are quite different\, leading us to reinterpret long standing experiments and reevaluate our goals for device architecture.
UID:138390-21882888@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138390
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251016T150513
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Real-time electrocatalytic control of C-H and C-C bond transformation and fuel formation
DESCRIPTION:Producing fuels and chemicals using electricity has drawn considerable interest in recent decades. To date\, research in electrocatalysis – the key tool which allows us to link electricity to chemical reactions – remains strongly focused on the transformation of small inorganic molecules such as CO2\, H2O\, N2\, and oxygenated biomass derivatives. Yet\, comprehensive industrial electrification will likely require electrocatalytic methods that can promote the reactions that make up the core of the chemicals and fuels industry: n-alkane transformations.\nIn this talk\, I will demonstrate that electricity-driven alkane transformations not only are feasible but that they also unlock new avenues of reactivity\, offering solutions to long-standing challenges in catalytic alkane chemistry. Specifically\, I will show how our group combined a fundamental understanding of interfacial electrocatalytic processes1 with in-situ electrochemical mass spectrometry to gain independent\, real-time control over the elementary steps of alkane transformations at room temperature. By modulating the potential applied to an electrocatalyst surface\, we were able to independently control the adsorption of n-alkanes\, initiate the transformation of adsorbates while they are bound to the surface\, and selectively desorb desired products while keeping others anchored. These methods provide a powerful lever of control over catalytic surface chemistry\, enabling us to demonstrate remarkable reactivity\, including: (1) the room-temperature electrochemical fragmentation of ethane2 and butane3 into shorter chain fragments\, and (2) the room-temperature dehydrogenation of n alkanes to alkenes.4 Beyond these transformations\, I will show how leveraging independent control over elementary steps allowed us to deconstruct the continuous oxidation of n-alkanes in fuel cells into its fundamental steps—identifying bottlenecks and providing new design principles for improved catalysts.5\nIn the final part of my talk\, I will discuss how\, at a fundamental level\, applied voltages control the rate of electrocatalytic reactions. Electron transfer reactions are typically thought to pass through a vibrationally activated transition state\, making them temperature dependent. However\, we discovered that some electrocatalytic reaction classes\, for example CO₂ reduction\, show little to no temperature dependence\, regardless of the catalyst or electrolyte. Building on previous reports by Halpern and Conway\, I will discuss how our mechanistic interpretation of this phenomenon points to the translational\, rather than vibrational\, reorganization of electrolyte components to form an interfacial electron transfer transition state.6 I will also discuss how this insight highlights the importance of considering more than enthalpic activation barriers in designing electrocatalytic systems.\nBy extending electrocatalysis to alkane transformations and uncovering new mechanistic insights into reaction rate control\, we aim to enable more precise atomic-level manipulation in electrocatalytic processes\, paving the way for a more selective\, efficient\, and electrified chemical industry of the future.
UID:138408-21882913@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138408
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251110T151127
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T100000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Emily Nolan - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Emily Nolan for their dissertation defense titled \"Mechanistic Study of Organometallic Intermediates in Aminoquinoline-Directed C–H Bond Functionalization with 3d Transition Metals\".\n\n*Date:* Friday\, November 21st\n*Time:* 9:00 AM EST\n*Where:* Room 1706\, Chemistry Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97784437453\nPasscode: FeCoNi
UID:141708-21889218@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141708
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251103T115640
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T153000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:14th Annual Thomas D. Gelehrter\, MD\, Lectureship in Medical Genetics
DESCRIPTION:14th Annual Thomas D. Gelehrter\, MD\, Lectureship in Medical Genetics\nFriday\, November 21\, 2025\n2:00pm - 3:30pm\nForum Hall\, Palmer Commons\n \nDavid Reich\, PhD\nProfessor of Genetics & Human Evolutionary Biology\, Harvard Medical School\nKeynote Address: “Pervasive findings of directional selection realize the promise of ancient DNA to elucidate human adaptation”. \n\nHosted By: Jacob L Mueller\, PhD\, and Ann Marie Lawson\nDepartment of Human Genetics
UID:141293-21888547@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141293
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251114T093403
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251126T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251126T150000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Michael O. Lengel - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Michael O. Lengel for their dissertation defense titled \"N–N Bond Formation and Cleavage Reactions in Nature: Synthesis\, Spectroscopy\, and Computational Investigations into FNOR Models and Nitrogenases\".\n\n*Date:* Wednesday\, November 26th\n*Time:* 2:00 PM\n*Where:* Room 1706\, Chemistry Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96034867770\nPasscode: MOL25
UID:141866-21889546@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141866
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251125T085657
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251201T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251201T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce that Stephan Frangakis\, MD\, PhD\, will be joining our Department of Human Genetics in December as a secondary faculty member! We invite you to attend his seminar on Monday\, December 1st\, at 11:00 AM in the North Lecture Hall\, MSII.\n\n“The Michigan Genomics Initiative as a Platform for Complex Trait Genetics: Examples from Postsurgical Pain\, Fibromyalgia\, and Opioid Use Disorder.”
UID:142188-21890189@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142188
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Medical Science Unit II - North Lecture Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251106T152901
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251201T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251201T180000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Thriving in STEM | Medical School Inside Story
DESCRIPTION:Do you have questions about medical school admissions? Get your answers straight from the inside! U-M Medical School Director of Admissions\, Carol Teener\, will demystify medical school applications\, expectations\, and reviews in her presentation. \n\nEmail ScienceSuccessSeries@umich.edu with any questions.
UID:141599-21889073@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141599
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:chemistry
LOCATION:
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251121T102637
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251204T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251204T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute | New insights into system–bath interaction models for quantum ground- and thermal-state preparation
DESCRIPTION:In-person: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project\, 2301 Bonisteel Blvd\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\, USA. Room PML2000\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92778807694?jst=2\n\nAbstract:\nQuantum thermal-state and ground-state preparation are one of the fundamental algorithmic primitives with broad applications in quantum many-body physics\, quantum chemistry\, and materials science. In this talk\, I will introduce dissipative quantum algorithms for preparing the thermal or ground state of a given physical or chemical Hamiltonian. I will begin with an overview of a popular approach that has gained significant traction in recent years\, based on Lindblad dynamics. I will then present a more recent but implementation friendly framework for thermal and ground-state preparation rooted in system–bath interaction models. I will discuss a recently developed algorithm that comes with rigorous complexity guarantees\, along with new results that extend our theoretical understanding of system–bath interaction beyond what was previously known.\n\nBio:\nZhiyan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Before joining Michigan\, Zhiyan was a Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California\, Berkeley\, hosted by Prof. Lin Lin. Zhiyan received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison under the direction of Qin Li.\n\nZhiyan works in applied and computational mathematics\, with a particular focus on numerical analysis in areas such as quantum computing\, machine learning\, and data science. A central theme of his research is developing a deep mathematical understanding of existing algorithms and designing new\, principled ones. His interests span a broad range of topics in quantum computing and machine learning\, such as quantum eigenvalue estimation\, signal processing\, quantum and classical optimization and sampling\, and mean-field analysis.
UID:142102-21890008@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142102
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project - PML2000
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251208T112100
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251209T125000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Artificial Turf and Children's Environmental Health\, presented by Homero Harari\, ScD (Icahn School of Medicine\, Mount Sinai)
DESCRIPTION:Registration required https://myumi.ch/mRqd3\n\nPlease join us for the final webinar in the Fall 2025 series\, Residents & Researchers 'Tuesday Talks at 12'\, which focus on environment\, health and community. \nNote: this webinar will not be recorded. Stay tuned for more seminars in 2026!
UID:142452-21890972@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142452
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251203T155213
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251212T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251212T120000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Natasha Perry - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Natasha Perry for their dissertation defense titled \"The total synthesis and medicinal chemistry exploration of oleandrin & the enantioselective total synthesis of (–)-tronocarpine\".\n\n*Date:* Friday\, December 12th\n*Time:* 11:00 AM EST\n*Where:* Room 1706\, Chemistry Building\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 695 478 0391
UID:142361-21890749@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142361
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260106T132905
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260112T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260112T110000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Nicole Rivera Fuentes - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Nicole Rivera Fuentes for their dissertation defense titled \"Development of Native Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry Methods to Probe the Impact of Chemical Modifications on the Structure and Stability of Antibody-based Therapeutics\".\n\n*Date:* Monday\, January 12th\n*Time:* 10:00 AM EST\n*Where:* Rackham East Conference Room\, 4th Floor\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93072492674
UID:143301-21892670@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143301
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham East Conference Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251211T102025
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Exploring the structural biology of enteroviral genome replication
DESCRIPTION:The Enterovirus genus comprises RNA viruses associated with various illnesses\, including the common cold\, poliomyelitis\, acute flaccid paralysis\, and myocarditis. These viruses have conserved cloverleaf-shaped RNA secondary structures at the extreme 5′ end of their genomes\, which are crucial for assembling viral and host proteins\, such as 3CD and PCBP2\, into functional ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes required for genome replication. However\, the high-resolution structures and mechanisms of these cloverleaf RNAs have largely remained unknown. Recently\, we determined the crystal structures of five cloverleaf RNAs from different enteroviral species\, revealing a highly conserved H-type four-way junction fold that positions the 3CD and PCBP2 binding sites far apart. The conserved features observed in these structures\, including a long-range A•C•U base triple\, enabled us to predict structural models for other enteroviruses via homology modeling\, yielding models similar to the experimental structures. Our structure-guided binding analyses\, using recombinantly purified full-length human PCBP2 and viral 3C proteins\, along with the crystal structures of the cloverleaf-3C complexes\, offered further insights into how these viruses assemble RNP complexes for their genome replication within host cells. Moreover\, we demonstrated that antisense oligonucleotides could block high-affinity PCBP2-binding sites\, highlighting the potential to develop therapeutics targeting this replication platform for enteroviral infections. The notable structural conservation among enteroviral cloverleafs observed in our studies underscores opportunities to develop universal therapeutics that target this viral RNP platform across multiple enterovirus infections.
UID:138424-21882929@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138424
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T141348
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Peptide Encoded Chiral Inorganic Nanomaterials Talk
DESCRIPTION:From small molecules to entire organisms\, evolution has refined biological structures at the nanoscale\, microscale and macroscale to be chiral—that is\, mirror dissymmetric. Chiral nanoscale materials can be designed that mimic\, refine and advance biological chiral geometries\, to engineer optical\, physical and chemical properties for applications in photonics\, sensing\, catalysis and biomedicine. The idea that inorganic materials can be chiral seems to be counterintuitive. In this talk\, I will discuss about a new mechanism that can generate chiral nanomaterials based on the interaction between chiral peptides and high index plane of metal surface. The enantioselective interaction of chiral molecules and high-Miller-index facets can break the mirror symmetry of the metal nanocrystals. I will also discuss about interesting optical properties of these chiral gold plasmonic nanoparticles that was synthesized by the peptides and amino acid. The resulting 432 symmetric chiral morphology result in the highest dissymmetry factor (g) and the efficient coupling with other materials. I believe that this synthetic approach for the chirality control of inorganic nanomaterials can have a lot of potential to maximize the light-matter interaction\, resulting in many optical\, electronic and biological applications. \nReference)\n“Enantioselective Sensing by Collective Circular Dichroism\,” Nature. 2022\, 612\, 470. \n“Amino-Acid- and Peptide-Directed Synthesis of Chiral Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles\,” Nature. 2018\, 556\, 360. \n\nProfessor Ki Tae Nam received his B.S. and M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Seoul National University\, and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT. He got the “outstanding PhD thesis award” from MIT. His PhD thesis was about the “virus-based battery” that has been highlighted as the first demonstration of virus based electrochemical devices. During his postdoc (2007-2010) at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab\, he studied peptide mimetic polymer to assemble two dimensional structures. Since 2010\, His group at SNU continue to pioneer the research area of bioinspired material science to make new functional materials for energy and optical applications. Recent innovations include the development of CO2 utilization chemistry (Nature Energy. 2021\, 6\, 733 and Nature synthesis. 2024\, 3 etc) and the peptide based synthesis of chiral nanomaterials (Nature 2018\, Nature 2022 and Nature Materials 2024). In 2022\, He received the POSCO Chung-am Award that is one of the most prestigious award in Korea. He is an associate editor for Nano Letters and will serve as one of the chair in MRS Fall 2027 Meeting.
UID:143419-21893112@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143419
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - G063/064
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251219T103931
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute | Modeling Biology on a Quantum Computer:  Deciphering the Mechanism of ATP Hydrolysis Using Quantum Hardware
DESCRIPTION:In-person: West Hall 411\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91050980639?jst=2\n\nAbstract:\nThe ability to model biochemical reaction dynamics on quantum hardware would open the door\nto the virtually exact description of enzymatic catalysis\, accelerating the discovery of novel\ntherapeutics. However\, noisy hardware\, the costs of computing gradients\, and the number of\nqubits and gates required to simulate large systems present major challenges to realizing the\npotential of dynamical simulations using quantum hardware. In this talk\, I will discuss our recent\nefforts to model ATP hydrolysis\, a paradigmatic and clinically-important biochemical reaction\,\nusing quantum hardware. Key to our modeling is employing transfer learning to learn\napproximate force fields based on abundant data and then correcting those force fields using\ndata from quantum hardware. Using this technique and new embedding and downfolding\nmethods\, I will show how we can gain novel mechanistic insights into a variety of hydrolysis-\nrelated reactions and how these techniques can be adapted to other problems in biochemistry.\nThroughout this talk\, I will underscore the opportunities and challenges associated with using\nquantum hardware and how these can be addressed via the fruitful marriage of quantum\ncomputation and machine learning.\n\nBio:\nDr. Brenda Rubenstein is currently the Krieble Professor of Chemistry at Brown University. She\nwas named to Popular Science magazine’s 2021 Brilliant 10 list of the top early career scientists\nand C&amp\;EN’s 2019 Talented 12 list of early career chemists\, and has received a number of\nresearch and teaching honors including the Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award\, a Cottrell\nTeacher Scholar Award\, and a Sloan Research Fellowship. While the focus of her work is on\ndeveloping new electronic structure methods\, she is also deeply engaged in rethinking\ncomputing architectures and computational biophysics. Prior to arriving at Brown\, she was a\nLawrence Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She\nreceived her Sc.B.s in Chemical Physics and Applied Mathematics at Brown University\, her\nM.Phil. in Computational Chemistry while a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge\,\nand her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics at Columbia University.
UID:142254-21890275@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142254
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260108T115149
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T123000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ChE SEMINAR: Scott Banta\, Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:B10 Auditorium \n\nBiotechnology for Critical Materials Production\n\nScott Banta\nProfessor and Chair of Chemical Engineering\nColumbia University\, New York\, NY\n\nScott Banta Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University.  He received his B.S.E. degree from the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County\, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rutgers University.  He did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Shriners and Massachusetts General Hospitals and Harvard Medical School.  He began his faculty career in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University in 2004 and his research has focused on the engineering of proteins and peptides for various applications in areas including biocatalysis\, bioelectrocatalysis\, biomaterials\, gene and drug delivery\, biosensing\, and bioenergy. His group is also developing new biotechnology platforms for energy harvesting and conversion as well as metal and mineral processing.\n\n\nThe global transition towards electrification will require tremendous growth in the production of critical materials\, and biotechnology is providing new solutions to this grand challenge.  Metal oxidizing bacteria are critically important for the hydrometallurgical processing of copper\, gold\, and other sulfidic ores.  Approximately 20% of the world’s copper production involves microbial oxidation of minerals in the world’s largest bioreactors. We have pioneered the development of genetic tools for the engineering and application of the iron and sulfur oxidizing chemolithoautotrophic acidophile\, Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans. We gained new insights into their unique physiology and engineered them for new traits including accelerated growth\, enhanced bioleaching\, salt tolerance\, and critical material reclamation.  In addition to cells\, we are also invested in using biomolecular engineering to improve critical metal binding and separation.  We have recently developed new proteins for rare earth element and other critical material bioseparations under acidic conditions.  Throughout the talk I will highlight the substantial challenges and opportunities that come with the development of biotechnology solutions in this space.
UID:143373-21892962@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143373
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - B10 Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251210T113622
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260118T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260118T235900
SUMMARY:Meeting:APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 18TH: Up to $30\,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects
DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $30\,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant office hours\, email\, or check out our webpage to learn more!\n\nLINK TO APPLY: https://forms.gle/k7ChrFbqbjkAnNjt8
UID:117733-21891124@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/117733
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:1027 E. Huron Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251222T160148
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260120T125000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:From Exposure Assessment to Community Intervention: Advancing Metabolic Health in Informal E-Waste Settings
DESCRIPTION:Registration required https://myumi.ch/9p7bd\n\nDr. Sylvia Akpene Takyi is a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Health and Equity\, University of Michigan. She has over a decade of experience in environmental epidemiology\, community-engaged research\, and public health interventions\, with a focus on vulnerable populations\, including women and children exposed to environmental hazards. Dr. Takyi leads research on the health impacts of informal e-waste recycling\, environmental exposures\, and metabolic health outcomes\, and has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications.
UID:143072-21892017@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143072
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260120T160528
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Thriving in STEM | Pre-Health Pop-Up Advising
DESCRIPTION:LSA Newnan Pre-Health Advising comes to YOU! Stop by to meet with a Pre-Health Advisor on a first-come\, first-served basis. While registration is available\, it is not required. We are looking forward to talking with you!
UID:144220-21894884@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144220
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:chemistry
LOCATION:1720 Chemistry, SLC Alcove 5
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260114T093903
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2025-2026 MICDE Ph.D. in Scientific Computing Student Seminars
DESCRIPTION:The MICDE PhD Student Seminar Series showcases the research of students in the Ph.D. in Scientific Computing. Lunch will be served. These events are open to the public\, but we request that all who plan to attend register in advance via Sessions (see link). \n\nPresenter details will be available on the registration form and on the MICDE events calendar. Planned sessions will be canceled if no one signs up to present\, and registrants will be notified.\n\nIf you have any questions\, please email micde-phd@umich.edu.
UID:139740-21894083@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139740
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Room 3127, Green Court Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251219T104150
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute | Quantum computers and their potential to enable scientific discovery
DESCRIPTION:In-person: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project\, 2301 Bonisteel Blvd\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\, USA\, PML2000\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98530700330?jst=2\n\nAbstract:\nQuantum technologies are advancing rapidly with a pathway to scientific discovery and quantum utility by 2030 for the Department of Energy community. Harnessing quantum technologies as they scale up will require next-generation software and integration with HPC and AI. Software frameworks to couple HPC and AI to quantum computers\, as well as connecting end users to such a hybrid computing environment will be essential to ensure the technology can be harnessed optimally to deliver on industry and scientific discovery needs. I will show research progress and discuss the opportunities for scientific advantage for quantum technologies and potential pathways to integrate HPC\, AI and networking.\n\nShort bio:\nBert de Jong is the Director of the Quantum Systems Accelerator\, which is part of the National Quantum Initiative. Additionally\, de Jong is the Team Director of the Accelerated Research for Quantum Computing (ARQC) Team MACH-Q\, funded by DOE ASCR\, which focuses on developing software stacks for near-term quantum computing devices. Additionally\, de Jong has a program in AI and machine learning to understand biomolecular processes\, and discover new materials and molecular crystals for gas adsorption. de Jong serves as the Department Head for Computational Sciences and leads the Applied Computing for Scientific Discovery Group. This group advances scientific computing by developing and enhancing applications in key disciplines\, as well as developing HPC\, quantum and AI tools and libraries for addressing general problems in computational science.
UID:142256-21890276@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142256
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project - PML2000
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260120T163354
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260130T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260130T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Thriving in STEM | Opportunity Hub Pop-Up Coaching
DESCRIPTION:LSA Opportunity Hub Pop-Up Coaching is ideal when you’re short on time and need to stop by for immediate support. Whether you have an upcoming interview\, a job or internship application due soon\, or simply want to learn more about coaching\, Pop-Up Coaching is a convenient option. While registration is available\, it is not required.
UID:144221-21894885@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144221
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:chemistry
LOCATION:1720 Chemistry, SLC Flex Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260105T151134
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Oxyanion Reduction with Iron Catalysts
DESCRIPTION:The development of synthetic models that mimic the highly specialized coordination spheres of metalloenzymes remains a primary goal in inorganic synthesis\, particularly for the reduction of kinetically inert oxyanions. This work describes the design and reactivity of a bio-inspired nonheme iron framework\, [N(afaCy)3Fe]OTf2\, emphasizing the role of secondary coordination sphere interactions in facilitating challenging multi-electron/multi-proton transfer processes. By tailoring the ligand architecture to stabilize reactive intermediates\, we demonstrate the selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxyanions (NO3– and NO2–) to N2 or NH3. Mechanistic insights obtained through isotopic labeling\, spectroscopic characterization\, and computational analysis identify a key hydroxylamine intermediate\, illustrating how structural modifications to the iron center dictate divergent reaction pathways. Furthermore\, the complex demonstrates a distinct selectivity profile in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)\, favoring a two-electron/two-proton pathway to produce hydrogen peroxide\, an uncommon result for nonheme iron catalysts that underscores the influence of the local chemical environment on redox transformations. These results highlight the importance of precise structural control in the synthesis of iron-based complexes for the transformation of diverse chemical feedstocks and the advancement of sustainable catalysis.
UID:138392-21882890@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138392
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260130T101023
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T171500
SUMMARY:Presentation:3rd Year Student Seminar - Analytical Cluster
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, February 4th from 4:00 to 5:15 p.m. in CHEM 1640 please join us in watching the following third years present.\n\n*Student Presenters:* Izabella Antczak & Anya Romig\n*Research Advisor:* Prof. Kerri Pratt\n\n*Student Presenter:* Ali Alotbi\n*Research Advisor:* Prof. Andy Ault
UID:144580-21895509@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144580
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260112T144521
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:When the Ocean Aerosolizes Pollution: Chemistry of the Products We Breathe
DESCRIPTION:Emerging atmospheric particulates—including micro- and nanoplastics\, engineered nanoparticles\, and chemicals used in consumer and industrial products—are increasingly detected in marine environments. My group combines field measurements with laboratory studies to elucidate the emissions\, enrichment\, molecular composition\, and multiphase chemical transformations of these particulates in sea spray aerosol (SSA). We investigate how particle matrix\, interfacial composition\, and phase state control reaction pathways and kinetics.\n\nFieldwork along the San Diego coastline reveals elevated concentrations of wastewater-derived contaminants in SSA associated with the Tijuana River\, with phthalate esters showing strong and chain-length-dependent enrichment. Complementary aerosol flow-tube and online mass spectrometry experiments probe the photo-initiated and heterogeneous oxidation of representative consumer-product compounds. We find that oxybenzone\, triclosan\, and bisphenol A undergo accelerated oxidation in SSA mimics—especially in the presence of salts and photosensitizers—forming higher yields of and more toxic particle-phase transformation products.\n\nTogether\, this work demonstrates how marine aerosols act as chemically active microreactors\, where multiphase kinetics and physicochemical properties govern the fate and transformation of particulates of emerging concern.
UID:138410-21882915@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138410
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260105T105730
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260209T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260209T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Gomberg Lecture with Gil Nathanson \"Big Atmosphere\, Little Droplets\, Tiny Atoms: What Can Helium Atoms Teach Us About Sea Spray?\"
DESCRIPTION:Sea spray droplets are complex beasts that contain surface-active organic molecules in addition to water and salts. These aerosol particles behave like little chemical laboratories that transform gases in the atmosphere and alter the concentration of key species\, including ozone\, the hydroxyl radical\, and methane.  But what do helium atoms have to with aerosols? Amazingly\, when helium atoms are dissolved in sea spray proxies\, they evaporate at super-Maxwellian speeds that vary sensitively with the identity of the salts and surfactants in solution. The excess helium kinetic energies teach us about the interfacial morphologies of surfactant-salt-water solutions\, which we can explain using two beautiful chemical concepts: the principle of detailed balance and potentials of mean force. We can use what we have learned to discuss how charged surfactants can significantly alter the outcome of reactions in sea spray because they control the segregation of reactive ions to the surface. Just a speck of surfactant goes a long way!\n\nThis talk will include some fun hands-on soapy water activities at your seat. Please bring your water bottle if you have one.
UID:139893-21886296@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139893
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260203T135705
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T125000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Beyond Steroid Hormones: Endocrine disruption of pancreatic function and development
DESCRIPTION:The Integrated Health Sciences Core's webinar series is an interdisciplinary forum for interested researchers to come together to learn and discuss wide-ranging issues in the field of environmental health. This seminar is being presented by Karilyn E. Sant\, MPH\, PhD (Associate Professor\, Dept of Pharmacology & Toxicology\, Michigan State University).
UID:144987-21896242@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144987
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260122T014447
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute | Towards Quantum Control and Sensing with 227ThO Molecules and Other Radioactive Molecules for Fundamental Symmetry Test
DESCRIPTION:In-Person: West Hall 411\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99497477868?jst=2\n\nAbstract:\nThe Standard Model of particle physics accurately describes all fundamental particles discovered so far. However\, it is unable to address two great mysteries in physics\, the nature of dark matter and why matter dominates over antimatter throughout the Universe. Novel theories beyond the Standard Model may explain these phenomena. These models predict very massive particles whose interactions violate time-reversal (T) symmetry and would give rise to an electric dipole moment (EDM) along the spin of electron and nucleon. Thus\, searching for EDM provides a powerful probe to these new physics and sheds light on the mystery of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe. \nThis talk outlines the roadmap to establish a new generation EDM measurement at Michigan State that can outperform the current generation of precision measurements testing hadronic T-violations. We report our ongoing effort at Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) to perform quantum control and sensing of 227ThO molecules and other radioactive molecules. These pave the way for quantum-enhanced test of fundamental symmetry\, projecting to constrain T-violating new physics in 10~100 TeV energy range\, exceeding what the Large Hadron Collider and its future upgrade could probe.\n\nBio:\nBorn in Hefei\, China\, I embarked on an international academic journey that took me from Singapore where I spent my undergraduate to Munich\, Germany\, where I earned both my MS and PhD. While my academic focus stays in physics\, my true passion lies in the exploration of diverse fields\, driven by curiosity. During my doctoral studies at the Technical University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics\, I pioneered a nonconventional technique leveraging centrifugal force to decelerate molecular beams to a complete standstill.\n\nMy academic journey led me to Harvard University\, where I delved into precision molecular spectroscopy\, contributing to the investigation of fundamental symmetries in nature. Notably\, I achieved a groundbreaking milestone by measuring the most precise bound on the electron electric dipole moment\, utilizing cold Thorium Monoxide molecules as a quantum sensor.\n\nCurrently based at FRIB and MSU\, I am at the forefront of building a groundbreaking precision spectroscopy experiment. This initiative aims to synergize the rare isotope resources at FRIB with cutting-edge quantum technology in atomic and laser physics. The goal is to push the boundaries of fundamental symmetry testing\, marking a significant contribution to the field and further advancing our understanding of the physical universe.
UID:142384-21890779@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142384
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20260105T102826
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Visualizing photoinduced electron transfer in molecular photocatalysts using ultrafast x-ray spectroscopy
DESCRIPTION:Photocatalytic dyads that combine chromophore and catalytic centers are commonly employed motifs for homogeneous light-induced multi-electron transfer catalysis. The efficiency and dynamics of directional charge separation within these molecular systems are critical excited state properties that underpin the photochemical activity of the dyads. The excited state dynamics of such systems are often investigated using optical spectroscopy methods\, which afford the high temporal resolution to capture the ultrafast dynamics of charge migration\, but are not explicitly site selective. Alternatively\, element-specific ultrafast x-ray spectroscopy offers a unique opportunity to track the redistribution of charge across the specific molecular motifs within the dyad. We are applying a combination of metal and ligand atom x-ray absorption spectroscopies to resolve the degree of intramolecular excited state charge separation in tetrapyridophenazine (tpphz)-bridged photocatalytic dyads. This work reveals electron accumulation as the primary mechanistic role of azaacene containing bridging ligands employed in photocatalytic dyads.
UID:138403-21882907@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138403
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260130T100531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T171500
SUMMARY:Presentation:3rd Year Student Seminar - Analytical Cluster
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, February 16th from 4:00 to 5:15 p.m. in CHEM 1640 please join us in watching the following third years present.\n\n*Student Presenters:* Amanda Cicali\, Tiam Farajzadeh and Alyssa Erlenbeck\n*Research Advisor:* Prof. Brandon Ruotolo
UID:144834-21895995@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144834
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260202T132529
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260217T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260217T110000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Careers in the Biosciences (Virtual Panel)
DESCRIPTION:University of Michigan staff discuss their career paths\, including graduate/medical training\, academic/industry research\, consulting\, and teaching.\n\nVirtual panel - RSVP for link: https://linktr.ee/FIRST_Org\n\nPanelists:\nDr. Zie Craig\, PhD\nDr. Emma Thornton-Kolbe\, PhD\nDr. Chris Ting\, MD
UID:144925-21896158@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144925
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260105T103318
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260217T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260217T171500
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Bartell Lecture \"Chelator Design Strategies and Applications for Biology and Critical Minerals\"
DESCRIPTION:Metal ions are essential both in biological systems\, where they function as nutrients and therapeutic agents\, and in the global economy\, where they enable advanced technologies. Purposefully designed chelators bridge these domains by enhancing the biological performance of metal ions and by enabling the enrichment\, isolation\, and separation of technologically critical metals. This presentation highlights our group’s recent efforts in chelator design for these two areas. In the first part\, we survey how expanded macrocyclic chelators can be engineered for nuclear medicine. Our studies show that introducing controlled flexibility into these ligands allows them to adjust their binding conformations to accommodate metal ions of varying sizes\, increasing their versatility for radiometal-based applications. The second part focuses on applying this chelator class to the extraction and separation of rare earth elements\, critical minerals central to modern technologies. We demonstrate how rationally tailored chelators can selectively remove and enrich rare earths from complex matrices and enable efficient interelement separations. Together\, these studies illustrate how fundamental principles of coordination chemistry can be leveraged to meet distinct challenges in nuclear medicine and critical mineral processing.
UID:142066-21889963@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142066
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260210T094456
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260217T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260217T230000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Thriving in STEM | \"Art of the Heart\" Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:WHAT IS THE MISSING LINK IN TODAY'S MEDICAL CARE DELIVERY?\n\nMedical school training has historically relied on the biological sciences\, and their application\, for diagnosis and treatment\, with technology an adjunct to care. Although many major medical schools now incorporate “doctoring” into their curriculum\, traditional medical training lacked an emphasis on the psycho-social aspects of the doctor-patient relationship.\n\nJoin the “Art of the Heart: The Doctor-Patient Partnership” book discussion to explore the solution as author\, Jay H. Kleiman\, M.D.\, recounts the profound career moments that define the doctor-patient partnership\, illuminating the path toward preventing physician burnout. \n\nHOW DO I GET THE BOOK?\n\nBook copies are available on Amazon for $10\, in both paperback and Kindle versions (and free for students with Kindle Unlimited).  If you need financial assistance purchasing the book\, complete this GoogleForm (myumi.ch/z98zn) by Tuesday\, February 17 to have a copy provided for you. \n\nWHAT CAN I EXPECT AT THE BOOK DISCUSSION EVENT?\n\nA virtual Book Discussion will be held on Wednesday\, March 11 from 5 - 6 PM with the author\, Jay H. Kleiman\, M.D.\, and his wife\, Georgi.  This will provide you the opportunity to directly engage with the author and his spouse to learn from their lived experiences.  A set of discussion prompts and questions is available to view in advance\; however\, live questions from participants are highly encouraged.
UID:145168-21896754@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145168
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:chemistry
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260114T093903
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260218T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260218T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2025-2026 MICDE Ph.D. in Scientific Computing Student Seminars
DESCRIPTION:The MICDE PhD Student Seminar Series showcases the research of students in the Ph.D. in Scientific Computing. Lunch will be served. These events are open to the public\, but we request that all who plan to attend register in advance via Sessions (see link). \n\nPresenter details will be available on the registration form and on the MICDE events calendar. Planned sessions will be canceled if no one signs up to present\, and registrants will be notified.\n\nIf you have any questions\, please email micde-phd@umich.edu.
UID:139740-21894084@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139740
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Room 4425, Green Court Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260130T100927
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260218T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260218T174500
SUMMARY:Presentation:3rd Year Student Seminar - Analytical Cluster
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, February 18th from 4:15 to 5:45 p.m. in CHEM 1640 please join us in watching the following third years present.\n\n*Student Presenters:* Luke Collier\n*Research Advisor:* Prof. David Sherman\n\n*Student Presenters:* Camilla Gonzalez Curbelo\n*Research Advisor:* Prof. Ryan Bailey\n\n*Student Presenters:* Tien Phan\, Riley Stegmaier and G. Thomas Knecht\n*Research Advisor:* Prof. Robert Kennedy
UID:144835-21895996@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144835
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260209T090845
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260223T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260223T174500
SUMMARY:Presentation:3rd Year Student Seminar - Analytical Cluster
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, February 23rd from 4:15 to 5:45 p.m. in CHEM 1640 please join us in watching the following third years present.\n\n*Student Presenter:* Kelsey Ramp\n*Research Advisor:* Prof. Dasgupta & Prof. Bartlett \n\n*Student Presenter:* Theo Severud\n*Research Advisor:* Prof. Kerri Pratt\n\n*Student Presenter:* Tyler Somerville & Ryan Snyder\n*Research Advisor:* Prof. Kennedy
UID:145233-21896897@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145233
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
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DTSTAMP:20260209T090159
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260225T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260225T113000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Madeline Clough - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Madeline Clough for their dissertation defense titled \"Developing Methods to Identify Environmental Microplastics\".\n\n*Date:* Wednesday\, February 25th\n*Time:* 9:30 A.M.\n*Where:* CHEM 1706\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 919 3031 1563\nPasscode: 20260225
UID:145232-21896896@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145232
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260114T093903
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260225T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260225T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2025-2026 MICDE Ph.D. in Scientific Computing Student Seminars
DESCRIPTION:The MICDE PhD Student Seminar Series showcases the research of students in the Ph.D. in Scientific Computing. Lunch will be served. These events are open to the public\, but we request that all who plan to attend register in advance via Sessions (see link). \n\nPresenter details will be available on the registration form and on the MICDE events calendar. Planned sessions will be canceled if no one signs up to present\, and registrants will be notified.\n\nIf you have any questions\, please email micde-phd@umich.edu.
UID:139740-21894085@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139740
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Room 4425, Green Court Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260108T083622
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute | Distributed quantum science with neutral atom arrays
DESCRIPTION:In-Person: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project\, 2301 Bonisteel Blvd\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\, USA\, PML2000\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99940829961?jst=2\n\nAbstract: The realization of fast and high-fidelity entanglement between separated arrays of neutral atoms would enable a host of new opportunities in quantum communication\, distributed quantum sensing\, and modular quantum computation. In this talk\, I will describe two approaches we are pursuing to generate fast and high-fidelity remote entanglement. In the first approach\, we have demonstrated a photonic interconnect based on high-fidelity entanglement of the metastable nuclear spin-1/2 qubit in ytterbium-171 and a telecom-band photon with time-bin encoding. We have realized an atom-photon Bell state fidelity of 0.95 when correcting for atomic measurement errors. As an extension of this work\, I will describe a second system based on ytterbium-171 atom arrays in a near-concentric optical cavity. We anticipate the ability to generate atom-atom Bell pairs with fidelity approaching 0.99 and rate of 10^4 ebits/sec using this telecom photonic interface. In the second approach\, I will introduce a novel technique for transporting large tweezer arrays over 200 mm within a single vacuum chamber via a microscope objective mounted on an air-bearing linear motion stage. I will describe our vision for modular quantum computation based on an array of atom arrays.\n\nBio: Prof. Covey’s research utilizes arrays of individually controlled neutral alkaline-earth atoms in optical tweezers to engineer many-body entangled states. Applications of interest include distributed quantum computing\, quantum communication\, and quantum-enhanced metrology with atomic array optical clocks. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Colorado-Boulder.
UID:142258-21890278@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142258
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project - PML2000
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DTSTAMP:20260113T140018
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T123000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ChE SEMINAR: Kathleen Stebe\, Univeristy of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT:\nStrategies to mimic biology’s ability to generate complex\, adaptive\, hierarchical structures via emergent interactions are transforming materials science. Active colloids in nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) are exciting vehicles for such bio-inspired materials manipulation. Isotropic spherical colloids with rotational motion controlled by external magnetic fields swim effectively. The complex rheology of NLCs propels the colloids\, generating translation from rotation. Hybrid colloids generate companion topological defects that form far-from-equilibrium topological flagella that power colloidal swimming. Non-equilibrium disclination lines serve as topological filaments that interact with nematic swimmers\, providing reconfigurable sites for assembly in the domain. Swimming spheres trapped on these filaments act like molecular motors to reconfigure these structures. We are developing fundamental understanding of these transient\, far-from-equilibrium interactions to exploit them as a new class of functional structures that generate new modalities of motion and interaction. Progress in understanding nematic colloid swimming\, topological flagellar propulsion\, swimmer-filament interactions\, and in harnessing these effects to entrain\, transport\, release and deliver diverse colloidal building blocks is described.\n\nSPEAKER BIO:\nKathleen J. Stebe is the Goodwin Professor in the School Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.  Educated at the City College of New York\, she received a B.A. in Economics and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the Levich Institute advised by Charles Maldarelli. After a post-doctoral year in Compiegne\, France under the guidance of Dominique Barthes-Biesel\, she joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University\, where she became Professor and served as the department chair. Thereafter\, she joined the University of Pennsylvania\, where she has served in various administrative capacities including department chair and Deputy Dean. She has been recognized by the National Academy of Engineering\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars\, and as a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Radcliffe Institute. Kathleen is active in APS Division of Soft Matter Physics\, and the ACS Division of Colloids and Surfaces\, as well as the AIChE. Her research focuses on directed assembly in soft matter and at fluid interfaces\, with an emphasis on confinement\, geometry\, and emergent structures in far from equilibrium settings for novel functional materials.
UID:143376-21892977@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143376
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - B10 Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260120T102309
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Zwitterionic Interfaces for Implantable Biomaterials
DESCRIPTION:A primary challenge in implantable biomaterials is the host response at the tissue-material interface. Protein adsorption\, immune activation\, and fibrotic encapsulation gradually isolate implants from surrounding tissues and restrict transport\, often leading to failure of both drug-delivery devices and cell therapies. In this talk\, I will describe our work using zwitterionic polymer materials to engineer this interface and how it improves tissue compatibility and functional integration of implanted systems in the subcutaneous space. I will present results showing enhanced durability and performance of both encapsulated islet grafts and insulin-delivery catheters. I will also discuss mechanistic studies on how zwitterionic interfaces influence inflammatory and fibrotic pathways while preserving molecular transport. Finally\, I will briefly introduce zwitterionic formulations developed for anti-adhesion applications.
UID:138414-21882919@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138414
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260119T152332
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T193000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Combinatorial Explosion: From Atom-bond Arrangements to Exotic Diseases
DESCRIPTION:Chemical synthesis and data science are increasingly intersecting with some of the most urgent challenges in environmental health and One Health. Molecules and the methods we use to create them are naturally represented as networks\, allowing us not only to streamline drug and natural product discovery\, but also to address broader ecological and public health problems.\n\nIn this seminar\, I’ll share our latest work on automated synthesis and the development of new amine-acid cross-coupling reactions\, as well as how computer-assisted chemistry is illuminating pathways to medicines and natural products with applications ranging from human health to wildlife conservation. We are exploring combinatorially rich reaction space\, where synthetic routes\, reaction conditions\, and bioactivity are deeply interconnected. Our interests span from pharmaceutical innovation to contemporary ecosystem health crises affecting endangered species and disease resistance.\n\nThis approach\, which we call conservation chemistry\, integrates molecular sciences with ecological and public health perspectives. I will present examples from our lab\, including collaborative projects aimed at creating sustainable interventions for threatened ecosystems and species\, illustrating how molecular innovation can benefit researchers and students across the natural and health sciences.
UID:142503-21891047@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142503
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Dana Building - 1040
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260212T194436
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260306T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260306T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:10th Annual RNA Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Center for RNA Biomedicine at the University of Michigan proudly invites you to the 2026 RNA Symposium\, convening thought leaders and pioneering researchers in the field of RNA science and biomedicine.\n\nFriday\, March 6\, 2026\nSaturday\, March 7\, 2026\n\nRNA Frontiers: From Mechanisms to Medicine\n\nThis year’s symposium explores the dynamic world of RNA\, highlighting how fundamental mechanisms and molecular machines are shaping both our understanding of cellular processes and the development of next-generation medical innovations. Through cutting-edge scientific talks and a patient advocacy panel discussion\, we will explore a wide range of topics spanning epigenetics\, genome editing\, RNA structure\, and translational research\, and discover together how RNA is propelling biological discovery from molecular intricacy to real-world impact in medicine and beyond.\n\nScheduled Speakers:\n\nShelley Berger\, Ph.D.\nUniversity of Pennsylvania\n\nKarla Neugebauer\, Ph.D.\nYale School of Medicine\n\nMadeleine Oudin\, Ph.D.\nTufts University\n\nErik Sontheimer\, Ph.D.\nUMass Chan Medical School\n\nNils Walter\, Ph.D.\nUniversity of Michigan\n\nSarah Woodson\, Ph.D.\nJohns Hopkins University\n\nOnline registration ends Friday\, February 20! SPACE IS LIMITED - Register Today! \n\n➡️ Open call for U-M student volunteers who will receive complimentary registration. Email Center Manager Paul Avedisian at paulave@umich.edu for more details!
UID:136482-21878770@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136482
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Kahn Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260212T194436
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260307T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260307T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:10th Annual RNA Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Center for RNA Biomedicine at the University of Michigan proudly invites you to the 2026 RNA Symposium\, convening thought leaders and pioneering researchers in the field of RNA science and biomedicine.\n\nFriday\, March 6\, 2026\nSaturday\, March 7\, 2026\n\nRNA Frontiers: From Mechanisms to Medicine\n\nThis year’s symposium explores the dynamic world of RNA\, highlighting how fundamental mechanisms and molecular machines are shaping both our understanding of cellular processes and the development of next-generation medical innovations. Through cutting-edge scientific talks and a patient advocacy panel discussion\, we will explore a wide range of topics spanning epigenetics\, genome editing\, RNA structure\, and translational research\, and discover together how RNA is propelling biological discovery from molecular intricacy to real-world impact in medicine and beyond.\n\nScheduled Speakers:\n\nShelley Berger\, Ph.D.\nUniversity of Pennsylvania\n\nKarla Neugebauer\, Ph.D.\nYale School of Medicine\n\nMadeleine Oudin\, Ph.D.\nTufts University\n\nErik Sontheimer\, Ph.D.\nUMass Chan Medical School\n\nNils Walter\, Ph.D.\nUniversity of Michigan\n\nSarah Woodson\, Ph.D.\nJohns Hopkins University\n\nOnline registration ends Friday\, February 20! SPACE IS LIMITED - Register Today! \n\n➡️ Open call for U-M student volunteers who will receive complimentary registration. Email Center Manager Paul Avedisian at paulave@umich.edu for more details!
UID:136482-21878771@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136482
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Kahn Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T120659
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260309T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260309T110000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, March 9\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\nDanesh Moazed\, PhD\nProfessor and HHMI Investigator in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Sue Hammoud\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n\n__\n\nDanesh Moazed\, Ph.D.\, is a Professor and HHMI Investigator in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School.  He is a member of the Harvard Biophysics Program and the Harvard Initiative for RNA Medicine (HIRM). He received his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California in Santa Cruz and performed postdoctoral studies at the University of California in San Francisco.\n\nThe Moazed lab studies how genes are silenced and how silencing is epigenetically inherited across generations.  The lab’s interests revolve around diverse pathways of heterochromatin-mediated gene silencing in yeast and mammalian cells.  Work in budding yeast focuses on the structure and function of a diverged and relatively simple form of heterochromatin\, which requires only three Silent information regulator (“Sir”) proteins that form a histone deacetylase and chromatin-binding complex.  Work in fission yeast focuses on a conserved example of heterochromatin that requires the nuclear RNA interference (RNAi) machinery\, other RNA processing pathways\, Heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) homologs\, and histone-modifying enzymes.  In mammalian cells\, the work is focused on HP1-mediated and other heterochromatin formation pathways.  The lab uses approaches ranging from genetics and genomics\, biochemical purification and reconstitution\, and structural biology for their studies.  Ultimately\, the lab seeks to understand the conserved fundamental principles that govern the assembly\, function\, and epigenetic propagation of heterochromatin.
UID:143367-21892955@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143367
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium, BSRB
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260302T150514
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260309T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260309T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Gomberg Lecture with Xiaoyang Zhu \"Exciton Sensing of Correlated Electrons\, Spins\, and Dipoles\"
DESCRIPTION:Correlation plays a central role in emergent phenomena\, such as quantum ground states and collective excitations. Here\, I will discuss what we can learn from time-domain sensing of correlation in two dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) semiconductors\, where excitonic transitions are intimately related to bandgap modulation\, effectively dielectric constant\, and Pauli repulsion. In the 2D vdW magnetic semiconductor\, CrSBr\, excitonic transition is found to strongly couple to magnetic order and this allows the easy detection of low energy (GHz-THz) magnons by visible-NIR light. In the 2D vdW magnetic semiconductor\, NbOI2\, we report the experimental discovery of a quasi-particle\, the ferron\, which may form the basis for new modes of information processing and control. In twisted bilayer MoTe2\, we demonstrate exciton sensing as hitherto the most sensitive probe of electron correlation in moiré quantum matter\, including signatures for a coveted quantum phase - the fractional topological insulator.
UID:138388-21882887@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138388
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260212T094511
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260310T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260310T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Radical and Bioinspired Approaches in Main Group and Transition Metal Catalysis
DESCRIPTION:The advancement of non-precious metal catalysis depends critically on discovering new reaction pathways and harnessing unusual oxidation states of earth-abundant metals. In this seminar\, I will describe our recent work in two areas: (a) the rational design of molybdenum-based catalysts inspired by biological C–H hydroxylases\, and (b) the exploration of aluminum(II) chemistry for small molecule activation.\n\nIn the first part\, I will outline our efforts to develop structural and functional mimics of Mo-dependent hydroxylases such as xanthine oxidase and ethylbenzene dehydrogenase. These studies aim to generate catalysts that can hydroxylate C–H bonds in complex molecules with complementary site selectivity to existing technologies.\n\nIn the second part\, I will highlight our discovery of Al–Fe bond homolysis in heterobimetallic complexes as a route to Al-based radicals—formally Al(II) species—that exploit strain-induced biphilicity or redox non-innocence. These properties enable new pathways for small molecule activation. I will also discuss our use of data science tools to guide the development of catalytic C–O bond functionalization reactions involving radical mechanisms.
UID:138394-21882892@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138394
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260114T093903
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260311T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260311T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2025-2026 MICDE Ph.D. in Scientific Computing Student Seminars
DESCRIPTION:The MICDE PhD Student Seminar Series showcases the research of students in the Ph.D. in Scientific Computing. Lunch will be served. These events are open to the public\, but we request that all who plan to attend register in advance via Sessions (see link). \n\nPresenter details will be available on the registration form and on the MICDE events calendar. Planned sessions will be canceled if no one signs up to present\, and registrants will be notified.\n\nIf you have any questions\, please email micde-phd@umich.edu.
UID:139740-21894086@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139740
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Room 3127, Green Court Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260210T094456
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260311T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260311T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Thriving in STEM | \"Art of the Heart\" Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:WHAT IS THE MISSING LINK IN TODAY'S MEDICAL CARE DELIVERY?\n\nMedical school training has historically relied on the biological sciences\, and their application\, for diagnosis and treatment\, with technology an adjunct to care. Although many major medical schools now incorporate “doctoring” into their curriculum\, traditional medical training lacked an emphasis on the psycho-social aspects of the doctor-patient relationship.\n\nJoin the “Art of the Heart: The Doctor-Patient Partnership” book discussion to explore the solution as author\, Jay H. Kleiman\, M.D.\, recounts the profound career moments that define the doctor-patient partnership\, illuminating the path toward preventing physician burnout. \n\nHOW DO I GET THE BOOK?\n\nBook copies are available on Amazon for $10\, in both paperback and Kindle versions (and free for students with Kindle Unlimited).  If you need financial assistance purchasing the book\, complete this GoogleForm (myumi.ch/z98zn) by Tuesday\, February 17 to have a copy provided for you. \n\nWHAT CAN I EXPECT AT THE BOOK DISCUSSION EVENT?\n\nA virtual Book Discussion will be held on Wednesday\, March 11 from 5 - 6 PM with the author\, Jay H. Kleiman\, M.D.\, and his wife\, Georgi.  This will provide you the opportunity to directly engage with the author and his spouse to learn from their lived experiences.  A set of discussion prompts and questions is available to view in advance\; however\, live questions from participants are highly encouraged.
UID:145168-21896755@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145168
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:chemistry
LOCATION:
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260225T145929
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute |  Learning from Quantum Experiments via Structured Signal Processing
DESCRIPTION:In-Person: West Hall 411\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98748463202?jst=2\n\nAbstract:\nThe pursuit of quantum advantage in solving large-scale computational problems is often seen as a shining treasure. Achieving this goal\, however\, requires the accurate realization of smaller-scale quantum gates and control operations. Understanding and characterizing modular gate and control errors is therefore essential for building reliable quantum applications. Earlier work has typically pursued either universal algorithms with theoretical guarantees or black-box engineering approaches with no guarantees. Yet\, problem-specific structures offer opportunities for efficient and robust system characterization at the intersection of theory and practice. In this talk\, I will present how structured signal transformation and processing can be used to exploit such structures. I will first introduce a gate characterization method that is both resource-efficient and robust against complex experimental errors\, drawing parallels to parameter estimation in classical statistics. I will then generalize this idea to functional signals and present a novel non-parametric estimation paradigm.\n\nBio:\nYulong Dong is an Assistant Professor in ECE\, with a courtesy appointment in Mathematics\, at the University of Michigan. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 2023. Before joining UMich\, he worked as a research intern at Google Quantum AI\, then as a research scientist at ByteDance AI Lab in California\, and subsequently at the University of Washington. His research focuses on numerical analysis\, optimization\, and quantum computing\, with particular emphasis on quantum algorithms for scientific computing and high-precision quantum learning and sensing. His work not only provides rigorous theoretical results but also maintains close connections to practical applications. More broadly\, his research aims to bridge quantum computing with applied mathematics and information theory by addressing challenging problems in quantum algorithms and sensing from numerical-analysis and information-theoretic perspectives.
UID:142259-21890279@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142259
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - 411
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260113T140057
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T123000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ChE SEMINAR: Millie Sullivan\, University of Delaware
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT:\nNucleic acid cargoes offer unmatched diversity in gene regulatory potential and therapeutics\, and understanding of nucleic acid functionality continues to expand rapidly and dramatically through seminal discoveries including RNA interference approaches and gene editing technologies.  In nature\, the basis for gene regulation is ultimately encoded by the exquisite specificity with which cells are able to control both the location and accessibility of nucleic acid constructs to govern their activation states.  My research program seeks to understand and control gene activation using synthetic constructs through nature-inspired approaches to control and quantify cell binding interactions and stability in polymer and peptide nanocarriers.  The basis of our approaches is the design of stimuli-responsive polymers and peptides whose interactions with nucleic acids and cells can be controlled dynamically by specific intracellular or external triggers.  We exploit our ability to control nucleic acid binding/release and cellular processing to gain new mechanistic insights over nucleic acid delivery\, leading to design advances including histone-inspired DNA targeting\, light-responsive gene silencing\, and collagen turnover-stimulated gene expression.  This talk will highlight ways we have used nature-inspired peptides and responsive polymers to control gene transfer in regenerative medicine.
UID:143389-21892978@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143389
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - B10 Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260212T151005
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Steering spin–valley polarizations through phonons and photons
DESCRIPTION:Control of spin and valley polarizations opens opportunities for spintronic and quantum information applications. Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer an appealing platform to harness such polarizations. TMDs host excitons in valley-shaped regions of their band structure\, featuring well-defined carrier spins and obeying chiral optical selection rules. However\, the technological potential of excitons in TMDs is impeded by rapid spin–valley relaxation.\n\nI will present our theoretical/computational efforts to address and enhance spin–valley polarizations in TMDs through strong coupling to photons. Recognizing that chiral light is a manifestation of photonic spin\, I will show such strong coupling to allow for efficient spin transduction through the formation of \"chiral polaritons\". I will furthermore show how a breaking of chiral symmetry in optical cavities allows valley–spin relaxation to be suppressed in embedded TMDs.\n\nI will also discuss our efforts to unravel how spin–valley relaxation in TMDs is driven by lattice phonons. Towards this goal\, my group has advanced nonadiabatic methodologies that allow delocalized phonon modes and topological effects to be incorporated within a mixed quantum–classical framework. Results for TMDs indicate this approach to enable the modeling of solid-state phonon-driven processes at realistic dimensionalities.
UID:138400-21882903@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138400
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260225T141321
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T130000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Sabrina Nobrega Carneiro - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Sabrina Nobrega Carneiro for their dissertation defense titled \"Exploring Applications of Aminocyclopropenium Ions in Organic Synthesis\".\n\n*Date:* Friday\, March 13th\n*Time:* 12:00 PM\n*Where:* Rackham Earl Lewis Room\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 680 693 1484\nPasscode: SNC
UID:145949-21898171@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145949
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Earl Lewis Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260309T164923
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T134500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CommUNITY Seminar with Sylvia Hurtado \"Strategies for Expanding Participation in STEM Research Training\"
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Hurtado has two decades of NIH and NSF-sponsored research on a variety of campus practices to enhance participation in STEM research training at the undergraduate and graduate level. The projects move from student experiences toward understanding faculty as campus change agents\, and extending practices for organizational learning and institutional transformation. She will provide key features of recent published studies that focus on building long term change and extending program interventions to embed them in the culture and structure of the institution. Results are based on mixed methods designs that underscore the value of mentoring\, and leadership support for turning faculty-driven initiatives toward adoption as campus daily work. Implications for investment at the federal\, state\, and institutional level to train the next generation of diverse and innovative researchers are discussed.
UID:139514-21885679@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139514
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260310T090929
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T143000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Ryan Van Daele - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Ryan Van Daele for their dissertation defense titled \"Chloride Mediation for Ethanol Oxidation with Particle and Electrochemical Catalysts\".\n\n*Date:* Tuesday\, March 17th\n*Time:* 1:00 PM\n*Where:* CHEM 1706\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 97256923783\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97256923783
UID:146388-21898982@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146388
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260212T143243
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Design of 3d Metal Complexes for Cooperative Catalysis & Mechanistic Insight
DESCRIPTION:Over the past 4 decades\, transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling and olefin functionalization reactions have transformed the discovery and manufacture of pharmaceuticals\, agrochemicals\, pigments\, and materials. However\, responsible sourcing of preferred precious metal catalysts (like Pd\, Rh\, or Ir) has become increasingly challenging with ongoing geopolitical conflict and inconsistent labor practices. This limited availability thus hinders the sustainability and economic viability of these processes. Despite the clear impetus to pursue reaction development with more terrestrially abundant elements\, first-row (3d) transition metals are not typically suitable as direct substitutes for their precious metal congeners. Nonetheless\, there is growing interest in exploring the unique reactivity of earth-abundant and relatively inexpensive 3d metals to generate novel products and/or take advantage of substrate combinations that remain difficult to access with established methods. However\, compared with the detailed understanding of the fundamental reactivity of precious metals informed by decades of mechanistic elucidation\, the identity\, speciation\, and controlling features of 3d metal catalysts remain poorly defined in many cases\, thus limiting their development. Here\, I will describe my team’s progress using well-defined nickel and copper precatalysts to tease apart the structural features and mechanistic steps necessary for achieving high activity and chemoselectivity in cross coupling and olefin functionalization reactions. Our work relies on a synergy between mechanistic study of and precatalyst design for homogeneous catalysis\, taking advantage of cooperative design principles informed by heterogeneous and biological catalysis. These insights are translated into the design of novel catalyst structures and synthetic transformations with enhanced efficiency.
UID:138412-21882917@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138412
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260114T093903
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2025-2026 MICDE Ph.D. in Scientific Computing Student Seminars
DESCRIPTION:The MICDE PhD Student Seminar Series showcases the research of students in the Ph.D. in Scientific Computing. Lunch will be served. These events are open to the public\, but we request that all who plan to attend register in advance via Sessions (see link). \n\nPresenter details will be available on the registration form and on the MICDE events calendar. Planned sessions will be canceled if no one signs up to present\, and registrants will be notified.\n\nIf you have any questions\, please email micde-phd@umich.edu.
UID:139740-21894087@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139740
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Room 4425, Green Court Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260310T091244
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T160000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Daisy Haas - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Daisy Haas for their dissertation defense titled \"An Exploration of Equity in Chemical Education: Noticing and Dreaming to Transform Teaching\".\n\n*Date:* Thursday\, March 19th\n*Time:* 2:00 PM\n*Where:* Rackham Earl Lewis Room (3rd Floor)\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 924 7353 4372 \nPassword: CER
UID:146389-21898983@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146389
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Earl Lewis Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260212T160317
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Precision Synthesis and Deterministic Placement of Quantum Dots for Quantum Light Technologies
DESCRIPTION:Realizing scalable quantum light technologies requires both atomically precise nanocrystal synthesis and deterministic single-particle positioning. This talk explores strategies to achieve these goals by leveraging the extremes of nanocrystal size. First\, we examine kinetically persistent cluster molecules\, which are intermediates in colloidal nanocrystal nucleation\, as high-fidelity models for understanding crystal growth mechanisms\, structure\, and reactivity. By understanding the structure\, formation\, and conversion of these clusters\, we gain insights into synthesis pathways that minimize ensemble heterogeneity and move us toward the chemist's dream of perfect nanocrystals.\nNext\, we address a critical challenge in quantum photonics: the scalable integration of colloidal quantum dots as single-photon emitters. We demonstrate two approaches that exploit QD size to enable deterministic placement into large-scale ordered arrays while preserving photostability and quantum emission properties. Specifically\, SiO2 and CdS shells expand QD size\, facilitating precise positioning via high-fidelity template-assisted self-assembly and electrohydrodynamic inkjet printing. We show that single “colossal” QDs maintain room-temperature antibunching behavior and can be deterministically coupled to photonic cavities\, advancing their viability for quantum technologies.
UID:138415-21882920@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138415
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260310T091941
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260320T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260320T110000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Rahul Jha - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Rahul Jha for their dissertation defense titled \"Electrochemical Repurposing of Waste Poly(vinyl chloride)\".\n\n*Date:* Friday\, March 20th\n*Time:* 9:00 AM\n*Where:* CHEM 1300\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 916 7430 5018\nPassword: 03202026
UID:146390-21898984@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146390
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1300
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260312T170716
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260320T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260320T135000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Environmental exposures and health in agricultural settings
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, March 20 (12-1:50 pm) in 1690 SPH 1 for a conversation on Environmental exposures and health in agricultural settings with special guests Rafael Buralli\, PhD (University of São Paulo\, Brazil)\, Madeleine Scammell\, DSc (Boston University)\, and Alexis Handal\, PhD (University of Michigan). The panelists will discuss what is known and what can be done.
UID:146527-21899238@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146527
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Public Health I (Vaughan Building) - 1690
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T115954
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260323T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260323T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, March 23\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\nHiten Madhani\, MD\, PhD\nProfessor\, Biochemistry and Biophysics\nStuart Lindsay Endowed Professor in Experimental Pathology VII\nUniversity of California\, San Francisco\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Sundeep Kalantry\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nThe Madhani lab investigates gene regulation in health and disease\n\nThis is what the banner says\, but in reality\, we work on anything we find cool.  Why?  Because our aspiration is to not only discover new knowledge but also new principles.  Accomplishing this higher goal requires intellectual curiosity\, adventurousness\, and nimbleness (and a sense of humor!).  The lab is best known for its work on regulation of chromatin\, RNA-based regulation\, and host-fungal pathogen interactions (see our publications here).  Depending on the question\, the lab exploits different model systems\, including the opportunistic pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans\, which the lab has developed as both a model organism and a model pathogen\, as well as mice and haploid human cells.
UID:143368-21892961@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143368
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260216T140158
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260323T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260323T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Thriving in STEM | Chemistry Majors & Mocktails
DESCRIPTION:Connect with current students majoring in Chemistry\, Biochemistry\, and Biomolecular Science.  Engage with your peers to learn about their experience in courses\, degree paths\, and how they came to their major decisions.  Enjoy some tasty beverages and boost your scientific skills by sampling chemistry mocktails. A Chemistry Advisor will be available throughout the event if you are ready to declare your major.  \n\nThis is a drop-in style event.  Feel free to come and go as your schedule allows.  Registration is appreciated\, but walk-ins are welcomed.
UID:145534-21897483@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145534
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:chemistry
LOCATION:1720 Chemistry, Science Learning Center Flex Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260320T112105
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T125000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Investigating the Role of Gut Microbiota in Cadmium-Induced Neurotoxicity
DESCRIPTION:The Integrated Health Sciences Core's webinar series is an interdisciplinary forum for interested researchers to come together to learn and discuss wide-ranging issues in the field of environmental health. Registration is required.  We hope you can join us! Registration required https://myumi.ch/e38AV
UID:146845-21899688@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146845
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260323T082306
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MICDE State of AI & the Future of Institutions
DESCRIPTION:The State of AI & the Future of Institutions event is hosted by the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE). We bring together scholars and institutional leaders to explore the current state and future trajectory of AI\; how it may reshape institutions and how we can be better prepared for its disruptive impact. This event aims to move beyond abstract debate and towards actionable insights and assess how institutions can more actively shape a more resilient and responsible future. We anticipate this event to recur every semester.
UID:146034-21898298@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146034
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260310T095410
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Capturing the Sequence of Events During the Catalytic Reaction using XFELs
DESCRIPTION:The water oxidation reaction in the Photosystem II (PS II) enzyme produces molecular oxygen\, which sustains life on Earth\, and releases four electrons and protons that are used downstream in other photosynthetic processes for generating ATP. Thus\, understanding how this reaction is catalyzed will help in development of energy conversion technologies. The catalytic center is a Manganese complex (Mn4CaO5) which gets oxidized progressively upon absorption of light before releasing the stored energy and oxidizing water. Structural studies of PS II have been limited at traditional synchrotron sources due to radiation damage of this complex. The emergence of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL) with intense femtosecond X-ray pulses have opened opportunities to collect structural data on PS II under physiological temperature. The time-resolved electron density changes at the Manganese complex reveal notable structural changes\, including the insertion of a new water OX\, which disappears upon completion of the reaction [1-3]. We are also able to follow the structural dynamics of the protein coordinating with the complex\, revealing well- orchestrated conformational changes in response to electronic changes at the Manganese cluster. The method described here can be applicable to other (metallo)enzymes by initiating reaction with different reaction-triggering methods.
UID:138395-21882893@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138395
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260114T093903
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260325T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260325T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2025-2026 MICDE Ph.D. in Scientific Computing Student Seminars
DESCRIPTION:The MICDE PhD Student Seminar Series showcases the research of students in the Ph.D. in Scientific Computing. Lunch will be served. These events are open to the public\, but we request that all who plan to attend register in advance via Sessions (see link). \n\nPresenter details will be available on the registration form and on the MICDE events calendar. Planned sessions will be canceled if no one signs up to present\, and registrants will be notified.\n\nIf you have any questions\, please email micde-phd@umich.edu.
UID:139740-21894088@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139740
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Room 4425, Green Court Building
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DTSTAMP:20260303T100857
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260325T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260325T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Gomberg Lecture with Connie Lu \"Synergizing p- and d-Block Elements for Catalysis\"
DESCRIPTION:Many challenging chemical reactions require precious metal catalysts to proceed. Our research group develops main-group metalloligands (Groups 13 and 14) as an electronic lever for tuning a reactive transition metal active site via a direct metal–metal interaction. This approach has allowed for the development and optimization of highly efficient transition metal-main group bifunctional catalysts in various catalytic applications. The bimetallic catalysts display remarkably enhanced activity compared to the analogous single metal centers. In this talk\, I will detail the roles of the main group support in substrate binding\, activation of strong bonds (C−F and C−H)\, and catalysis.
UID:138387-21882886@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138387
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260220T102635
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260326T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260326T114500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:SCSAP Special Research Seminar and Town Hall Event
DESCRIPTION:SCSAP Special Research Seminar and Town Hall Discussion Event\nDate: Thursday\, March 26\, 2026\nLocation: Live In-Person Only (Will not be streamed or recorded)\n NCRC Building 18\, Dining Hall\nFREE TO ALL\, Everyone is Welcome\, \nLite Refreshments provided\n\nFEATURING: Dr. Aviv Regev\, Executive Vice President and Head of Genentech Research and Early Development and Executive Committee of the Human Cell Atlas\n\n*PLEASE REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT*\n\nTwo Events of Interest: \n\n10:00–10:45 AM- Talk Title: “Towards Unified Cell and Tissue Oracles”- Featuring Dr. Regev- Hosted by SCSAP \n\n11:00–11:45 AM Town Hall Discussion Featuring Dr. Regev and an invited faculty panel – event will cover several topics such as the future of single cell spatial-omics\, strategies for productive collaboration\, AI development of new drugs.
UID:145768-21897796@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145768
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Dining Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260224T151016
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260326T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260326T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute | Have we seen a demonstration of experimental quantum advantage?
DESCRIPTION:In-Person: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project\, 2301 Bonisteel Blvd\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\, USA\, PML2000\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94764879233?jst=2\n\nAbstract: A major goal for the field of quantum computation is “quantum advantage\" -- the first experimental demonstration of a quantum computation that is beyond the capabilities of any classical computer.  While we have now seen many quantum advantage claims made by experimental groups around the world\, many of these claims have been disproven.  \n\nIn this talk\, we'll discuss the status quo regarding the latest experimental quantum advantage claims and the evidence for their classical hardness.  We’ll then discuss the classical verification problem\, and propose a new quantum advantage proposal that uses ideas from quantum error correction to enable a large gap between classical verification and simulation.\n\nBio:\nI am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago.\nPreviously\, I held research positions at the University of California at Berkeley\, advised by Umesh Vazirani\, and in QuICS\, at the University of Maryland/NIST.\nI received my Ph.D. in computer science from the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech\, co-advised by Alexei Kitaev and Chris Umans.
UID:142260-21890280@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142260
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:
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DTSTAMP:20260310T135230
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260326T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260326T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Reactive Microdroplet Mass Spectrometry for In-Depth Lipidomics
DESCRIPTION:Microdroplet chemistry has received increasing attention for accelerated reactions at the air/solution interface in recent years. This talk will discuss our progress toward microdroplet strategies which include (i) a voltage-controlled interfacial microreactor that allows acceleration of electrochemical reactions for the first time\; (ii) novel interfacial reactions that address various long-standing isomeric problems in lipidomics\; (iii) novel mass spectrometry imaging platform for cancer studies
UID:138405-21882909@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138405
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T120250
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260330T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260330T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, March 30\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\nJean Gautier\, PhD\, Dr.Sc.\nChair\, Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis\nThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Agnieszka Lukaszewicz\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nThe Gautier Laboratory at MD Anderson centers on how the 3D organization of the genome facilitates and coordinates DNA repair alongside other DNA-templated processes\, including DNA replication and transcription. We study this to better understand how dysregulation in these processes contributes to pathological genomic rearrangements and cancer development\, as well as the therapeutic implications of such rearrangements. The lab employs cutting edge technologies in microscopy\, genomics\, proteomics and computational biology to advance their research.
UID:143369-21892960@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143369
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260219T083320
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260330T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260330T171500
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Willard Lecture: Chemistry and Impacts of Environmental Interfaces: A Focus on Atmospheric Aerosols
DESCRIPTION:Chemistry provides the underlying mechanisms for understanding the impacts of surfaces in the environment. These environmental interfaces play pivotal roles in processes that affect air quality\, water quality\, climate\, and HEALTH (planetary\, ecosystem\, and human health). For the Willard Lectureship in Analytical Chemistry\, my presentation will focus on the chemistry and impacts of atmospheric aerosols as well as larger aqueous microdroplets found in clouds and fog. Aerosol and microdroplet surfaces represent important components of the Earth’s atmosphere where chemical reactions can occur. Utilizing molecular-based tools\, we have gleaned mechanistic details of how these reactions proceed to better understand their global impacts.
UID:138426-21882931@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138426
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260304T142805
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260331T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260331T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Catalysts for Change: Cultivating a Culture for Chemistry Graduate Student Success
DESCRIPTION:This project investigates how departmental culture shapes chemistry graduate students’ belonging\, development\, and access to opportunity. The project responds to documented challenges in doctoral education including unclear success criteria\, inconsistent mentoring\, and hidden cultural norms and seeks to generate actionable\, evidence-based pathways for systemic improvement. We designed and deployed a mixed-methods pilot survey to chemistry graduate students measuring six domains informed by prior graduate-education and equity scholarship: (1) graduate milestones\, (2) research competency\, (3) teaching competency\, (4) advisor support (academic and emotional)\, (5) peer and departmental culture\, and (6) academic and demographic background. This talk will center on the qualitative data which is founded on academic citizenship\, which is a set of behaviors\, responsibilities\, and relational practices through which members of an academic community contribute to its collective functioning\, integrity\, and well-being beyond their individual scholarly outputs. It includes activities such as mentoring\, service\, collaboration\, care work\, and stewardship that sustain learning environments\, support colleagues and students\, and advance the shared mission of the institution and discipline. Findings show that academic citizenship is unevenly distributed across student groups and is most strongly predicted by research competency and access to departmental resources. Advisor emotional support and advisor skill dynamics emerged as significant contributors to academic citizenship. Results informed department-level interventions\, including (1) a redesigned first-year experience course integrating research\, teaching\, communication\, and wellness\, and (2) a multidimensional mentoring model grounded in sociopolitical noticing and disciplinary metaphors (chemist\, family\, coach). The project demonstrates that departmental culture can be surfaced\, measured\, and intentionally reshaped to create conditions where graduate students thrive because of rather than in spite of our systems.
UID:138425-21882930@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138425
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260330T135725
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260402T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260402T123000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ChE SEMINAR: Lynn Loo\, Princeton University
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nSingapore International shipping underpins the global economy\, moving roughly 90% of world trade by volume across highly integrated global supply chains. At the same time\, the sector emits about 1 Gt CO₂ annually\, or approximately 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions\, with emissions projected to grow alongside trade. Decarbonising shipping is therefore not a peripheral challenge\, but a prerequisite for a net-zero future. Yet shipping’s decarbonisation remains uniquely difficult. Vessels have long operational lifetimes\, energy demand is high\, production of alternatives to fossil fuels remains nascent\, and their deployment must satisfy stringent safety\, operational\, and infrastructure constraints across a global system. In this seminar\, I will discuss the work of the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD)\, an independent action tank based in Singapore established to accelerate progress through large-scale\, pre-competitive pilots. Over the past 4.5 years\, GCMD has worked with more than 130 partners across the maritime value chain to demonstrate the first safe transfer of 2\,700 metric tonnes of ammonia at anchorage in Western Australia\; bunker and trace 3\,400 metric tonnes of biofuels in Singapore and Rotterdam to strengthen supply-chain integrity\; execute the world’s first offloading of onboard-captured and liquefied CO₂ in China\, and subsequently demonstrate its use to recycle steel slag and produce precipitated calcium carbonate\; and launch a US$35 million fund featuring a pay-as-you-save mechanism to accelerate the adoption of energy-efficiency technologies. Insights from these pilots have informed investment decisions\, shaped policy discussions\, and contributed to emerging standards and guidelines. The seminar also reflects on my transition from two decades of nanoscale materials research\, spanning organic semiconductors and perovskite solar cells\, to system-level decarbonisation\, and on how my academic training has shaped my approach to tackling complex\, urgent\, real-world industry challenges.\n\nSpeaker Bio:\nLynn Loo is the Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor of Engineering at Princeton University and the inaugural CEO of the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD)\, an independent international action tank headquartered in Singapore that is working with industry to accelerate shipping’s transition to low- and zero-carbon solutions.\n\nTrained as a chemical engineer\, Lynn’s work spans fundamental materials science\, technology commercialization\, and systems-scale decarbonization. At Princeton\, her group pioneered see- through solar cells that wirelessly power smart windows to reduce building energy use and improve occupant comfort. This work received the 2020 Thomas Edison Patent Award and is being advanced through Andluca Technologies\, a startup she co-founded.\n\nAt GCMD\, she leads large-scale\, pre-competitive initiatives in real operational and commercial settings\, including the world’s first ship-to-ship transfer of ammonia at anchorage\, biofuel supply-chain trials\, the offloading and utilization of onboard captured and liquefied carbon dioxide\, and the launch of the sector’s first retrofit fund to catalyze uptake of energy-efficiency technologies. GCMD now works with over 130 industry partners globally. A Member of the National Academy of Engineering\, Lynn is a Fellow of AIChE\, APS\, and MRS\, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She was also featured on Lloyd’s List’s Top 100 People in Shipping list for her influence on the industry’s transition.
UID:143392-21892979@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143392
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - B10 Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260330T140958
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260402T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260402T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Spatially resolved mechanistic insights into electrode-electrolyte and gas-liquid interfaces
DESCRIPTION:Interfaces play critical roles in governing chemical reactivity across many systems ranging from fuel cells to batteries to atmospheric aerosols\, yet the molecular-level processes occurring at these boundaries remain poorly understood. This talk will highlight how spatially resolved techniques can provide detailed insights into two complex interfacial environments. In the first part of this talk\, I will discuss how combining spatially resolved electrochemistry with complementary scanning probe methods reveals which sites in transition-metal dichalcogenides are electrocatalytically active and why. In the second part\, I will show how confocal fluorescence microscopy can measure how molecules localize\, orient\, and react at gas–liquid interfaces\, providing a molecular picture of interfacial reactivity.
UID:138417-21882921@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138417
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
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DTSTAMP:20260304T164815
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260403T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260403T141500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CommUNITY Seminar with Molly Atkinson \"Supporting Neurodiversity in Undergraduate Chemistry Education\"
DESCRIPTION:Neurodiversity describes the limitless neurological variations among humans\, with examples including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)\, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)\, and Dyslexia. These neurotypes reflect natural and valuable variations of cognitive function within humans\, with specific strengths that are often considered assets in STEM fields. However\, the study of the learning experiences of neurodivergent students is currently limited within the field of chemistry. This seminar will focus on qualitative research that explores the experiences of neurodivergent undergraduate chemistry students in lecture settings through semi-structured interviews with participants from across the United States. Through interpretative phenomenological analysis – a participant-oriented approach that seeks to understand how participants make sense of their lived experiences while also recognizing the researcher’s role in interpreting those perspectives – our research focuses on understanding how neurodivergent students describe their lived experiences within chemistry lecture settings and what these experiences reveal about how they think\, perceive\, engage\, and learn within these settings. Grounded in the Neurodiversity Paradigm\, this research challenges the societal construct of “normal” cognitive functioning and recognizes neurodiversity as an essential\, valuable form of human diversity. Findings and implications aim to provide rich descriptions of experiences through a neurodivergent lens to help educators design more inclusive learning spaces and inspire systemic change to better support neurodivergent students across the chemistry curriculum.
UID:139513-21885678@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139513
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T120142
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260406T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260406T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 06\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\nStephan Züchner\, MD\, PhD\nProfessor of Human Genetics and Neurology\nThe Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics\nUniversity of Miami Miller School of Medicine\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Anthony Antonellis\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nDr. Zuchner is a trained neurologist and molecular geneticist with research interests in identifying genetic variation associated with disease. His lab has identified several genes for Mendelian neurodegenerative disorders and also evaluated risk factors for complex genetic conditions\, including Alzheimer disease\, Parkinson disease\, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. His lab is amongst the pioneering groups that have promoted genome sequencing methods for disease gene identification in humans\, mice\, and drosophilia. He is currently pursuing large-scale exome and genome analysis in multiple neurodegenerative disorders and develops innovative new software tools that allow real time shared analysis of large amounts of genomic data. Dr. Zuchner's scientific interests lie in mapping disease genes and genomic variation that is related to disease.
UID:143370-21892959@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143370
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260327T100432
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260406T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260406T140000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Jake O’Hara - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Jake O’Hara for their dissertation defense titled \"The Interplay Between Chemical Reactivity and Dopants in Tungsten Oxide Catalysts\".\n\n*Date:* Monday\, April 6th\n*Time:* 12:00 PM\n*Where:* CHEM 1640
UID:147127-21900409@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147127
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T101935
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260406T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260406T172000
SUMMARY:Presentation:3rd Year Student Seminar - Materials/Organic Seminar
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, April 6th from 4:00 to 5:20 p.m. in CHEM 1640 please join us in watching the following third years present.\n\n*Time:* 4:00-4:20 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Abby Ayala\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Andy Ault\n*Title of Talk:* Determination of Atmospheric Aerosol Composition and Diversity in New York City Using Optical Photothermal Infrared Spectroscopy\n\n*Time:* 4:20-4:40 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Shae Hagler\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Bart Bartlett\n*Title of Talk:* Understanding the Effects of Stack Pressure on Cycling-Induced Structural Changes in LiMn2O4 for Solid-State\, Li-ion Batteries\n\n*Time:* 4:40-5:00 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Nihal Khatiwoda\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Ageeth Bol\n*Title of Talk:* Improving the Crystallinity and Conformality of ALD grown MoS2\n\n*Time:* 5:00-5:20 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Will Kidder\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Adam Matzger\n*Title of Talk:* Approximating Heats of Formation of Porous Metal-organic Frameworks
UID:147269-21900616@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147269
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
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DTSTAMP:20260303T093908
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Synthesis\, Structure and Applications of Highly Microporous Organic Materials
DESCRIPTION:Porous organic polymers represent a rare class of materials that combine high internal surface area with broad-spectrum chemical stability. These features make them attractive for applications where surface-guest interactions and durability dictate performance\, including corrosive gas storage\, water purification\, energy storage\, and catalysis. In many cases\, performance can be improved by fine-tuning bulk microporosity\, yet factors affecting this key property remain poorly understood. This seminar describes efforts to identify how synthetic pathways shape microporosity in amorphous porous networks. Using a network disassembly approach\, we show that pathway-dependent porosity is largely driven by defects arising from incomplete cross-linking. Implications for synthetic design and selected biomedical applications of highly microporous organic polymers will also be discussed.
UID:138411-21882916@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138411
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
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DTSTAMP:20260114T093903
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260408T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260408T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2025-2026 MICDE Ph.D. in Scientific Computing Student Seminars
DESCRIPTION:The MICDE PhD Student Seminar Series showcases the research of students in the Ph.D. in Scientific Computing. Lunch will be served. These events are open to the public\, but we request that all who plan to attend register in advance via Sessions (see link). \n\nPresenter details will be available on the registration form and on the MICDE events calendar. Planned sessions will be canceled if no one signs up to present\, and registrants will be notified.\n\nIf you have any questions\, please email micde-phd@umich.edu.
UID:139740-21894089@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139740
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Room 4425, Green Court Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260327T100311
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260408T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260408T150000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Cody Ng - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Cody Ng for their dissertation defense titled \"Visible-Light-Mediated [2+2]-Cycloadditions for the Synthesis of Azetidines and Azetines\".\n\n*Date:* Wednesday\, April 8th\n*Time:* 1:00 PM EST\n*Zoom Meeting ID:* 935 6188 3906\n*Password:* 2+2
UID:147129-21900412@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147129
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260224T150916
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260409T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260409T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute | Quantum Spin-Mechanics with Color Centers in Diamond: A Potential Platform for Quantum Computing
DESCRIPTION:In-Person: West Hall 411\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91761768567?jst=2\n\nAbstract:\nIn a spin-mechanical system\, electron spins are coupled to vibrations of a nanomechanical resonator.  Coherent interactions between single spins and single phonons take place in the quantum regime of spin-mechanics.  A network of these resonators can enable phonon-mediated coupling between distant electron spin\, leading to a mechanical quantum network of spin qubits and providing an experimental platform for developing spin-based quantum computers.  \nIn this talk\, I will discuss our recent advance in achieving ultracoherent GHz diamond nanomechanical resonators and in developing mechanical quantum networks of spin qubits in diamond.  Localization and localization phase transitions induced by deterministic onsite potentials in a mechanical network are also exploited for the realization of extended network connectivity\, which is deemed essential for large-scale fault tolerant quantum computers. \n\nBio:\nHailin Wang received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China and the University of Michigan in 1982 and 1990\, respectively. He was a research investigator at the University of Michigan and subsequently a staff consultant at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He joined the University of Oregon in 1995 where he is now a professor of physics. Dr. Wang has made important contributions to the current understanding of coherent as well as incoherent optical processes in semiconductor nanostructures. He also made the first experimental demonstration of amplitude squeezed light from an injection-locked diode laser and developed a fused silica optical resonator that feature highly directional evanescent tunneling. His work on exciton spin coherence and biexciton coherence has recently led to the first demonstration of electromagnetically induced transparency for interband optical transitions in semiconductors. His current research interest includes optical manipulation of quantum coherences in semiconductors and especially its application in both classical and quantum information processing. Dr. Wang is a recipient of an NSF-CAREER award and is a fellow of the Optical Society of America.
UID:142261-21890281@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142261
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20260304T143449
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260409T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260409T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Nanoelectrochemistry for Multi-Dimensional Bioanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Nanoscale in-vivo studies on the signaling of a broad range of neurotransmitters are essential to understand brain functions and diseases. In this talk\, I will first describe our efforts in the development and creation of versatile electroanalytical liquid-liquid junction probes to enable the detection of redox-inactive transmitters. By using the liquid/liquid approach\, we circumvent the challenges in the measurement of non-redox-active neurotransmitters using nano-electroanalytical methods. In addition\, I will share our recent efforts in developing dual-channel nano-carbon-liquid/liquid junction electrodes for multi-modal analysis of both redox-active and non-redox-active analytes. Then I will present our studies on high spatiotemporal bioanalysis using model living organisms. We employed scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) to position our nanoprobes accurately with nm spatial resolution. Our results show that our nanoprobes\, with sizes as small as 15 nm in radius\, can detect and quantify the acetylcholine neurotransmission in real time\, at a high spatiotemporal resolution\, with a high signal-to-noise ratio\, and in biologically relevant fluids. The nano/micro-electroanalytical platform we developed is enabling a variety of new measurements on signaling dynamics across a diverse range of length scales\, i.e.\, at single cells\, at single synapses\, in living mice brains\, and will create exciting opportunities in studying transmission from various neuronal models and in our understanding of neurological disorders from a distinctive perspective. \n  \n\nAcknowledgment: I am grateful to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation\, National Science Foundation\, National Institutes of Health\, Research Corporation for Science Advancement\, Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation\, The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group\, Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago\, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for the support of our research. All the work that I will present is not possible without the hardworking and dedicated efforts of Shen group members.
UID:138406-21882911@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138406
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
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DTSTAMP:20260327T122909
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T140000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Alivia Mukherjee - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Alivia Mukherjee for their dissertation defense titled \"Spectroscopic and Mechanistic Investigations of Cobalamin Photochemistry: Implications for a Photoreceptor Protein CarH\".\n\n*Date:* Friday\, April 10th\n*Time:* 12:00 PM\n*Where:* CHEM 1706\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 992 7536 6578\nPassword: VitaminB12
UID:147136-21900417@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147136
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T120418
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260413T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260413T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 13\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\nJacy Wagnon\, PhD\nAssistant Professor\nDepartment of Neuroscience\nThe Ohio State University College of Medicine\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Miriam Meisler\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nDevelopmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEE) are a genetically heterogeneous group of neurological disorders characterized by early-onset seizures along with cognitive\, motor\, and behavioral impairments. The Wagnon laboratory is interested in understanding genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying DEE and identifying new treatment strategies for these severe disorders. Our current studies focus on DEE caused by variants in the neuronal voltage-gated sodium channel gene SCN8A. We are developing mouse models of SCN8A encephalopathy to study pathogenesis of seizures and related comorbidities. A second focus of the lab is to investigate the role of regulation of gene expression in seizure pathology. Changes in mRNA and microRNA levels represent a general transcriptional response to seizures that may implicate new therapeutic targets.
UID:143371-21892958@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143371
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T102717
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260413T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260413T172000
SUMMARY:Presentation:3rd Year Student Seminar - Materials/Organic Seminar
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, April 13th from 4:00 to 5:20 p.m. in CHEM 1640 please join us in watching the following third years present.\n\n*Time:* 4:00-4:20 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Lauren Meagher\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Anne McNeil\n*Title of Talk:* Metathesis of Polydienes to Make Value-Added Copolymers\n\n*Time:* 4:20-4:40 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Ally Tonsberg\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Stephen Maldonado\n*Title of Talk:* Quantitative Analysis of Redox Adsorbates on Semiconductor Electrodes via Cyclic Voltammetry \n\n*Time:* 4:40-5:00 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Zeyuan Zhu\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Yuki Kobayashi\n*Title of Talk:* Ultrafast Spectroscopy on 2D Materials\n\n*Time:* 5:00-5:20 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Allison Gatz\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Anne McNeil\n*Title of Talk:* Stability Assay for Identifying Non-aqueous Redox Flow Battery Materials
UID:147272-21900619@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147272
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260402T143854
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T125000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Effects of gestational phthalate exposure on age-specific DNA methylation
DESCRIPTION:The Integrated Health Sciences Core's webinar series is an interdisciplinary forum for interested researchers to come together to learn and discuss wide-ranging issues in the field of environmental health. We hope you can join us for the final webinar of this academic year\, in the environmental research series. Organized by the Integrated Health Sciences Core (IHSC) of the University of Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center (M-LEEaD).\n\nRegistration required http://myumi.ch/4m7JE
UID:147365-21900903@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147365
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260407T103407
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T140000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Rachel Giles - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Rachel Giles for their dissertation defense titled \"Purine mRNA modifications impact translation kinetics\".\n\n*Date:* Tuesday\, April 14th\n*Time:* 12:00 PM\n*Where:* Earl Lewis Room\, Rackham Building\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 91612715969\nPassword: Giles
UID:147490-21901104@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147490
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Earl Lewis Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260312T110628
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Discovering and exploiting metabolic vulnerabilities in human pathogens
DESCRIPTION:Increased human exposure to pathogens couples with rising antibiotic resistance and slow antibiotic development to pose a nearly insurmountable human health challenge. My group’s work aims to discover proteins critical for pathogen survival\, to reveal important insights into their mechanisms of action\, and to develop chemical tools that precisely modulate their functions. By focusing on pathogens with limited or unique metabolic capabilities\, we aim to reveal novel biomarkers and antibiotic targets that are less likely to evade inhibitors. This talk will describe our multipronged approach that employs metabolomics\, protein biochemistry\, biophysics\, and data science to accelerate the proteome-wide discovery of critical metabolite handling proteins in human pathogens. Furthermore\, ongoing efforts to identify effective narrow-spectrum anti-infectives will be described.
UID:138423-21882928@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138423
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260413T100322
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260415T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260415T180000
SUMMARY:Presentation:3rd Year Student Seminar - Physical Seminar (Part II)
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, April 15th from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in CHEM 1300 please join us in watching the following third years present.\n\n*Time:* 4:00-4:30 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Kanchan Shaikh\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Yuki Kobayashi\n*Title of Talk:* Light-dressed states in MoS2 monolayer\n\n*Time:* 4:30-5:00 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Paras Boruach\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Paul Zimmerman\n*Title of Talk:* Exploring the reach of Cl-initiated oxidation of VOCs in the Arctic via RNB-GSM\, a quantum chemical deep reaction network builder.\n\n*Time:* 5:00-5:30 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Kapil Sharwankar\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Zhan Chen\n*Title of Talk:* Investigating Protein Orientation and Conformation at Polymer Interfaces Using Sum-Frequency Generation (SFG) Vibrational Spectroscopy and Discontinuous Molecular Dynamics (DMD) Simulations\n\n*Time:* 5:30-6:00 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Hamidur Rahman\n*Research Advisor:* Co-Advised by Professor Ageeth Bol and Professor Paul Zimmerman\n*Title of Talk:* Thickness-Controlled Synthesis of 2D MoS2 Thin Films by Sulfurizing Atomic Layer Deposited MoCx
UID:147664-21901481@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147664
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1300
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260310T140251
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260415T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260415T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Radicals: A Counterintuitive Periodic Trek
DESCRIPTION:This laboratory has long pursued the synthesis\, structure\, and reactivity of unusual molecules that prominently feature main group elements. These efforts resulted in several significant milestones including the experimental realization of “metalloaromaticity\" (the concept that metallic rings may also display traditional aromatic behavior as exhibited by benzene)\, synthesis of the first molecule containing a boron-boron double bond—the first “diborene”\, and synthesis of the first molecule containing a triple bond between two main group metals (the gallium analog of acetylene). Research efforts have also concerned carbene stabilization of highly reactive main group molecules such diphosphorus (P2)\, diarsenic (As2)\, and disilicon (Si2). This presentation will prominently highlight our efforts to synthetically augment the molecular template of N-heterocyclic carbenes and their surprising conversion to stable dithiolene-based chemical radicals\, which have shown promise in the activation of small molecules\, such as ammonia.
UID:146197-21898647@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146197
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260413T101909
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T123000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ChE SEMINAR: Carl Laird\, Carnegie Mellon University
DESCRIPTION:Systems\, Surrogates\, Solutions: Optimization and Machine Learning for Decision-Making at Scale\n\nEmerging global challenges are pushing the limits of today's scientific computing tools. To overcome these barriers\, our group develops open-source solutions for large-scale optimization problems. At the intersection of data science and mathematical programming\, new capabilities support optimization-based decision-making with embedded machine-learning and data-driven models. Leveraging high-level languages like Python\, we are democratizing these capabilities\, placing powerful tools in the hands of a broader research community. Two vignettes illustrate the effectiveness of these capabilities to tackle challenging science and engineering problems at scale.\n   The first vignette highlights our rapid-response work during COVID-19. The pandemic exposed significant challenges in mitigating emerging infectious diseases. I will discuss our work to efficiently estimate county-level transmission parameter dynamics using a fully-coupled\, national-scale model. With full spatio-temporal transmission parameter profiles\, we were able to estimate the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the spread of COVID-19. Our current work focuses on developing accessible\, advanced optimization capabilities that enable inference on very large-scale\, nonlinear dynamic systems.\n   Machine learning (ML) models are increasingly used as surrogates for complex processes within engineering. Here\, I will discuss the need for surrogates in large-scale decision-making and introduce the Optimization and Machine Learning Toolkit (OMLT)\, a Python framework developed in collaboration with Imperial College London and Sandia National Laboratories. This package supports solution of mathematical programming problems with embedded ML models. I will showcase several applications that illustrate the use of machine learning surrogates\, including for example\, process design and operations\, bioprocess modeling\, and process family design.\n\nCarl D. Laird\nJohn E. Swearingen Professor and Department Head\n\nProf. Carl Laird is the John E. Swearingen Professor and Department\n			   Head in the Chemical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His international reputation centers on pioneering high-performance computing strategies for large-scale nonlinear and discrete optimization problems\, parallel scientific computing strategies\, and the development of open-source optimization capabilities\, including both modeling and solvers. He has worked in several application areas\, including process and energy systems\, product manufacturing\, biopharmaceutical processes\, homeland security\, and large-scale infectious disease spread. He is the recipient of several research awards\, including the Steven J. Fenves Award for Systems Research\, Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering\, the INFORMS Computing Society Prize\, CAST Division Outstanding Young Researcher Award\, National Science Foundation Faculty Early Development (CAREER) Award\, and the prestigious Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software for his work on IPOPT\, a software library for solving nonlinear\, nonconvex\, large-scale continuous optimization problems.
UID:143399-21892981@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143399
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - B10 Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251120T121105
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Great Lakes Seminar Series: Jenan Kharbush
DESCRIPTION:About the presentation: “Nitrogen availability” refers to the amounts of biologically usable nitrogen forms relative to demand by the biological community. In cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs) dominated by the non-diazotrophic cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa\, nitrogen availability is critical for the production of the nitrogen-rich toxin microcystin\, and may also play a role in shaping M. aeruginosa strain composition and relative abundance of toxic and non-toxic strains. During the annual CyanoHAB in Western Lake Erie\, both the dominant form of nitrogen (organic vs. inorganic) and M. aeruginosa strain composition shift as the bloom progresses\, as does the heterotrophic bacterial community composition in M. aeruginosa colonies. Recent metagenomics and culture-based work suggests that some of these heterotrophs may be involved in nitrogen acquisition and cycling processes with Microcystis. In this talk I will discuss some of our recent efforts to understand the influence of nitrogen form on Microcystis bloom ecology\, via both strain-specific adaptations and interactions with other community members such as heterotrophic bacteria. This includes examining how nitrogen form influences exometabolite production in cultured M. aeruginosa strains\, as well as using nano-secondary ion mass spectrometry (nanoSIMS) to measure how cell-specific nitrogen uptake in field communities changes with bloom phase. \n\nAbout the speaker: Jenan is an Assistant Professor in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at the University of Michigan. She earned her PhD in Chemical Oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography\, where she developed an appreciation for the complexity of microbial life and the outsized influence microbes have on their environment. At U-M\, her research group studies how aquatic microorganisms\, particularly phytoplankton\, acquire and use nitrogen\, including during CyanoHABs. They combine laboratory culture experiments with field-based environmental observations to link cellular-level nitrogen cycling processes to large-scale geochemical patterns in both modern and ancient environments.
UID:141223-21888418@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141223
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260407T104324
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T150000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Emily Traficante - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Emily Traficante for their dissertation defense titled \"Accessing Olefin-Containing Polycyclic Scaffolds and Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Herquline A\".\n\n*Date:* Thursday\, April 16th\n*Time:* 1:00 PM\nZoom Meeting ID: 957 9881 9031\nPassword: herquline
UID:147491-21901105@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147491
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T105316
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T172000
SUMMARY:Presentation:3rd Year Student Seminar - Materials/Organic Seminar
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, April 16th from 4:00 to 5:20 p.m. in CHEM 1640 please join us in watching the following third years present.\n\n*Time:* 4:00-4:20 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Julia Donovan\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Adam Matzger\n*Title of Talk:* Imparting Switchable Impact Sensitivity to Workhorse Explosives\n\n*Time:* 4:20-4:40 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Kate Kaplin\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Joerg Lahann & Professor Julie Biteen\n*Title of Talk:* Utilizing Click Chemistry to Enhance Synthetic Protein Nanoparticle Crosslinking\n\n*Time:* 4:40-5:00 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Elizaveta Karchuganova\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Markos Koutmos\n*Title of Talk:* Structural and Functional Studies of Human tRNA Isopentenyltransferase I (TRIT1)\n\n*Time:* 5:00-5:20 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Yulia Rakova\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Adam Matzger\n*Title of Talk:* Solid Guests in Metal–Organic Frameworks: Capacity Limits and Structural Effects on Loading Kinetics
UID:147275-21900622@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147275
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260407T110203
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T140000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Taylor Spiller - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Taylor Spiller for their dissertation defense titled \"New Methods for Fluorination and Radiofluorination of Aryl (Pseudo)halides\".\n\n*Date:* Friday\, April 17th\n*Time:* 12:00 PM\n*Where:* CHEM 1706\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 94196377987
UID:147492-21901106@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147492
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T120429
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260420T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260420T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 20\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\nAaron Ragsdale\, PhD\nAssistant Professor\nIntegrative Biology\nUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Jeffrey Kidd\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nOur research aims to understand how evolutionary forces are expected to shape genetic diversity within populations\, and then uses this understanding to learn about demographic and selective histories and processes from genome sequencing data. One focus of our research is on developing population genetic theory that lets us predict patterns of diversity and genetic structure under varying models of demography and selection. Another focus is on turning that theory into computational tools to compare model predictions to observations from natural populations. Finally\, we have a strong interest in inferring (mostly) human evolutionary history from genetic data\, including both ancient history and population structure as well as more recent migrations\, movements\, and dynamics.
UID:143372-21892957@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143372
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260114T093903
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2025-2026 MICDE Ph.D. in Scientific Computing Student Seminars
DESCRIPTION:The MICDE PhD Student Seminar Series showcases the research of students in the Ph.D. in Scientific Computing. Lunch will be served. These events are open to the public\, but we request that all who plan to attend register in advance via Sessions (see link). \n\nPresenter details will be available on the registration form and on the MICDE events calendar. Planned sessions will be canceled if no one signs up to present\, and registrants will be notified.\n\nIf you have any questions\, please email micde-phd@umich.edu.
UID:139740-21894090@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139740
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Room 4425, Green Court Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260407T121357
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T140000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Xiaofeng Dai - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Xiaofeng Dai for their dissertation defense titled \"What Does It Feel Like in the Nucleoid? The Biophysical Properties of the Bacterial Chromosome\".\n\n*Date:* Wednesday\, April 22nd\n*Time:* 12:00 PM\n*Where:* CHEM 1706\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 93579278960\nPassword: 199099
UID:147495-21901110@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147495
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260414T140036
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260423T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260423T123000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ChE SEMINAR: Bryan McCloskey\, University of California\, Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nConventional Li-ion battery electrolytes have been designed to optimize numerous desirable properties\, including interfacial and thermal stability\, conductivity\, and low flammability. However\, all conventional liquid Li + -bearing electrolytes still possess low Li + transference (t + ) numbers\, where current passed through them is primarily carried by the counteranion\, resulting in large concentration gradients that limit battery performance\, particularly at high discharge and charging rates.\n\nThe development of high t + electrolytes—those in which most (or all) current is carried by the Li + ion—could enable safer battery cycling\, faster charging rates\, and thicker\, more energy-dense cathode designs in Li-ion batteries. This presentation will outline our attempts to develop high t + electrolytes using two strategies. In the first\, Li-neutralized polyanions are used as a salt in nonaqueous liquid electrolytes (so-called nonaqueous polyelectrolyte solutions). In this configuration\, Li ions\, when appropriately solvated\, have hydrodynamic radii much smaller than the polymer chain’s size\, ostensibly allowing them to diffuse or migrate faster than their appended counteranions\, and hence enable high t + electrolytes. Ultimately\, I show this picture to be oversimplified\, and that anion-anion and cation-anion correlations severely limit the t + of high conductivity polyelectrolyte solutions. In the second\, we suspend Li-ion conducting inorganic particles\, which have both high conductivity and unity Li + transference numbers\, in organic electrolytes.\n\nThe development of these organic-inorganic composite electrolytes could enable solid state batteries\, an important emerging energy storage technology that has been hindered by the poor processability of thin-film pure inorganic ion conductors. Although the composite electrolyte field is highly active due to the processability advantages composite electrolytes possess\, researchers are still puzzled about why\, in most cases\, no significant improvement in the electrolyte conductivity is observed after incorporating inorganic particles\, whose conductivity is orders of magnitude larger than that of polymer electrolytes at room temperature.\n\nI will present our efforts to quantify phase contributions to ion transport in model inorganic-organic systems\, ultimately showing that three critical factors govern the conductivity of composite electrolytes: Li + -desolvation dynamics\, Li + -transference number in the organic phase\, and the ceramic particle size. Using this knowledge\, we show that certain composite configurations have enhanced conductivity and substantially higher transference numbers than the pure model organic electrolyte alone.\n\nSpeaker Bio:\nBryan McCloskey is the Department Chair and Warren &amp\; Katharine Schlinger Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California\, Berkeley. He also holds a joint appointment as a Faculty Chemical Engineer in the Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His laboratory explores numerous applications of electrochemistry to energy sustainability\, conversion\, and storage. Current projects focus on elucidating the fundamental electrochemistry of metal-air batteries and understanding a variety of challenges facing Li-ion and Na-ion batteries\, including high voltage cathode-electrolyte interfacial stability and organic-inorganic composites for solid-state batteries. He has co-authored more than 175 articles and has won numerous awards for his research\, including The Electrochemical Society Charles Tobias Award\, The International Society of Electrochemistry Tajima Prize\, and the VW/BASF Science Award- Electrochemistry. More information about the McCloskey Lab can be found at the Lab’s website: www.mccloskeylab.com.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143400
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 32 - B32 Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260414T071856
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260423T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260423T180000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:2026 Michigan Pioneer Fellows Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the upcoming Annual Michigan Pioneer Fellows Symposium\, when we will celebrate the invaluable research contributions of postdoctoral fellows and highlight the innovative work being done by Pioneer Fellows and other postdoctoral researchers across the University of Michigan. \n\nRegistration is open through April 20! \nPoster abstract submission is now closed.\n\n2026 Michigan Pioneer Fellows Symposium:\n1:00–6:00 p.m.\, April 23\, 2026\nBSRB Kahn Auditorium\n\nSchedule:\n1:00 Welcome and introductions\n1:05 Talks by Pioneer Fellows\n3:30 Keynote address: “New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) to Accelerate Clinical Trials in a Dish (CTiD)\,” Joseph C. Wu\, M.D.\, Ph.D. Professor & Director\, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute\, Stanford University\n4:30 Poster session\n5:30 Concluding remarks and reception\n\nAbstract:\nDrug discovery and development continue to face significant challenges\, with over 90% of candidate drugs failing in clinical trials. These efficacy failures are primarily due to inherent species-specific differences\, fundamental biological variances between model organisms and humans\, and the limitations of existing models to accurately reflect the complexity of human disease and treatment responses. In this discussion\, I will explore how the NIH and FDA are advocating for new alternative methodologies (NAMs) to reduce or replace animal testing. I will highlight recent advancements in technologies such as stem cells\, organoids\, and microphysiological systems (MPS)\, along with the roles of clinical genomics and AI/ML. Additionally\, I will examine how these platforms can collaboratively enhance our understanding of rare orphan diseases\, facilitate drug discovery\, support precision medicine\, and enable clinical trials in a dish (CTiD).\n\nAbout the Speaker:\nJoseph C. Wu\, MD\, PhD is Director of Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and Simon H. Stertzer\, MD\, Professor of Medicine and Radiology at Stanford University. Dr. Wu received his MD from Yale University and PhD (Molecular & Medical Pharmacology) at University of California\, Los Angeles. He is board certified in cardiovascular medicine. His lab works on genomics\, stem cells/organoids\, AI/ML\, and drug discovery. The main goals are to (i) understand basic disease mechanisms\, (ii) implement precision medicine for patients\, and (iii) accelerate drug discovery via “new alternative methodologies” (NAMs) and “clinical trial in a dish” (CTiD) concept. Dr. Wu has published >700 manuscripts with H-index of 147 on Google scholar. He is listed as top 0.1% of highly cited researchers by Web of Science for past 7 years (2018-2024). Dr. Wu has received several awards\, including the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award\, NIH Roadmap Transformative Award\, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) given out by President Obama at the White House\, American Heart Association (AHA) Distinguished Scientist Award\, AHA Merit Award\, and Burroughs Wellcome Foundation Innovation in Regulatory Science Award. Dr. Wu serves on the FDA Cellular\, Tissue\, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee. He is on the Board of the Keystone Symposia and American Heart Association. He is a past President of the American Heart Association (2023-2024). Dr. Wu is an elected member or fellow of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)\, Association of University Cardiologists (AUC)\, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)\, American Association of Physicians (AAP)\, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)\, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)\, Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering (AAASE)\, National Academy of Inventors (NAI)\, and National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
UID:145980-21898221@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145980
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Kahn Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260409T163235
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260424T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260424T150000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Soumik Das - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Soumik Das for their dissertation defense titled \"Atomistic Modeling of Reaction Pathways: From Quantum Chemical Methods to Machine Learned Potentials\".\n\n*Date:* Friday\, April 24th\n*Time:* 1:00 PM\n*Where:* CHEM 1706\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 972 7498 3650\nPassword: GSM
UID:147607-21901334@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147607
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260417T090817
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T150000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Travis Hammerstad - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Travis Hammerstad for their dissertation defense titled \"Total Synthesis of Resveratrol Oligomers: A Modular Biomimetic Approach via Persistent Radicals\".\n\n*Date:* Tuesday\, April 28th\n*Time:* 1:00 PM\nZoom Meeting ID: 919 7839 8691\nPassword: 1142
UID:147826-21902011@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147826
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260114T093903
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260429T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260429T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2025-2026 MICDE Ph.D. in Scientific Computing Student Seminars
DESCRIPTION:The MICDE PhD Student Seminar Series showcases the research of students in the Ph.D. in Scientific Computing. Lunch will be served. These events are open to the public\, but we request that all who plan to attend register in advance via Sessions (see link). \n\nPresenter details will be available on the registration form and on the MICDE events calendar. Planned sessions will be canceled if no one signs up to present\, and registrants will be notified.\n\nIf you have any questions\, please email micde-phd@umich.edu.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139740
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Room 4425, Green Court Building
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DTSTAMP:20260417T095937
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260430T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260430T173000
SUMMARY:Presentation:3rd Year Student Seminar - ChemBio Seminar
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, April 30th from 1:00 to 5:30 p.m. in CHEM 1400 please join us in watching the following third years present.\n\n*Time:* 1:00-1:30 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Anusha Vajrala\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Ryan Bailey\n\n*Time:* 1:30-2:00 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Pui Ki Tsang\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Matt Soellner\n\n*Time:* 2:00-2:30 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Isabel Solowiej\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Wenjing Wang\n\n*Time:* 2:30-3:00 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Maddy Zamecnik\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Kristin Koutmou\n\n*Time:* 3:00-3:30 PM\nBreak\n\n*Time:* 3:30-4:00 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Jolie Kan\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Alison Narayan & Professor Paul Zimmerman (Co-Advised)\n\n*Time:* 4:00-4:30 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Courteney Dufrene\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Brandon Ruotolo\n\n*Time:* 4:30-5:00 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Marcella Grillo\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Charles Brooks\n\n*Time:* 5:00-5:30 PM\n*Student Presenter:* Cybele Lemuh Njimoh\n*Research Advisor:* Professor Nicolai Lehnert
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147828
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1400
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260330T145928
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260430T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260430T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Imaging Chemical Reactions and Processes
DESCRIPTION:Imaging chemical reactions under synthetically relevant conditions can reveal mechanistic information that is inaccessible with traditional analytical techniques. Our laboratory develops fluorescence microscopy methods—including fluorescence intensity and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM)—to understand chemical reactivity and physical processes in complex reaction media with spatial and temporal resolution. We examine aqueous–organic reactions\, oxidative addition to metal powders\, and catalytic polymerization. These systems present particular challenges to traditional characterization methods: aqueous–organic emulsions are heterogeneous and optically opaque\, organometallic surface intermediates in oxidative–addition reactions do not substantially build up\, and many growing polymers are insoluble or spatially heterogenous. In these systems\, FLIM reveals object sizes\, catalyst localization and environments\, the role of reagents\, and the physiochemical reasons underpinning catalytic turnover rates. For example\, droplet-to-droplet differences in emulsions under cross-coupling conditions suggest that individual droplets function as distinct reaction vessels.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145683
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1200
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260417T094331
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260501T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260501T170000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Sara Jovanovski - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Sara Jovanovski for their dissertation defense titled \"Probing Intermediate States and Their Role in the Nonlinear and Quantum Optical Properties of Organic Conjugated Molecules\".\n\n*Date:* Friday\, May 1st\n*Time:* 3:00 PM\n*Where:* CHEM 1706\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 926 9922 4313\nPassword: 171810
UID:147827-21902013@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147827
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T120451
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260504T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260504T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 4\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\nAlex Pollen\, PhD\nAssistant Professor\nNeurobiology\nDevelopmental & Stem Cell Biology\nUniversity of California\, San Francisco\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Xander Nuttle\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nWe study how genetic changes that accumulated over the last 6 million years of human evolution influence specialized features of brain development using single cell genomics\, cerebral organoid models of ape brain development\, and genome engineering.\n\nOver the last six million years\, human cognition has changed in remarkable ways to support symbolic language\, long-term planning\, cooperation on vast scales\, and the rapid cultural accumulation of technology. During this time\, patterns of brain development and life history changed to triple the number of neurons produced prenatally\, extend synaptic plasticity through a prolonged phase of development\, and restructure connectivity between brain regions. At the same time tens of millions of mutations accumulated as fixed changes in the human genome through the processes of selection and drift. A portion of this new genomic information guides the development of uniquely human traits and contributes to disease vulnerabilities shared by all humans. However\, connecting human-specific mutations to recently evolved traits remains a major challenge because we lack experimental systems for comparative and functional studies of great ape cortical development. To identify genomic differences underlying unique features or vulnerabilities of the human brain\, we are incorporating advances in single cell genomics and genome engineering with great ape cerebral organoid models of brain development. We are enthusiastic for new graduate students to join the team\, and the lab is well suited for those with an interest in evolution\, neuropsychiatric disorders\, neuronal cell diversity\, stem cell models\, or bioinformatics.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143397
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T120504
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260511T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260511T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 11\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\nTony Capra\, PhD\nProfessor\nBakar Computational Health Sciences Institute\nDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics\nUniversity of California\, San Francisco\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Xinjun Zhang\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nWe use the tools of computer science and statistics to address problems in genetics\, evolution\, and biomedicine. For a summary of our major research foci\, see Research.\n\nOur group is located in the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California\, San Francisco. Prior to coming to UCSF\, Tony spent 7 wonderful years at Vanderbilt University.\n\nHumans differ from one another and our closest living relatives\, the chimpanzees\, in a wide range of traits\, including our susceptibility to many diseases. We model the evolutionary processes that have produced these novel traits and develop algorithms that compare genomes to predict the functional relevance of specific genetic differences between individuals and species.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143393
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260414T105354
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260515T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260515T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Agilent Symposium
DESCRIPTION:View schedule and book of abstracts: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/asms/schedule/
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144039
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor Event Space
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DTSTAMP:20260107T120515
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260518T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260518T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 18\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\nArneet Saltzman\, PhD\nAssistant Professor\nDepartment of Cell & Systems Biology\nUniversity of Toronto\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Stephanie Bielas\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nMost of the cells in an organism share the same genome sequence\, yet they are able to carry out many distinct functions. Along with other layers of gene regulation\, chromatin modification plays a key role in this cellular specialization. Our research focuses on histone modifications such as lysine methylation\, and the proteins that recognize these modifications\, which are often referred to as chromatin ‘readers’. Chromatin readers can recruit and act as part of diverse chromatin modifying protein complexes to mediate the silencing of many genes with important functions in cell proliferation and differentiation. We will use a combination of genetic\, biochemical and genome-wide sequencing approaches to investigate the striking regulatory complexity of chromatin readers. Our research will contribute to a better understanding of how cells acquire and maintain different fates during development\, how chromatin readers contribute to epigenetic inheritance\, and how aberrant regulation of histone methylation contributes to the pathogenesis of several human diseases\, including cancers.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143394
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T102207
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260522T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260522T150000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:James V. Neel\, MD\, PhD Lecture in Human Genetics & Award
DESCRIPTION:Join us as Eric S. Lander\, PhD\, Professor of Biology & Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and Founding Director Emeritus at the Broad Institute of MIT\, presents their research at The Department of Human Genetics 25th Annual James V. Neel Lecture.  We will have presentations from our student awardees\, a poster session\, and a light reception. \n\n12:00-2:00 Award Presentations & Keynote Seminar | 1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n2:00-3:00 Reception & Poster Session | ABC Seminar Rooms\, BSRB\n\nReady to share your research? Present your poster at the 25th Annual Neel Lectureship. Submit your poster information no later than Friday\, May 8\, 2026 @midnight.\n\n12:00 – Lectureship Begins\n12:15 – Graduate Student Neel Award Presentation (PhD)\n12:30 – Graduate Student Neel Award Presentation (MS/GC)\n1:00 – Keynote Address\n2:00 – Reception Begins/ Poster Session Begins\n3:00 – Conclude
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143365
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium, BSRB & ABC Seminar Rooms
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DTSTAMP:20260325T140233
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260528T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260528T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Co-Fractionation ‘Multi-omics’ Mass Spectrometry for Lipid-Protein Interactome Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Lipids play essential roles in regulating various biological processes through functional interactions with integral or peripherally associated proteins and protein complexes. While mass spectrometry (MS)-based strategies have enabled global lipidome and proteome identification and quantitative profiling\, high-throughput strategies to investigate the lipid-protein ‘interactome’ at the systems level are currently lacking. Here\, I will first describe the development of advanced ‘shotgun’ lipidomics data acquisition workflows\, including the use of ion-mobility for selective enrichment of low abundance lipid classes\, and UV-photodissociation MS/MS to enable complete lipid structural characterisation [e.g.\, Anal. Chem. 2024\, 96\, 12296-12307.\; Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 2020\, 412\, 2339–2351.]\, and their application to characterise a novel cause of autosomal regressive multisystem mitochondrial disease resulting from deleterious variants in cardiolipin synthase 1 (CRLS1) [Human Mol. Genetics. 2022\, 31\, 3597-3612.]. Next\, using an integrated ‘multi-omics’ workflow for comprehensive lipidome and proteome profiling\, I will report that the knockout of non-mitochondrial genes in peroxisome\, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and Golgi organelles also results in mitochondrial dysfunction\, caused by unexpected alterations in ether-glycerophospholipid metabolic pathways [Nature. Cell Biol. 2024\, 26\, 57-71]. Finally\, to investigate the lipid–protein interaction relationships in these systems\, a novel Co-Fractionation Multi-Omics Mass Spectrometry (CF-MOMS) strategy will be described to characterise global alterations in the lipid-protein ‘interactome interactomes in WT and CRLS1KO cell lines\, and to highlight the functional involvement of cardiolipin-protein interactions in maintaining the assembly/stability and activity of mitochondrial membrane proteins.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146965
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260414T142643
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260618T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260618T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CommUNITY Juneteenth Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Title & Abstract TBD
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147737
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab
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