Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2023 Chemistry and Biochemistry Colloquium Series
The Chemistry and Biochemistry Colloquia Series is presented Wednesday afternoons at 3:30 p.m. in McKinley 224 unless otherwise noted.
| Date | Seminar Speaker, Title |
|---|---|
| 01/24 |
Prof. Laura Wang (University of Nebraska), Wide-Bandgap Material and Device Platforms Toward Integrated Quantum Photonics |
| 01/31 |
Dr. Tianyi Li (Argonne National Laboratory), New Capabilities of Structure Science Group and their Applications in Lithium-Ion Batteries |
| 02/07 |
Prof. Handan Acar (University of Oklahoma), Engineering Peptides for Stressing Out Cells |
| 02/14 |
Prof. Tania Betancourt (Texas State University), Pulsatile Drug Delivery via Photothermal Modulation of Dynamic Covalent Poly(ethylene glycol)/PEDOT Hydrogels |
|
02/21 *4pm Start Time |
Bingheng Ji (Wichita State University), Exploring the Role of Noncentrosymmetric Structures and Physical Properties in Nonlinear Optical Materials: Insights from Case Studies |
|
02/28 |
Prof. Kun Cheng (University of Missouri - Kansas City), Discovery of Small Anti-PD-L1 Peptides for Cancer Immunotherapy |
| 03/06 |
Prof. Autumn Qiu (Michigan State University), MALDI-MS for Spatial Biology and Toxicology: Focusing on C. Elegans and PFAS |
| 03/20 |
Prof. Kelly Hines (University of Georgia), Enabling High-Throughput Multi-Omics with Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry |
| 03/27 |
Ying Gong (Wichita State University), Sensitive Detection of Herbicides using Field Amplified Sample Injection Coupled with Electrokineticsupercharging in Flow-Gated Capillary Electrophoresis |
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04/03 |
Awards Ceremony |
| 04/10 |
Prof. T. Michael Sabo (University of Louisville), An Invesitgation into how a Single Functional Site Distant Mutation Modulates Enzymatic Activity without Altering Structure |
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04/15 *208 Hubbard Hall |
Prof. Bill DeGrado (University of California - San Francisco) - Watkins Visiting Professor, De Novo Protein Design |
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04/16 |
Prof. Bill DeGrado (University of California - San Francisco) - Watkins Visiting Professor, Use of Integrin Antagonists to Disrupt Pathological Mechanical Force-Dependent Processes in Fibrosis and Severe Asthma |
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04/24 |
Prof. Michael Roper (Florida State University), Examining the Dynamics of Glucose Regulation |
| 05/01 |
Prof. Gabe Nagy (University of Utah), TBD |
Watkins Visiting Lecturers
The Watkins Visiting Professorship was created in 1974 by a grant from the Watkins Foundation. E. A. Watkins was vice president of Union National Bank, Wichita, in 1936 when he acquired a small iron foundry and wholesale hardware firm that he built into Watkins, Inc., a major steel fabrication and industrial supply company.
Watkins’ son, E. Leon Watkins, a 1936 WSU alumnus, succeeded his father as president of the firm. After Leon Watkins’ death in 1971, his widow, Roberta, also a WSU alumna, announced that the Watkins’ Foundation Board of Trustees had determined that “the sole project of the foundation shall be the support of the Watkins Visiting Professorship at Wichita State University.” The departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Geology and Physics share the professorship.
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Dr. Gary Brudvig |
Yale University |
October 8-9, 2002 |
| Drs. Nancy and Jerry Jaax | Kansas State University | April 12, 2002 |
| Mario Capecchi | University of Utah School of Medicine | February 11-13, 2001 |
| Pat Higgins | University of Alabama | March 29-30, 2001 |
| Ahmed H. Zewail | California Institute of Technology | September 26, 2001 |
| Niles Eldredge | American Museum of Natural History | October 8-11, 2001 |
| Michael Gross | Washington University Center for Biomedical and Bioorganic Mass Spectometry | October 23-26, 2001 |
| Alan Feduccia | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Oct. 31-Nov.1, 2001 |
| George Gokel | Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis | Nov. 27-30, 2001 |
| William Rathje | Arizona Garbage Project | March 1, 1999 |
| Inder Verma | Salk Institute | April 1, 1999 |
| Robert Ballard | Institute for Exploration | September 1, 1999 |
| Colleen Cavanaugh | Harvard University | October 1, 1999 |
| Peter Glynn | University of Miami | November 1, 1999 |
| Robert M. Bigsby | Indiana University School of Medicine | March 1, 1998 |
| H. Leon Bradlow | Rockefeller University | March 1, 1998 |
| Theo Colborn | World Wildlife Fund | March 1, 1998 |
| Robert J. Kavlock | National Health & Environmental Effects Research Laboratory | March 1, 1998 |
| Dolores Lamb | Baylor College of Medicine | March 1, 1998 |
| Daniel M. Sheehan | National Center for Toxicological Research | March 1, 1998 |
| Ana M. Soto | Tufts University School of Medicine | March 1, 1998 |
| Frederick S. Vom Saal | University of Missouri | March 1, 1998 |
| Richard Alley | Pennsylvania State University | March 1, 1997 |
| Fred MacKenzie | University of Hawaii | March 1, 1997 |
| Robert Berner | Yale University | April 1, 1997 |
| Daniel B. Botkin | George Mason University | April 1, 1997 |
| Julius Rebek | Scripps Research Institute | November 1, 1997 |
| Robert Ginsburg | University of Miami | December 1, 1997 |
| Luther Williams | National Science Foundation | February 1, 1996 |
| Keith Solomon | University of Guelph | February 1, 1996 |
| Leroy Hood | University of Washington | March 1, 1996 |
| Arnold Arons | University of Washington | April 1, 1996 |
| Shelia Tobias | Author | April 1, 1996 |
| Crow, James F. | University of Wisconsin | January 1, 1995 |
| Hendee, William R. | Medical College of Wisconsin | March 1, 1995 |
| Lipscomb Jr., William | Harvard University | April 1, 1995 |
| Olson, Eric | University of Texas | April 1, 1995 |
| Martin, Yvonne C. | Abbott Laboratories | April 1, 1995 |
| Bakker, Robert | University of Colorado | April 1, 1994 |
| Ratner, Buddy D. | University of Washington | April 1, 1994 |
| Sessler, Jonathon | University of Texas | October 1, 1994 |
| Wolynes, Peter G. | University of Illinois | February 1, 1993 |
| Hubbard, Ruth | Harvard University | March 1, 1993 |
| Simpson, Evan R. | University of Texas | April 1, 1993 |
| Krantz, Allen | Syntex Research, Canada | April 1, 1993 |
| Karplus, Martin | Harvard University | May 1, 1993 |
| Hauptman, Herbert | Medical Foundation of Buffalo | October 1, 1993 |
| Eldredge, Niles | American Museum of Natural History | October 1, 1993 |
| Karger, Barry L. | Northeastern University | November 1, 1993 |