Departmental Newsletter
Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2024 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 |
|---|---|
| 09/04 |
Prof. Alexey Ladokhin (The University of Kansas), Successes and Challenges in Sequence-Based Thermodynamic Predictions of Protein-Membrane Interactions ***Cancelled*** |
| 09/11 |
Prof. Jian Wang (Wichita State University), Controlled Growth and Crystal Structure Engineering to Uncover Inorganic Functional Materials at WSU |
| 09/18 |
Prof. Beat Vogeli (University of Colorado), Biomolecular NMR in the AI Era: Functional Dynamics in Proteins and RNA |
|
09/25 |
Prof. Thomas Szyperski (University at Buffalo), Energy Landscapes of Designed Cold Unfolding 4-Helix Bundles (DCUBs): Tackling the Uncharted Territory of Low Energy / Low Entropy Protein States and their Transitions |
|
10/02 |
Prof. Li Yang (Washington University in St. Louis), Second-Order Light-Matter Interactions in Emerging Quantum Materials |
| 10/09 |
Prof. Mary Markiewicz (The University of Kansas), NKG2D Signaling Effects on Autoimmune Diabetes |
| 10/23 |
Prof. George Lisi (Brown University), Allosteric Regulation of the MIF Superfamily through Molecular Space and Time |
| 10/30 |
Prof. John Macmillan (University of California-Santa Cruz), Chemical and Biological Approaches to Natural Product Discovery |
|
11/06 |
Prof. Tiglet Besara (Missouri State University), Intermetallics via Flux Growth: Grounds for Discovery |
| 11/13 |
Prof. Pierre Thibault (University of Montreal), Beyond the Lamppost - The Quest for Elusive Tumor Antigens |
|
11/20 |
Prof. Junji Iwahara (University of Texas Medical Branch) - Direct Measurement of Biomolecular Electrostatic Potentials by NMR Spectroscopy |
|
11/27 |
*** No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday *** |
|
12/04 |
Student Presentations |
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 |