Winter 2026
Master's Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/03/2026 | Mujda Mirabi | Novel hypervalent-iodine mediated cyclopropyl migration | G. Murphy |
| 02/10/2026 | Tegan Reynolds | Exsolution from Perovskites and the Utilization of Lattice Defects | R. Smith, P. Gris |
| 02/24/2026 | Naaz Butool | Exploration of Palladium catalyzed cross-coupling reactions with novel alkyl-aryl iodonium salt | G. Murphy |
| 02/26/2026 | Kaidyn Thomas | Determining the Reactivity of a Cyclic Alkyl Aryl Iodonium Salt | G. Murphy |
| 03/03/2026 | Steven King | Selective Funtionalization of WS2 defects for improved analysis | R. Smith |
| 03/05/2026 | Rashne Vakharia | Target and Suspect Screening of New Psychoactive Substances and Other Illicit Drugs in Wastewater | S. Hopkins, M. Servos |
| 03/10/2026 | Bohan Li | Beyond Composition: Building a Synthesis-Aware Database and Advancing Machine Learning Models for Thermoelectric Performance Prediction | H. Kleinke |
| 03/12/2026 | Brianna Nagy | Oxidation of metallo-beta-lactamase VIM-2 | D. Sychantha |
| 03/17/2026 | Andrea Majic | Effects of ns2 Dopants as Optical Activators and Sensitizers in Perovskite-Like Nanocrystals | P. Radovanovic |
| 03/19/2026 | Stuart MacKinnon | Quantum criticality in isotopically substituted dipolar molecular chains | P-N. Roy |
| 03/20/2026 | Katrina Gluszczak | Characterization of The Putative Lytic Transglycosylase IsaA | D. Sychantha |
| 03/23/2026 | Sydney Hoang | Copper-chalcogen clusters with phosphine ligands | J. Corrigan |
| 03/24/2026 | Eric Laframbroise | Magneto-Optical Size Dependence Studies On Nickel Oxide Nanocrystals | P. Radovanovic |
| 03/26/2026 | Avisha Patel | Future of carbonic anhydrase | S. Kalyaanamoorthy |
| 03/31/2026 | Joseph Hong | In vivo click chemistry and bioconjugation of SERS nanoparticles | J-H. Yu |
| 04/02/2026 | Jiayi Liang | SELEX-based Exploration of Aptamers for Small Molecules. | J. Liu |
| 04/07/2026 | Sally Yang | Design and Fabrication of Soft-Tissue-Mimicking Organ Phantoms via 3D Printing Techniques | S. Tang, M. Serban |
| 04/09/2026 | Quinn Talukdar | Synthesis and characterization of Pyrene labelled cyclic polymers | J. Duhamel, Y. Lin |
Doctoral Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/03/2026 | Aiden Hong | T. Dieckmann | |
| 03/17/2026 | Jixi Zhang | Defect-Induced Structural Instability in MoS2 | R. Smith |
| 03/19/2026 | Bao Nguyen | Unraveled: Identifying apoSOD12SH Potential Aggregation Initiators | E. Meiering |
| 03/27/2026 | Xinran Liu | Understanding Metal-Support Interactions in Oxide-Supported Platinum Catalysts | R. Smith |
Fall 2025
Master's Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/14/2025 | Lindsey Shivers |
Synthesis and Mechanism of Action of LL-A0341β1 |
S. Taylor |
| 10/28/2025 | Marc Driezen | Optimization of the SPME-DART-MS sample workflow | J. Pawliszyn |
| 11/06/2025 | Dawson McLachlan | Multi-dimensional Chemical Separations from Complex Mixtures | S. Hopkins |
| 11/10/2025 | Riya Panchal | The Biochemical Characterization of SalB from Enterococcus faecalis | D. Sychantha |
| 11/20/2025 | Ahmed Eldeeb | Development of Mixed Electron-Ion Conductive Polymer Binders for Electrodes | Y. Lin |
| 11/28/2025 | Fatemeh Parniani | 3D Printing of Advanced Cell Culture Devices for Drug Screening and Cell Manufacturing | S. Tang |
Doctoral Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28/2025 | Natasha Evans | Elucidating the Structure and Dynamics of RNA Aptamers Complexed with Hoechst Dye Derivatives | T. Dieckmann |
| 11/25/2025 | Ruofei Zheng | Extreme Temporal and Spatial Insights into 2D Materials | G. Sciaini |
| 11/25/2025 | Stefen Stangherlin | Green Fluorescent Protein SELEX - Immobilization Chemistry and His-Tag Epitope Bias | J. Liu |
| 11/25/2025 | Ehsan Niknam | Modification of Bismuth Telluride Compounds Through the Addition of Second Phases for Low-Temperature Thermoelectric Materials | H. Kleinke |