
So You Want to Be a Good Physician? Reflections on the Challenges of Medical Education and Service to Others
Sponsor(s):
Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Wednesday, November 08, 2017
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Farr Curlin, MD, Duke University School of Medicine; Lydia Dugdale, MD, Yale University School of Medicine; Warren Kinghorn, MD, Duke University School of Medicine; John Yoon, MD, University of Chicago School of Medicine

2-Azaallyl Anions and Sulfenate Anions: Unusual and Unexpected Reactivity
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor Patrick J. Walsh (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Chemistry)

Asymmetric Synthesis Enabled by Catalytic Reactions of Boron Reagents
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Friday, November 17, 2017
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor James P. Morken (Boston College, Department of Chemistry)

Dissecting the complex genetics of stress and aging among populations, individuals, and cells
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, December 04, 2017
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Patrick Phillips, University of Oregon

Discovery and optimization of anti-cancer enzyme inhibitors using phenotypic screening
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Tuesday, December 05, 2017
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor Joseph Ready (UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dept. of Biochemistry)

Circadian Regulation of Sleep and Metabolism
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Friday, January 12, 2018
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Swathi Yadlapalli, University of Michigan

Host and phage determinants of CRISPR-Cas adaptive Immunity
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Friday, January 19, 2018
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Joshua Modell | Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow, Rockefeller University

Harnessing the Chemistry of Plant Natural Product Biosynthesis
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Friday, January 19, 2018
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Professor Sarah O'Connor (John Innes Centre, Department of Biological Chemistry)

Biogenesis and function of small RNAs during sperm maturation and fertilization
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Friday, January 26, 2018
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Upasna Sharma | Postdoctoral Associate, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Pushing the Efficiency Limits of Solar Cells with Molecular Photon Upconversion
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Thursday, February 01, 2018
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor Kenneth Hanson (Florida State University, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry)

The MNS blood group and resistance to malaria
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Thursday, February 01, 2018
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Ellen Leffler, Wellcome Centre - Human Genetics

Metals in Cells: The Inorganic Foundation of Life
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Tuesday, February 06, 2018
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor Amit R. Reddi (Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry)

Pivots and power amplification: evolution and functional morphology of feeding in seahorses and their relatives
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, February 19, 2018
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Sarah Longo, Duke Biology

Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL): A student-centered team-learning approach to STEM instruction
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor Rick Moog (Franklin and Marshall College, Department of Chemistry)

Faculty Colloquium - Real-time 3D tracking: Capturing viruses and molecules in motion
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Friday, February 23, 2018
3:00 pm - 4:20 pm
Professor Kevin Welsher (Duke University, Department of Chemistry)

The interplay between ecology and biomechanics in macroevolution: Insights from cleaning behavior in wrasses
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, February 26, 2018
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Vikram Baliga, University of British Columbia

Challenges in the atomistic modeling of nanoscale junctions: lasers, forces, statistics and beyond
Friday, March 02, 2018
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor Ignacio Franco (University of Rochester, Department of Chemistry and Physics)

Lessons from 'earless' frogs on developmental bias and sensory ecology
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, March 05, 2018
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Molly Womack, University of California at Berkeley

Rational Design of Antibiotics for Tuberculosis and Development of New Chemistry for Antibiotic Synthesis
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Tuesday, March 06, 2018
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor Courtney Aldrich (University of Minnesota, Department of Medicinal Chemistry)

Generalizing genetic prediction across diverse populations
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, March 19, 2018
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Alicia Martin, Massachusetts General Hospital

General electronic structure theory covering exact and variational solutions of the Schrödinger equation
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Friday, March 23, 2018
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor Hiroshi Nakatsuji (Quantum Chemistry Research Institute, Kyoto Technoscience Center)

The neuromechanics of Drosophila flight control
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, March 26, 2018
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Brad Dickerson, California Institute of Technology

RNA as a drug target and material for nanotechnology
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor Thomas Hermann (Univ. of California, San Diego, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry)

The Evolution of Looking and Seeing: New Insights from Colorful Jumping Spiders
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, April 02, 2018
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Nathan Morehouse, University of Cincinnati

Chirality and its influence on charge transport and charge reorganization
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Tuesday, April 03, 2018
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor David H. Waldeck (University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry)

Costs and constraints in the evolution of plasticity: dietary and behavioral flexibility in butterflies
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, April 09, 2018
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Emilie Snell-Rood, University of Minnesota

Neuroecology and the olfactory basis of plant-pollinator interactions
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, April 16, 2018
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Jeff Riffell, University of Washington

Design and Selection of Metalloenzymes and their Applications as Biocatalysts in Alternative Energies and as Biosensors in Environmental Monitoring, Medical Diagnostics and Imaging
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor Yi Lu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Chemistry)

Top Down Proteomics for Precise Description of Human Proteins in Health and Disease
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Thursday, April 26, 2018
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor Neil Kelleher (Northwestern University, Dept. of Chemistry)

Coupling exergonic and endergonic oxidation-reduction reactions through electron bifurcation
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Friday, June 15, 2018
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Professor John Peters, Director (Washington State University, Institute of Biological Chemistry)

Thieme Chemistry Roadshow - Science of Synthesis
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Dr. Toby Reeve, Scientific Editor

Selective Oxidation of Strong and Weak Bonds: New Catalytic and Synthetic Methods
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Tuesday, September 04, 2018
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor Michael K. Hilinski (University of Virginia, Department of Chemistry)

High power insects: The biomechanics of jumping and striking
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, September 10, 2018
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Gregory Sutton, The Royal Society (UK)

New Antibiotics from Nature's Chemical Inventory
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor Timothy A. Wencewicz (Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Chemistry)

How development and environment shape the brain: Lessons from the fly olfactory system
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, September 17, 2018
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Pelin Volkan, Duke University

New Methods for Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Functionalization
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Friday, October 05, 2018
2:40 pm - 4:10 pm
Professor Olafs Daugulis (University of Houston, Department of Chemistry)

Building and Breaking Molecular Ladders to Develop Antiaromatic and Force-Responsive Materials
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor Yan Xia (Stanford University, Department of Chemistry)

New Actinide Chemistry and Connections to Future Nuclear Energy Challenges
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
11:40 am - 1:10 pm
Professor John Arnold (University of California, Berkeley, Department of Chemistry)


How fast is evolution? And why this matters
Sponsor(s):
Biology
Monday, October 29, 2018
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Phil Gingerich, University of Michigan
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