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Professor Steven Banik (Stanford University)
May 19, 2026
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4:15PM - 5:45PM EDT
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Pfizer Lecture Hall
In Person
Title: Detecting and Rewiring Cellular Interatomes Abstract: Changes in protein localization and abundance are hallmarks of altered cell state and function. This lecture will describe technologies that harness mammalian machinery to manipulate and measure...

Professor Angel Rubio (Flat Iron/Max Planck)
May 14, 2026
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4:15PM - 5:45PM EDT
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Pfizer Lecture Hall
In Person
Title: Shaping Chemical Reactivity with the Quantum Vacuum: Ab Initio Advances in Polaritonic Chemistry via QEDFT Abstract: Can the quantum vacuum be used to control chemistry? Recent experiments in polaritonic chemistry suggest that it can: molecules...

Professor Anna Wuttig (University of Chicago)
May 7, 2026
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4:15PM - 5:45PM EDT
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Pfizer Lecture Hall
In Person
Title: Designing for Disorder: Electrocatalytic Synthesis with Interfacial Control Abstract: Chemical synthesis driven by electricity offers a scalable, decentralized, and energy-efficient route to furnish value-added products – from fuels to complex...

Professor Laura M.K. Dassama (Stanford University)
May 5, 2026
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4:15PM - 5:45PM EDT
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Pfizer Lecture Hall
In Person
Title: Discovering and exploiting metabolic vulnerabilities in pathogenic bacteria Abstract: Increased human exposure to pathogens couples with rising antibiotic resistance and slow antibiotic development to pose a nearly insurmountable human health...

David Thaisrivongs (Merck)
April 30, 2026
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5:15PM - 6:30PM EDT
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Pfizer Lecture Hall
In Person
Title: The Largest Small Molecule: Manufacturing Process for Enlicitide ABSTRACT: Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of mortality globally. Inhibiting PCSK9, a validated therapeutic target in hypercholesterolemia, has been shown to...

Professor Kevin Brown (Indiana University Bloomington)
April 30, 2026
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4:15PM - 5:45PM EDT
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Pfizer Lecture Hall
In Person
Title: Building Bonds with Boron Abstract: Boron chemistry is an indispensable tool in modern organic synthesis, leveraging boron's unique electronic and structural properties. Established applications, such as the hydroboration reaction and the Suzuki...

Professor Raúl Hernández Sánchez (Rice University)
April 23, 2026
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4:15PM - 5:45PM EDT
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Pfizer Lecture Hall
In Person
Title: Macrocyclic templates facilitating strong and weak interactions Abstract: Macrocyclic arene compounds have played a fundamental role in the development of supramolecular chemistry. Research on these systems have laid the foundations to explore and...

Professor Franziska Schoenebeck (RWTH Aachen)
April 10, 2026
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4:15PM - 5:45PM EDT
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Pfizer Lecture Hall
In Person
TITLE: PREDICTING CHEMICAL REACTIVITY? ABSTRACT: Chemistry is in a phase of expanding opportunities. Advances in experimental technologies are accelerating discovery and capabilities, while in silico developments allow chemical reactivity to be...

Professor Laura Kiessling
March 12, 2026
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4:15PM - 5:45PM EDT
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Pfizer Lecture Hall
In Person
Frank H. Westheimer Prize Lecture Title: Chemical probes of bacterial glycans Abstract: Bacteria rely on their microbial glycans to survive. Moreover, they use this glycan covering to mediate host colonization, pathogenesis, and regulate immune responses...