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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...

Professor Frank Neese (Max Planck Institute for Coal Research)
March 5, 2026
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10:00AM - 11:30AM EST
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Pfizer Lecture Hall
In Person
Zoom call seminar - George B. Kistiakowsky Lecture Title: How (and why) to Combine High-Level Spectroscopy with Quantum Chemistry to Study Reaction Mechanisms Abstract: As the use of quantum chemical calculations alongside experimental investigations...

Professor Eszter Boros (University of Wisconsin-Minnesota)
March 4, 2026
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4:00PM - 5:30PM EST
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MIT
In Person
Talk title: Catch and Release: Harnessing the Chemistry of Radioactive Metal Ions to Develop Next Generation Metal-based Medicines Abstract: Coordination chemistry enables us to transform short-lived, radiometal aqua-ions into tools for non-invasive...

Professor Gregory H. Robinson (University of Georgia)
February 26, 2026
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4:15PM - 5:45PM EST
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Pfizer Lecture Hall
In Person
Percy L. Julian Prize Lecture Talk Title: N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Dithiolene Radicals: A Counterintuitive Main Group Chemistry Trek Abstract: This laboratory has long pursued the synthesis, structure, and reactivity of unusual molecules that...

Professor Fleur Ferguson
February 24, 2026
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4:15PM - 5:45PM EST
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Pfizer Lecture Hall
In Person
Title: Interrogating the Druggable Proteome with Proximity Pharmacology Biography: Fleur Ferguson received her M.Sc degree in Chemistry from Imperial College London, where she received the Department of Chemistry prize for overall excellence. Dr. Ferguson...

Professor Alex Shalek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
February 19, 2026
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4:15PM - 5:45PM EST
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Pfizer Lecture Hall
In Person
E. Bright Wilson Prize Lecture Title: IDENTIFYING & COUNTERACTING THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENT STRESSES ON TISSUE DYSFUNCTION Abstract: During chronic stress, cells must support both tissue function and their own survival. Hepatocytes perform metabolic...

Professor Amy Weeks (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
February 12, 2026
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4:15PM - 5:45PM EST
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Pfizer Lecture Hall
In Person
Title: New enzyme chemistry to decipher post-translational modification function Abstract: Spatial organization and temporal dynamics are essential properties of cellular signaling. Post-translational modifications (PTMs) to proteins relay biological...

Professor Rose Kennedy (University of Rochester)
January 29, 2026
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4:15PM - 5:45PM EST
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Pfizer Lecture Hall
In Person
Title: Design of 3d Metal Complexes for Cooperative Catalysis & Mechanistic Insight Abstract: Over the past 4 decades, transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling and olefin functionalization reactions have transformed the discovery and manufacture of...