Check the Weekly Beaker or the Department Events Calendar for upcoming seminars.
Click on the links below for speaker bios.
2024-2025 Seminars
CCCE, Career Center, Integrated STEM Center, and Fellowships Seminar (9/20/24)
Bill Arnold, University of Minnesota, Fluorine beyond PFAS: Tracking fluorine during photolysis of fluorinated pesticides and pharmaceuticals (9/27/24)
Preparing for Our Tenure-Track Candidates (10/4/24)
Jessica Lamb, University of Minnesota, A physical organic chemist’s approach to polymer synthesis and catalysis (10/11/24)
Undergraduate Student Research and Internship Symposium
Matt Bush ’03, University of Washington, Seattle, New Mass Spectrometry Based Technologies for Biophysics and Structural Biology (10/25/24)
Research Recruiting – Interested in doing research on campus this summer?
2023-2024 Seminars
Amy Marschilok, Stony Brook University, Electrochemical Energy Storage (Batteries): A Keystone for a Clean Energy Future (9/22/23)
Andrew P. Ault ’05, University of Michigan, Dropping Acid in the Atmosphere: Is It Just a Phase? (9/29/23)
Undergraduate Student Research and Internship Symposium
Laramie Jensen ’15, Iron and other trace metals in global ocean: from the Arctic to the Antarctic
Research Recruiting – Interested in doing research on campus this summer?
Francesca Ippoliti, Hamline University, Total Synthesis of Lissodendoric Acid A and Interactive Teaching Tools for Organic Chemistry Education (1/19/24)
Courtney Roberts, University of Minnesota, Access to “Inaccessible” Arynes and Redox Chemistry Using Transition Metals (1/26/24)
Ronald Brisbois, Macalester College, Leveraging Cyclophane and 1,2,3-Triazole Synthesis to Prospect for Novel Atropisomeric Scaffolds, Fluorophores, and Colorimetric Sensors (2/9/24)
Dipa Kalyani, Merck & Co., Inc., Tale of Two Careers: Catalysis in Industry vs. Academia (2/16/24)
Conor Caffrey, University of California San Diego, Drug discovery for neglected tropical diseases at the University of California San Diego (2/23/24)
David Hanna ’13, University of Michigan, H2S preconditioning induces long-lived perturbations in O2 metabolism (3/29/24)
Igor Alabugin, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Accumulating energy to drive chemical reactions: from stereoelectronic frustration to electron upconversion (4/12/24)
Daniel Herwschlag, Stanford University, From Structure–function to Ensemble–function: Understanding how enzymes work (5/6/24)
Karen Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania, Developing Alternatives to Oil as Feedstocks for our Chemicals (5/10/24)
2022-2023 Seminars
CCCE, Career Center, and Fellowships Seminar
So you might want to go to grad school? Seminar
Jen Heemstra, Emory University: A chemical biology toolbox for probing A-to-I RNA editing (9/23/22)
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Respect in Chemistry Seminar
Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, University of Minnesota: Engineering Iron Enzymes to Reprogram Biological Signaling and Chemical Catalysis (10/7/22)
Undergraduate Student Research and Internship Symposium
Grace Yin Stokes, Santa Clara University: Thermodynamic Studies of Artificial Plasma Membranes Elucidate Drug Design Principles (10/21/22)
Maroya Spalding Walters ’03, Antimicrobial Resistance Team, CDC: Detecting and Responding to Emerging Antibiotic Resistance in Healthcare Settings (10/28/22)
Cody Finke (‘12), CEO & Co-Founder, Brimstone Energy: How to Design Chemistry for Climate Impact without First Overhauling our Global Economic System (11/4/22)
Research Info Session, Off Campus Opportunities
André Isaacs, College of the Holy Cross: A Click Chemistry Approach to Nitrogen Heterocycles (1/20/23)
Research Info Session, On Campus Opportunities
Cassie Joiner, St. Olaf, Exchange Seminar: How does the O-GlcNAc transferase enzyme choose its protein substrates (2/10/23)
Sashary Ramos, NIH Postdoctoral Fellow: Spectroscopic Studies of Protein Dynamics and Biological Solvation (2/17/23)
Elizabeth Trimmer ’88, Grinnell College: Mutational and Conformational Analyses of Folate Binding and Catalysis in E. coli methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) (2/24/23)
Dave Farina, professordaveexplains.com: The Birth of the Science Communicator (3/3/23)
Shannon Stahl, University of Wisconsin-Madison – The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture Optimizing the Potential of Dioxygen in Aerobic Oxidation Catalysis (4/7/23)
Teri Odom, Northwestern University – The Dr. James D. (’30) and Julia P. Morrison Lectureship: Gold Nanostars as Structural Valency Probes (4/14/23)
Shana Kelley, Northwestern University – The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture: Pendulum-based sensing for continuous monitoring of biomolecules (4/21/23)
Joseph Francisco, University of Pennsylvania – The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture: Water Effects on Atmospheric Reactions (5/5/23)
2021-2022 Seminars
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Respect in Chemistry Seminar
So you might want to go to grad school? Seminar
Adrian Hegeman, U of MN: Plant Metabolomics: Overview, Methodology and Use of Stable Isotopes. (9/24/21)
CCCE, Career Center, and Fellowships Seminar
Undergraduate Student Research and Internship Symposium
Christine Nowakowski, General Mills, Inc: Better Food Through Enabling Technologies. (10/22/21)
Emily Balskus, Harvard University: Chemical discovery in the microbial world. (11/5/21)
Research Info Session, Off Campus Opportunities
Sam H. Gellman, University of Wisconsin at Madison – The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture: Foldamers: Extrapolating from Proteins. (1/28/22)
Jon Lai, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Structure-based design of broad flavivirus immunogens based on glycoprotein E domain III (EDIII). (2/11/22)
Erin McDuffie ’13, EPA: Atmospheric Chemistry: the key to improving air quality, saving lives, and solving the climate crisis. (2/18/22)
Isaiah Speight, PostDoc @ the University of California-Irvine, Inorganic and the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) West Regional Chair: A Tale of Two Chemists: Mechanochemistry and Macrocycles. (2/25/22)
Margaret Lumley, ChloBis Water: Development of Desalination Batteries for Energy-Efficient Seawater Desalination and Selective Chloride Removal. (3/4/22)
Dr. Roger Wiens, Professor, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science, Purdue University, Senior Fellow of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Principal Investigator, SuperCam Team – The Frank G. and Jean M. Chesley Lectureship in Chemistry: Exploring Mars with Curiosity and Perseverance. (4/22/22)
Ken Houk, University of California, Los Angeles – The Dr. James D. (’30) and Julia P. Morrison Lectureship: Pericyclic Reactions: Theory, Mechanisms, Dynamics, and Role in Biology. (4/29/22)
Karin Musier-Forsyth, The Ohio State University – The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture: How a two-nucleotide difference in a 9.4 kilobase genome dictates HIV-1 genomic RNA packaging. (5/6/22)
Diversity, Inclusivity, Equity, and Respect Discussion with students, faculty, staff
2020-2021 Seminars
So you might want to go to grad school? Seminar
Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Honorable Harvest: Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainability 2020-21 Frank G. and Jean M. Chesley Lecture in Environmental Studies (10/9/20)
Undergraduate Student Research and Internship Symposium
Rigoberto Hernandez, Johns Hopkins University: Advancing an Inclusive Culture in Chemistry Departments (10/30/20)
Lesley-Ann Giddings, Smith College: The search for new natural products and biocatalysts (11/6/20)
Research Info Session, Off Campus Opportunities
Chris de Graffenried ’98, Brown University: How does the parasite Trypanosoma brucei establish and transmit its shape? (1/15/21)
Research Info Session, On Campus Opportunities
Screening of “Picturing a Scientist”
Julia Bakker-Arkema ’14, Carleton College: Laboratory studies of atmospheric chemistry: secondary organic aerosol formation and evolution. (2/12/21)
Mark Mitton-Fry ’96, The Ohio State University: Bugs and Drugs: Targeting MRSA with Novel Bacterial Topoisomerase Inhibitors (2/19/21)
Fikile Brushett, MIT: Developing materials design criteria for next-generation redox flow batteries 2/26/21)
Mark D. Allendorf, Sandia National Lab: Nanopores and Nanoparticles for Hydrogen Transport and Storage (3/5/21)
Mark Thompson, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA: 21st Century Alchemy Applied to Organic LEDs: Making Copper Act Like Iridium (4/23/21)
Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: How to find our future antibiotics? (4/30/21)
Ilsa Cooke, Université de Rennes 1: Bringing Interstellar Space to Earth – Experimental Insights into Our Cold Molecular Universe (5/6/21)
Diversity, Inclusivity, Equity, and Respect Discussion with students, faculty, staff
2019-2020 Seminars
Matt Bush ’03, University of Washington-Seattle: New Mass Spectrometry Based Technologies for Biophysics and Structural Biology (9/27/19)
Leah Witus, Macalester: Catalytic peptides and peptidomimetics by design and discovery (10/4/19)
Valeria Kleiman, University of Florida: Polynuclear Ru-based Metal Complexes for Energy and Electron Transfer (10/11/19)
Summer Research Poster Session
Marisha Kamunde-Devonish, Grinnell: Inspired by Nature: The Synthesis of 1st Row Transition Metal Complexes for Catalytic Transformations (10/21/19)
Sam Lemonick ’08, Chemical & Engineering News: Space for Everyone: Rocket Chemistry and Science Writing (11/1/19)
Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, University of Utah: The many facets of organometal halide perovskites: challenges and opportunities (11/8/19)
Summer Research Info Session, Chemistry faculty: On Campus Opportunities
AJ Boydston, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Metal-Free Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (1/17/20)
David Clark, LANL: Plutonium Chemistry and the Battlefields of the Cold War (1/24/20)
Munira Khalil, University of Washington-Seattle: Chemistry in Multicolor: Using Light to Capture Fast Molecular Motion (1/31/20)
Kevin Freeman-Cook, Pfizer: The discovery of PF-06873600, a cell cycle inhibitor for the treatment of cancer (2/14/20)
Daniel Bon, Colorado Dept of Public Health and Environment: Mobile Lab Monitoring of VOCs near suburban Oil Drilling Sites in Colorado (2/21/20)
Jenny Martinez, Yale: Exploiting the Reactivity of Dienes via Electrophilic Addition with Anionic and Radical Intermediates (2/28/20)
Larry Schlesinger, Texas Biomedical: Challenges in tuberculosis therapy: from basic science to a new host-directed therapeutic approach (3/6/20)
John Choiniere ’07 and Michael McClellan ’13: Team Chemistry: What Chemists Can Do for MLB Teams (5/1/20)
Alex Lai (’13), Weizmann Institute of Science: What PM2.5 chemical composition tells us about air pollution sources and exposures (and my path in research after Carleton) (5/8/20)
Alex Kosanovich (’14), Dow Chemical: From Organometallics to Polymers: Journeys into a Career in Chemical R&D (5/22/20)
Past Seminars Cumulative Index
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2018–2019 Seminars
Emma Southgate ’14: Dearomative
Dihydroxylation Reactions: Method Development and Synthetic Application
Yvonne Martin ’58: Computational
Tools for Drug Design in the Absence of Known Structure of the Target
Biomolecule
Mark Schoenfisch, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Nitric oxide-releasing therapeutics for
disease management and biomedical applications
Grad School Lunch Discussion, Chemistry faculty
Summer Research Poster Session
Celebration of Excellence in Science, Campus
Ben Buehrer ’86, Zen-Bio, Inc.: Phenotypic and Target-based Screening in Early Stage Drug Discovery
Olester Benson, 3M Corporate Research Process Laboratory: Chemistry the Central Science: Looking Beyond the Flask
Summer Research Info Session, Chemistry faculty
Pamela Peralta-Yahya, Georgia Tech: Olfactory receptors: from metabolic engineering tools to novel drug targets
Steve Drew, Charles “Jim” and Marjorie Kade Professor of the Sciences & Chemistry, Carleton: Renewable Energy Storage: Applications of Electrochemistry
Abraham Badu-Tawiah, Ohio State: Serving the Underserved Population through Technology Development
Kaz Skubi ’11: Enantioselective [2+2] Cycloadditions Using Visible Light Photoredox Catalysis
Anna Brezny ’13: The Role of Off-Cycle Species in Rhodium-Catalyzed Styrene Hydroformylation Using High-Pressure NMR Spectroscopy
Carleton seminar at St. Olaf, Daniela Kohen: Molecular Insight on behavior within zeolites
Aaron Leconte ’04, Pitzer College: Using biochemistry and evolution to build better enzymes
Gail Karet, American Medical Association: Pharmaceutical Nomenclature in the US
Jeff Long, University of CA, Berkeley: Cooperative Adsorption and Gas Separations in Metal-Organic Frameworks
Carol Fierke, Texas A&M: Ribozymes to Proteins: Enzymology of precursor-tRNA Processing Enzymes
Cherie Kagan, University of Pennsylvania: Designing Solid State Materials from Quantum Dots: Artificial Atomic Building Blocks
John Battiste ’90: Characterization of Photo-Initiated Living Radical Polymerization Kinetics With In-Situ NMR Spectroscopy
Grad School Lunch Discussion, Chemistry faculty
Inclusivity Discussion, Chemistry faculty
2017-2018
Rana Shehadeh, Dean, Global Business, Trade & Transportation and former Vice President of R&D – PepsiCo, LATAM
Seth John ’99, USC: Iron nutrition in anemic seas: Using iron stable isotopes to trace different sources of iron through the world oceans
John Matson, Virginia Tech: Therapeutic Delivery of Hydrogen Sulfide: Small Molecules, Polymers, and Materials
Robert Harris ’87, Amgen: Modern Drug Discovery and Development
Greg Ducker ’06, Postdoc at Princeton University: The many biochemical roles of one-carbon metabolism
Tom Hoye, University of Minnesota: The (ongoing) evolution of the hexadehydro-Diels-Alder (HDDA) reaction
Summer Research in Chemistry, Chemistry Faculty
Sarah Hamm-Alvarez ’86, USC Roski Eye Institute, Keck Medicine of USC: Reduce to tears: how fundamental studies of tear protein secretion and the “tearome” may advance diagnosis and treatment of disease
Mona Minkara, University of Minnesota: A Computational Study of how Solutes Load into a Surfactant Bilayer Using Monte Carlo Techniques
Amy Bauer, TSI Incorporated: Giant Sparks and a Series of Expensive Detectors: Spark-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, a Brief History
Squire Booker, Penn State: A Radical Approach to Antibiotic Resistance
Nickolas Hud, Emory: What came before RNA? Progress towards finding a solution to a major part of the origins of life puzzle
Andy Ellington, University of Texas, Austin: Evolving dead things
Paul Wennberg, Caltech: Autoxidation of Organic Compounds in the Atmosphere
Robert McMahon, University of Wisconsin: Organic Chemistry in Harsh Reaction Environments
2016-2017
Buck Taylor, Carleton College: How to Use Computers to Understand Chemical Reactivity: Palladium-Catalyzed C–H Activation and Cross-Coupling
Jim Smith, University of California-Irvine: Aitken nuclei: Little things in the world working great effects by virtue of their numbers
Christopher Bowman, UC-Boulder: Clicking Polymers Together: Assembly of Complex, Controlled Polymer Structures from Efficient Chemistries
Brian Leonard, University of Wyoming: Synthesis of Metal Carbide Nanomaterials for Renewable Energy
Margaret Tolbert, Colorado University-Boulder: Every Drop Counts…Looking for Water on Mars
Alex Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Cation-Responsive Pincer-Crown Ether Complexes for Tunable Catalysis
Anna Christianson, Graduate student, Texas A & M: Antimony incorporation into colored and emissive materials
Dr. Maya Warren ’07, Kahala Brands Cold Stone Creamery; Exploring the Science behind the Microstructure and Behavioral Properties of Frozen Aerated Desserts
Erik Olson ’12, The Ohio State University: Multiple roles of HIV-1 Gag and Psi RNA in ensuring specific genomic RNA recognition and assembly
Yuichiro Takeshita ’08, MBARI: Application of autonomous chemical sensing technology in oceanography
Melinda Baldwin, Physics Today: Medicine, magicians, and cold fusion: Scientific controversies in Nature during the 1980s
Jonathon Sweedler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: D-amino acids in our brain: what are they doing and how did they get there?
Dr. Bruce Parkinson, University of Wyoming: Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion on Earth and Mars; The James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
Gerard Wright, McMaster University: Revisiting natural products to address the antibiotic crisis; Frank G. and Jean M. Chesley Lectureship
Catherine Drennan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA: Shake, Rattle & Roll: Capturing Snapshots of Metalloproteins in Action; The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
2015-2016
Ryan Steed, Carleton College: Ion-Powered Rotary Mechanism of ATP Synthase
Jillian Dempsey, University of North Carolina: Investigating Reaction Pathways for Solar Fuel Production
Stephan Hubig, Ecolab, Inc.: Innovation and Product Development in the Chemical Industry
Mary Wirth, Purdue University: Epigenetics in Bioanalytical Chemistry
Robert G. Bergman (’63), University of California, Berkeley: The Application of Physical Organic Methods to the Investigation of Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms; The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Matthew Sheldon (’04), Texas A&M University: Plasmonic and Hybrid Nanomaterials for Solar Energy
Sarah Reisman, California Institute of Technology: Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Natural Products and the Chemistry they Inspire
Dennis Cao, Macalester College: Lock-Arm Supramolecular Ordering: Self-Assembled Organic Ferroelectrics
Wesley Sundquist (’81), University of Utah: Membrane Remodeling by the ESCRT Pathway
Will Pomerantz, University of Minnesota: Choosing the Right Halogen: Fluorinated Bromodomains for Small Molecule Discovery
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research in the Carleton Chemistry Department
Matt Whited, Carleton College: Making Rare and Abundant Elements “Play Nice”: New Reactions Exploiting Rhodium/Silicon Cooperation
Deborah Gross, Carleton College: Atmospheric Aerosol Particles: Impacts on Climate and Human Health
Emily Weiss, Northwestern University: Quantum Dot Photocatalysis
David Milstein, The Weizmann Institute of Science: Design and Applications of Sustainable Catalysis Based on Cooperative Pincer Complexes
AND
Sustainability Through Catalysis; The Jean Dreyfus Boissevain Lecture
Janet Morrow, SUNY, Buffalo: Iron, Cobalt and Nickel Complexes as Responsive MRI Contrast Agents; The James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
Christopher Miller, Brandeis University: A Weird Ion Channel for a Weird Ion: Fluoride Resistance in Microbes; The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Carleton Chemistry Faculty and Others: Planning your Future with a Chemistry Major: Fellowship, Career, and Grad School Opportunities
2014-2015
Chemistry Faculty, Academic Civic Engagement and Career Center Staff, Carleton College: You Decided to Major in Chemistry – Now What? Volunteer Opportunities and Career/Grad School Information
Amit Reddi (’03), Georgia Institute of Technology: Metals in Cells: The Inorganic Foundation of Life
Theodore Betley, Harvard University: Radical Frontiers in Catalysis
Student Summer Research Panel: A discussion about research on and off campus
Danica Fujimori, University of California, San Francisco: Positive Feedback Regulation of a Histone Demethylase on Chromatin
Cari Dutcher, University of Minnesota: Interfacial dynamics of atmospheric particles: Cold, complex and charged surfaces
Connie Lu, University of Minnesota: Harnessing Metal-Metal Bonds for Small-Molecule Activation
Kevin Weeks, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Understanding the genetic code, expressed via RNA, using “Orgo 2” and simple physical chemistry
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Sandra Loesgen, Oregon State University: Natural Products in Drug Discovery – Targeting Viral Sweet Spots and Superbugs
Dean Tantillo, University of California, Davis: Walking in the Woods with Quantum Chemistry. The Importance of Inherent Carbocation Reactivity in Terpene Biosynthesis
Jessica DeMott, Texas A&M University: Exploring Ligand Scaffolds for the Isolation of Stable Alkane Sigma Complexes
Chris Bielawski, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology: Externally Controlled Chemistry: New Methods for Manipulating Polymerization and Other Transformations
Ekaterina Kadnikova, University of Wisconsin, Stout: Chemoenzymatic Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Unsaturated Esters
Buck Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles: How to Use Computers to Understand Chemical Reactivity: Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic C–H Activation
S. Walter Englander, University of Pennsylvania: Protein folding and function by hydrogen exchange mass spectrometry analysis
Martin Zanni, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Targeting the mechanism not the structure: An amyloid intermediate obtained from 2D IR data; The James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
Christopher Walsh, Harvard Medical School: Antibiotics Past, Present and Future: A Molecule-centered Perspective; The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Senior Comps Talks:
Arafat Akinlabi, Nathan Bamberger, Molly Burness, Peter Downie, Sam Keyes, Devin Oliver, Kyle Olson, Nikhil Pandey, Kit Pavlekovsky: Melting Hydrates and Melting Permafrost: Is Methane from the Arctic a Climate Time Bomb?
Shant Douzdjian, Eleanor Munger, Rebecca Velazquez, Ahna Weeks, Joe Willenborg, Wanqi Yu: How do Proteins Fold?
Katie Blise, Tamara Damjanac, Eliza Green, Isabel Han, Christian Hansen, Connor Hodges, Aurora Janes, Laramie Jensen, Fa Ngamnithiporn, Christian Olivares, Alex Polk, Kiera Wilhelm, Molly Wootten: Picking Up Good Vibes: Following Structural Dynamics of Fibril Aggregation with Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy
Billy Moua, Eli Danson, Jake Hassing, Libby McKenna, Michael Kane, Vayu Maini Rekdal, Xiaodi Wang: Synthesis of Nature’s Weaponry: Accomplishing Complexity from Simplicity
2013-2014
Chemistry Faculty, Academic Civic Engagement and Career Center Staff, Carleton College: You Decided to Major in Chemistry – Now What? Volunteer Opportunities and Career/Grad School Information
Champak Chatterjee, University of Washington, Seattle: Chemical Strategies to Study Post-translational Modifications of Human Histones
Carolyn Ocampo (’02), Keven Tell (’09), Andy Wild (’04), Panelists; Eric McDonald, Moderator: K-12 Science Teachers Panel
Elon Ison, North Carolina State University: Synthesis of Well-Defined Copper N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes and Their Use as Catalysts for a “Click Reaction”: A Multistep Experiment That Emphasizes the Role of Catalysis in Green Chemistry
Dwight Stoll, Gustavus Adolphus College: Making Two-Dimensional Liquid Chromatography Real – Theoretical Inspiration, Fundamental Studies, and Solutions to Practical Problems
Jennifer Schomaker, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Silver-Catalyzed Chemoselective Amination and Applications to the Synthesis of Bioactive Amines through Allene Aziridination
Renee Frontiera (’04), University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: Following Chemical Reactions at the Ultimate Limits of Space and Time
Louisa Bradtmiller, Macalester College: Not Your Grandmother’s Earrings: What Opal Tells Us About the Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
Joel Collier, University of Chicago: Self-Assembled Peptide and Protein Immunomodulators
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Pat Holland, Yale University: The Global Nitrogen Cycle and Nitrogen Fixation by Iron Complexes
Felix K. Amankona-Diawuo (’08), Northwestern University: Design of Laser-driven Molecular Rotors for Molecular Electronics
Matt Bush (’03), University of Washington, Seattle: Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry of Protein Complexes
P. Ryan Steed, Vanderbilt University: Toward the Mechanism of an Ion-coupled Multidrug Efflux Pump
Neil Garg, University of California, Los Angeles: Complex Molecule Synthesis as a Fuel for Discovery
Debra Rolison, U. S. Naval Research Laboratory: Rewiring Electrochemical Energy Storage on the Macroscale via Architecture on the Nanoscale
Scott Mabury, University of Toronto: Origin and Fate of Polyfluorinated Chemicals in the Environment; The James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
John Gerlt, University of Illinois: E Unum Pluribus: From One Enzyme to 50M Proteins; The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Carol Hall, North Carolina State University: A Computational Study of the Thermodynamic and Kinetic Origins of Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases
Senior Comps Talks:
Elijah Christensen, Tyler Cragg, Jenny Forster, Sophie Greene, and Alex Kosanovich: The Power of Aerogels: Bridging the Battery-Capacitor Divide for the Next Generation of Energy Storage Materials
Julia Bakker-Arkema, Molly Bostrom, Julia Greenwald, Kevin Johnson, Conor Lynch, Lucas Morrill, Brandon Taitt, and Ray Yong: We’re so F’d: Poly- and Per-Fluorinated Alkyl Substances in the Environment
Aaron Buckley, John Cho, Scott Erickson, Kate Richards, Alissa Severson, Emma Southgate, Ben Truax, and Reid Whitaker: From FucD to Function: Development of Methodology for Enzyme Function Determination
2012-2013
Carleton Chemistry Faculty and Academic Civic Engagement Staff: You Decided to Major in Chemistry – Now What? Volunteer Opportunities and Career/Grad School Information
Sibrina Collins, College of Wooster: Designing Azaindole Ligands for the Development of Anti-Tumor Transition Metal Complexes
Terry Acree, Cornell University: Flavor Chemistry and Perception
Nancy Levinger, Colorado State University: Impact of a nanoscopic environment on the nature of water
Oleg Ozerov, Texas A&M University: Reaction Discovery With Pincer Complexes
Dipa Kalyani, St. Olaf College: Transition Metal Catalyzed Synthesis of Biaryl Compounds
Olga Selifonova and Sergey Selifonov, Founders of Reluceo, Inc. and XLTerra, Inc.: Polymers for the 21st century: New planet and human friendly materials with exceptional performance
Jeff Peake (’81), Shepherd Color Company: The Chemistry of Complex Inorganic Colored Pigments
Valerie Pierre, University of Minnesota: Imaging Metal-Induced Oxidative Stress – Lanthanides to the Rescue
Jerry Mohrig, Emeritus Professor, Carleton College: Insights on the Stereochemistry of Proton Transfer Reactions or Twenty-Five Years of Undergraduate Research
Timothy Jamison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Continuous Flow Multi-Step Synthesis
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Thomas Epps, University of Delaware: Using Block Copolymers to Create Conducting Nanomaterials
Michael Summers, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Insights into the Mechanism of HIV-1 Genome Packaging and Assembly
Matt Ginder-Vogel (’00), University of Wisconsin, Madison: Influences on Environmental Arsenic and Uranium Mobility: Oxidation by Transition Metal (Hydr)oxides
Loren Williams, Georgia Institute of Technology: Historical Biochemistry
Eric Anslyn, University of Texas, Austin: Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry
Robert Grubbs, California Institute of Technology: Green Chemistry and Catalysis; The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Robert Grubbs, California Institute of Technology: Olefin Metathesis Catalysts for the Preparation of Molecules and Materials
Graham Fleming, University of California, Berkeley: Lessons from Nature on Solar Light Harvesting; The James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
Senior Comps Talks:
Elaine Downie, Bee Lee, Brady Still, Adrienne Werth, Alex Lai, David Hanna, Ted Harmon, Brittney Mikell: From RNA to Loren Williams and Beyond: An RNA perspective of cations involvement in the evolution of life
Erik Klontz, Will Gagne-Maynard, Kim Bauer, Katie Ratliff, Ken Miyamoto, Jack Mullaney, Tyler Bechtel, Sharyl Rich: Ansyln’s Analytes and Assays
Joe Boerma, Mia Borden, Anna Brezny, Dan DeRosha, Christian Padilla, Nick Wright: One Word: Polymers. The development of ruthenium-based catalysts for ring opening metathesis polymerization
Milan Cvitkovic, Chris D’Amato, Emily Fairfax, Galen Gorski, Austin Jiang, Erin McDuffie, Freddy Wieffering: Probing the Workings of the Primary Light Event in Photosynthesis using Ultrafast Laser
Michael McClellan: Taking Chiral Cobalt out of the Mesozoic Era: Improved Co(diNOsar) Synthesis and Analysis in an Undergraduate Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory
Megan Narvey: Raising the Hunley: Corrosion Processes and Conservation Strategies for Metals in Historic Shipwrecks
2011-2012
Nicholas Reiter (’99), Northwestern University: Structure of the Ribonuclease P enzyme with transfer RNA (tRNA): A molecular fossil revealed!
Christopher Murray, University of Pennsylvania: Nanocrystal assembly: Multi-component superlattices and nanocrystal based devices
Carleton Chemistry Faculty and Academic Civic Engagement Staff: You Decided to Major in Chemistry – Now What? Volunteer Opportunities and Career/Grad School Information
Christopher Douglas, University of Minnesota: Building molecular complexity through catalytic processes involving carbon-carbon and carbon-oxygen bond activation
Carleton Science/Math Majors: Annual All-Science and Math Poster Session
Louise Charkoudian, Stanford University: Cracking the Polyketide Code: How Nature Controls the Synthesis of Structurally Complex Molecules
Christine Phillips-Piro, University of California, Berkeley: Bacterial Sensing of Nickel: A Molecular View
Emily Mundorff, Vassar College: Explorations in Substrate Space
Christina Vizcarra, University of California, Los Angeles: Functional studies of the actin regulators Cappuccino and Spire
Rebecca Taurog, The Scripps Research Institute: Multiscale Structural Studies of Viruses
Christopher Calderone, Macalester College: The Molecules of Iron Acquisition: It’s Hard Out Here for a Pathogen
Mark Deeg, Eli Lilly & Co.: The Chemistry of Diabetic Complications
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota: Einstein’s most revolutionary work: The young turk’s contributions to early quantum theory
Loren Williams, Georgia Institute of Technology: RNA: Still Folding after all these Years
Nicholas Ball, California Institute of Technology: Synthesizing Organofluorines: Harnessing the Power of Pd(IV)
Keith Kuwata, Macalester College: Computational Studies of Chemically Activated Species in the Troposphere
Christopher Larson (’89), Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America: Mitigating Cardiometabolic and Inflammatory Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases
Yolanda Vasquez, Harvard University: Two Short Stories in Nanomaterials: Synthesis and Bio-inspired Applications
Adrian Roitberg, University of Florida: Sometimes a pKa is not a pKa. Protein Simulations at constant pH.
Paul Chirik, Princeton University: Modern Alchemy: The Chemistry of Base Metal Catalysis
Antoine van Oijen, Groningen University: Under the hood: Single-molecule studies of DNA replication; The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Cathy Murray, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Surface Bioengineering of Gold Nanorods; The James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
Sarah Trimpin, Wayne State University: New Methods for Ionization in Mass Spectrometry and Applications
Amy Palmer, University of Colorado, Boulder: Fluorescent tools for live cell imaging: What can we monitor and what can we learn?
Lesley-Ann Giddings, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute: Alkaloid Biosynthesis in Madagascar Periwinkle
Senior Comps Talks:
Ryan Cammarota, Katie Deeg, Peter Dunn, Jon Raberg, Sean Roberts, Karen Robinson, Erika Warrick: Heavy Metal Sandwiches: Rocking Out at Room Temperature to Dinitrogen Functionalization
Cody Finke, Katie France, Brian Kempers, Ernesto Llano, Kenneth Lum, Eric Olson, Melody Zhou: DNA, I hear you’re single: How single-molecular techniques elucidate DNA replication
Owen Demke, Chelsea Modlin, James Morrissey, Puja Patel, Alison Smyth, Diane Walters, Alfred Yeung: Exploding Bacteria using Gold Nanorods
2010-2011
Academic Civic Engagement Staff; Brent Nystrom, Career Center; Chemistry Faculty: Volunteer and Career Exploration and Information Session
Ned Bowden, University of Iowa: Behave! How to Separate Unruly Catalysts and Reagents in One Pot Using Materials Chemistry
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science and Math Poster Session
Malika Jeffries-EL, Iowa State University: Design and Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers for Advanced Applications
Philippe Buhlmann, University of Minnesota: Polymeric Fluorous Phases: From the Ultimate Limits of Low Polarity to Biocompatibility
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Silvia Cavagnero, University of Wisconsin, Madison: How Do Proteins Acquire a 3D Structure in the Cell? An Interdisciplinary Journey across Organic, Physical and Biological
Matthew Whited, University of Southern California/Carleton College: Excitation Management in Solar Dyes Using Singlets and Triplets
Daniela Kohen, Carleton College: Can a computational chemist help curb carbon dioxide emissions? (or Atomistic simulations of carbon dioxide in zeolites)
Amy Palmer, University of Colorado, Boulder: Development of fluorescent sensors to monitor metal ions in living cells
Marion Cass, Carleton College: Mechanisms that Interconvert Enantiomers in Chiral Metal Tris Chelate Molecules
Richard Caprioli, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine: Imaging Mass Spectrometry: Providing New Insights to Biology and Medicine
Isiah Warner, Louisiana State University: NanoGUMBOS: A New Breed of Nanomaterials
Jess Adkins, California Institute of Technology: Journey to the Bottom of the Sea: How Deep-Sea Corals Calcify and Why We Care; James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
William Jones, University of Rochester: Strong C-H and C-C Bond Cleavage Reactions Using Homogeneous Transition Metal Complexes; James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
Jeanne Pemberton, University of Arizona: Rhamnolipid Biosurfactants from Nature’s Bacterial Microsynthetic Factories; Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Kirk Williams, University of Alabama, Birmingham: Approaches to Understanding Obesity: Computational Chemistry and Molecular Dynamics
Barbara Imperiali, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Chemical Tools for the Study of Complex Biological Systems; Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Aaron Massari, University of Minnesota: Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Organic Electronic Interfaces
Cora MacBeth, Emory University: Bioinspired Ligand Systems for Transition Metal Mediated Small-molecule Binding and Activation
Senior Comps Talks:
Ben Cotts, Ken Ellis-Guardiola, Anna Gallagher, Nolly Gibbs, Eric Manley, Alexandra Schefter, Kaz Skubi: Transition Metal-Catalyzed C-H and C-C Activation: How Hydrocarbons Go Boom, Gracefully
Sam Althauser, Grace Cooper, Dan Cremons, Sophie Hines, Andrew Hooker, Duncan Olsen, Samantha Thompson, Celine Yeh: The Role of Past Ocean Processes in Abrupt Climate Change: Secrets Held by Deep-Sea Corals and Sediments
Ryan Babbush, Grant Bowen, Kevin Cannaday, Martin Granick, James McMenimen: Surface Characterization by Raman Spectroscopy
Michael Bonin, Chris Choo, Caitlin Dole, Sara Doyle, Sarah Duane, Jeremy Grevet, Liz Hecht: A Sweet Biomarker: Asparagine-Linked Glycosylation
John Davis: Solar Hydrogen from Nanostructured Titanium Dioxide
2009-2010
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Graduate School Information Session
Tamara Hendrickson, Wayne State University: Indirect Biosynthesis of Gln-tRNA(Gln) in the Human Pathogen Helicobacter Pylori
David Alberg and Gretchen Hofmeister, Carleton College: Metal-less Methodology: Making Carbon-Carbon Bonds Using Purely Organic Reaction Components
J. Christopher Thomas, 3M Company: (Phosphino)borates and transition metals: Electronic effects resulting from a zwitterionic ligand framework
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science and Math Poster Session
Daron Janzen, St. Catherine University: Electronic, Steric, and Anion Control of Solid-State Luminescence in Cyclometallated Platinum(II) Complexes
Jesse Edwards, Florida A&M University: Molecular Dynamic Simulations of a HIV Polypeptide Protease Inhibitor and the HIV I Protease Subtypes B vs. C
Matthew Whited, University of Southern California: A Multiple C–H Activation Approach to Iridium-Catalyzed Oxidations
Laura Kaufman, Columbia University: Design and Characterization of Collagen Gels for Cell Migration Studies
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Daniel Kim-Shapiro (Physics ’84), Wake Forest University: Nitric Oxide Bioavailability in Health, Disease and Therapeutics
T. Andrew Mobley (’91), Grinnell College: Synthesis, Structural and Reactivity Studies of Organotungstenstannyl Complexes
Eric Guttag (’74), IP Law Office: Chemistry and Law: A Combustible Career Combination
Carla Mattos, North Carolina State University: Allosteric Modulation of Ras: A Direct Role for Glutamine 61 in Catalysis
Justin Gallivan, Emory University: Reprogramming Bacteria with Small Molecules and RNA
Christopher Cramer, University of Minnesota: Dioxygen Activation at Mono- and Binuclear Copper Enzyme Site Models
Neena Grover, Colorado College: Thermodynamic Analysis of Small RNA Motifs
Benjamin Cravatt, The Scripps Research Institute: Activity-based proteomics – Applications for enzyme and inhibitor discovery
Kenneth Raymond, University of California, Berkeley: Metal-Ligand Supermolecular Clusters as Nanoscale Flasks; The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Geri Richmond, University of Oregon: At the Water’s Edge; The James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
F. Dean Toste, University of California, Berkeley: Hypothesis Driven Reaction Discovery; The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Karen Goldberg, University of Washington, Seattle: Catalysis for Today’s Fuels and Chemicals: “Green” Solutions
Senior Comps Talks:
Adrian Chow, Tina Cich, Ross Hamilton, Emily Kobernik, Jingjing Ling, Christopher Staral: Activity-Based Protein Profiling: Fishing in the Sea of Proteins
Grant Buckingham, Greta Kringle, Michael Lysonski, Sicelo Masango, Kevin Pollock, Bryan Rosett, Leng Sok, Mia Zutz: Probing the Interface Using Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy
Chris Clark, Henry Heitzer, Lindsey Madison, Colin Russell, Laura Sofen: Molecular Catch and Release: Metal-Ligand Coordination Chemistry
Claire Brookmeyer, Sam Cross-Knorr, Adam Fagin, Alfredo Guzman, Musetta Steinbach, Lisa Wang: The Midas Touch: Au(I) Catalysts in Organic Synthesis
2008-2009
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Graduate School Information Session
Douglas Beussman, St. Olaf College: Proteomics and Date-Rape Drugs: Mass Spectrometry Research at St. Olaf College
Claudio Margulis, University of Iowa: Room Temperature Ionic Liquids, a New Solvation Paradigm
Steven Drew, Carleton College: A Platinum(II) Extended Linear Chain Material That Selectively Uptakes Benzene
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science and Math Poster Session
John Enemark, University of Arizona: Changing SOX in a Flash: Chemistry of a Vital Molybdenum Enzyme (Joint St. Olaf/Carleton Seminar)
Gary Nicholas (’94), Bell’s Brewery: Tales from Industry: Managing the Eccentricities of Fermentation
Keith Woo, Iowa State University: Use of DNA for the Development of Homogeneous Catalysts
Christine Morales (’98), Iona College: Modeling the Infrared Spectrum of a Nanoconfined Liquid
Mark Ratner, Northwestern University: Transport in Molecular Junctions: Thoughts Coherent and Incoherent
Laura Iraci, NASA Ames Research Center: Particles in the Earth’s Atmosphere: Chemistry, Photochemistry, and Climate Implications
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Penny Beuning, Northeastern University: Regulation of DNA Damage Responses by a DNA Polymerase Manager Protein
Nate Lewis, California Institute of Technology: Sunlight-Driven Hydrogen Formation by Membrane-Supported Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting;The James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
Christopher Loss, The Culinary Institute of America: Culinary Chemistry: An Entrée to the Sciences at The Culinary Institute of America
David Tirrell, California Institute of Technology: Reinterpreting the Genetic Code: Non-Canonical Amino Acids in Protein Design, Evolution and Analysis;The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Tom McMurry, Ascent Pharmaceuticals: Pepducin Technology: A New Paradigm for Modulating G Protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR) Activity
Garry Crosson, University of Dayton: A Solid-State NMR Study of Zeolite Formation in Hyperalkaline Aluminosilicate Suspensions
James Patterson (’97), University of Alabama, Birmingham: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Alpha-Synuclein with Detergents and Small Unilamellar Vesicles
Daniel J. Cziczo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Which Aerosol Particles End Up Inside Clouds?
Senior Comps Talks:
Emily Ruff: The Dynamics of Electron Tunneling in Electron Transfer Proteins: Determination of a Decay Constant
Nick Brom, Michael Henneberry, Fred Kieley, Dan Mammel, Seiya Medrano, Andrew Olson, Bobby Schmitz, David Selassie: Interfacial Electron Transfer at Semiconductor-Liquid Junctions: Implications for Powering the Planet
Jennifer Bigelow, Joe Brown, Mia Brown, Jamie Chen, Robert Kennedy, Jennie Miller, Fumiko Yashiro: Dy(e)ing to Save the Planet: Exploring Dye-Sensitized Nanocrystalline TiO2 Solar Cells
Eamon Flynn, Sarah Kunelius, Kristine Mackin, Keven Tell, Sarah Toews, Xia Xiong: The Maillard Reaction or How I learned to stop worrying about acrylamide and love the flavor
Claire Buckler, John Hanks, Claire Liepmann, Jonathan McMurry, Cassandra Olson, Katherine Stanchak, Jia-Shyuan Su, Yirong Zhu: The Work of David Tirrell
2007-2008
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Seminars Kick-Off/Careers Discussion
Rebecca Jockusch, University of Toronto: Intrinsic Conformations of Biomolecules Probed by Mass Spectrometry, Optical Spectroscopy and Computations
Neil Sbar, SAGE Electrochromics, Inc.: Electrochromic Smart Window Technology
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science and Math Poster Session
Robert Coates, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Stereochemistry and Mechanism of Terpene Synthase Cyclizations
Jimmy Blair (’02), Carleton College and University of California, Berkeley: Harnessing the Power of Chemical Genetics: Rationally-designed Affinity Probes for Tyrosine Kinases Report EGFR Inhibition in Cells
David Reingold, Juniata College: Aromatic Systems with Gaps and Holes
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Nancy Mills, Trinity University: Understanding Aromaticity Through Antiaromaticity: How a Failed Research Project Turned Golden
Kathryn Splan, Macalester College: Bivalent Peptide Antagonists of Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins (IAPs)
Scott Larsen, Cephalon, Inc.: Research Chemistry Beyond the Bench: A Practical Guide to Inventorship and U.S. Patent Law
Lisa Berreau, Utah State University: Dioxygen Reactivity of Ni(II) Enolate and Enediolate Complexes
Geoff Coates, Cornell University: Development of New Catalytic Routes to Benign Polymeric Materials
Jennifer Al-Rashid, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Synthesis and Cycloadditions of Chiral Allenamides
Jeffrey Carney, University of Notre Dame: Intramolecular Hydroamination of Aminoalkynes with Silver-Phenanthroline Catalysts
Peter Gittins, St. Mary’s University: Branching in New Directions: An Introduction to Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers
Launa Lynch, Grinnell College: Isoflavones and Their Novel Analogues: Effects on EGFR Mediated Signaling Pathway in Glioblastoma Multiforme Cells
Clark Landis, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Construction, Application, and Mechanism of Enantioselective Hydroformylation Catalysts Based on 3,4-Diazaphospholanes
John Hartwig, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Organometallic Chemistry of Carbon Heteroatom Bond Formation
Steven Boxer, Stanford University: Re-engineering Photosynthetic Reaction Centers; The James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
Kristopher McNeill, University of Minnesota: Natural Photochemical Nanoreactors in Aquatic Systems
Rachel Green, Johns Hopkins University: Quality Control on the Ribosome Following Peptide Bond Formation
Jerry Mohrig, Carleton College: Achieving More Effective Learning in Undergraduate Laboratories; 2008 Brasted Award Seminar
Senior Comps Talks:
Felix Amankona-Diawuo, Matt Cich, Maraia Ener, Bill Mitchell, Eric Nordland: Hey guys, guess what! I just saved a bunch of money on asymmetric hydrogenation research by switching to computational methods!
Adam Goetz, Carrie Hurd, Sam Lemonick, Laura Marinelli, Ryan Martinez, Yui Takeshita, Kit Zall: Doctor John Hartwig/Optimizing catalysts/For the greater good
Julie Brown, Nick Brown, Hanna Dijkstal, Michael Duyzend, Beth Friedman, Matt Haffner, Olivia Jee, Hana Podhoretz, Eunice Sapp: Investigating Electron and Energy Transfer in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers
2006-2007
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Seminars Kick-Off/Careers Discussion
Martin Zanni, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Femtosecond 2D IR Spectroscopy – A New Technique for Studying Structures and Dynamics
Colin Nuckolls, Columbia University: Reaction Chemistry Meets Lithography
Carleton Science Majors: Sigma Xi All-Science Poster Session
Kara Bren (’91), University of Rochester: Impact of Dynamics on Heme Protein Redox Properties
Kevin Freeman-Cook (’94), Pfizer Pharmaceutical: Organic Chemistry at Pfizer: New Compounds as Treatments for Arthritis, Oncology, and Bacterial Infections
Deborah Gross, Carleton College: MS-CHAOS, Alpine Valleys, and Biofuels: Single Particle Measurements in Switzerland and Minneapolis
David Sholl, Carnegie Mellon University: Using Atomically-Detailed Models to Accelerate Materials Discovery for Hydrogen Purification and Storage
Elaine Marzluff, Grinnell College: Structure Determination of Biological Molecules in the Gas Phase
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Facundo Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology: Vacuum is not the Limit: Ions in Open Air Reveal the Composition of Counterfeit Drugs
Hal Van Ryswyk (’82), Harvey Mudd College: From Molecular Alligator Clips to Molecular Wires: Electron Transfer To, Through, and Within Metalloporphyrins
Sheila David, University of California, Davis: Dare to Repair: From Chemistry to Cancer
Michael Burand, University of Minnesota: Synthesis and Characterization of Oligothiophene-Based Compounds for use as Semiconducting Materials in Thin-Film Transistors
Stacey Stoffregen, Iowa State University: Sequence-Selective Cleavage of Peptide Bonds with Palladium(II) and Platinum(II) Complexes
Kelly Knutsen (’99), National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Towards Solving the World’s Energy Crisis: Ultrafast Charge Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Third Generation Solar Cells
Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley: Methods and Strategies Inspired by Seven-Membered Ring Containing Natural Products
Ronald Breaker, Yale University: Chemical Sensing and Gene Control by Riboswitches
R. Graham Cooks, Purdue University: Trace Organic Analysis: A Chemical Grail
Kevan Shokat, University of California, San Francisco: Chemical Genetic Analysis of Kinase Signaling in Normal and Disease Physiology
Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology: The Currents of Life: Electron Flow Through Metalloproteins
Terry Sheppard, Chief Editor, Nature Chemical Biology: Scientific Publishing as a Process and a Career
Jeffrey Roberts, University of Minnesota: Surface Functionalization and Passivation of Aerosolized Silicon Nanoparticles
Senior Comps Talks:
Erin Addison, Thayne Dickey, Danielle Hargreaves, Admire Kuchena, Christopher Ward (chemistry) and Yi An, Ron Hause, Jennifer See, Lauren Wagner (biology): Riboswitches
John Choiniere, David DeCresce, Ian Hill, and Rosie Molden: Dr. Quadrupole; or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Trap The Ion
Stephanie Vasko: “Less is More!”: The Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Dots: From First Principles to Current Applications
Jon Dozier, Jake Houghton, Ali Khaki, Claire Langton-Yanowitz, Yong Won Lee, Shayna Simmons, Will Van Story, Maya Warren, Peter Watson: Inside Shokat’s World: Exposing Signal Transduction Cascades
Caitlin Bowersox, Amy Gauger, Wade Johnson, Paul Klick, Matt Topeff, Ellen Valkevich: E.T. II: The Quantum Sequel
2005-2006
Stacey Bent, Stanford University: Bringing Organic Chemistry to the Surface
Jane Owens, Carleton College: Computational Studies of the Photodynamics of Retinal
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Careers Discussion
Ann McDermott, Columbia University: Enzyme Motions: TIM and P450
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science Poster Session
Shana Kelley, Boston College: Ultrasensitive Biomolecular Detection at DNA-Modified Nanostructures
Eric Person (’95), California State University: The Chemist’s Role in Clandestine Laboratory Investigation
Elizabeth Edblom (’83), 3M: Materials Research at 3M
Marion Cass, Carleton College: Examination and Animation of Fluxional Processes that Interchange Axial and Equatorial Atoms in Simple AXn Molecules
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Ron Kim (’86), Merck and Company: Glucagon Receptor Antagonists for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
Erik Sorensen, Princeton University: Reactivity and Applications of a New Diene for Organic Synthesis
Melissa Hines, Cornell University: In Search of Perfection: Controlling Surfaces with Chemistry
Dan Frisbie (’89), University of Minnesota: Organic Thin Film Electronics: A Materials Science Perspective
William Daub, Harvey Mudd College: Transition State Topologies in Claisen Rearrangements Involving Cyclic Substrates
Tobin Marks, Northwestern University: Self-Assembly Chemistry for Molecule-Based Organic and Organometallic Electronics
John Bercaw, California Institute of Technology: Alpha-Olefin Polymerizations with Metallocene Catalysts: Kinetics, Mechanisms, and Kinetic Resolutions
Carolyn Bertozzi, University of California, Berkeley: Chemistry in Living Systems: New Tools for Probing the Glycome
Karin Musier-Forsyth, University of Minnesota: Nucleic Acid Chaperone Activity of HIV Nucleocapsid Protein
David Oxtoby, Pomona College: From Greenhouse Warming to the Formation of Living Cells: A New Approach to Nucleation
Senior Comps Talks:
Jason Acosta, Tommy Adams, Stephen Chapman, Mandy Chu, Whitney Kruse, Dorissa Lahner, Allison Smith, Melanie Yuen: The Research of Tobin Marks in the Area of Organic Electronics
Caitlyn Cornell, John Grotting, Aaron Lackner, Anna Larson, Alex Marston, Sarah Russell, Andrew Ullman, Nick Wiebelhaus, Andrew Young: Metallocene Catalyzed Polymerization
Andrew Berry, Disan Davis, Greg Ducker, Mark Ericson, Emily Johnson, Andy Nieuwkoop, Margaret Pain, Jack Rousseau, Kartik Sampath, Aki Uchida, Kate Waller: The Research of Carolyn Bertozzi in the Area of Chemical Biology
2004-2005
Franz M. Geiger, Northwestern University: Tracking Environmentally Important Processes at Surfaces: From Geochemistry to Atmospheric Chemistry
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Careers Discussion
David Alberg, Carleton College: Synthesis and Evaluation of Trypanothione Reductase Inhibitors
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science Poster Session
Mary Shepard Gin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Molecular Channels and Gates
Sigma Xi Panel – Joe Chihade (Chemistry), Nelson Christensen (Physics & Astronomy), Deanna Haunsperger (Mathematics & CS), Mark McKone (Biology), Mija Van Der Wege (Psychology): How We Got Where We Are: Carleton Science Faculty Discuss Their Careers
Jeff Schwinefus, St. Olaf College: Thermal Stability of the DNA Helix in Cosolvent Solutions: The Roles of Hydration and Cosolvent Binding
Jim Maher, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine: Transcription Factor Inhibition by RNA Decoys
Molly McGuire (’96), Bucknell University: Environmentally Relevant Redox Reactions at Iron-Bearing Mineral Surfaces
Angela Dickens (’97), Carleton College: Sources, Cycling and Preservation of Black Carbon in Marine Sediments from the Washington Margin
David C. Muddiman, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine: Clinical Proteomics: Making an Impact Through the Chemistry Porthole and Building Diverse Research Teams
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Bruce Ault, University of Cincinnati: Matrix Isolation Spectroscopic Studies of Reaction Intermediates: Reactions of High-Valent Transition Metal Oxo Compounds
Kevin Range, University of Minnesota: You Cannot Win, You Cannot Break Even, and You Cannot Leave the Game: An Introduction to the Laws of Thermodynamics
John Tully, Yale University: Chemical Dynamics at Surfaces
Jane Owens, Wabash College: Light and Matter – Wave/Particle Duality
Sylvia Ceyer, MIT: New Surface Reaction Mechanisms: Role of Bulk H in Catalytic Hydrogenation and F Atom Abstraction by Si
François Morel, Princeton University: Trace Metals and Ocean Productivity
Gregory Verdine, Harvard University: Enzymatic Recognition and Removal of Damaged Bases in DNA
John Battiste (’90), 3M Pharmaceuticals: Optimization of the Sensitivity of 2D NMR Experiments for Structure Elucidation of Impurities/Degradants in Pharmaceuticals
Laurie J. Butler, University of Chicago: Probing Radical Intermediates of Bimolecular Reactions; The 2005 James D. Morrison Lecture
Marc Snapper, Boston College: Cyclobutadiene as a Reagent: Using Molecular Strain to Access Complexity; The 2005 Lecture on Organic Synthesis, Sponsored by Organic Synthesis, Inc.
Senior Comps Talks:
Charlie Weiss: The Nonlinear Effect in Asymmetric Catalysis: Asymmetric Amplification and Mechanistic Probe
Andy Ault and Janel Uejio: Bulk Hydrogen: It’s Not Just a Wal-Mart Special
Meredith Cable, Eric Hamp, David Jackson, Micah Johnson, Adam Sunderland: Our Underwater Allies: How Ocean Phytoplankton Regulate Global Climate
Dave Farina, Margie Mattmann, Greg Poduska, Andy Ryan, Aistis Tumas: hOgg1: DNA’s Knight in Shining Armor
Kate Sammons: Pharmacognosy and the Effect of Developmental Stage on the Chemical Composition of Saussurea laniceps and medusa
Vickie Gunderson: Searching for the Ideal Molecular Wire: An Investigation of Electron Transfer Processes in Photoinduced and Self-Assemblied Monolayer Research
Katie Freeman: Hey Kids, Don’t Do Drugs: A Study of Methylphenidate As A Potential Therapeutic Agent for Cocaine Abuse
2003-2004
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Welcome Reception for Majors
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: What to do After Carleton
Greg Muth, St. Olaf College: The Puzzling Properties of Peptidyl Transferase
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science Poster Session
Paul Fischer, Macalester College: A Quest to Synthesize Intramolecular Amine-Stabilized Transition-Metal Boryl Complexes: The Adventure Begins
Camilla Lieske, Vet Toxicology Resident; Susan Roosenraad, Northfield High School Math Teacher; Steve Openshaw, Principal Scientist, Syngenta; Karissa Baker, Upper School Science Teacher; Brian Klawiter, Archeologist, Superior National Forest; Dave Watts, President and CEO, ACuTE, Inc.: Wondering What to do With Your Life?
Edward Grabowski, Merck Research Laboratories: The Design and Development of Practical Syntheses: A Potpourri of Process Research Problems
R. Lee Penn, University of Minnesota: Nanocrystal Growth by Oriented Aggregation
Brian Steer, Diversa Corporation: An Evolutionary Route to Xylanase Process Fitness
Omar Yaghi, University of Michigan: Design and Synthesis of Crystals Full of Nothing
Peter McMurry, University of Minnesota: Observations of New Particle Formation and Growth Rates in the Atmosphere
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Helen Blackwell, University of Wisconsin, Madison: New Applications for Microwave-Assisted Organic Synthesis
James Skinner, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Ultrafast Vibrational Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics of Liquid Water
Benjamin Cravatt, The Scripps Research Institute: Activity-Based Protein Profiling: Chemical Approaches for Functional Proteomics; The 2004 Lecture on Organic Synthesis, Sponsored by Organic Synthesis, Inc.
Paul Cremer, Texas A & M University: Biomembranes on a Chip
Dennis Jacobs, University of Notre Dame: Dynamics of Ion/Surface Reactions in a Low-Earth Orbit Spacecraft Environment
Kate Queeney, Smith College: A Tale of Two (three, if you count hydrogen) Elements
Mike Baca, Sunny Choh, Linnea Engel, Earnie Kim, Nick Penner, Britta Veitenheimer, Carleton Chemistry Majors: Do Looks Matter? An Exploration of the Structural Similarities of AATase and ACC Synthase and the Diverse Fates of their Natural Substrates
Matt Simcik, University of Minnesota: Analysis of Perflurochemicals and Implications for Environmental Chemistry
Jack Kirsch, University of California, Berkeley: Pyridoxal Phosphate Enzymology – From Mechanism to Directed Evolution
Sally Charles, Margaret Lo, Martha Montgomery, Ben Petersen, Kristen Randall, Lexie Schmitt, Matt Sheldon, Jonathan Takahashi, Carleton Chemistry Majors: Making the Switch: Electronics on the Molecular Scale
Nick Boekelheide, Louisa Carr, Eric Feise, Renee Frontiera, Aaron Leconte, Travis Ruthenburg, Carleton Chemistry Majors: Getting Excited by Lasers: Vibrationally Mediated Chemistry
James Heath, California Institute of Technology: Nanosystems Biology; The James D. Morrison Seminar
Seth Cohen, University of California, San Diego: A Model-Based Approach to Metalloprotein Inhibitor Design
Sandra Rodriguez-Cruz, Southwest Laboratory of the Drug Enforcement Administration: A Day in the Life of a Forensic Chemist
F. Fleming Crim, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Using Lasers to Explore and Control Chemical Reactions
Charles Carlin, Carleton College: A Carleton Chemist at Scotland Yard
2002-2003
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Welcome Reception and Careers Seminar
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science/Math Poster Session
Martin Gruebele, University of Illinois, Urbana: Slow Energy Flow and Fast Folding: The Complex Dynamics of Molecules Small and Large
Lara Weinstein Szewczak, Yale University: Atoms matter! Nucleotide analogs reveal RNA-pro