Faculty Seminar Speakers
Our most valuable resource in the Department of Chemistry are the students that are actively engaged in research. The UB Department of Chemistry Faculty would be pleased to visit your campus and to present some of our research to you, your colleagues and your students. These seminars are part of our continuing outreach program to keep in close contact with the faculty at nearby institutions and of our efforts to identify and attract the highest quality graduate students to UB. We shall, of course, cover all travel-related expenses. The list below comprises seminar topics available as of today. These are linked to recent journal articles published by the faculty related to the seminar topic. If you would like to arrange a visit by one of our faculty, please contact them by e-mail or telephone or contact the Chair of the Recruiting Committee, Michael Detty, at mdetty@buffalo.edu or 716-645-4228.
AGA, DIANA: “Fate and Transport of Emerging Contaminants and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals”
AUTSCHBACH, JOCHEN : “A Journey into Computational Chemistry: From New Tools for the Undergraduate Physical Chemistry Laboratory to Cutting Edge Science”
AUTSCHBACH, JOCHEN : “Optical Activity and Computational Chemistry: How to Distinguish between Enantiomers by using Modern Computational Tools”
BANERJEE, SARBAJIT : “Building from the ‘bottom up’: Towards Nanomaterial Components for the Next Generation of Batteries and Computer Chips”
BRIGHT, FRANK: “Quantifying Molecular-level Interactions and the Road to Environmentally Benign Chemistries”
BRIGHT, FRANK: “Tailoring Materials for Chemical Sensing”
CHEMLER, SHERRY : “New Developments in Asymmetric Catalysis and Natural Product Synthesis”
COLÓN, LUIS: “New Chromatographic Materials and Formats for LC: Monoliths, Small Particles, and Others”
DETTY, MICHAEL: “Novel Synthetic Approaches to Rhodamine Dyes and Evaluation of Dye-Biopolymer Interactions”
DETTY, MICHAEL: “Xerogel Coatings as Novel Anti-fouling and Foul-release Surfaces for Marine Immersion”
DISNEY, MATTHEW: “Progress Towards the Rational and Modular Design of Small Molecules Targeting RNA”
DIVER, STEVEN: “Olefin Metathesis by the Grubbs Ruthenium Carbenes”
GARDELLA, JOSEPH: “Chemistry Research in Tissue Engineering for Wound Healing”
GARDELLA, JOSEPH: "Public Service Learning and Environmental Chemical Analysis for Community Collaborations in Urban Air and Soil Pollution"
GONG, BING: “Biomimetic Molecular Design”
GONG, BING: “Directed Molecular Association, Folding, and Macrocyclization”
HANGAUER, DAVID: “Rational Design of Protein Kinase Inhibitors: The Birth of Kinex Pharmaceuticals”
LIN, QING: “Photoinducible Bioorthogonal Chemistry: A New Tool for Chemical Biology”
MORROW, JANET: “Inactivation of RNA through Site-specific Binding and Cleavage by Metal Complexes”
MORROW, JANET: “Smart Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging through Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer”
MURKIN, ANDREW: “Enzymatic Transition States from Kinetic Isotope Effects: Blueprints for Inhibitor Design”
RICHARD, JOHN: “Orotidine 5'-phosphate Decarboxylase: Catalyst Extraordinaire”
RICHARD, JOHN: “The Role of Flexible Protein Loops in Enzymatic Catalysis”
RICHARD, JOHN: “The Utilization Substrate Binding Energy in Catalysis by Large and Small Molecules”
RZAYEV, JAVID: “Nanostructured Materials from Multi-component Bottlebrush Copolymers”
SZYPERSKI, THOMAS : “NMR in an 'omics'-world”
WATSON, DAVID: “Photoinduced Electron Transfer Reactions at Nanostructured Inorganic Interfaces”
WOOD, TROY: “Urinary Stercobilin: A Potential Biomarker for Autistic Spectrum Disorders”
ZUREK, EVA: “Two Tales about the Third Element: (1) A Molecular Perspective on Lithium-ammonia Solutions, and (2) Metallizing Hydrogen with Lithium" (C&E News Article and NSF Press Release 09-185)
