Seminar Series
Spring 2025
All seminars are held in the Pearson Chemistry Building, 62 Talbot Ave., Rm. P-106 on the Medford Campus at 12:00 pm unless otherwise noted. For further information, please contact Megan Guldenzoph at (617) 627-2868 or by email megan.guldenzoph@tufts.edu.
Please note: Visitors are welcome to attend all seminars.
January 14, 2025
Tuesday, 4:30 pm, Pearson 106
"On the Overall situation of Poly- or Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) including Fluoropolymers"
Prof. Dr. Bruno Ameduri, Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, France
February 12, 2025
"Chemistry for Whom and for What Purpose?"
Prof. Ryan Stowe, University of Wisconsin, Madison
February 19, 2025
"Mutexa: A Physics-guided Computational Ecosystem for Intelligent Protein Engineering"
Prof. John Yang, Vanderbilt University
March 4, 2025
Tuesday, 4:30 pm, Pearson 106
"Design and Synthesis of Organic Electronic Materials"
Prof. Malika Jeffries-EL, Boston University
March 5, 2025
"Expanding the Synthetic Capabilities of Yeast"
Prof. Virginia Cornish, Columbia University
April 2, 2025
“Exploring the evolution of obesity treatments: from GLP-1 agonists to polypharmacy approaches”
Dr. Florence Brunel, Novo Nordisk
Cohosted with Biomedical Engineering
April 7, 2025
Monday, 10:45 am, SciTech, Room 136
"Intracellular Delivery of Proteome-Modulating Peptides and Proteins"
Prof. Christopher Alabi, Cornell University
April 9, 2025
"Development of a small molecule for a genetically-defined subtype of Parkinson’s disease"
Dr. Peter Lansbury, Harvard Medical School
April 16, 2025
"The Discovery of Neuromodulating Alkaloids from Millipede Defensive Secretions"
Prof. Emily Mevers, Virginia Tech
April 24, 2025
Thursday, 4:30 pm, Pearson 106
"Coloring by shape – visualizing plant cell walls using a glycan-binding dye"
Prof. Amit Basu, Brown University
April 29, 2025
Tuesday, 4:30 pm, Pearson 106
"On-Demand Control of Single-Molecule Chemistry through Vibrational Characterization and Manipulation"
Prof. Shaowei Li, University of California, San Diego