Seminar Series
Join us for refreshments and chemistry-focused presentations on selected Fridays at 10 a.m. in the Science and Engineering Hall, Room B1220. Past seminar speakers include senior advisers from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, visiting professors from other top research universities and GW’s own chemistry graduate students discussing their current projects.
Upcoming Seminars
Past Events
Lara Skibbie, Graduate Student, Dowd Lab, GW Department of Chemistry
Novel PPCS inhibitors to prevent CoA biosynthesis in drug resistant pathogens
Friday, 3/21/2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Lara Skibbie, Graduate Student, Dowd Lab
Haorong Li, Graduate Student, Hao Lab, GW Department of Chemistry
Developing Mass Spectrometry-based Omics and Proximity Labeling Methods to Unravel Mitochondrial Biology
Friday, 3/7/2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Haorong Li, Graduate Student, Hao Lab
Rachel Schaffer, PhD, US Environmental Protection Agency
Green, Safer, and Sustainable Chemistry: Opportunities to Advance Environmental Health in the Federal Government
Friday, 2/28/2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Dr. Rachel Schaffer, PhD, EPA White House Council on Environmental Quality
Alexandra Taraboletti, PhD, Health and Environmental Sciences Institute
Connecting the Dots: A Career in the “Central Science”
Friday, 2/21/2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Alexandra Taraboletti, PhD Analytical Biochemist | Scientific Program Manager | Higher Education | Science Writer
Erik Nordquist PhD, Postdoc UMB Computational Biophysics
Computational design of PROTACs
Friday, 2/7/2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Erik Nordquist PhD, Postdoc UMB Computational Biophysics. Computational drug design and cancer biology.
Thomas Hartung, MD, PhD, Doerenkamp-Zbinden Chair Professor, JHU
ToxAIcology – AI will only replace toxicologist, who do not use it!
Friday, 1/31/2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Thomas Hartung, MD, PhD, Doerenkamp-Zbinden Chair Professor, JHU. Environmental Health and Engineering, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology.
Design and Synthesis of Organic Electronic Materials
Friday, 1/17/2025, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Caress Alumni Speaker: Malika Jeffries-EL PhD, Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston University
Nicole Conte, Graduate Student, Boyes Lab, GW Department of Chemistry
Aromatic Polyamide Polymer Brushes: Synthesis, Structure, and Functionality For Antifouling and Antimicrobial Surfaces
Friday, 12/6/2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Nicole Conte, Graduate Student, Boyes Lab, GW Dept of Chemistry,Synthesis, Structure, and Functionality For Antifouling and Antimicrobial Surfaces
Jake Yeston, PhD, Editor, AAAS
Scientific Publishing from the Inside Out
Friday, 11/15/2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Dr. Jake Yeston, Editor AAAS will pressent Scientific publishing from the inside out
Water in the Atmosphere: The Molecule that Changes Everything
Friday, 11/8/2024, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Annual Caress Lecture: Dr. Joseph S. Francisco, President's Distinguished Professor, Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania. second African America