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
Gregory Dudley, PhD, Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, West Virginia University
Chemical Synthesis as an Evolving Science and Enabling Technology
Friday, 5/9/2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Gregory Dudley, PhD, WVU Eberly Family Distinguished Professor
Danielle Gomes Rodrigues, Graduate Student, Meisel Lab, GW Department of Chemistry
Macrocycles with a Twist: Stereosequence and Synthetic Amino Acids as Conformational Determinants of Cyclic Peptides
Friday, 5/2/2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Danielle Gomes Rodrigues, Graduate Student, Meisel Lab
Friday, 4/11/2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Ritu Manickavelu, Graduate Student, Wagner Lab & Michael Scarberry, Graduate Student, Wagner Lab, Graduate Students, GW Department of Chemistry
Jedd Hillegass, PhD, DABT, Occupational Toxicologist at Bristol-Myers Squibb
The Alchemy of Safety: Transforming Toxicity into Trust
Friday, 4/4/2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Jedd Hillegass, PhD, DABT, Occupational Toxicologist at Bristol-Myers Squibb
The Winding Path towards a Career in Regulatory Affairs
Friday, 3/28/2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Brett Howard, J.D., PhD, RAC, Senior Director, US Regulatory Policy, Global External Affairs, US Pharmacopeia
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.