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
Dehydration of Molecular Hydrates
Friday, 2/9/2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Jennifer Swift, PhD, Professor, Chair, Georgetown University,Dehydration of Molecular Hydrates
Dee Bague, Graduate Student, Dowd Lab, GW Department of Chemistry
Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of FR900098 Analogs
Friday, 1/26/2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
The Department of Chemistry Presents: Dee Bague, Graduate Student, Dowd Lab, GW Dept of Chem,
Nathan Basisty, PhD, NIH Distinguished Scholar and Investigator at the National Institute on Aging
The Intramural Research Program and NIA Efforts to Profile and Treat Aging-Related Pathologies with Proteomic Approaches
Friday, 12/8/2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Nathan Basisty, PhD, NIH Distinguished Scholar and Investigator at the National Institute on Aging. The Intramural Research Program and NIA Efforts to Profile
Song Gao, Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Duke Kunshan University and Duke University
Friday, 12/1/2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Song Gao, Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Duke Kunshan University and Duke University
Rhys Dickhudt, Graduate Student, Boyes Lab, GW Department of Chemistry
New Methods in Chain-Growth Polycondensation for Aromatic Polyamides with Photoresponsive and Fouling-Release Behavior
Friday, 11/17/2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
The Department of Chemistry Presents: Rhys Dickhudt, Graduate Student, Boyes Lab, GW Dept of Chem, New Methods in Chain-Growth Polycondensation for Aromatic P
Annual Caress Lecture: Dr. Robert J. Gilliard, Jr, Novartis Professor of Chemistry, MIT
Uncommon Bonds in Boron Heterocycles: From Odd-Electron Molecules to Luminescent Materials
Thursday, 11/16/2023, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Caress Seminar--Robert J. Gilliard, Jr., Novartis Professor of Chemistry, MIT Uncommon Bonds in Boron Heterocycles: From Odd-Electron Molecules to Luminescent
Practical implementation of Predictive Retrosynthesis in Reaxys Chemistry Database
Irakli Samkurashvili Ph.D. Application Scientist, Life Sciences
Friday, 11/10/2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Dr. Irakli Samkurashvili will discuss the Practical implementation of Predictive Retrosynthesis in Reaxys Chemistry Database
Dr. Jenifer Shafer, Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
Nuclear Fuel Recycling and the Clean Energy Transition
Friday, 11/3/2023, 9:30am - 10:30am
Dr. Jenifer Shafer currently serves as a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Her focus at ARPA-E Nuclear fuel
Quantitative Optical Sensing of Chiral Compounds in Mixtures
Friday, 10/20/2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Professor Christian Wolf, Director of Medicinal Chemistry, Georgetown our seminar speaker
Marjan Dolatmoradi, Graduate Student, Vertes Lab, GW Department of Chemistry
High-throughput Single Cell Analysis of Plant Metabolites by Laser Ablation Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry with Ion Mobility Separation
Friday, 10/6/2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
The Department of Chemistry Presents: Marjan Dolatmoradi, Graduate Student, Vertes Lab, GW Department of Chemistry