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Online, at 12:30 p.m. or time indicated E-mail us to be included in our mailing list and receive a seminar link.
Brooklyn College Cancer Center Seminars Assistant Professor Mariana Torrente, Brooklyn College “A Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Aberrant Histone Modification Landscape in Neurodegenerative Disease” Professor Aneta Mieszawska, Brooklyn College “Peptide-coated nanoparticles as cancer nanomedicine”
Lauren Bejcek, Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Friedman Lecture Professor Angela Casini, Technical University of Munich “Frontiers in Bioinorganic Chemistry: Knowledge of Mechanisms Drives Discoveries Towards Biomedical Applications”
Professor Jeff Gustafson, San Diego State University “Atropisomerism: A fresh spin on medicinal chemistry and an inspiration for new chemical methodologies” Host: Professor Ryan Murelli
Professor Jeff Gustafson, San Diego State University “Atropisomerism: A fresh spin on medicinal chemistry and an inspiration for new chemical methodologies.” Host: Professor Ryan Murelli
Professor Akira Kawamura, Hunter College (CUNY) “Uncovering the metabolic potential of mixed microbial cultures”
Brooklyn College Cancer Center Seminar Half-Day Symposium (Structural Biology/Neuroscience)
Brooklyn College Cancer Center Seminar Half-Day Symposium (Nanoscience)
Joint Chemistry/Brooklyn College Cancer Center Seminar Professor Sherri McFarland “Tackling Cancer and Infection with Light-Responsive Molecules”
Online, on the days and times indicated E-mail us to be included in our mailing list and receive a seminar link.
“Eastern Analytical Symposium Virtual Student Symposium”
NY ACS Seminar Professor Zhou Zhou, Queensborough Community College (CUNY) “Design and Total Synthesis of Self-healing Cyanine Fluorophores”
NY ACS Seminar Monona Rossol, M.S., M.F.A. “Safety, Fire, and Chemical Hazards”
12:30 p.m. Brooklyn College Cancer Center Seminars Professor Brian Gibney, Brooklyn College “Insights Into Zinc-Induced Protein Folding in Human Cancer Transcription Factors” Associate Professor Emilio Gallicchio, Brooklyn College “Molecular Modeling and High-Performance Computing Applications in Structure-Based Drug Discovery”
12:30 p.m. Joint seminar with the Biology Department Professor Steve Klotz, Arizona Cancer Center, and Professor Peter Lipke, Brooklyn College “Cancer, Candida and Functional Amyloid: What Are Their Connections?”
12:30 p.m. Brooklyn College Cancer Center Seminar Professor Alexander Greer, Brooklyn College “Multistage Oxidative Events: Deciphering Mechanisms Downstream From Photooxidative Reactions”
11 a.m. Dr. Thomas Cheshire, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Developing a Comprehensive Model of the Charge Injection Dynamics of Ruthenium Chromophores From Kinetic Simulation
12:30 p.m. Brooklyn College Cancer Center Seminar Professor Maria Contel, Brooklyn College “Unconventional Metal-Based Drugs as Potential Therapeutic Treatments for Breast Cancer”
11:30 a.m. Professor Mark Kobrak, Brooklyn College Metal Extraction to Nanostructured Liquids: Unexpected Links Between Liquid Structure and Solvation
12:30 p.m. Brooklyn College Cancer Center Seminar Professor Nicolas Biais, Brooklyn College “From infectious diseases to Cancer: an introduction to Mechanobiology”
11:00 a.m. Brooklyn College Cancer Center Seminar Professor Ryan Murelli, Brooklyn College “New Advances in Tropolone Synthesis and their Applications to Cancer-Related Research”
12:30 p.m. Brooklyn College Cancer Center Seminar Professor Guillermo Gerona-Navarro, Brooklyn College “Bisthioether Stapled Peptides as Allosteric Inhibitors of PRC2 function” and Professor Anjana Saxena, Brooklyn College “Sensing cellular stress: RNA-binding proteins in gene expression and cancer therapeutics”
Fridays: 11 a.m.–noon (unless otherwise noted) Location: 329 Ingersoll Hall Extension
Student undergraduate research showcase Host: Assistant Professor Torrente
Attilio Vargiu, University of Cagliari (Italy) “EDES: A Protocol to Generate Holo-like and Druggable Protein Conformations Starting From the Apo Structure” Host: Assistant Professor Gallicchio
Hilal Lashue ’94, Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology “Protein Misfolding and Aggregation in Neurodegenerative Diseases” 12:15-1:30 p.m., Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library Host: Assistant Professor Mariana Torrente
Professor Richard Magliozzo, Brooklyn College “A Journey Into Drug-Resistant TB and the KatG Enzyme” Host: Professor Brian Gibney
Annie Castonguay, Université du Québec, Canada “Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Organoruthenium Complexes” Host: Professor Maria Contel
Angela Casini, Technical University of Munich (Germany) TBA Hosts: Professor Maria Contel, Associate Professor Tony Wilson
Akira Kawamura, Hunter College (CUNY) “Uncovering the Metabolic Potential of Mixed Microbial Cultures” Host: Professor Lesley Davenport
Brooklyn College Science Day
Greg Doerk, Brookhaven National Labs TBA Host: Professor Mark Kobrak
Fridays: 11 a.m.–noon 133 Ingersoll Hall Extension (unless otherwise noted)
20th Anniversary Celebration of Professor Alec Greer
Lucia D’Accolti, University of Bari, Italy “New Technologies and Processes From Renewable Sources”
Eugene Douglass, Columbia University “New Technologies and Processes From Renewable Sources”
Giovanna Scapin, Merck Pharmaceuticals “Insights Into the Insulin Receptor Activation Mechanism: The Cryo-EM Structure of the IR:insulin Complex”
Friedman Lecture: Esther S. Takeuchi, Stony Brook University “From Medical Applications to the Environment: The Important Role of Energy Storage”
Andrés M. Durantini, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina “Revealing Phenotypic Differences in Photodynamic Inactivation. A Fluorescence Microscopy Approach at the Single Bacterium Level”
Dmytro Nykypanchuk, Brookhaven National Lab “DNA for Nanotechnology”
Wednesdays: 2:20–3:20 p.m. 4428 Ingersoll Hall (unless otherwise noted)
Kent Kirshenbaum, New York University “A Biomimetic Approach to Drug Discovery”
Braja Gopal Bag, Vidyasagar University “Triterpenoids in 21st Century: From Green Chemistry to Self-Assembly”
Dimitri Zakharov, Brookhaven National Laboratory “Real-Time Study of Carbon Nanotube Nucleation and Growth Processes by Environmental Transmission Electron Microscopy”
Rupal Gupta, College of Staten Island (CUNY) “Metal-Dependent Self-Assembly of Calgranulin C: An Antimicrobial Protein at the Host-Pathogen Interface”
José Pedro Cerón-Carrasco, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia “Computational Disruption in Drug Discovery: Applications for the Real Medical World”
Andrés Thomas, National University of La Plata TBA
Wednesdays: 2:20–3:20 p.m. 133 Ingersoll Hall (unless otherwise noted)
Benelita T. Elie (Contel’s Lab) doctoral thesis defense “Preclinical Evaluation of Gold-Based Chemotherapeutic Candidates for the Treatment of Metastatic Renal Cancer” Occidental Room, fifth floor, Student Center
Danielle Hirsch (Murelli’s lab) doctoral thesis defense “The Synthesis and Evaluation of Densely Functionalized Troponoids”
Amédée Des Georges, City College (CUNY) “Insights Into Ryanodine Receptor Ligand Binding and Gating Using Cryo-EM and Geometric Machine Learning”
“You Should Get a Ph.D.!” (various speakers), hosted by Assistant Professor Mariana Torrente, Brooklyn College
Stephen O’Brien, City College (CUNY) “Nanocomposite Capacitors: The Use of Chemistry and Nanotechnology in the Fabrication of Electronic Materials and Devices”
Alberto Munoz, Columbia University TBA
Dmitri N. Zakharov, Brookhaven National Laboratory 2:30 p.m. “Real-Time Study of Carbon Nanotube Nucleation and Growth Processes by Environmental Transmission Electron Microscopy”
Wednesdays: 2:20–3:20 p.m. 3424 Ingersoll Hall (unless otherwise noted)
Arthur Tinoco, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras “Designing Cytotoxic Titanium(IV) Compounds Prepared With Iron Chelators to Attack Iron Availability in Cancer Cells”
Tianning Diao, NYU “Strategies for Promoting Nickel-Catalyzed Alkene Functionalization”
Bruce Berne, Columbia University “Molecular Dynamics: a Personal Retrospective” Abstract: Molecular Dynamics (MD) has become a ubiquitous and powerful tool for understanding the structure and dynamics of systems ranging through all the phases of matter from the simple to the complex. A personalized view of the development of MD over the past five decades will be presented with examples ranging from simple liquids, small and large-scale hydrophobicity through proteins and protein-ligand binding. Tentative schedule of Friedman lecture-related events:
Richard Fish, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory “Chemoselective Synthesis of [(η6-Cp*Rh-Tyr#)-GPCR Peptide](OTf)2 Complexes, and Quantum Chemical and Molecular Docking Studies of [(η6-Cp*Rh-Tyr1)-Leu-enkephalin](OTf)2 to the µ-, ∂-, and k-Opioid Receptors, in Comparison to the Neuropeptide, [Tyr1]-Leu-enkephalin”
Kevin Yager, BNL “Tricking Block-Copolymers Into Forming New Morphologies”
Yalan Xing, William Patterson University “Development of Alkyne Di-functionalization Methodology”
Istvan Horvath, City University of Hong Kong “Evolutionary Model of Sustainability and Its Application in Chemistry”* * Dedicated to the memory of Professor Roberto Sanchez-Delgado
Wednesdays: 2:10–3:40 p.m. 1141 Ingersoll Hall Extension (unless otherwise noted)
Seminar course meeting with Professor Gibney
Ming-Yu Ngai, SUNY Stony Brook TBA
Dirk Trauner, New York University TBA
Mariana Torrente, Brooklyn College “You Should Go for a Ph.D.! (And How to Get Into Grad School)”
Mircea Cotlet, Brookhaven National Lab “Mastering Interfacial Interactions in Quantum Dot-Based Nano-Architectures”
Brown University Chemistry Graduate Event
Joint Biology-Chemistry Seminar Nicholas Farrell, Virginia Commonwealth University “Platinum Anti-Cancer Drugs: Current Status and New Targets”
Samuel Thomas, Tufts University “Singlet Oxygen Responsive Polymers”
Michael D’Erasmo, Brooklyn College and Graduate Program in Chemistry at the CUNY Graduate Center Ph.D. Defense Seminar
Fridays: 2:30–3:30 p.m. 432 Ingersoll Hall Extension (unless otherwise noted)
Rupal Gupta, College of Staten Island (CUNY) “Structure and Function of Catalytic Metal Centers in Biology: Insights From Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy”
Angelo Albini, University of Pavia, Italy “Up and Down the Excited Surface, phenyl cation and alpha,n-didehydrotoluenes”
Sabesan Yoganathan, St John’s University “Development of Drug Leads Through Structural Modifications of Natural Products and Synthetic Scaffolds”
Tom Kurtzman, Lehman College (CUNY) “Exploiting Active Site Solvation Structure and Thermodynamics for Drug Discovery and Design”
Friedman Lecture Scott Miller, Yale University
Jaclyn Catalano, Montclair State “Structure and Dynamics of Lead Carboxylates Found in Traditional Oil Paintings”
Stefano Protti, University of Pavia, Italy “Phenyl Cations: Long Live the Short-Lived Intermediates!”
Elizabeth Middleton, SUNY Purchase TBA
Yolanda Small, York College “Theory and Experiment Collaborate to Design Tunable Fluorophores”
Prabodhika Mallikaratchy, Lehman College TBA
Lara Mahal, New York University TBA
Lauren Wikstrom, Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY) TBA
Daniele Di Marino, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland “A Comprehensive Description of the Homo- and Hetero-Dimerization Mechanism of the CCR5 and CXCR4n Chemokine Receptors”
Jean Gafney, Baruch College (CUNY) TBA
Marion Emmert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute “Breaking Strong Bonds and Recovering Rare Earths: Adventures in Sustainable Chemistry”
Nasri Nesnas, Florida Tech TBA
Sebastien Bontemps, CNRS Toulouse, France TBA
Greg Petsko, Weill Cornell Medical College “Targeting Protein Trafficking for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease”
Jay Schneekloth, National Cancer Institute at Frederick “Targeting Structurally and Functionally Diverse Nucleic Acids with Druglike Small Molecules”
Jeremy Wulff, University of Victoria TBA
Lara Mahal, New York University “Cracking the Glycocode With Systems-Based Approaches”
Rachel Austin, Barnard College “Bridging Scales: A Molecular Perspective on Selected Problems in Environmental (Bio) Inorganic Chemistry”
Charles Jakobsche, Clark University “From Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methodology to Chemical Biology”
Jean P. Gaffney, Baruch College (CUNY) “Finding New Mechanisms of Fluorescence in Marine Organisms”—CANCELLED
Sebastian Poget, College of Staten Island (CUNY) “Interactions Between Animal Peptide Toxins and Ion Channel Domains: Functional and NMR Structural Studies”
Brian Zeglis, Hunter College (CUNY) “Harnessing Bioorthogonal Chemistry for Pretargeted PET Imaging”
Kevin Ryan, City College (CUNY) “Molecular Recognition of Small Molecules by the Mammalian Odorant Receptors”
Ryan Murelli, Brooklyn College “New Synthetic Methods and Strategies for Drug Discovery and Development”
Silvia De Rubeis, Mount Sinai “Unraveling the Neurogenetics of Autism Spectrum Disorder”
Pawel Kulesza, University of Warsaw “Lighting-up Metals: Fluorescent Tools for the Study of Magnesium Homeostasis”
Jay Schneekloth, NCI Frederick “Targeting Gene Expression With Small Molecules: New Strategies and Technologies”
Mingzhao Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory “Photocatalytic Water Splitting Over Metal Oxide Nanostructures: Carrier Recombination Assessment and Management”
Megan Shaw, Mount Sinai “Exploring Novel Targets for Influenza Antivirals”
Mark Kobrak, Brooklyn College “A Thermodynamic Approach to Interfacial Concentration Gradients”
Ulrich Bierbach, Wake Forest University “Preclinical Status of Platinum-Intercalator Hybrid Anticancer Agents”
Reza Khayat, City College of New York (CUNY) “Mechanism of Cellular Recognition by Porcine Circovirus”
Tom Muir, Princeton University Friedman Lecture “Houdini Proteins: Discovery and Applications of Ultrafast Inteins”
Rein Uljin, Advanced Science Research Center (CUNY) “Adaptive Nanosystems Using Aromatic Peptide Amphiphiles” Host: Associate Professor Brian Gibney
Piotr Piotowiak, Rutgers University – Newark “Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Host-Guest Assemblies, Molecular Clusters and Dendrimers” Host: Associate Professor Laura Juszczak
Geoffrey Coates, Cornell University TBA Host: Inorganic and Organometallic Topical Group of the New York ACS Note: This seminar is part a symposium held at Columbia University (209 Havemeyer Hall).
Mike Massiah, George Washington University “Using NMR, MD Simulation, and Biochemical Techniques to Characterize the Function of MID1: A Multifaceted Protein Linked to Cleft Lipid/Palate and Huntington Disease” Host: Assistant Professor Emilio Gallicchio
Rob Knowles, Princeton University “Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Organic Synthesis and Asymmetric Catalysis” Host: Assistant Professor Ryan Murelli
Stuart F. J. Le Grice, Center for Cancer Research, NCI at Frederick Small Molecule Inhibitors of HIV Ribonuclease H and Integrase Host: Assistant Professor Ryan Murelli
Elizabeth Biddinger, City College of New York (CUNY) “Investigating Ionic Liquids in Electrochemical Applications Host: Professor Mark Kobrak
Michael Kelly TBA Host: Brooklyn College Chemistry Club
Shengping Zheng, Hunter College (CUNY) “Heterocycle Synthesis From Quinoids” Host: Assistant Professor Ryan Murelli
Pawel Kulesza, University of Warsaw TBA Host: Professor Malgorzata Ciszkowska
Santiago Gómez-Ruiz (Profesor Titular, Rey Juan Carlos I, Madrid) “Biological applications of nanostructured materials functionalized with metal complexes” and Sanjiv Prashar (Profesor Titular, Rey Juan Carlos I, Madrid) “Catalytic applications of metal complexes and nanostructured materials” Host: Professor Maria Contel
