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Chemistry Seminars, News, And Events
Seminar 2026 Seminar Series
Location: HSR 141 (unless otherwise noted; any special location will be listed alongside the seminar title).
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March 12 |
Distinguished Professor John L. Wood, Baylor University A. H. Blatt Distinguished Lecture Series Title: Recent Efforts in the Synthesis of Complex Natural Products |
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March 19 |
Julian Vlad |
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April 02 |
Dr. Xiang He |
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April 09 |
Ralph Page |
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April 16 |
Navoda Udwaththa |
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April 23 |
Adam Bach Location: OLS 201 |
Location: HSR 141 (unless otherwise noted; any special location will be listed alongside the seminar title).
| Date and Time | Speaker |
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September 4 |
Dr. Roberto Peverati |
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September 18 |
Victor Johnson Title: "Synthesis, Development, and Biological Evaluation of Photoresponsive Molecules and Natural Products for their Therapeutic Application" |
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October 9 |
Dr. Bo Wang |
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October 16 |
Mr. Bill Bowman |
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October 23 |
Benjamin Schatkun Title: "Electrochemical Detection of Chromium Using Glassy Carbon Electrodes" |
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November 6 |
Moses Mayonu Title: Integrating NMR and LC-MS Based Metabolomics, Proteomics with Machine Learning/AI-Driven Data Fusion to Advance Biomarker Discovery" Location: OLS 201 |
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November 6 |
Ashley Daninger Title: "Nafion-Coated Multi-Bore Carbon Fiber Electrodes for Ultrafast, Enhanced Simultaneous Detection of Serotonin and Dopamine in the Presence of Interfering Ions" |
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November 13 |
Pavithra Liyanage Location: OPS 202 |
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November 13 |
Dr. Francisco Raymo |
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November 20 |
Olga Zubak |
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December 4 |
Noble Brako |
Location: HSR 141
| Date and Time | Speaker |
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January 23 |
Dr. Olson, Dr. Gott, Dr. Azim Title: "From Launchpad to Deep Space" |
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February 20 |
William Bowman |
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February 27 |
Dr. Stephen Keable |
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March 27 |
Dr. Alan Brown Title: "Fluoroscence-Enhancement Sensing via Hydrogen-Bond Interruption" |
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April 3 |
Dr. Joel Olson |
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April 17 |
Dr. Boris Akhremitchev |
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April 24 |
Dr. Stephen Smith Title: "Success: Careers in the Chemical Sciences" |
Location: HSR 141
| Date and Time | Speaker |
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September 12 |
Dr. Roberto Peverati |
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September 19 |
Dr. Yi Liao |
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October 3 |
Prof. Masayuki Wasa Title: "Recent Advances in Cooperative Catalysis" |
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October 17 |
Nishal Egodawaththa |
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October 31 |
Prof. Burjor Captain |
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November 7 |
Prof. Ioannis Spanopoulos Title: "The Emergence of Porous Hybrid Metal Halide Semiconductors" |
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November 14 |
Prof. Rudi Wehmschulte |
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November 21 |
Noel Manring |
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December 5 |
Anthi Savvidou |
Location: HSR 141
| Date and Time | Speaker |
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February 1 |
Prof. Richmond Sarpong Title: "Strategies for Chemical Synthesis Inspired by Complex Natural Products" |
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February 29 |
Dr. Ahmed El-Gendy |
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March 1 *FRIDAY |
Dr. Tiwari Title: "Innovative Strategies in Materials Development to Attain Net-Zero Goals" |
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March 7 |
Dorathea Illner |
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March 14 |
Prof. Rajeev Prabhakar Title: "Development of Catalysts, Drugs and Biomaterials: Insights from Theoretical Studies" |
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March 21 |
Noble Brako |
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April 4 |
Victor Xu |
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April 11 |
Ralph Page Title: "Electrochemical Characterization of Adrenal Hormones Towards Investigating Neurophysiological Disorders" |
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April 16 |
Matthew Pensenstadler |
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April 18 |
Rohini Patel |
Location: HSR 141
| Date and Time | Speaker |
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September 7 |
Dr. Jessica Smeltz and Dr. Roberto Peverati |
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September 14 |
Dr. Jeremiah Tipton Title: "Life Sciences Research - Advances in Instrumentation for Difficult Sample Types Rapid Single Cell Proteome Analysis with Bruker's timsTOF Platform" |
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October 5 |
Dr. Pavithra Pathirathna Title: "New Insights into Electrochemical Detection of Neurotransmitters and Toxic Metals" |
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October 12 |
Dr. Roberto Peverati Title: "Calculations of Complex Electronic Structures for Chemistry and Astrobiology: Porphyrins and Chlorophylls" |
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October 19 |
Dr. Manasvi Lingam |
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October 26 |
Dr. Robert Usselman Title: "Quantum Biology Clock" |
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November 2 |
Dr. Norito Takenaka Title: "Sustainable Fine Chemical Synthesis: Lewis Base Catalysis of Organotrichlorosilanes" |
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November 9 |
Miriam Strini Title: "From Lab to Life: Surface Modified Carbon Fiber Microelectrodes for Cadmium Ion Detection |
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November 16 |
Dr. Nasri Nesnas Title: "Illuminating Pathways" |
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November 30 |
Ryan Abboodd Title: "Novel Electrochemical Sensor for Arsenic Detection" |
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December 14 |
Dr. Pierpaolo Morgante Title: "How to get (your research) published" |
| Date and Time | Speaker |
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April 27 |
Deneyelle E. Wilson |
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April 13 |
Diana Velosa |
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April 6 |
Shon Neal |
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March 29 |
Nishal Egodawaththa |
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February 23 |
Moustafa Hamaad |
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February 9 |
Hemant Pal |
| Date and Time | Speaker |
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October 27 5:00 PM |
Dr. Kamran T. Mahmudov Title: "The Chalcogen Bond" |
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December 1 1:00 PM |
Sahar Srajeh |
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December 1 5:00 PM |
Noel Manring |
Life From the Ground to the Starts - International Mini Symposium in the Biomedical Sciences
Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022 | 3:30-6:30 p.m.
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Gregory Macleod, Ph.D. Title: "How Do Neurons Control Mitochondrial Form, Function, and Distribution to Support Neural Function?" |
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Andrew Palmer, Ph.D. Title: "Project RedHouse - Tales from a Martian Greenhouse" |
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Manasvi Lingam, Ph.D. Title: Constraints on Habitable Worlds in the Solar System Magdaléna |
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Magdaléna Bryksová, Ph.D. Title: "Modern Cytokinin Derivatives – Synthesis, Bioactivity and Applications" |
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Lucie Plíhalová, Ph.D. Title: "New Biotechnological Tools Related to Cytokinin Bioavailability" |
| Date and Time | Speaker |
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March 24 |
Shoan Neal - In Person |
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March 31 |
Dr. Gabe Nagy - Virtual |
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April 14 |
Diana Velosa - In Person |
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April 19 |
Anneli Nina - In Person |
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April 21 |
Dr. Mei Shen - Virtual Title: "Elucidating Neurotransmission at the Nanoscale" |
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April 26 |
Matthew Pensenstadler - In Person |
| Date and Time | Speaker |
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November 9 |
Hussam Alhamza Title: "Synthesis, Isolation and Structural Elucidation of Cage-Shaped Aluminum and Gallium Phosphorous Aryloxide Complexes as Highly Reactive Lewis Acid and Carboxyboranes as Carbon Monoxide Releasing Molecules" |
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November 18 |
Dr. Denisia Popolan-Vaida Title: Ozone Assisted-oxidation Reactions and Their Important in Atmospheric and Combustion Chemistry |
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December 9 |
Dr. Irina Chuvashova |
| Date and Time | Speaker |
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July 9 |
Aurora Burkus-Matesevac |
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July 14 |
Carlyn Reep |
| Date and Time | Speaker |
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February 11 |
Dr. Michael Adrian Title: "Electrochemical sensors coupled to microdialysis for monitoring metabolism in injured brain tissue" |
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February 16 |
Shyiu Sun |
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February 18 |
Dr. Aaron Apawu Title: "Implicating Monoamines in the Neurochemical Basis for Noise-Induced Hearing Loss" |
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March 2 |
Dr. Kenneth Gonsalves Title: "Photoresists for EUVL (13.5 nm) Wavelength Nanopattering from N7 Down to N3 Nodes & Beyond: Materials Chemistry Design Principles for Hitech IC Fab" |
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March 4 |
Dr. Michael Roper Title: "Examining the Dynamics of Glucose Regulation" |
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March 11 |
Dr. Konstantin V. Bukhryakov Title: "Alkylidene Complexes: Synthesis and Application" |
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March 25 |
Dr. Karin Chumbimuni-Torres |
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April 1 |
Changgong Xu |
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April 6 |
Franklin Thornburgh |
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April 8 |
Adnan Elgattar |
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April 8 |
Stine Olson |
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April 15 |
Pierpaolo Morgante |
| Date and Time | Speaker |
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August 20 |
Dr. Nasri Nesnas PhD Program and Guidelines |
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August 27 |
Dr. Adrian Roitberg |
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September 10 |
Dr. Jessica Beekman |
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September 17 |
Dr. Sara Walker |
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October 1 |
Dr. Stephanie Cologna |
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October 15 |
Dr. Brandon Ruotolo |
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October 22 |
Dr. Frieder Jaekle |
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October 29 |
Dr. Mario Thevis |
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November 5 |
Dr. Jason Benedict |
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November 6 |
Mohamed Fathy Hassan |
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November 12 |
Dr. Thersa Evans-Nguyen |
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December 3 |
Dr. Jennifer Stockdill |
| Date and Time | Speaker |
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May 14 |
Dr. Ian Webb Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology IUPUI |
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May 28 |
Dr. Steve Blanksby Professor School of Chemistry and Physics Queensland University of Technology (QUT) |
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June 4 |
Dr. Parastoo Hashemi Senior Lecturer Department of Bioengineering Imperial College London |
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June 18 |
Dr. Matteo Cavaleri |
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June 25 |
Dr. Titel Jurca |
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July 2 |
Dr. Richard Smith |
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July 9 |
Dr. Edward Duranty |
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July 16 |
Dr. Elon Ison |
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July 23 |
Dr. Austin Jones |
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July 30 |
Dr. Thomas Linz Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry |
| Date | Speaker and Topic |
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| January 23 | Dr. Kevin E. O'Shea, Florida International University The Cyclodextrin-Perfluorinated Surfactant Host-Guest Complex: Fundamental Studies for Potential Environmental Remediation and Therapeutic Applications |
| January 24 | Lenny Barnes, L3Harris Technologies Research at L3Harris |
| January 30 | Kyle Collins, Florida Tech Senior Thesis: Synthesis of 2,18-dithia[3](1,8)-carbazolo[3](3,5)pyridinophane to Investigate H-Bonding |
| April 9 | Dami Ajadi, Florida Tech Ph.D. Seminar: Analysis of Fatty Acids in Chukchi Sea Sediments |
| April 16 | Kristie Baker, Florida Tech Senior Thesis: Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry and Ozone-Induced Cleavage of Endocyclic C=C Bonds to Separate Isomeric Prostaglandins |
Florida Institute of Technology's ACS Student Chapter hosted the Florida American Chemical Society 2019 Symposium for Synthetic Chemistry. This symposium was part of the Annual Florida Chemistry Conclave series. The Symposium featured keynote speaker Dr. Aaron Aponick from the University of Florida (pictured left). His seminar, StackPhos: From structural curiosity to enantioselective catalysis, followed the synthetic chemistry theme of the symposium. Students gave oral presentations of their research as well.
The event included hands-on demonstrations of outreach events performed by ACS student chapters at Florida Tech and other schools (pictured right) followed by a lab safety seminar by Florida Tech's Dr. Joel Olson.
