Faculty Recruitment Seminar
Thursday, December 14, 2017, 3:30pm - 4:30pm, NHB 1.720
Postdoctoral Fellow
Caltech
PhD, Yale University, 2013
Nature exhibits dynamics that span extraordinary ranges of space and time. In some cases, these dynamical hierarchies are well separated, simplifying their understanding and description. But chemistry and biology are replete with examples of dynamically coupled scales. Electron- and proton-transfer reactions couple intrinsically quantum-mechanical and classical-mechanical motions. Molecular motors convert atomic-scale reactions into nano-scale motion and work. And signaling pathways use molecular recognition processes to regulate activities at the cellular level. Understanding processes that bridge dynamical hierarchies is a fascinating and ongoing challenge. Our research focuses on the development of new theoretical methods to simulate and understand complex dynamics in chemistry and biology.
h-index: 6 Total Publications: 12 Total Citations: 114 (Web of Science, Nov. 2017)
h-index: 7 Total Citations: 156 (Google Scholar Citations, Nov. 2017)
Faculty Recruitment Seminar 
Tuesday, December 12, 2017, 3:30pm - 4:30pm, NHB 1.720
Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-8286-5264
PhD, Rice University, 2015
h-index: 11 Total Publications: 29 Total Citations: 222 (Web of Science, Nov. 2017)
h-index: 13 Total Citations: 330 (Google Scholar Citations, Nov. 2017)
Faculty Recruitment Seminar 
Thursday, December 7, 2017, 3:30pm - 4:30pm, NHB 1.720
Postdoctoral Associate, Center for the Physics of Living Cells; Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Research Web Page (Gruebele Group)
PhD, Hebrew University, 2014
The cell has an incredible aptitude to rapidly adapt to environmental changes by altering its shape, volume and internal composition. Factors that affect protein structure and interactions, including crowding, ionic strength, and quinary interactions can all change due to this adaptation. I take advantage of the cell’s remarkable plasticity, and use it as a tool to perturb and study the dynamics of its proteome.
h-index: 8 Total Publications: 21 Total Citations: 345 (Web of Science, Nov. 2017)
h-index: 8 Total Citations: 207 (Google Scholar Citations, Nov. 2017)
Council of Graduate Chemists Seminar
Thursday, November 30, 2017, 3:30pm - 4:30pm, WEL 2.122
Director, Institute for Molecular Engineering
Argonne National Laboratory
Seth's research at Argonne has included blending chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering, and nanoscience to create and study materials for energy and water. With colleagues at Argonne, Seth invented a new materials synthesis technique called sequential infiltration synthesis, which has found applications in areas ranging from nanolithography to optical coatings to advanced sorbents and membranes.
h-index: 34 Total Publications: 106 Total Citations: 4980 (Web of Science, Nov. 2017)
Thursday, November 16, 2017, 3:30pm - 4:30pm, NHB 1.720 
Associate Professor, Physics & Astonomy, Chemistry
Publications (Google Scholar)
h-index: 46 Total Publications: 75 Total Citations: 16,039 (Web of Science/ResearcherID, October 2017)
h-index: 54 Total Citations: 30,570 (Google Scholar Citations)
Council of Graduate Chemists Seminar
Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 3:30pm - 5:00pm, WEL 2.122 
Nathan Neale
Senior Scientist, Molecular and Catalysis Science Group
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Publications (NREL)
ORCID orcid.org/0000-0001-5654-1664
h-index: 26 Total Publications: 64 Total Citations: 3938 (Web of Science, October 2017)
Thursday, November 9, 2017, 3:30pm - 4:30pm, WEL 2.122
Philippe Guyot-Sionnest
Professor of Chemistry
University of Chicago
Chemistry and physics share tremendous potential at the nanoscale. This is where chemistry excels and where physics predicts that many properties can be tuned. For example, quantum states, charging, spin, phonons, and plasmons show dramatic effects at this scale. Colloidal synthesis enables the construction of nanostructures by chemical precipitation. Our research is therefore driven by physical concepts and enabled by synthesis.
Publications (Google Scholar)
h-index: 45 Total Publications: 128 Total Citations: 9782 (Web of Science, October 2017)
h-index: 71 Total Citations: 20,090 (Google Scholar Citations, October 2017)
WOS Highly Cited Paper:
Pandey, A.; Guyot-Sionnest, P. Slow electron cooling in colloidal quantum dots. Science 322 2008, 929-932. DOI: 10.1126/science.1159832
Thursday, October 26, 2017, 3:30pm - 4:30pm, NHB 1.720
Steve Bradforth
Professor of Chemistry
University of Southern California
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6164-3347
Small Molecule Reaction Dynamics in Liquids
Energy Transfer and Excited State Photophysics of natural and synthetic polymers and their building blocks
Publications (not current)
(Web of Science, October 2017)
Thursday, October 12, 2017, 3:30pm - 4:30pm NHB 1.720
Robert Powers
Professor of Chemistry
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has proven itself an extremely versatile tool for exploring a variety of biological problems. NMR has been successfully used to determine the structure of numerous biomolecules, investigate biomolecular interactions, screen for potential drugs, determine structures of drug-complexes, and more recently as an important tool of metabolomics and systems biology. Metabolomics is used to monitor in vivo drug activity and to analyze biofluids (blood, urine, etc.) for drug toxicity, disease biomarkers, and personalized medicine. As a result, NMR is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry to aid in drug discovery efforts. Our research interest is focused on the application and development of NMR methodologies to improve the success rate and efficiency of drug discovery. This effort includes the development of NMR- and MS-based methods for metabolomics; and the application of NMR and bioinformatics to understand the structure, function and evolution of novel proteins and their corresponding therapeutic utility in structure-based drug design programs.
(Web of Science, October 2017)
Thursday, October 6, 2017, 3:30pm - 4:30pm, NHB 1.720
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Arlington
Thursday, September 28, 2017, 3:30pm - 4:30pm, NHB 1.720
Professor, Pediatrics
Dell Medical School
Our research group is concerned with three areas, requirements for polyunsaturated fatty acids in the perinatal period, development of advanced analytical chemical instrumentation, particularly mass spectrometry, for biomedical applications, and development of high precision isotope ratio mass spectrometry for anti-doping applications. Our polyunsaturated fatty acid work focuses on factors that influence demand for omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, notably prematurity, and most of our studies are conducted in non-human primates. Our instrumentation work is aimed at development of high precision isotope ratio mass spectrometry for tracer applications and for detection of natural physiological isotopic fractionation.
Thursday, September 07, 2017, 3:30pm - 4:30pm, NHB 1.720
Associate Professor
University of Notre Dame
The Hummon research group seamlessly combines analytical chemistry and the study of cancer biology to explore gene products deregulated in the development and progression of cancer. Cancer arises from insults to the genome. With genomic damage, the expression levels of genes are altered from their normal state. Changes in the genome, transcriptome and proteome are highly conserved among samples from adenomas to carcinomas to metastases. Because genetic changes are commonly repeated among cancer patients, a better understanding of which genes, transcripts, and proteins are affected could have broad health implications. Therefore, the best way to understand the molecular underpinnings of cancer is to dissect the deregulated pathways that are contributing to the cancer phenotype, identify the aberrantly expressed genes and their products, and decipher their effect on downstream targets. The Hummon Research Group develops methods to evaluate both the transcriptome and the proteome in cancer cells.
(Web of Science, August 2017)
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