Fall 2026 Seminar Schedule

Course: CHEM 4940/5940 (Chemistry Seminar)

Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Thursdays from 3:45-5:00 p.m. in CHEM 109

All seminars are free and open to the public

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• 8/20 – LeGrande Slaughter, PhD, UNT
  Title: Chair’s state of the Department address
  Host: Prof. Cundari

• 8/27 – Chris Erickson, Todd Germain, UNT
  Title: Safety Seminar

• 9/3 –Elizabeth Skellam, PhD, UNT
  Title: Interdisciplinary Approaches for Fungal Natural Product Discovery and Engineering
  Host: Prof. Cundari

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• 9/10 – Molly Atkinson, PhD, UNT
  Title:
  How Do People Learn Chemistry? Research on Student Reasoning, Experiences,
  and Professional Pathways in Chemistry.
  Host: Prof Cundari

• 9/17 – Steve Townsend, PhD, Vanderbilt
  Title:   Rethinking Illness Through the Lens of Human Milk and Complex Alkaloids
  Host: Graduate Students

• 9/24 – Ming Chen, PhD, Virginia Tech
  Title: ​ Chemical Synthesis with Organoboron Compounds
  Host: Prof. Cui

• 10/1 – Anne Gordon, PhD, Texas Tech
  Title: Tunable Imine Donor Frameworks for Applications Across the Periodic Table
  Host: Prof. D'Souza

• 10/8 – Joshua Sharp, PhD, U Miss
  Title: Radical Footprinting: An Approach for Challenging Problems in Structural Biology
  Host: Prof. Afosah

• 10/15 – Haoyun Chen, PhD, SMU
  Title: Developing Accurate Computational Models for MOFs and COFs: Gas Adsorption, Electronic Properties, and Framework Stability
  Host: Prof. Ko

• 10/22 – Vince Ortiz, PhD
  Title: The Chemistry of Dyson Orbitals and Their Electron Binding Energies
  Host: Prof. Bagus

• 10/29 – Jung-Fu Lin, UT
  Title: Chemistry of Abundant Matter under Pressure
  Host: Prof. Yan

• 11/5 – Diana Berman, PhD, UNT
  Title: Design of Functional Nanoporous Ceramic Coatings via Infiltration of Polymer Templates 
  Host: Prof. Skellam

• 11/12 –Xiaojing Huang, PhD, BNL
  Title: Correlative X-ray Microscopy and its Applications in Functional Materials
  Host: Prof. Ma

• 11/19 – Manish Shetty, PhD, TAMU
  Title: Harnessing Mechanistic Insights to Transform Tandem Chemical Conversions
  Host: Prof. Chen

• 11/26 – Thanksgiving – no classes

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• 12/3 - Gary Pielak, PhD, UNC
  Title: Structure and Stability of Wet versus Dry Proteins
  Host: Prof. Valsson