Seminar Series
Spring 2024
All seminars are held in the Pearson Chemistry Building, 62 Talbot Ave., Rm. P-106 on the Medford Campus at 12:00 pm unless otherwise noted. For further information, please contact Debbie D’Andrea at (617) 627-2649 or by email debbie.dandrea@tufts.edu.
Please note: Visitors are welcome to attend all seminars.
January 31, 2024
"Overcoming the Limits of Approximate Electronic Structure Models in Machine Learning Accelerated Materials Discovery"
Prof. Heather Kulik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
February 7, 2024
"Making Poor Metals Rich at the Nanoscale"
Prof. Michael B. Ross, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
February 15, 2024
Thursday, 4:30 pm
"Modeling the Quantum Effects and Vibrational Spectroscopy of Biomolecules"
Prof. Lu Wang, Rutgers University
February 24, 2024: Presented by Tufts Center for STEM Diversity and Tufts LGBT Center
Saturday, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, 51 Winthrop St.
"Queerness in STEM"
Dr. André K Isaacs, College of the Holy Cross
February 28, 2024
"Decoding the Anatomy of MK-7602: A Promising Antimalarial Drug from an Efficient Academic/Industrial Collaborative Synergy"
Dr. Manuel de Lera Ruiz, Merck & Co., Inc.
Student/Post-Doc Panel: 3:00 pm, Jackson Gym, Rm. 005
March 5, 2024
Tuesday, 10:30 - 11:45 am, Pearson 112 (Chem 0194/0238)
"Computer-aided Drug Design in Action: Discovery of STING Agonists for the Treatment of Cancer"
Dr. Michael Altman, Merck & Co., Inc.
March 6, 2024
"Semicarbazide Employment as Amino Amide Surrogate in Peptide Mimicry for Treating Amyloid and Cardiovascular Diseases"
Prof. William Lubell, Université de Montréal
March 13, 2024
"Biosynthesis of a Copper-Containing Antibiotic"
Prof. Bo Li, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Max Tishler Award Lecture
April 2, 2024
Tuesday, 4:30 pm, Pearson 104
"Adventures in Pirating Proteins to Explore and Modulate Biology"
Prof. James Wells, University of California, San Francisco
April 10, 2024
"Thriving in the College of Chemistry: Assessing and Improving Academic Instruction and Climate"
Prof. Anne Baranger, University of California, Berkeley
April 24, 2024
"AKTivation Mechanisms"
Prof. Philip A Cole, Harvard Medical School