Seminar Archives - Spring 2026

Seminars were held at SciTech Center, Room 136 from 12:00pm-1:00pm.
 

Monday, January 26 
"Rechargeable Aluminum Batteries: From Molecular-Level Understanding to Potential Applications"
Dr. Robert Messinger
City College of New York
 

Monday, February 2 
"Programming Bioelectronic Bacteria as Real-time, Multiplexed Sensors”
Dr. Caroline Ajo-Franklin
Rice University
 

Monday, February 9 
“Building Molecular Intuition into Deep Learning Models for Small Molecule Design, Synthesis, and Analysis”
Dr. Connor Coley
MIT
 

Monday, March 2 
"Optogenetic Tools to Understand and Control Signaling in Microbes"
Dr. Megan McClean
University of Wisconsin-Madison
 

Monday, March 9 
"Exploring and Designing Protein Selectivity with and without Deep Learning”
Dr. Sagar Khare
Rutgers University
 

Monday, March 30 
"Catalysis on Crowded Surfaces"
Dr. Aditya Bhan
University of Minnesota
 

Monday, April 6 
"Development of Mesoporous Zeolites for Reactions with Bulky Molecules"
Dr. Wei Fan
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
 

Monday, April 13 
Jean and Martin Sussman Endowed Lecture in Chemical and Biological Engineering
"Ionic Compatibilization of Plastics to Reduce Environmental Impacts"
Rachel Segalman, Edward Noble Kramer Distinguished Professor and Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Santa Barbara
Read about the Sussman Lecture
 

Monday, April 27 
"Mesoscale Shaping with Polymer Materials – From 3-D Extended Thin Films to Periodically Ordered Block Copolymer Gels”
Dr. Joerg Werner
Boston University