Foster Colloquium Series

Spring 2025 - Fridays at 2:30 PM in 190 Norton Hall

Friday, February 28, 2025

3D-Networked Nanoparticles for Autonomous Computing

Presented by: Rigoberto Hernandez, PhD, Gompf Family Professor of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University

2:30 p.m. in 190 Norton Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, March 7, 2025

Activation of Rare Sugars for the Design of Bacterial Surfaces

Presented by: Tania Lupoli, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, New York University

2:30 p.m. in 190 Norton Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, March 14, 2025

Genome Mining for "Extremozymes” – Extremophiles as Sources of Novel Biocatalysts

Presented by: Graeme Howe, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

2:30 p.m. in 190 Norton Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, March 28, 2025

Structure-based Design of Antiviral Immunotherapeutics and Vaccines

Presented by: Jonathan R. Lai, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

2:30 p.m. in 190 Norton Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, April 4, 2025

Well-Defined Nanocrystals and Superstructures for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry

Presented by: Sen Zhang, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Virginia

2:30 p.m. in 190 Norton Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, April 11, 2025

Title to be announced

Presented by: Joaquín Rodríguez-López, Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2:30 p.m. in 190 Norton Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, April 18, 2025

Use of Self-Assembly to Achieve Responsive Organic Solid-State Materials

Presented by: Kristin Hutchins, Associate Professor, University of Missouri

2:30 p.m. in 190 Norton Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, April 25, 2025

Measuring the Structures of Unstructured RNAs, Alone and in Condensates

Presented by: Lois Pollack, John Edson Sweet Memorial Professor of Engineering, Cornell University

2:30 p.m. in 190 Norton Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, May 2, 2025 - HOWARD TIECKELMANN MEMORIAL LECTURE

Title to be announced

Guest Speaker: Omar Yaghi, The James and Neeltje Tretter Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

4:00 p.m. in 201 Natural Sciences Complex, UB North Campus

Friday, May 9, 2025

Cryo-EM Studies of ABC Transporter Folding and Functional Dynamics

Presented by: John Hunt, Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University

2:30 p.m. in 190 Norton Hall, UB North Campus