Foster Colloquium Series

Fall 2025 - Fridays at 2:30 pm in 112 O'Brian Hall

Friday, September 5, 2025

Supramolecular Approaches to New Porous Conductors and Magnets

Presented by: Douglas A. Reed, PhD, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington

2:30 p.m. in 112 O'Brian Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, September 12, 2025

Leveraging Lability in MOFs: Explorations in Ligand Exchange and Interligand Chemistry

Presented by: Nathaniel Rosi, PhD, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh

2:30 p.m. in 112 O'Brian Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, September 19, 2025

Bioanalytical Applications of Microchip Electrophoresis: In vivo Monitoring and Cell Analysis

Presented by: Susan M. Lunte, PhD, Department of Chemistry, The University of Kansas

2:30 p.m. in 112 O'Brian Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, September 26, 2025

Title to be announced

Presented by: Luis Velarde, PhD, Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo

2:30 p.m. in 112 O'Brian Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, October 3, 2025

Understanding and Enabling Membrane Transport of Biomacromolecules

Presented by: Dehua Pei, PhD, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University

2:30 p.m. in 112 O'Brian Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, October 10, 2025

Decarbonization at Scale: A Key Role for Materials Characterization

Presented by: Thomas C. Fitzgibbons, PhD, Senior R&D Leader at The Dow Chemical Co.

2:30 p.m. in 112 O'Brian Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, October 17, 2025

Structure-forward Studies of EGFR Inhibitors and Their Impact on Drug Discovery

Presented by: David E. Heppner, PhD, Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo

2:30 p.m. in 112 O'Brian Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, November 7, 2025

Multidimensional Molecular Spectroscopy at Conical Intersections with Attosecond X-ray Pulses and Entangled Photons

Presented by: Shaul Mukamel, PhD, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

2:30 p.m. in 112 O'Brian Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, November 14, 2025

Title to be announced

Presented by: Christo Sevov, PhD, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University

2:30 p.m. in 112 O'Brian Hall, UB North Campus

Friday, December 5, 2025

Encoding Molecules for Prediction, Optimization, and Chemical Space Determination in Analytical Measurement Science

Presented by: Kevin A. Schug, PhD, The University of Texas at Arlington

2:30 p.m. in 112 O'Brian Hall, UB North Campus