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Ahn, Natalie
Professor of Distinction
University of Colorado at Boulder
The Importance of Protein Dynamics for Kinase Activation and Implications for Inhibitor Design: The Case of ERK2
11/2/15

Amatore, Christian
Professor
Ecole Normale Superieure - CNRS - Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
Finding Out Egyptian Gods' Secret Using Analytical Chemistry: Biomedical Properties of Egyptian Black Makeup Revealed by Microamperometry at Single Cells
2/26/10

Ault, Andrew
Assistant Professor
University of MIchigan
Molecular Processes within Atmospheric Aerosols: Spectroscopic and Microscopic Insights
5/21/18

Austin, Daniel
Assistant Professor
Brigham Young University
New Ion Trap Mass Analyzers using Microfabricated Plates
11/30/09

Bailey, Ryan C.
Professor of Chemistry
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
Silicon Photonic Sensor Arrays for Clinical Diagnostics and Beyond
4/18/16

Baker, Lane
Assistant Professor
Indiana University
Measuring Gaps and Spaces with Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy
4/18/11

Bush, Matthew
Professor
University of Washington
Mass Spectrometry, Ion Mobility, and Ion Chemistry: Tools for Characterizing the Structures of Proteins in Solution and in the Gas Phase 
10/31/16

Cheng, Quan
Professor of Chemistry
University of California at Riverside
Label-free SPR and SPR Imaging Analysis with Plasmonic Microarrays and Calcinated Nanofilms
10/20/14

Chilkoti, Ashutosh
Theo Pilkington Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Duke University
Building Highly Sensitive Protein Immunoassays on a Nonfouling Polymer Brush
11/3/14

Chiu, Daniel
Professor of Chemistry
University of Washington
High-Sensitivity and High-Throughput Isolation and Analysis of Single Tumor Cells for Monitoring Cancer Prognosis and Treatment
11/8/10

Cooks, Graham
Henry B. Hass Distinguished Professor
Purdue University
The Coming Ion Age of Science
4/12/18

Coon, Joshua
Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Characterizing the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Proteome with New Mass Spectrometry Technology
4/4/11

Corn, Robert
Professor
University of California, Irvine
Extreme Biosensing: Combining SPR Gratings, Nanoparticles and Surface Enzyme Chemistry for Ultrasensitive Surface Bioaffinity Measurements
11/3/08

Cremer, Paul
Professor of Chemistry
Penn State
Interactions of Proteins, Ions, and Small Molecules with Phospholipid Membranes
2/18/13

Desaire, Heather
Associate Professor
University of Kansas
Glycoprotein Analysis for HIV Vaccine Development
11/16/09

Dovichi, Norman
Professor
University of Utah
Ultrasensitive Protein Analysis
2/23/09

Engen, John R.
Professor
Northeastern University
Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry for the Analysis of Protein Conformation and Dynamics
4/20/09

Ewing, Andrew
Professor
Chalmers University of Technology
Electrochemistry and Mass Spectrometry Imaging in Flies, Cells, and Vesicles
2/2/16

Fernandez, Facundo
Associate Professor
Georgia Tech
Forensics, Metabolomics, and Molecular Imaging by Mass Spectrometry
2/28/11

Fernández-Lima, Francisco
Assistant Professor
Florida International University
From Solution to the Gas-Phase: Characterization of Kinetic Intermediates of Biomolecules. What Can We Learn on the Structure and Dynamics from Single Molecule Studies?
10/5/15

Gemperline, Paul
Professor of Chemistry
East Carolina University
Multivariate Modeling and Resolution of Evolving Systems
10/22/12

Griffiths, Jennifer
Ph.D.
Royal Society of Chemistry
A Career in Scholarly Publishing
10/27/15

Hall, Adam R.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering
Detecting and Quantifying Nucleic Acid Biomarkers with Solid-State Nanopores
4/25/16

Haynes, Christy
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota
Measuring Immune Cell Response to Inflammatory Cytokines
1/14/13

Haynes, Christy
Elmore H. Northey Professor and Vice-Chair
University of Minnesota
Design and Redesign of Sustainable Engineered Nanomaterials
9/18/17

He, Lin
Assistant Professor
North Carolina State University
Amplification-by-Polymerization in Biosensing
2/8/10

Heien, Michael
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona
Expanding the Accessible Timescale of Neurochemical Communication
11/30/15

Herr, Amy E.
Lester John & Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professor
University of California at Berkeley
Precision Microfluidic Design Advances Targeted Proteomics to Single Cell Resolution
4/6/15

Holland, Lisa
Associate Professor
West Virginia University
Microscale Sequencing with Bio-Inspired Nanomaterials
3/26/12

Hughey, Christine
Associate Professor
James Madison University
Effect of Protic and Aprotic Solvents on Negative Ion Electrospray Ionization of Small Acidic Molecules
4/9/12

Hummon, Amanda
Huisking Foundation, Inc. Assistant Professor
Notre Dame University
Imaging Mass Spectrometry of 3D Cell Cultures
9/14/15

Jones, Lisa
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland
Protein Footprinting Coupled with Mass Spectrometry: A New Method for In-Cell Structural Analysis
2/5/18

Julian, Ryan
Assistant Professor
University of California - Riverside
Radical Directed Dissociation Meets Electron Capture Dissociation: A Love Story
3/22/10

Kennedy, Robert
Hobart H Willard Collegiate Professor of Chemistry
University of Michigan
The Nanoliter Lab: Using Droplets for Chemical Analysis, Screening and In Vivo Neurochemical Sensing
9/12/13

Konermann, Lars
Professor
Western University, London, Ontario
What Mass Spectrometry can tell us about Protein Folding, Structure, and Dynamics
4/8/13

Leary, Julie
Professor
UC - Davis
Advancing the Frontier of Chemical Biology in Protein:Protein and Protein: Carbohydrate Interactions
10/5/09

Lee, Youngmi
Associate Professor
EWHA Womans University - Seoul, Korea
Electrochemical Sensor Development for Biological Applications
2/24/14

Ligler, Frances
Senior Scientist for Biosensors and Biomaterials
Naval Research Laboratory
Optical Biosensors and Systems Integration
10/18/10

Lunte, Sue
Professor
University of Kansas
Neurochemical Applications of Microchip Electrophoresis
2/14/11

Mace, Charles
Assistant Professor
Tufts University
Using Paper-Based Microfluidic Devices to Bring Hematology to the Point-of-Care
2/12/18

McCarley, Robin L.
Professor
Louisiana State University
Stimuli-responsive Systems for Molecule Capture and Release
4/19/10

McCreery, Richard
Professor of Chemistry
University of Alberta
Molecules in Circuits: a New Breed of Microelectronics?
11/23/15

Muddiman, David C.
Professor
North Carolina State University
Aligning Chemistry and High End Mass Spectrometry with Important Clinical Problems: Building a Strong Foundation Based on Interdisciplinary Collaborations
3/30/09

Northrup, Allen
Ph.D..
Microfluidic Systems
Biodetection: From Micro to Macrofluidics and Back Again
4/11/11

Patrie, Steven
Assistant Professor
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
Top-Down Proteoform Analysis in Clinical Proteomics Investigations of Neuroinflammatory and Neurodegenerative Disease
10/14/13

Pemberton, Jeanne
Regents Professor
University of Arizona
Interface Challenges in Organic Photovoltaics
11/14/11

Polfer, Nick
Assistant Professor
University of Florida
Gas-Phase Fragmentation Reactions Probed by Infrared Spectroscopy: From Biological Mass Spectrometry to Astrochemistry
11/7/11

Porter, Marc
USTAR Professor
University of Utah
Health Care Diagnostics and Nanoscience: What are we Measuring Anyway?
2/27/17

Pratt, Kerri
Seyhan N. Ege Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Michigan
Atmospheric Aerosol Sources and Chemical Composition in the Changing Arctic
12/7/17

Rapp, Jennifer
Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Solid-State NMR Characterization of Inorganic Materials
2/13/12

Reilly, Peter
Associate Professor
Washington State University
Developing High Resolution Ultra High Mass Spectrometry—the Art of Herding Flying Elephants
3/17/14

Reynolds, Melissa
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Colorado State University
Evaluation of Metal Organic Frameworks and Polymers as Nitric Oxide Biomaterials
1/24/14

Richardson, Susan
Ph.D..
EPA
Drinking Water Disinfection By-Products and Other Emerging Environmental Contaminants: Current Issues
1/24/11

Rodriguez Lopes, Joaquin
Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Elucidating Energy Storage in Soft Nanostructures through Versatile Electrochemistry
10/3/16

Roper, Michael
Assistant Professor
Florida State University
Synchronization of Islets of Langerhans by Glucose Waves
2/6/12

Ruotolo, Brandon
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Michigan
Structural Biology in the Gas Phase: New Approaches for Conformationally-selective Inhibitor Screening and Multiprotein Topology Mapping
2/10/14

Schumaker-Parry, Jennifer
Professor
University of Utah
Designer Plasmonic Materials for Sensing and Spectroscopy
9/22/08

Smith, Emily
Assistant Professor
Iowa State University
Fluorescence and Raman Measurements of Cell Membrane Receptor Organization and Cellular Factors Affecting Membrane Reorganization
10/31/11

Smith, Lloyd
W. L. Hubbell Professor of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin, Madison
New Technologies for the Genome Age
1/27/14

Sombers, Leslie
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Disambiguating the Complex Chemical Mechanisms underlying Basic Brain Function with Microelectrochemistry:  Dopamine, Hydrogen Peroxide and Glucose
4/14/14

Soper, Steve
Professor
Louisiana State University
Point-Of-Use System For Automated Genotyping: Monitoring Infectious Diseases
2/16/09

Spence, Dana
Associate Professor
Michigan State University
3D-Printed Laboratory Tools: A Truly Enabling Technology
2/16/15

Star, Alexander
Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Exploring Chemical Sensitivity of Carbon Nanotubes for Medical Diagnostics and Therapeutics
2/2/09

Stipkala, Jeremy
Ph.D.
Patent Attorney
Intellectual Property for University Scientists
4/16/13

Stokes Dannell, Allison
Assistant Professor
East Carolina University
MS Analysis of Peptide-Metal Complexes: Challenges and New Approaches
2/22/10

Sweedler, Jonathan V.
Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Unraveling the Secrets of the Brain with New Analytical Techniques
3/15/10

Takayama, Shuichi
Professor
University of Michigan
Biomedical Micro and Nanofluidics
2/20/17

Thielges, Megan
Assistant Professor
Indiana University
Protein Dynamics & Function via Infrared Spectroscopy
3/20/17

Tiwald, Tom
Applications Engineer
J.A. Woollam Co.
Spectroscopic Ellipsometry: Theory & Applications
5/17/16

Venton, B. Jill
Assistant Professor
University of Virginia
FSCV at Carbon-Fiber Microelectrodes: Moving Beyond Dopamine
11/2/09

Walt, David
Robinson Professor of Chemistry
Tufts University
Single Molecule Arrays for Fundamental Enzyme Studies and Ultra-Sensitive Diagnostics
4/15/13

Weber, Steve
Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Tackling the Whole Analytical Problem: Fast Capillary UHPLC for Online Monitoring of Serotonin in Microdialysate
4/23/12

White, Ryan
Professor
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Developing Specific Electrochemical Sensing and Imaging Platforms Inspired by Biology
9/19/16

White, Henry
Professor
University of Utah
Electrochemistry and Ion Channel Recordings Using Synthetic and Biological Nanopores
3/2/09

Xia, Younan
Professor
Washington University
Controlling the Assembly of Atoms into Nanocrystals with Different Shapes
10/20/08

Yan, Fei
Assistant Professor
North Carolina Central University
Chemical Sensing Based on Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
4/10/17

Zamborini, Frank
Associate Professor
University of Louisville
Electrochemical Analysis of Size, Aggregation, Composition, and Atomic Arrangement of Pure and Bimetallic Nanostructures
12/4/17

Zhang, Bo
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Washington
Fluorescence-enabled Electrochemistry and Single-Cell Imaging
11/12/12

Adelman, Karen
Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Potentiating Signal-responsive Transcription: A Dynamic Dance Between Paused Polymerase and Chromatin
10/12/11

Alabugin, Igor
Professor
Florida State University
Developing New Reactions from Old Functional Groups: DNA-Photocleavage and Bioorthogonal Chemistry
8/19/15

Arkin, Michelle
Associate Professor
University of California at San Francisco
Tackling Challenging Drug Targets, a Biophysical Perspective
3/29/17

Auld, Doug
Ph.D.
Novartis
Paradigms and Strategies to Enable Lead Discovery
10/19/16

Axelrod, Daniel
Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Dynamics of Secretion Studied by TIRF
10/28/09

Aye, Yimon
Assistant Professor
Cornell University
Deconvoluting Mixed Redox Messages with Precision Redox Targeting
12/7/16

Bachmann, Brian
Associate Professor
Vanderbilt University
From Caves to Compounds: Mining Microbiomes and Metabolomes for Natural Products
10/29/14

Bai, Yawen
Senior Investigator
National Institute of Health
Structural Mechanisms of Epigenetic Specification of Centromeres
11/1/17

Balskus, Emily
Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
Chemical Discovery in the Microbial World
4/13/16

Baum, Jean
Distinguished Professor
Rutgers University
Accessible Conformations of N-terminal Acetylated α-synuclein: Implications for Fibril Formation and Inhibition
2/26/14

Bear, James
Associate Professor & HHMI Early Career Scientist
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Controlling Cell Motility with Coronins
11/11/09

Beatty, Kimberley
Ph.D.
University of California - Berkeley
Chemical Tools for Imaging Protein and Pathogens
1/18/12

Beeler, Aaron
Professor
Boston University
Enabling Medicinal Chemistry with Synthesis and Technology
9/20/17

Begley, Tadhg
Derek Barton Professor of Chemistry
Texas A&M University
Radical SAM Enzymes in Cofactor Biosynthesis
11/19/14

Bertozzi, Carolyn
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor
Stanford University
Targeting Glyco-Immune Checkpoints for Cancer Therapy
3/29/18

Bertozzi, Carolyn R.
T. Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
Glycobiology
4/8/09

Betz, Stephen F.
Ph.D.
Crinetics Pharmaceuticals
Travels in Pharmaceutical Discovery: Molecule to Drug, Bench to Clinic
3/9/16

Blagg, Brian
Professor
University of Kansas
Hsp90 Inhibitors: Past, Present and Future
4/24/13

Boons, Geert-Jan
Franklin Professor
University of Georgia
Glycoscience: Downsizing or Oversizing?
10/9/13

Brady, Sean
Tri-Institutional Associate Professor
The Rockefeller University
Watch Where You Step, There is New Chemistry Everywhere
11/13/13

Brustad, Eric
Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Structure-Guided Directed Evolution of Highly Selective P450-based Magnetic Resonance Imaging Sensors for Dopamine and Serotonin
1/23/12

Bunnage, Mark
VP, Head of Chemistry, Biotherapeutics Research
Pfizer
Target Validation Using Chemical Probes
3/19/14

Butcher, Rebecca
Assistant Professor
University of Florida at Gainesville
Structure, Biosynthesis, and Mechanism of Small-Molecule Signals Controlling Nematode
9/21/16

Carroll, Kate
Associate Professor of Chemistry
The Scripps Research Institute
Cysteine-Mediated Redox Signaling: Chemical Tools for Biological Discovery and Beyond
3/24/16

Cate, Jamie H. D.
Associate Professor
University of California, Berkeley
New structures of the E. coli 70S Ribosome
3/4/09

Chapman, Eli
Assistant Professor
University of Arizona
Changing the Drug Discovery Perspective
2/14/17

Chen, Peng
Assistant Professor
Cornell
A Single-Molecule View of Bioinorganic Chemistry and Nanocatalysis
10/22/08

Chen, Shuibing
Assistant Professor of Chemical Biology in Surgery
Cornell University
Human Pluripotent Stem Cell in Post Genome-Wide Association Study Era
11/16/16

Cherkasov, Artem
Associate Professor
University of British Columbia - Vancouver
Addressing Drug Resistance Problem. Unorthodox Selective Targeting of Conserved Hub Proteins
10/12/16

Chuan, He
Professor
University of Chicago
Reversible Epigenetic Methylation of DNA and RNA
2/13/13

Ciftan Hens, Suzanne
Scientist
International Technology Center & RIVIS, Inc., Raleigh
Detonation Diamonds: Nanoparticles for Biochemical Applications
9/16/09

Clardy, Jon
Hsien Wu and Daisy Yen Wu Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard University
Aligning Chemical Ecology and Drug Discovery
3/30/16

Cornish, Virginia
Helena Rubinstein Professor
Columbia University
Expanding the Synthetic Capabilities of Yeast
3/13/14

Cravatt, Benjamin
Ph.D., Chairman Department of Chemical Physiology
The Scripps Research Institute
Activity-Based Proteomics – Applications for Enzyme and Inhibitor Discovery
11/8/11

Deber, Charles
Professor
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto; Senior Scientist, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
Development of Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides Against Bacterial Biofilms
5/8/13

Ding, Sheng
Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California at San Francisco
A Chemical Approach to Controlling Cell Fate
11/12/14

Disney, Matthew D.
Assistant Professor
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Progress Toward the Rational and Modular Design of Small Molecules Targeting RNA
3/3/10

Dodani, Sheel
Ph.D.
Caltech
Discovering New Chemistry from Neurons to Microbes
12/7/15

Dorrestein, Peter
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California San Diego
The Social Molecular Networks of Microbes
10/21/15

Dunker, A. Keith
Professor of Medical Research, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Informatics
Indiana University Schools of Medicine & Informatics
Intrinsic Disorder and Developmental Biology
9/2/09

Ellington, Andy
Professor
University of Texas, Austin
Systems Biology Eats Synthetic Biology
3/17/10

Elsohly, Adel
Ph.D.
Berkeley
Synthetic Approaches to Bioactive, Polycyclic Alkaloids and New Materials Empowered by Efficient Oxidative Coupling Reactions
12/9/15

Engelward, Bevin
Associate Professor of Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DNA Breaks Link Cancer and Infection
10/5/11

Fischbach, Michael
Associate Professor
University of California San Francisco
Insights From a Global View of Secondary Metabolism: Small Molecules from the Human Microbiota
10/14/15

Freundlich, Joel
Associate Professor
Rutgers University
A Novel Intersection of Computation, Chemistry, and Biology in the Study of Tuberculosis
12/3/14

Fu, Haian
Professor
Emory University
Interrogating Protein-Protein Interaction Networks for Anticancer Target Discovery
12/4/13

Golden, Jennifer E.
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin
Development of First In Class Encephalitic Alphavirus Inhibitors with In Vivo Efficacy
4/25/18

Gray, Harry B.
Professor
Caltec
The 21st Century Chemistry Grand Challenge: Fuel from Sunlight and Water
10/13/08

Gray, Nathaneal
Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Institute
Targeting the Kinome in Academia: Resistance in Bcr-Abl and EGFR Kinases
11/10/10

Guarné, Alba
Associate Professor
McMaster University
Visualizing Transient Interactions in DNA Mismatch Repair
3/25/15

Guiseppi-Elie, Anthony
ScD
Clemson University
Biologically Inspired Microsystems for Achieving Physiological Stasis
9/27/13

Guy, Kip
Professor
University of Kentucky
Targeting Cullin Ring Ligases by Inhibiting the DCN1-UBC12 Interaction
3/8/17

Hadden, Kyle
Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
UConn
Hedgehog Pathway Modulators as Therapeutic Agents
1/14/15

Haiser, Henry
Ph.D.
Novartis
Characterizing Immunomodulatory Small Molecules Produced by the Human Microbiota
4/11/18

Hall, Traci
Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Natural and Designed RNA Target Specificity by Pumilio/FBF Proteins
9/7/11

Hammond, Ming C.
Assistant Professor
University of California at Berkeley
Riboswitches as Privileged Scaffolds for In Vivo Sensing, Directed Evolution, and Targeting
10/16/14

Hargrove, Amanda Elaine
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Duke University
Deciphering Patterns in Selective Small Molecule: RNA Interactions
12/6/17

Hilgen-Willis, Sharon
Ph.D.
Integral Molecular
Adventures with Membrane Proteins: From Antibodies to Taste Perception
10/28/15

Hof, Fraser
Professor
University of Victoria, BC - Canada
Specific, Pan-Specific or Perfectly Promiscuous: New Chemical Tools for Studying Protein Methylation
9/28/16

Hong, Zhi
Senior Vice President and Head of Infectious Diseases Therapy Area Unit
GlaxoSmithKline
Infectious Disease Medicines Discovery and Development: The Challenges and Opportunities
2/23/11

Hopkins, Andrew
Professor
University of Dundee
Polypharmacology in Drug Design
4/10/13

Hopkins, Cory
Associate Professor
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Discovery and Optimization of Novel, Small Molecules as in Vivo Tool Compounds and Beyond
3/28/18

Hrycyna, Christine
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Purdue University
Ras Protein Carboxyl Methyltransferase: Structure, Function and Inhibitor Development
11/7/12

Hsieh-Wilson, Linda
Professor
California Institute of Technology
The Chemical Neurobiology of Carbohydrates
2/22/12

Ji, Haitao (Mark)
Assistant Professor
University of Utah
Hot Spot-Based Design of Small-Molecule Inhibitors for Beta-Catenin/T-Cell Factor and Beta-Catenin/B-Cell Lymphoma 9 Interactions
2/25/15

Kapoor, Tarun
Pels Family Professor
Rockefeller University
Using Chemistry to Dissect Dynamic Cellular Processes
10/7/15

Kazlauskas, Romas
Professor
University of Minnesota
Using Ideas from Evolution to Engineer Enzymes
10/16/13

Khanna, Rajesh
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Indiana University
A Novel Peptide-based Therapeutic for Relief of Chronic Pain
9/14/11

Khosla, Chaitan
Wells H. Rauser and Harold M. Petiprin Professor in the School of Engineering; Professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biochemistry
Stanford University
Assembly Line Biosynthesis of Polyketide Antibiotics
1/15/14

Koc, Emine C.
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Pennsylvania State University
Regulation of Protein Synthesis in Mammalian Mitochondria
9/30/09

Kodadek, Thomas
Professor
The Scripps Research Institute
Chemical Tools to Monitor and Manipulate the Proteome
11/9/11

Li, Bo
Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Biosynthesis of Cyclic Natural Products Containing Sulfur Bridges
2/6/12

Lim, Mi Hee
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Michigan
Development of Chemical Reagents for Targeting and Modulating Metal-Associated Misfolded Proteins in Human Neurodegenerative Diseases
10/17/12

Lin, Hening
Professor
Cornell University
Sirtuins and Novel PTMs in Cell Signaling and Cancer
12/13/17

Liu, Wenshe
Associate Professor
Texas A&M
The Pyrrolysine Incorporation Machinery as a Genetic Code Expansion Device
2/19/14

Lu, Yi
Jay and Ann Schenck Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Materials Science and Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Design and Selection of Metalloenzymes and their Applications as Biocatalysts in Alternative Energies and as Biosensors in Sensing and Imaging
2/15/17

Mapp, Anna
Edwin Vedejs Collegiate Professor of Chemistry
University of Michigan
Small Molecule Transcriptional Modulators
1/29/14

Mapp, Anna
Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Program in Chemical Biology
University of Michigan
Capturing Coactivators with Small Molecules
11/8/17

Martin, Stephen
M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Regents Chair in Chemistry
The University of Texas at Austin
Correlating Structure and Energetics in Protein-Ligand Interactions: Paradigms and Paradoxes
2/6/13

McCafferty, Dewey
Professor
Duke University
Chemical Biology of Microbial Pathogenesis
9/10/14

McNally, James
Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Measuring Live-Cell Binding to Understand Transcription in vivo
11/14/12

Meier, Jordan
Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Next-Generation Applications of DNA Binding Py-Im Polyamides
1/30/12

Meier, Jordan L.
Investigator
NIH Chemical Biology Laboratory
New Insights into Acetylation Signaling from Chemoproteomics
4/18/18

Mer, Georges
Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic
Post-Translational Modifications in DNA Damage Response
12/2/15

Meyer, Tobias
Professor
Stanford
Systems Biology of Cell Migration and Ca2+ Signaling
4/14/10

Miller, Stephen
Associate Professor
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Building Better Luciferins and Fluorophores for Live Cell Imaging
1/9/13

Minton, Allen
Ph.D.
National Institues of Health
Assessing the Contribution of Chemical Interactions to Macromolecular Crowding
4/4/12

Modrich, Paul L.
James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry, Nobel Laureate
Duke University
Mechanisms in Human DNA Mismatch Repair
4/13/17

Moore, Bradley
Professor
UC San Diego - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Raiding Microbial Genomes for new Chemical and Biochemical Inspiration
4/8/15

Morar, Sorina
Investigator
GlaxoSmithKline
Biopharmaceutical Formulation Development: A Protein Chemist's Perspective
8/27/14

Nierhaus, Knud
Professor
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Ribosomes Still Offer Surprises: LepA (EF4) Is An Old Elongation Factor With a New Function
11/13/08

Ortlund, Eric
Associate Professor
Emory University
New Paradigms in Glucocorticoid Receptor Signaling
1/27/16

Page, Rebecca
Associate Professor of Biology
Brown University
MasQueRAde: A Novel Toxin : Antitoxin System that Regulates Persistence and Antibiotic Resistance in E. coli
3/20/13

Pierce, Joshua G.
Associate professor
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Marine Natural Products Synthesis: A Platform for Chemical and Biological Discovery
9/14/16

Pollastri, Michael
Professor
Northeastern University
Target Repurposing Accelerates Drug Discovery for Neglected Tropical Diseases
9/4/13

Pomerantz, Will
Assistant Professor and McKnight Landgrant Professor
University of Minnesota
Fluorinated Bromodomains: Choosing the Right Halogen for Small Molecule Discovery
3/2/17

Raines, Ronald T.
Henry Lardy Professor of Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Diazo Compounds: Versatile Tools for Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry
3/22/17

Rastinejad, Fraydoon
Professor
University of Virginia
Structure-Function Studies of Orphan Nuclear Receptors
2/4/09

Record, M. Thomas
Steenbock Professor in Chemical Sciences
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Relevance of Solute and Salt Effects to Noncovalent Self-Assembly
3/23/16

Rokita, Steven E.
Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Dynamic Alkylation and Its Consequences for DNA
4/20/16

Rose, George
Professor
Johns Hopkins
Entropy: The Neglected Free Energy Term in Protein Folding
4/22/15

Saunders, Aleister
Senior Vice Provost for Research, Professor
Drexel University
Short Coding and Non-coding Stories: Amyloid Precursor Protein Expression and Processing
4/26/17

Schephartz, Alanna
Sterling Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Yale University
Seeing Into Cells
5/2/18

Schmidt, Eric
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Adjunct Professor of Biology
University of Utah
Tales From the Microbiome: Integrating Drug Discovery, Synthetic Biology, and Metagenomics
4/6/16

Schneekloth, Jr., Jay
Ph.D.
NCI/CCR - Frederick
Targeting Structurally and Functionally Diverse Nucleic Acids with Drug-Like Small Molecules
9/7/16

Schumacher, Maria
Professor of Biochemistry
Duke University
Molecular Mechanisms of DNA Packaging and Segregation
10/24/12

Shokat, Kevan
Professor
University of California at San Francisco
Chemical Genetic Dissection of Kinase Signaling Cascades in Cancer
12/8/10

Shoulders, Matthew
Ph.D.
Scripps Research Institute
Deciphering and Dictating Cellular Protein Homeostasis
1/25/12

Stafford, Jeffrey
Ph.D.
Quanticell
Applications of Structure-Based Drug Design in the Discoveries of Alogliptin and Pazopanib
12/7/11

Stains, Cliff I.
Assistant Professor
University of Nebraska
Chemical Approaches for Interrogating Cellular Processes
4/27/16

Sturla, Shana
Professor of Toxicology
ETH Zurich
Chemical Biotransformations and Toxicity: From Cancer Cells to Gut Microbes
2/1/17

Summers, Michael
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Mechanisms for Attracting, Retaining, and Educating a Diverse STEM Workforce.
A Presentation on the Meyerhoff Program.
10/30/12

Superfine, Richard
Distinguished Term Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Physics of Lung Defense: Cilia, Silia and Silly Putty
11/18/09

Tang, Yi
Faculty Professor
University of California at Los Angeles
Discovery of New Enzyme Chemistry from Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways
4/12/17

Theriot, Casey
Assistant Professor
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Design of Microbiota-Mediated Secondary Bile Acids in the Gut to Restore Colonization Resistance Against C. Difficile
11/9/16

Thomas, Wendy
Assistant Professor
University of Washington, Seattle
Mechanical Regulation of Receptor-Ligand Bonds
2/17/09

Thompson, Paul
Associate Professor
The Scripps Research Institute
Chemical Probes for the Protein Arginine Deiminases: Therapeutic Targets for Inflammatory Disease and Cancer
1/23/13

Thorson, Jon
Professor
University of Kentucky
Microbial Natural Products Discovery and Diversification
2/22/17

Townsend, Craig
Alsoph H. Corwin Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Convergent Evolution and Diverse Chemical Solutions to Antibiotic Biosynthesis
4/19/17

Tullius, Tom
Professor
Boston University
The Role of DNA Shape In The Workings Of The Human Genome
10/27/10

Udugamasooriya, Gomika
Assistant Professor
University of Texas - Southwestern
Peptoid-Combinatorial Strategies to Target Biomarkers in the Tumor Microenvironment
9/17/14

Uhlenbeck, Olke
Professor
Northwestern University
Hammerhead Redux
10/29/08

van der Donk, Wilfred
Richard E. Heckert Endowed Chair in Chemistry
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
Biosynthesis of Cyclic Peptide Antibiotics
2/12/14

Wang, Qiu
Assistant Professor
Duke University
Leveraging Chemistry for Biology and Therapy: New Strategies to Access Biologically Important Nitrogen-Containing Molecules
2/4/15

Wang, Lai-Xi
Professor
University of Maryland
Chemoenzymatic Synthesis and Functional Studies of Glycoproteins
2/15/12

Wang, Shaomeng
Professor of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology
University of Michigan
Building a Successful Drug Discovery Program in Academia
9/2/15

Watts, Jonathan
Ph.D.
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
Oligonucleotides in Chemical Biology: Tools and Applications
1/12/12

Weisshaar, Jim
Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Single-Cell, Real-Time Observation of the Attack of the Human Antimicrobial Peptide LL-37 on Live E. coli
3/16/11

Wells, James A.
Harry Wm. and Diana V. Hind Distinguished Professorship in Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of California, San Francisco
Discovery and Design of Small Molecules that Modulate Inflammation and Cancer
4/15/09

Went, Greg
Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer & Chairman
Adamas Pharmaceuticals
Drug Development for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Diseases
4/11/12

Wershel, Arieh
Nobel Laureate, Professor of Biochemistry
University of Southern California
How to Simulate the Action of Complex Biological Systems on a Molecular Level
9/27/17

Wilson, Elizabeth M.
Professor
Department of Pediatrics and Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Interaction Motifs of the Androgen Receptor and Its Coregulators
12/2/09

Withers, Stephen G.
Professor
University of British Columbia
New Approaches to Enzymatic Glycoside Synthesis Through Directed Evolution
4/28/10

Wu, Peng
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Chemical Tools for Studying Glycans in Living Organisms
9/12/12

Yeates, Todd
Professor
University of California at Los Angeles
Natural and Engineered Protein Cages: Structure, Function, and Frameworks for Synthetic Biology
2/27/13

Yokoyama, Kenichi
Assistant Professor
Duke University
Antifungal Nucleosides: Mechanism of Biosynthesis and Potentials for Genomics-Guided Discovery
2/8/17

Zhang, Zhong-Yin
Head, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; Distinguished Professor of Medicinal Chemistry; Robert C. and Charlotte P. Anderson Chair in Pharmacology
Purdue University
Drugging the Undruggable: Therapeutic Potential of Targeting Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases
11/2/16

Zhao, Huimin
Centennial Chair Professor
University of Illinois
Synthetic Biology: Putting Synthesis into Biology
4/15/15

Abu-Omar, Mahdi
Professor
Purdue University
Atom Transfer and Dioxygen Evolution in Porphyrin and Corrole Complexes
2/11/10

Anderson, Harry L.
Professor of Chemistry
Oxford University
Synthesis and Photophysics of Light Harvesting Nanorings: Flow of Energy & Charge in Porphyrin Arrays
9/7/16

Appel, Aaaron
Senior Research Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Reduction of CO2 Using an Energy-Based Approach to Molecular Catalysis
9/17/13

Ardo, Shane
Assistant Professor
University of California at Irvine
Protonic Solar Cells by Sensitization of Passive Ion-Selective Polymers with Photoacid Dyes
4/17/18

Armstrong, Neal
Professor
University of Arizona
The Interface Science of Organic (and Semiconductor Nanocrystal) Energy Conversion Platforms
12/2/11

Assefa, Zerihun
Professor
North Carolina A&T State University
Emission Enhancement through Dual Donor Sensitization: Modulation of Structural and Spectroscopic Properties in a Series of Lanthanide-Late-Transition Metal Coordination Polymers.
3/8/16

Augustyn, Veronica
Assistant Professor
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
The Role of Structural Water in Electrochemical Energy Storage of Tungsten Oxides
9/12/17

Bartlett, Bart
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Michigan
Designing Chemically Robust Metal Oxides for Visible-Light Photocatalysis: toward Solar Z-Scheme Water Splitting
2/26/13

Beaulac, Remi
Assistant Professor
Michigan State University
Extracting Charge Carriers from Colloidal Quantum Dots: Challenges and New Perspectives
1/17/17

Bedford, Robin
Professor
University of Bristol
Iron Cauldrons and Witches Brews
1/24/13

Bediako, Kwabena
Ph.D.
MIT
Towards Solar-Fuels: Oxygen Evolution with Cobalt and Nickel Oxide Electrocatalyst Films
1/13/15

Berben, Louise
Associate Professor
University of California at Davis
Selective C-H Bond Formation with CO2; Mechanistic Insights with Molecular Electrocatalysts
11/7/17

Berry, John
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Coordination Complexes with Multiple Inorganic Functional Groups
3/15/11

Bertrand, Guy
Distinguished Professor
University of California at San Diego
Stable Carbenes and Related Species as Powerful Tools in Organic, Organometallic, and Inorganic Chemistry
9/26/17

Bierbach, Uli
Professor
Wake Forest University
Medicinal and Biochemical Applications of Platinum-Intercalator Conjugates
10/26/10

Bignozzi, Carlo Albert
Professor
Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences - University of Ferrara
Photoelectrochemical Devices in Solar Energy Conversion Processes
8/18/16

Bocarsly, Andrew
Professor
Princeton University
Photoelectrochemical Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Organics: Single Electron Redox Catalysis of a Multielectron Process
11/9/10

Burdette, Shawn
Assistant Professor
University of Connecticut
Development of Caged-Complexes for Studying Zn2+ Signaling and Homeostasis
2/22/10

Byers, Jeffery A.
Assistant Professor
Boston College
Iron-Based Catalysts for the Diversification of a Biodegradable Polymer
2/23/16

Castellano, Phil
Professor
North Carolina State University
Homogeneous Approaches to Solar Hydrogen Photocatalysis
10/15/13

Chang, Christopher J.
Associate Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Chemical Approaches to Understanding Metal and Oxidation Biology in the Brain
4/21/10

Chaudret, Bruno
Ph.D.
National Institute of Applied Sciences, Toulouse, France
Organometallic Nanoparticles: Surface Characterization and Reactivity
3/20/12

Clark, Timothy
Assistant Professor
University of San Diego
Substrate-Directed Ortho-C–H Borylation of Substituted Arenes
1/22/13

Cohen, Seth
Professor
University of California at San Diego
Postsynthetic Covalent Modification of Metal-Organic Frameworks
4/8/09

Cossairt, Brandi M.
Assistant Professor
University of Washington
From Multimetallic Catalysts to Nanoscale Phosphides: Building Complex Inorganic “Molecules” with Atom-Level Precision
3/21/17

Costentin, Cyrille
Professor
Universite Paris Diderot
Molecular Catalysis of Electrochemical Reactions: Principles and Applications; Reduction of CO2 and O2 with Transition Metal Porphyrins
2/20/18

D'Allesandro, Deanna
ARC Queen Elizabeth (II) Fellow
University of Sydney - Australia
Stimuli Responsive Microporous Materials
5/10/16

De Cola, Luisa
Professor
University of Strasbourg
Dynamic and Hybrid Materials - Properties and Applications
3/11/14

Deaton, Joseph
Associate Professor
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Delayed Fluorescence of a Cu2N2 Diamond Core Complex: Harvesting Singlet and Triplet Excitons in OLEDS
11/19/13

Deronzier, Alain
Ph.D.
Departement de Chimie Moleculaire, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
The electrocatalytic Reduction — A convenient Process to use Carbon Dioxide as a renewable Carbon Source?
7/27/12

Detty, Michael
Professor
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Novel Chromophores for Photo-induced Charge Transfer: Chalcogenorhodamine and Chalcogenopyrylium Dyes
5/15/14

Doerrer, Linda
Professor
Boston University
Putting Metals to Work: Transition Metal Complexes for Electron Transfer and Electron Transport
4/5/11

Duncan, Michael
Professor
University of Georgia
Infrared Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Cation-Molecular Complexes
10/22/15

Ess, Daniel
Professor
Brigham Young University
Mechanisms and Reactivity with Monometallic, Bimetallic, and Main-Group Metal Catalysts
1/27/15

Etienne, Michel
Professor
Université Paul Sabatiér
From CC Agostic Interactions to CH Bond Activation
11/18/13

Evans, William
Professor of Chemistry
University of California Irvine
The Importance of Questioning Scientific Assumptions: Lessons from Rare Earth Metal and Uranium Chemistry
11/12/12

Findlater, Michael
Assistant Professor
Texas Tech University
Base-Metal Catalyzed Reactions: Hydrosilylation of Carbonyl-Containing Molecules
3/29/16

Fout, Alison R.
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ligand Influences on Base Metals for Multi-Electron Transformations
1/31/17

Franz, Kathy
Professor
Duke University
Manipulating Metal-Catalyzed Oxidative Stress
9/30/08

Fraser, Cassandra
Professor
University of Virginia
Luminescent Boron Materials for Imaging and Sensing
10/16/12

Fryzuk, Michael
Professor of Chemistry
University of British Columbia
Organometallic Approaches to Nitrogen Fixation
10/12/12

Gabbai, Francois
Professor
Texas A & M University
Cationic Lewis Acids - Reduction Chemistry and Anion Complexation
11/11/08

Gamelin, Daniel
Harry and Catherine Jaynne Boand Endowed Professor of Chemistry
University of Washington
Physical Properties of Doped Quantum Dots
4/3/13

Ghiladi, Reza
Assistant Professor
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
The Dehaloperoxidase Paradox: How Nature Differentiates Between Oxygen Transport, Peroxidase, and Peroxygenase Activities at a Heme Center
4/3/12

Gilliard, Jr., Robert Jerard
UNCF/Merck and Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Science Research Fellow
Case Western Reserve University
N-Heterocylic Carbenes: Effective Tools for Small Molecule Stabilization
10/11/16

Gladysz, John
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry; Dow Chair in Chemical Invention
Texas A&M University
From Molecular Gyroscopes to Homeomorphic Isomerization: Molecules that Turn Themselves Inside-Out
3/2/12

Glass, Richard
Professor
University of Arizona
Biomimetic Diiron Catalysts for Hydrogen Production
2/24/09

Goldman, Alan
Distinguished Pofessor
Rutgers University
Catalysis by Pincer-Iridium Complexes. Breaking C-H Bonds, Making C-C Bonds, and Various Combinations Thereof
3/6/18

Gray, Harry
Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry
Caltech
Solar-Driven Water Splitting
4/7/15

Grotjahn, Douglas B.
Professor
San Diego State University
Moving Protons: Bifunctional Catalysis for Organic Chemistry and Energy
4/29/14

Guan, Hairong
Professor
University of Cincinnati
Catalysis Involving Nickel and Iron Bis(phosphinite) Pincer Complexes
11/1/11

Gueletii, Iourii
Senior Scientist
Emory University
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfers and the Effect of Cations in Multi-Electron Transfer Reactions. Rate-Determining Step in Light-Driven Water Oxidation Systems.
9/29/15

Gunnoe, T. Brent
Professor
University of Virginia
Development of New Catalysts for the Functionalization of Hydrocarbons
3/30/10

Haga, Masa-aki
Professor
Chuo University, Tokyo
Development of Molecular Switching Devices Based on Proton-coupled Electron Transfer in Ru and Ir Complexes
11/5/10

Hammarström, Leif
Professor
University of Uppsala, Sweden
Molecular Mechanisms of Artificial Photosynthesis
10/7/14

Hanson, Kenneth
Assistant Professor
Florida State University
Harnessing Molecular Photon Upconversion Using Self-Assembled Multilayers on Metal Oxide Surfaces
1/31/18

Hartings, Matthew
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
American University
Doing Unnatural Things with Nature: Catalysis of Heme Proteins in Organic Solvents
4/15/14

Hazari, Nilay
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Yale University
Pincer Supported Late Transition Metal Complexes for the Conversion of Carbon Dioxide
2/18/14

Heinekey, Michael
Professor
University of Washington
Coordination Chemistry of Hydrogen: Activation and Storage
3/31/09

Helm, Monte
Catalysis Science Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Lab
Rational Design of Molecular Electrocatalysts for Oxidation and Production of H2 Using First Row transition metals
2/24/15

Hembre, Robert
Ph.D..
Eastman Chemical Company
Evolving Challenges in Catalysis
4/19/11

Herrick, Richard
Distinguished O'Rorke Professor
Holy Cross University
Applications of Organometallic Rhenium Compounds in Biochemistry
1/18/11

Heyduk, Alan
Associate Professor
University of California Irvine
Redox-Active Ligands in Late Transition Metal Complexes: Multi-Electron Reactions and Charge-Transfer Molecules
10/24/13

Holland, Patrick
Professor
University of Rochester
Understanding the Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation using Low-Coordinate Iron Complexes
1/25/11

Huang, Jier
Assistant Professor
Marquette University
Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks, ZIFs, as Intrinsic Photocatalytic Materials
1/23/18

Hupp, Joseph
Professor
Northwestern University and Argonne National Lab
Toward Solar Fuels: Water Splitting with Sunlight and Rust?
3/13/13

Hyeon, Taeghwan
Professor
Seoul National University
Large-scale Synthesis of Uniform-sized Nanoparticles and their Designed Assembly and Multifunctional Biomedical Applications
10/14/08

Iluc, Vlad
Assistant Professor
Notre Dame University
Secondary Metal-Ligand Interactions: C-H Activation and Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonding in Palladium Carbene Complexes
11/17/15

Ison, Elon
Assistant Professor
North Carolina State University
Rational Design of Transition Metal Catalysts for Green Chemistry
10/13/09

Ison, Elon
Associate Professor
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Transition Metal Oxos as the Lewis Base Component of Frustrated Lewis Pairs
9/13/16

Ito, Shingo
Assistant Professor
University of Tokyo
Synthesis of Novel Functionalized Polyolefins by Transition Metal Catalysis
11/29/11

Jakubikova, Elena
Assistant Professor
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Iron Complexes as Photosensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Computational Exploration of Fe(II)-Polypyridine/TiO2 Systems
10/11/11

Jakubikova, Elena
Assistant Professor
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Toward Computational Design of Iron-Based Chromophores for Solar Energy Conversion
3/1/16

Jones, Christopher W.
Prof
Georgia Tech
Heterogenized M-Salen Catalysts for Enantioselective Reactions
2/2/10

Jones, Amanda
Assistant Professor
Wake Forest University
Structure and Reactivity of Gold (I) Complexes Relevant to Catalysis
4/5/16

Karlin, Kenneth
Professor
Johns Hopkins
Primary Copper-Dioxygen Adducts; Copper Enzymes and Synthetic Bioinorganic Chemistry
1/22/15

Kawanishi, Yuji
Ph.D.
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Isotope Effect on Photo-Functionality of Metal Complexes
1/17/12

Kelly, John M.
Professor
Trinity College, Dublin
Transient Spectroscopic Studies of Metal Complexes and Nucleic Acids
11/29/10

Killian, Chris
Vice President, Specialty Products Technology
The Eastman Company
Eastman Chemical: From Chemical Division of Kodak to Materials Innovation Powerhouse
1/12/16

Kirk, Martin L.
Professor
University of New Mexico
Donor-Acceptor Interactions Relevant to Charge Separation and Charge Transport
4/1/14

Klimov, Victor I.
Ph.D., Director of the Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics
Los Alamos National Laboratories
Overview of the Work Performed at LANL EFRC
3/12/13

Klosterman, Jeremy K.
Assistant Professor
Bowling Green State University
Directing Aggregation of Donor-Acceptor Organic Dyes within Metal-Organic Frameworks
2/2/16

Krska, Shane
Principal Scientist
Merck
High-Throughput Experimentation as an Enabling Tool for Solving Challenging Problems in Catalysis
3/27/14

Kubiak, Clifford P.
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Harold C. Urey Chair in Chemistry
University of California at San Diego
If You Make A Solar Fuel From CO2, What Should It Be?
11/10/16

Kuila, Debashish
Dr.
North Carolina A&T State University
SAM as a Platform for Molecular Electronics and Cell Biology Applications
11/3/09

Lear, Ben
Assistant Professor
The Pennsylvania State University
Ground State Electron Mobility in Molecules and Materials
4/21/15

Lewis, Nathan S.
Professor
California Institute of Technology
Sunlight-Driven Hydrogen Formation by Membrane-Supported Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
1/15/09

Li, Jing
Professor
Rutgers University
A New Family of Sorbent Materials: Porosity, Functionality, and Potential Applications in Sensing, Gas Storage and Separation
10/19/10

Long, Jeffrey
Professor
University of California at Berkeley
Hydrogen Storage in Metal-Organic Frameworks
4/14/09

Lu, Connie
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota
Harnessing Metal-Metal Bonds: Redox Properties and Small-Molecule Reactivity
11/4/14

MacDonald, Margaret
Conservation Science Fellow
National Gallery of Art
Watching Paint Dry: Working at the Interface of Chemistry and Art
3/2/10

MacDonnell, Fred
Professor
University of Texas, Arlington
Photodriven Multi-Electron Reduction of Ruthenium Complexes: Potential Towards Hydrogen Production
10/28/08

Mayer, James M.
Professor
University of Washington
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: From Hydrogen Atom Transfer and Marcus Theory to Electrocatalysis to Nanoparticles
11/14/13

McNamara, William R.
Assistant Professor
William & Mary
Solar Fuel Production: First-Row Transition Metal Complexes for Hydrogen Generation
4/18/17

Meyer, Gerald
Bernard N. Baker Professor of Chemistry
Departments of Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Molecular Donor-Acceptor Compounds for Solar Energy Conversion
8/27/13

Mirica, Liviu
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Washington University
Oxidation Reactivity of Pd(III) and Pd(IV) Complexes Supported by Flexible Multidentate Ligands
1/31/13

Morris, Amanda
Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech
Exploring Metal Organic Frameworks for Use as Integrated Artificial Photosynthetic Assemblies
1/19/16

Moyer, Bruce
Ph.D.
Oakridge National Laboratories
Separation of Minor Actinides: A Team Approach to the Back End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
10/21/11

Muckerman, James T.
Senior Chemist
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Theoretical Insights into Carbon Dioxide Reduction and Hydrogenation
11/11/14

Murray, Leslie
Professor
University of Florida
All Wrapped Up: Multimetallic Complexes Housed Within Macrobicyclic Ligands
2/6/15

Neilson, Jamie
Assistant Professor
Colorado State University
A Photovoltaic Revolution from the Crystal Chemistry of Perovskite Halides
10/17/17

Park, So-Jung
Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Controlling Materials Properties through the Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles, Conjugated Polymers, and DNA
2/1/11

Parkin, Gerard
Professor
Columbia University
Biorganometallic Chemistry of Mercury and the Impact of Coordination of Lewis Acids to Metal Centers
3/17/09

Peréz, Pedro
Professor
Universidad de Huelva, Spain
Catalyst Development Toward Methane and Light Alkane Functionalization in Non-Conventional Media
5/1/18

Perutz, Robin
Professor
University of York
Photochemistry of Metal Hydride Complexes Inside an NMR Spectrometer: Pump-Probe Spectroscopy
12/5/17

Peryshkov, Dmitry
Assistant Professor
University of South Carolina
Carborane Cluster Architectures Featuring Multiple Metal-Boron Interactions
1/16/18

Pörschke, Klaus-Richard
Professor
Max Planck Institute for Coal Research
Anion Effects in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
4/11/17

Prieto, Amy
Associate Professor
Colorado State University
Inexpensive, Efficient Approaches for Energy Production and Storage
10/1/13

Rauchfuss, Thomas
William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor of Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Bioorganometallic Chemistry of Hydrogen
9/29/11

Robinson, Gregory
Franklin Professor of Chemistry
University of Georgia
Counterintuitive Chemistry: Carbene-Stabilization of Highly Reactive Molecules
10/20/09

Rosenthal, Joel
Associate Professor
University of Delaware
Efficient Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Fuels by Post Transition Metal Cathodes and Room Temperature Ionic Liquids
1/26/16

Rosi, Nathaniel
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Biomolecules as Building Blocks for Directing the Structure and Function of New Materials
10/12/10

Rumbles, Garry
Research Fellow
NREL, University of Colorado at Boulder
Comparing The Primary Electron Transfer Process in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers with Organic Photovoltaic Heterojunctions
12/9/11

Sabo-Etienne, Sylviane
Ph.D.
University of Toulouse
A Toolbox of Sigma-Complexes: Catalytic Transformation of Small Molecules
11/1/16

Sabo-Etienne, CNRS, Sylviane
Professor
Toulouse University
Hydrogen and Boranes at Ruthenium. Bonding and Catalysis
8/24/12

Sadow, Aaron
Professor
Iowa State University
Organometallic Compounds with Oxazolinylborate Ligands and beta-SiH Moieties
3/4/10

Sanford, Melanie S.
Moses Gomberg Collegiate Professor of Chemistry
University of Michigan
Development and Applications of Transition Metal Catalyzed CH Functionalization Reactions
10/9/14

Schrock, Richard
Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Olefin Metathesis by Mo and W Catalysts: Not Just Chopped Liver
11/7/13

Shustova, Natalia B.
Assistant Professor
University of South Carolina
Mimicking Nature by Metal-Organic Frameworks: Energy Transfer in Photochromic and Fulleretic MOFs
2/21/17

Soper, Jake
Assistant Professor
Georgia Tech
Redox-Active Ligand-Mediated Organometallic Catalysis at Manganese and Cobalt: New Routes to sp3-Hybridized C-C Bonds
9/22/09

Stradiotto, Mark
Professor
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Exploiting "DalPhos" Ligands in Challenging Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions
4/13/12

Surendranath, Yogesh
Paul M Cook Career Development Assistant Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bridging Molecular and Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis Through Graphite Conjugation
3/27/18

Szymczak, Nathaniel
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Using a Metal’s Secondary Coordination Sphere to Control Reductive Catalysis of Polar Bonds
4/26/16

Takeuchi, Kenneth J.
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor
State University of New York at Buffalo
Group 8 Inorganic Chemistry: From Ruthenium Coordination Complexes to Iron Based Materials
3/16/10

Takeuchi, Esther
Greatbatch Professor of Advanced Power Sources
State University of New York at Buffalo
Vanadium Based Cathodes for Lithium Batteries
3/16/10

Taylor-Pashow, Kathryn
Staff Scientist
DOE - Savannah River National Laboratory
The Use of Titanates in the Treatment of High Level Nuclear Waste at the Savannah River Site
5/24/12

Thomas, Christine
Assistant Professor
Brandeis University
Metal-Metal Multiple Bonds in Early/Late Heterobimetallic Complexes: Applications Towards Small Molecule Activation and Catalysis
9/23/10

Thomas, Sir John Meurig
Professor
University of Cambridge
Design and Application of Single Site Heterogeneous Catalysts
9/7/11

Thompson, Mark
Ray R. Irani Chair of Chemistry
University of Southern California
Getting Around the Current-Voltage Trade Off in Organic Solar Cells
10/20/15

Thorp, Holden
Provost and Rita Levi-Montalcini Distinguished University Professor
Departments of Chemistry and Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis
Using Coordination Chemistry to Design Better Inhibitors for Metalloenzymes
11/8/17

Thummel, Randy
John & Rebecca Moores Professor
University of Houston
Designing Ligands to Capture the Sun
9/17/09

Tonks, Ian
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota
Ti-Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer Reactions; Harnessing the TiII/TiIV Redox Couple for New Organic Methods
2/6/18

Uyeda, Christopher
Assistant Professor
Purdue University
Catalysis at Metal-Metal Bonds
4/10/18

Veige, Adam
Assistant Professor
University of Florida
New Ligand Designs for Precise Control of Organometallic Catalyst Chirality, Geometry, Oxidation State, and Reactivity
11/10/09

Vicic, David
Assistant Professor
Lehigh University
Organometallic Aspects of Alkyl and Fluoroalkyl Cross-Coupling Reactions
2/17/15

Vicic, David
Professor and Chairman
Lehigh University
New Fluoro-Organometallic Chemistry of Nickel and Copper
10/24/17

Villagran, Dino
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at El Paso
Manipulating the Redox Chemistry of Bimetallic and Organic Macrocycles for small Molecule Activation and Water Remediation
2/28/17

Wagenknecht, Paul
Herman N. Hipp Professor
Furman University
Molecular Examples of Iron(II) to Titanium(IV) Charge Transfer: Relevance to Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Blue Sapphire, and Moon Rocks.
11/22/16

Wang, Yuhuang
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Maryland
Defect Chemistry of sp2 Carbon Lattices
4/18/13

Weare, Walter
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Controlling the Energetics and Lifetimes of Ligand-to-Metal and Metal-to-Metal Charge Transfer States
3/4/14

Wei, Alexander
Professor
Purdue University
Polarization-Sensitive NIR Imaging and Theranostics With Gold Nanorods and Nanostars
5/11/10

Weiss, Emily
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Northwestern University
A Molecule to Detect and Perturb the Confinement of Charge Carriers in Colloidal Quantum Dots
10/31/12

Weller, Andrew
Professor
University of Oxford
Putting the Ship in the Bottle: Alkane Complexes, C–H Activation & Catalysis using Organometaliic Chemistry in the Solid–State
6/10/15

Whited, Matthew T.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Carleton College
Exploiting Metal/Ligand Cooperation with Cheap (Si) and Expensive (Rh) Elements
10/21/14

Widenhoefer, Ross
Professor
Duke University
Gold(I)-Catalyzed Functionalization of C=C Bonds
2/16/10

Wiley, Benjamin
Professor
Duke University
Production and Properties of Metal Nanostructures
10/5/10

Williams, Travis
Associate Professor
University of Southern California
Design and Applications on Dual Functionality Metal Complexes in Catalysis and Magnetic Resonance
10/28/14

Wong, Stanislaus S.
Professor
Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Solution-Based Synthesis and Applications of Multifunctional Nanomaterials
9/15/15

Zhao, Xuan
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Memphis
Design of Photocatalytic Systems for H2 Production
3/26/13

Zheng, Gang
Professor
University of Toronto
Porphysome Nanotechnology and Beyond
1/30/13

Zhou, Hongcai
Professor
Texas A&M University
Metal-Organic Frameworks and Metal-Organic Polyhedra: Preparation and Application
11/8/11

Altman, Ryan
Assistant Professor
The University of Kansas
Decarboxylative Fluoroalkylation and Medicinal Musings of a Synthetic Chemist
1/21/16

Anslyn, Eric V.
Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry
4/21/10

Arora, Paramjit 'Bobby'
Professor of Chemistry
New York University
Protein Domain Mimetics as Modulators of Protein-Protein Interactions
8/26/15

Aubé, Jeff
Professor
University of Kansas
New Heterocyclic Chemistry: Methods, Libraries, and Biology
9/18/14

Baran, Phil
Professor
Scripps Research Institute
Studies in Natural Product Synthesis
3/18/11

Bergman, Robert
The Gerald E. K. Branch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
University of California at Berkeley
Selective Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions in Water-Soluble Host-Guest Supramolecular Systems
3/7/14

Bigot, Aurélien
Team Leader
Syngenta Crop Protection
Chemistry Research in Crop Protection: Recent Examples from Syngenta Portfolio
4/21/16

Blackmond, Donna
Professor
The Scripps Research Institute
Models for the Emergence of Biological Homochirality
2/1/18

Blackwell, Helen E.
Professor of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Expanding the Language of Bacterial Communication using Synthetic Ligands
4/25/14

Bode, Jeff
Ph.D.
ETH
Cross-Coupling Approaches to Chiral, Saturated N-Heterocycles
4/28/16

Booker-Milburn, Kevin
Professor
Bristol University
Total Synthesis Without Protecting Groups: Strategies and Tactics
2/6/09

Brown, Kevin
Assistant Professor
Indiana University
No Strain, No Gain: Advances in the Synthesis and Use of Cyclobutanes
3/31/16

Buchwald, Stephen L.
Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Copper-Catalyzed Hydroamination Processes as a Route to Enantiomerically Enriched Amines
4/22/15

Campos, Luis
Assistant Professor
Columbia University
Thiophene Rust in Single-Molecule Electronics and Singlet Fission
1/12/17

Carreira, Erick M.
Professor
ETH Zürich
Stereodivergent Strategies and Tactics for the Study of Secondary Metabolites
2/16/18

Chen, Eugene
Professor
Colorado State University
Metal- and Organocatalysis for Sustainable Polymers, Fine Chemicals, and Biofuels
9/25/14

Chmielewski, Jean
AW Kramer Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering
Purdue University
Next Generation Therapeutic Targets: Multidrug Resistance and Regenerative Medicine
11/4/11

Coe, Jotham
Ph.D.
Pfizer
The Chemistry Behind Chantix, Varenicline Tartrate, an Aid to Smoking Cessation
11/12/15

Coltart, Don
Professor
Duke University
Leveraging the Reactivity of Thioesters and Activated Hydrazones in the Development of New Synthetic Methods: Applications to Natural Products Synthesis
9/25/09

Davies, Ian
Ph.D.
Merck
Adventures in Chemistry from Nano to Kilo Mole scale
11/5/15

Dawson, Philip
Professor
The Scripps Research Institute
Protein Engineering through Chemical Synthesis
10/1/15

Denmark, Scott
Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Toward a Fundamental Understanding of Asymmetric Phase Transfer Catalysis through Chemoinformatics
10/5/12

Dixneuf, Pierre
Professor
University of Rennes, France
Recent Trends in Metal-Catalysed C-H Bond Functionalization: The Ruthenium(II) Catalyst Task Force.
3/27/15

Djuric, Stevan
Distinguished Research Fellow, Senior Director - Discovery Chemistry and Technology
Abbvie
Enabling Chemistry Technologies – Accelerators of The Pharmaceutical R and D Process
9/22/16

Dong, Guangbin
Professor
University of Texas - Austin
C–C and C–H Functionalization Based on Common Functional Groups
8/28/14

Dong, Vy
Associate Professor
University of Toronto
Stereoselective Strategies for Making Lactones and Lactams
4/15/11

Dougherty, Dennis A.
Professor
California Institute of Technology
Chemistry on the Brain: Understanding the Nicotine Receptor
2/4/10

Doyle, Abigail
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Princeton University
New Approaches to C–F and C–C Bond Formation by Transition Metal Catalysis
2/22/13

DuBois, Justin
Associate Professor
Stanford University
Chemical Approaches to Sodium Ion Channel Study: Guanidinium Toxins as Tools
1/23/09

Ferreira, Eric
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Colorado State University
Accessing and Harnessing Metalated Intermediates toward Synthetic Utility
3/1/13

France, Stefan
Professor
Georgia Tech
Efficient Approaches to Ring-Fused Heteroaromatics and Annelated Indoles via Novel Diversity-Oriented Synthesis Strategies
12/7/11

Fu, Gregory C.
Firmenich Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Palladium- and Nickel-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions of Alkyl Electrophiles
4/16/09

Garg, Neil
Professor and Vice Chair
UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Complex Molecule Synthesis as a Fuel for Discovery
8/29/13

Gaunt, Matthew J.
Dr.
University of Cambridge, UK
New Catalytic Strategies for Chemical Synthesis
4/16/10

Gibb, Bruce
Research Professor
University of New Orleans
The Binding and Assembly Properties of Water-Soluble Cavitands: From Improving our Understanding of the Hofmeister Effect, to Forming Novel Nano-Scale Supramolecular Containers
10/7/11

Hall, Dennis
Professor
University of Alberta
Exploiting New Reactivities in Organic Synthesis Using Boronic Acids/Esters as Reagents and Organocatalysts
2/5/09

Hartwig, John F.
Professor of Chemistry; The Henry Rapoport Chair in Organic Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
Selective Functionalization of Alkyl and Aryl C-H Bonds - Installation of Temporary Functional Groups
9/24/15

Heasley, Brian
Ph.D.
Avista Pharma
Corporate Presentation – Recruiting
4/1/16

Hergenrother, Paul J.
Kenneth Rinehart Jr. Endowed Chair in Natural Products Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry
University of Illinois
Anticancer Discovery, from Simple and Complex Compounds
4/23/15

Herzon, Seth
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Yale University
Target-Driven Total Synthesis
4/26/13

Hong, Jiyong
Assistant Professor
Duke University
The Chemistry and Biology of Subglutinols A and B
3/18/10

Hooley, Richard
Assistant Professor
University of Californa at Riverside
Biomimicry with Synthetic Receptors: Self-Assembly and Molecular Recognition
2/8/13

Horne, Seth
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Pittsburgh
Biomimetic Agents and Designer Materials from Protein-like Molecules that Expand beyond Covalent Structures found in Nature
1/31/14

Hoveyda, Amir
Joseph T. and Patricia Vanderslice Millennium Professor of Chemistry
Boston College
Stereochemical Integrity of Copper-Substituted Carbon Centers in Enantioselective Processes
9/15/16

Jacobsen, Eric
Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry
Harvard University
Anion-Binding Catalysis
3/30/17

James, Morken
Louise and James Vanderslice and Family Professor of Chemistry
Boston University
Catalytic Organic Synthesis Enabled by Catalytic Reactions of Boron Reagents
11/16/17

Jarvo, Elizabeth
Associate Professor
University of California at Irvine
Nickel-Catalyzed Stereospecific Cross-Coupling and Reductive Coupling Reactions
4/7/16

Jasti, Ramesh
Professor
Boston University
The Bottom-Up Organic Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes
2/21/14

Jayaraman, Sivaguru
Assistant Professor
North Dakota State University
Selective Light Induced Reactions In Solution and In Water Soluble Nano-Containers
2/25/10

Judd, Andrew
Medicinal Chemist
Abbott Laboratories
Industrial Applications of the RCM Reaction: From Productive Dimers to Twisted Amides
3/20/09

Knowles, Rob
Assistant Professor
Princeton University
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Organic Synthesis
2/2/17

Kool, Eric
George A. and Hilda M. Daubert Professor
Stanford University
Designer DNA Bases: Probing Molecules and Mechanisms in Biology
4/16/15

Krauss, Isaac
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Brandeis University
Combining Organic Synthesis and Directed Evolution to Design Carbohydrate HIV Vaccines
4/4/14

Kwon, Ohyun
Assistant Professor
University of California at Los Angeles
Phosphine-Catalyzed Annulations and Their Applications
9/18/09

Lalic, Gojko
Assistant Professor
University of Washington
New Methods for Hydrofunctionalization of Unsaturated Compounds
9/20/13

Lectka, Thomas
Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Recent Developments in Catalytic, Asymmetric alpha-Functionalization
10/15/10

Little, Daniel
Professor
University of California at Santa Barbara
Fulvenes Return to North Carolina: From Diyls to Blushing Reds
11/19/10

Luk, Yan-Yeung
Assistant Professor
Syracuse University
Water-Driven Chemoselective Reactions and Amphiphile-Free Templated Synthesis: From Drug Design to Heterogeneous Biocatalysis
1/16/09

MacMillan, David
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry
Princeton University
The Discovery and Invention of New Chemical Reactions Using Photoredox Catalysis
3/20/15

Manners, Ian
Professor
University of Bristol
“Living” Crystallization-Driven, Seeded Growth Approaches to Functional Supramolecular Materials
2/9/17

Mapp, Anna
Professor
University of Michigan
Small Molecule Transcriptional Modulators
2/17/11

Mattson, Anita
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Ohio State University
New Directions in Hydrogen Bond Donor Catalysis
1/17/14

Matzger, Adam
Professor
University of Michigan
Reshaping the Synthesis of Porous Crystals: Applications in Molecule Storage
9/12/08

McNaughton, Brian
Associate Professor of Chemistry, and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Colorado State University
Strategies and Tactics for Biologics Discovery
10/5/17

McNeill, Anne
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry, and Macromolecular Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
Synthesizing π-Conjugated Copolymers with Sequence Control using Ni Catalysis
9/30/11

Meijer, Bert
Professor
Eindhoven University of Technology
Non-Covalent Synthesis of Functional Supramolecular Systems
4/14/16

Melander, Christian
Assistant Professor
North Carolina State University
Small Molecule Control of Biological Function
10/2/08

Meyer, Matthew
Assistant Professor
University of California, Merced
New Methods for the Elucidation of Mechanism in Asymmetric Reactions
1/22/10

Michael, Forrest
Assistant Professor
University of Washington
Catalytic Aminations of Alkenes: Facile Syntheses of Nitrogen Heterocycles
3/26/09

Miller, Scott
Irénée du Pont Professor and Chair of Chemistry
Yale University
Searching for Selective Reactions on Complex Molecular Scaffolds
2/12/15

Moss, Robert A.
L. P. Hammett Professor
Rutgers University
Reactive Intermediates from Diazirines: Some Fundamentals of Carbenic Reactivity
3/5/09

Movassaghi, Muhammed
Assistant Professor
MIT
Complex Alkaloid Total Synthesis
11/7/08

Nagorny, Pavel
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Development of New Catalytic Methods for the Synthesis of Natural Products
3/3/16

Newhouse, Timothy
Assistant Professor
Yale University
Total Synthesis of Neurologically Active Terpenoid Natural Products
2/15/18

Nguyen, Hien
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Iowa
Strategies and Methods for Bioactive Carbohydrates, Amines, and Fluorinated Molecules
3/21/13

Njarðarson, Jón T.
Assistant Professor
Cornell University
Natural Product Synthesis and New Synthetic Methods
2/20/09

Overman, Larry E.
Distinguished Professor
University of California, Irvine
Recent Studies in Alkaloid Total Synthesis
4/24/09

Peat, Andrew
Ph.D.
GlaxoSmithKline
Searching for Antiviral Drugs with Desirable Physicochemical Properties
9/27/13

Perez, Pedro
Professor
Universidad de Huelva
Catalytic Functionalization of Unreactive Hydrocarbons
11/19/09

Phillips, Scott
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Penn State University
New Strategies in Reagent Design for Point-of-Use Diagnostics
11/16/12

Porco, Jr., John A.
Professor
Boston University
Chemical Synthesis of Bioactive Flavonoid and Xanthone-Derived Natural Products
4/6/12

Pratt, Derek
Professor
University of Ottawa
Hydrocarbon Autoxidation and its Inhibition: Taking the Battle from Fossil Fuel-Derived Products to Living Matter
10/6/17

Prescher, Jennifer
Assistant Professor
University of California, Irvine
Expanding the Imaging Toolbox
10/8/15

Rebek, Jr., Julius
Professor, Director, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
Molecular Behavior in Small Spaces
4/12/12

Reisman, Sarah
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
California Institute of Technology
New Methods and Strategies for the Total Synthesis of Polycyclic Natural Products
1/18/13

Ritter, Tobias
Associate Professor
Harvard University
Late Stage Fluorination
2/18/11

Rovis, Tom
Professor of Chemistry
Colorado State University
Design and Utility of Chiral Carbenes for Asymmetric Umpolung
3/16/12

Rovis, Tomislav
Professor
Columbia University
New Tools for Catalysis
1/25/18

Rueping, Magnus
Professor
Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule, Aachen
Asymmetric Counterion Pair Catalysis - Concepts and Applications
8/19/13

Rumbles, Garry
Research Fellow
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Advances in Organic Photovoltaics: Efficiently Turning Excitons Into Charges
1/23/13

Santos, Webster
Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech
Copper-Catalyzed Borylation and Inhibition of Protein-RNA Interactions Using Branched Peptide Boronic Acids
10/13/11

Sarpong, Richmond
Associate Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Synthetic Strategies and Tactics Inspired by Complex Natural Products
3/24/11

Sawyer, Tomi
Ph.D.
Aileron Therapeutics
Stapled Peptide Drugs: Nature's α−Helix to Breakthrough Medicines
11/15/12

Schindler, Corinna S.
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Catalytic Carbonyl-Olefin Metathesis and Oxygen-Atom-Transfer
1/12/18

Scott, Mark
Ph.D.
Merck
Discovery and Development of Niraparib (MK-4827)
1/16/15

Seeberger, Peter
Professor
Mac Planck Institute
Preventing and Curing Infectious Diseases: Carbohydrate Vaccines and Continuous Flow Synthesis
1/15/13

Seidel, Daniel
Assistant Professor
Rutgers University
Enantioselective Organocatalysis and the Study of Redox Neutral Reaction Cascades
10/15/09

Shaw, Jared T.
Assistant Professor
University of California - Davis
Multicomponent Strategies for Chemistry and Chemical Biology
4/19/12

Shenvi, Ryan
Associate Professor
The Scripps Research Institute
Chemical Synthesis of Secondary Metabolites
4/9/15

Shi, Michael
Assistant Professor
West Virginia University
Functional 1,2,3-triazoles: Chemistry Beyond "Click”
2/2/12

Shotwell, Brad
Ph.D..
GlaxoSmithKline
Potent and Selective Inhibitors of the Insulin-Like Growth Factor Receptor (IGF-1R): Novel Agents for the Treatment of Cancer
9/17/10

Sigman, Matthew
Peter J. Christine S. Stang Presidential Endowed Chair of Chemistry
University of Utah
New Approaches to Asymmetric Catalyst Design and Optimization
1/25/13

Sintim, Herman
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland
Small Molecules as Modulators of Bacterial Crosstalk and the Identification of Pathogenic Bacteria with Junction Probes
2/10/11

Soai, Kenso
Professor
Tokyo University of Science
Asymmetric Autocatalysis and the Origins of Homochirality
11/3/10

Stahl, Shannon S.
Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Aerobic Oxidation Reactions Catalyzed by Palladium and Copper
4/9/10

Stavinoha, Jerome
Ph.D.
Eastman Chemical
Epoxybutene and Derivatives: Novel Processes from Butadiene
2/11/16

Stephenson, Corey
Professor
University of Michigan
Practical Free Radical Reactions - Methods Development and Complex Molecule Synthesis
2/25/16

Thomson, Regan J.
Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
Strategies and Methods for Natural Product Synthesis
3/23/12

Toste, Dean
Professor
University of California at Berkeley
The Hypothesis Driven Path from Cationic Gold to Chiral Anion Catalysis
2/7/14

Trauner, Dirk
Janice Cutler Professor of Chemistry
New York University
Chemical Synthesis Enables Synthetic Biology
4/6/18

Vanderwal, Christopher
Assistant Professor
University of California, Irvine
Complex Molecule Synthesis Inspired by the Zincke Ring-Opening of Pyridines
and
Synthesis and Stereochemical Elucidation of the Chlorosulfolipids
3/19/10

Walker, Shawn
Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Chemical Process R&D
Amgen
Development of New Methods for the Asymmetric Synthesis of Small Molecule Drug Candidates
1/24/14

Watson, Mary
Assistant Professor
University of Delaware
Metal Catalysis of Nontraditional Electrophiles
2/5/15

Weix, Daniel
Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Cross-Electrophile Coupling: Principles and New Reactions
2/23/18

Wennermers, Helma
Professor
University of Basel
The Many Different Faces of Peptides: From Supramolecular Assemblies to Asymmetric Catalysis
10/30/08

Whitten, David
Professor
University of New Mexico
Cationic Conjugated Polyelectrolytes and Oligomeric Polyelectrolytes as Dark and Light-Activated Antimicrobials. Scope and Mechanism
4/2/09

Willis, Michael
Professor
University of Oxford
Taming Sulfur Dioxide for Synthesis and Catalysis
2/28/14

Wooley, Karen
W. T. Doherty-Welch Professor
Texas A&M University
Combinations of Covalent and Non-Covalent Interactions, Applied Iteratively in Various Sequences, to Achieve Unique, Nanoscopic Macromolecular Structures
9/9/11

Yang, Jerry
Professor
University of California, San Diego
Designing Function in Organic Molecules for Biomedical Applications
10/10/08

Yoon, Teshik
Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
New Approaches to Redox Catalysis
8/27/10

Yudin, Andrei
Professor
University of Toronto
Synthesis of Complex Amines without Protecting Groups
9/25/08

Zecri, Frederic
Ph.D.
Novartis
Discovery of a New Generation of Potent and Selective PI3Kd Inhibitor for Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases
2/16/18

Zimmerman, Steve
Professor
University of Illinois
Applications of Heterocyclic Compounds in Bioinspired Molecular Recognition
9/18/08

Allen, Heather C.
Professor
Ohio State University
Molecular Organization of Aqueous Surfaces Studied by Sum Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy: Fatty Acids, Lipids, DMSO, and Subphase Salts
2/22/10

Asbury, John
Assistant Professor
The Pennsylvania State University
Pathways to More Efficient Organic Solar Cells: What We Can Learn by Watching Electrons Move in Real Time
3/29/10

Ayers, Paul W.
Professor
McMaster University, Canada
Strong Electron Correlation
4/19/17

Baker, Nathan A.
Associate Professor
Washington University in St. Louis
Perturbation of Membrane Structure by Oxysterols
4/19/10

Bazan, Guillermo
Professor
University of California at Santa Barbara
Insight Into the Synthesis, Design and Processing of Narrow Band Gap Organic Semiconducting Polymers for Solar Cell Fabrication
1/25/10

Beck, Warren
Professor
Michigan State University
Ultrafast and Ultraslow Protein Dynamics in Photosynthetic Electron Transfer and Protein Folding Reactions
11/2/09

Beratan, David
R.J. Reynolds Professor of Chemistry
Duke University
Guiding Charge and Exiton Motion in Three Dimensions
2/9/12

Beratan, David
RJ Reynolds Professor of Chemistry
Duke University
The Physical Underpinnings of Electron-Bifurcation Reactions
2/21/18

Berg, Mark
Professor
University of South Carolina
MUPPETS: Unraveling Complex Materials with Multidimensional Kinetics
4/16/14

Bernholc, Jerry
Drexel Professor of Physics
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
(i) Ferroelectric Polymers and (ii) Biomolecular simulations
1/11/10

Bernholc, Jerry
Drexel Professor
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Electronic Structure and Electron Transport in Carbon-Based Nanosystems
4/30/14

Blum, Volker
Associate Professor
Duke University
Efficient, Accurate, All-Electron Simulation Approach to Large Nanosystems
2/11/15

Boland, John
Professor
Trinity College, Dublin
Connectivity on the Nanoscale - Designing Materials and Building Devices
5/1/09

Boulatov, Roman
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Force Spectroscopy Without Macromolecules
9/14/09

Brown, Hugh R.
Professor of Coatings Technology
University of Wollongong, Australia
Toughness and Chain Breakage in Double Network Hydrogels
11/7/12

Brudvig, Gary
Professor
Yale University
Water Oxidation Chemistry of Photosystem II and Artificial Systems
10/13/08

Cao, Linyou
Associate Professor
North Carolina State University
Wafer Scale Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Chalcogenide Materials and Devices
2/7/18

Cederbaum, Lorenz
Professor
Heidelberg University
Intermolecular Coulombic Decay and Ultrafast Energy Transfer
2/21/12

Chakraborty, Arup
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Understanding Adaptive Immunity: A Crossroad of Physical Chemistry and Cell Biology
9/29/08

Charbonneau, Patrick
Professor
Duke University
Polytetrahedral Frustration of Hard Sphere Crystallization: 2, 3, and 4 dimensions
9/28/09

Charbonneau, Patrick
Associate Professor
Duke University
Recent Advances on the Glass Problem
1/27/16

Cheng, Joy
Ph.D.
IBM Almaden Research Center
Directed Self-Assembly for Lithographic Applications
11/16/09

Chikan, Viktor
Associate Professor
Kansas State University
Building a Better Nanoparticle
2/14/13

Cisneros, G. Andrés
Assistant Professor
Wayne State University
Development and Application of Advanced Force Fields for Classical Simulations
2/18/15

Colby, Ralph
Professor
Pennsylvania State University
Designing Ion-Containing Polymers for Facile Ion Transport
12/7/09

Cukier, Robert
Professor
Michigan State University
Do Proteins Know Where They Should Go? Some Results from Computer Simulations
11/9/09

Curtis, Jennifer
Assistant Professor
Georgia Tech
Hyaluronan-Protein Networks in Solution and the Polymer Coat of Cells
4/5/10

DeBenedetti, Pablo
Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Dean for Research
Princeton University
The Phase Behavior of Supercooled Water. A Computational Perspective
2/26/14

Dingemans, Theo
Associate Professor
Delft University of Technology
All-aromatic Polyazomethines: Versatile Ambipolar Materials for Polymer Photovoltaics
4/20/09

Dingemans, Theo
Professor
Delft University of Technology
Polymer Nanocomposites: Is it Worth the Effort?
10/13/11

Duncan, Michael
Professor
University of Georgia
Infrared Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Cation-Molecular Complexes
10/22/15

Franzen, Stefan
Professor
North Carolina State University
Discovery of the Gateway Material for Mid-Infrared Plasmonics
4/8/15

Frisbie, C. Daniel
Professor
University of Minnesota
New Materials Strategies for Organic Thin Film Electronics
3/16/09

Frontiera, Renee
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota
How Local Environments Affect Chemical Reaction Dynamics: Raman Spectroscopy on the Nanoscale
4/11/18

Goodson III, Theodore
Richard Barry Bernstein Collegiate Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
Nanophotonic Application of Small Metal Clusters and Organic Fluorophores
11/11/16

Greene, Eric
Associate Professor
Columbia University
Visualizing Protein-DNA Interactions at the Single Molecule Level
3/24/11

Grosberg, Alexander
Professor of Physics
New York University
Two Meters of DNA in Micron Size Cell Nucleus: The Role of Topological Constraints in Genome Folding
3/15/12

Gruebele, Martin
James R. Eizner Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Protein Folding in Confined Spaces and in Vivo
9/29/11

Gubbins, Keith
W.H. Clark Distinguished University Professor
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
High Pressure Effects and Material Deformation due to Confined Nanophases
1/26/12

Gundogdu, Kenan
Assistant Professor
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
2D Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of Polymer Thin Films
3/22/12

Hartland, Greg
Professor
Notre Dame University
Transient Absorption Microscopy Studies of Single Metal and Semiconductor Nanostructures
2/24/16

Hauser, Cindy
Professor
Davidson College
You will find me by the pool…NOT! The Rewards and Challenges for Faculty at a Liberal Arts College
10/23/15

Head-Gordon, Martin P.
The Kenneth S. Pitzer Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
University of California at Berkeley
Some New Developments in Density Functional Theory for Calculating and Analyzing Intermolecular Interactions
12/9/15

Hegman, Frank
Professor
University of Alberta
Imaging Ultrafast Dynamics on the Nanoscale with Terahertz Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
4/20/16

Hynes, James T.
Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder
CNRS Director of Research Emeritus Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, FR
Water Dynamics in the Grooves of DNA
9/11/14

Jackson, William
Distinguished Research and Emeritus Professor
University of California at Davis - Department of Chemistry
Photochemical Activation of Metastable H2 in the Universe
11/2/16

Jonas, David
Professor
University of Colorado
Nonadiabatic Electronic Dynamics at Conical Funnels and in Quantum Dots
4/6/09

Kamat, Prashant
John A. Zahm Professor of Science
Notre Dame University
Light Energy Conversion with Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Organometal Halide Perovskites
4/2/14

Khalil, Munira
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Washington - Seattle
Towards a Molecular Description of Ultrafast Charge Transfer Reactions
2/23/12

Kling, Matthias
Professor
Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
Small and Fast: Attosecond Nanophysics
9/21/16

Knappenberger, Ken
Assistant Professor
Florida State University
Optical Properties and Dynamics of Plasmonic Nanoparticle Transducers
3/7/13

Knecht, Volker
Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Colloids, Berlin
Competing Interactions in Molecular Recognition from MM-PBSA Calculations
10/6/11

Kowalewski, Tomek
Associate Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
Toward the Unified View of Nanostructure-Defects-Transport Relationships in Conducting Polymers
10/4/10

Leibler, Ludwik
Professor of Soft Matter and Chemistry
Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles
Vitrimers - New Class of Materials
4/18/12

Li, Xiaosong
Assistant Professor
University of Washington
DFT, TDDFT and Beyond:
I. Electronic Magnetic Polaron in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dot
II. Photoexcited Electron-Hole Dynamics in C60-electron-donor System
1/20/11

Lian, Tianquan
William Henry Emerson Professor of Chemistry
Emory University
Solar Energy Conversion Using Artificial Atoms, Molecules and Solids
11/19/14

Lim, Carmay
Professor
Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Taiwan
Physico–Chemical Principles Governing Biological Processes
4/7/11

Link, Stephan
Associate Professor
Rice University
Collective Plasmon Modes in Nanoparticle Assemblies
11/20/13

Liu, Jie
George Barth Geller Professor
Duke University
Plasmonic Photocatalysis Based on Rh Nanostructures
2/15/17

Locklin, Jason
Assistant Professor
University of Georgia
Making Surfaces Smart
3/3/11

Luan, Binquan
Postdoctoral Scientist
Watson Laboratory IBM
Ratcheting DNA Through a Solid-State Nanopore: Towards Low-Cost and High-Throughput Sequencing of the Human Genome
2/16/10

Luijten, Erik
Associate Professor
Northwestern University
Dielectric and Magnetic Many-Body Effects in Colloidal Self-Assembly
2/5/14

Madsen, Louis A.
Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech
Understanding Transport And Collective Interactions In Nanostructured Soft Materials
4/5/12

Mahanthappa, Mahesh
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Molecular Heterogeneity in Self-Assembly: Is Monodispersity Necessary?
2/3/11

Markland, Thomas E.
Assistant Professor
Stanford University
Quantum Fluctuations in Hydrogen Bond Networks: From Atmospheric Science to Enzyme Catalysis
9/23/15

Marom, Noa
Assistant Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
Effect of Crystal Packing on the Electronic Properties of Molecular Crystals
4/18/18

Massari, Aaron
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota
Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Organic Electronic Interfaces
10/27/11

Matsuo, Yutaka
Professor
University of Tokyo
Organic and Inorganic Functionalized Fullerenes for Photoelectric Conversion
3/3/10

Matyjaszewski, Kris
Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
From New Synthetic Procedures for ATRP to New Materials
1/19/12

May, Sylvio
Professor
North Dakota State University
Applications of Poisson-Boltzmann Theory for Spatially Extended Ions
10/5/09

McCamant, David
Assistant Professor
University of Rochester
Structural Dynamics in Photochemical and Photobiological Reactions
2/17/11

McCammon, Andrew
Professor
UCLA - San Diego
HIV/AIDS, Bird Flu and Other Nasty Beasties: Saving Lives through Computer-Aided Drug Discovery
10/6/08

McCammon, Andrew
Prof
UCLA - San Diego
Rate Processes in Biophysics: From the Molecule to the Cell
10/7/08

McCammon, Andrew
Professor
UCLA - San Diego
Enhanced Sampling: Atomistic and Coarse-Grained
10/8/08

McCullough, Richard D.
Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
An Amorphous Approach to Printable Organic Solar Cells and Transistors
4/12/10

Meller, Amit
Professor
Boston University
Sensing Individual Biomolecules Using Nanopores
1/26/09

Milet, Anne
Ph.D.
Chemistry Department, University of Grenoble
Metadynamics and Tracing Entropy: What Can We Gain for Chemical Reactivity ?
10/27/11

Miller III, Thomas F.
Professor of Chemistry
Caltech
New Approaches to Simulating Biological and Molecular Catalysts
9/24/14

Molinero, Valeria
Professor
The University of Utah
Ice Nucleation in the Atmosphere: A Molecular Perspective
11/30/16

Moore, David
Professor
Lehigh University
Adventures in Cryogenic Spectroscopy
10/22/15

Mullin, Amy
Associate Professor
University of Maryland
Molecules on the Verge of a Chemical Breakdown: Quantum-Resolved Dynamics of High Energy Molecules
2/15/10

Nelson, David R.
Professor
Harvard University
Gene Surfing in Microorganisms
3/1/10

Nesbitt, David
Professor
University of Colorado
From Gas-Liquid/Gas-SAM Collision Dynamics to Single Biomolecule Kinetics
10/23/15

Paesani, Francesco
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California at San Diego
Modeling Hydration, One Water Molecule at a Time
4/26/17

Pavanello, Michele
Assistant Professor
Rutgers University
Embedding Ground and Excited States in Real and Imaginary Time
8/31/16

Peters, Baron
Assistant Professor
University of California Santa Barbara
Mechanistic Hypothesis Tests, Reaction Coordinates, and Rate Laws: The Rare Events Approach to Multiscale Modeling
4/25/18

Pyun, Jeffrey
Assistant Professor
University of Arizona
Interfacial Engineering with Polymers: Novel Magnetic & Electroactive Nanocomposites for Magnetic Storage, Photovoltaics and Energy Storage
3/2/09

Rabin, Yitzhak
Professor
Bar-Ilan University
Focusing DNA into Nanopores
1/27/11

Raschke, Markus
Assistant Professor
University of Washington
Optical Near-field Mapping and Ultrafast Electron Dynamics of Plasmonic Nanostructures
11/10/08

Reichman, David
Professor
Columbia University
Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of the Dynamics of Supercooled Liquids
2/8/10

Richmond, Geraldine
Presidential Chair in Science and Professor of Chemistry
University of Oregon
Oil On Water - Calming The Seas But Not The Science
9/27/16

Rodgers, Mary
Professor
Wayne State University
Structures and Binding Energies of Ionic Complexes Studied by Guided Ion Beam Tandem Mass Spectrometry and IRMPD Action Spectroscopy
10/18/10

Rogers, John
Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Recent Progress in Soft and Fluidic Approaches to Nanofabrication
11/23/09

Rowan, Stuart
Professor
Case Western Reserve University
Designing New Stimuli-Responsive Materials: From Sea Cucumbers to Self-Healing Films
2/24/11

Rzayev, Javid
Assistant Professor
University of Buffalo
Nanostructured materials from multicomponent bottlebrush copolymers
3/17/11

Saltzman, Erica
Ph.D.
Columbia University
Anomalous Dynamics in Complex Fluids: Colloidal Glasses and Confined Polymers
3/4/10

Santiso, Erik
Assistant Professor
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Atomistic Modeling of the Nucleation of Molecular Crystals
9/13/17

Scholes, Gregory
D. J. LeRoy Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
University of Toronto
Lessons from Nature about Solar Light Harvesting
1/31/13

Schultz, Zachary
Associate Professor
University of Notre Dame
Biomedical Applications of Plasmonic Nanostructures
2/10/16

Schwegler, Eric
Ph.D.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Ion Solvation in Confined Water: A First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Investigation
11/29/12

Skinner, Jim
Professor
University of Wisconsin
Vibrational Spectroscopy of Bulk and Surface Water and Trans-Membrane Proteins
1/12/09

Skinner, James L.
Professor
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Vibrational Spectroscopy of Bulk and Surface Water and Trans-Membrane Proteins
10/27/08

Smirnov, Alex
Professor
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Lipid Nanotube Arrays for Biophysical Studies of Membranes and Membrane Proteins
9/18/13

Smith, Geoffrey
Assistant Professor
University of Georgia
The Heterogeneous Oxidation of Organic Particles. Are Aerosols Radically Altered in the Atmosphere?
2/16/09

Steele, Ryan
Assistant Professor
The University of Utah
Vibrational Signatures of Electronic Properties in Energy and Biology
9/28/16

Stein, Andreas
Professor
University of Minnesota
Materials with Templated Porosity for Energy Storage and Conversion
1/15/14

Szleifer, Igal
Christina Enroth-Cugell Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University
Molecular Transport and Structure of Surface Modified Nanopores: From Small Ions in Nanochannels to Proteins in Nuclear Pore Complexes
11/17/11

Takahashi, Susumi
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Southern California
Nanoscale Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Using a Single Spin Diamond Probe
2/19/14

Theis, Thomas
Postdoctoral Associate
Duke University
Polarization Lifetime Extension Using Singlet States in Symmetric Spin Systems
1/24/13

Therien, Michael
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry
Duke University
Excited-State Dynamics and Electro-Optic Properties of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes Wrapped by Helically Chiral Semiconducting Polymers
9/6/12

Trout, Bernhardt L.
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Dept of Chemical Engineering
Investigating Complex Molecular Processes via Likelihood Maximization and the Finite Temperature String Method
3/30/09

Tuckerman, Mark E.
Professor
New York University
Understanding the Mechanisms of Proton Transport in Hydrogen Bonded Media in Terms of the Jiggling of Atoms
10/2/13

van Voorhis, Troy
Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institue of Technology
Electron Dynamics in Complex Environments: From Electron Transfer to Singlet Fission
11/11/15

Vernier, Thomas
Professor
Old Dominion University
Nanoscale and Multiscale Models of Membranes in Permeabilizing Electric Fields -Physics, Chemistry, Biology
3/1/17

Vezenov, Dmitri
Assistant Professor
Lehigh University
How to Sequence Genomes by Pulling on DNA Molecules
11/3/11

Weeks, John
Distinguished University Professor
University of Maryland
Taming Coulomb Interactions in Models for Water, Polar Molecular Liquids, and Polyelectrolytes
2/23/09

Weiss, Paul
Distinguished Professor
University of California at Los Angeles
Cooperative Function in Atomically Precise Nanoscale Assemblies
9/30/15

Wheeler, Steven
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Texas A&M
Understanding the Nature of Non-Covalent Interactions Involving Aromatic Rings
2/12/14

Wu, Xifan
Assistant Professor of Physics
Temple University
Linear Scaling Exact Exchange and Advanced Modeling of Molecular Structure and Electronic Excitation in H-Bonded Liquids
4/15/15

Yang, Weitao
Professor
Duke University
Free Energies and Mechanism of Chemical Reactions in Solution and in Enzymes with Ab Initio QM/MM
11/3/08

Yang, Weitao
Philip Handler Professor of Chemistry
Duke University
The Wonders of Electron Density: From Half an Electron to Noncovalent Interactions of Biomolecular Complexes
9/22/14

Yesinowski, James
Ph.D..
Naval Research Laboratory
Effects of Ionic and Electrical Conductivity on MAS-NMR of Quadrupolar Nuclei in Cuprous Iodide and Lithium Nitride
4/26/10

Zanni, Martin
Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
New Technology for 2D IR Spectroscopy and its Application to Protein Aggregation and Drug Binding
9/20/12

Zhao, Xuanhe
Ph.D.
Duke University
Transformative Skin: From Anti-biofouling to Reliable Power Cable
11/10/11

Zhu, Xiaoyang
Professor
Columbia University
Polarons, Polaritons, and the Perovskite Puzzle
3/29/17

Ziessel, Raymond
Dr.
Laboratoire de Chimie Organique et Spectroscopies Avancée and Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
Fluorescent Boron Complexes - A Toolbox for Molecular Photonics
1/10/12

Adamson, Douglas
Associate Professor
UCONN
Oxidized and Pristine Graphene Preparation and Exfoliation
10/2/14

Aizenberg, Joanna
Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science
Harvard University
Towards Dynamic Hybrid Architectures: Or Can We Make Materials Adaptive?
10/31/11

Alabugin, Igor
Professor
Florida State University
Cascade Reactions of Alkynes: From Double-Strand DNA-Photocleavage to Rational Design of Carbon Nanostructures
6/14/11

Alivisatos, A. Paul
Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Nanocrystal Based Solar Cells
9/9/08

Alivisatos, A. Paul
Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Development of New Nanocrystal Molecules for Biological Sensing and Detecting
9/10/08

Bao, Zhenan
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Stanford University
Skin-Inspired Electronic Materials and Devices
9/2/15

Becker, Matthew L.
Professor
University of Akron
Translationally Relevant Strategies for Enhancing Function in Degradable Polymers
2/25/16

Benicewicz, Brian
USC Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor
University of South Carolina
High Temperature Polymer Membranes for Fuel Cells and Sustainable Energy Devices
3/28/13

Berda, Erik
Professor
University of New Hampshire
Functional Nanomaterials from Single Polymer Chains
3/16/17

Bishop, Kyle
Assistant Professor
The Pennsylvania State University
Dynamic Self-Assembly of Life-like Colloidal Materials
2/18/16

Blank, David
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota
Energy Migration and Relaxation in Molecules and Materials Used for Organic Solar Cells
10/11/10

Bowman, Christopher N.
Distinguished Professor
University of Colorado at Boulder
Clicking Polymers Together: Assembly of Complex, Controlled Polymer Structures from Efficient Chemistries
10/30/14

Boydston, Andrew J.
Assistant Professor
University of Washington
Polymer Mechanochemistry for the Triggered Release of Small Molecules
10/30/14

Brinson, Cate
Jerome B. Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Northwestern University
Local Polymer Behavior - Surfaces and Nanocomposites
4/11/13

Brown, Frank
Professor
University of California at Santa Barbara
Continuum Model for Membrane Dynamics
9/27/10

Bunch, Scott
Assistant Professor
Boston University
Atomic Membrane Balloons
11/20/14

Caldwell, Joshua
Ph.D.
Navy Research Laboratories
Mid-IR to THz Polaritons: Realizing Novel Materials for Nanophotonics
5/18/17

Chilkoti, Ashutosh
Alan L. Kaganov Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
Recombinant Peptide Polymers that Display Aqueous Phase Behavior: From Sequence to Applications
9/15/16

Ciferri, Alberto
Professor
Institute of Macromolecular Science-CNR, Genoa, Italy
Bond Scrambling and Network Elasticity
4/30/09

Clark, Noel
Professor
University of Colorado, Boulder
Liquid Crystals and the Origin of Life: Condensation of Complementary Nanoscale DNA and RNA
3/6/09

Coates, Geoffrey
Tisch University Professor
Cornell University
In Pursuit of the Perfect Plastic
4/10/14

Colby, Ralph
Professor
Penn State
Ionomer Design, Synthesis and Characterization for Ion-Conducting Energy Materials
9/24/15

Cooper, Andy
Professor
University of Liverpool
Porous Organic Polymers and Porous Organic Molecules
2/28/13

Damrauer, Niels
Assistant Professor
University of Colorado at Boulder
Controlling Excited-State Energy Conversion in Metal Complexes and Solar-Cell Materials through Pulse Shaping and Molecular Structure
9/20/10

DeLongchamp, Dean
Ph.D.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Structure Measurements for Polymer-Fullerene Photovoltaics
9/27/12

Dichtel, William
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Cornell University
Bottom-up Synthesis of Structurally Precise Organic Materials and Interfaces
2/6/14

Dingemans, Theo
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor of Chemistry and Aerospace Engineering
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
High-Performance Polymers: Function Follows Form
11/20/14

Dingemans, Theo
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
High-Performance Polymers: Function Follows Form
10/8/15

Dogic, Zvonimir
Associate Professor of Physics
Brandeis University
Cluster Crystals and Other Surprises in Flatland
2/21/13

Douberly, Gary
Assistant Professor
University of Georgia
High-Resolution Laser Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Calculations of Aluminum-Carbonyl Complexes
4/21/11

Emrick, Todd
Professor
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Adapting Nature's Functionality to Synthetic Polymers
11/13/14

Fang, Lei
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station
Rigidifying and Coplanarizing Pi-Conjugated Molecules and Macromolecules
9/14/17

Filler, Michael A.
Associate Professor
Georgia Tech
Surface Chemical Choreography of Semiconductor Nanowire Synthesis
10/1/15

Foegeding, Allan
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Food Material Science – Designing Structures to Breakdown in Good Taste
9/22/16

Forrest, Stephen
Peter A. Franken Distinguished University Professor of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Making Small Things Big in the World of Organic Electronics
8/31/15

Foulger, Stephen
Gregg-Graniteville Endowed Chair and Professor
Clemson University
Designing Functionalized Colloids: From Memristors to Cancer Therapies
3/5/15

Fraden, Seth
Professor of Physics
Brandeis University
Testing Turing
4/17/14

Franklin, Aaron
Associate Professor
Duke University
What Role Will Nanomaterials Play in Electronics?
2/26/15

Franklin, Aaron
Associate Professor
Duke University
What Role Will Nanomaterials Play in Electronics?
4/2/15

Freeman, Benny D.
Richard B. Curran Centennial Chair in Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Gas and Liquid Separations Using Polymer Membranes
3/10/16

Gall, Kenneth
Professor
Duke University
Materials for Biomedical Applications
10/29/15

Gianneschi, Nathan
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California at San Diego
Shape-Shifting Drug Carriers for Targeting Cytotoxins and Immunotherapeutics to Cancer
10/27/16

Gogotsi, Yury
Distinguished University and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor
Drexel University
MXenes: 2D Materials Produced by Selective Etching
2/1/18

Gomez, Enrique
Assistant Professor
Penn State University
Charge and Energy Transfer in Conjugated Block Copolymers
2/11/16

Gong, Jian Ping
Professor
Hokkaido University
Tough Hydrogels: Bridging the Gap between Soft Materials and Supportive Tissues
3/12/15

Gradecak, Silvija
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
MIT
Emerging Photovoltaic Materials: Opportunities and Challenges
10/6/16

Grason, Greg
Professor
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Packing Frustration and Complex Ordering in Chiral Polymer Assemblies
4/25/13

Grest, Gary
Ph.D.
Sandia National Laboratories
Coated Nanoparticles in Solution and at Interfaces
10/4/12

Gupton, Frank
Professor and Chair
Department of Chemical & Life Science Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University
Streamlining Pharmaceutical Processes through Process Intensification
10/13/16

Hacker, Christina
Project Leader in the Nanoelectronics Group in the Engineering Physics Division
NIST
Engineering Interfaces for Added functionality of NanoElectronics
11/17/16

Haddleton, David
Professor
University of Warwick, Department of Chemistry, Coventry, UK
30 Years Evolution of Controlled Radical Polymerization
10/12/17

Hamers, Robert
Professor
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Smart Electrodes for Photocatalytic and Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 and N2
9/19/13

Hammond, Paula
David H. Koch Professor in Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nanomaterials Design for Programmed Multi- and Staged Release
4/9/15

Hawker, Craig
Professor
University of California at Santa Barbara
Development and Application of New Materials as a Driver for Synthesis
4/5/13

Hersam, Mark C.
Professor
Northwestern University
Fundamentals and Applications of Low-Dimensional Nanomaterial Heterostructures
11/19/15

Holten-Andersen, Niels
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
MIT
Metal-Coordination:Using More of Nature’s Tricks to Assemble New Soft Materials
1/22/15

Howell, John
Professor of Physics
University of Rochester
Physics of Invisibility
10/25/16

Huang, Jinsong
Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Why Do Hybrid Perovskite Work So Well For Solar Cells and Applications Beyond?
2/11/16

Huang, Libai
Assistant Professor
Purdue University
Ultrafast Microscopy of Energy and Charge Transport
11/9/17

Ivanov, Dimitri
Dr.
ICSI Mulhouse
Supramolecular Helices
3/26/09

Jensen, Eric
Senior Research Fellow: Delivery and Device R&D
Eli Lilly and Company
Challenges and Opportunities with Materials during Pharmaceutical Development
1/21/16

Jia, Xinqiao
Associate Professor
University of Delaware
Orthogonal and Modular Approaches for the Construction of Functional Biomaterials
1/16/14

Johnson, Jeremiah
Firmenich Career Development Assistant Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Strategies for Scalable Synthesis of Precise Polymers and Control of Topology in Polymer Networks
1/28/16

Jurchesco, Oana
Assistant Professor
Wake Forest University
Charge Transport Limits in Organic Materials and Devices
4/21/16

Kalow, Julia
Ph.D.
MIT
Synthetic Strategies for Spatial Control from the Molecular to Macro Scale
11/30/15

Kasianowicz, John
Ph.D.
Leader, Nanobiotechnology Project, NIST, Physical Measurement Laboratory
Single Molecule Biophysics - Unlocking the Fundamental Properties of Biological Molecules for Future Applications
4/23/15

Kharlampieva, Eugenia
Associate Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Polymer Nanocoatings for Controlled Delivery and Transplantation
1/14/16

Klotsa, Daphne
Ph.D.
University of Cambridge
Packing Polyhedra: From Ancient Math to Advanced Materials
3/20/15

Kumacheva, Eugenia
Professor
University of Toronto
Colloidal Polymers: Lessons from Polymer Physics and Chemistry
2/7/13

Langer, Robert S.
David H. Koch Institute Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biomaterials and Biotechnology: From the Discovery of the First Angiogenesis Inhibitors to the Development of Controlled Drug Delivery Systems + the Foundation of Tissue Engineering
2/4/10

Leibfarth, Frank
Ph.D.
MIT
New Methods for the Synthesis of Functional Polymeric Materials
12/3/15

Leibler, Ludwik
Professor
Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles, Paris
Supramolecular Plastics and Rubbers
9/8/08

Liddell, Chekesha
Assistant Professor
Cornell University
2D and Quasi-2D Confinement of Colloidal 'Mushroom Caps' for Photonics
8/24/09

Long, Didier
Professor
National Center of Scientific Research-Rhodia France
Mechanical Properties of Thin Confined Polymer Films Close to the Glass Transition in the Linear Regime of Deformation: Theory and Simulations
11/8/12

Loo, Lynn
Associate Professor
Princeton University
Solution-Processed Organic Active Materials as Functional Components in Thin-Film Electronics
10/20/08

Luther, Joey
Senior Scientist
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Solar Photoconversion Using Quantum-Confined Semiconductor Nanocrystals
10/21/13

MacKintosh, Fred C.
Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy, VU University of Amsterdam
Active Soft Matter: Non-Equilibrium Signatures in Living Systems
7/27/15

Madsen, Louis A.
Associate Professor
Virginia Tech
Diffusion Deconvolved: Quantifying Molecular and Morphological Contributions to Transport in Polymers
10/23/14

Mallouk, Tom
Head of the Chemistry Department, Evan Pugh University Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Penn State University
Assembly and Disassembly of Layered Materials
3/31/16

Marks, Tobin J.
Professor
Northwestern University
Plastic Solar Cells with Designer Interfaces
4/18/13

Matson, John B.
Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech
Materials for Therapeutic H2S Delivery
9/8/16

Messersmith, Phillip
Professor
University of California at Berkeley
Functional Polyphenolic Materials Inspired by Mussels, Tea, Wine, and Chocolate
5/25/17

Meyer, Gerald
Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Photo-induced Electron transfer at Molecular-Semiconductor Interfaces
2/7/13

Mitzi, David
Professor
Duke University
Solution Processing of Thin-Film Solar Cells: Opportunities and Challenges
4/30/15

Muthukumar, Murugappan
Wilmer D. Barrett Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Menagerie of Viruses: Organizing Principles from Polymer Physics
10/25/12

Nuzzo, Ralph
G. L. Clark Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Materials, Assembly Approaches, and Designs for Ultrahigh-Efficiency, Full-Spectrum Operation Photovoltaics
12/8/16

Pan, Long
Manager of Technology
Colgate Palmolive Co.,
Focus on Innovations to Provide Better Consumer Products
10/16/14

Parsons, Gregory
Alcoa Professor
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Atomic Layer Deposition for Interface Control and Stabilization in Solar Photoelectrosynthesis Cells
11/15/13

Patton, Derek
Assistant Professor
University of Mississippi
Functional Films and Polymer Networks via Thiol-Mediated Reactions
10/10/13

Penner, Reginald
Ph.D.
University of California Irvine
Chemical Sensors Based Upon Metal Nanowires
10/10/12

Riggleman, Robert
Ph.D..
University of California at Santa Barbara
Multiscale Modeling of Polymers and Glass-Forming Liquids
1/28/10

Rogers, John
Swanlund Chair, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Materials for Soft Optoelectronic Interfaces to the Brain
2/5/15

Rowan, Stuart
Kent H. Smith Professor of Engineering
Case Western
Structurally Dynamic Polymers as Stimuli-Responsive Materials
9/25/14

Safran, Samuel
Professor
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Matrix Elasticity: Why do Cells “Care?”
11/4/13

Schanze, Kirk S.
Louise Jackson Professor of Chemistry
University of Florida
pi-Conjugated Molecules and Polymers: Photonic Properties and Applications
1/29/13

Seferos, Dwight
Associate Professor
University of Toronto
Heavy Group-16 Chemistry in Polymers and Molecules
9/18/14

Sinitsyn, Nikolai
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Los Alamos National Labs
Geometric Phases in Stochastic Kinetics: New Design Principles in Nano-Mechanics
2/9/10

Skourtis, Spiros
Associate Professor
Department of Physics, University of Cyprus
The Control of Electron Transfer Pathways in Biomolecular and Small-Molecule Device Systems: the Roles of Medium Fluctuations and Initial State Preparation
2/10/11

Steinmetz, Nicole F.
Mt. Sinai Scholar & Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
From Black-Eyed Peas to Biomedical Nanotechnology
2/12/15

Sukhishvili, Svetlana
Professor
Stevens Institute of Technology
Responsive All-Polymer and Polymer Nanocomposite Assemblies
1/29/15

Sumerlin, Brent S.
Professor
University of Florida
Synthesis and Investigation of Stimuli-Responsive Polymers Capable of Structurally Dynamic Assembly
3/3/16

Tang, Ching W.
Professor
University of Rochester and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Organic Light Emitting Diode- the Next Generation Display Technology
4/28/16

Tang, Chuangbing
Professor
University of South Carolina
Multifunctional Metallo-Polyelectrolytes: From Synthesis to Application
3/1/18

Thimsen, Elijah
Assistant Professor
Washington University in St. Louis
Low Temperature Plasmas as Processors of Matter
4/13/17

Venkataraman, Latha
Associate Professor
Columbia University
Chemistry and Physics at the Single-Molecule Level
2/20/14

Venkatasubramanian, Rama
Team Leader, Energy and Thermal Management
Research and Exploratory Development Department, The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Lab
Nanoscale Thermoelectric Superlattice Materials and their Device Applications
3/25/15

Vitelli, Vincenzo
Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Vibrational Dynamics and Heat Conduction in Amorphous Solids
2/12/09

Vogel, Eric
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Georgia Tech
Large Area Synthesis of 2D Materials
9/29/16

Vos, Johannes
Professor
Dublin City University
Recent Advances in the Development of Bimetallic Photocatalysts for the Generation of Hydrogen
6/25/13

Vos, Johannes
Professor
Dublin City University
The Application of Surface Bound Ruthenium and Osmium Polypyridyl Compounds as Chemical Sensors and in Molecular Electronics
6/27/13

Wilmer, Christopher
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Designing Porous Crystals for Energy Storage, Carbon Capture, and Chemical Sensing
4/27/17

Wilson, Daniela
Professor
Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen
Nanomotors from Self-Assembled Block Copolymers and their Manipulation under External Stimuli
3/19/15

Wolynes, Peter G.
Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor of Science, Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science & NanoEngineering, Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Rice University
Energy Landscape Theory: From Folding Proteins to Folding Chromosomes
2/6/17

Yang, Qin
Professor
University of New Mexico
Design, Preparation and Application of Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials
3/23/17

Zha, Helen
Ph.D.
Eindhoven University of Technology
Functional Soft Matter via Hierarchical Self-Assembly
3/10/16

Zubarev, Eugenij
Assistant Professor
Rice University
Zero- and One-Dimensional Hybrid Nanocrystals: Synthesis and Self-Assembly
11/17/08