Chemistry - Organic Chemistry Seminars

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

• Fuson Student Talks: Morgan Gugger, UIUC, "Development of a Sulfa Drug/DHFR Inhibitor Combination for Pseudomonas aeruginosa"; Faith Kern, UIUC, "Pendant Activation: Governed by Interactions Between Mechanophores and Glassy Polymer Networks", Dongchen Ouyang, UIUC, "Chemoinformatic Optimization of the Copper-Bis(Oxazoline)-Catalyzed, Enantioselective Synthesis of Saturated N-Heterocycles"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, September 14, 2026

• C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan, "New Synthetic Methods for C–F Bond Formation: From Fundamental Science to Applications"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Roger Adams Lab, 600 S Mathews Ave, Room 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

• C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan, "Synthesis, Reactivity, and Catalytic Relevance of High Valent Transition Metal Organometallic Complexes"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Roger Adams Lab, 600 S Mathews Ave, Room 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, September 21, 2026

• R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Robert J. Phipps, University of Cambridge, "Harnessing Non-covalent Interactions to Address Selectivity Challenges in Transition Metal Catalysis"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

• R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Robert J. Phipps, University of Cambridge, "Harnessing Non-covalent Interactions to Address Selectivity Challenges in Radical Chemistry"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, September 25, 2026

• Kyle Abo, UIUC, Final Defense, "Chemical Synthesis Towards the Development of Novel Anticancer Compounds Derived from Natural Products and Existing Drugs"

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

• Ashley Hartwig CHEM 535 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

• Erika Huang CHEM 535 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, October 10, 2026

• Balthazor-Senter Symposium of Frontiers in Organic Chemistry - Speakers: Prof. Connor Coley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Prof. Betsy Parkinson (Purdue University), Prof. Kevin Brown (Indiana University), Prof. Quentin Michaudel (Texas A&M), Prof. Tianning Diao (New York University).

  Time

  8:00 am - 5:30 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

• Sal Shin CHEM 535 Seminar " Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 19, 2026

• BMS Lecture: BMS rep: TBD

  Time

  4:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BMS Lecture: Professor Thomas Maimone, University of California, Berkeley, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• Joshua Pack CHEM 535 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• Aiden Parente CHEM 535 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Sophie Mazure CHEM 535 Seminar "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, November 7, 2026

• 38th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference

  Time

  8:00 am

  Location

  Allerton Park, Monticello, IL

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

• Paige Drury CHEM 535 Seminar "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

• Parker Kintigh CHEM 535 Seminar "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, December 8, 2026

• Cyrus Chen CHEM 535 Seminar "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, January 21, 2027

• Organic Syntheses Lecture: Professor Dirk Trauner, University of Pennsylvania, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, February 4, 2027

• Amgen Lecture: Amgen rep: TBD, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Amgen Lecture w/Professor Huw M. L. Davies, Emory University, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:30 - 5:30 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, March 29, 2027

• 3M Lecture: 3M rep: TBD

  Time

  4:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 3M Lecture: Professor Stuart Rowan, University of Chicago, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:30 - 5:30 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, April 5, 2027

• Lilly Lecture: Lilly rep: TBD: "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Lilly Lecture: Professor Thorsten Bach, Technical University of Munich, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:30 - 5:30 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, April 19, 2027

• Aldrich Lecture: Professor Mary Watson, University of Delaware, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium