Past Seminars

Spring 2024

April 19, 2024
Vahe Bandarian, PhD
“Lessons learned from three dozen years in the company of enzymes”

March 22, 2024
Rachel Hurrell (Puri Lab)
“Efforts toward elucidating the structure, biosynthesis, and function of natural products from the methane-oxidizing bacterium Methylobacter tundripaludum”

February 16, 2024
Dalles Keyes (Barrios Lab) and Eli Bring Horvath (Winter Lab)
“Harmony in Creation: Exploring Enediyne Natural Products - Synthesis, Biosynthesis, and Therapeutic Potential”

January 19, 2024
Bailey Miller, PhD (Schmidt Lab)
"Trash to Treasure: Turning Paper and Agricultural Waste into Antibiotics"

 

Fall 2023

December 8, 2023
Ian Merski (Rainier Lab)
“Efforts toward the synthesis of spiro-fused amidonaphthoquinones"

November 17, 2023
Chelsea Valiton (Roberts Lab)
“Amine-Derived Rearrangements and Deaminative Contractions for Natural Product Syntheses”

October 27, 2023
Watch party for the Christopher T. Walsh Chemical Biology Teach-In

September 22, 2023
Ryan Looper, PhD
“Nature's products: Serving Human's Discovery Engine”

 

Spring 2023

May 19, 2023
Albebson Lim (Schmidt Lab)
“Potential of lipopeptides from shipworm symbionts to combat colistin-induced drug resistance”

April 21, 2023
Kendall Heitmeier (Looper Lab)
“Exploring Novel P-site Antibiotics: Efforts toward the total synthesis of mildiomycin and pH studies on amicetin derivatives”

March 17, 2023
Stephanie “Billie” Heard (Winter Lab)
"Regulation and biosynthesis of natural products from marine-derived fungi"

February 17, 2023
Karsten Eastman (Bandarian Lab)
"Utilizing a single rSAM RiPP maturase for generalizable and predictable crosslink formation in a wide array peptide substrates"

January 20, 2023
Jose Miguel Robes (Puri Lab)
"Identification and characterization of natural products from methane-oxidizing bacteria using inverse stable isotope labeling (InverSIL)"

 

Fall 2022

December 9, 2022
Marcus Mifflin (Roberts Lab)
"Peptide bond equilibration reagents and approaches toward lasso peptides"

November 18, 2022
Colin Campbell (Rainier Lab)
"Pyridine Biaryl Photoelectrocyclizations and Ergot Alkaloid Synthesis"

October 14, 2022
Barry Li (Looper Lab)
"Synthetic Studies on Voltage-gated Sodium Ion Channel Inhibitors Saxitoxin, Zetekitoxin AB and Related Macrocycles"

September 9, 2022
Paul Scesa, PhD (Schmidt Lab)
"Elucidating and engineering eleutherobin biosynthesis"

 

Spring 2022 

May 24, 2022
Dale Cummings (Puri Lab)
"Methylotroph Quorum Sensing Signal Identification by Inverse Stable Isotopic Labeling"

April 26, 2022
Lori Digal (Roberts Lab)
"Development of Chemical Strategies to Prepare Synthetic Lasso Peptides and Their Isomers"

March 22, 2022
Karsten Eastman (Bandarian Lab)
"A Generalizable Strategy to Install Disulfide Mimetics by Enzymatic Means"

March 1, 2022
Alex Wade (Rainier Lab)
"Very Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, A new synthesis”

January 25, 2022
Mark Mahoney (Looper Lab)
"Development of a Rifamycin Platform to Combat Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis”