Chemistry and Biochemistry

Spring 2022

All seminars are held on Fridays at 1 p.m. If a location is not listed, the seminar will be held via Zoom. All are welcome to attend/view and contribute! 

Use this Zoom link to attend: bit.ly/chicochem 

Feel free to email Dr. Nadia Korovina at nkorovina@csuchico.edu with any seminar questions!

February 25*

Jessica Golden, Ph.D., Sepion Technologies
*seminar meets in person, located in Glenn Hall, Room 314; refreshments provided

"Data-Driven Materials Innovation: Designing the Next Generation of EV batteries" (PDF)

March 4*

Jared Harkins, Shimadzu
*seminar meets in person, located in Glenn Hall, Room 314; refreshments provided

March 25*

Justin Johnson, NREL
*seminar meets in person, located in Glenn Hall, Room 314; refreshments provided

Putting molecules in their place: geometries for making and managing triplet excited states (PDF)

April 1*

Reta Betar Farah and team, Nanotech Energy
*seminar meets in person, located in Glenn Hall, Room 314; refreshments provided

Reta and her team will be available until 3:30 for a Q&A session - stick around if your schedule allows!

Processing and Characterizing Nanomaterials for use in Lithium-Ion Batteries and More! (PDF)

April 8*

Rohit Prasanna, Swift Technologies
*seminar meets in person, located in Glenn Hall, Room 314; refreshments provided

Perovskite solar cells: from chemistry to manufacturing (PDF)

April 15

Benjamin Gherman, California State University, Sacramento

Using Computational Chemistry and Biomimetic Models to Investigate Catalysis at Enzyme Active Sites (PDF)

April 22*

Tabitha Schempp, University of Texas, Austin
*seminar meets in person, located in Glenn Hall, Room 314; refreshments provided

Total Synthesis of Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase Inhibitor Soraphen A (PDF)

May 6*

Monica Gonzalez, University of California, Davis
*seminar meets in person, located in Glenn Hall, Room 314; refreshments provided

May 13*

Sivan Perets, California State University, Chico
*seminar meets in person, located in Glenn Hall, Room 314; refreshments provided