Visiting Speaker Seminar Programs

The Monday Chemistry Colloquium presentations will be held on Mondays at 4:00 - 4:50 pm in Benton Hall (BH) 103. Seminars are  attended by faculty, visiting scientists, postdocs, and graduate students from all divisions, as well as undergraduate chemistry majors typically in their final semester.

Fall 2025

Date

Location

Speaker

Host

Aug. 25

B 103

Steven Struck, Safety Seminar, UMSL Environmental Health & Safety. "Chemistry TA Training".“Chemistry TA Training.”

Stine

Sep. 1

 

 No Colloquium:Labor Day

 

Sep. 8

B 103

Steven Struck, Safety Seminar, UMSL Environmental Health & Safety. "Safety and the Lab".“Chemistry TA Training.”

  Stine

Sep. 15

B 103

 Professor Rina Bhowmick, UMSL,  “Electronic Structure and Molecular Geometries of Metal-Complexes with DFT and Multireference Methods.”

 Stine

Sep. 22

B 103

Tom Spudich, Department of Chemistry Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. “A little bit of yesterday, a little bit of today, a little bit of tomorrow and a little bit of
forensic science thrown in there.”

  Stine

Sep. 29

B 103

Nicola Pohl, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University “Automation, AI, and Carbohydrate Chemistry.”  

Sharma

Oct. 6

 B 103

Andrew Zahrt, University of Pennsylvania “Development
of Enabling Technologies for Organic Synthesis.” .

 Sharma

Oct. 13

No Colloquium – ACS Midwest Regional Meeting at UM-Columbia.

 

Oct. 20

 B 103

Arthur Suits, Department of Chemistry, UM-Columbia; “Twenty Years of Roaming Radical Reactions.”

  O'Brien

Oct. 27

B 103

Pablo Sobrado, Department of Chemistry, Missouri S&T . “Hydroxylation of Amines by Flavin-Dependent N-monooxygenases.” .

 Dupureur

Nov. 3

B 103


Dennis Tokaryk, the 26th Annual Robert W. Murray Lecture. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, CANADA.
"High-resolution molecular spectroscopy: insights into the structure of the electron, into the contents of molecular clouds, and into the search for exoplanets around cold stars." For further infomation, click here.

  Bauer/O'Brien

Nov. 10

B 103

Malkanthi Kalunananda, Department of Chemistry, St. Louis University. "Multimetallic Photosensitizers with Metal-Metal Interactions."

 Stine

Nov. 17

B 103

Greg Tschumper, Department of Chemistry, Missouri S&T.
 "Two New Tales to Tell for Classic Hydrogen Bonding Prototypes."

 Wong

Nov. 24

  

 No colloquium-Thanksgiving Break

  

Dec. 1

 B 103

Paul Jelliss, Department of Chemistry, St. Louis University

 Holmes

Dec 8

B 103

Chenfeng Ke, Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis; “Supramolecularly designed 3D printing Polymers.”

  Xu