This page contains the Spring 2026 Seminar schedule. Seminar will be held on campus on Fridays, from 1:30-2:45 pm (Mountain Time), in the Education Building, Room 112 (unless otherwise noted).
| Date | Title | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| January 16, 2026 | Course Introduction | Course Instructors: Dr. Rajesh Nagarajan and Dr. Owen McDougal |
| January 23, 2026 | “Non-Bulk Intracellular Water and Variable Freezing” | Rebekah Parsons, Chemistry Graduate Student in Meister lab |
| January 30, 2026 | “Upcycling Potential of Oat Pulp for Food” | Nevaeh Gamble, Chemistry major in McDougal lab |
| “Measuring Vitamins Hidden Behind a Polymer Coating” | Logan Moynaugh, Chemistry major in McDougal lab | |
| February 6, 2026 | “Analytical Validation of a Liposomal Delivery System” | Hassan Mohamed, Chemistry major in Cornell lab |
| February 13, 2026 | “Cold Atmospheric Plasma as a Novel Antiviral Approach to Herpes Keratitis in a Porcine Eye Model” | Tessa Sprague, Chemistry major in Cornell lab |
| “Analysis of dimethyl ether extracted components from whey permeate” | Morgan Fong, Chemistry Graduate Student in McDougal Lab | |
| February 20, 2026 | “Dye Uptake and Aggregation During Dynamic Ice Growth” | Logan Rodgers, Chemistry major in Cyran lab |
| “Improving Malting Efficiency Through Pulse Electric Field Technology” | Jamison Rowley, Chemistry major in McDougal lab | |
| February 27, 2026 | “Cold Atmospheric Pressure for Bacterial Inactivation in a Porcien Ex Vivo Chronic Wound Model” | Travis Hudok, Chemistry Graduate Student in Cornell lab |
| March 6, 2026 | “Adsorption of Organic Compounds onto Ice and Water” | Gus Salvadori, Chemistry major in Cyran lab |
| “Chemical Characterization of Oxidized Phospholipid Species Following Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Treatment” | Angela Komma, Chemistry major in Cornell lab | |
| “Taking a “Peak” at Apatite: a Quantitative Calibration of Hydroxyl Content in Apatite by Raman Spectroscopy” | Myla Negrete, Chemistry major in Kohn lab | |
| March 13, 2026 | “Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species Mediated Inactivation of HSV-1 Using Cold Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma” | Razmira Hamidovic, Chemistry major in Cornell lab |
| “Inhibiting Carbonyl Reductase with Benzothiazole Compounds” | Erika Morgan, Chemistry major in Charlier lab | |
| March 20, 2026 | SPRING BREAK | NO CLASS |
| March 27, 2026 | “Investigating the Loss of Ice Nucleation Ability in Feldspar through Na and K Ion Loss Utilizing ICP-OES” | Nolan Cosme, Chemistry major in Meister lab |
| “Identifying the Molecular Origin of Ice Nucleation Activity in Platismatia herrei” | Sarah King, Chemistry major in Meister lab | |
| “Determining the Bond Energy of Water in Hydrated Salts Using Differential Scanning Calorimetry” | Isabel Lawson, Chemistry major in McClain lab | |
| April 3, 2026 | “Targeting BjaI Quorum Sensing with Synthetic AHL Analogs” | Olivia Lundstrom, Chemistry major in Brown lab |
| “Aqueous Solubility and Lipophilicity of Kratom Alkaloids” | Jessica Seiber, Chemistry major in McDougal lab | |
| April 10, 2026 | “Formation of Thiolate-bridged dinuclear palladium complexes and sulfide-bridged trinuclear palladium complexes” | Juliette Andreani, Chemistry major in Brown lab |
| “Oxidation and Crystallization of Zinc Thiolate – Coordination Complexes and its Relevance to the ADA DNA Repair Protein” | Erik Altemus, Chemistry major in Brown lab | |
| April 17, 2026 | ” Quantifying Reactive Species Generated by a 10×10 cm Cold Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma Array” | Laney Dew, Chemistry major in Cornell lab |
| “Establishing Quantitative Metrics for Probe Design to Detect Point Mutations in DNA” | Elnara Usmanova, Chemistry major in Mass lab | |
| April 24, 2026 | Rylie Knittel, Chemistry major in Callahan lab | |
| Christopher Orizaba, Chemistry major in Andreussi lab | ||
| May 1, 2026 | Wizard Hat Ceremony |  |