Department Seminar
Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm. All are invited to attend.
Upcoming Seminar
Building at the Nanoscale with Programmable Peptide-Based Building Blocks
Dr. Andrea Merg, UC Merced
September 3, 2025
4:00pm-5:00pm in HSCI-103
Research within the Merg Lab focuses on the design and fabrication of nanoscale materials derived from the self-assembly of sequence-programmable biomolecules (e.g., peptides, proteins, and nucleic acids). Developing these supramolecular architectures with hierarchical physical and chemical control across length-scales (an outstanding challenge within the field of biomolecular self-assembly), is a critical step towards the deployment of these materials for a variety of biomedical and bioengineering applications (e.g., biosensors, drug delivery, catalysis, etc.). The Merg Lab is highly interdisciplinary with research interests spanning the fields of peptide chemistry, materials chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, materials science, and bioengineering.
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Seminar Coordinator
For information and suggestions about our Department Seminar series, please contact the seminar coordinator:
Dr. Michael Schramm
Michael.Schramm@csulb.edu
Schedule
The schedule for Fall 2025 is as follows. Additional details may be added as the semester progresses.
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| September 3, 2025 | Building at the Nanoscale with Programmable Peptide-Based Building Blocks | Dr. Andrea Merg, UC Merced |
| September 10, 2025 | TBD | Kathryn Perrine, Michigan Tech University |
| September 17, 2025 | Solvent Driven Cross-Coupling of Fluorenones for Dibenzo | Tetsuo Iwasawa, Ryukoku University, Shiga, Japan |
| September 24, 2025 | TBD | TBD |
| October 1, 2025 | (topic: organic / materials science) | Elias Picazo, USC |
| October 8, 2025 | TBD | TBD |
| October 15, 2025 | (topic: inorganic) | Lauren Benz, University of San Diego |
| October 22, 2025 | (topic: biophysics) | Zuzanna Siwy, UC Irvine |
| October 29, 2025 | TBD | Allon Hochbaum, UC Irvine |
| November 5, 2025 | (topic: physical) | David Mobley, UC Irvine |
| November 12, 2025 | (topic: engineering) | Haizhou Liu, UC Riverside |
| November 19, 2025 | (topic: biochemistry) | Zhixiang Tong, Genentech |
| December 3, 2025 | First Year Talks | Chemistry students, CSU Long Beach |
| December 10, 2025 | (topic: organic) | Osvaldo Gutierrez, UCLA |
Previous Seminars
The Seminar Archive has Department Seminars from previous semesters.
The Department Seminar is supported by The Allergan Foundation.
