Department Seminar

Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm. All are invited to attend.

No seminar on November 11. Campus will be closed in observance of Veteran's Day.

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 following schedule is tentative for Fall 2026. 

Upcoming Seminars
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
November 18, 2026TBADr. Peter Ramirez, CSU Long Beach
December 2, 2026Diverse Careers in ChemistryKurjans and Nietos, CSU Long Beach Alumni

Previous Seminars

Previous Seminars
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
November 4, 2026Chemistry of Singlet Oxygen: From Phenolic Antioxidants and Exotic Peroxides to Porphyrinic Metal-Organic Frameworks as PhotocatalystsProf. Matthias Selke, CSU Los Angeles
October 21, 2026Molecular Capture From Complex EnvironmentsProf. Brenda Andrade Rounds, CSU Los Angeles
October 14, 2026Diverse DNA Repair of Oxidative Nucleobases and Interstrand Crosslinks by DNA Glycosylase NEIL3Prof. Alyssa Rodriguez, Occidental College
October 7, 2026The role of a disulfide in protein folding and stabilityProf. Karin Crowhurst, CSU Northridge
September 30, 2026Adventures with (Glyco)PeptidesProf. Michael Ferracane, CSU Fullerton
September 23, 2026The RNA Polymerase–Ribosome Dance: Is It Hip Hop or Ballroom in Bacteria?Prof. Gregor Blaha, UC Riverside
September 16, 2026Friends, Romans, Chemists, lend me your earsProf. Niroshika Keppetipola, CSU Fullerton
September 9, 2026Tuning Molecular Motion Enhances Intrinsic Fluorescence in Peptide Amphiphile NanofibersProf. Whitney C. Fowler, Harvey Mudd College
September 2, 2026From Materials Sustainability to Quantum Devices: First-Principles Insights into Dynamic InterfacesProf. Elizabeth Lee, UC Irvine

The Seminar Archive has Department Seminars from previous semesters.

The Department Seminar is supported by The Allergan Foundation.