Departmental News

• D. Prof. Elka Georgieva served as a Reviewer of a Collaborative Grant Proposal to the Royal Society of Chemistry.
• Prof. Tropp did an oral presentation at the Materials Research Society 2023 Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston MA. “Symposium: SB04: Conducting and Functional Hydrogels—From Materials to Devices Title: Acid-Crystallized PEDOT Nanoparticles: Scalable and Biocompatible Fillers for Highly Conductive Hydrogels”
• Dr. Hans Lischka did a presentation “Solvent-Enhanced Symmetry-breaking and Singlet-Fission in the Covalently-Bound Tetracene Dimer” on October 25, 2023, Virtual International Seminar on Theoretical Advancements (VISTA)
• Prof. Anne Gorden gave an invited talk “Pyrrophens: Comparing Steric Tailored Architectures of Schiff Base Pyrrole Ligands with Uranyl and Transition Metals,” at the 21st Symposium on Separation Science and Technology for Energy Applications sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville, Tennessee October 24th.
• Rhea Karkera, an undergraduate student in the Gorden group, gave a poster “Development of a Homogenous Base Metal Catalyst in Amide Hydrosilylation”, with Adineh Rezaei, Anne E.V. Gorden Michael Findlater as co-authors at the Women in Catalysis and Synthetic Chemistry Symposium held at the University of Texas at Austin November 4th.
• Prof. Mechref gave an invited Lecture, “Proteomics, glycoproteomics, and glycomics of RLS: Hints for possible novel targeted therapeutic interventions,” at the IRLSSG 2023 Annual Meeting on October 22, 2023, part of the World Sleep 2023, October 20-25, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Prof. Mechref gave an invited Lecture, “Targeted Quantitative Analysis of Glycoproteins by Parallel Reaction Monitoring (PRM) LC-MS/MS,” at the 42nd International Symposium on the Separation of Proteins, Peptides and Polynucleotides (ISPPP 2023), Vienna, 5-8 November 2023.
• Prof. Mechref's article published in Biomolecules, 13 (2023) 1467, https://doi.org/10.3390/biom13101467, is promoted by the journal as a “Title Story” banner.
• Prof. Mechref served as a member of the award committee at the 29th International Symposium on Electro- and Liquid Phase-Separation Techniques, September 13-17, 2023, San Felice Circeo, Rome, Italy.

Departmental News

• D. Prof. Elka Georgieva served as a Reviewer of a Collaborative Grant Proposal to the Royal Society of Chemistry.
• Prof. Tropp did an oral presentation at the Materials Research Society 2023 Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston MA. “Symposium: SB04: Conducting and Functional Hydrogels—From Materials to Devices Title: Acid-Crystallized PEDOT Nanoparticles: Scalable and Biocompatible Fillers for Highly Conductive Hydrogels”
• Dr. Hans Lischka did a presentation “Solvent-Enhanced Symmetry-breaking and Singlet-Fission in the Covalently-Bound Tetracene Dimer” on October 25, 2023, Virtual International Seminar on Theoretical Advancements (VISTA)
• Prof. Anne Gorden gave an invited talk “Pyrrophens: Comparing Steric Tailored Architectures of Schiff Base Pyrrole Ligands with Uranyl and Transition Metals,” at the 21st Symposium on Separation Science and Technology for Energy Applications sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville, Tennessee October 24th.
• Rhea Karkera, an undergraduate student in the Gorden group, gave a poster “Development of a Homogenous Base Metal Catalyst in Amide Hydrosilylation”, with Adineh Rezaei, Anne E.V. Gorden Michael Findlater as co-authors at the Women in Catalysis and Synthetic Chemistry Symposium held at the University of Texas at Austin November 4th.
• Prof. Mechref gave an invited Lecture, “Proteomics, glycoproteomics, and glycomics of RLS: Hints for possible novel targeted therapeutic interventions,” at the IRLSSG 2023 Annual Meeting on October 22, 2023, part of the World Sleep 2023, October 20-25, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Prof. Mechref gave an invited Lecture, “Targeted Quantitative Analysis of Glycoproteins by Parallel Reaction Monitoring (PRM) LC-MS/MS,” at the 42nd International Symposium on the Separation of Proteins, Peptides and Polynucleotides (ISPPP 2023), Vienna, 5-8 November 2023.
• Prof. Mechref's article published in Biomolecules, 13 (2023) 1467, https://doi.org/10.3390/biom13101467, is promoted by the journal as a “Title Story” banner.
• Prof. Mechref served as a member of the award committee at the 29th International Symposium on Electro- and Liquid Phase-Separation Techniques, September 13-17, 2023, San Felice Circeo, Rome, Italy.

Departmental News

• D. Prof. Elka Georgieva served as a Reviewer of a Collaborative Grant Proposal to the Royal Society of Chemistry.
• Prof. Tropp did an oral presentation at the Materials Research Society 2023 Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston MA. “Symposium: SB04: Conducting and Functional Hydrogels—From Materials to Devices Title: Acid-Crystallized PEDOT Nanoparticles: Scalable and Biocompatible Fillers for Highly Conductive Hydrogels”
• Dr. Hans Lischka did a presentation “Solvent-Enhanced Symmetry-breaking and Singlet-Fission in the Covalently-Bound Tetracene Dimer” on October 25, 2023, Virtual International Seminar on Theoretical Advancements (VISTA)
• Prof. Anne Gorden gave an invited talk “Pyrrophens: Comparing Steric Tailored Architectures of Schiff Base Pyrrole Ligands with Uranyl and Transition Metals,” at the 21st Symposium on Separation Science and Technology for Energy Applications sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville, Tennessee October 24th.
• Rhea Karkera, an undergraduate student in the Gorden group, gave a poster “Development of a Homogenous Base Metal Catalyst in Amide Hydrosilylation”, with Adineh Rezaei, Anne E.V. Gorden Michael Findlater as co-authors at the Women in Catalysis and Synthetic Chemistry Symposium held at the University of Texas at Austin November 4th.
• Prof. Mechref gave an invited Lecture, “Proteomics, glycoproteomics, and glycomics of RLS: Hints for possible novel targeted therapeutic interventions,” at the IRLSSG 2023 Annual Meeting on October 22, 2023, part of the World Sleep 2023, October 20-25, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Prof. Mechref gave an invited Lecture, “Targeted Quantitative Analysis of Glycoproteins by Parallel Reaction Monitoring (PRM) LC-MS/MS,” at the 42nd International Symposium on the Separation of Proteins, Peptides and Polynucleotides (ISPPP 2023), Vienna, 5-8 November 2023.
• Prof. Mechref's article published in Biomolecules, 13 (2023) 1467, https://doi.org/10.3390/biom13101467, is promoted by the journal as a “Title Story” banner.
• Prof. Mechref served as a member of the award committee at the 29th International Symposium on Electro- and Liquid Phase-Separation Techniques, September 13-17, 2023, San Felice Circeo, Rome, Italy.

Departmental News

• D. Prof. Elka Georgieva served as a Reviewer of a Collaborative Grant Proposal to the Royal Society of Chemistry.
• Prof. Tropp did an oral presentation at the Materials Research Society 2023 Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston MA. “Symposium: SB04: Conducting and Functional Hydrogels—From Materials to Devices Title: Acid-Crystallized PEDOT Nanoparticles: Scalable and Biocompatible Fillers for Highly Conductive Hydrogels”
• Dr. Hans Lischka did a presentation “Solvent-Enhanced Symmetry-breaking and Singlet-Fission in the Covalently-Bound Tetracene Dimer” on October 25, 2023, Virtual International Seminar on Theoretical Advancements (VISTA)
• Prof. Anne Gorden gave an invited talk “Pyrrophens: Comparing Steric Tailored Architectures of Schiff Base Pyrrole Ligands with Uranyl and Transition Metals,” at the 21st Symposium on Separation Science and Technology for Energy Applications sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville, Tennessee October 24th.
• Rhea Karkera, an undergraduate student in the Gorden group, gave a poster “Development of a Homogenous Base Metal Catalyst in Amide Hydrosilylation”, with Adineh Rezaei, Anne E.V. Gorden Michael Findlater as co-authors at the Women in Catalysis and Synthetic Chemistry Symposium held at the University of Texas at Austin November 4th.
• Prof. Mechref gave an invited Lecture, “Proteomics, glycoproteomics, and glycomics of RLS: Hints for possible novel targeted therapeutic interventions,” at the IRLSSG 2023 Annual Meeting on October 22, 2023, part of the World Sleep 2023, October 20-25, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Prof. Mechref gave an invited Lecture, “Targeted Quantitative Analysis of Glycoproteins by Parallel Reaction Monitoring (PRM) LC-MS/MS,” at the 42nd International Symposium on the Separation of Proteins, Peptides and Polynucleotides (ISPPP 2023), Vienna, 5-8 November 2023.
• Prof. Mechref's article published in Biomolecules, 13 (2023) 1467, https://doi.org/10.3390/biom13101467, is promoted by the journal as a “Title Story” banner.
• Prof. Mechref served as a member of the award committee at the 29th International Symposium on Electro- and Liquid Phase-Separation Techniques, September 13-17, 2023, San Felice Circeo, Rome, Italy.

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