2026 Fall Semiannual Meeting Series

Presenter Name, Role

Institution

Title of Presentation

Olaf Wiest, Grace-Rupley Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

University of Notre Dame

Welcome Remarks

Ambre Carpentier, Postdoctoral Researcher (Paton Group)

Emily Fok, Graduate Student (Sarpong Group)

Colorado State U

UC Berkeley

Mechanistic Investigations into a Key Pd-Catalyzed Cyclization Toward the Synthesis of Delavatine A

Ampofo Darko, Associate Professor

UT Knoxville

Enhancing Asymmetric Cyclopropanation via Ligand Design at Dirhodium Paddlewheel Axial Sites: An Experimental and Computational Study

Bhuaplee Kalita, Postdoctoral Researcher (Isayev Group)

Carnegie Mellon University

Reprogramming acid organocatalysts for stereoselective radical reactions

Presenter Name, Role

Institution

Title of Presentation

Samuel Genheden, Director

AstraZeneca

Towards agentic AI collaborators in drug discovery

Corin Wagen, CEO

Rowan

AI/ML Tools In Preclinical Drug Discovery: My View From the Trenches

Presenter Name, Role

Institution

Title of Presentation

Nicholas Ball, Professor of Chemistry

Pomona College

Sulfur fluoride exchange with carbon pronucleophiles

Abhijeet Bhadauria, Graduate Student (Paton Group)

Colorado State U

Real-time Prediction and Generation of Atropisomers

Niharika Kaushik, Graduate Student (Sigman Group)

U of Utah

Origin of Scission Selectivity for Phosphoranyl Radicals in Photoredox Catalysis

Presenter Name, Role

Institution

Title of Presentation

Maike Gorges, Quantum Chemist

BASF

Using machine learning for reaction network discovery in an industrial setting

Kelsey VanGelder, Prinicipal Scientist

Shane Stone, Scientist

Vertex Pharmeceuticals

Development of a Reaction Data Infrastructure for Reaction Condition Optimization

Charles Yeung, Principal Scientst

Merck

Data and Decision Making in Medicinal Chemistry and Synthesis

Presenter Name, Role

Institution

Title of Presentation

Andre Isaacs, Associate Professor

College of the Holy Cross

Synthesis and EDBO+ Guided Optimization of 7-Azabicyclo[4.2.0]octa-1(8),5-dienes

Alex Taylor, Graduate Student (Wiest Group)

Mihir Surve, Graduate Student (Wiest Group)

U of Notre Dame

U of Notre Dame

 Multimodal Data Extraction of Chemical Reaction Information

Jeehyun Hwang, Graduate Student (Wang Group)

Brandon Jolly, Staff Scientist

UCLA

UCLA

Knowledge to Experiments: System guided experimental design using ChemKG