Florida Showcase Symposium – The Florida Showcase Symposium is to showcase senior members of the Florida local section and the breadth and quality of their research or educational activities. We are pleased to reestablish this honor showcase after a break initiated by the Covid pandemic.
FL-ACS is happy to announce the 2025 Showcase Symposium Speakers
Professor Joe Schlenoff is Robert O. Lawton Professor of Chemistry and Mandelkern Professor of Polymer Science at Florida State University. After a brief stint at Polaroid Corporation (Cambridge, MA), he completed a Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1987. He joined the faculty of FSU in 1988. With support from various Federal and State agencies, he has researched the fundamental chemistry of polyelectrolyte complexes as thin films and bulk solids.
He has co-edited a volume on layer-by-layer assembly, published by Wiley-VCH, now in its second edition (2011). He holds ca. 43 U.S. patents. He was Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at FSU from 2007-2011 and oversaw the construction of FSU’s new $72M Chemistry building. He held the Gutenberg Chair at the University of Strasbourg in 2011, won the Florida Award of the American Chemical Society in 2013, was a U.S. Fulbright Fellow in France in 2019, is a Fellow of the PMSE Division of the American Chemical Society and the National Academy of Inventors. From 2014-2020 he was Senior Associate Editor of Langmuir, the ACS journal of colloid and surface science.
Professor Daniel Seidel received his Diplom from the Friedrich-Schiller Universität at Jena, Germany in 1998, after having completed his final year of the program at UT Austin as a fellow of the Trans-Atlantic Student Exchange program. He returned to Austin to perform his graduate studies in the lab of Prof. Jonathan L. Sessler, obtaining his Ph.D. in 2002 for the development of new methods for the synthesis of expanded porphyrin analogues. From 2002–2005, Daniel was an Ernst Schering Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Prof. David A. Evans at Harvard University, focusing on the development of new metal catalysts for catalytic enantioselective transformations. He started his independent career at Rutgers University in August of 2005. In 2017, his group moved to the University of Florida where he is currently the Katritzky Term Professor in Heterocyclic Chemistry. His research interests focus on the development of new synthetic methodologies, in particular in the areas of C–H bond functionalization, heterocycle synthesis, and asymmetric catalysis.
Professor Dmitry M. Kolpashchikov is a Chemistry Professor at the University of Central Florida. He received PhD in bioorganic chemistry in 1999 from the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia. This was followed by his postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Genetics, Japan, and at Columbia University in the City of New York. His interests include biochemistry of nucleic acids, hybridization probes, DNA nanotechnology and molecular diagnostics.