Conference Talks

2025: “Elucidating Barriers to C(sp3)–H Fluorination in Nonheme Iron Halogenases: A Detailed Mechanistic Study”, Merck Next Gen Leaders Symposium, Rahway, NJ, USA (invited talk)

2025: “Elucidating Barriers to C(sp3)–H Fluorination in Nonheme Iron Halogenases: A Detailed Mechanistic Study”, ACS Fall, Washington D.C., USA (poster)

2025: “Nonheme Iron Halogenases: Traversing the Bridge between Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry and Enzymology”, Lion Lecture, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA (invited talk)

 2025: “Decoding Fluorination Challenges: How Fluoride Coordination Affects Nonheme Iron Halogenase Reactivity”, ACS Spring, San Diego, CA, USA (talk)

2025: "Impact of Non-native Anion Coordination in Nonheme Iron Halogenases", GRC Metals in Biology and GRS Bioinorganic Chemistry, Ventura, CA, USA (poster)

2024: "Nonheme Iron Halogenases: Traversing the Bridge between Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry and Enzymology", HalChem XI, Baltimore, MD, USA (invited talk)

2024: "Pursuing Radical Fluorination in Biomimetic Nonheme Iron Complexes: Challenges and Lessons", ACS Fall, Elevating Chemistry, Denver, CO, USA (talk)

2024: "Nonheme Iron Halogenases: From Synthetic Beginnings to Enzymatic Realms", Penn State Postdoc to PI Symposium, University Park, PA, USA (invited talk)

2024: "Targeted Radical Transfer in a Sequence of Nonheme Iron(III) Complexes", ACS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, University Park, PA, USA (talk)

2024: "Effect of Fluoride Coordination in Nonheme Iron Halogenases", 6th Penn State Bioinorganic Workshop, University Park, PA, USA (poster)

2024: “Unlocking Biocatalytic Potential of Nonheme Iron Halogenase”, 8th Annual Life Science Symposium at Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA (talk)

2024: "Effect of Fluoride Coordination in Nonheme Iron Halogenases", GRC Metals in Biology and GRS Bioinorganic Chemistry, Ventura, CA, USA (poster)

2023: "Effect of Fluoride Coordination in Nonheme Iron Halogenases: Scopes, Challenges and Possible Solutions”, 16th Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium at Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA (flash talk)

2023: “Competitive Azide versus Hydroxide Transfer by a Nonheme Iron(III) complex”, ACS Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA (talk)

2023: “Effect of Fluoride Coordination in Nonheme Iron Halogenases: Where and Why does the Fluorination fail?”, 7th annual Life Science Symposium at Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA (talk)

2023: “Direct fluorination of an sp3 carbon by a cis-fluorooxoiron(IV) complex? Effect of fluoride coordination to the cofactor of the L-lysine 4-halogenase, BesD”, GRC and GRS Inorganic Reaction Mechanism, Galveston, TX, USA (poster)

2023: “Temperature-Dependent C-S versus C-OH Bond Formation by Nonheme FeIII(OH)(SAr) complexes: Relevance to Isopenicillin N Synthase”, GRC Metals in Biology (poster) and GRS Bioinorganic Chemistry (talk), Ventura, CA, USA

2021: “Factors influencing the competitive OH versus X transfer by nonheme FeIII(OH)(X) (X = Cl, Br) complexes to carbon radicals: A model of nonheme iron halogenases”, ACS Spring, Virtual (talk)

2020: “Synthesis of a nonheme mononuclear FeIII(OH) complex from FeII and O2 with hydrogen bonds, and its reactivity toward carbon radicals”, ACS Spring, Virtual (poster)