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Participate in a CCE Event
October 1, 2026
4:00 pm
Frontiers in Chemical Engineering
Learning physical dynamics with generative machine learning
Aditi Krishnapriyan,
Bruce & Susan Stangeland Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
October 2, 2026
8:30 am
BOND Colloquium "Careers in Academia: Beyond the R1"
Prof. Kenneth Childers,
Cal State Fullerton,
Prof. Raul Navarro,
Occidental College,
Prof. Khuloud Sweimeh,
Pasadena City College,
Dr. Mike Vicic,
Caltech CCE,
Kala Youngblood,
USC East College Prep,
Dr. Jasmine Bryant,
Caltech CTLO,
October 7, 2026
4:00 pm
Organic Chemistry Seminar
Rewriting Protein Modifications with Molecular Glues
October 8, 2026
12:00 pm
Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Selective Lipidome Editing through Structure-Directed Metabolic Routing"
Binyou Wang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Morstein Group,
October 8, 2026
4:00 pm
Biochemistry Seminar - James Shorter (UPenn)
Short RNA chaperones promote aggregation-resistant TDP-43 conformers to mitigate neurodegeneration
James Shorter,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Biology, Perelman School of Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania,
October 14, 2026
1:00 pm
Frontiers in Chemical Biology Symposium
10AM: Yael David Shternberg,
Associate Member, Chemical Biology,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,
October 15, 2026
12:00 pm
Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Nivin Nystrom,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Shapiro Group,
October 15, 2026
4:00 pm
Contantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
Unravelling Specific Ion Effects in Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction: The Interplay of Interfacial Structure and Ion-specific Transport
Madeline (Maddy) Murphy,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
October 16, 2026
9:00 am
PhD Thesis Defense
Data-driven computational approaches for chemistry across scales
Vignesh Bhethanabotla,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
October 19, 2026
2:15 pm
Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development of catalyst systems enabling sp3 C‒H functionalization reactions
October 21, 2026
4:00 pm
Organic Chemistry Seminar
Fat foraging: how pathogenic bacteria construct unusual cell envelopes
Laura M.K. Dassama,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and of Microbiology and Immunology,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
October 22, 2026
12:00 pm
Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Seongmin Jang,
Gradinaru Group,
November 3, 2026
11:00 am
PhD Thesis Defense
Matthew Cooper,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,