Events
May 2026
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Friday, May 1st, 2026
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PhD Thesis Defense
Template-Free Assembly of Three-Dimensional Mesostructures via Polarization Control
Natasha Reich,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Lewis Group),
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Characterizing the lipid II flippase MurJ as an antibiotic target
Yancheng Evelyn Li,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Mixed valent iron in a lithium-rich metal sulfide and the effects of metal-deficiency on electrochemical anion redox
Colin Morrell,
Graduate Student (See Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, May 4th, 2026
2:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar - Stephen Long (Sloan Kettering)
Structure, Ca2+-dependent regulation, and ion selectivity of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter
Stephen B. Long,
Professor,
Structural Biology Program,
Sloan Kettering Institute,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Structure and function of copper membrane monooxygenases
Amy Rosenzweig,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
10:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Bioinspired Microfluidic Wearable Sensors for Continuous Sweat Sampling and Metabolic Monitoring
Soyoung Shin,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Gao Lab),
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Towards the Enzymatic Mineralization of Siloxanes
Ryen O'Meara,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Arnold Lab),
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Infrared Action Spectroscopy of Biomolecules for Planetary Science Applications
Tyler Nguyen,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Kang-Kuen Ni,
Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics,
Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Efficient Evaluation of Coulomb Interactions for Large-Scale Quantum Chemistry
Rui Li,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Chan Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Global Stratospheric Methane Loss from Satellite Observations
Qiang Fu,
Calvin Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Science,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Chirality and Topology of Collective Excitations: From Altermagnets to Chiral Crystals
Chen Li,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Programmable Syntheses of Polycyclic Natural Products via a Polyfunctional Intermediate Approach
Thursday, May 7th, 2026
12:00pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar
"The rise of ants: a lens for understanding the modern biosphere" and "Modeling time and space in the emergence of new dialects"
4:00pm
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2026 McConnell Lecture
The Essentiality of Solution NMR Spectroscopy in the Post-AlphaFold Era
Lewis E. Kay,
Professor,
Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, and Chemistry,
University of Toronto,
Friday, May 8th, 2026
10:15am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Efficient Synthetic Transformations Enabled by Group X Catalysis
Kimberly Sharp,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Stoltz Group),
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Monday, May 11th, 2026
9:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Probing Polaron Design Principles in Iron Oxides with Transient Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopy.
Jocelyn Mendes,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Cushing Group),
Caltech,
3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Good Vibrations Only: Vibrational Imaging of Subcellular Metabolism in Health & Disease
Rahuljeet (RJ) Chadha,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Wei Group),
Caltech,
3:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Controlling Electrocatalytic Outcomes via Speciation, Second Coordination Spheres, and Interfacial Design
Eva Nichols,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
The University of British Columbia,
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
4:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
MegaMolecules and Applications as Antibody Mimics
Milan Mrksich,
Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry,
School of Engineering,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Decoding the Bacterial Lanthanome for Scalable Rare Earth Element Recovery from Complex Feedstocks
Cecilia Martinez-Gomez,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Thursday, May 14th, 2026
11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Metabolic Raman imaging: enhancing sensitivity and molecular insight
Adrian Colazo,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Wei Group),
Caltech,
2:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Transcription and Splicing Specificity Through Kinetic Proofreading
Daniel Larson,
Chief, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression; Head, Systems Biology of Gene Expression; Co-Chair, Trans-NIH Myeloid Malignancies Program,
Center for Cancer Research,
National Institutes of Health,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Electrochemical Direct Air Capture: In Space, On Land, and Under Sea
Yushan Yan,
Henry Belin du Pont Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Delaware,
Friday, May 15th, 2026
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PhD Thesis Defense
Development and Exploration of Electrochemical Cascades for Titanium-Mediated Nitrogen Reduction to Ammonia
Channing Klein,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Manthiram Group),
Caltech,
11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Abiotic Strategies and C-H Functionalization toward Natural Product Total Synthesis and Studies toward CNS-Penetrant Drug Derivatives
Camila Suarez,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Stoltz Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Reductive Carbonyl Functionalization Driven by Ligand Non-Innocence
Nathan Friede,
Graduate Student (Reisman Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, May 18th, 2026
10:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Genetic Interrogation of Expression Regulation
Maria Carilli,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Designing for Disorder: Electrocatalytic Synthesis with Interfacial Control
Anna Wuttig,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
The University of Chicago,
Tuesday, May 19th, 2026
10:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Unraveling Material Behavior with Electron and X-ray Spectroscopies: From Transient Electronic Responses to Electronic Topological Transitions
Wonseok Lee,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Cushing Group),
Caltech,
2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
New regulatory mechanisms in SRP targeting pathway
Ruilin Qian,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Shan Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Designing Biodegradable Hydrogels for Sustainable Soil Systems
Thaiesha A. Wright,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
New Experimental Platforms for Molecular Polaritonics
Marissa Weichman,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
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PhD Thesis Defense
The Total Synthesis of Aleutianamine, (–)-Crotonolide D, and (–)-Crotonine G
Hao Yu,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Stoltz Group),
Caltech,
2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Electrochemical Carboxylation of Aldehydes with CO2: Mechanistic Insights and Enantioselective Synthesis
Thu Ton,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Manthiram Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Antarctic Sea Ice: Structural Change, Future Projections and Uncertainties
Marilyn Raphael,
Department of Geography and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Thursday, May 21st, 2026
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PhD Thesis Defense
Tug of War between Epoxidation and Ketonization in Electrochemical Alkene Oxidation: Pulling the Ropefor Ketonization
Chenyu Jiang,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Manthiram Group),
Caltech,
2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Molecular Mechanisms of DNA Interstrand Cross-Link Repair by the Fanconi Anemia Pathway
Maria Altshuller,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
BRCA1-BARD1 Tumor Suppressor Complex in Homologous Recombination Licensing
Patrick Sung,
Professor of Biochemistry & Structural Biology, Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry,
UT Health San Antonio,
Friday, May 22nd, 2026
10:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Artificial Intelligence Methods for Enzyme Engineering
Jason Yang,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Arnold Lab),
Caltech,
1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Optimizing Treslin-MTBP for cryo-EM analysis
Cai Tong Ng,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Combinatorial Signal Integration in the Dopamine Receptor System
Jan Gregrowicz,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2026
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Revisiting Woodward–Hoffmann Allowed and Forbidden Electrocyclic Reactions
Kendall N. Houk,
Distinguished Research Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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