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Thursday, May 1st, 2025
2:00pm 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Elucidating the Role of Transition Metal Electronic Structure in Catalysis and Spin Relaxation
Kaitlin Luedecke, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Anti-viral defense in bacteria: first responders, failsafes, and backup systems
Barry Stoddard, Professor, Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Transport of nanoparticles through complex, crowded fluids
Jacinta Conrad, Frank M. Tiller Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston,
Friday, May 2nd, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Rational Design of Molecular Quantum Bits.
Fernando Guerrero, Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
Monday, May 5th, 2025
12:00pm 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Modeling subsurface operations for a safe and sustainable energy matrix
Mateo Acosta, Assistant Professor of Geomechanics, Virginia Tech,
3:45pm 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Stabilizing Halide-Based Redox Active Materials for Rechargeable Battery Applications
Alexis Grimaud, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Boston College,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar

Carbon-carbon Bond Formation in a Weak Ligand Field
Paul Chirik, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Chemistry and Chair, Princeton University,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

How Will Severe Thunderstorms Respond to Climate Change?
Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Diffusionless Transformations in Ceramics: Can Brittle Materials Survive Martensitic Transitions?
Katherine Faber, Professor, Materials Science, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Expanding the Chemical Tractability of Human Proteome
Christopher Parker, Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute,
  • Internal Event
Thursday, May 8th, 2025
12:00pm 1:30pm
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EVOxZANKOU Seminar

"Evolutionary entrenchment of a myrmecophilous lifestyle: the basis of obligate parasitism in rove beetles" and "Lineage tracing in the developing placenta through space and time"
Joani Viliunas, Graduate Student, BBE, Caltech,
Martin Tran, Graduate Student, BBE, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Metal Binding to Nsp1, a SARS-CoV-2 protein
Maryann Morales, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Illuminating Natural Intelligence with Smart Experimental Systems and Advanced Machine Learning
Hang Lu, C. J. "Pete" Silas Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation of College of Engineering, Georgia Tech,
Friday, May 9th, 2025
10:00am 3:30pm
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Resnick Young Investigators Symposium

Sara Beery, Assistant Professor, CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Daniel Dauhajre, Assistant Professor, Computational Ocean Dynamics, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Hannah Druckenmiller, Assistant Professor, Economics, California Institute of Technology,
Mark Jason Lara, Assistant Professor, Plant Biology and Geography and Geographic Information Sciences, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign,
Monday, May 12th, 2025
2:00pm 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Topological organization of cell state manifolds across metazoans
Emanual Flores Bautista, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
3:45pm 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Molecular Approaches to Advancing 2D Conductive MOFs for Tailored Properties and Applications
Jihye Park, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder,
Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
10:00am 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Reductive Samarium Catalysis enabled by a Thermochemical Roadmap
Emily Boyd, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Value-added transformations in electrocatalysis and graduate education
Maureen Tang, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
9:00am 10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Synthesis of Novel Open-Shell Motifs and Weakly-Coordinating Anions
Tianyi (Mike) He, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Toward accurate and scalable site characterization with multi-scale, multi-modal observations
Harry Lee, University of Hawai‘i,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Laser spectroscopy of a nucleus in a solid
Eric Hudson, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Directed Reaction Discovery: Accessing the Remote Synthetic Landscape
Andy Thomas, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University,
  • Internal Event
Thursday, May 15th, 2025
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

"Deciphering Microbiome-Mediated Regulation of Neurometabolism and Social Behaviors"
Daniel Dumitrescu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mazmanian Group,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Advancing Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy through Deep Learning and Gel-Based Tissue Engineering
Li En Lin, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Emerging simplicity in microbiome dynamics
Lingchong You, James L. Meriam Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, founding Director of the Center for Quantiative Biodesign, Duke University,
Friday, May 16th, 2025
2:30pm 3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Beyond Li: Challenges in moving towards earth-abundant battery materials
Michelle Qian, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
Sunday, May 18th, 2025
Monday, May 19th, 2025
11:00am 12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Time-Resolved Proteomic Analysis in Zebrafish and Cultured Neurons Using Bioorthogonal Noncanonical Amino Acid Tagging
Sophie Miller, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Tirrell Lab), Caltech,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Design and Application of Complexity Generating Strategies and Transformations in Natural Product Synthesis
Andrea Stegner, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:45pm 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Probing Interfacial Reactivity using Single-Molecule Conductance.
Michael S. Inkpen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California,
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
1:00pm 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Structural and mechanistic studies of membrane protein biogenesis and quality control at the endoplasmic reticulum
Vy Nguyen, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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2025 Harden M. McConnell Lecture

Magnetic Resonance One Spin At A Time
Jörg Wrachtrup, Professor, Head of Department, 3rd Physics Institute and Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, University of Stuttgart,
6:00pm 7:30pm
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LCSSP Panel - Southern California Wildfires & Water Quality: Science Meets Policy

Southern California Wildfires & Water Quality: Science Meets Policy
  • Public Event
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
10:00am 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Cuticular Hydrocarbons in Myrmecophiles are a Mechanism of Symbiotic Entrenchment
Thomas Naragon, Graduate Student, Chemistry,
10:30am 11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF HYPERSAMPSONE M AND STUDIES OF RELATED POLYCYCLIC POLYPRENYLATED ACYLPHLOROGLUCINOL SYSTEMS
Adrian Samkian, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

The Biochemical and Structural Basis of Get3d's Role in Photosynthesis
Alexandra Barlow, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

The Global Ocean's Role in Shaping Small Fronts
, Catlin Whalen, University of Washington,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Chemoproteogenomic approaches to stratify the functional and therapeutically relevant proteome
Keriann M. Backus, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Quantum Sensors with Superfluid Helium-4
Keith Schwab, Professor, Applied Physics, Caltech,
Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
1:00pm 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Functional Stimulated Raman Imaging for Quantitative Cell Biology with Small Bioorthogonal Tags
Xiaotian Bi, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Flow physics drives adaptations in single and colonial eukaryotes
Eva Kanso, Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California (USC),
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar

Uncovering mechanisms of RNA transport
Vihandha Wickramasinghe, Professor, Laboratory Head, Genetics and Gene Regulation, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,
Friday, May 23rd, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Divergent Catalysis: Dissolving Metal-Type Reductions Under Sm(II/III) Catalysis
Nathan Friede, Graduate Student (Reisman Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,