Events
May 2025
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5/6
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Thursday, May 1st, 2025
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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
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Anti-viral defense in bacteria: first responders, failsafes, and backup systems
4:00pm
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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
11:00am
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12:00pm
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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
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3:45pm
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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
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
4:00pm
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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
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Diffusionless Transformations in Ceramics: Can Brittle Materials Survive Martensitic Transitions?
4:00pm
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Thursday, May 8th, 2025
12:00pm
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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
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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
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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
8:00am
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10:00am
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Resnick Young Investigators Symposium
Daniel Dauhajre,
Assistant Professor,
Computational Ocean Dynamics,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Mark Jason Lara,
Assistant Professor,
Plant Biology and Geography and Geographic Information Sciences,
University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Monday, May 12th, 2025
9:00am
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9:01am
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2:00pm
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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
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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
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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
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
9:00am
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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
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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
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Directed Reaction Discovery: Accessing the Remote Synthetic Landscape
- Internal Event
Thursday, May 15th, 2025
12:00pm
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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
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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
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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
8:00am
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2:30pm
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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
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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,
12:00pm
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
8:00am
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Cuticular Hydrocarbons in Myrmecophiles are a Mechanism of Symbiotic Entrenchment
Thomas Naragon,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
10:30am
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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,
12:00pm
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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
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Global Ocean's Role in Shaping Small Fronts
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Catlin Whalen,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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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
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
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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,
1:30pm
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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
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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
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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,