CCE Seminar Day 2017

10:00 am - Doors open for breakfast and networking


10:30am
 - Opening Remarks, Professor Jackie Barton, Chair, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

10:30-12:10pm - Session 1

• Ruijie (Kelly) Zhang, Arnold Group, "Advancing non-natural biocatalytic C–H bond amination 
via directed evolution"

• Charlie Arnett, Agapie Group,   "High Spin Tetranuclear Iron Clusters Reversibly Bind CO 
in Four Redox States"

• Tonia Ahmed, Grubbs Group
, "Highly Stereoretentive Olefin Metathesis with Ru Catalysts Supported by Dithiolate Ligands"

• Dr. Joshua Kretchmer, Chan Group
, "Splitting a system into small fragments: Electron dynamics from real-time embedding theories"


12:10-1:30pm - Lunch


1:30-3:10pm - Session 2

• Meaghan Deegan, Peters Group, "Incorporation of Fe-H equivalents for the reduction of CO and N₂."

• Samantha Shockley, Stoltz Group, "Recent developments in stereoselective iridium-catalyzed allylic alkylation methods"

• 
Christopher Kenseth, Seinfeld Group, "Towards a Molecular Understanding of Organic Particles in
the Atmosphere"
 
• Dr. Ana Correia, Hoelz Group
, "Architecture of the nuclear pore complex coat"


3:10-3:30pm - Coffee break


3:30-5:10pm - Session 3

• 
Kevin Shen, Wang Group
, "Beyond Debye-Huckel: Polymer Conformations and Electrostatic Correlations"
• Belinda Wenke, Rees Group, "Following the electrons: Multiwavelength crystallographic oxidation state assignment of the nitrogenase iron protein"

• Annelise Thompson, Lewis Group, "The effects of fluorinated graphene on silicon interfaces"
• Matthew Smarte, Okumura Group, "Synchrotron photoionization studies of atmospheric radical 
chemistry"


5:15-6:15pm - Poster session


6:15-7:00pm - Dinner