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Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Negative Ions: From Multiplexed Coincidence Spectroscopy to Hypervelocity Ice Grain Impacts
Robert Continetti, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Senior Associate Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego,
Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Building a new era of atom-by-atom materials characterization with electron ptychography
Pinshane Y. Huang, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Heuristics of Plant Water-Use and the Problem of Scale
Emma Reich, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Engineering

Understanding (and controlling) electrified interfaces for energy and health
Yuzhang Li, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
2:00pm 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Transcriptional Regulation of Zebrafish Enteric Nervous System Development
Yuanyun (Rose) Huang, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Transcription and RNA quality control in health and disease
Karen Adelman, Edward S. Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Synthetic Biology for Human Health: RNA Sensors, Protein Circuits, and Machine-Guided Humanization
Xiaojing Gao, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford,
Friday, April 3rd, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Chris Totoiu, Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
Monday, April 6th, 2026
3:45pm 5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
10:30am 11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Illuminating the Regulatory Dark Matter of E. coli with Massively Parallel Reporter Assays
Tom Röschinger, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Are Biology and Computer Science the Same Discipline?
Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Chief Technology Officer, Technology & Society, Google,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Pushing Ab Initio Electron-Phonon Theory Beyond Perturbation: From Polaron Structure to Transport
Jooonho Lee, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,
Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
1:30pm 2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Nanoscale Spectroscopic Imaging of Carriers and Heat in Photocatalysts
Levi Palmer, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Engineering

Guoliang (Greg) Liu, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Macromolecules Innovation Institute, and Academy of Integrated Science-Nanoscience, Virginia Tech,
Thursday, April 9th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar

Applications of Acetal Radicals in Organic Synthesis
Daniel Kim, Assistant Professor, College of Science and Technology, Temple University,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Short RNA chaperones promote aggregation-resistant TDP-43 conformers to mitigate neurodegeneration
James Shorter, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, April 10th, 2026
Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Predicting Chemical Reactivity?
Franziska Schoenebeck​, Professor of Chemistry and Chair, Institute of Organic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University,
  • Internal Event
Thursday, April 16th, 2026
12:00pm 1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

"Sidewinder: new realm of freedom to write any DNA" and "Structural evolution of the MTCH family of mitochondrial insertases"
Kaihang Wang, Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, BBE, Caltech,
Camryn Lee, Research Technician, BBE, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Diffusiophoresis-enhanced instabilities
Ankur Gupta, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder,
Friday, April 17th, 2026
Monday, April 20th, 2026
10:30am 11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Synthesis of Stereoenriched Polycyclic Scaffolds via Pd Enolates and Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Hypermoin A
Ruby Chen, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Nickel Complexes for Cooperative Catalysis & Mechanistic Insight
C. Rose Kennedy, James P. Wilmot Distinguished Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester,
  • Internal Event
Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Siegfried Musser, Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Texas A&M,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Probing Interfacial Mechanics and Electrostatics under Confinement
Joelle Frechette, Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Education, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,
Monday, April 27th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Expanding molecular designs for mechanochromic polymers
Yan Sun, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
Tuesday, April 28th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Marcus Center Special Seminar

Real-time simulations of ultrafast electron relaxation dynamics
Joshua S. Kretchmer, Assistant Professor, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, April 29th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Design and Application of New Pericyclic Strategies
Christopher Newton, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia,
  • Internal Event
Friday, May 1st, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Colin Morrell, Graduate Student (See Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
Monday, May 4th, 2026
2:00pm 3:00pm
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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 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Amy Rosenzweig, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University,
Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
10:30am 11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Soyoung Shin, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Gao Lab), Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Ryen O'Meara, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Arnold Lab), Caltech,
2:30pm 3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Infrared Action Spectroscopy of Biomolecules for Planetary Science Applications
Tyler Nguyen, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Programmable Syntheses of Polycyclic Natural Products via a Polyfunctional Intermediate Approach
Pengfei Hu, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Westlake University,
  • Internal Event
Thursday, May 7th, 2026
12:00pm 1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

Modeling Time and Space in the Emergence of New Dialects
Felicity Meakins, Professor, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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
Monday, May 11th, 2026
3:45pm 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Eva Nichols, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia,