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February 2007
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Friday, February 2nd, 2007
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
18F Functionalized Nanoparticles as in vivo Molecular Imaging Agents
John Matson,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 5th, 2007
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Controlling Olefin Metathesis through Catalyst and Monomer Design
Andrew Hejl,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of the Group 11 Metals: Synthetic and Catalytic Studies
Joseph P. Sadighi,
associate professor of chemistry,
MIT,
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Computational Studies of the Structure and Function of Two Lipid-Activated GPCRs
Rachel Niemer,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Diversity and Design: New Small Molecule Probes for Biology and Medicine
Derek S. Tan,
tri-institutional assistant professor,
SloanKettering Institute for Cancer Research, Cornell University, and The Rockefeller University,
Thursday, February 8th, 2007
3:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar - CANCELED
Robert H. Chow,
associate professor of mechanical engineering and engineering systems,
department of physiology and biophysics, and endocrinology,
Keck School of Medicine, USC,
4:00pm
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Joint Biochemistry/Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Chemical Tools for Biological Imaging
Ivan Dmochowski,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, February 9th, 2007
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Studies of Group 3 Dialkyl Complexes and Development of Pd-Catalyzed Enantioselective Decarboxylative Protonation
Smaranda Marinescu,
visiting student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 12th, 2007
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Caltech Biotechnology Club Speaker
Capturing Human Variation on a Single Microarray: How a Young Company Meshed Business and Technology Skills to Succeed
David Barker,
vice president and chief scientific officer,
Illumina Inc,
4:00pm
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Swift Lecture
How Does Aqueous Manganous Ion Functionally Substitute for Superoxide Dismutase Enzymes In Vivo?
Joan Selverstone Valentine,
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Univesity of California, Los Angeles,
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Spectroscopy of Molecules Without Structures: A High Resolution Viewpoint
Professor David Nesbitt,
department of chemistry and biochemistry, JILA/NIST,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Great Basin Hot Spring Cafe: Who's the Clientele and What's on the Menu?
Brian P. Hedlund,
assistant professor of microbiology,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Computational Design of Contraindicated Multifunctional Materials; Combining Magnetism with Additional Functionalities
Nicola Spaldin,
professor,
materials department,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Intrinsic Isotopic Labeling for Resolution and Identification of Complex Organic Mixtures, from Petroleomics to Proteomics
Alan G. Marshall,
professor of chemistry,
Florida State University,
Friday, February 16th, 2007
2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Design of Bi-Functional Heterogeneous Catalysts
Ryan K. Zeidan,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Protein Infrastructure and Folding Dynamics: Computational Protein Design Inspired by Experiment and Theory
Corey J. Wilson,
postdoctoral scholar in biology,
Caltech,
Monday, February 19th, 2007
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
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Chemical Physics Seminar
The Multiscale Challenge for Biomolecular Systems: A Systematic Approach
Gregory A. Voth,
professor of chemistry and director of the Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City,
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Searching for Unknown Unknowns in Atmospheric Oxidation Chemistry
William H. Brune,
professor and head of meteorology,
The Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Exploring the Chemistry of Biotic Interactions
Jerrold Meinwald,
professor of chemistry and chemical biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Topic to be announced.
Erkki Ruoslahti,
professor,
Burnham Institute for Medical Research,
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
8:00am
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Folding Dynamics of Four-Helix Bundle Proteins
Tetsunari Kimura,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 26th, 2007
4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
From Proteins Searching Target Sites on DNA to Conductivity of Nanowires and Beyond
Alexander Grosberg,
professor of physics,
University of Minnesota,
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Reconstructing Hydrogen Isotopic Ratios of Past Continental Precipitation from Lake Sediments: Method Validation and High-Resolution Records
Yongsong Huang,
associate professor of geological sciences,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Creating, Optimizing, and Characterizing Multi-Catalyst Systems
D. Tyler McQuade,
assistant professor,
department of chemistry and chemical biology,
Cornell University,