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May 2007
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Hydrocarbon Giogeochemistry in a Seep Environment
Dave Valentine,
associate professor of earth science,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development of Chemical Tools to Monitor Protein Phosphorylation
Mary Kay H. Pflum,
assistant professor of biological chemistry,
Wayne State University,
Friday, May 4th, 2007
2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Cryoelectron Tomography of Bacteria and their Macromolecular Machines In Vitro and In Situ
Gavin E. Murphy,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Nanostructured Membrane-Based Devices for Solar Energy Conversion
Craig Wiggenhorn,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, May 7th, 2007
9:00am
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Bioengineering Seminar
Understanding How Microvascular Networks Grow in the Adult: Identification of Novel Perivascular Cell Dynamics, Arterial/Venous Phenotypes, and Connections with Other Network Systems
Walter Lee Murfee,
department of bioengineering,
UC San Diego,
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Monsoons as Eddy-Mediated Regime Transitions of a Hadley Cell
Simona Bordoni,
Moore Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Attacking Complexity and Diversity in Chemistry through the Integration of Supramolecular Chemistry, Photochemistry, and Spin Chemistry
Nicholas J. Turro,
professor of chemistry,
Columbia University,
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
4:00pm
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Undergraduate Chemistry Lecture
Synthesis at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology
Peter G. Schultz,
The Scripps Research Institute,
Friday, May 11th, 2007
10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Computational Protein Design Force Field Optimization: A Negative Design Approach
Oscar Alvizo,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electron Transfer and Protein Dynamics in Cytochrome c
John Magyar,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Understanding Folding, Assembly and Design Principles of RNA for Biomaterials Nano-Construction
Luc Jaeger,
assistant professor,
department of chemistry and biochemistry,
UC Santa Barbara,
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
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Bioengineering Seminar
Regulation of Breast Cell Phenotype, Signaling, and Gene Expression by the Physical Properties of the Extracellular Matrix
Paolo P. Provenzano,
postdoctoral fellow,
department of pharmacology and biomedical engineering,
University of Wisconsin—Madison,
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Processes Controlling the Long-Term Stability of Uranium in Contaminated Environments: The Role of Reactions at the Solid-Water Interface
Daniel Giammar,
assistant professor,
department of energy, environmental, and chemical engineering,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Carbocation Cascades in the Biosynthesis of Polycyclic Natural Products
Dean J. Tantillo,
assistant professor of chemistry,
UC Davis,
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
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Thesis Seminar
Hidden Dimensions in Protein Evolution: Stability, Robustness, and Evolvability
Jesse Bloom,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Silicon Nanowires for Biological Sensing and Thermoelectric Applications
Yuri Bunimovich,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Friday, May 18th, 2007
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Thesis Seminar
Ultra-dense Nano- and Molecular-Electronic Circuits
Jonathan E. Green,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy Studies of Atmospheric Reactions: Peroxynitrous Acid Formation and Alkoxy Radical Isomerization
Andrew K. Mollner,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Photoinduced Dihydrogen Production Catalyzed by Cobalt(II) Complexes in Acidic Solutions
Jillian Dempsey,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Imaging the Developmental Mechanics of the Cardiovascular System
Scott E. Fraser,
Rosen Professor of Biology, professor of bioengineering, and director pf the MRI Center,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Fundamental Mechanisms and Biological Applications of DNA-Mediated Charge Transport
Katherine E. Augustyn,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Single-Molecule Protein Dynamics and Spectroscopy of Individual Nanoparticles Freely Moving in 3-D
Haw Yang,
assistant professor of chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
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Bioengineering Seminar
Biomechanical Forces in Atherosclerosis-Susceptible and Resistant Regions of Human Vasculature Differentially Regulate Endothelial Vasoprotective Phenotypes
Guohao Dai,
Research Associate in Pathology,
Harvard Medical School,
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Chemical Vocabulary of a Microbial Conversation
Roberto Kolter,
department of microbiology and molecular genetics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Phosphine Catalysis of Allenes in Target-Oriented Synthesis (TOS) and Diversity-Oriented Synthesis (DOS)
Ohyun Kwon,
assistant professor of organic chemistry,
UCLA,
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
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Thesis Seminar
Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies into the Kinetic Resolution of α-olefins using C1- and C2- Symmetric Zirconocene Polymerization Catalysts
Jeffery A. Byers,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Friday, May 25th, 2007
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Thesis Seminar
Refolding of a Beta-Barrel Membrane Protein
Gitrada Arjara,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Discovery and Development of New Catalysts for the Synthesis of Small Molecules and Polymers
Geoffrey W. Coates,
professor and associate chair,
department of chemistry and chemical biology,
Cornell University,
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
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Chemical Physics Seminar
'Clicking' Molecular Species to Surfaces: A Versatile, Robust and Field-Programmable Coupling Strategy on Gold, Glass and Carbon Substrates
Christopher Chidsey,
associate professor of physical chemistry,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ocean fronts: Conduits of Vertical Exchange between the Ocean Surface and Interior
Leif Thomas,
assistant scientist,
department of physical oceanography,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
An Engineered Platform for Ligand-Regulated RNA Interference
Chase Beisel,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Artificial Transcription Factors: Coupling Synthetic Biology to Chemical Biology to Biology
Aseem Z. Ansari,
assistant professor of biochemistry,
University of Wisconsin,