Events
February 2008
Friday, February 1st, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Studies of Organolithium Reactivity Using Rapid-Injection NMR
Amanda Jones,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Quantitative studies of synthetic and endogenous control in bacteria
Terence Hwa,
professor of physics,
Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and department of physics,
UC San Diego,
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
8:00am
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2/12
5:00pm
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Stratospheric Dynamics, Ozone, and Climate Change
Theodore Shepherd,
professor of physics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chemoenzymatic Approaches for Chemical Glycobiology
Xi Chen,
assistant professor of chemistry,
UC Davis,
Friday, February 8th, 2008
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Imaging the Proteome: Metabolic Tagging of Newly Synthesized Proteins with Reactive Methionine Analogues
Kimberly Beatty,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Bulky Metal Complexes Targeted to Mismatches
Mi Hee Lim,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 11th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Assembling Nanocomponents One by One with DNA
Hanadi Sleiman,
associate professor of chemistry,
McGill University,
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Palladium- and Ruthenium-Catalyzed Redox Reactions in Selective Organic Synthesis
Jan-E. Bäckvall,
professor of organic chemistry,
Stockholm University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
The Adaptive Nature of Palladium Reactivity in Synthesis
Daniel Caspi,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Charge Migration along the DNA Duplex: Hole versus Electron Transport
Benjamin Elias,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 18th, 2008
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
9:00am
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9:01am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
N-Terminal Modification and Codon Reassignment with Noncanonical Amino Acids in Proteins
Rebecca E. Connor,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Protein Prenylation: Mechanism, Function and Form
Mark D. Distefano,
associate professor of chemistry,
University of Minnesota,
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Testing the Limits of Quantum Mechanics: Motivation, State of Play, Prospects
Sir Anthony J. Leggett,
Nobel laureate and professor and chair of physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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French Consulate General to Discuss Franco-American Relations
French Consulate General to Discuss Franco-American Relations
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Toward Molecular Muscles: Synthesis of [c2] Daisy-Chain Dimers by Olefin Metathesis
Paul Clark,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Quantitative Analysis of Oncogenic Kinase Signaling Networks
Forest White,
associate professor of biological engineering,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Frontiers in Fluorescence Imaging
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz,
head of the unit on organelle biology, cell biology and metabolism,
National Institute of Child Health and Humann Development, National Institutes of Health,
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
9:00am
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5:00pm
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Global Warming and the Weakening of the Tropical Circulation
Brian Soden,
associate professor,
meteorology and physical ocianography,
The University of Miami,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Drug Discovery at the Interface of Chemistry, Biology, and Engineering
Clay C. C. Wang,
assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences and chemistry,
USC,
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
8:00am
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Ongoing
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Molecular Observatory Seminar
Production of Membrane Protein for Crystallization
Larry Miercke,
specialist in biochemistry,
UC San Francisco,
Friday, February 29th, 2008
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Methodologies for the Rapid Synthesis of Hexoses and Their Application Towards a Differentially-Protected Chondroitin Sulfate Tetrasaccharide
Katie Rose Saliba,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Mechanistic Studies of Cobalt-Catalyzed Hydrogen Evolution Using Transient Spectroscopy
Jillian Dempsey,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,