Events
May 2008
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
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Thesis Seminar
DNA Charge Transport in DNA Repair
Amie Boal,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Investigations into MIx-Catalyzed Alkane Homologation and Methanol Conversion
Valerie Scott,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, May 5th, 2008
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Electron Tunneling and Hopping through Proteins
Crystal Shih,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Synthetic Biology in Pursuit of Low-Cost, Effective, Anti-Malarial Drugs
Jay Keasling,
professor of chemical engineering,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Fundamental and Applied Studies of the Structures and Reaction Dynamics of Biomolecules Using Mass Spectrometry and Ion Mobility Spectrometry
Hugh Inkon Kim,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Insights into the Oceanic N-cycle
Marcel Kuypers,
scientist,
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
New Findings in Materials Under Extreme Pressures
Rus Hemley,
director of the geophysical laboratory,
the Carnegie Institution of Washington,
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
The Structure and Function of Group II Introns: Early Catalysts of Evolution
Anna Marie Pyle,
HHMI Investigator and professor of molecular biophysics,
Yale University,
Friday, May 9th, 2008
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Resonating Nanocantilever Chemical Vapor Sensors
Heather McCaig,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, May 12th, 2008
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Thesis Seminar
Akt phosphorylation of Drosophila Heat Shock Factor: A Signature for Stress-Resistance
Sarina Mohanty,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Engineering RNA Devices for Gene Regulation, Biosensing, and Higher-Order Cellular Information Processing
Maung Nyan Win,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Structural Hierarchies in Cardiac Morpho- and Pathogenesis
Kevin Parker,
associate professor of biomedical engineering,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Responsive Nanoporous Organic-Inorganic Colloidal Materials
Ilya Zharov,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Utah,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Known and Unexplored Organic Constituents in the Earth's Atmosphere
Allen Goldstein,
professor of biogeochemistry,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
What Do We Know about How Polymeric Semiconductors Work?
Alberto Salleo,
assistant professor of materials science and engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Novartis Lecture
Synthesis and Biological Studies with New DNA/RNA Analogs
Marvin H. Caruthers,
professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
Friday, May 16th, 2008
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Diene Ligated Platinum(II): Protonation, C-H Activation and Quantum Mechanical Tunneling
George Chen,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, May 19th, 2008
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Stimulating Neurons with Light: Current State and Future Challenges
E. Duco Jansen,
associate professor of biomedical engineering and neurosurgery,
Vanderbilt University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Molecular Choreography: Programming Nucleic Acid Self-Assembly and Disassembly Pathways
Niles A. Pierce,
associate professor of applied and computational mathematics and bioengineering,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
4:30pm
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
8:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The "*" in IPCC Predictions of Ice Sheet Contributions to Sea-Level Change
Ian Joughin,
applied physics laboratory, Polar Science Center,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Engineering Cardiac Myogenesis and Contractility
Adam Feinberg,
postdoctoral fellow in disease biophysics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanomechanical Characterization and Modeling
Gang Feng,
professor of engineering,
Brown University,
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
8:00am
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Photonics with Ultrafast Laser Pulses—From Basic Research to Medical Applications
Torsten Fiebig,
assistant professor of chemistry,
Boston College,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
New Insights into Protein Quality Control by the Ribosome Following Peptide Bond Formation
Rachel Green,
HHMI Investigator and professor of molecular biology and genetics,
the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
5:00pm
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Characterization and Structure of mechanosensitive channels of small conductance
Yan Shuen Poon,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Development and Evaluation of Protein Design Methods for Functional Targets
Christina Vizcarra,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Effects of Pendant Lewis Acids on the Reductive Coupling of Carbon Monoxide
Alexander J. Miller,
graduate student in chemistry,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, May 26th, 2008
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
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Thesis Seminar
Palladium Mediated Activation of Molecular Oxygen
Jason M. Keith,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Networks of Microchannels: Mimicking the Microvasculature, Separating Blood Cells, and Immobilizing Worms
Sergey Shevkoplyas,
postdoctoral fellow,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Self-Assembled Monolayers for the Study of Biological Targets
Christie A. Canaria,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Studies of Organic Aerosol Sources and Evolution with Aerosol Mass Spectrometry
Jose-Luis Jimenez,
assistant professor of chemistry and fellow,
the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES),
University of Colorado,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Microfluidic Devices as Models of Biological Tissues
Raquel Perez-Castillejos,
postdoctoral scholar,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
The Plaquette Polaron Paradigm for Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors
William A. Goddard III,
Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics,
Caltech,
Jamil Tahir-Kheli,
senior staff scientist in chemistry,
Caltech,
Friday, May 30th, 2008
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Thesis Seminar
Methods in Computational Protein Design: Sidechain Placement, Forcefields, and Bonding Site Redesign
Victor Wai Tak Kam,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
From Alkyl(Amino) and Carbocyclic Carbenes to Bent Allenes: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Ligand Properties
Vincent Lavallo,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
8:00am
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