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January 2010
Monday, January 4th, 2010
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Reaction Design and Discovery: Application to the Synthesis of Complex Alkaloids
Carlos Guerrero,
postdoctoral fellow in chemistry,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
The Total Synthesis of Oasomycin A and Studies toward the Homogeneous b-subunit of Human Follicle-stimulating Hormone (hFSH)
Pavel Nagorny,
postdoctoral felllow,
Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
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Thesis Seminar
Rapid Construction of Protein Capture Agents with Chemically Designed Stability and Antibody-like Recognition Properties
Heather Agnew,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Friday, January 8th, 2010
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Hydrogen Evolution Catalyzed by Cobalt(II) Diglyoxime Complexes
Jillian Dempsey,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
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Bioengineering Seminar
Algebras and Languages for Molecular Programming
Luca Cardelli,
Microsoft Research,
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Proteins as Metal Ligands—Taking a Clue from Nature
F. Akif Tezcan,
assistant professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UC San Diego,
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Modulating Protein-Protein Interactions Using Natural and Designed Molecules
Alexander Statsuk,
postdoctoral scholar in cellular and molecular pharmacology,
UC San Francisco,
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Seeing the Invisible: Discovering New Ways of Nonlinear Optical Bio-imaging
Wei Min,
postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and chemical biology,
Harvard University,
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Coupled Electron and Proton Transfer Reactions and Biological Energy Transduction
Alexei Stuchebrukhov,
professor of chemistry,
UC Davis,
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Insights from a Coastal Ocean Time Series—Biogenic and Lithogenic Sedimentation
Will Berelson,
professor of Earth science,
USC,
Friday, January 15th, 2010
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Photoelectrochemical Investigations of Silicon Microwires for Solar Energy Conversion
Elizabeth A. Santori,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Interfacial Structure and Dynamics: Fundamental Insights for Interfacial Charge Transfer
Oliver L.A. Monti,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Arizona,
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Toward Molecular Switches at Interfaces via Direct-Write Click Chemistry
Walter Paxton,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Northwestern University,
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Fire Contributions to Contemporary Changes in the Global Carbon Cycle and Climate System
James Randerson,
professor, Earth system science,
UC Irvine,
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Control of Transcription and Receptor Function with Rationally Designed Protein Ligands
Bogdan Z. Olenyuk,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Arizona,
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Thesis Seminar
Novel Pyroelectric and Switched Ferroelectric Ion Sources for Mass Spectrometry: Implementation and Applications
Evan Neidholdt,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Synthetic Applications of Silicon Lewis Acids: Total Synthesis of MS-153 and Manzacidin C
Kristy Tran,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
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Biophysics Lecture
Lords of the Ring: Mechanism of the Dynein and Spastin AAA ATPases
Ron Vale,
professor of cellular and molecular biology,
UC San Francisco,
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"The Efficient Photoelectrochemical Conversion of Aqueous CO2 to Methanol: Making a One Electron Redox Catalyst do the Work of Six
Andrew Bocarsly,
professor of chemistry,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Why Is Monsoon Onset Rapid?
Simona Bordoni,
assistant professor of environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
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Materials Research Lecture
NanoMaterials for Energy Storage and Conversion
Linda F. Nazar,
professor of chemistry,
University of Waterloo, Canada,
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
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Biochemistry Seminar
Catalytic and Evolutionary Traits of Metallo-beta-lactamases: Does It Take Two to Tango?
Alejandro Vila,
associate professor of biophysics,
University of Rosario, Agentina,
Friday, January 29th, 2010
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
The Chemistry of Early Transition Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds: Novel Terminal Tantalum Hydrazido Complexes
Ian Tonks,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
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