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May 2010
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
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Thesis Seminar
Life in Extreme Environments: Lanthanide-Based Detection of Bacterial Spores and Other Sensor Design Pursuits
Morgan Cable,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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Chemistry Club Seminar
Multiplicative Expansion of the Pool of Complex Molecules for Therapy in Human Disease by Adopting Convergence as a Strict Requirement in Synthetic Planning
Andrew G. Myers,
professor of chemistry,
Harvard University,
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Bioengineering Seminar
Stem Cells for Cardiac Regeneration: From Concept, through Biology and Biophysics, to Clinical Trials
Eduardo Marban,
director of the Heart Institute,
Cedars Sinai Medical Center ,
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Chemical Insights from Molecular Force Probes
Roman Boulatov,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
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Thesis Seminar
Structures, Energetics and Reactions of Hydrocarbons on Nickel
Jonathan Mueller,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Connecting Marine Trace Metal Biogeochemical Cycles with Their Corresponding Metalloenzymes in Phytoplankton
Mak Saito,
Associate Scientist,
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Small RNAs: Mediators of Gene Regulation and Silencing
Dinshaw J. Patel,
professor of structural biology,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,
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Materials Research Lecture
Block Copolymer Electrolytes for Fuel Cells and Batteries
Nitash P. Balsara,
professor of chemical engineering,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Nano-Scaled Materials for the Synthesis of Fuels from Sunlight
Thomas F. Jaramillo,
assistant professor of chemical engineering,
Stanford University,
Friday, May 7th, 2010
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Metal Complexes with Enolatoimine Ligands for Controlled Olefin Polymerization
Sze-Man Yu,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
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Thesis Seminar
Efficient Generation of Hyperpolarized Molecules Utilizing the Scalar Order of Parahydrogen
Valerie Norton,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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Thesis Seminar
Chamber Studies and Modeling of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation
Arthur Chan,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Simulations of Matter at Extreme and Ambient Conditions
Julius T. Su, Ph.D.,
Member of the Staff, Materials and Process Simulation Center,
Beckman Institute,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
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Thesis Seminar
Investigating Molecular Size Variations in Thin Film Chemical Vapor Sensors
Anna Folinsky,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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Thesis Seminar
Multistate GTPases Control Co-Translational Protein Targeting
Xin Zhang,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Resolving the Discrepancy between Laboratory and Field-based Reaction Rates: Insights from Isotopes and Reactive Transport Models
Kate Maher,
assistant professor of environmental isotope geochemistry,
Stanford University,
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Materials Research Lecture
Molecular Studies of Catalytic Selectivity of Metal Nanoparticles under Reaction Conditions. New Instruments and Evolution of Concepts.
Gabor A. Somorjai,
professor of chemistry,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
UC Berkeley,
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Activity-Based Proteomics—Applications for Enzyme and Inhibitor Discovery
Benjamin Cravatt,
professor of chemical physiology,
The Scripps Research Institute,
Friday, May 14th, 2010
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Thesis Seminar
Dynamic DNA Strand Displacement Circuits
David Yu Zhang,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Characterizing Site-Directed Mutants of Endonuclease III
Christine A. Romano,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
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Biophysics Lecture
Randomness and Predictability of Cellular Response in Bacteria
Philippe Cluzel,
professor of applied physics and professor of molecular and cellular biology,
Harvard Unversity,
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
The Electronic Structure of tris(dithiolene) Metal Complexes: Where are the (Valence) Electrons?
Stephen Sproules,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Max-Planck-Institut fur Bioanorganische Chemie, Mulheim, Germany,
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Thesis Seminar
Characterization of the Functional Diversity and Evolvability of Chimeric Enzymes Assembled Using Structure-Guided SCHEMA Recombination
Martina Carbone,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Microfluidic Bioseparations and Rapid Directed Evolution of Molecules
Hyongsok (Tom) Soh,
associate professor of mechanical engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
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Thesis Seminar
Si Microwire-Array Solar Cells
Morgan Putnam,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Wetting and Drying Effects on Soil Microbial Communities in a California Grassland Ecosystem
Patricia Holden,
professor of environmental microbiology,
UCSB,
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Materials Research Lecture
Discovery and Characterization of Novel Materials for Electrical Energy Generation and Storage: Fuel Cells, Batteries, and Super-Caps
Hector Abruna,
professor of chemistry and chemical biology,
Cornell University,
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
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Thesis Seminar
Colloids in Confined Geometries: Hydrodynamics, Simulation and Rheology
James W. Swan,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
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Biochemistry Seminar
Developing General Methods for Solid-State NMR of Membrane Proteins
Rachel Martin,
assistant professor of chemistry,
UC Irvine,
Friday, May 21st, 2010
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Synthesis and Reactivity of Trinuclear Copper Complexes
Emily Y. Tsui,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
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Thesis Seminar
Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms: Polymerization, C-H Activation and Protonolysis of Bipyrimidine Platinum Methyl Complexes
Suzanne Golisz,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Main Group and Early Transition Metal Catalysts for the Asymmetric Hydroamination of Alkenes
Kai Carsten Hultzsch,
assistant professor of chemistry,
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey,
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Genetic Adaptation to Nutrient Stress in Marine Unicellular Cyanobacteria
Adam Martiny,
assistant professor of Earth system science,
UC Irvine,
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Materials Research Lecture
Challenges and Opportunities for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage
Yang Shao-Horn,
associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering,
MIT,
Friday, May 28th, 2010
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Saturday, May 29th, 2010
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
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