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April 2011
Friday, April 1st, 2011
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Functional Group Tolerant Organometallic Polymerization Catalysis
Stefan Mecking,
professor and chair for chemical materials science,
University of Konstantz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Asymmetric Non-metallocene Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization
Rachel Klet,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Pili Expression in Uropathogenic E. coli: Stochastic Switching and Epigenetic Control
Mustafa Khammash,
professor of mechanical engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Carbon Dioxide Capture in Metal-Organic Frameworks
Jeffrey R. Long,
professor of chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Inhibitors of HIF Prolyl Hydroxylases as Hypoxia Mimetics
Michael H. Rabinowitz,
Dr.,
Pharmaceutical Research & Development,
Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc.,
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Novel Modulators of the Human Histamine H4 Receptor
Jennifer Venable,
Dr.,
Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Dissimilar Materials Epitaxy - Applications for Spintronics, Thermoelectrics and Shape Memory Materials
Chrisopher Palmstrom,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Natural Product Synthesis at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology
Jiyong Hong,
professor of chemistry,
Duke University,
Friday, April 8th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Progress Towards Carbon Dioxide Reduction Electrocatalysts: Synthesis and Reactivity of Novel Bimetallic Complexes
Alicia Chang,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Sunday, April 10th, 2011
8:30am
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3:00pm
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Monday, April 11th, 2011
3:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Mechanical architecture of cell division
Sophie Dumont,
Harvard Medical School,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
From Cellular Mechanotransduction to Biologically Inspired Engineering
Donald Elliott Ingber,
professor of bioengineering,
Harvard Medical School,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Coordination Complexes with Multiple Inorganic Functional Groups
John F. Berry,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development of a Practical Scalable Synthesis of BI653048: Development of a General Catalytic Asymmetric Propargylation of Ketones
Keith R. Fandrick,
Chemical Development,
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Broadband Rotational Spectroscopy for Reaction Dynamics and Interstellar Chemistry
Brooks H. Pate,
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor,
University of Virginia,
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Scientific Lessons from the Deepwater Horizon
David L. Valentine,
UC Santa Barbara,
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
9:00am
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12:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Hydration Phenomena at the Interface of Physics and Biology: A New Fluctuations-based Perspective
Shekhar Garde,
professor of chemical and biological engineering,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Friday, April 15th, 2011
8:00am
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electrocatalytic Signal Amplification of DNA-Modified Electrodes
Catrina G. Pheeney,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, April 18th, 2011
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Biophysics Lecture
The Role of Fluctuation Theorems in Experimental Biology
Johan Paulsson,
associate professor of systems biology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Multi-Electron Reactivity from Redox-Active-Ligand Complexes of Electrophilic Transition Metals
Alan F. Heyduk,
associate professor of chemistry,
UC Irvine,
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Density Functional Simulations of Phase Change Materials: Amorphization and Crystallization in Nanoseconds
Robert O. Jones,
professor,
Juelich Research Center,
Institut fur Festkorperforschung (IFF) ,
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Discovery of Vaniprevir (MK-7009): A Macrocyclic Hepatitis C Virus NS3/4a Protease Inhibitor
John A. McCauley,
senior research fellow in medicinal chemistry,
Merck & Co., Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Recent Developments in Real-World Tropical Cyclogenesis
Michael T. Montgomery,
professor of meteorology,
Naval Postgraduate School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Recent Theoretical Thermoelectric Work at ORNL
David Parker,
Physicist,
Materials Science and Technology Division,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Creating Chiral Molecules and Materials: The Suzuki-Miyaura Reaction in the Creation of Chiral Molecules, and the Study of Chiral Mesoporous Materials based on Axially Chiral Monomers
Cathleen M. Crudden,
professor of chemistry,
Queen's University,
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chemical Development of Vaniprevir (MK-7009)
Cheng Y. Chen,
Dr.,
Merck & Co., Inc,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
The Ultrasensitive, Ultrastable Signaling Lattice of Bacterial Chemotaxis: Kinase On-Off Switching Revealed by a New FRET Method
Joseph J. Falke,
professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
The Mechanisms of the Fuel Cell Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Pt and other 8-11 Column Metal Surfaces
Yao Sha,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
DNA-Mediated Oxidation of P53 is Regulated by DNA Sequence
Kathryn N. (Katie) Schaefer,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, April 25th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Tuning Nitric Oxide Synthase
Charlotte Whited,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
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Thesis Seminar
Pharmacological Behavior of Systemically Administered Nanoparticles of Defined Properties: Mechanistic Investigations at the Organ, Tissue, and Cellular Levels
Jonathan Choi,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Towards High-throughput Protein Analysis via Microfluidic Integration
Amy E. Herr,
assistant professor of bioengineering,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
8:00am
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
The Road to ABT-869, an Orally Active Multi-targeted Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor
Michael R. Michaelides,
Dr.,
Global Pharmaceutical Research & Development,
Abbott Laboratories,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Ultrafast Electron Diffraction: Pulsed Laser Desorption Enables Time-Resolved Structural Determination of Thermally Labile Chromophores
Andreas Gahlmann,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Dissolved Oxygen in the Ocean: Why Is It Changing and What Can It Tell Us about Biological Productivity
Rachel Stanley,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chemical Tools for Studying Signaling Enzyme Function
Dustin Maly,
professor of chemistry,
University of Washington,
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Process Development of a VEGF Inhibitor for the Treatment of Cancer
Michael J. Rozema,
Dr.,
GPRD Process Research & Development,
Abbott Laboratories,
1:30pm
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2:20pm
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Thesis Seminar
Directed Evolution of Cytochrome P450 for Small Alkane Hydroxylation
Mike Ming Yu Chen,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, April 29th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Posttranslational Membrane Protein Targeting by the Chloroplast Signal Recognition Particle
Peera Jaru-Ampornpan,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Surface Chemistry at the Nanometer Scale
Peigen Cao,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
A Unified Approach to the Transtaganolide Natural Products
Hosea M. Nelson,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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