Events
February 2012
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2/27
11:59pm
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
7:00am
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2/26
11:59pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tropical and subtropical latent heat transports and their role in the general circulation of the atmosphere
Tiffany Shaw,
Assistant Professor,
Earth and Environmental Sciences & Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics,
Columbia University,
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
How neurotransmitter release is synchronized at synapses
James Rothman,
Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Yale University,
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
8:00am
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2/9
5:00pm
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2/28
11:59pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Oxidative Chemistry of Dioxo-Osmium Complexes
Hema Karumadasa,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 6th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Discovery and Preclinical Development of Cancer Therapeutic Enzymes and Antibodies
George Georgiou,
Prof. ,
Biomedical Engineering,
University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dow Lecture in Organometallic Chemistry
Unusual Reactivity of 2- and 3-Coordinate Nickel: Chemistry Outside the Square Plane
Gregory L. Hillhouse,
professor of chemistry,
the University of Chicago,
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
The Structural Basis for Activation of Class Ib Ribonucleotide Reductase
Amie Boal,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Molecular Biosciences,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Protein folding, environmental stress, and the inheritance of new phenotypes
Daniel Jarosz,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research,
MIT,
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What 2000 genomes tell us about the ancient world, the modern world, and the human body
Eric Alm,
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biological Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, February 10th, 2012
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
Observing Ways Nature Overcame Elemental Austerity
Kyle M. Lancaster,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Z-Selective Olefin Metathesis with Ruthenium Catalysts
Keith Keitz,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 13th, 2012
9:00am
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9:01am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Functional integration of large ncRNAs in the molecular circuitry controlling cell state
Mitchell Guttman,
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Evolutionary Principles of Protein Structure and Function
Rama Ranganathan,
Professor of Systems Biology,
Department of Pharmacology,
UT Southwestern Medical Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry: Some Recent Results
Gerhard Erker,
Professor,
Organic Chemical Institute,
Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster,
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Catalytic conversion of hemi-cellulose and cellulose to fuels and chemicals (technical lecture)
James A. Dumesic,
Steenbock Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The salinity, temperature, and δ18O of the Glacial Deep Ocean: 10 years after the Science paper
Jake Gebbie,
Assistant Scientist,
Physical Oceanography,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Selective Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions in Water-Soluable Host-Guest Supramolecular Systems
Robert G. Bergman,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Protein folding on the ribosome: Pulling on single nascent chains with optical tweezers
Christian Kaiser,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
QB3 Institute and Department of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Strategies for catalytic conversion of biomass to hydrogen and liquid hydrocarbon fuels (general lecture)
James A. Dumesic,
Steenbock Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Friday, February 17th, 2012
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Reshaping Elastomers with Light: First Principles Model of Diffusion-Induced Deformation
Ryan Turner,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Characterization of an unusual collection of olfactory neurons in the nose
Cambrian Yangshao Liu,
graduate student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Carbon-Oxygen Bond Activation in Nickel-Diphosphine-Ether Complexes
Paul Kelley,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
4:00am
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11:15am
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2:30pm
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Monday, February 20th, 2012
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Dealing with mistakes: A new form of proofreading on the ribosome
Hani Zaher,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics,
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
9:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Weather Underground: New speleothem records of Late Holocene climate
Kathleen Johnson,
Assistant Professor,
Earth System Science School of Physical Sciences ,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Roles of DNA Damage, Repair, and Structure in Triplet Repeat Expansion
Sarah Delaney,
professor of chemistry,
Brown University,
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
8:00am
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4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
An unusual mechanism for regulating ubiquitination by the deubiquitinating enzyme, OTUB1
Cynthia Wolberger,
Professor,
Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry,
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,
Friday, February 24th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Thermally Stable Dinitrogen and Dihydrogen Adducts of Cationic Ni(II)
Charlene Tsay,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 27th, 2012
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Zirconium-Mediated Bond Formation: Materials, Molecules and Methods
Rory Waterman,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Vermont,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Navigating the cellular landscape with new optical probes, imaging strategies, and technical innovations
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz,
Distinguished NIH Investigator,
Cell Biology and Metabolism Program,
National Institutes of Health,
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
HAIR: History of Animals using Isotope Records
Thure Cerling,
Distinguished Professor,
Geology & Geophysics,
University of Utah,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
4D Materials Science: In Situ X-ray Synchrotron Tomography of Deformation in Metallic Materials
Nikhilesh Chawla,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Arizona State University ,