Events
May 2016
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Monday, May 2nd, 2016
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Catalysis for Sustainable Energy Transformations"
Jens Norskov,
Leland T. Edwards Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Photon Science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Director of SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
11:00am
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Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research
How Organic Synthesis Solved Medicinal Chemistry Challenges towards Discovering Drug Candidates to Treat Cancer, Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Michael J. Luzzio,
Dr., Ph.D., Director,
Chemistry and Molecular Therapeutics,
Biogen Idec,
Wednesday, May 4th, 2016
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Using Clumped Isotopes to Determine the Origins of Arctic Methane Point-Source Emissions
Peter Douglas,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Geochemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Anomalous Liquids: Common features of Water, Metallic glassformers, and Chalcogenide PCMs (Phase Change Materials)
Austen Angell,
Regents’ Professor ,
Chemistry and Biochemistry Department,
Arizona State University,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Painting the Cysteine Chapel: Sulfur Biochemistry and Redox Regulation of Cell Function
Kate Carroll,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
The Scripps Research Institute, Florida,
Thursday, May 5th, 2016
9:45am
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Visible-light Absorbing Photoremovable Protecting Groups for Alcohols and Amines
David Paul Walton,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Visible-light Absorbing Photoremovable Protecting Groups for Alcohols and Armines
David Paul Walton,
Dougherty Research Group Graduate Student,
CCE,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Development of a Cationic Mucic Acid Polymer-Based Nanoparticle siRNA Delivery System
Dorothy Pan,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Davis group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Intracellular compartments for dynamic metal storage
Sabeeha Merchant,
Professor of Biochemistry,
Molecular Biology Institute,
UCLA,
Friday, May 6th, 2016
1:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Temporal Control of Ion Channel Activation
Oliver Shafaat,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Gas Phase Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Atmospheric Radicals
Leah Dodson,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Okumura group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Mechanisms underlying Economic Choice
Gideon Nave,
Graduate Student,
Computation & Neural Systems,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Real-Time Load-Side Control of Electric Power Systems
Changhong Zhao,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
New Catalysts for Visible-Light-Induced Cross-Couplings
Jun Myun (Joe) Ahn,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, May 9th, 2016
9:00am
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
"Conversation" at Polymer Ends: Self- versus Pairwise- Association of Telechelic Polymers
Boyu Li,
Graduate Student, Kornfield group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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PhD seminar
Bioorthogonal Noncanonical Amino Acid Tagging for Selective Analysis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Proteome
Brett Babin,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Developing experiments to visualize the dynamics of biomolecular recognition and binding
Andrei Tokmakoff,
Henry G. Dale Distinguished Service Professor,
Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics,
University of Chicago,
Wednesday, May 11th, 2016
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Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research
The Development and Application of Metal-Catalyzed Reactions in Drug Discovery
James Craig Ruble,
Dr., Ph.D., Research Advisor and Catalysis Lab Leader,
Eli Lilly and Company,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Investigation of methane sources in the Netherlands and in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf with isotope measurements
Thomas Röckmann,
Professor,
Department of Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry,
Utrecht University,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Control Thermal Radiation with Nanophotonic Structures
Shanhui Fan,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
Thursday, May 12th, 2016
10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Quantum of Vision: the speed vs accuracy tradeoff in visual recognition
Bo Chen,
Graduate Student,
Computation & Neural Systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Atomic Resolution Electron Microscopy: A New Tool for Organic Chemists
Eiichi Nakamura,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Tokyo,
Friday, May 13th, 2016
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Ni–Catalyzed Intramolecular C–O Bond Formation and A Unified, Stereodivergent Approach to the Synthesis of Communesin F and Perophoramidine
Seojung Han,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Stoltz group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
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Monday, May 16th, 2016
10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Chemical Reaction Dynamics of the Liquid/Vapor Interface Studied by Mass Spectrometry
Daniel Thomas,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Beauchamp group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Molecular Structure and Organism Fitness from Genomic Sequences"
Debora Marks,
Assistant Professor of Systems Biology,
Department of Systems Biology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Structure, Bonding and Mechanism in Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling
Michael L. Neidig,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Rochester,
Tuesday, May 17th, 2016
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Group IV two-dimensional materials: Novel electronic and structural properties
Angel Rubio,
Professor and Director,
Theory Department,
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany,
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Electrochemical Methods for Studying Iron-Sulfur Cluster Proteins
Helen Segal,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Rees group,,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research
An Innovative Approach to Kinase Inhibitor Drug Discovery: The Power of a Fully Annotated Library
Brian L. Hodous,
Dr., Ph.D., Director,
Blueprint Medicines,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Earthquakes, Landslides, Floods: Non-Steady-State C, Fe, S Diagenesis in Coastal Marine Sediments
Will Berelson,
Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences and Environmental Studies,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
A Quantum of Light for Materials Science: Merging QED and TDDFT
Angel Rubio,
Director,
Structure and Dynamics of Matter,
Max Planck Institute ,
Thursday, May 19th, 2016
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Thesis Seminar
Mechanisms of regulation and fidelity in tail-anchored membrane protein targeting
Meera Rao,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
When bad is good: directed evolution using negative selection can result in proteins with superior properties
Marc Ostermeier,
Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
Friday, May 20th, 2016
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Understanding Co-translational Protein Targeting and Lithium Dendrite Formation through Modeling and Long-Timescale Simulations
Connie Wang,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Miller group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
DNA-Mediated Iron-sulfur Redox Signaling in Bacterial Nucleotide Excision Repair.
Rebekah Silva,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, May 23rd, 2016
10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Dipolar Liquids and Their Mixtures: Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Properties with Field-Theoretic Approaches
Bilin Zhuang,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Wang group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Understanding Selectivity and Activity in Z-selective metathesis with Cyclometallated Ru-based Catalysts
Brendan Quigley,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Grubbs group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Catalysis Development Targeting Small Molecules to Proteins
Motomu Kanai,
Professor of Chemistry,
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
University of Tokyo,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Engineering Microbial Metabolism for Production of Chemicals and Fuels
Jay Keasling,
Professor,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Thinking about some new low Reynolds number flow problems (technical lecture)
Howard A. Stone,
Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Chair,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
10:30am
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PhD seminar
Tools for Spatiotemporally Specific Proteomic Analysis in Multicellular Organisms
Kai Yuet,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
The Development of Ni-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Coupling Reactions
Nathaniel Kadunce,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Reisman group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Surprising responses in common fluid flows: (1) surface-attached bacteria, biofilms and flow; and (ii) trapping of bubbles in stagnation point flows (general lecture)
Howard A. Stone,
Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Chair,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
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PhD seminar
Programming Molecular Association and Viscoelastic Behavior in Protein Hydrogels
Larry Dooling,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research
Liver Targeted HIF-PHD Inhibitors for Anemia
Christopher J. Sinz,
Dr., Ph.D., Research Fellow,
Merck & Company, Inc.,
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Thesis Seminar
Neural and hormonal systems underlying human reward-seeking behavior
Simon Dunne,
Graduate Student,
Computation & Neural Systems,
Caltech,