Events
January 2018
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018
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Thursday, January 4th, 2018
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Snapshots of the E. coli methionine ABC transporter in action"
Phong Nguyen,
Graduate Student, Rees Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
Monday, January 8th, 2018
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
The Bionic Microbe: Electronic Upgrades to Biology for Semi-Artificial Photosynthesis
Kelsey K. Sakimoto,
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
4:00pm
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2018
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Chemical Research Conference
Targeted Protein Degradation
James Bradner,
M.D., President,
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Hydrology, sediment or permafrost: why do high latitude rivers move so slowly?
Joel Rowland,
Scientist,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Advancement of Transmission Electron Microscopy and its Application in Materials Research
Xiaoping Pan,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science; Physics and Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
Thursday, January 11th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Evolution of Heme Proteins for New Chemistry in the Biological World"
Jenny Kan,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Arnold Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
Friday, January 12th, 2018
4:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
Structure/Function Correlations Over Heterogeneous Catalysis and Bioinorganic Chemistry
Ryan G. Hadt,
Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division,
Argonne National Laboratory,
Monday, January 15th, 2018
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2018
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment: A Vision to Enable Decentralized Water Treatment and Address Growing Challenges of the Water Energy Nexus
Pedro J.J. Alvarez,
George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University; Director of the NSF ERC on Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Halide Perovskites: Poor man's high performance semiconductors
Mercouri Kanatzidis,
Professor,
Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Shuttle Catalysis - a Conceptual Blueprint for Reversible Functional Group Transfer
Bill Morandi,
Associate Professor,
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung,
Thursday, January 18th, 2018
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Sculpting and Visualizing Micro-Chemical Environments: Tracking Mass Transport, Probing Chemical Kinetics, and Manipulating Suspensions
Todd Squires,
Professor and Vice Chair,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Friday, January 19th, 2018
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
"Structural and functional characterization of the E coli MetNI methionine transporter"
Phong Nguyen,
Graduate Student, Rees Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Architecture at the nanoscale: Design principles for next-generation catalysts in energy applications
Yuriy Román-Leshkov,
Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Monday, January 22nd, 2018
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Quantum sensing in a new single-molecule regime
Peter Maurer,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University Department of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Two challenges for DNA nanotechnology: building interfaces with silicon and cells
Paul W. K. Rothemund,
Research Professor,
Bioengineering, CMS, & CNS,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, January 24th, 2018
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ocean Heat Uptake and Dynamical Sea Level Rise: Past and Future Uncertainty
Laure Zanna,
Associate Professor of Climate Physics,
Department of Physics,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Bridging the enormous span of length scales in lithium-ion batteries
Will Chueh,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Materials Science & Engineering ,
Stanford University ,
Thursday, January 25th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Chondroitin sulfation regulates perineuronal nets and synapse development"
Huiqian Huang,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Hsieh-Wilson Research Group ,
CCE,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Tracing the dynamics of interfacial electronic excited states from femtoseconds to seconds
Sarah B. King,
Dr.,
Department of Physical Chemistry,
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin,
Friday, January 26th, 2018
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Coupling Innovations in Thin-Film and Catalytic Materials to Designs for Stable Photoelectrochemical Cells
Kimberly M. Papadantonakis,
Scientific Research Manager,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, January 29th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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BELS
"A Tale of Two Codes: Directed Evolution of the Genetic Code for Unnatural Amino Acid Incorporation"
Andrew Ellington,
Professor,
Molecular Biosciences, Applied Research,
University of Texas at Austin,
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The atmospheric life cycle of pollen
Allison Steiner,
Associate Professor,
Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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