Events
May 2023
Monday, May 1st, 2023
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PhD Thesis Defense
Mechanophore Strategies for the Development of Polymers with Mechanically Gated Responsive Behavior
Ross Barber,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
3:00pm
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Biology Seminar | Paul Denis Thomas - Tuesday, May 2, 2023 - 4 pm
Big Knowledge in Biology: using phylogenetics and data science to create a human gene "functionome"
Paul D Thomas, PhD,
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences,
Division of Bioinformatics,
Keck School of Medicine - University of Southern California,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Diversity in Notch ligand-receptor signaling interactions
Rachael Kuintzle,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
8:00am
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5/9
11:59pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Learning and Control of Dynamical Systems
Ali Sahin Lale,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
The Mechanophore Hypothesis
Jeffrey Moore,
Stanley O. Ikenberry Research Professor, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor,
University of Illinois Urbana-Chambaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Untangling aerosol-cloud interactions with machine learning
Duncan Watson-Parris,
UCSD/Scripps,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Scott Behie | Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 - 4 pm
"Insight into the Cell Editorial Process"
Scott Behie,
Scientific Editor,
Cell Press,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Tuning itineracy of correlated ground and excited states in semiconductor moiré lattices
Thursday, May 4th, 2023
12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"EABR Nanoparticles as a Platform Technology for Hybrid mRNA Vaccine Development"
Magnus Hoffman,
Merkin Institute Fellow,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
How expanded building block chemistry can enable new frontiers for synthetic biology
Prof. Aditya Kunjapur,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Delaware,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Sung-Yon Kim | Thursday, May 4, 2023 - 4 pm
Warm and full: neural circuits for behavioral regulation of homeostasis
Friday, May 5th, 2023
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Incorporation of non-canonical proline residues into proteins expressed in Escherichia coli
Stephanie Breunig,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Synthetic Studies Toward Total Synthesis of Enterocin
Yujia Tao,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Tetranuclear CaMn3O4 and Mn4O4 Complexes as Spectroscopic Models of the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II
Angela Shiau,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Engineering cytochrome P450BM3 for oxidation and silicon–carbon bond cleavage of volatile methylsiloxanes
Nicholas Sarai,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
MFeS Clusters as Models for Complex Multimetallic Systems
Anna Scott,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Chemodivergent Organolanthanide-Catalyzed C–H α-Mono-Borylation of Pyridines."
Dr. Jacob (Jake) Rothbaum,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Nelson Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, May 8th, 2023
3:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Cooperative Adsorption and Gas Separations in Metal–Organic Frameworks
Jeffrey R. Long,
C. Judson King Distinguished Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
University of California, Berkeley,
Tuesday, May 9th, 2023
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Chemical Physics Seminar
"A Pinch of Salt, a Splash of Water, and a Dash of Ions: The Recipe for Tweaking Polyelectrolyte Complexes' Glass Transition and Relaxation Time"
Jodie Lutkenhaus,
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Presidential Impact Fellow, Axalata Coating Sytems Chair,
Chemical Engineering,
Texas A&M,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Online Event
Patenting your Innovation
Rose Kiser,
Assistant Director for Technology Transfer,
Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships,
Caltech,
John Peck,
Partner,
KPPB law firm.,
Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What is the aerosol state in the ambient atmosphere? Or: Particle-resolved modeling to tackle structural uncertainty in aerosol models
Nicole Riemer,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Investigations of Topological and Quantum Phenomena in Epitaxial Semimetallic Thin Films
4:00pm
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Thursday, May 11th, 2023
12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Photo-polymerization of Collagen using a Photobase"
Akash Dhawan,
Greer Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar Series
A thermodynamic and molecular model for ion channel and transporter dimerization in membranes
Janice Roberston,
Associate Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Washington University School of Medicine,
Friday, May 12th, 2023
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Assembly of Complex Carbocyclic Scaffolds via Palladium and Nickel-Catalyzed Cyclizations."
Allison Stanko,
Graduate Student (Stoltz Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, May 15th, 2023
9:00am
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9:01am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Design Rules for Multi-electron Systems in Next-Generation Batteries: from Mg electrode-electrolyte interface to anion redox activation in Li-rich Sulfides
Seong Shik (Steve) Kim,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Low-Power and Miniaturized Medical Electronics for In-Vivo Localization and Tracking
Saransh Sharma,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Development of a novel platform for mechanochemical multicolor lithography and models for solution-phase mechanophore activation
Anna Overholts,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 16th, 2023
2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Long-Duration Energy Storage in Reliable Wind and Solar Electricity Systems
Jacqueline Dowling,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Optical detection of neuroelectric signals using PEDOT electrochromism
Bianxiao Cui,
Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
2:00pm
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Informal Chemical Physics Seminar
Sub-nominal resolution Fourier transform spectrometry with chip-based frequency combs
Lukasz Sterczewski,
Assistant Professor and Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow,
Electronics, Photonics and Microsystems,
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Where is the bottom of the terrestrial water cycle?
Jennifer McIntosh,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Protein acylation-deacylation cycles in cancer and inflammation
Hening Lin,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Cornell University,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Electron correlation and topology in rhombohedral multilayer graphene
Thursday, May 18th, 2023
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense, Ben Schulze
Insights into the sources of atmospheric aerosols and greenhouse gases in California
Benjamin Schulze,
Graduate Student, Environmental Science & Engineering, Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Activation mechanism of the sweet taste heterodimer receptor"
Marta Gonzalvo-Ulla,
Goddard Group,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Friday, May 19th, 2023
8:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Towards Universal Integrated Laser Sources with Nonlinear Photonics
Luis M. Ledezma,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Stochastic foundations for single-cell RNA sequencing
Gennady Gorin,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar Series
On the art of weakening bonds to make functional materials
Yoan Simon,
Associate Professor,
School of Polymer Science and Engineering,
University of Southern Mississippi,
Saturday, May 20th, 2023
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, May 22nd, 2023
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Ultrasound Controlled Drug Delivery by Acoustically Switchable Hydrogels
Maria Paulene (Paulene) Abundo,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
9:30am
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10:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Mechanistic Investigations and Development of Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Electrophile Coupling Reactions
Raymond Turro,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,