Upcoming Events for Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Wednesday, May 15, 2024
10:00 am - 11:00 am	PhD Thesis Defense Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Novel Reactivity and Applications of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions Xiaoyu Dan Tong, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Gates Annex B122 Deciphering the chemical crosstalk of host-gut microbiota interactions Pamela V. Chang, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University,

Thursday, May 16, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 AMPK: energy sensor and central guardian of mitochondrial homeostasis Reuben Shaw, Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Bio-inspired Systems for Sustainability and Environmental Remediation Ariel Furst, Paul M. Cook Career Development Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT,

Friday, May 17, 2024
10:00 am - 11:00 am	PhD Thesis Defense Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Impact of Interfacial Chemistry on Corrosion, Sensing, and Catalytic Properties of Materials John Evans, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Enantioselective Intramolecular Reactions of Palladium Enolates. Christian Strong, Graduate Student (Stoltz Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,

Monday, May 20, 2024
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Manipulating Phase Transitions and Porosity: From Solid Refrigerants to Microporous Water. Jarad Mason, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Beckman Behavioral Biology B180 Leveraging the ΦX174 Lysis Protein to Study MraY Structure, Function, and Regulation Karen Orta, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,

Tuesday, May 21, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Christy Landes, Jerry A. Walker Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign,

Wednesday, May 22, 2024
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense South Mudd 365 Exploring Nature's Fingerprints with Isotopic Distributions Timothy Csernica, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) The Other Side of Entropy Stefano Martiniani, NYU,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 POSTPONED! Steven D. Townsend, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University,

Thursday, May 23, 2024
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Havellockate and Investigation into Chiral Pd Enolates: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Application Melinda Tsam Mang Chan, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Crellin 151 TBA Xiang Feng, Rees Group,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Improvement of microbial detection and analysis techniques in complex biological environments Michael Porter, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech (Ismagilov Group),
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Organometallic and Electrochemical Applications Enabled by Novel Weakly-Coordinating Anions Meaghan Bruening, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CANCELLED - Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Delivering RNA outside the liver by testing thousands of LNPs in vivo James Dahlman,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Visualizing Molecular Machines in Motion through Cryo-EM, Cryo-ET, and Deep Learning Joseph (Joey) Davis, Associate Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Friday, May 24, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	PhD Thesis Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Exploring the Photophysics and Reactivity of Ni–bipyridine Cross-coupling Catalysts David Cagan, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) "Probing Generality in Proton-coupled Electron Transfer Mediator Design via Carborane Redox". Enric Adillon, Graduate Student (Peters Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,

Wednesday, May 29, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Crellin 151 Jin Mo Koo, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech (Kornfield Group),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Orphaned Cyclopropanes Sidney Wilkerson-Hill, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,

Thursday, May 30, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Crellin 151 TBA Rongrong Du, Elowitz Group,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Robert Grayson, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech (Giapis Group),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Stress response silencing - or how basic biology informs drug discovery Michael (Micha) Rapé, Professor, HHMI Investigator, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Frontiers in Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Electrolyte Design Strategies to Control Electrochemical Processes in Batteries and Electrocatalysis Chibueze Amanchukwu,

Friday, May 31, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Beckman Institute Auditorium Phototropic Growth of Cu2O: Light-Directed Semiconductor Mesostructuring via Photoelectrodeposition Sean Byrne, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar - CANCELLED Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) T1 Anisotropy Elucidates Spin Relaxation Mechanisms in S = 1 Cr(IV) Optically Addressable Molecular Qubit Katlin Luedecke, Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Biochemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Metal ions selectively modulate TRAAK-lipid interactions Dr. Art Laganowsky, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University,

Tuesday, June 4, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Hee-Sun Han, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,

Wednesday, June 5, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CCE - Beckman Lecture Gates Annex B122 Rethinking Fluorine Chemistry with Global Challenges in Mind Véronique Gouverneur, FRS, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford,

Thursday, June 6, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Crellin 151 TBA Nadia Surywinata, Mazmanian Group,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Aashish Manglik, Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of California San Francisco,

Friday, June 7, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--CANCELLED Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) ,

Thursday, June 13, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	McCoy Symposium Gates Annex B122

Friday, June 14, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs June 2024 Meeting

Friday, July 12, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs July 2024 Meeting

Friday, August 9, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs August 2024 Meeting

Friday, September 13, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs September 2024 Meeting

Monday, September 30, 2024
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Selvan Demir, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University,

Monday, October 7, 2024
10/7 3:45 pm - 10/19 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Jonathan Rittle, The Chevron Professor of Chemistry; Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,

Friday, October 11, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs October 2024 Meeting

Monday, October 28, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	OCS/Merck-Banyu Lectureship Award Gates Annex B122 Yoichi Hoshimoto, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering, Osaka University,

Monday, November 4, 2024
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Elecrochemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Smaranda C. Marinescu, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California,

Wednesday, November 6, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Gonçalo Bernardes, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of Cambridge,

Thursday, November 7, 2024
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Caltech Bioscience Industry Day Chen Breezeway

Friday, November 8, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs November 2024 Meeting

Wednesday, November 20, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Peter B. Dervan Lecture Gates Annex B122 TBA Jonas C. Peters, Bren Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

Friday, December 13, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs December 2024 Meeting

Tuesday, March 11, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Shane Ardo, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine,

Tuesday, April 29, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Massachussetts Institute of Technology,