Upcoming Events for Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Tuesday, May 20, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Chen 130 Structural and mechanistic studies of membrane protein biogenesis and quality control at the endoplasmic reticulum Vy Nguyen, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	2025 Harden M. McConnell Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Magnetic Resonance One Spin At A Time Jörg Wrachtrup, Professor, Head of Department, 3rd Physics Institute and Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, University of Stuttgart,

Wednesday, May 21, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am	PhD Thesis Seminar Broad 100 Cuticular Hydrocarbons in Myrmecophiles are a Mechanism of Symbiotic Entrenchment Thomas Naragon, Graduate Student, Chemistry,
10:30 am - 11:30 am	PhD Thesis Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF HYPERSAMPSONE M AND STUDIES OF RELATED POLYCYCLIC POLYPRENYLATED ACYLPHLOROGLUCINOL SYSTEMS Adrian Samkian, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The Biochemical and Structural Basis of Get3d's Role in Photosynthesis Alexandra Barlow, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Gates Annex B122 Chemoproteogenomic approaches to stratify the functional and therapeutically relevant proteome Keriann M. Backus, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles,

Thursday, May 22, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	PhD Thesis Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Functional Stimulated Raman Imaging for Quantitative Cell Biology with Small Bioorthogonal Tags Xiaotian Bi, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Flow physics drives adaptations in single and colonial eukaryotes Eva Kanso, Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California (USC),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Uncovering mechanisms of RNA transport Vihandha Wickramasinghe, Professor, Laboratory Head, Genetics and Gene Regulation, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,

Friday, May 23, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Divergent Catalysis: Dissolving Metal-Type Reductions Under Sm(II/III) Catalysis Nathan Friede, Graduate Student (Reisman Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Tuesday, May 27, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) "Towards ab initio simulations of driven and non-equilibrium systems through novel theoretical and numerical approaches Vojtech Vlcek, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara,

Wednesday, May 28, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am	PhD Thesis Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Marta Gonzalvo I Ulla, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Development and Applications of New Synthetic Strategies for Polymer Science Brett Fors, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University,

Thursday, May 29, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) "Synthetic Protein Circuits: From Fundamentals to Therapeutics" Shiyu Xia, Postdoctoral Scholar, Elowitz Group,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 The Importance of Physiological Temperature in Biomedical and Biophysical Research Juan Du, Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Colloidal Science and Soft Matter Physics: The Uncredited Co-Authors of Every Microbial Biofilm Patrick Secor, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Montana State University,

Friday, May 30, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	PhD Thesis Seminar Chen 100 Eshaan Patheria, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Chen 130 Building closed-loop frameworks for AI-guided protein design Alec Lourenço, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Catherine G. Romero, Graduate Student (Peters Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Monday, June 2, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Broad 100 Mechanisms of Pharmacological and Cellular Regulators of Mitophagy William Rosencrans, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,

Tuesday, June 3, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Timothy C Berkelbach, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,

Wednesday, June 4, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CCE: Beckman Lecture Gates Annex B122 Protein Editing Alanna Schepartz, Professor or Chemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,

Friday, June 6, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Characterization of Key Intermediates in Fe-Catalyzed Cyanide Reduction Seungju Kang, Graduate Student (Peters Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Tuesday, June 10, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am	PhD Thesis Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Jay Barbour, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

Wednesday, June 11, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Revisiting Decades -Old Chemistry and Physics to Improve Modern Molecular Imaging Warren S. Warren, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Duke University,

Thursday, June 12, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Tanya Paull, Professor of Oncology, Burl G. and Lorene L. Rogers Chair in Human Health, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin,

Friday, June 13, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs June 2025 Meeting

Friday, July 11, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs July 2025 Meeting

Friday, July 18, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am	PhD Thesis Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Ravi Lal, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Arnold Lab), Caltech,

Monday, August 4, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Michinori Suginome, Professor, Organic Chemistry, Kyoto University,

Friday, August 8, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs August 2025 Meeting

Thursday, September 11, 2025
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm	CCE Safety Day Beckman Auditorium

Friday, September 12, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs September 2025 Meeting

Tuesday, September 16, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Jordy Bouwman, Assistant Professor of Cosmochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder,

Tuesday, September 30, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Shaowei Li, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego,

Friday, October 10, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs October 2025 Meeting

Monday, October 13, 2025
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Kyoko Nozaki, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Energy, The University of Tokyo,

Tuesday, October 14, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Elsa Yan, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Yale University,

Friday, November 14, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs November 2025 Meeting

Tuesday, November 18, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	Frontiers in Chemical Engineering Symposium Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Caltech Bioscience Industry Day 2025 Chen Breezeway

Thursday, November 20, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	Frontiers in Chemical Engineering Symposium Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Friday, December 12, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs December 2025 Meeting

Thursday, April 9, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 James Shorter, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania,