Upcoming Events for Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Tuesday, April 29, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Why don't plants get sunburn? Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Massachussetts Institute of Technology,

Wednesday, April 30, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Beginning to understand light-mediated Ni catalysis using physical organic techniques and data science Ana Bahamonde, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside,

Thursday, May 1, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	PhD Thesis Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Elucidating the Role of Transition Metal Electronic Structure in Catalysis and Spin Relaxation Kaitlin Luedecke, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Transport of nanoparticles through complex, crowded fluids Jacinta Conrad, Frank M. Tiller Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Anti-viral defense in bacteria: first responders, failsafes, and backup systems Barry Stoddard, Professor, Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center,

Friday, May 2, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Rational Design of Molecular Quantum Bits. Fernando Guerrero, Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Monday, May 5, 2025
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Stabilizing Halide-Based Redox Active Materials for Rechargeable Battery Applications Alexis Grimaud, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Boston College,

Tuesday, May 6, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemistry Club Seminar Gates Annex B122 Paul Chirik, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Chemistry and Chair, Princeton University,

Wednesday, May 7, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Expanding the Chemical Tractability of Human Proteome Christopher Parker, Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute,

Thursday, May 8, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Illuminating Natural Intelligence with Smart Experimental Systems and Advanced Machine Learning Hang Lu, C. J. "Pete" Silas Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation of College of Engineering, Georgia Tech,

Friday, May 9, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs May 2025 Meeting

Monday, May 12, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Chen 100 Topological organization of cell state manifolds across metazoans Emanual Flores Bautista, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Molecular Approaches to Advancing 2D Conductive MOFs for Tailored Properties and Applications Jihye Park, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder,

Tuesday, May 13, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am	PhD Thesis Seminar Crellin 151 Emily Boyd, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

Wednesday, May 14, 2025
9:00 am - 10:00 am	PhD Thesis Seminar Tianyi (Mike) He, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Directed Reaction Discovery: Accessing the Remote Synthetic Landscape Andy Thomas, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University,

Thursday, May 15, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) TBA Daniel Dumitrescu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mazmanian Group,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Emerging simplicity in microbiome dynamics Lingchong You, James L. Meriam Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, founding Director of the Center for Quantiative Biodesign, Duke University,

Friday, May 16, 2025
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	PhD Thesis Seminar Michelle Qian, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

Sunday, May 18, 2025
1:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Southern California Organometallics Meeting 2025 Chen 100

Monday, May 19, 2025
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	PhD Thesis Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Sophie Miller, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Tirrell & Prober Labs), Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	PhD Thesis Seminar Broad 100 Andrea Stegner, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Probing Interfacial Reactivity using Single-Molecule Conductance. Michael S. Inkpen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California,

Tuesday, May 20, 2025
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
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
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 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) 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) 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	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 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) TBA Shiyu Xia, Postdoctoral Fellow, Elowitz Group,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 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 William Rosencrans, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and 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 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) 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
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Caltech Bioscience Industry Day 2025 Chen Breezeway

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,