Upcoming Events for Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Monday, April 29, 2024
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Designing Functional Sites in Metal-Organic Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion. V. Sara Thoi, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and of Materials Science and Engineering; Leadership Council, Ralph S. O'Connor, Johns Hopkins University,

Tuesday, April 30, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Moving Protons with Photoacids to Harness Light Energy" Kana Takematsu, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Bowdoin College,

Wednesday, May 1, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Advancing the logic of polymer synthesis, modification, and degradation Alex Zhukhovitskiy, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,

Thursday, May 2, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Engineered Autonomous Control of Metabolic Pathways Kristala L. J. Prather - MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 A Purpose for Disorder: Intrinsically Disordered Regions Promote Protein Refolding and Facilitate Retrieval from Biomolecular Condensates Stephen Fried, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University,

Friday, May 3, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs May 2024 Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The Role of Cations and Organic Additive Films in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Madeline Hicks, Graduate Student (Peters Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,

Monday, May 6, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 One is the Loneliest Number: Multielectron and Multivalent Chemistries for Next-Generation Batteries Kimberly A. See, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

Tuesday, May 7, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Sarah King, Neubaruer Family Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago,

Wednesday, May 8, 2024
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Transformations of Alkenes using Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Nickel-Hydride Catalysts Amanda K. Cook, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oregon,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering Gates Annex B122 On the Origin of Biological Homochirality (General Lecture) Donna G. Blackmond, The John C. Martin Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Chemistry Department Chair, Scripps Research,

Thursday, May 9, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Crellin 151 TBA Ziyang Qin, Arnold Group,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering Gates Annex B122 A Novel Paradigm for Asymmetric Organocatalysis (Technical Lecture) Donna G. Blackmond, The John C. Martin Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Chemistry Department Chair, Scripps Research,

Friday, May 10, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Beckman Behavioral Biology B180 Marjorie Buss, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special Chemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Chemical biology in the executive branch: an introduction to NIH intramural research Jordan Meier, Senior Investigator, Chemical Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Photoinduced Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric C-N and C-X Coupling Feng Zhong, Postdoctoral Scholar (Fu Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,

Monday, May 13, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Youngkyu Park, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,

Tuesday, May 14, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Rebecca Caraven, Assistant Chemist, Argonne National Laboratory,

Wednesday, May 15, 2024
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)

Friday, May 17, 2024
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
3:45 pm - 4:45 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,

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
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED Steven D. Townsend, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University,

Thursday, May 23, 2024
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) Michael Porter, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Friday, May 24, 2024
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,
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,
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,
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,

Friday, May 31, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar 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) TBA 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 Véronique Gouverneur, 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 Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Cu-Catalyzed Asymmetric Coupling of Anilines by Secondary Unactivated Electrophiles Arup Mondal, Postdoctoral Scholar (Stoltz Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,

Thursday, June 13, 2024
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm	McCoy Symposium Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

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,

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,

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

Monday, December 9, 2024
12/9 3:45 pm - 12/19 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,

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,