Upcoming Events for Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Wednesday, October 29, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Impact of Induced Fitting and Secondary Noncovalent Interactions on Site-Selective and Enantioselective C–H Functionalization Huw M.L. Davies, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Emory University,

Thursday, October 30, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) "Determining gene specificity from multimodal single-cell data" Nikhila Swarna, Graduate Student, Pachter Group,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Difficult to remove host cell protein contaminants in biotherapeutic products and collaborative innovation ecosystems Kelvin Lee, Gore Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware.,

Friday, October 31, 2025
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	PhD Thesis Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Kinetic Pathways in Diblock Copolymer Micelles Samuel Varner, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Wang Lab), Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Synthesis of Anionic Phosphine-Phenoxide Nickel Catalysts for Ethylene/Acrylate Copolymerization Paramita Saha, Postdoctoral Scholar (Agapie Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Monday, November 3, 2025
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Chemistry at Interfaces: Macrocyclic Templates Facilitating Strong and Weak Interactions Raul Hernandez Sanchez, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Rice University,

Thursday, November 6, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) TBA Chia Yu Chien, Hoelz group,

Friday, November 7, 2025
3:45 pm - 5:15 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Taming Electrons: From Sustainable Molecular Transformations to Quantum Information Matthew Espinosa, Postdoctoral Scholar (Agapie Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Monday, November 10, 2025
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 A Radical Approach: Paramagnetic Nickel and Palladium Species in Organometallic Catalysis Livic M. Mirica, William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor of the School of Chemical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Tuesday, November 11, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Formation and dissociation of hydrocarbons under interstellar conditions Jordy Bouwman, Assistant Professor of Cosmochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder,

Thursday, November 13, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) TBA Pierina Barturen-Larrea, Graduate Student, Shapiro Group,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Designing with protein building blocks: Engineering protein superstructures for people and planet Danielle Tullman-Ercek, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Structural and mechanistic insight into the eukaryotic protein N-glycosylation machinery Kaspar Locher, Professor, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich,

Friday, November 14, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs November 2025 Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	CGSC Industry Seminar 2.0 Gates Annex B122 Dr. Yongchao Su, Senior Principal Scientist, Editor-in-chief, AAPS Open (Springer Nature), Merck, Dr. Laura Blue, Director, CMC, Amgen,

Saturday, November 15, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	David Baltimore Memorial Beckman Auditorium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025
10:00 am - 4:15 pm	Frontiers in Chemical Engineering Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Wednesday, November 19, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Peter B. Dervan Lecture Gates Annex B122 I. Adding New Chemistries to the Central Dogma; II. A New Vision for Nonprofit Research Peter G. Schultz, CEO and President, L.S. "Sam" Skaggs Presidential Chair Department of Chemistry, Scripps Research Institute,

Thursday, November 20, 2025
10:00 am - 4:15 pm	Frontiers in Chemical Engineering Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Wednesday, December 3, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Garret M. Miyake, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University,

Thursday, December 4, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) TBA Evan Mun, Graduate Student, Elowitz Group,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Venkat Ganesan, Professor, Les and Sherri Stuewer Chair in Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Irene Chiolo, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Gerontology, University of Southern California,

Monday, December 8, 2025
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Veronica Augustyn, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University,

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

Tuesday, January 13, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Wei Min, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,

Friday, January 16, 2026
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Juliette Whiteside, Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Friday, January 30, 2026
3:45 pm - 5:15 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Hoimin Jung, Postdoctoral Scholar (Peters Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Tuesday, February 17, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Organic Chemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Robert R. Knowles, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,

Monday, February 23, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ernest H. Swift Lecture Series Gates Annex B122 Christopher, Henry Drefus Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Wednesday, February 25, 2026
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Watson Lecture - Kimberly See Beckman Auditorium Kim See, professor of chemistry,

Thursday, February 26, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Phil Romero, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Rachel Green, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins Univeristy,

Monday, March 2, 2026
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) James J. McCusker, Joseph Zichis Endowed Chair and MSU Research Foundation Professor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University,

Wednesday, March 4, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Charlie Fehl, Assistant Professor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wayne State University,

Thursday, March 5, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Suri Vaikuntanathan, Professor, Department of Chemistry,

Friday, March 6, 2026
3:45 pm - 5:15 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Jonathan Aalto, Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Tuesday, March 10, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Tianyu Zhu, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Yale University,

Tuesday, March 24, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Kendall N. Houk, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles,

Thursday, March 26, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Neil Donahue, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University,

Monday, March 30, 2026
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Astrid Mueller, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester,

Tuesday, March 31, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Robert Continetti, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Senior Associate Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego,

Thursday, April 2, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Synthetic Biology for Human Health: RNA Sensors, Protein Circuits, and Machine-Guided Humanization Xiaojing Gao, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Karen Adelman, Edward S. Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School,

Friday, April 3, 2026
3:45 pm - 5:15 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Chris Totoiu, Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Tuesday, April 7, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Jooonho Lee, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,

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,

Wednesday, April 15, 2026
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Boehringer Ingelheim-Caltech Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) 3 PM: TBD, Boehringer Ingelheim, 4 PM: Franziska Schoenebeck​, Professor of Chemistry and Chair, Institute of Organic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University,

Thursday, April 16, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Ankur Gupta, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder,

Wednesday, April 22, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 C. Rose Kennedy, James P. Wilmot Distinguished Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester,

Thursday, April 23, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Nicole Steinmetz, Professor and Vice Chair, Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering, University of California, San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Siegfried Musser, Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Texas A&M,

Wednesday, April 29, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Christopher Newton, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia,

Friday, May 1, 2026
3:45 pm - 5:15 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Colin Morrell, Graduate Student (See Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Monday, May 4, 2026
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Amy Rosenzweig, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University,

Thursday, May 7, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Joelle Frechette, Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Education, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	2026 McConnell Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) TBA Lewis E. Kay, Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, and Chemistry, University of Toronto,

Monday, May 11, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Eva Nichols, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia,

Wednesday, May 13, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Beckman Lecture Gates Annex B122 Milan Mrksich, Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry, School of Engineering, Northwestern University,

Thursday, May 14, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Yushan Yan, Henry Belin du Pont Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware,

Tuesday, May 19, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Marissa Weichman, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,

Thursday, May 21, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Patrick Sung, Professor of Biochemistry & Structural Biology, Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry, UT Health San Antonio,

Wednesday, June 3, 2026
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture in Organic Synthesis Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) 3 PM: BMS Speaker (TBD), 4 PM: Shannon S. Stahl, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin – Madison,

Tuesday, June 16, 2026
6/16 8:00 am - 6/18 12:00 pm	Marcus Center Workshop on Electronic Structure Theory Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)