Upcoming Events for Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Tuesday, February 17, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Joint CPS/GPS seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Chirality and the electron spin- A miraculous match Ron Naaman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Isreal,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemistry Club Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Excited-State Catalysts for Selective Bond Activations Robert R. Knowles, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,

Friday, February 20, 2026
11:00 am - 3:00 pm	ChE Panel & Research Talks Resnick Sustainability Center 120 Naga Phani Aetukuri, Associate Professor, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU), Indian Institute of Science — Bengaluru, Sai Gautam Gopalakrishnan, Associate Professor, Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science — Bengaluru, Srinivasan Ramakrishnan, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology — Bombay,

Monday, February 23, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ernest H. Swift Lecture Series Gates Annex B122 Sustainable Production of Reduced Phosphorus Compounds Christopher (Kit) Cummins, Henry Drefus Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Tuesday, February 24, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Informal Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Towards in-vivo acousto-optic imaging of biological tissues Dr. Maïmouna Bocoum, Researcher, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Institut Langevin ESPCI Paris Université PSL,

Wednesday, February 25, 2026
9:00 am - 10:00 am	PhD Thesis Defense Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Utilizing Mass Transport To Enhance CO2 Conversion to Multi-Carbon Products Matthew Salazar, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Agapie Lab), Caltech,
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Watson Lecture: Chasing Sustainable Battery Chemistries for the Future with Kimberly See Beckman Auditorium Kimberly See, professor of chemistry,

Thursday, February 26, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) TBA Elizabeth Hughes, Graduate Student, Shapiro Group,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Autonomous learning and design of proteins Philip Romero, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 ZAK activation at the colliding ribosome Rachel Green, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University,

Friday, February 27, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Broad 100 Katelyn Radford, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,

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) Aberrant glycosylation patterns in hyperglycemic diseases: tools and targets Charlie Fehl, Assistant Professor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wayne State University,

Thursday, March 5, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) TBA Raj Mukkamala, Graduate Student, Newman & Kornfield Groups,
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,

Monday, March 9, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Chemical Engineering Seminar Gates Annex B122 Operando Infrared Spectroscopy to Probe Electrified Interfaces Yu Katayama, Associate Professor, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, University of Osaka,

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,

Thursday, March 12, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) TBA Lukas Moeller, Graduate Student, Elowitz Group,

Friday, March 13, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs March 2026 Meeting

Friday, March 20, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Alexandros Tsamopoulos, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Wang Lab), Caltech,

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,

Saturday, March 28, 2026
9:00 am - 6:00 pm	Materials and Process Simulation Center Conference 2026 (MSC2 2026) Beckman Institute Auditorium

Sunday, March 29, 2026
9:00 am - 6:00 pm	Materials and Process Simulation Center Conference 2026 (MSC2 2026) Beckman Institute Auditorium

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,

Monday, April 6, 2026
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Women in Chemistry Special Seminar: Prof. Jenny Yang Gates Annex B122 Jenny Y. Yang, University of California, Irvine,

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,

Friday, April 10, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs April 2026 Meeting

Wednesday, April 15, 2026
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Boehringer Ingelheim-Caltech Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) 3 PM: Rogelio Frutos, Sr Research Fellow, 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) Joelle Frechette, Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Education, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,
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,

Tuesday, May 5, 2026
10:30 am - 11:30 am	PhD Thesis Defense Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Soyoung Shin, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Gao Lab), Caltech,

Wednesday, May 6, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Pengfei Hu, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Westlake University,

Thursday, May 7, 2026
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,

Friday, May 8, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs May 2026 Meeting

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,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Daniel Larson, Chief, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression; Head, Systems Biology of Gene Expression; Co-Chair, Trans-NIH Myeloid Malignancies Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health,

Friday, May 15, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Nathan Friede, Graduate Student (Reisman Group), Chemistry, Caltech,

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, May 27, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering Gates Annex B122 General lecture (title and abstract pending) Zhenan Bao, K. K. Lee Professor, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor, by courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering, of Chemistry, and of Bioengineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University,

Thursday, May 28, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering Gates Annex B122 Technical lecture (title and abstract pending) Zhenan Bao, K. K. Lee Professor, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor, by courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering, of Chemistry, and of Bioengineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University,

Friday, May 29, 2026
8:00 am - 9:00 am	PhD Thesis Defense Chen 100 Nicholas Friesenhahn, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Mayo Lab), Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Shaqian Yang, Postdoctoral Scholar (Fu Group), Chemistry, Caltech,

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: Denise C. Grünenfelder, Principal Scientist, Discovery & Development Sciences, Bristol Myers Squibb, 4 PM: Shannon S. Stahl, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin – Madison,

Friday, June 12, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs June 2026 Meeting

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)

Friday, July 10, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs July 2026 Meeting

Tuesday, July 21, 2026
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Annual Meeting of the Marcus Center for Theoretical Chemistry Gates Annex B122

Friday, August 14, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs August 2026 Meeting

Friday, September 11, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs September 2026 Meeting

Wednesday, October 7, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Christina Woo, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,

Friday, October 9, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs October 2026 Meeting

Wednesday, October 14, 2026
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Frontiers in Chemical Biology Symposium Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) George Burslem, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Ray Moellering, Professor of Chemical Biology, University of Chicago, Yael David Shternberg, Associate Member, Chemical Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Jin Zhang, Professor of Pharmacology, UC San Diego,

Wednesday, October 21, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Laura M.K. Dassama, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,

Sunday, October 25, 2026
10/25 9:00 am - 10/26 5:00 pm	ChE Symposium

Tuesday, October 27, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) L. Robert Baker, Phyllis and Richard Leet Endowed Chair, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University,

Friday, November 13, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs November 2026 Meeting

Friday, December 11, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs December 2026 Meeting