Upcoming Events for Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

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,

Thursday, January 29, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) TBA Nivin Nyström, Postdoctoral Scholar, Shapiro Group,

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,

Friday, February 6, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Fernando Guerrero, Graduate Student (Agapie Group), Chemistry, Caltech,

Thursday, February 12, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) TBA Chengcheng Fan, Bjorkman Group,

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 Cummins, 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
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) 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
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,

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,

Wednesday, March 18, 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, March 19, 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,

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,
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,

Friday, May 29, 2026
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: 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)

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,