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Seminars

Keck Science Department Seminars
Fall 2023

Fridays 12:15pm – 1:15pm PT

Keck Science Department Seminars take place in Burns Auditorium (Keck B31)

DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TITLE
09/15/23	Brett Woods	Salem College	Mentoring and Learning Strategies to Increase URM Retention in STEM
10/06/23	Ethan Van Arnam	Keck Science Department	Antibiotics from Ants: Molecular Defenses from Specialized Insect Microbiomes
10/20/23	Gautam Agarwal	Keck Science Department	Using Brain Waves to Read Neural Circuits
10/27/23	Sierra Williams	Keck Science Department	Developing Light-emitting Tools to Study Pathogen-killing Proteins
11/03/23	Bethany Caulkins	Keck Science Department	NMR Is Awesome! Answering Molecular Questions with Magnets
11/15/23	Joseph Campanale	University of California Santa Barbara	Leaders and followers in collective migration, who’s really in charge?
11/17/23	Alex Pike	Oberlin College	Single-stranded DNA binding proteins in DNA replication: One size doesn’t fit all
11/21/2023	Sean Beckwith	University of Georgia	“Jumping genes in budding yeast: Mechanisms of Ty1 transposition”
11/28/2023	Zachary Wilson	University of Utah	“Major Membrane Makeovers to Maintain Mitochondrial Magnificence”
11/30/2023	Elena Tonc	Macalester College	“Uncovering the link between allergies, inflammation, and chronic pain: The case study of vulvodynia”
12/01/2023	Glenna Clifton
12/05/2023	Mackensie Gerringer
12/07/2023	Bob Cieri
12/08/2023	Emily Kolenbrander-Ho	Princeton University	Shining light on dynamic ERK signaling in the embryo
12/12/2023	Ashley Heers

5C Chemistry Seminars
Fall 2023

Tuesdays, 11:00am – 12:00pm PT

Seminars will be held in-person at the locations listed below:

DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	RESEARCH WEBSITE or LINKEDIN	HOST & LOCATION	TITLE
09/12/2023	Val Chiykowski	Evok Innovations	LINK HERE	Pomona Seaver Auditorium	Path from Chemist to Venture Capitalist
09/19/2023	Christy Haynes	University of Minnesota	LINK HERE	Pomona Seaver Auditorium	Proactive Design of Sustainable Nanomaterials
09/26/2023	Micaela Homer	University of Washington (Cossairt Lab)	LINK HERE	HMC Shanahan B460	Photoelectrochemistry: New Ways to Measure Fundamental Processes
10/03/2023	Cancellation
10/10/2023	Charlie Markus	Caltech	LINK HERE	HMC Shanahan B460	Investigating Gas-Phase Photochemistry with Sensitive Infrared Spectroscopy
10/24/2023	Danielle Berry	Dow Chemical Solutions	LINK HERE	KSD Burns Auditorium	Cool Computing: Reliability of Thermal Interface Materials in Combined Mechanical and Thermal Stress
10/31/2023	REU/Summer Research Experience	5C Undergraduate Researchers		Pomona Seaver Auditorium	Summer Research Experience Information Session -Learning about Off-Campus Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs)
11/7/2023	Jeffrey Mills	US Space Force		KSD Burns Auditorium	The Spectral Theory of Chemical Binding and Quantum Interactions in Molecules
11/14/2023	Gabi Heller	Cambridge	LINK HERE	Pomona Seaver Auditorium	Drugging Highly Dynamic Intrinsically Disordered Proteins with Small Molecules
11/28/2023	Karen Trentelman	Getty Conservation Institute	LINK HERE	Pomona Seaver Auditorium	Art as Evidence: Uncovering the Past Through the Scientific Analysis of Works of Art