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Thesis Defense

Upcoming Events

July
18
Date
Friday, July 18, 2025, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:
Hewlett 102
"From molecular to macromolecular designs: enhancing mechanochemical responses"
July
22
Date
Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall 114
"Chemical tools for the detection and regulation of DNA damage and repair"The DNA in our cells is constantly under threat from both endogenous and exogeneous factors.
August
12
Date
Tuesday, August 12, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
James H Clark Center room S360
"Advanced Processes for High-Resolution Vat Photopolymerization: Enhancing Precision and Scalability"
November
4
Date
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Host: Dick Zare

Past Events

Date
Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location:
ChEM-H/Neuro Gunn Rotunda
"Chemical tools and strategies to engineer and discover new biology"My dissertation focuses on using chemical tools and insight to engineer and discover new biology.
Date
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall 114
"Simulating photochemistry in complex environments"Chemical processes initiated by light—such as those underlying vision and photosynthesis—play a central role in chemistr
Date
Monday, June 16, 2025, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location:
ChEM-H E153
"Democratizing LYTACs: enabling facile access to targeted protein degradation via mannose-6- phosphate receptor"Extracellular and membrane proteins comprise of around 40% of disease-relate
Date
Friday, June 13, 2025, 3:00pm
Location:
Hewlett 102
"Synthesis and Investigation of Unusual Polycyclic Conjugated Hydrocarbon and Polymer"I am Ke Zheng, a sixth-year PhD candidate in Professor Yan Xia's laboratory.
Date
Friday, June 13, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Packard 101A
Scalable Moiré ManufacturingManufacturing moiré materials provides a transformative platform to understand how structure and symmetry at the atomic scale govern material properties.
Date
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location:
Chem-H E153 
“Targeted Protein Relocalization: Tool Development, Principle Discovery, and Disease Applications”Subcellular protein localization is crucial for protein function and its disruption is a c
Date
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location:
Chem-H E153
Harnessing Genomics to Decode the Chemistry and Biology of Orphan Polyketide Natural Products
Date
Monday, May 19, 2025, 3:00pm
Location:
ChEM-H/Neuro E153
"The Downregulation of STING Signaling"The innate immune STING pathway is essential for antiviral and anticancer immunity, but its aberrant activation underpins a broad spectrum of autoimm
Date
Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location:
Chemistry Gazebo
"Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Novel Transporters for Efficient and Safe RNA Delivery In Vitro and In Vivo"The past decade has witnessed an explosive growth o
Date
Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:
Building 420, Room 041
"Preparation and characterization of optical and electronic properties of monolayer nanoribbons"Monolayer nanoribbons, a unique material platform that sits between one-dim