James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Introduction to Princeton Catalysis Initiative (PCI)
2018
The 2018 PCI Symposium had 30 different presentations from 9 different departments. If you are interested in obtaining slides, please contact the presenter directly.
Paul Chirik
Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
“Catalysis Enables Our Quality of Life with Consequence”
Nathalie de Leon
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
“Nanoscale Quantum Sensing”
Todd Hyster
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
“Using Enzymes to Do Organic Chemistry”
Kaushik Sengupta
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
“Co-opting CMOS for Chemical Sensing”
Dan Steingart
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
“Batteries: Catalysis Won’t Improve Power”
Sabine Petry
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular Biology
“How are cellular structures formed?”
Greg Scholes
William S. Todd Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
“Ultrafast spectroscopy: Theory, Excited states, Photosynthesis”
Rob Knowles
Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
“New synthetic applications of proton-coupled electron transfers”
Olga Troyanskaya
Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
“Data-driven understanding of human disease: from “deep” learning to “deep” knowledge”
Howard Stone
Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
“Small-scale control of flows, materials and living systems”
Tim Searchinger
Research Scholar
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
“How do we feed the world by 2050 without destroying the world?”
Sebastian Seung
Evnin Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Research activities of the Seung group
Coleen Murphy
Richard B. Fisher Preceptor in Integrative Genomics, Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Director of Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for Aging Research
Department of Molecular Biology
“Slowing the Ticking Clock: Quantitating ‘Quality of Life’ with Age”
Tom Muir
Van Zandt Williams Jr. Class of 1965 Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
“We focus on two major areas: chromatin/epigenetics and virulence regulation in S. aureus“
Joshua Rabinowitz
Department of Chemistry
“Metabolism is everywhere”
Abby Doyle
Department of Chemistry
Doyle lab research interests: photocatalysis with NI, Nucleophilic (radio)fluorination, Ni cross coupling, machine learning for reaction prediction
Chris Eisgruber
Princeton University
Remarks
Mona Singh
Department of Computer Science
“Data-Driven Methods in Computational Biology”
Mike Levine
Department of Molecular Biology
Transcriptional Enhancers
Zemer Gitai
Department of Molecular Biology
“The Gitai Lab: Bacterial Cell Biology”
Brad Carrow
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
“Homogeneous catalysis from mechanism-driven design”
James Link
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
“Enzymes and Infectious Disease”
Mohammad Seyedsayamdost
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
“Drug Discovery from Bacteria”
Barry Rand
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
“Thin film electronics and optoelectronics with emerging semiconductors”
Ralph Kleiner
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
“Chemical approaches to investigate the RNA epitranscriptome”
John T. Groves
Hugh Stott Taylor Chair of Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
“New Strategies for Chemical and Biochemical Catalysis”
Alexei Korennykh
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, James A. Elkins, Jr. ’41 Preceptor
Department of Molecular Biology
“Current immunology research in the Korennykh group”
David MacMillan
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
“The Use of Visible Light to Fuel and Sustain Life”
Closing Remarks & Discussion
Princeton Catalysis Initiative Committee
Princeton University