2019

The 2019 PCI Symposium had 40 different presentations from 11 different departments. Watch them below. If you are interested in obtaining slides, please contact the presenter directly.

2019

Todd Hyster

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry

“Radical Biocatalysis”

2019

Martin Jonikas

Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular Biology

“Enhancing Photosynthesis”

2019

Bruce Koel

Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

“Catalysis at Interfaces”

2019

Josh Rabinowitz

Professor of Chemistry and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Department of Chemistry

“The Chemical Fate of the Food We Eat”

2019

Alexander Ploss

Associate Professor of Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular Biology

“Mechanisms of Human Viral Infection and Pathogenesis”

2019

Erik Sorensen

Arthur Allen Patchett Professor in Organic Chemistry
Department of Chemistry

“Our Evolution Toward Catalysis”

2019

Michele Sarazen

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

“Atom-Efficient Conversions to Chemicals and Fuels on Porous Catalytic Materials”

2019

Brad Carrow

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry

 

2019

Britt Adamson

Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular Biology

“High-resolution Functional Genomics”

2019

Jason Ren

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

 

2019

Claire Gmachl

Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

“Mid-infrared Photonics, Quantum Cascade Lasers, Semiconductor Quantum Structures, and Small Photonic Systems”

2019

Ralph Kleiner

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry

“Chemical Approaches to Illuminate RNA Biology”

2019

Ned Wingreen

Howard A. Prior Professor in the Life Sciences, Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Department of Molecular Biology

“Magic Numbers in Protein Phase Transitions”

2019

Tim Searchinger

Research Scholar
School of Public and International Affairs

 

2019

Tom Muir

Van Zandt Williams Jr. Class of 1965 Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry

“Epigenetic Regulation”

2019

Sarah Kocher

Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Lewis-Sigler Institute

“How Does Evolution Build (and Break) the Social Brain?”

2019

Emily Carter

Gerhard G. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, Emeritus
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

2019

Jared Toettcher

Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular Biology

“Intracellular Optogenetics: Moving Proteins and Assembling Structures to Program Cell Behavior”

2019

Robert Prud'homme

Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

“Peptide and mRNA Nanoparticles: Encapsulation and Endosomal Release”

2019

Dave MacMillan

James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry

 

2019

Lynn Loo

Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor in Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

“Mechanisms of Human Viral Infection and Pathogenesis”

2019

Thomas Duffy

Professor of Geosciences
Department of Geosciences

“Material Behavior at Extreme Condition of Pressure and Temperature”

2019

Cliff Brangwynne

Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

“Lighting Up Transcription”

2019

Paul Chirik

Edward S. Sanford Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry

“Solving Contemporary Challenges with Catalysis”

2019

Daniel Cohen

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

“Crowd Control: Tools from Crowd Dynamics to Engineer Tissues”

2019

Sujit Datta

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

 

2019

John Groves

Hugh Stott Taylor Chair of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry

“New Strategies for Chemical and Biochemical Catalysis”

2019

Herschel Rabitz

Charles Phelps Smyth ’16 *17 Professor of Chemistry
Department of Molecular Biology

“Photonic Reagents of Control Quantum Dynamics”

2019

Howard Stone

Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

“Small-scale Controls of Flows, Materials, and Living Systems”

2019

Satish Myneni

Professor of Geosciences
Department of Geosciences

“Environmental Geochemistry”

2019

Rebecca Burdine

Professor of Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular Biology

“Etiology of Human Disease”

2019

Richard Register

Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

 

2019

Martin Wühr

Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Department of Molecular Biology

“Proteomic Clues to Cell Organization”

2019

Leslie Schoop

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry

“Electronic Structure and Catalysis”

2019

Robert Knowles

Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry

 

2019

Sankaran Sundaresan

Norman John Sollenberger Professor in Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

“Chemical Reactor Design/Analysis/Dynamics”

2019

Michael Hecht

Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry

“Catalysis to Life”

2019

Peter Jaffé

William Knapp ’47 Professor of Civil Engineering, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

“A Novel Ammonium Oxidation Pathway, and Degradation of Selected Contaminants Catalyzed by Association of Different Enzymes”

2019

Julien Ayroles

Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

“The Genetics of Addiction: From Individual Variation to the Genetic Basis of Environmental Sensitivity”

2019

Abby Doyle

Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry