James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
2020
The 2020 PCI Symposium had 25 different presentations from 11 different departments. Watch them below. If you are interested in obtaining slides, please directly contact the presenter.
Paul Chirik
Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
“Catalysis and Collaborations”
Corina Tarnita
Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Director, Program in Environmental Studies
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
“Organization of biological systems across spatio-temporal scales”
Michael Webb
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
“Chemically Specific Hierarchical Simulation and Design of Soft Materials”
Leslie Schoop
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
“The Wonders of 2D Materials: Implications for Catalysis”
Yibin Kang
Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular Biology
“Identification and Therapeutic Targeting of a Breast Cancer Metastasis Gene”
Antoine Kahn
Stephen C. Macaleer ’63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Sciences; Vice Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
“Playing with Low-Dimensional Metal Halide Perovskites”
Janet Currie
Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Co-Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing
Department of Economics and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
“The Clean Air Acts Caused Racial Disparities in the PM2.5 Exposure to Fall: New Evidence from Sattelite-based Measures of Air Quality”
Mohamed Donia
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular Biology
“Production and Metabolism of Bioactive Small Molecules by the Human Microbiome”
Tom Muir
Van Zandt Williams Jr. Class of 1965 Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Current Research Activities
Robert K. Prud'homme
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
“Nanomedicine: Controlling Endosomal Trafficking of Nanoparticles Using Biomimetic Ligands to Enable mRNA and Peptide Therapeutics”
Ileana Cristea
Professor of Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular Biology
“Virology Meets Proteomics”
Josh Rabinowitz
Professor of Chemistry and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Department of Chemistry
“Targeting NADPH Metabolism”
Mike Levine
Professor and Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Professor of Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Current Research Areas
Nathalie de Leon
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
“Diamond Surface Functionalization for Nanoscale Magnetic Resonance Imaging”
Sabine Petry
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular Biology
“Molecular Function and Architecture of the Cytoskeleton”
David MacMillan
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Current Research Areas
Ryan Adams
Professor of Computer Science; Director, Program in Statistics and Machine Learning
Department of Computer Science
“Using Randomness and Uncertainty to Close the Loop on Design”
Laure Resplandy
Assistant Professor of Geosciences and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Department of Geosciences
“Climate and Ocean Biogeochemical Cycles”
Coleen Murphy
Richard B. Fisher Preceptor in Integrative Genomics, Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institue for Integrative Genomics, Director of Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for Aging Research
Department of Molecular Biology
“Adapt or Die: Cross-Kingdom Recognition of Bacterial Small RNAs Induces Transgenerational Pathogenic Avoidance”
Ben Raphael
Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
“Computational Methods for Single-Cell Genomics”
William Jacobs
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
“Designing Complex Self-Assembling Reactions Using Coarse-Grained Simulations”
Kaushik Sengupta
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
“Real-Time Massively Parallel Microhabitat Complex Landscape Platform for Development of Drug Resistance from Molecule-to-Cell Level”
Tom Griffiths
Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology, Consciousness and Culture
Department of Psychology
“Human Behavior as the Next Frontier for AI”
Todd Hyster
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
“Photoenzymatic Catalysis: Using Light to Reveal New Enzyme Functions”