The Weekly Beaker

Erin McDuffie ’13 presents “Atmospheric Chemistry: the key to improving air quality, saving lives, and solving the climate crisis” on Friday, February 18, 2022, at 3:30 pm. 2020-2022 AAAS Science…

Erin McDuffie (’13) went from Carleton to CU-Boulder for a Ph.D. in atmospheric chemistry, where she focused on building and deploying instrumentation for atmospheric measurements. She then did a postdoc where her focus was on integrating aerosol particles into models of the atmosphere. Now she is a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the US EPA. Come talk with her about her experiences, her path from Carleton to the EPA, and the intersection of science and policy! You can get a hot beverage and a cookie at the Shulze Cafe and put it on the Chemistry Department’s tab before joining Zoom to chat with Erin. She will be available for informal conversations from 2:45 – 3:20pm on Friday at this Zoom link (it’s the same as the seminar link!). Please stay for the seminar at 3:30pm.

Jon Lai (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) presents “Structure-based design of broad flavivirus immunogens based on glycoprotein E domain III (EDIII)” on Friday, February 11, 2022, at 3:30 PM. Dengue…

Sam H. Gellman (University of Wisconsin – Madison) presents “Foldamers: Extrapolating from Proteins,” on Friday, January 28, 2022 at 3:30pm on Zoom. Folded biopolymers perform diverse functions in biological systems. …

Unnatural Peptides with Beta Residues 

Student presentations by Polycarpe Bagereka, JP Braun, Isabel Cannell, Sarah Cauthorn,  Chloe Lipinski, Tan Premrasmi, Leah Snidman and Katie Taylor.

If you missed last Friday’s presentation for Research Opportunities Part 1, Off Campus Opportunities, the information can be found on our website.

Emily Balskus (Harvard University) presents “Chemical discovery in the microbial world” on Friday, November 5th, 2021, at 3:30 PM in Anderson 329 or on Zoom.

Every second year, Carleton and Macalester Chemistry faculty exchange a seminar. This year, our own Professor Steve Drew will be presenting his work on “Renewable Energy Storage:  Applications of Electrochemistry” at Macalester on October 6, 2021. The seminar is at 3:30pm. If there is sufficient interest among students to attend this seminar (and drivers), we will organize vans to help students attend the talk. Please let us know if you are interested via this survey. You would need to be prepared to leave Carleton no later than 2:30pm and would likely return before 6pm. Macalester requires all campus visitors to be vaccinated and to wear masks at all times. Campus building access is controlled and instructions for getting access to the seminar will be provided once we know who is planning to attend.

Adrian Hegeman (U of MN) presents “Plant Metabolomics: Overview, Methodology and Use of Stable Isotopes” on Friday, September 24th, 2021, at 3:30 pm in Anderson 329.

Please join us in our continuing discussions this term about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Respect in Chemistry as we work together to develop a public Departmental Statement of Values and a living action plan.

We will meet in AND 329 on Friday, 9/17 at 3:30pm. We are hoping to have many people participate in this conversation so that our work represents us all.

Wilfred van der Donk presents “How to find our future antibiotics?” on Friday, April 30th, 2021, at 4:30 PM. Historically, natural products have been the most fruitful source for the…

Dr. Mark Thompson presents “21st Century Alchemy Applied to Organic LEDs: Making Copper Act Like Iridium” on Friday, April 23rd, 2021, at 4:30 PM. Heavy metal containing phosphors, especially iridium-based…

“Exploring Kinetics in the Interstellar Medium” by Eli Babcock, LouLou Ferrer, Anna Hughes, An Kitamura and Christof Zweifel.
Our group has spent the last term studying the research of the Sims lab at the University of Rennes in France. Join us to explore reaction behavior within the exotic and inhospitable environment of the Interstellar medium.

Join Zoom Meeting https://carleton.zoom.us/j/97062621266
Meeting ID: 970 6262 1266   Passcode: 945583

Would you like cookies* and tea (or hot chocolate packets) to snack on during the Chemistry Seminar? On Friday, stop by the Mohrig Lounge-2nd floor Anderson between 3:30-4:30. Alison Block will be there to greet you or you may need to wait for her.  If you don’t know where the Mohrig Lounge is, it is the study space on the southeast corner of 2nd floor Anderson, bordered on the south by the offices of Deborah, Dani and Lanhao. 
*gf, vegan, nut-free options available

Mark D. Allendorf (Sandia National Lab) presents “Nanopores and Nanoparticles for Hydrogen Transport and Storage” on Friday, March 5th at 4:30. FYI – Mark will be teaching at Carleton in…

Fikile Brushett, PhD Join Zoom Meeting https://carleton.zoom.us/j/97062621266   Meeting ID: 970 6262 1266   Passcode: 945583 Electrochemical energy storage has emerged as a critical technology to enable sustainable electricity generation by alleviating intermittency…

Mark Mitton-Fry ’96 presents “Bugs and Drugs: Targeting MRSA with Novel Bacterial Topoisomerase Inhibitors” on Friday, February 19 at 4:30. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is an antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogen that kills more than…

Julia Bakker-Arkema ’14 (Carleton College) presents “Laboratory studies of atmospheric chemistry: secondary organic aerosol formation and evolution” on Friday, February 12th at 4:30. The oxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)…

Friday, January 22nd, 20214:30 – 5:30 pm / online Interested in doing research on campus this summer? We will discuss on-campus summer research opportunities with chemistry faculty as well as application procedures.…