A panel of ChemE grad students invites a distinguished group of postdoctoral researchers and graduate students selected from the large pool of national applicants to visit Seattle to present their research at the department's summer seminar. 

July 21
Julianne Holloway, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Designing materials that mimic the native structure or biological signaling inherent in orthopedic tissues in order to improve treatment following injury.

July 28
Kevin Solomon, Ph.D., University of California - Santa Barbara
Developing sustainable biorefineries in traditional and non-model microbes through the use of systems and synthetic biology.

August 4
Albert Keung, Ph.D., Boston University
Synthetic approaches to control cell fate and function.

August 11
Brent Nannenga, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institutes
Overcoming barriers in structual biology through novel method development.

August 18
Amir Haji-Akbari, Ph.D., Princeton University
Computer-aided molecular engineering of crystallization in pursuit of more potent functional materials, cleaner sources of energy and better climate.

August 25
Heather Mayes, Northwestern University
Harnessing computational chemistry to reveal reaction mechanisms that convert cellulose to renewable fuels and chemicals.

Social time follows each seminar in the Benson Hall lobby.