2013 Distinguished Young Scholars Seminar

Dr. Sarah Perry

This year's winner for best DYSS seminar (selected by our students) is Dr. Sarah Perry from Mathew Tirrell's group at the Molecular Engineering Institute at the University of Chicago. Her presentation was entitled Stereoregularity Inhibits Complex Coacervation of Polypeptides.

Congratulations Dr. Perry!

The Department of Chemical Engineering has held the "Distinguished Young Scholars Summer Seminar Series" annually since 2011. Each year, 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. The top speaker chosen by the panel will also receive an iPad.

Seminars are held on Mondays at 4:00 p.m. in PAA A110, with a social time to follow the seminar in the Benson Hall lobby.

Date	Speaker and Lecture Title
July 8	John Blazeck Graduate Student University of Texas - Austin Converting Y. lipolytica into a platform for biofuel and biochemical production
July 15	Nan Yi Postdoctoral Scholar Yale University Heterogeneous Catalysis for Sustainable Energy: Atomically Dispersed Metal Clusters for Hydrogen Production from Methanol and Formic Acid Reactions
July 22	Steven Caliari Graduate Student University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign Spatially-graded collagen scaffolds for engineering orthopedic interfaces and regulating MSC fate
July 29	Andrew White Postdoctoral Scholar University of Chicago Development and application techniques to more closely unify molecular modeling and experiments for applications in biomaterials, protein modeling, and peptide structure-activity relationships
August 5	Wei Gao Graduate Student University of California - San Diego Synthetic Micro/Nanomachines and Their Applications: Towards 'Fantastic Voyage'
August 12	Sarah Perry Postdoctoral Scholar University of Chicago Stereoregularity Inhibits Complex Coacervation of Polypeptides
August 19	Shukla Diwakar Postdoctoral Scholar Stanford University Cloud-based simulations on Google Exacycle provide novel mechanistic insights into conformational transitions in GPCRs and Kinases
August 26	Kimberly Stroka Postdoctoral Scholar Johns Hopkins University Integration of microfabrication, biomaterials, molecular biology, biophysics, and microscopy techniques in order to understand mechanisms of cell migration, adhesion, and mechanotransduction in the context of metastatic cancer and cardiovascular disease.

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