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Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering @caltechcce.bsky.social · 5d

#ThrowbackThursday to last week's Shaved Ice Social! This tradition makes time for incoming undergraduate students to meet and chat with our faculty, grad students and staff on the Beckman Mall while staying cool with Kona Ice. 🍧

We hope your first week at Caltech is going smoothly, undergrads!

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Caltech @caltech.edu · 7d

Ten Caltech faculty members begin the 2025-2026 academic year with newly bestowed honors: six with named professorships, one of the Institute's highest honors, and four with distinguished leadership chairs for administrative positions.

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Caltech Announces Newest Cohort of Leadership Chairs and Named Professorships

This year Caltech recognizes four faculty members with leadership chairs and six with named professorships.

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Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering @caltechcce.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats to Prof. Scott Cushing on being named a Moore Inventor Fellow!

The distinction comes with three years of funding, which Cushing plans to use to advance his work on a new generation of wearable sensors.

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Scott Cushing Named a Moore Inventor Fellow

The assistant professor of chemistry is the fourth Caltech faculty member to be named to the now-complete list of scientist-inventors

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 18d

Celebrating Richard Flagan's 50 years of service to @caltech.edu! Rick arrived in 1975 intending to study combustion chemistry and ended up playing an enormously influential role in developing new instrumentation to quantify atmospheric aerosol and helping to mitigate air pollution in LA and beyond.

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Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering @caltechcce.bsky.social · 19d

The American Chemical Society (@acs.org) has recognized 2 graduate students & 1 postdoc from CCE for their outstanding contributions to mentoring, inclusion, and research safety.

Congrats to Chuqi Lu, Camila Suarez and Jacob Rothbaum on this honor! 🎉

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Caltech Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholar Recognized by the American Chemical Society for Outstanding Leadership

Caltech's Chuqi Lu, Camila Suarez, and Jacob Rothbaum were recognized by the American Chemical Society for excellence in mentoring, inclusion, and research safety through the ACS Graduate Student and ...

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Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering @caltechcce.bsky.social · 27d

Alumni Spotlight: Neil Garg (PhD ’05)
In this Caltech Heritage Project interview, Neil Garg shares his journey from his graduate experience in the early days of the Stoltz lab to becoming a pioneering educator, startup founder, and faculty leader at UCLA.
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Neil Garg, Organic Chemist, Author, Startup Innovator, and Educational Leader

An oral history with CCE alumnus Neil Garg

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Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering @caltechcce.bsky.social · Sep 4

Meet Allen Lee, our newest Facilities and Stockroom Manager!

Allen brings 29 yrs of experience as Lab Manager in the Rees Lab. His deep knowledge of Caltech’s systems and his collaborative approach will be invaluable during this transition. He will be working alongside Joe Drew through Jan. 2026.

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Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering @caltechcce.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Shan lab reveal that up to 20% of mitochondrial proteins begin entering the powerhouse of the cell while still being made—a process called cotranslational import. This discovery reshapes understanding of protein delivery & opens doors to therapeutic strategies. cce.caltech.edu/news-and-eve...

Caltech Biochemists Uncover New Rules of Mitochondrial Protein Import

Scientists in the lab of Shu-ou Shan have revised a long-standing biochemical model of protein delivery to the powerhouses of the cell

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Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering @caltechcce.bsky.social · Sep 2

Please join us in welcoming our newest Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Johannes Morstein!

Johannes grew up in Rysum and Bremen, Germany. His group is working on Lipid and Membrane Chemical Biology.

Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering @caltechcce.bsky.social · Aug 28

📸 A few gems from our archives—recognize any faces?

These lab photos look back at the moments that helped build the foundation of where we are today. #ThrowbackThursday

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Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering @caltechcce.bsky.social · Aug 22

Congrats to our faculty members who have been recognized with ACS 2026 National Awards!

🔶 Jonas Peters: ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry
🔷 Garnet Chan: ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry
🔶 Greg Fu: Arthur C. Cope Award
🔷 Brian Stoltz: Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products

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Dmitry Eremin @dmeremin.bsky.social · Aug 21

Had a pleasure introducing REyes, a fully autonomous, open-source electron diffraction suite at #ACSFall2025. Many thanks to the organizers @olexandr.bsky.social and #CASFutureLeaders for the opportunity
#ReciprocalEyes #chrmsky @caltechcce.bsky.social @hoseanelson.bsky.social @nsf-ccas.bsky.social

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Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering @caltechcce.bsky.social · Aug 20

Last Friday, the Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Council hosted its 2nd Annual ChE Carnival. Students gathered in Tournament Park to play games, tie-dye shirts and even grilled up tasty hot dogs and burgers. We can't wait for the next one!

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Jamie Cadge @jamiecadge.bsky.social · Aug 15

Some work from my postdoc in collaboration with the Reisman lab is now out in JACS! We developed Ni-catalyzed [2+2+2] homo-Diels–Alder cycloadditions guided by data science, which gives access to some really cool-looking molecules! doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

A Data Science-Guided Approach for the Development of Nickel-Catalyzed Homo-Diels–Alder Reactions

The Ni-catalyzed homo-Diels–Alder (hDA) reaction represents a convergent but under-investigated approach to preparing bridged bicyclic ring systems. Using the kraken monophosphine descriptor library, ...

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Johannes Morstein @morstein.bsky.social · Aug 14

Excited to share our new @pubs.acs.org paper! We engineered cells with ~10% photolipids in the ER membrane. This enabled optical control of membrane viscosity to study its impact on ER→Golgi protein transport. @dirktrauner.bsky.social @noemijimenezrojo.bsky.social

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Optical Control of Membrane Viscosity Modulates ER-to-Golgi Trafficking

The lipid composition of cellular membranes is highly dynamic and undergoes continuous remodeling, affecting the biophysical properties critical to biological function. Here, we introduce an optical a...

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Frances Arnold @francesarnold.bsky.social · Aug 10

On the beautiful @Caltech campus with two new professors @reisenbauerlab.bsky.social and @arianemora.bsky.social headed to start their careers in Vienna. Prospective graduate students take note! This is the future of #enzymes #proteinengineering. @caltechcce.bsky.social @caltech.edu

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Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering @caltechcce.bsky.social · Jul 30

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Doug Rees as the new Executive Officer for Biochemistry and Karthish Manthiram as the new Executive Officer for Chemical Engineering.

We also extend our heartfelt gratitude to Shu-ou Shan and Zhen-Gang Wang for their outstanding service in this role.

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Dmitry Eremin @dmeremin.bsky.social · Jul 30

Check out the stunning cover featuring recent paper from @hoseanelson.bsky.social Lab, led by our one and only @daverdude.bsky.social! He discovered an entire class of natural products using microED powered by arrayED

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Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) @jacs.acspublications.org · Jul 30

On the front cover of this week's issue: "Microcrystal Electron Diffraction-Guided Discovery of Fungal Metabolites"

Read it here 🔗: buff.ly/F6E8Ygs

#ChemSky #JACS

JACS Front Cover - Week of July 28, 2025

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Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering @caltechcce.bsky.social · Jul 25

#FlashbackFriday to May's Spring into STEM event, hosted by Caltech Women in Chemistry! Girl Scouts gathered on the Beckman Mall to participate in science demonstrations & lab tours organized by CCE students, such as the Caltech Chemistry Club, along with other academic divisions.

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Frances Arnold @francesarnold.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'm really proud of this work by Jae Kennemur and Yueming Long. #Enzymes rock, with some help from #directed evolution to do chemistry not known in nature (and really hard for humans, too). @caltechcce.bsky.social
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Enzymatic Stereodivergent Synthesis of Azaspiro[2.y]alkanes

Azaspiro[2.y]alkanes are increasingly valuable scaffolds in pharmaceutical drug discovery; however, an asymmetric catalytic method for their synthesis remains unknown. Here, we present a stereodiverge...

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Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering @caltechcce.bsky.social · Jul 21

Happy 102nd Birthday to Nobel Laureate and the John G. Kirkwood & Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry, Rudy Marcus!

Today, we celebrate a renowned figure in theoretical chemistry — and the Inaugural Meeting of the Marcus Center for Theoretical Chemistry in his honor.

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Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering @caltechcce.bsky.social · Jul 21

Alumnus Zhuoran Qiao (PhD '23) received the grand prize of the inaugural Chen Institute and SciencePrize for AI Accelerated Research for his innovative usage of artificial intelligence technology to accelerate scientific discovery in biochemistry.

Congrats, Zhuoran!

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Two Alumni Honored with Prizes for Innovative Usage of AI

Two Caltech alumni are honored with the first annual Chen Institute and Science Prize for AI Accelerated Research.

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Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering @caltechcce.bsky.social · Jul 18

Happy Friday! We’re wrapping up the week with a poster session from today's Frontiers in Experimental Physical Chemistry Symposium.

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Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering @caltechcce.bsky.social · Jul 14

The James LuValle Award recognizes outstanding service in fostering inclusivity and advancing community within CCE.

This year, we honor 3 exceptional individuals whose dedication has made a lasting impact on our division:

🔸 Emily Chen
🔹 Dennis Ko
🔸 Jordan Thompson

Congrats to our 2025 recipients!

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Caltech @caltech.edu · Jul 7

Over the last five years, Hoelz, Friedman, and other scientists in the field have identified a gene that makes people more susceptible to hearing loss and started exploring ways to strengthen the inner ear hair cells to protect hearing.

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Novel Approaches for Protecting the Inner Ear from Hearing Loss

Andre Hoelz and Rick Friedman, the skull base surgeon who operated on Hoelz's auditory nerve, have received a Curebound grant to pioneer new ways of protecting the inner ear against hearing loss.

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