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Toshio Tsukiyama

I discovered an ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling reaction as a post-doctoral fellow in Carl Wu's lab. Since then, I have been investigating the mechanisms and functions of chromatin regulation. In my own lab, using S. cerevisiae as a model organism, we initially focused on how ATP- dependent chromatin remodeling factors control mRNA and long non-coding RNA transcription. Through these studies, we became increasingly interested in two areas: (1) How does chromatin regulation affect various DNA-dependent processes in the context of cell division and cell-cycle control? (2) How is chromatin...Read more

How Can Nuclear Energy Help Fight Climate Change?

June 26, 2021
Wednesday, August 25, 2021,
9:00pm to 10:00pm
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How Can Nuclear Energy Help Fight Climate Change? Nuclear energy has looked about the same for the last 60 years. Now, startups and the innovation arms of larger companies are looking to deploy new kinds of reactors in the 2030 timeframe. What's different about those technologies? How do they fit...Read more

Newsletters: June 2021

June 26, 2021
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Eugene Y.-X. Chen

Eugene Y.-X. Chen, PhD, is a University Distinguished Professor, the John K. Stille Endowed Chair in Chemistry, and the Millennial Professor of Polymer Science and Sustainability at Colorado State Univ. (Email: eugene.chen@colostate.edu, Website: www.thechengroupatcsu.org). His research focuses on polymer science, green chemistry, and homogenous catalysis. Chen was awarded the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in 2015 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Arthur Cope Mid-...Read more

John E. McGeehan

John E. McGeehan, PhD, is a professor of structural biology and the Director of the Centre for Enzyme Innovation at the Univ. of Portsmouth, U.K. (Email: john.mcgeehan@port.ac.uk, Website: www.port.ac.uk/cei). His research focuses on structural biology and biophysics and enzyme characterization and engineering. In 2019, he won the Times Higher STEM Research Project of the Year award. McGeehan has a BS in microbiology and PhD in virology. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal...Read more

Julie Rorrer

Julie Rorrer, PhD, is an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Fellow of the Communication Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Email: jrorrer@mit.edu). Her research focuses on the heterogeneous catalytic upcycling of waste plastics and sustainable feedstocks. Rorrer has a BS in chemical engineering from Arizona State Univ. and a PhD in chemical engineering from the Univ. of California, Berkeley, where she was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow. She is also the founder of the ongoing outreach...Read more

Michelle Reed

Michelle Reed is a project manager at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for the BOTTLE Consortium (Email: michelle.reed@nrel.gov, Website: www.nrel.gov/research/staff/michelle-reed.html). Prior to this role, she was a research technician at NREL. Reed conducted research on biomass conversion processes and has published several articles in the field. She has a BS in chemistry from Adams State Univ.Read more

Robert M. Baldwin

Robert M. Baldwin, PhD, is a principal scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), where he co-leads industrial engagement for the BOTTLE Consortium (Email: robert.baldwin@nrel.gov). He also directs program and business development activities for the Bioenergy Science and Technology Directorate. Prior to NREL, Baldwin was a professor of chemical engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and a founder of the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi. He has a PhD in chemical engineering from Colorado School of Mines.Read more

Robert D. Allen

Robert D. Allen, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) (Email: robert.allen@nrel.gov, Website: www.nrel.gov/research/staff/robert-allen.html). Prior to this role, he was Department Head of Polymer Science & Technology at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, where he spent 35 years as an industrial polymer chemist and research leader. Allen has a PhD in polymer chemistry from Virginia Tech and is a member of the National...Read more

MAC’s 2020 Scholars Share their Experience

June 25, 2021

This year’s deadline for the Minority Affairs Committee scholarships is fast approaching – July 15th. These prestigious scholarships are funded by the Foundation’s Henry T. and Melinda C. Brown Endowment for the Education of Underrepresented Minority Chemical Engineers.

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