Previous Halocarbon Lectures

2025-2026 Named lectures were presented as seminar series

Nikhil Malvankar, Yale    

• September 29, 2025: Single-Cell Imaging & Control of Microbial Metabolism via Protein Nanowires

Bil Clemons, Caltech   

• October 6, 2025: Killing bacteria by leveraging phage-derived peptide antibiotics
   

Fall 2024

Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Genome Mining for New Natural Products and New Chemistry

Spring 2022

Thomas Ward, University of Basel, Switzerland

• Artificial Metalloenzymes for in vivo Catalysis: Challenges and Opportunities

Spring 2019

Barbara Imperiali, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Protein Glycosylation in Human Pathogens: Pathways and Processes

Spring 2018

David Liu, Harvard University

• February 22: Base Editing: Chemistry on a Target Nucleotide in the Genome of Living Cells

Spring 2017

Carolyn Bertozzi, Stanford University

• June 2: Chemical Approach to New TB Diagnostics

Spring 2016

Chuan He, University of Chicago

• March 10: RNA Methylation in Gene Expression Regulation

Fall 2015

Ben Cravatt, Scripps Research Institute

Spring 2014

Tom Muir, Princeton University

Spring 2013

J. Clark Lagarias, University of California, Davis

Fall 2012

Jay Keasling, University of California, Berkeley

Spring 2011

Kevan Shokat, University of California, San Francisco

• March 2: Chemical Genetics