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Fall 2009 Colloquia and Frontiers in Chemistry* Lectures

4:30 pm, Goodyear Lecture Hall - Clapp Hall, Room 108
Visitors are welcome for coffee at 4:15

Date (all Thursdays) Title Speaker
August 27
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
"Gilded Organometallics"
Host: Professor Mary Barkley
Thomas Gray
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
September 3
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
"Catalytic Asymmetric Oxidative Naphthol Coupling and Claisen Rearrangement Reactions"
Host: Professor Anthony Pearson
Marisa C. Kozlowski
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September 10
    Flyer (PDF)
Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
"Activity-Based Proteomics: Applications for Enzyme and Inhibitor Discovery"
Host: Professor Greg Tochtrop
Benjamin F. Cravatt
Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
La Jolla, California
September 17
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
"Understanding and Controlling RNA-Protein Recognition"
Host: Professor Irene Lee
Anne M. Baranger
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Urbana, Illinois
September 24
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
"O2 Generation via a Newly Evolved Heme Enzyme"
Host: Professor Irene Lee
Jennifer DuBois
Universite of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana
October 1
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
"Why the Iron- and Alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Aliphatic Halogenases Are Not Hydroxylases"
Host: Professor Irene Lee
J. Martin Bollinger, Jr.
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
October 8
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
"Examining Structural Changes in Proteins at High Resolution to Understand Stability and Stabilization"
Host: Professor Michael Zagorski
Jennifer S. Laurence
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
October 15
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:

"Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Mechanism-based Inhibitors of Beta-Lactamase"
Host: Professor Anthony Pearson

John D. Buynak
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas
October 22
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
"Integrating Creativity and Innovation in the Discovery and Development of Potential New Medicines"
Host: Professor Robert Salomon
Michael Jirousek
Catabasis Pharmaceuticals
Cambridge, Massachusetts
October 29
    Flyer (PDF)
Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
"DNA Replication: The Coordination of Leading / Lagging Strand Synthesis"
Host: Professor Irene Lee
Sponsored by Berdis and Lee
Stephen J. Benkovic
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
November 5
    Flyer (PDF)
Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
"Bridged Polycyclic Natural Products: Inspirational Targets for Total Synthesis"
Host: Professor Rajesh Viswanathan
Sponsored by Innovation Chemical Technologies
John L. Wood
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado
November 12
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
"The Catalytic and Evolutionary Origins of Triterpenoid Skeletal Diversity"
Host: Professor Gregory Tochtrop
Seiichi P.T. Matsuda
Rice University
Houston, Texas
November 19
    Flyer (PDF)
Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
"Lessons from Bugs"
Host: Professor Rajesh Viswanathan
Sponsored by Bridgestone-Firestone and Case Western Reserve University
Jon Clardy
Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
December 3
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
"Autism, Oxidative Stress, and Epigenetics"
Host: Professor Robert Salomon
William Walsh
Walsh Research Institute
Naperville, Illinois

* The Frontiers in Chemistry brochure is available to download as PDF. Adobe Acrobat software is required. It is designed for print on legal size (8.5"x14") paper.