Winter 2005/06: 294 - Organic Chemistry Seminar

All Seminars will be in Pacific Hall 3500 unless noted otherwise.

Seminars start at 4:00pm

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Jan 9: Professor Ardem Patapoutian, Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute and GNF, "Cold, Hot, Mint, and Garlic: TRP Ion Channels as Polymodal Sensors of Temperature and Botanical Compounds"

Jan 16: Professor Shahriar Mobashery, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, IN, "Bacterial Cell Wall, the Ribosome, and Antibiotics"

Jan 23: Seminar at 2:00pm: Professor Peter Seeberger, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, "Of the Chemistry and Biology of Carbohydrates: Automated Synthesis, Glycomics Tools and a Malaria Vaccine"

Jan 30: 2006 Murray Goodman Endowed Lectureship

Liebow Auditorium, School of Medicine, 4:00 pm

Professor Daniel H. Rich, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, "Expect the Unexpected: Serendipity of Rational Drug Design"

Feb 6: Professor William Scott, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, "RNA Genomes and Their Structures"

Feb 13: no seminar

Feb 20: Professor John C. Vederas, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada "Mechanism of Diaminopimelate and Lysine Formation: An Antimicrobial Target in Bacteria and a Puzzle in Plants"

Mar 6: Professor Kay Brummond, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, PA, "Catalytic Decision Points and Skeletal Diversity"

Mar 13: Joint Seminar with Inorganic Chemistry: Professor Stephen A. Miller, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, "Sterically Expanded Transition Metal Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization"

Mar 20: Professor Ram Krishnamurthy, Eschenmoser Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, "Triazine Heterocycles in the Search for Informational Oligomer Systems"

Feb 27: no seminar

Jan 17: Special Seminar at 1:30pm: Professor Andrew Phillips, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, "Chemical Synthesis of Cytotoxic Natural Products: The Interplay of new Reactions and Strategies"