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"