Organic Seminars Fall 2007

TUESDAYS:  ROOM 1315 CHEMISTRY AT 3:30 PM 
THURSDAYS:  ROOM 1315 CHEMISTRY AT 11:00 AM

AUGUST 2007
27 (M) -  Organic Faculty Research Presentations - 2007
Presentations in Room 1315
ALL 1st YEAR ORGANIC STUDENTS MUST ATTEND
                  6:00 Pizza Room 9341 Chemistry
                  6:30 PM  Prof. Silvia Cavagnero
                  6:55 PM  Prof. Robert McMahon
                  7:35 PM  Prof. Shannon Stahl
                  8:00 PM  Prof. Sandro Mecozzi
28 (T) -  Organic Faculty Research Presentations - 2007
Presentations in Room 1315
ALL 1st YEAR ORGANIC STUDENTS MUST ATTEND
                  6:30 PM  Prof. Helen Blackwell
                  6:55 PM  Prof. Richard Hsung
                  7:35 PM  Prof. Mahesh Mahanthappa
                  8:00 PM  Prof. David Lynn
 29 (W) -  Organic Faculty Research Presentations - 2007
Presentations in Room 1315
ALL 1st YEAR ORGANIC STUDENTS MUST ATTEND
                  6:30 PM  Prof. Padma Gopalan
                  6:55 PM  Prof. Steve Burke
                  7:35 PM  Prof. Samuel Gellman
                  8:00 PM  Prof. John Berry
SEPTEMBER  2007
   03 (M) - Labor Day
   04 (T) -  Prof. Lutz Ackermann, University of Goettingen, Germany (Host Stahl) "Efficient Metal-Catalyzed C-C and C-N Bond Forming Reactions"
04 (T) -  Organic Faculty Research Presentations - 2007
Presentations in Room 1315
ALL 1st YEAR ORGANIC STUDENTS MUST ATTEND
6:30 PM  Prof. Tehshik Yoon
                  6:55 PM  Prof. Laura Kiessling
                  7:35 PM  Prof. Ron Raines
                  8:00 PM  Prof. Clark Landis
   06 (R) -  Lauren Boyle, Burke Group, "The Antimalarial Drug Artemisinin:  Insight to its Mode of Action"
   06 (R) -  Prof. Zhangjie Shi, Peking University (Host Stahl) "Recent Advances on Pd-Catalyzed Arylation via C-H Activations"
   13 (R) -  Prof. Olafs Daugulis, University of Houston (Host Reich) "Regioselective Functionalization of Unreactive C-H Bonds"
   13 (R) -  Charles Allen,  Yoon Group "Recent Advances in the Nazarov Cyclization: Catalytic and Asymmetric Methods"
   18 (T) -  Prof. Jef De Brabander, University of Texas Medical Center (Host Burke) "Natural Products: Opportunities for Discovery"
   25 (T) -   Prof. Jeffrey Hartgerink, Rice University (Host Gellman) "Peptide Self-Assembly:  Collagen Triple Helices and Beta- Sheet Nanofibers"
   27 (R) -   Nicola Burrmann, McMahon Group "Tubing Through the Nano World: Nanotube Functionalization and Practical Applications"
OCTOBER  2007
   02 (T) -   Prof. Robert Williams, Colorado State (Host Burke) "Harnessing Total Syntheses of Natural Products to Probe Their Biosynthesis"
   04 (R) -  Dr. Gui-Bai Liang, Merck (Host Gellman) "Diabetes, Januvia and Beyond - Medicinal Chemistry of DPP-4 Inhibitor"
   09 (T) -  Prof. Jeffrey Kelly, Scripps Research Institute (Host Gellman) "Restoring Protein Homeostasis as a Strategy to Ameliorate Human Disease"
   11 (R) -  Ram Neupane, Landis Group "Biomass as Feedstock for Fuel and Value Added Chemicals"
   16 (T) -  Prof. Justin Gallivan, Emory (Host Blackwell) "Reprogramming Bacteria with Small Molecules and RNA"
   18 (R) -  Christopher Shaffer, McMahon Group "The Benefits of Thinking Inside teh Box: Metal Organic Frameworks in Catalysis"
   23 (T) -   Prof. Kent Kirshenbaum, New York University (Host Gellman) "Developing Structure/Function Relationships in Biomimetic Polymers"
   25 (R) -  Nickeisha Stephenson, Stahl/Gellman Group "Carbon Dioxide as a Building Block for Organic Molecules"
   30 (T) -  Prof. Mo Movassaghi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Host Yoon) "Cascade Reactions in Complex Alkaloid Total Synthesis"

NOVEMBER 2007
   01 (R) -  Roberto Risi, Burke Group "Asymmetric Michael Additions: Organocatalysis Advancing the Frontier"
   06 (T) -  Reserved for Faculty Recruiting
   08 (R) -  Reserved for Faculty Recruiting
   13 (T) -  Prof. Ross Weatherman, Purdue University (Host Kiessling) (cancelled)
   15 (R) -  Margaret Wong, Kiessling Group "Design and Synthesis of Five-Membered Azasugars for Glycosidase Inhibition"
   20 (T) -  Reserved for Faculty Recruiting
   22 (R) -  THANKSGIVING
   27 (T) -  Reserved for Faculty Recruiting
   29 (R) -  Sayani Chattopadhyay, Raines Group "Protein-Polymer Conjugates"

DECEMBER 2007
   04 (T) -  Prof. Helen Blackwell "Translating and Expanding the Language of Bacterial Communication Using Synthetic Ligands"
   06 (R) -  Michael Giuliano, Gellman Group "Synthesis and Immunological Application of HIV and Tumor-Associated Carbohydrate Antigens"
   11 (T) -  Reserved for Faculty Recruiting
   14 (F) -  LAST CLASS DAY
   16 (S) -  22 (S)  FINAL EXAMS