Organic Seminars Spring 2008

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

JANUARY 2008
   18 (F) -  Prof. Gregory C. Fu, MIT, McElvain Seminar (Partridge and Huffman co-hosts) "Palladium- and Nickel-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions"
   22 (T) -  (Instruction Begins )
   24 (R) -  Christine McInnis, Blackwell Group "Microencapsulation: It's What's Outside That Counts"
   31 (R) -  Michael Ischay, Yoon Group "Haouamines: Bending the Rules of Aromaticity"

FEBRUARY 2008
   07(R) -   Corinne Lipscomb, Mahanthappa "Progress Toward New Heterocycle Containing Proton Exchange Membranes"
   11 (M) -   Prof. Timothy Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Merck Lecture Series (Host McMahon) "Polymer Electronics for Ultra-Sensitive Chemical Sensors"
   12 (T) -   Prof. Timothy Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Merck Lecture Series (Host McMahon) "Iptycenes: Privileged Structures for the Design of New Materials"
   14 (R) -  Shane Mangold, Kiessling Group "Recent Advances in Copper Catalyzed Azide//Alkyne Cycloadditions: Prototypical "Click" Reactions"
   26 (T) -  Prof. Tom Rovis, University of Colorado (Host Stahl) "Catalytic Asymmetric C-C and C-N Bond-Forming Reactions"
   28 (R) - Mary Anzovino, Yoon Group "Epoxide-Opening Cascades in the Synthesis of Ladder Polyether Natural Products"

MARCH 2008
   13 (R) -   Jay Steinkruger, Gellman Group "Minimalist Enzymatic Active-Site Redesign"
   15 - 23    Spring Recess
   25 (T) -   Prof. Lara Mahal, University of Texas at Austin "Analyzing the Dynamic Glycome: What Glycomics Can Tell us About  HIV-1" (Host Kiessling)

APRIL 2008
   03 (R) -  Emily Blamer, Stahl/Gellman Group "Metal-Catalyzed-Multicomponent Reactions"
   06 - 10 - AC Meeting New Orleans, LA
   15 (T)  - Carolyn Bertozzi, UC Berkeley, Hirschmann Lecture Series (Host Blackwell) "Chemistry in Living Systems:  Shedding Light on Glycans"
   16 (W) - Carolyn Bertozzi, UC Berkeley, Hirschmann Lecture Series (Host Blackwell) "Engineering Biological/Nanomaterial Interfaces: Highlights of Research at the Molecular Foundry"
   17 (R) -  Brooke Richardson, Gellman Group "Ribozyme Catalysis"
   22 (T) -  Dr. Ann Weber, Merck, McElvain Seminar, "Design and synthesis of selective DPP-4 inhibitors:  Discovery of JANUVIA (sitagliptin), a new treatment for type 2 diabetes" (Hosts Lauren Huffman and Katie Partridge)
   24 (R) -  Reto Frei, Blackwell Group "Preparation and Application of Highly Functionalized Organomagnesium Reagents"
   29 (T) -  Prof. Cynthia Burrows, University of Utah, (Host McMahon) "Guanine Oxidation Leading to Hydantions: Bioorganic Mechanisms and Implications for Evolution"

MAY 2008
   01 (R) -   Prof. Richard Givens, The University of Kansas (Host Zimmerman) "The Photo-Favorskii Rearrangement: Mechanistic Investigation and Applications in Neurobiology"
   08 (R) -   Aimon Tongpenyai, Kiessling Group "Development of FRET Probes for the Study of Macromolecular Interactions"