Schedule

Fall Semester 2006

"Every other" Friday, 1:00 PM, Room 9341 Chemistry (Chemistry Lounge)

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Date Speaker Group Title

Spring Semester 2007

 
Feb 9 Rob Zambias Fisher/ACROS Palladium Assisted Coupling Reactions
Feb 23 Andrew Dilger Burke Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of (-)-Dictyostatin and 16-Normethyldictyostatin
Mar 23 Matt Dodge Burke Application of Pd(0)-Mediated Asymmetric Double Cycloetherification to the Total Synthesis of Annonaceous Acetogenin Natural Products
Apr 13 Will Pomerantz Gellman

New Strategies in Molecular Self-Assembly: Lyotropic Liquid Crystals from Designed Helical b-Peptides

Apr 20 Erik Hadley Gellman  
May 4 Laura Wysocki Burke  

Fall Semester 2006 [Top]

Sep 29 Vicki Wilde Burke Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of the Bryostatin Macrocycle: Emphasis on the Southern Fragment
Oct 20 Aleksey Gerasyuto Hsung Application of Intramolecular Aza-[3 + 3] Annulation to Syntheses of Coccinellidae Defensive Alkaloids
Oct 27 Grant Geske Blackwell Communication Breakdown: Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Synthetic Modulators of Bacterial Cell-Cell Communication
Dec 1 Luke Lavis Raines Teaching old dyes new tricks: Fluorogenic labels based on rhodamine and fluorescein
Dec 8 Ben Gorske Blackwell Expanding Peptoid Architecture Using Tunable Noncovalent Interactions
  Andrew Dilger Burke Toward the Synthesis of (-)-Dictyostatin and 16-Normethyldictyostatin

Spring Semester 2006 [Top]

Feb 24 Yi Jin Kim Lee

New Strategies for Tandem Ring-Closing Metathesis and Applications Toward the Total Synthesis of Tartrolon B

Mar 31 Christopher Marvin Burke Acetalization/Ring-Closing Metathesis for Synthesis of Tetrahydropyran-Containing Natural Products
April 7 Robin Chi Gellman Organocatalytic Michael Reactions, Mannich Reactions and Application of Mannich Reactions in the Concise Synthesis of β2-Amino Acids
April 21 Rob Zambias Fisher/ACROS Bioisosteres in Medicinal Chemistry
April 28 Emily Dykhuizen Kiessling Synthesis of an Aminothiazole Library as Inhibitors of NDP-sugar Utilizing Enzymes

Fall Semester 2005 [Top]

Sep 23 Grant Geske Blackwell Disrupting Dialog: Inhibition of Bacterial Cell-Cell Communication
Oct 7 Sharon Beetner Casey The Kinetics of Catalytic Hydrogenation of Aldehydes with a Triphenlyphosphine Substituted Analogue of the Shvo Catalyst
Oct 21 Sarah Maifeld Lee Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Guanacastepene A
Nov 4 Emily Payne English Gellman

Beta-Peptides as Inhibitors of Human Cytomegalovirus Virus-Cell Fusion

Nov 18 Dr. Roger Newton

Guest Speaker - Fisher

Heterocyclic Chemistry and Drug Discovery
Dec 2 Michelle Monnens Rogers Stahl

Palladium(II) Complexes BearingN-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands as Effective Catalysts for Intramolecular Aerobic Oxidative Amination

Spring Semester 2005 [Top]

May 6 Rob Zambias Fisher/ACROS Metal Catalysts: Carbon-Carbon Coupling Reactions
April 29 Justin K. Murray Gellman Efficient Synthesis of b-Peptide Combinatorial Libraries Using Microwave Irradiation
April 15 Matthew B. Soellner Raines Protein Assembly and Immobilization by Staudinger Ligation
April 1 Sannali Matheson Markley Investigation of the Role of the N- and C-Termini in the Sweetness of Brazzein
March 4 Erin McElroy Kiessling Multivalent Ligands for Intracellular Targets
Feb 18 Brian Lucas Burke Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Phorboxazoles A and B
Feb 4 Susan E. Przybylinski McMahon The Photochemistry of Diazopropene at 10K:  Identifying Intermediates in C3H4 Rearrangements

Fall Semester 2004 [Top]

Dec 3 Jack Sadowsky Gellman Inhibition of Protein-Protein Interactions with Rationally Designed Beta-Peptide Foldamers
Oct 29 Neil Strotman Casey Stereochemistry of Cyclopropane Formation Involving Group (IV) Organometallic Complexes
Oct 15 Amanda Jones Reich A Rapid Injection NMR Study of n-Butyllithium Reactivity
Oct 1 Eric Hansen Lee Macrocyclic Ring Closing Enyne Metathesis
Sept 17 Ratmir Derda Kiessling Bringing Stem Cells to the Golden Interface

Spring Semester 2004 [Top]

May 28 Jason Pontrello Kiessling Extending the Utility of Synthetic Multivalent Ligands Derived From the Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP): New Systems, New Synthetic Methods, Non-Sugar Ligands
Apr 23 Reagan Miller Lee 1. Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Ingenol.  2. Formation of Silyl Ethers and Their Use as Tethers in Enyne Metathesis Reactions
Apr 9 Yi He Kiessling Stereoselective N-Glycosylation using Staudinger Ligation
Mar 12 Stephanie Lyford Abbott Laboratories Successful Interviewing Skills
Feb 27 Meg Schmitt Gellman Helix Formation in alpha/beta-Peptide Oligomers
Feb 13 Matt Woll Gellman Peptide Backbone Thioester Exchange: A Novel Approach to Study Protein Structure

Fall Semester 2003 [Top]

Dec 5 Lisa Jungbauer Cavagnero Towards Understanding the Structural Basis of Cotranslational Protein Folding: Development of Novel Biophysical Approaches
Nov 14 Terra Potocky Gellman Cytoplasmic and Nuclear Delivery of Novel Beta-Peptides into Mammalian Cells
Oct 31 Erin Carlson Kiessling Chemical Probes of the Catalytic Mechanism of UDP-Galactopyranose Mutase
Oct 17 Chris Ciolli Belshaw Development of a Novel Safety-Catch Linker for the Solid-Phase Synthesis of Electrophiles
Sept 19 Matt Bowman Blackwell Microwave Parallel Synthesis of a Chalcone Library on Paper

Spring Semester 2003 [Top]

May 7 Shane Lamos Belshaw Development of Target Identification Probe (TIP) Reagents
Mar 26 Jon Lai Gellman Engineered Protegrin-1 Analogues for Structure-Activity Relationship Studies
Mar 5 Jeff Johnson Casey Mechanistic Studies on Ru(II) Hydrogenation Catalysts: “So we’ve determined the mechanism—now what?”
Feb 19 Dr. Jenny Xun Acros Organics Functionalized Silica Gels for Purification and Synthesis
Feb 5 Asgeir Konradsson Nelsen Excited State Potential Energy Surfaces of Mono- and Bis-Hydrazines, Similarities Between Oxidation States

Fall Semester 2002 [Top]

Dec 4 John Phillips Kiessling Progress Toward Selective Glycosyltransferase Inhibitors
Nov 13 Matt Bowman Blackwell Towards the Use of Cellulose as a General Support for Solid Phase Synthesis
Oct 30 Dr. Johan Ferreira Fisher Scientific From the Mundane to the Exotic - A Supplier's Perspective
Oct 16 Brad Nilsson Raines Peptide Assembly by the Staudinger Ligation
Oct 2 Dale Mowrey Lee Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Guanacastepene A
Sept 18 Val Keller Burke Efforts Towards the C20-C36 Segment of Halichondrin B

Summer Semester 2002 [Top]

Aug 7 Yi He Kiessling  
Jul 24 Chris Ciolli Belshaw The Development of a Safety-Catch Linker for the Release of Electrophiles
Jul 10 Matt Woll Gellman The Rational Design of gamma-Peptide Hairpins
Jun 26 Margaret Biddle Reich Studies on the Regioselectivity of alpha-Lithiated Nitrile Addition to alpha,beta-Unsaturated Carbonyl Systems
Jun 12 Jen Slaughter Mecozzi Design and Synthesis of Novel Artificial Receptors
May 29 Jason Pontrello Kiessling 1. Immobilization of Multivalent Ligands on Solid Phase.  2. Modulation of the B-cell Response with Multivalent Ligands
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