Organic Seminars Fall 2009
TUESDAYS:
ROOM 1315 CHEMISTRY AT 3:30 PM
THURSDAYS:
ROOM 1315 CHEMISTRY AT 11:00 AM
AUGUST
2009
21 (F)
- Organic
Faculty Research Presentations - 2009
Presentations
in Room 1315
ALL
1st YEAR
ORGANIC STUDENTS MUST ATTEND
1:30 PM
1:55 PM
24 (M)
- Organic
Faculty Research Presentations - 2009
Presentations
in Room 1315
ALL
1st YEAR
ORGANIC STUDENTS MUST ATTEND
6:00 Pizza Room 9341 Chemistry
6:30 PM Prof. Robert McMahon
6:55 PM Prof. Helen Blackwell
7:35 PM Prof. Tehshik Yoon
SEPTEMBER
2009
2 (W)
- (Instruction
Begins)
3 (R) - Professor Eric Strieter,
University of Wisconsin-Madsion, "Understanding how Secondary
Metabolites Program Protein Degradation"
10 (R) - Professor Jennifer Schomaker,
University of
Wisconsin-Madison, "Catalytic Activation and Transformations of Small
Molecules"
22 (T) – Professor Paul
Hergenrother, University of
Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, hosted by Prof. Helen Blackwell, "Direct
Procaspase-3 Activation as an Anti-Cancer Strategy: Compound
Discovery, Mechanism of Action, and a Phase I Canine Clinical Trial"
OCTOBER 2009
1 (R) - Professor Albrecht Berkessel, Kohn
University, Germany, hosted by Prof. Hans Reich "Asymmetric
(Organo)Catalysis by Hydrogen Bonding Networks"
6 (T) - Professor Douglass A.
Klumpp, Northern Illinois University, hosted by Prof. Bob McMahon "New
Chemistry with Superelectrophiles"
8 (R) - Joseph Grim
(Kiessling Group) "Macrocyclization via Ruthenium-Catalyzed
Ring-Closing Metathesis: Strategies and Limitations"
15 (R) - Teresa Berry
(Blackwell Group) "Inhibiting the World's Deadliest Toxin"
20 (T) - Professor Ben King, University of
Nevado,
Reno, hosted by Prof. Bob McMahon, "New Circulenes: Quadrannulene
(Like Corannulene but Smaller) to Septuléne (Like Kekuléne but
Bigger)
22 (R) - Alex
Nolan (McMahon Group) "Coordination
Chemistry at Carbon: Bent Electron Rich Allenes and
Carbodiphosphoranes-Divalent Carbon(0) Compounds"
29 (R) - Professor
Albert Padwa, Emory, hosted by
Prof.
Howard Zimmerman, Use of Sulfur Fragments for the Synthesis of Nitrogen
Heterocycles"
NOVEMBER
2009
3 (T) - Professor Tim Jamison, MIT, hosted by
Prof. Jennifer Schomaker, "Epoxide-Opening Cascades"
5 (R) - McElvain Lecture presented by
Professor Ronald Breslow, Columbia University, hosted by Organic
Graduate Students, "The Origin of Homochirality on Prebiotic Earth"
12 (R) - Joseph Gerdt (Blackwell Group)
"Atropisomerism in Biaryl-containing Natural Products"
19 (R) - Aaron McCoy (Mecozzi Group) "Light Fluorous
Methods in Organic Synthesis"
26 (R) - (Thanksgiving Recess)
DECEMBER 2009
8 (T) - Professor Jennifer
Kohler, University
of Texas-Southwestern, hosted by Prof. Eric Strieter "Capturing
Glycoconjugate Interactions with Metabolically Incorporated
Photocrosslingking Sugars"
10 (R) - Dongxu Shu (Tang Group)
17 (R) - Final Exams Begin