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

  25 (T) -  Organic Faculty Research Presentations - 2009
                 
Presentations in Room 1315
                  ALL 1st YEAR ORGANIC STUDENTS MUST ATTEND

                  6:00 Dinner Room 9341 Chemistry
                  6:30 PM  Prof. Mahesh Mahanthappa

                  6:55 PM  Prof. Shannon Stahl
                  7:35 PM  Prof. Clark Landis
                  8:00 PM  Prof. David Lynn
 26 (W) -  Organic Faculty Research Presentations - 2009
                 
Presentations in Room 1315
                  ALL 1st YEAR ORGANIC STUDENTS MUST ATTEND

                  6:00 Dinner Room 9341 Chemistry
                  6:30 PM  Prof. Sam Gellman

                  6:55 PM  Prof. Richard Hsung
                  7:35 PM  Prof. Eric Strieter
                  8:00 PM  Prof. Jennifer Schomaker
31 (M) -  Organic Faculty Research Presentations - 2009
                 
Presentations in Room 1315
                  ALL 1st YEAR ORGANIC STUDENTS MUST ATTEND

                  6:00 Dinner Room 9341 Chemistry
                  6:30 PM  Prof. Sandro Mecozzi

                  6:55 PM  Prof. Silvia Cavagnero
                  7:35 PM  Prof. Steve Burke
    

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 Septul
éne (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