Seminars

Fall 2009

September

09/08 Lecture in Physical Chemistry
Professor Marek Wojcik, Jagiellonian University
"Dynamics of Protons in Hydrogen Bonds Studied by Theoretical Methods and Vibrational Spectroscopy"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
09/11 Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Professor James Prestegard, University of Georgia
"NMR Structures of ADP Ribosylation Factor: Insights into Vesicle Trafficking"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
09/15 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Peter Ford, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Polychromophoric Complexes for the Photochemical Delivery of Physiologically Active Agents"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
09/17 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Qing Lin, University of Buffalo, State University of New York
"Photoinducible Bioorthogonal Chemistry: A New Tool for Chemical Biology"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
09/22 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor T. Brent Gunnoe, University of Virginia
"Development of Homogenous Catalysts for the Hydroarylation of Olefins"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
09/29 William A. Chupka Lecture
Professor Daniel Neumark, University of California, Berkeley
"Slow Electron Velocity-Map Imaging of Negative Ions: Applications to Spectroscopy and Dynamics"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory

October

10/01 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Hanadi Sleiman, McGill University
"Supramolecular Chemistry with DNA"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
10/06 Wilbur Cross Award Seminar
Professor Laura Kiessling, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"The Chemistry of Carbohydrate Biosynthesis in Mycobacteria"
4:00 pm Room 110 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
10/13 Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Professor Robert Birge, University of Connecticut
"Protein-Based Volumetric Memories and Associative Processors. Optimization via Directed Evolution"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
10/14 Treat B. Johnson Lecture
Professor David MacMillan, Princeton University
"New Catalysis Concepts"
4:00 pm Room 110 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
10/16 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Albrecht Berkessel, University of Cologne
"Asymmetric Organocatalysis by Hydrogen Bonding Networks - Mechanisms, Applications, and Relations to Enzymatic Transformations"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
10/22 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Alejandro Vila, University of Rosario
"Catalytic Mechanism and Evolutionary Traits in Metallo-beta-lactamases: Does it take two to Tang?"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
10/27 Lecture in Physical Chemistry
Professor Jeff Reimer, University of California, Berkeley
"Electrons in Solids: Chemical Applications of Ultra Low Resolution NMR"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
10/29 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Scott Snyder, Columbia University
"Lessons in Chemoselectivity: Total Synthesis of Polyphenolic Natural Products"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory

November

11/02 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Benjamin List, Max Planck Institute
"A Small Molecule with a Big Impact: Inspirations from Proline Catalysis"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
11/03 Lecture in Physical Chemistry
Professor John Marohn, Cornell University
To Be Announced
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
11/09 Lecture in Chemical Biology
Professor Bradley Moore, University of California, San Diego
"Genomics-Inspired Discovery and Engineering of Natural Products"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
11/12 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley
"Strategies and Tactics Inspired by Complex Natural Products"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
11/17 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Shawn Burdette, University of Connecticut
"Development of Caged-Complexes for Studying Zn2+ Signaling and Homeostasis"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory

Spring 2010

January

01/12 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Gregory Girolami, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
To Be Announced
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
01/14 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Celia Schiffer, University of Massachusetts Medical School
To Be Announced
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
01/19 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Peng Chem, Cornell University
To Be Announced
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
01/22 CT Organic Symposium
Professor Jonathan Ellman, University of California, Berkeley
To Be Announced
Professor David Gin, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
To Be Announced
Professor Viresh Rawal, University of Chicago
To Be Announced
Dr. Ann Weber, Merck Research Laboratories
To Be Announced
1:00 - 5:00 pm New Haven Lawn Club
01/26 Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Professor Jay Ponder, Washington University School of Medicine
To Be Announced
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory

February

02/02 Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Professor David Eliezer, Weill Cornell Medical College
To Be Announced
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
02/03 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Bruce Arndtsen, McGill University
To Be Announced
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
02/04 Jerome A. Berson Lecture
Professor Jay Siegel, University of Zurich
To Be Announced
4:00 pm Room 110 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
02/09 Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Professor Tobias Baumgart, University of Pennsylvania
To Be Announced
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
02/11 Kenneth B. Wiberg Lecture
Professor Donald Truhlar, University of Minnesota
To Be Announced
4:00 pm Room 110 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
02/18 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Tristan H. Lambert, Columbia University
To Be Announced
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
02/26 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Don Coltart, Duke University
To Be Announced
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory

March

03/01 Lecture in Chemical Biology
Professor John Sutherland, The University of Manchester
"RNA: Prebiotic Product, or Biotic Invention?"
4:00 pm Room C-428 Sterling Hall of Medicine
03/02 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Michael Heinekey, University of Washington
To Be Announced
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
03/22 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Teshik Yoon, University of Wisconsin
To Be Announced
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
03/29 Lecture in Chemical Biology
Professor Benjamin Shen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Natural Product Biosynthesis: Inspiration for Novel Chemistry and Drug Discovery"
4:00 pm Room 305 Bass
03/29 Lecture in Chemical Biology
Professor Benjamin Shen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Natural Product Biosynthesis: Inspiration for Novel Chemistry and Drug Discovery"
4:00 pm Room C-428 Sterling Hall of Medicine
03/30 Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Professor Todd Holyoak, University of Kansas Medical Center
To Be Announced
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
03/31 Lecture in Chemical Biology
Professor Christian Hertweck, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research
"Exploring and Engineering Polyketide Diversity in Microorganisms"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory

April

04/01 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Christopher Vanderwal, University of California, Irvine
To Be Announced
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
04/06 Lecture in Physical Chemistry
Professor Niels Damrauel, University of Colorado, Boulder
To Be Announced
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
04/07 2010 Inorganic Student Colloquia
Professor David Milstein, Wiezmann Institute of Science
To Be Announced
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
04/08 2010 Biophysical Student Colloquia
Professor Thomas Cech, University of Colorado, Boulder
To Be Announced
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
04/09 Lecture in Chemical Biology
Professor David Sherman, University of Michigan
"Chemical Diversity and Metabolic Versatility in Microbial Natural Product Biosynthesis"
4:00 pm Room C-428 Sterling Hall of Medicine
04/13 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Maurice Brookhart, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
To Be Announced
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
04/14 Treat B. Johnson Lecture
Professor Jay Keasling, University of California, Berkeley
To Be Announced
4:00 pm Room 110 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
04/15 Lecture in Chemical Biology
Professor Rama Ranganathan, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
"The Evolutionary "design" of Proteins"
4:00 pm Room 305 Bass
04/20 Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Professor James Bowie, University of California, Los Angeles
To Be Announced
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
04/22 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Dewey McCafferty, Duke University
To Be Announced
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
04/27 Lecture in Physical Chemistry
Professor Prasad Polavarapu, Vanderbuilt University
To Be Announced
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
04/29 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Leslie Gunatilaka, The University of Arizona
To Be Announced
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory

May

05/03 Lecture in Physical Chemistry
Professor Peter Jepson, Technical University
To Be Announced
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
05/04 Lecture in Physical Chemistry
Professor Kit Bowen, Johns Hopkins University
To Be Announced
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
05/06 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Benjamin Cravatt, Scripps Research Institute
To Be Announced
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
05/11 Lecture in Chemical Biology
Professor Jason Chin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
"Reprogramming the Code of Life"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
05/14 Chemical Biology Symposium
Professor Sean Brady, The Rockefeller University
To Be Announced
Professor Hiroaki Suga, University of Tokyo
To Be Announced
Professor David Corey, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
To Be Announced
Professor Rustem Ismagilov, University of Chicago
To Be Announced
Professor Anna Pyle, Yale University
To Be Announced
Professor James Rothman, Yale School of Medicine
To Be Announced
9:00 am - 5:00 pm Room 110 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory