Seminar Schedule - Fall 2008

Seminars are held Wednesdays at 4:00 p.m. in A203 of the Chemistry Building with refreshments served at 3:45 p.m. in the second floor atrium.

Coordinator: Shawn Burdette(860) 486-6718

Department Office (860) 486-2012

A PDF version of the seminar schedule is available here.

Aug. 26 (Tue) Liming Zhang, University of Nevada, Reno (M. Smith)
Au/Pt catalysis: Novel Reactivities and Efficient Synthetic Methods

Sept. 10 Rajeswari Kasi, UConn (V. Kumar)
Cholesterol Containing Nanostructured Polymers

Sept. 11 Jotham Coe, Pfizer (M. Peczuh)
The Discovery of Varenicline, a Nicotinic Receptor Partial Agonist for Smoking Cessation: From Idea to Tablet

Sept 17 John Golbeck, Penn State (H. Frank)
A Hybrid Biological/Organic Photochemical Half-Cell for Generating Dihydrogen

Sept. 24 Catherine Fenselau, U. Maryland (X. Yao)
Residue specific chemical cleavage for proteomics

Sept. 25 Scott Miller, Yale (G. Fenteany)
A Biomimetic Approach to Asymmetric Catalysis

Oct. 1 Sara O’Conner. MIT (A. Howell)
Alkaloid Biosynthesis in Periwinkle

Oct. 2 Lauren Stencel, UConn (N. Leadbeater)
Probing the Effect of Microwave Irradiation on Biomolecules

Oct. 8 Yinsheng Wang, UC Riverside (A. Basu)
Chemistry and Biology of DNA Damage Induced by Reactive Oxygen and Reactive Carbonyl Species

Oct. 14 Jack Li, Bristol Myers Squibb (M. Smith)
Applications of Palladium Chemistry in Drug Discovery

Oct. 15-16 R.T. Major Lectures: Alison Butler, UC Santa Barbara; Julie Kovacs, U. Washington
TBA

Oct. 22 Gary R. Weisman, U. New Hampshire (W. Bailey)
Cross- Bridged Tetraamines: Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry, Biomedical Utility, and Conformational Contortions

Oct. 23 Ohyun Kwon, UCLA (A. Howell)
Phosphine-Catalyzed Annulations and Their Applications

Oct. 29 Tim Jamison, MIT (G. Fenteany)
Epoxide-Opening Cascades
Oct. 30 Linda Doerrer, Boston U. (S. Burdette)
Late Transition Metal Complexes with Fluorinated Aryloxide and Alkoxide Ligands

Nov. 5 David Carini, Bristol Myers Squibb (M. Smith)
The Discovery of Losartan, a Nonpeptide Angiotensin II Receptor Antagonist

Nov. 6 Michael Invernale, UConn (G. Sotzing)
Solid-state Oxidative Conversion for Electrochromic Polymers

Nov. 12 Peter Weber, Brown University (R. Bohn)
Time-resolved studies of ultrafast energy relaxation processes: internal conversion, crossings through conical intersections, isomerization and conformerizations

Nov. 13 Gary Jensen, UConn (J. Rusling)
Multiplexed Detection of Cancer Biomarkers

Nov. 19 Armen Zakarian, UC Santa Barbara (A. Howell)
Development of Chemical Transformations in the Synthesis of Natural Products

Nov. 20 Besnik Bajrami, UConn (J. Rusling)
Liver Enzyme-Coated Bioreactors For Efficient LC-MS Drug Metabolism, Drug-Drug Interactions And Genotoxicity Studies

Dec. 3 Elsa Yan, Yale (J. Gascon)
Photoactivation of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Rhodopsin

Dec. 4 Yu Shi, UConn (X. Yao)
Marker ions for phosphate-specific mass spectrometry