Organic Division Seminars                          Fall 2006 - Spring 2007
4:00 PM in Cristol Chemistry 142

Monday August 28	FALL, 2006 -- CLASSES BEGIN
Monday September 4	HOLIDAY -- LABOR DAY
Tuesday September 5	Special Departmental Seminar Professor Andy Phillips University of Colorado “From Targets to Strategies and Back Again: Some Examples from Complex Molecule Synthesis” Host: Tarek Sammakia
Tuesday September 12	ROCHE LECTURE Professor Yoshito Kishi CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS
Tuesday September 19	ROCHE LECTURE Professor Robert Grubbs California Institute of Technology “The Synthesis of Large and Small Molecules Using Olefin Metathesis” Host: Andy Phillips
Tuesday September 26	Professor Jeffrey Bode University of California, Santa Barbara “Organic Redox Reaction: A Strategy for Enantioselective Annulations and Chemoselective Amide Ligations” Host: Andy Phillips
Tuesday October 3	Professor Karl A. Scheidt Northwestern University “Polarity Reversal Chemistry Inspired By Nature: Recent Advances using Carbene Catalysis” Host: Andy Phillips
Tuesday October 10	ROCHE LECTURE Professor Erick Carreira ETH, Zurich “Studies in Synthesis” Host: Andy Phillips
Tuesday October 17	Professor John Wolfe University of Michigan “New Palladium-Catalyzed Carboamination and Carboetherification Reactions for the Stereoselective Synthesis of Tetrahydrofurans and Pyrrolidines” Host: Andy Phillips
Tuesday October 24	Professor Dean Toste University of California, Berkeley “Gold(I)-Catalyzed Reactions for Organic Synthesis” Host: Andy Phillips
Tuesday October 31	Professor ChulBom Lee Princeton University “Synthesis of Oxa- and Carbocyclic Compounds via Transition Metal Mediated Catalysis” Host: Andy Phillips
Tuesday November 7	Professor Jeff Moore University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ****CANCELED****
Tuesday November 14	Professor Nicola Pohl Iowa State University “Automated Synthesis and Other Tools for Glycomics” Host: Andy Phillips
November 20-24	FALL BREAK and THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
Tuesday November 28	CRISTOL LECTURE Professor Dennis Dougherty California Institute of Technology “Chemical Scale Studies of Drug-Receptor Interactions at the Nicotine Receptor” Host: Barney Ellison
Thursday Dec. 15	Last Day of Classes
Dec. 25 & 26	CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
Tuesday January 2	2007 NEW YEAR'S HOLIDAY
Monday January 15	HOLIDAY: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Tuesday, January 16	SPRING CLASSES BEGIN
Tuesday February 13	Todd Eary, Ph.D. Array BioPharma “Tetrazole and Ester Substituted Tetrahydroquinolines as Potent CETP Inhibitors” Host: Tarek Sammakia
Tuesday February 20	Professor Benjamin King University of Nevada, Reno “Polymeric Helicenes: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications” Host: Josef Michl
Tuesday February 27	Professor Daniel Kost Ben-Gurion University “Penta- and Hexacoordinate Silicon Compounds: Structure, Molecular Rearrangements, and Interconversion” Host: Josef Michl
Tuesday March 6	Professor John A. Katzenellenbogen University of Illinois “Estrogen Receptor: Structure-Function Studies and In Vivo Imaging” Host: Barney Ellison
Tuesday March 13	ROCHE LECTURE Professor Jeffrey Winkler University of Pennsylvania “Synthesis of Natural and Unnatural Products” Host: Andy Phillips and Tarek Sammakia
Tuesday March 20	ROCHE LECTURE Professor Yoshito Kishi Harvard University “Product-Regulation Mechanisms for Fatty Acid Biosynthesis in Mycobacterium smegmatis: A Detective Story via Organic Synthesis” Host: Andy Phillips
MARCH 26 - 30	SPRING BREAK
Tuesday April 3	Professor Vincent P. Conticello Emory University “Rational Design of Biomimetic Nanostructures via Self-Assembly of Helical Peptides” Host: Doug Gin
Tuesday April 10	Professor Suk-Wah Tam-Chang University of Nevada, Reno “Fabrication of Anisotropic Materials via Molecular Self-Organization” Host: Dave Walba
Tuesday April 17	Professor Brian Blagg University of Kansas “Managing the Hsp90 Protein Folding Machinery with Small Molecules” Host: Andy Phillips
Tuesday April 24	Professor Joel Schneider University of Deleware “Responsive Peptide-based Materials:Linking Intramolecular Folding to Self-Assembly” Host: Andy Phillips
Tuesday May 1	No Seminar
Friday May 4	Last Day of Classes
Friday May 11	COMMENCEMENT