Seminars 2006–2022

June 26, 2017
Professor Junichiro Yamaguchi, Waseda University
“Decarbonylative Coupling and Multiple Arylation of Aromatic Molecules”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127

June 30, 2017
Professor Burkhard König, University of Regensburg, Germany
“Photoredox catalysis - Organic synthesis with visible light”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

July 31, 2017
Professor Yu Zhao, National University of Singapore
“Catalytic Enantioselective Redox-Neutral Processes for Efficient Chemical Synthesis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127

August 11 & 12, 2017
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Lectures in Organic Chemistry

Friday, August 11, 2017
3:30 PM Refreshments in Merkert Foyer

Professor Michinori Suginome, Kyoto University
“Helical-Polymer-Based Chiral Catalysts for Switch, Amplification, and Transfer of Chirality””
4:00 PM, Merkert 127

Saturday, August 12, 2017
9:30 AM Refreshments in Merkert Foyer

Dr. Daniel R. Fandrick, Senior Principal Scientist, Chemical Development, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
“Challenges and Opportunities in Process Chemistry: Case Studies in Innovation”
10:00 AM, Merkert 127
11:00 AM Break- Refreshments in Merkert Foyer

Professor Michinori Suginome, Kyoto University
“Catalytic Borylations and C-H Functionalization: Chances and Opportunities”
11:15 AM, Merkert 127

January 31, 2017
Dr. Young-Hoon Ahn, Wayne State University
“Chemical Approaches for Characterizing Protein Glutathionylation” 
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 21, 2017
Professor Bing Xu, Brandeis University
“Self-Assembly of Small Molecules in the Cellular Milieu”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 21-23, 2017
Professor Kevan Shokat, University of California, San Francisco

March 21 
“Chemical Tricks for Drugging the Undruggable”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127

March 22 
“Chemical Approaches for Deciphering Kinase Signaling Networks”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127 

March 23 
“Drugs Targeting K-Ras in Cancer”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127

March 28, 2017
Professor A.J. Boydston, University of Washington
“Functional Polymeric Materials at Multiple Length Scales”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 11, 2017
Professor Don Tilley, University of California, Berkeley
“High-Valent Metal Species in Water Splitting and Solar Fuels Generation”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 12, 2017
Professor Timothy Donohoe, University of Oxford
“Metal catalysis: new reactions and new opportunities for organic synthesis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 25, 2017
Professor Mark Gandelman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Joseph and Partricia Vanderslice Lecturer in Organic Chemistry“New Bonding and Reactivity: Chemistry of N-Cations and N-Radicals”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127

April 27, 2017
Professor Sagar Khare, Rutgers University
“Understanding and modulating enzyme stability, specificity and quinary structure using computational protein design”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 28, 2017
Professor Andrew Bocarsly, Princeton University
“Solar Fuels: Designing an Electrocatalytic Interface for the Conversion of CO₂ and H₂O to Fuels”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127

May 3, 2017
Dr. Tim Cernak, Merck
“Drug Discovery at Nanomole Scale”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 9, 2017
Dr. Jason Thomas, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
“A chemical biology approach to drug discovery enabled by chemical proteomics”
Refreshments at 2:45 PM
3:00 PM, Merkert 130
Professor Laura L. Kiessling, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Novartis Lecturer
“Microbial Carbohydrates for Health and Disease”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 15, 2017
Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, University of Strasbourg
“Perspectives in Chemistry: From Supramolecular Chemistry towards Adaptive Chemistry”
2:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 16, 2017
Dr. Jordan L. Meier, National Cancer Institute-Frederick
“Profiling acetyltransferases to understand cancer’s metabolic cues”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 17, 2017
Professor Ming Lee Tang, University of California, Riverside
“A hybrid molecular-nanocrystal platform for photon upconversion”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 30, 2017
Professor Li Deng, Brandeis University
“Activation of Nucleophiles for Asymmetric Reactions with Organic Molecules”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 8, 2016
Strem Lectureship
Professor Dean Toste, University of California - Berkeley
“Catalytic Organic Reaction Inspired by the Organometallic Chemistry of Gold”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 9, 2016
Merck Symposium
Dr. David Thaisrivongs, Merck
“The development of a commercial manufacturing route for verubecestat, a BACE1 inhibitor for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease” 
3:15 - 4:15 PM, Merkert 127
Professor Masakatsu Shibasaki, Macrobial Chemistry Research Foundation
“Recent Progress in Cooperative Asymmetric Catalysis”
4:25 - 5:40 PM, Merkert 127

September 13, 2016
Professor Michelle Meyer, Boston College - Biology Department
“Changes in Molecular Recognition Over Time: Evolution and Reinvention of RNA-Protein Interfaces”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 15, 2016
Professor Thomas W. Hamann, Michigan State University
“Molecular and Material Approaches for Solar Energy Conversion and Storage”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 20, 2016
Professor Karen Wooley, Texas A+M University
“Translation of fundamental chemistry to functional nanoscopic macromolecules designed for advanced applications”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 22, 2016
Professor Chia-Kuang (Frank) Tsung, Boston College
“Controlled Encapsulation of Catalysts in Nanoporous Materials”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 27, 2016
Professor Bill DeGrado, UCSF
“Structure and Pharmacological Inhibition of the Proton Channel from Influenza A Virus”
3:30 PM, Merkert 130

September 29, 2016
Professor Yogesh Surendranath, MIT
“Graphite-Conjugated Catalysis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 4, 2016
Professor Michael Doyle, University of Texas - San Antonio
“Asymmetric Cycloaddition Reactions with Metal Carbenes”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 6, 2016
Professor Jeffery Byers, Boston College
“Dynamic and Switchable Iron-Based Polymerization Catalysts”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 18, 2016
Professor Timothy Swager, MIT
“Dynamic Droplets”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 27, 2016
Professor Dehua Pei, Ohio State University
“Drugging Undruggable Targets with Cyclic Peptides”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 1, 2016
Professor Sunny Zhou, Northeastern University
“Meet the Challenge of Discovering Unknowns: Functional Proteomics, Protein Crosslinking and Modifications of Biotherapeutics”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 3, 2016
Professor Michael Janik, Penn State University
“Development of electrocatalytic materials guided by computational chemistry:  fuel cells and CO₂ electroreduction”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 9, 2016
Professor Stéphane Roche, Florida Atlantic University
“Chasing Forgotten Reactions: Novel Synthetic Strategies towards Unnatural Peptide and Terpene-based Natural Products”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 10, 2016
Professor Bryan McCloskey, University of California, Berkeley
“Li-air batteries: O₂ electrochemistry in Li ion-bearing nonaqueous electrolytes”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 15, 2016
Professor Kristian Strømgaard, University of Copenhagen
“Targeting Protein-Protein Interaction”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 17, 2016
Professor Huw Davies, Emory University
“Collaborative Approach for C-H Functionalization”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

December 1, 2016
Professor Jing Zhao, University of Connecticut
“Synthesis and optical interaction of metal and semiconductor nanoparticles”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

December 2 & 3, 2016
Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecturer in Organic Synthesis

December 2, 2016
Professor Stephen L. Buchwald, Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry, MIT
“Palladium-Catalyzed Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Formation: From Small Molecules to Bioconjugation”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127

December 3, 2016
Dr. Martin Eastgate, Director, Head, Chemical Research, Bristol-Myers Squibb
“Synthetic Evolution and Chemical Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceutical Compounds”
10:00 AM, Merkert 127

Professor Stephen L. Buchwald, Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry, MIT
“Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydroamination and Related Process”
11:15 AM, Merkert 127

February 2, 2016
Professor Felix Fischer, University of California, Berkeley
“Teaching Polymers the Meaning of Life & Nanographene Quantum Confinement”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 8, 2016
Professor Jérôme Lacour, University of Geneva
“Stereoselective synthesis & catalysis with metal carbenes”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 23, 2016
Professor Gary Molander, UPenn
“Single Electron Transformations to Enable Cross-Couplings”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 1, 2016
Professor Elizabeth Nolan, MIT
“Exploring the Chemistry and Biology of Human Defensin Peptides”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 7, 2016
Professor Joshua Price, Brigham Young University
“Protein and Polymers: How PEG Influences Protein Folding” 
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 17, 2016
AbbVie Symposium
Dr. Michael Z. Hoemann, AbbVie Bioresearch Center
“Discovery and Optimization of Spleen Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Immunological Diseases”
3:30 PM, Merkert 130

Professor Matthew S. Sigman, The University of Utah
“Enantioselective formation of remote chiral centers” 
4:45 PM, Merkert 130

March 22, 2016
Professor Yu-Shan Lin, Tufts University
“Computational modeling of cyclic peptides”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 28, 2016
Professor Masanari Kimura, Nagasaki University
“Pd-Catalyzed Amphiphilic Allylation Promoted by Organoborane and Efficient Synthesis of Functional Heterocyclic Compounds”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 29, 2016
Professor Jason E. Gestwicki, University of California at San Francisco
“Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions in the Chaperone Network to Tune Protein Folding”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 5, 2016
Professor Jinghua Guo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
“Insights of Catalytic and Electrochemical Reactions from the In-Situ/Operando Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 6-8, 2016
2016 University Lectures in Chemistry
Professor Nate Lewis, California Institute of Technology
April 6  “Artificial Photosynthetic Systems Based on Membrane-Embedded Microwire Arrays”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127
April 7  “Methods to Achieve Chemical Control over the Reactivity, Morphology, Electrical Behavior, and Orientation of Semiconductors”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127 
April 8  “A Conducting Polymer-Based Electronic Nose”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127

April 14, 2016
Professor José N. Onuchic, Rice University
“From structure to function: the convergence of structure based models and co-evolutionary information”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 3, 2016
Professor Cliff Stains, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
“Chemical Approaches for Interrogating Cellular Processes”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 4, 2016
Professor Neal Mankad, University of Illinois, Chicago
“Catalytic Transformations That Utilize Bimetallic Cooperativity”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 6, 2016
Professor Shannon Boettcher, University of Oregon
“Oxygen Electrocatalysis and Solar Water Splitting Interfaces” 
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 10, 2016
Professor Brian Shoichet, UCSF
“Structure-based discovery of novel GPCR ligands with novel pharmacology” 
4:00 PM, Merkert 129

May 11, 2016
Professor Guangbin Dong, University of Chicago
“C–C and C–H Functionalization of Ketones” 
2:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 25, 2016
Professor Darren J. Dixon, University of Oxford
“Catalytic Approaches to Simplifying Synthesis” 
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

June 7, 2016
Professor Christina White, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2016 Joseph and Patricia Vanderslice Lecturer in Chemical Synthesis
“The Functionalization of C-H Bonds”
3:30 PM Refreshments in Merkert Foyer
4:00 PM Lecture in Merkert 130

June 23, 2016
Professor Zhengtao Xu, City University of Hong Kong
“Sulfur empowers porous frameworks: sensors, catalysts and a story of bridging the gaps” 
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

July 15, 2016
Professor Ramesh Giri, University of New Mexico
“Enabling Copper for Cross-Coupling and Tandem Cyclization-Coupling Reactions, and Mechanistic Studies” 
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

July 21, 2016
Professor Guosheng Liu, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
“Difunctionalization of Alkenes: Concepts and New Strategy” 
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

July 22, 2016
Professor Yujiro Hayashi, Tohoku University
“Pot Economy in Total Synthesis” 
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

August 19 & 20, 2016
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Lectures in Organic Chemistry

August 19, 2016
Professor Makoto Fujita, The University of Tokyo
“Coordination Self-assembly: from a Molecular Square to Giant MnL2n Polyhedra”
3:30 PM Refreshments in Merkert Foyer
4:00 PM, Merkert 127

August 20, 2016
Dr. Jean-Nicolas Desrosiers, Principal Scientist, Chemical Development, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
“Development of New Methodologies for the Synthesis of Biologically Active Heterocyclic Compounds”
9:30 AM Refreshments in Merkert Foyer
10:00 AM, Merkert 127

11:00 AM Break- Refreshments in Merkert Foyer

October 9, 2015
Dr. Adrian Ortiz, Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecturer in Organic Chemistry
“Development of an Innovative and Stereoselective Synthesis of BMS-986001” 
3:30 PM, Merkert 130

Professor Phil S. Baran, The Scripps Research Institute
“Studies in Natural Product Synthesis” 
4:45 PM, Merkert 130

October 13, 2015
Professor John Hartwig, UC Berkeley
“Selective Catalytic Functionalization of Alkyl and Aryl C-H Bonds”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 20, 2015
Professor Rudi Fasan, University of Rochester
“Synthesis and Application of Macrocyclic Organo-Peptide Hybrids for Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 3, 2015
Professor Timothy Jamison, MIT
“Synthesis Design through the Lens of Flow Chemistry”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 6, 2015
Professor Ryan Shenvi, Scripps Research Institute
“Chemical Synthesis of Secondary Metabolites”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 10, 2015
Professor Huiwang Ai, University of California, Riverside
“Molecular Probes for redox signaling and oxidative stress”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 18, 2015
Professor Song Jin, University of Wisconsin at Madison
“Solar Energy Conversion and Electrocatalysis Using Earth-Abundant Nanomaterials” 
4:00 PM, Higgins 310

November 19, 2015
Professor Shouheng Sun, Brown University
“Tuning Nanoparticle Catalysis for Nanomedicine and Energy Applications”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

December 1, 2015
Professor Marion Emmert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
“Breaking Strong Bonds: Adventures in Sustainable Chemistry”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

December 3, 2015
Professor Chen Hongyu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
“Site-Specific Colloidal Synthesis” 
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

June 26, 2015
Professor Kenso Soai, Tokyo University of Science
“Asymmetric Autocatalysis and the Origin of Homochirality”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

August 7 and 8, 2015
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Lectures in Organic Chemistry

Friday, August 7
Professor Jin-Quan Yu
Frank and Bertha Hupp Professor of Chemistry
The Scripps Research Institute
“Ligand-Accelerated C-H Activation Reactions: Near and Far. Redox Chemistry for Catalysis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

Saturday, August 8
Dr. Joshua Sieber, Boeheringer Ingelheim
“Expedient Scalable Synthesis of Novel P-Chiral Phosphines and Applications to Asymmetric Synthesis”
10:00 AM, Merkert 130

Professor Jin-Quan Yu, The Scripps Research Institute
“Ligand-Accelerated C-H Activation Reactions: Near and Far. Ligand Acceleration”
11:00 AM, Merkert 130

August 20, 2015
Dr. Jun Liu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
“From Fundamental Materials Chemistry to Energy Systems - Cases for Large Scale Energy Storage”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 1, 2015
Professor M.G. Finn, Georgia Tech
“Tailored Virus-Like Particles for Biomedicine and Catalysis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 8, 2015
Novartis Chemical Sciences Symposium
2:30 PM - Refreshments

3:00 PM - Dr. Christopher Brain, Cambridge, MA
“The discovery of Ribociclib (LEE011) a selective CDK4/6 inhibitor for the treatment of cancer”
Merkert 127

4:00 PM - Professor Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois
“Biosynthesis of Cyclic Peptide Antibiotics”
Merkert 127

September 17, 2015
Professor Eranthie Weerapana, Boston College
“Chemical-proteomic strategies to investigate reactive cysteines”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 19, 2016
Dr. Koh Takeuchi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo
“Utilization and extension of  solution NMR techniques for biologically and clinically important systems”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 13, 2015
Professor Doug Stephan, University of Toronto
“Frustrated Lewis Pairs in Small Molecule Activation and Catalysis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 20, 2015
Professor Brian McNaughton, Colorado State University
“Expanding the Functional Utility of Proteins as Research Tools and Therapeutic Leads”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 17, 2015
Professor Alexander Statsuk, Northwestern University
“Biochemistry and Pharmacology of The Ubiquitin System”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 12, 2015
Merck Lectureship in Organic Chemistry
2:30 Reception

Dr. Jared Silverman, Merck
“A History of the Development of Daptomycin: From Bedside to Bench and Back Again”
3:00 PM, Merkert 130

Professor Sarah Reisman, Caltech
“From Alkaloids to Terpenoids: New Strategies and Tactics for the Synthesis of Polycyclic Natural Products”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 17, 2015
Professor Xiang Wang, University Colorado-Boulder
“Bio-Inspired Synthesis of Functional Molecules”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 18, 2015
O'Malley Lecturer Professor Tom Muir, Princeton University
“Houdini Proteins: Discovery and Applications of Ultrafast Inteins”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 19, 2015
Professor Pratap Rao, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
“Efficient and Scalable Solar Materials through Nanoscale Engineering and Flame Synthesis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 26, 2015
Professor Donghai Wang, Penn. State University
“Understanding Chemical Interaction in Functional Carbon-Sulfur Composites as Cathode for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 31, 2015
Professor Paul Chirik, Princeton University
“Base Metal Catalysis: The Interplay of Applications and Electronic Structure”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 1, 2015
Professor Amnon Kohen, University of Iowa
“Enzyme catalysis: From physical to organic chemistry”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 2, 2015
Professor Ron Grimm, WPI Worcestor Polytech Institute
“Methyl-terminated silicon microwire arrays for solar fuels applications: Surface structure, stability, and performance”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 4, 2015 Symposium
Professor Vahe Bandarian, University of Arizona
“Prospecting for new enzymes in RNA modification and secondary metabolism”
3:00 - 4:00 PM, Merkert 130

Professor Ben Shen, The Scripps Research Institute
“Microbial Genomics: New Opportunities for Natural Product Biosynthesis, Engineering, and Drug Discovery”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 7, 2015
Professor Floyd Romesberg, The Scripps Research Institute
“A semi-synthetic organism with an expanded genetic alphabet”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 16, 2015
Professor W. David Wei, University of Florida
“Plasmon-Mediated Surface Chemistry for Solar Photocatalysis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 21, 2015
Vanderslice Lecturer
Professor Ilan Marek, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
“Remote Functionalization of Hydrocarbons”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 22, 23, 24, 2015
Boston College University Lecture Series in Chemistry
Professor John Bercaw, California Institute of Technology
April 22
“Approaches to Selective ;Catalytic Upgrading of Light Hydrocarbons Using Oxidative Routes”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127
April 23
“Light Olefin Trimerization with Chromium and Titanium Catalysts”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127
April 24
“Alpha Olefin Polymerization Catalysis: Stereochemisry, Kinetics, and Kinetic Resolutions”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127

May 4, 2015
Professor Seth Herzon, Yale University
“New Metal-Catalyzed Reactions for Organic Synthesis and the Development of a Synthetic Route to Complex Guanidinium Alkaloids”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 15, 2015
Professor Paramjit Arora, NYU
“Protein Domain Mimetics as Modulators of Protein-Protein Interactions”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 15, 2014
Professor Kenichiro Itami, Nagoya University
“Catalyst-Enabling Chemistry toward Transformative Molecules”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 28, 2014
Professor Paul Hergenrother, University of Illinois
“Anticancer Discovery, From Simple and Complex Compounds”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 4, 2014
Professor Theodor Agapie, California Institute of Technology
“Synthetic Cluster Models of Biological and Heterogeneous Oxygen Evolving Catalysts”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 11, 2014
Professor Binghe Wang, Georgia State University
“Targeting Carbohydrate-based Biomarkers for the Development of Diagnostics”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 4, 2014
Professor William B. Tolman, University of Minnesota
“Copper Oxygen Intermediates Relevant to Metalloenzymes and Other Oxidation Catalysts”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 11, 2014
Professor Ming Hammond, University of California, Berkeley
“Privileged RNA scaffolds for in vivo sensing functions”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 12, 2014
Professor William D. Jones
2014 Patricia and Joseph Vanderslice Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, University of Rochester
“Why Do Weaker Metal-Carbon Bonds Lead to More Stable Complexes? What's Going On?”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 25, 2014
Professor Michael Krische
2014 Strem Chemicals Lectureship in Catalysis
University of Texas
“Formation of C-C Bonds via Catalytic Hydrogenation and Transfer Hydrogenation”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 26, 2014
Professor Wenbin Lin, University of Chicago
“Molecular Materials for Sustainability and Human Health”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 27, 2014
Professor Joseph Hupp, Northwestern University
“Functional Metal-Organic Framework Materials”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 2, 3, & 4, 2014
Professor Dr. Ben L. Feringa, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Boston College University Lecture Series in Chemistry

April 2, 2014
“Exploring Chiral Space in Asymmetric Synthesis”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

April 3, 2014
As Part of the Boston College University Lecture Series in Chemistry
Dr. Keith Fandrick, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
As Part of the Boston College University Lecture Series in Chemistry
“Asymmetric Synthesis of a Challenging and Complex Flap Inhibitor: Development of a Non-Cryogenic Stereospecific Boronate Rearrangement”
2:30 PM, Merkert 130

April 3, 2014
“Catalytic Asymmetric C-C bond Formation”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

April 4, 2014
“Dynamic Molecular Systems; from switches to motors”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127
Sponsored by: Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

April 15, 2014
Professor Eric Strieter, University of Wisconsin
“Using Chemical Tools to Explore Ubiquitin Signaling Pathways”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 16, 2014
Professor Joel Rosenthal, University of Delaware
“New Platforms for the Efficient Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Fuel”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 14, 2014
CANCELLED
Professor Jennifer Schomaker, University of Wisconsin
“New reactivity of coinage metal catalysts and applications of oxidative allene amination to the synthesis of complex molecules”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 19, 2014
Dylan J. Boday, Ph. D., IBM Materials Engineering, Tuscon, AZ
“Addressing Technology Challenges through the development of Renewable and Advanced Materials”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

August 28, 2014
Professor Alison Frontier, University of Rochester
“Stereocontrolled cyclizations”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 9, 2014
Professor Erin Carlson, University of Minnesota
“Chemical Probes to Explore and Inhibit Bacterial Pathways”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 11, 2014
Professor Kenji Katayama, Chuo University
“Heterogeneous reaction dynamics revealed by transient grating technique”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 18, 2014
Professor Uttam Tambar, UT Southwestern Medical Center
“Catalytic Asymmetric [2,3]-Rearrangements”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 23, 2014
Professor Ted Betley, Harvard University
“Radical frontiers in catalysis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 25, 2014
Professor Ning Fang, Iowa State University
“Science of Rock 'n' Roll”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 2, 2014
Professor Wei Fan, Umass Amherst
“Development of hierarchical zeolite catalysts for bulky molecule reaction”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 3 & 4, 2014
Professor Erick M. Carreira
2014 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecturer in Organic Synthesis
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH)

October 3
Professor Carreira
“Advances in Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis:  Bridging Tactics and Strategies”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 4
Dr. Nicholas A. Meanwell, Executive Director, Discovery Chemistry, Bristol-Myers Squibb 
“The Design of Direct Acting Antiviral Inhibitors of Hepatitis C Virus for Use in Combination Therapy”
10:00 AM, Merkert 130

October 4
Professor Carreira
“Discovery and Surprises with Natural Products”
11:15 AM, Merkert 130

October 9, 2014
Professor Andrew Peterson, Brown University
“Guiding the design of solar fuels catalysts from first principles”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 28, 2014
Professor Champak Chatterjee, University of Washington
“Chemical approaches to study ubiquitin-like proteins”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 14, 2014
Professor X. Peter Zhang, University of South Florida
“Metalloradical Catalysis For Stereoselective Organic Synthesis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 18, 2014
Professor Christopher Beaudry, Oregon State University
“Synthesis of Natural Products with Conformational Chirality”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 25, 2014
Dom Hebrault, Ph.D., Mettler-Toledo AutoChem, Inc.
“Enhancing Synthetic Chemistry Creativity and Efficiency with Current Lab Technologies”
12:00 noon, Merkert 129

November 26, 2014
Professor Warren Piers, University of Calgary
“Transformation of Oxygen-Based Ligands at Transition Metals: New Ligand Platforms”
2:00 PM, Merkert 130

December 9, 2014
Professor Priscilla Yang, Harvard University
“Chemical Approaches to the Study of Viruses”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 12, 2013
Professor Gonghu Li, University of New Hampshire
“Combining Molecular Catalysts and Nanostructured Surfaces for Solar CO₂ Reduction”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 17, 2013
Professor Hien Nguyen, University of Iowa
“New Approaches to Bioactive Carbohydrates, Amines, and Fluorinated Molecules”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 19, 2013
Professor Garegin A. Papoian, University of Maryland
“The Chromatin Folding Problem: Computer Simulations of Nucleosomes and Histone Tails”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 24, 2013
Professor Joshua A. Kritzer, Tufts University
“Peptide tools for cancer, catalysis, and infectious disease”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 1, 2013
Professor Adrian Whitty, Boston University
“Inhibiting Protein-Protein Interactions”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 3, 2013
Professor Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, University of Illinois
“Hydrogen Tunneling, Electrostatics, and Conformational Motions in Enzyme Catalysis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 8, 2013
Professor Geoffrey W. Coates, Cornell University
“Bimetallic Catalysts – Are Two Metals Better Than One?”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 11 & 12, 2013
Professor Tamio Hayashi, Kyoto University, Japan
2013 Boehringer-Ingelheim Lectures at Boston College

October 11, 4:00 PM, Merkert 130
“Rhodium-Catalyzed Asymmetric 1,4-Addition”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 12
Dr. Carl Busacca, Distinguished Research Fellow, Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
“New Ligand Space through Hydrophosphination snd Structure Elucidation of a Key Human Metabolite”
10:00 AM, Merkert 127

October 12
“Chiral Diene Ligands for Asymmetric Catalysis”
11:15 AM, Merkert 127

October 15, 2013
Professor Dr. Christian Hackenberger, Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)
“Chemical Tools for the Synthesis and Application of Functional Peptide and Protein-Conjugates”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 17, 2013
Professor Sara E. Skrabalak, Indiana University
“Shaping the Synthesis of Bimetallic Nanostructures”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 22, 2013
Professor Scott Rychnovsky, University of California, Irvine
“New Methods for Synthesis and Structure Determination”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 5, 2013
Professor Shawn Collins, Université de Montréal
“Advanced Strategies for Macrocyclization”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 12, 2013
Professor Jonathan Lai, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Envelope glycoproteins of endosomal viruses: Structure, function, and inhibition by designed peptides and proteins”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 14, 2013
Professor Deyang Qu, University of Massachusetts Boston
“Rechargeable Lithium Air Battery - A Rough Road to the 'Holy Grill'”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 19, 2013
Professor Nathanael Gray, Harvard University
“Chemical Strategies for Overcoming Kinase Inhibitor Resistance in Cancer”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 21, 2013
Professor Alex L. Briseno, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Crystal Chemistry, Molecular Order and Charge Transport at Organic Semiconductor Interfaces”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

December 3, 2013
Professor Yan Jessie Zhang, University of Texas, Austin
“CTD Code: A combinatorial code for Transcription Regulation”
3:00 PM, Merkert 130

July 12, 2013
Professor Yoshito Tobe, Osaka University, Japan
“Indenofluorenes: Stabilized Quinodimethanes with Singlet Biradical Characters”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 8, 2013
Professor Philip A. Cole, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
O'Malley Lecturer
“Exploring the Language of Protein Post-translational Modifications”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 22, 2013
Professor Gregory Fu, MIT
“Metal-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions of Alkyl Electrophiles”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 21, 2013
Dr. De-En Jiang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee
“From Benzene to Graphene and Things In Between”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 26, 2013
Professor Gojko Lalic, University of Washington - Seattle
“New Methods for Hydrofunctionalization of Unsaturated Compounds”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 14, 2013
Professor Yuhuang Wang, University of Maryland
“Propagation Chemistry on sp2 Carbon Lattices”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 19, 2013
Professor Eli Zysman-Colman, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
“Illuminating Iridium: From Visual Displays to Solar Cells”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 20, 21, & 22, 2013
Professor Dennis A. Dougherty, California Institute of Technology
Boston College University Lecture Series in Chemistry

March 20, 2013
“Chemistry on the Brain: Understanding the Nicotine Receptor”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

March 21, 2013
“The Cation-π Interaction: A New View of Benzene, Phe, Tyr, and Trp”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

March 22, 2013
“Chemical-Scale Studies of Neuroreceptors and Ion Channels: What Have We Learned?”
2:30 - 3:30 PM, Merkert 127

April 2, 2013
Professor Daniel J. Weix, University of Rochester
“No More Nucleophiles: Direct, Selective Cross Coupling of Electrophiles”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 4, 2013
Professor Irwin Oppenheim, MIT
“Entropy in Systems away from Equilibrium”
4:00 PM, Merkert 124

April 9, 2013
Dr. Grier Wallace, Abbvie Bioresearch Center, Worcester, Mass.
“Agonists of S1P1 for Immunology: A Medicinal Chemistry Perspective on Asymmetric Synthesis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 11, 2013
Professor Dr. Andreas Hirsch, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
“Chemical Functionalization of Synthetic Carbon Allotropes”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 16, 2013
CANCELLED
Professor Erin Carlson, University of Indiana
“Chemical Probes to Explore and Inhibit Bacterial Pathogenesis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 18, 2013
Professor Thomas Keyes, Boston University
“Statistical temperature molecular dynamics (STMD) and generalized replica exchange (gREM) algorithms for enhanced sampling of biomolecules and first order phase transitions”
4:00 PM, Merkert 129

April 30, 2013
Professor Eric Ferreira, Colorado State University
“Accessing and Harnessing Metalated Intermediates Toward Synthetic Utility”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 20, 2012
Professor Gerald J. Diebold, Brown University
“Recent Developments in Photoacoustics and Thermal Diffusion”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 27, 2012
Professor Raymond Schaak, Pennsylvania State University
“Synthetic Design Tools for Complex Inorganic Solids and Nanostructures”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 28, 2012
Novartis Symposium
Dr. Matthew LaMarche, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc.
“Discovery of LFF571 as an Investigational Agent for Clostridium difficile Infection”
3:00 p.m., Merkert 127

Suzanne Walker, Harvard Medical School
“Cell Wall Targets for New Antibiotics”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127

October 2, 2012
Professor Jérôme Waser, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
“From Catalysis to Natural Product Synthesis: Exploiting the Reactivity of Electrophilic Acetylenes and Cyclopropanes”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 4, 2012
Dr. Yugang Sun, Argonne National Laboratory
“Controlled Synthesis of Colloidal Nanoparticles: High Quality Benefits Discovery?”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127

October 9, 2012
BC Sesquicentennial Chemistry Lecture
Professor Dennis P. Curran, University of Pittsburgh
“New Reactive Intermediates and New Synthetic Reagents Derived from N-Heterocyclic Carbene Boranes”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

October 11, 2012
Professor Karl Freed, University of Chicago
“Protein Folding Without Homology or Machine Learning”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 16, 2012
Professor Dustin Maly, University of Washington
“Allosteric Control of Signaling Enzyme Function Using Small Molecules”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 17, 2012
Professor Robert Waymouth, Stanford University
“Catalysis: Enabling Science for a Sustainable Future”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 18, 2012
Professor Jianmin Gao, Boston College
“Synthetic Approaches to Membrane Biology”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 23, 2012
Professor Erik Alexanian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“New Synthetic Transformations Using Alkenes: From Transition Metal Catalysis to Metal-free Radical Reactions”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 24, & 25, 2012
O'Malley Lecturer
Professor Wilma K. Olson, Rutgers University
October 24: “Insights into Gene Expression and Packaging from Computer Simulation”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130
October 25: “Long-range Communication on Chromatin”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 30, 2012
Professor Michael Haley, University of Oregon
“Indeno[1,2-b]fluorenes – A New Class of Electron-Accepting Materials”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 2 & 3, 2012
Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecturer
Professor Hisashi Yamamoto, University of Chicago
“Asymmetric Catalysis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 6, 2012
Professor Ivan Aprahamian, Dartmouth College
“Hydrazone-based switches, fluorophores and sensors”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 8, 2012
Professor Marc-Jan Gubbels, Boston College
“Genetic Dissection of Host Cell Invasion and Cell Division of the Human Pathogen Toxoplasma gondii”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

June 11 & 12, 2012
Professor Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol, UK
Boehringer-Ingelheim Lecturer
June 11: “Boron mediated asymmetric synthesis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130
June 12: “Sulfur ylides and organocatalysis in action”
10:00 AM, Merkert 130

June 15, 2012
Professor Masaichi Saito, Saitama University, Japan
“Challenge to Expand the Concept of Aromaticity to Carbon Cycles Incorporating Tin and Lead Atoms”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

July 26, 2012
Professor Olafs Daugulis, University of Houston
“Direct Arylation and Alkylation of sp² and sp³ Carbon-Hydrogen Bonds”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 27, 2012
Professor Tohru Fukuyama, University of Tokyo
“Synthetic Studies on Marine Natural Products”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 1, 2012
Professor Kenichiro Itami, Nagoya University
“Challenges in Arene-Assembling Chemistry”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 28 & 29, 2012
Debra R. Rolison, Surface Chemistry Branch, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC

February 28: “Women in Science: Creating Change in Scientific Institutions through Subversion, Revolution, and Climate Change”

February 29: “Integrating the multifunction necessary for electrochemical power into energy- and size-scalable ultraporous nanoarchitectures”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 8, 2012
Professor Marco Rolandi, University of Washington, Seattle
“Bioprotonic transistors and self-assembled nanostructures with polysaccharide nanofibers”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 9 & 10, 2012
Bristol-Myers Squibb Lectureship
March 9, 2012
Professor Paul Knochel, Universität München
“Advances in cross-coupling methodology”
4:00 PM, Merkert 127
 
March 10, 2012 
Dr. Joel Barrish
“Vignettes in Kinase Inhibitor Drug Discovery: Evolution of a Drug Target Class”
9:30-10:30 AM, Merkert 127
 
Prof. Paul Knochel, Universität München
“Preparation and Reaction of Polyfunctional Organometallics”
10:45-11:45 AM, Merkert 127

March 13, 2012
Professor Hubert Yin<, University of Colorado
“Drugging the Undruggable”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 27, 2012
Professor Norito Takenaka, University of Miami
“Asymmetric Catalysis with Helical-Chiral Pyridines”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 10, 2012
Professor Liming Zhang, University of California – Santa Barbara
“Accessing &alpha-Oxo/Imino Gold Carbenes via Gold-Catalyzed Alkyne Oxidation: A Non-Diazo Approach”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 12 & 13, 2012
O'Malley Lecturer
Professor Hongjie Dai, Stanford University
April 12: “Carbon Nanotubes for Biological Detection, Imaging and Therapy”
April 13: “Graphene: from Nanoribbons to Hybrid Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 17, 2012
>Professor Abigail Doyle, Princeton University
“New Approaches to C-F and C-C Bond Formation by Transition Metal Catalysis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 18, 19, & 20, 2012
University Lecturer
Professor Charles M. Lieber, Harvard University

April 18, 2012
“Whither Nanotechnology?”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

April 19, 2012
“Nanowires: From Synthesis to Energy Applications”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

April 20, 2012
“Nanoelectronics Meets Biology”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127


April 24, 2012
Professor Derek A. Pratt, University of Ottawa
“The Chemistry of Radical-Trapping Antioxidants: Are Phenols Really Best?”
3:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 27, 2012
O'Malley Lecturer
Professor Eric Kool, Stanford University
“DNA-inspired Tools for Biology: Design, Synthesis and Applications”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 1, 2012
Professor Julius Rebek, Jr., The Scripps Research Institute
“Recognition and Catalysis in Deep Cavitands”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 13, 2011
Professor Jimmy Wu, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
“Exploring the Chemistry of Sulphur”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 15, 2011
Professor Younan Xia, Washington University, Saint Louis
“Putting Chemistry to Work for Nano and Biomedical Research”
1:30 PM, Merkert 130


September 23, 2011
Novartis Symposium in Chemical Biology

Refreshments and Coffee
1:30 P.M., Merkert lobby

Professor Barbara Imperiali, MIT
“Asparagine-linked protein glycosylation: Pathways, processes and potential antivirulence targets”
2:00 P.M., Merkert 127

Dr. John Tallarico, Novartis
“Chemical Genetics at Novartis: A Pathway Forward for Early Drug Discovery”
3:00 P.M., Merkert 127

Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps
“Adapting Protein Homeostasis to Ameliorate Diseases using Chemical and Biological Approaches”
4:00 P.M., Merkert 127


September 27, 2011
Professor Bradley Nilsson, University of Rochester
“Peptide Self-Assembly: Pathological Amyloid to Engineered Biomaterials”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 5, 2011
Professor Patrick Wintrode, Case Western University
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 11, 2011
Professor Corey Stephenson, Boston University
“Photoredox Catalysis: Enabling Chemical Synthesis with Visible Light”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 13, 2011
Professor Dunwei Wang, Boston College
“Synthesizing Materials at the Nanoscale for Advanced Energy Applications”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 18, 2011
Professor Kian Tan, Boston College
“A General Method for Controlling Regio- and Stereoselectivity”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 25, 2011
Dr. Doug Johnson, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
“Chemical Biology with Clickable Probes: Application to the Discovery of FAAH Inhibitors and g-Secretase Modulators”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 3, 2011
Professor Catherine Murphy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Three Short Stories About Gold Nanorods”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 8, 2011
Professor Jerry Yang, University of California San Diego
“Recent Applications of Amyloid-Targeting Agents”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 11, 2011
Professor Tobias Ritter, Harvard University
“Late-Stage Fluorination”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 15, 2011
Professor Shannon Stahl, University of Wisconsin
“Overcoming the Oxidant Problem: Strategies to Use O₂ as the Oxidant in Catalytic C–H Oxidation Reactions”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 29, 2011
Professor Regan J. Thomson, Northwestern University
“The Development and Application of Carbon–Carbon Bond Forming Reactions”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

December 7, 2011
Dr. Lionel Vayssieres, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
“Metal Oxide Quantum Rod & Dot-based Structures & Devices: Aqueous Design, Electronic Structure and Applications for Solar Energy Conversion”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

December 8, 2011
Professor Ray Schaak, Pennsylvania State University
“Synthetic Design Tools for Complex Inorganic Solids and Nanostructures”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

June 17, & 18, 2011
2011 Boehringer-Ingelheim Lectures at Boston College

Professor Eiichi Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan
June 17, 4:00 p.m., Merkert 127
“Iron Catalysis in Organic Synthesis”

Chris Senanayake, Ph.D., Vice President, Chemical Development
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
June 18, 9:30 a.m., Merkert 127
“Timely Chemical Process Research: A Critical Part of Efficient Drug Development”

Professor Eiichi Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan
June 18, 11:00 a.m., Merkert 127
“Organic Electronic Research Guided by New Reactions and New Molecules”


June 23, 2011
Professor Shigeru Yamago, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University
“Development of New Materials Powered by Organic Synthesis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

July 22, 2011
Professor Takahiko Akiyama, Gakushuin University, Japan
“Recent Progress in the Phosphoric Acid Catalysis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

August 2, 2011
Professor Naoya Kumagai, Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Tokyo
“Soft Lewis Acid/Hard Bronsted Base Cooperative Catalysis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 8, 2011
Professor Vladimir Gevorgyan, University of Illinois, Chicago
"Development of Novel Transition Metal-Catalyzed Synthetic Methodologies"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 10, 2011
Professor Amy Prieto, Colorado State University
“Inexpensive, Efficient Approaches for Energy Production and Storage: Photovoltaic Devices and Li-Ion Batteries”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 15, 2011
Professor Leslie Poole, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
"Peroxiredoxin structure and function: conserved and divergent features across the protein family"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 22, 2011
Professor Alan Kennan, Colorado State University
"Specific self-assembly of viral fusion protein mimics"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 24, 2011
Professor Greg Rohrer, Carnegie Mellon University
"Developing titania/ferroelectric heterostructures for solar photolysis"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 1, 2011
Professor Matthew Bogyo, Stanford School of Medicine
"Small Molecule screening in human parasite pathogens identifies novel players in the process of host cell invasion"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 3, 2011
Professor Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Tufts University
“Atomically dispersed gold on oxide supports: a new catalyst for H2 production”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 17, 2011
Professor William Buhro, Washington University
“Optical Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Wires and Quantum Belts”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130


March 21, 22, & 23, 2011
University Lecturer
Professor Robert G. Bergman, University of California, Berkeley

March 21, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., Merkert 127
“The Application of Physical Organic Methods to the Investigation of Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms”

March 22, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., Merkert 127
”Selective Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions in Water-Soluble Host-Guest Supramolecular Systems”

March 23, 1:45 – 3:00 p.m., Merkert 127
“Toward Greener Routes to Hydrocarbons: Deoxygenation of Biomass-Related Polyols”

View the Poster for Professor Bergman's University Lecture Series


March 29, 2011
Professor Kevin P. Cusack, Abbott Laboratories, Worcester, Massachusetts
“Conformationally constrained phosphonate and prodrug agonists of S1P1 for Immunology”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 31, 2011
Professor Yiying Wu, Ohio State University
“Toward more efficient photocathode for dye-sensitized solar cells”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 5, 2011
Professor Paramjit Arora, New York University
“Synthetic Strategies for Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 12, 2011
Professor J.D. Tovar, Johns Hopkins University
“Topological and Supramolecular Considerations for Organic (bio)Electronics”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 14, 2011
O'Malley Visiting Scholar
Professor Stephen White, University of California Irvine
“Folding Proteins into Cell Membranes”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 15, 2011
O'Malley Visiting Scholar
Professor Stephen White, University of California Irvine
“Exploring Membranes by Neutron Diffraction”
2:30 PM, Merkert 130

April 19, 2011
Professor Vy Dong, University of Toronto
“A few of my favorite rings: Asymmetric catalysis inspired by lactones and lactams”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 25, 2011
Professor Shih-Yuan Liu, University of Oregon
“Developing the Basic Science and Applications of Boron(B)-Nitrogen(N)-Containing Heterocycles”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 28, 2011
Professor Shirley Tang, University of Waterloo
“Interface Carbon Nanotube with Biological Systems: Applications and Environmental Impact”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 3, 2011
Professor Brian Miller, Florida State University
“Kinetic Cooperativity in a Monomeric Enzyme”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 10, 2011
Professor Elizabeth Jarvo, University of California, Irvine
“Mechanism-Based Design and Development of Palladium- and Nickel-Catalyzed Reactions”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 14, 2010
Professor Jin-Quan Yu, Scripps Research Institute
"Accelerated C-H Activation Reactions: Enantioselectivity and Positional Selectivity"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 23, 2010
Professor Tom Mallouk, Pennsylvania State University
"A Nanoscience Approach to Photocatalysis and Solar Cells"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 24, 2010
Professor Tom Mallouk, Pennsylvania State University
"Exploring Mesoscopic Phenomena using Template-Grown Metal Nanowires"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 12, 2010
Professor Jonathan Ellman, Yale University
"Development and Applications of New and Practically Useful Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 19, 2010
Professor Scott Schaus, Boston University
"Asymmetric Boronate Reactions: Catalysis and Synthesis"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 26, 2010
John Nuss, Ph.D, Exelisis, Inc.
"Adventures in Kinase Inhibitor Discovery: Application of an Integrated HTS/Combinatorial Chemistry Approach to the Discovery of Novel Inhibitors for Oncology and Metabolic Disease Targets"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 9, 2010
Professor Samir Z. Zard, Ecole Polytechnique, France
"Fun with Radicals: Some New Perspectives for Organic Synthesis"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 18, 2010
Professor Feng Wang, Boston University
“Post Hartree-Fock Quality with Pair-Wise Potentials: the Design of Liquid Water Force Fields with Adaptive Force Matching”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 23, 2010
Professor Gregory Tew, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Capturing Protein Activity in Simple, Synthetic Polymers and Oligomers”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 11, 2010
Visiting O'Malley Scholar Professor William DeGrado, University of Pennsylvania
"Design and Mechanism of Action of Antimicrobial Foldamers and Small Molecules"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 12, 2010
Visiting O'Malley Scholar Professor William DeGrado, University of Pennsylvania
"Analysis and Design of Membrane Proteins"
2:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 18, 2010
Professor Tomislav Rovis, Colorado State University
"Ring-Forming Strategies in Asymmetric Catalysis"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 26, 2010
Professor Ramesh Jasti, Boston University
"Bridging Organic Synthesis and Nanoscience"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 1, 2010
Professor Jay S. Siegel, University of Zurich
"Polar-pi effects and the development of silicon-based Lewis acids"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 2, 2010
Professor Phil Dawson, Scripps Research Institute
"Synthetic Protein Engineering"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 9, 2010
Professor Daniel Raleigh, SUNY-Stony Brook
CANCELLED
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 16, 2010
Professor Karl A. Scheidt, Northwestern University
"New Discoveries with Carbene Catalysis"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 23, 2010
Professor Brad Smith, Notre Dame University
"Supramolecular probes for optical bioimaging"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 8, 2010
Professor Jonathan Ellman, University of California, Berkeley
"Development and Application of New Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 9, 2010
Professor Michael Best, University of Tennessee
"Chemical Approaches to the Investigation of Protein-Membrane Binding Interactions using Synthetic Lipid Probes"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 15, 2010
Professor Jing Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 25, 2010
Professor Guozhong Cao, University of Washington
"Engineering Nanomaterials and Interfaces for Energy Conversion and Storage"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 30, 2010
Professor Martin Burke, University of Illinois
"The Prospect of Molecular Prosthetics: Small Molecules with Protein-Like Functions"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 6, 2010
Professor Francois Diederich, ETH Zurich
"Molecular Recognition Studies with Biological Receptors"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 13, 2010
Professor Neil Marsh, University of Michigan
"From frying pans to frogs: adventures with fluorinated proteins and peptides"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 15, 2010
Professor Bruce Parkinson, University of Wyoming
"Sensitization of TiO2 crystals to visble light using molecular dyes and quantum dot sensitizers"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130


BMS Lecture Series
April 16 & 17, 2010

April 16
Bristol-Myers Squibb Sponsored Lecturer
Professor Dr. Alois Fürstner, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
"Tinkering with Nature's Macrolides"
4:00 PM, Merkert 127

April 17
Dr. Martin Eastgate, Bristol-Myers Squibb
"Mechanistic Insight and Ligand Design in the 1,4-Oxidation of 1,3- Dienes"
10:00 AM, Merkert 127

Professor Dr. Alois Fürstner, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
"A Cheap Metal for a Noble Task: Progress in Iron Catalysis"
11:15 AM, Merkert 127


April 22, 2010
Professor Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol
"Boron, the ultimate orchestrator of chemoselective transformations"
3:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 27, 2010
Professor Sir Harold Kroto, Florida State University
"Architecture in NanoSpace"
4:00 PM, Merkert 127

April 29, 2010
Professor Teri Odom, Northwestern University
"Pyramidal Shells: A Platform for Designing Multifunctional Plasmonic Particles"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 15, 2009
Professor Marcy Waters, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
"A molecular view of biomolecular recognition"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 16, 2009
Professor Scott E. Denmark, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
"Lewis Base Activation of Lewis Acids: On Beyond Silicon"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 25, 2009
Professor Ali Javey, University of California, Berkeley
"Nanoscale Semiconductor Materials: Challenges & Opportunities"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
3:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 29, 2009
Professor Li Deng, Brandeis University
"Asymmetric Reactions with Bifunctional Organic Catalysts"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 1, 2009
Professor Craig Grimes, Pennsylvania State University
"Self-Assembled 1-D TiO2 Nanotube/wire Arrays for Efficient Conversion of Solar Energy to Electricity or Fuels"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 6, 2009
Professor Jason Harper, University of New South Wales, Australia
"Towards an Understanding of Organic Processes in Ionic Liquids"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 8, 2009
Professor Andrew Phillips, University of Colorado
"Complex Molecule Synthesis: Opportunities in Chemistry and Biology"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 19, 20, & 21, 2009
University Lecturer
Dr. Jean M.J. Fréchet, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Rapoport Chair of Organic Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
Scientific Director of the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

October 19, 2009
“Functional Macromolecules: from Superhydrophobic Surfaces to Catalytic Nanoreactors”
4:00 - 5:30 PM, Merkert 127

October 20, 2009
“Designing Macromolecules for Chemo- and Immuno-Therapy”
4:00 - 5:30 PM, Merkert 127

October 21, 2009
“Polymers in Organic Electronics”
3:00 - 4:30 PM, Merkert 127

View the Poster for Dr. Fréchet's University Lecture Series

November 3, 2009
Professor Lukas Tamm, University of Virginia
"Structure, Folding, and Gating of Outer Membrane Proteins by MR and Thermodynamic Approaches"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 5, 2009
>Professor Irene Chen, Harvard Medical School
"Information in the Prebiotic World"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 17, 2009
Professor Milton R. Smith, III, Michigan State University
"Metal Catalyzed C-H Borylation: How Mechanistic Insights Made the Impractical Practical"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 19, 2009
Professor Lila Gierasch, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Towards an energy landscape for protein folding in the cell"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

December 8, 2009
Professor Chris Vanderwal, University of California, Irvine
“Synthesis and Study of the Chlorosulfolipids and Complex Molecule Synthesis Inspired by the Zincke Ring-Openings of Pyridines”
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 22, 2009
Professor Hee Cheul Choi, Pohang University of Science & Technology, South Korea
"Structure confinement of carbon-based nanomaterials in vapor phase for their applications in nanoelectronic/photonic systems"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 23, 2009
Professor Sam Gellman, University of Wisconsin
"Structure and Function in Peptidic Foldamers"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 27, 2009
Professor Mary Beth Williams, Pennsylvania State University
CANCELLED

February 10, 2009
Professor Krishna Kumar, Tufts University
"Bioorthogonal Noncovalent Chemistry"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 6, 2009
Professor Dan Yang, University of Hong Kong
"Using Synthetic Organic Chemistry to Probe Biological Mechanisms"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 12, 2009
Professor Jin Montclare, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
"Bioinspired Macromolecules: Protein Catalysts to Materials"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 19 & 20, 2009
O'Malley Visiting Scholar
Professor Moungi Bawendi, MIT

March 19, 2009
"Science and Technology of Semiconductor Nanocrystals"
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 20, 2009
"Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: It's all about the excitons"
3:00 PM, Merkert 130


April 7, 2009
Professor Jovica Badjic, Ohio State University
"Gated Molecular Baskets"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 14, 2009
Professor Tehshik Yoon, University of Wisconsin
"Oxidative Functionalization Reactions of Oxaziridines"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 15, 16, & 17, 2009
University Lecturer
Dr. Jay D. Keasling, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley
Hubbard Howe Jr. Distinguished Professor of Biochemical Engineering
Director, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center
CEO, Joint BioEnergy Institute

April 15, 2009
“Engineering microbial metabolism for production of anti-malarial drugs”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

April 16, 2009
“From Bugs to Biofuels”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

April 17, 2009
“Synthetic Biology: a new discipline in biological engineering”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

View the Poster for Dr. Keasling's University Lecture Series

April 23, 2009
Professor Scott Denmark, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Novartis Lecturer
CANCELLED

April 27, 2009
Professor Eric Wei-Guang Diau, Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
CANCELLED

April 28, 2009
Professor Uwe Bunz, Georgia Institute of Technology
"From Large Heteroacenes to Cruciform Fluorophores"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

June 25, 2009
Professor Peter Schreiner, University of Giessen, Germany
"Diamondoids as Novel Materials for Organic Electronics and Catalysis"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
3:00 - 6:00 PM, Merkert 130

August 22, 2008
Professor Art Cho, Korea University
“Quantum Mechanics in Protein Docking”
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

August 25, 2008
Professor Karin Hauser, Institute of Biophysics, University of Frankfurt, Germany
“Protein Folding and Dynamics studied by Infrared Spectroscopy”
Physical Chemistry Seminar
2:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 2, 2008
Professor Tohru Yamada, Keio University, Japan
“Enantioselective Borohydride Reduction Catalyzed by Optically Active Cobalt(II) Complexes”
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 4, 2008
Professor Joseph Harrity, University of Sheffield, UK
“Development of New Regio- and Stereoselective Heterocycle Syntheses through Cycloaddition Reactions”
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 9, 2008
Professor Tatyana Polenova
“Magic Angle Spinning NMR Specrtoscopy of Microtubule - Associated Proteins, Thioredoxin Reassemblies and Vanadium Haloperoxidases”
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 16, 2008
Professor Xi Chen
Title: TBD
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 19, 2008
Professor Julia Chan, Louisiana State University
“Crystal growth and Physical Properties of Intermetallics: Challenges and Opportunities”
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 23, 2008
Professor Herbert Mayr, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
"Reactivity Scales for Designing Organic Syntheses"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 30, 2008
Professor Tadhg Begley
"Thiamin Biosynthesis - Still Yielding Fascinating Biological Chemistry"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 7, 2008
Professor Mary K. Pflum, Wayne State University
"Kinase Cosubtrate Promiscuity"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 9, 2008
Professor F. D. Lewis, Northwestern University
"Base-Sequence Control of DNA Photochemistry"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 16, 2008
Professor Masahiro Terada, Tohoku University, Japan
"Enantioselective Catalysis by Chiral Bronsted Acid/Base through Hydrogen Bonding as Strategic Interaction"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 21, 2008
An Organic Symposium Sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb

Dr. Rodney Parsons, Bristol-Myers Squibb
"Case Studies in Process Research and Development"
3:30 PM, Merkert 127

4:30 PM, Refreshments in the Merkert Lobby

Professor Larry Overman, University of California, Irvine
"Recent Studies in Alkaloid Total Synthesis"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
5:00 PM, Merkert 127

October 22, 2008
Professor Q. Jason Cheng, University of California, Riverside
"Supported Lipid Membrane Interfaces for Biosensing with Surface Plasmon Resonance"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 28, 2008
Professor John Koh, University of Delaware
"Chemical Rescue of Nuclear Receptor Mutations"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 29, 2008
Professor Milan Vasak, University of Zurich
"Zinc and copper in the brain: Unraveling the role of metallothionein-3"
Chemical Biology & Inorganic Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 30, 2008
Professor Emmanuel Lacote, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Title: TBD
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 4, 2008
Professor John Porco, Boston University
"Synthetic Methods Inspired by Complex Natural Products"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 6, 2008
Professor Peter Lu, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
"Probing Single-Molecule Protein Conformational Dynamics"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 11, 2008
Professor Catherine Drennan, MIT
Title: TBD
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 18, 2008
Professor Mei Hong, Iowa State University
"Structure and dynamics of antimicrobial and viral membrane proteins from solid-state NMR"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

December 8, 2008
Professor Naohiko Yoshikai, University of Tokyo, Japan
"Activation of Unreactive Carbon-Halogen and Carbon-Hydrogen Bonds by Transition Metal Catalysis of Nucleophilic Organometallics"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

December 9, 2008
Professor Melanie S. Sanford, University of Michigan
"Pd(II/IV)-Catalyzed Reactions in Organic Synthesis"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 8, 2008
Professor David Y. Gin, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
"Synthesis of Carbohydrate Immunostimulants and Bioactive Alkaloids"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 10, 2008
Professor M. Shane Hutson, Vanderbilt University
"Wavelength-Dependent Structural Failure of Collagen During Mid-IR Laser Surgery"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 15, 2008
Professor Ross A. Widenhoefer, Duke University
"Gold and Platinum-Catalyzed Hydrofunctionalization of C=C Bonds"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 5, 2008
Professor Joel Schneider, University of Delaware
"De Novo Design of Peptide Materials"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 7, 2008
Professor Jin Z. Zhang, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Novel Optical and Dynamic Properties and Emerging Applications of Nanomaterials"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 21, 2008
Professor J. Daniel Gezelter, University of Notre Dame
"Rippled Membranes and Imaginary Ice: Surprise From Molecular Dynamics"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 26, 2008
Professor Jeffrey W. Bode, University of Pennsylvania
"Organic Redox Reactions for Enantioselective Annulations and Chemoselective Ligations"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 11, 2008
Professor Yoshihisa Kobayashi, University of California, San Diego
"Heterocycles in Natural Product Synthesis"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 17, 2008
Professor Robin Kinnel, Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry, Hamilton College
"Adventures and Lessons from Three Decades of Natural Products -- Some Finished and Unfinished Business"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 18, 2008
Dr. Jewgeni Starikow, Institute for Nanotechnology
"DNA Interaction with Incident Electrons and UV Photons: The Role of Charge Transfer Electrons"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 25, 2008
Professor Chaitan Kosla, Stanford University
"New Insights into Macrolide Biosynthesis"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 27, 2008
Professor Martin Gruebele, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Vibrational Energy Flow and Mode Selectivity: What Happens as Molecules Get Larger"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
12:00 PM, Cushing 210

April 1, 2008
Professor J. Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern University
"Chemistry and Molecular Nanotechnology for Tomorrow's World"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 5, 2008
Organic Symposium

Professor James Morken, Boston College
"Transition-Metal Catalyzed Enantioselective Diboration: An Enabling Tool for Organic Synthesis"
Merkert 127

Professor Justin DuBois, Stanford University
"Drawing Inspiration for Reaction Design from Nature's Products"
Merkert 127

Professor Eric Jacobsen, Harvard University
"A Search for Selective Yet General Catalysts"
Merkert 127
Graduate Student, TBD

April 8, 2008
Professor Christina White, University of Illinois
Title: TBD
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 15, 16, & 17, 2008
University Lecturer
Professor Peter G. Wolynes, Francis H. Crick Chair in Physical Science
Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Physics
University of California, San Diego

Three Lectures on Energy Landscapes:

April 15, 2008
“Landscapes of the Sciences”
4:00 – 5:00 p.m., Merkert 127

April 16, 2008
“Energy Landscapes and the Solved Protein Folding Problems”
4:00 – 5:00 p.m., Merkert 127

April 17, 2008
“Beyond Protein Folding”
4:00 – 5:00 p.m., Merkert 127

Sponsored by: Sigma-Aldrich

April 22, 2008
Professor Blake Peterson, Pennsylvania State University
"Synthetic Mimics of Mammalian Cell Surface Receptors"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 24, 2008
Professor Paul Corkum, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences
"Laser Induced Molecular Imaging"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 29, 2008
Professor Scott Silverman, University of Illinois
CANCELLED
New Seminar date is May 6, 2008.

May 1, 2008
Professor George Shields, Hamilton College
"Computational Design of a Small Peptide that Inhibits Breast Cancer"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 6, 2008
Professor Scott Silverman, University of Illinois
"DNA as a Catalyst for Bioorganic Chemistry"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 8, 2008
Professor John Brauman, Stanford University
"Hydrogen Bonding: Acidity, Basicity, and Effects on Reactivity"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 13, 2008
Professor John L. Wood, Colorado State University
SEMINAR CANCELLED

September 18, 2007 CANCELLED
Professor Clark Landis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Enantioselective Catalysis with 3,4-Diazaphospholanes"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 28, 2007
Dr. John Kozarich, ActivX Biosciences, Inc.
"Mechanistic Adventures in Nucleotide Binding Space"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
2:00 PM, Merkert 127

October 4, 2007
Professor Dongping Zhong, Ohio State University
"Ultrafast Dynamics of Protein Surface Hydration"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 10, 2007
Professor Paul Barbara, University of Texas
O'Malley Lecturer
"Single Molecule Spectroscopic Studies of Organic Photovoltaic Materials and Devices"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 11, 2007
Professor Paul Barbara, University of Texas
O'Malley Lecturer
"Single Molecule Kinetic Studies on Protein/Nucleic Acid Interactions in HIV-1 Reverse Transcription In Vitro"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
1:00 PM, Carney 206

October 11, 2007
Professor Moonsub Shim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Charging Carbon Nanotubes: Electrons, Phonons, and Chemical Reactivity"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 23, 2007
Professor Dhandapani Venkataraman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Triarylamines with a Twist"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 25, 2007
Professor Isamu Shiina, Tokyo University of Science
Title: TBD
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 30, 2007
Professor Maurice Brookhart, University of North Carolina
"Catalytic Transformations Employing C-H and Si-H Bond Activation Reactions"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 6, 2007
Professor Feng Gai, University of Pennsylvania
"Fast Folding Events in Solution and in Membranes"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 13, 2007
Professor Catherine Drennan, MIT
"Structural Insights into Enzymatic Halogenation of Natural Products"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 15, 2007
Professor Song Jin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"How to Make a Christmas Tree: General Chemical Synthesis of Silicide Nanowires and Complex Nanowire Structures"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 27, 2007
Professor Ronald Raines, University of Wisconsin
"Stereoelectronic Effects on Protein Structure: Lessons from Collagen"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

December 6, 2007
Professor Nick Melosh, Stanford University
"Bio-Electronic Interfaces and Plasmonic Integration with Molecular Electronics"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

June 13, 2007
Professor Toshikazu Hirao, Osaka University, Japan
"Sumanene: A New π-Conjugated Bowl"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

July 12, 2007
Professor Tetsuro Majima, Osaka University
"Charge Transfer Through DNA Nanoscaled Assembly Programmable With DNA Building Blocks"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 130

July 20, 2007
Professor Alexandre Alexakis, University of Geneva
"Chiral Diamines as Ligands and Organocatalysts"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

August 27, 2007
Professor Shinichi Saito, Tokyo University of Science
"New Cycloaddition Reactions of Electron-Deficient Methylenecyclopropanes: Efficient Synthesis of Medium-Sized Rings"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 127

January 23, 2007
Professor Anne Gershenson, Brandeis University
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 30, 2007
Professor Gregory Petsko, Brandeis University
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 6, 2007
Professor Timothy M. Swager, John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 13, 2007
Professor Michael D. Burkart, University of California - San Diego
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 20, 2007
Professor John Montgomery, University of Michigan
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130
2006/2007 Bristol-Myers Squib Lecturer

February 27, 2007
Professor Brian M. Stoltz, California Institute of Technology
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 5, 2007
Professor Barry M. Trost, Stanford University
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 13, 2007
Professor Janis Louis, University of Utah
"The Versatility of Nickel Cycloaddition Catalysts"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 15, 2007
Professor Jim Maher, Mayo Clinic College Of Medicine
"DNA Flexibility Enhancement in vivo"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 21, 22, & 23, 2007
University Lecturer
Professor Richard R. Schrock, Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry
Nobel Laureate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"The Discovery and Development of High Oxidation State Catalysts for the Metathesis of Alkenes and Alkynes"
March 21, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., Merkert 127

"Applications of High Oxidation State Metathesis Catalysts in Organic and Polymer Chemistry" March 22, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., Merkert 127

"Catalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia with Protons and Electrons"
March 23, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., Merkert 127

View the Poster for Dr. Schrock's University Lecture Series

March 27, 2007
Professor Joseph P. Noel, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
"Traversing Evolutionary Pathways in Three Dimensions: Divergent Substrate and Product Specificities in Specialized Metabolism"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 2, 2007
Professor Alan S. Goldman, Rutgers University
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130
Abbott Lecturer

April 3, 2007
Professor Antonio M. Echavarren, Institut Català d’Investigació Químa, Spain
"The Mechanistic Puzzle of Gold-Catalyzed Cyclizations of Enynes and Beyond"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 10, 2007
Professor Chuan He, University of Chicago
"Regulation of Virulence, Antibiotic Resistance and Metal Ions in Bacteria"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 17, 2007
Professor Samuel Danishefsky, Columbia University
Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecturer
"Natural Products and Total Synthesis in the Drug Discovery Process"
with Dr. Carl P. Decicco
Bristol-Myers Squibb
"Innovation in Drug Discovery"
Bristol-Myers Squibb sponsored Symposium
Organic Chemistry Seminar
3:30 PM, Merkert 127

April 19, 2007
Professor Claudio Margulis, University of Iowa
"Dynamics, Thermodynamics and Spectroscopy of Novel Room-Temperature Ionic-Liquids"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 24, 2007
Professor Anna K. Mapp, University of Michigan
"Small Molecule Control of Gene Activation"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 26, 2007
Professor Norman Tolk, Vanderbilt University
"Ultra-fast Laser Induced Vibrational Dynamics at Surfaces Leading to Bond Scission and Traveling Phonon Wave Induced Oscillations"
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 1, 2007
Professor Phil S. Baran, The Scripps Research Institute
"The Catalytic Cycle of Discovery in Total Synthesis"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 2, 2007
Professor Janine Cossy, Ecole Supérieure de physique et chimie Indistrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI)
"Chemoselective reactions. Towards the Synthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products"
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 8, 2007
Professor Victor Batista, Yale University
"Modeling Photo-induced Reaction Dynamics and Coherent Control: from Small Molecules to Sensitized Semiconductors."
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 7, 2006
Professor Jianshu Cao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Statistical Analysis of Single Molecule Measurements"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 14, 2006
Dr. Christopher B. Murray, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
"Preparation and Properties of Multicomponent Nanocrystal Superlattices: Building with Artificial Atoms" 
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 19, 2006
Professor Colin Nuckolls, Columbia University
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 21, 2006
Professor Norbert F. Scherer, University of Chicago
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 26, 27, & 28, 2006
Professor Nicola L. Pohl, Iowa State University
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 3, 2006
Professor Hisashi Yamamoto, University of Chicago
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130
2006/2007 Novartis Lecturer

October 6, 2006
Professor Tianquam Tim Lian, O'Malley Visiting Scholar
Emory University
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 17, 2006
Professor Jinquan Yu, Brandeis University
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 20, 2006
Professor Motomu Kanai, University of Tokyo, Japan
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 25, 2006
Professor Bernhard Breit, Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Germany
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 26, 2006
Professor Albena Ivanisevic, Purdue University
"Fabrication and Characterization of Biological and Chemical Architectures"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 31, 2006
Professor Melanie S. Sanford, University of Michigan
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 2, 2006
Professor Steven Baldelli, University of Houston
"Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy and Imaging of Surfaces" 
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 7, 2006
Professor F. Dean Toste, Chevron Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 9, 2006
Professor Torsten Fiebig, Boston College
"DNA Photonics - Probing the Electronic Properties of DNA" 
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 14, 2006
Professor David E. Cane, Brown University
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 16, 2006
Dr. William Chameides, Environmental Defense Fund
"Why an Academic Left the Hallowed Halls to Advocate for Action on Global Warming" 
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 21, 2006
Dr. Albert Stolow, National Research Council Canada
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 28, 2006
Professor Benjamin T. King, University of Nevada, Reno
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

December 6, 2006
Professor Steven Bruner, Boston College
Chemical Biology Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

December 7, 2006
Professor Christopher J. Bardeen, University of California
"Energy Transport in Amorphous and Crystalline Organic Materials"
Physical Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

December 12, 2006
Professor Jeffrey S. Johnson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00 PM, Merkert 130