Chemistry Seminar Series 2011 - 2012
Fall 2011
Danielle Dube, Bowdoin College
"A Chemical Approach to Discover Glycoproteins in the Pathogen Helicobacter pylori"
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 11:00 a.m., Seaver North Auditorium (Pomona)
http://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/d/ddube/
Bruce Lipshutz, UC Santa Barbara
"Getting Organic Solvents Out of Organic Reactions"
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 11:00 a.m., Seaver North Auditorium (Pomona)
http://www.chem.ucsb.edu/~lipshutzgroup/index2.shtml
Dan Ratner, University of Washington
"Tales of a Wayward Chemist: From Carbohydrate Chemistry to Biointerfacial Engineering for Glycomics"
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 11:00 a.m., Seaver North Auditorium (Pomona)
http://faculty.washington.edu/dratner/Research.html
Alison Butler, UC Santa Barbara
"Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Iron Acquisition: Photoreactive and Amphiphilic Marine Siderophores"
Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 at 11:00 a.m., Seaver North Auditorium (Pomona)
http://www.chem.ucsb.edu/~butlergroup/
Madeleine Jacobs, CEO of American Chemical Society
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 7:00 p.m., Galileo Pryne Auditorium (HMC)
Catharine Larsen, UC Riverside
"Base- and Ligand-Free Copper(II) Catalysis Forms Propargylamines from Sulfonamides to N-Heterocycles"
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 11:00 a.m., Burns Lecture Hall (JSD)
http://chem.ucr.edu/
Paula Diaconescu, UCLA
"Reactivity Behavior of Metal Complexes Supported by Chelated-Ferrocene Ligands"
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 11:00 a.m., Burns Lecture Hall (JSD)
http://faculty.chemistry.ucla/
Peter Atkins, Oxford University
Friday, October 28, 2011 at 7:00 p.m., Galileo Pryne Auditorium (HMC)
Theo Agapie, Caltech
"Synthesis and Reactivity of First Row Transition Metal Clusters"
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 11:00 a.m., Burns Lecture Hall (JSD)
http://agapie.caltech.edu/
Robbins Lecture Series
J. Andrew McCammon
University of California, San Diego
November 7-10, 2011
http://mccammon.ucsd.edu/
Peter Dervan, Caltech
Friday, November 18, 2011 at 7:30 p.m., Galileo Pryne Auditorium (HMC)
http://dervan.caltech.edu/
Judith Giordan, VentureWell
Friday, December 2, 2011 at 7:00 p.m., Galileo Pryne Auditorium (HMC)
http://venturewell.org/
Spring 2012
Paul Robustelli '06, Columbia University
"New Methods for Studying Protein Structure and Dynamics with NMR Spectroscopy and Molecular Simulations"
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Seaver North Auditorium
Kim Prather, UC San Diego
"Chemistry in the Clouds: Probing How Aerosols Impact Clouds and Climate"
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Galileo Pryne Auditorium (HMC)
http://www-chem.ucsd.edu/faculty/profiles/prather_kimberly_a.html
Adam Urbach, Trinity University
"Artificial Receptors for Peptides and Proteins"
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Galileo Pryne Auditorium (HMC)
http://trinity.edu/aurbach/
Alex Spokoyny, Northwestern University
"The Fifth Element: Multipass for Unique Ligands, Materials, and Molecular Devices"
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Galileo Pryne Auditorium (HMC)
Karen Morrison, University of Illinois
"Construction of Complex and Diverse Compounds Yields a Novel Antitumor Agent"
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Galileo Pryne Auditorium (HMC)
Dan Siehl, Dupont-Pioneer Hi Bred
"Bioengineering for Crop Tolerance: Discovery and Directed Evolution of a Glyphosate Tolerance Gene"
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Seaver North Auditorium (Pomona)
Robert B. Grubbs '93, SUNY Stony Brook
"From Molecules to Macromolecules to Materials with Organic Chemistry"
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Seaver North Auditorium (Pomona)
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu:81/faculty/rgrubbs.htm
Andrew Udit, Occidental College
"Virus Nanoparticles that Catalyze and Cure"
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Seaver North Auditorium (Pomona)
http://departments.oxy.edu/chemistry/faculty/udit.htm
Paula Diaconescu, UCLA
"Reactivty Behavior of Metal Complexes Supported by Chelated-Ferrocene Ligands"
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 11:00 a.m.
http://faculty.chemistry.ucla.edu/institution/personnel?personnel_id+235751
Tim Steimle, Arizona State University
"Spectroscopy in Support of Fundamental Physics: YbF, ThO and WC"
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Seaver North Auditorium (Pomona)
http://chemistry.asu.edu/faculty/t_steimle.asp
Dustin Maly, University of Washington
"The Chemical Biology of Signal Transduction"
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Burns Lecture Hall (JSC)
http://depts.wshington.edu
The location for Pomona seminars is Seaver Auditorium. The location for Harvey Mudd seminars is the Galileo Pryne Auditorium. The location for Joint Sciences seminars is the Burns Lecture Hall.
Students interested in having lunch with the seminar speakers should consult with the seminar coordinator of the hosting college:
Pomona College: Matthew Sazinsky (909) 607-1011
Harvey Mudd College: Dave Vosburg (x79701 or david_vosburg@hmc.edu)
Joint Sciences: Scott Williams (x71630 or swilliams@jsd.claremont.edu)