FUTURE COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULES

ALL LECTURES ARE SCHEDULED AT 4:00 P.M. IN ROOM 304, CHEMISTRY BUILDING

FALL 2008

DATE

SPEAKER (HOST)

TITLE

September 5
Professor Brent Gunnoe
University of Virginia
(Professor Dean Harman)
Development of Homogeneous Catalysts for the Conversion of C-H Bonds
12
Professor Zeev Rosenzweig
University of New Orleans and the National Science Foundation
(Professor Jill Venton)
Quantum Dot-Based Probes for Bioassys
19
Professor Craig Forest
Georgia Institute of Technology
(Professor James Landers)
Ultra-high throughput instrumentation for DNA mutation detection and sequencing
26
Professor Christian Melander
North Carolina State University
(Professor Jason Chruma)
TBA
October 3
IRELAND LECTURE
Dr. William Roush
Scripps Research Institute
(Professor James Marshall)
Design and Applications of Bifunctional Allylboron Reagents for the Synthesis of Biologically ActiveNatural Products
10
Professor Harald F. Hess
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
(Professor Kevin Lehmann)
Novel Optical Imaging Techniques
17
Professor Timothy S. Zwier
Purdue University
(Professor Kevin Lehmann)
Single Conformation Spectroscopy and Isomerization Dynamics of Flexible Molecules
24
Professor Michael Shirts
University of Virginia (Department of Chemical Engineering)
(Professor Linda Columbus)
Noncovalent Molecular Design In Silico: Ligand Binding and Beyond
31
Dr. Grant Dubois
Coca Cola Corporation
(Professor Mario Geysen)
TBA
November 7
Professor Helen E. Blackwell
University of Wisconsin
(Professor Cassandra Fraser)
Translating and Expanding the Language of Bacterial Communication Using Organic Chemistry
14
Professor Nick Hud
Georgia Institute of Technology
(Professor Linda Columbus)
Harnessing Nucleic Acid Intercalation, A New Approach to
Template-Directed Synthesis and the RNA World
21
LUTZ LECTURE
Professor Robert Crabtree
Yale University
(Professor Dean Harman)
Molecular Recognition for High Selectivity in Homogeneous Catalysis

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