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An upcoming symposium titled, Bioinorganic Headwaters at the University of Minnesota: A Retrospective and Prospective in Honor of Regents Professor Larry Que, will be held from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Friday, August 1, in 220 Science Teaching & Student Services (STSS). Please note: *Registrations for lunch and dinner are now closed.
Symposium Program:
8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks
Graduate Student Gregory Rohde
8:40 a.m. Is H. pylori HypA a Nickel Traffic Cop?
Professor Mike Maroney, University of Massachusetts
9:20 a.m. From Larry Que to the Secondary Coordination Sphere
Professor Andy Borovik, University of California, Irvine
10 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Molecular Iron Catalysts for Challenging Oxidative Transformations Professor Miquel Costas, University of Girona
11:10 a.m. Tetramethylcyclam (TMC), A Never-Ending Fairy Tale Professor Feifei Li, New Mexico State University
11:50 a.m. Geometric and Electronic Structure Contributions to Function in Cu/O2 (Bio)Inorganic Chemistry Professor Edward Solomon, Stanford University
12:30 p.m. *Lunch and poster session
2:30 p.m. Alternative View of Biological Cis-Diol Formation: Radically Rieske Professor John Lipscomb, University of Minnesota
3:10 p.m. TBA
Professor Sheila David, University of California, Davis
3:50 p.m. Mononuclear Fe(III)-Superoxo Species in a Dioxygenase and a Novel Synthetic BDPP Complex
Professor Eckard Münck, Carnegie Mellon University
4:30 p.m. Break
5 p.m. The TMPA (TPA) Ligand in Copper Synthetic Bioinorganic Chemistry
Professor Ken Karlin, Johns Hopkins University
5:40 p.m. Copper: The Alternate “Landscape”
Professor William Tolman, University of Minnesota
6:20 p.m. Closing Remarks University of Minnesota Regents Professor Lawrence Que Jr.
6:30 p.m. Happy Hour
7:30 p.m. *Dinner