Seminars for February 2015

Professor Erick M. Carreira     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Switzerland

Time:   4:00 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Versatile Iridium Catalysts for a Broad Range of Asymmetric Transformations

Professor Erick M. Carreira     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Switzerland

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Discovery and Surprises with Natural Products

Professor Erick M. Carreira     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Switzerland

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Chemistry and Biology of Human Derived Natural Products and Their Use in Drug Discovery

Professor J. Martin Bollinger     (web page)
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Demystifying the Chemical Magic of Non-heme-iron Enzymes in Natural Product Biosynthesis

Associate Professor Timothy Jackson     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Kansas, Lawrence KS

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Insights into Manganese-dependent Enzymes from Biomimetic Peroxo- and Oxomanganese Complexes

Professor Anna Krylov     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA

Time:   4 PM
Room: 401/402 Walter Library

Who Holds us Back? Personal Account of Cultural and Societal Obstacles Facing Women Pursuing Careers in Science

Professor Anna Krylov     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Excited-State Electron Transfer in Fluorescent Proteins: Curse or Blessing?

Professor Marcy Towns     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Goals for Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory

Professor John Rogers     (web page)
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Biodegradable Electronics