Seminars for April 2015

Professor Dana Dlott     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Materials Chemistry Under Extreme Conditions

Assistant Professor Daniel Harki     (web page)
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Harnessing APOBEC3-Catalyzed Genome Mutation with Small Molecules

Professor Andrew Borovik     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Irvine CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Synthetic Chemistry as a Window into Biology

Associate Professor Richard Brutchey     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

An Alkahest for Chalcogenide Semiconductors: Solution Processing of Insoluble Bulk Materials

Professor Dean Tantillo     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Davis CA

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Forks in the Road: The Importance of Inherent Carbocation Reactivity in Terpene Biosynthesis

Professor James Mayer     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Yale University, New Haven CT

Time:   3:45 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: from Hydrogen Atom Transfer and Marcus Theory to Electrocatalysis to Nanoparticles

Professor James Mayer     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Yale University, New Haven CT

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Coupling Proton and Electron Transfers: A Deeper Look and Extensions to Electrocatalysis

Professor James Mayer     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Yale University, New Haven CT

Time:   3:45 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

A Different View of Redox Reactions at Solid-Solution Interfaces: Thinking Beyond the Electron

Assistant Professor Guangbin Dong     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Texas, Austin TX

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

C–C and C–H Functionalization Based on Common Functional Groups

Professor Kevan Shokat     (web page)
Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology
University of California, San Francisco

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Non-Traditional Strategies for Drugging Traditional Targets: Kinases and GTPases