Seminars

This Month (May)

05/07 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Xuan Zhao, The University of Memphis
"Design of Photocatalytic Systems for H2 Production"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
05/10 2013 Yale Chemical Biology Symposium
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, NICHD, National Institutes of Health
Jonathan S. Weissman, University of California, San Francisco
David A. Tirrell, California Institute of Technology
David Baker, University of Washington
Steven A. Carr, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Andrew J. Phillips, Yale University
8:45 am - 4:50 pm Grace Murray Hopper Auditorium, B-25
Yale West Campus, West Haven, CT
05/13 AbbVie Lectures
Professor Daniel Kahne, Harvard University
"Lipopolysaccharide Transport and Assembly in Escherichia Coli"
Dr. Michael Kort, AbbVie Inc.
"Too Hot to Handle? TRPV1 Antagonists for Treatment of Chronic Pain"
3:30 pm Room 305 BASS
05/21 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Richard Kemp, The University of New Mexico
"TBA"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laborato
05/23 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Erik Alexanian, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"TBA"
4:00 pm Room 123 Chemical Research Building
05/30 Aldrich Lecture
Professor Dionicio R. Siegel, The University of Texas-Austin
"TBA"
4:00 pm Room 305 BASS

Fall 2012

September

09/04 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Gojko Lalic, University of Washington
"Catalytic Hydrofunctionalization Reactions Involving Alkenes, Alkynes, and Allenes"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
09/13 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Michelle C. Chang, University of California-Berkeley
"Building New Chemical Function in Living Organisms"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
09/18 Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Professor Laurence J. Zwiebel, Vanderbilt University
"Addressing a Grand Challenge in Global Health by Combining Mosquito Olfaction and Small Molecule Chemistry in an Effort to Alter Insect Behavior"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
09/20 Boehringer-Ingelheim Lecture
Professor Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
"Stories on design & surprise: C-H activation, asymmetric arene hydrogenation and NHC organocatalysis"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
09/27 Treat B. Johnson Lecture
Professor Stephen B.H. Kent, The University of Chicago
"Reinventing the Natural Protein World through Total Chemical Synthesis"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory

October

10/02 Lecture in Physical Chemistry
Professor Mark E. Tuckerman, New York University
"Computational Molecular Science from Proton Conductors to Organic Crystals and Biomolecules: Exploiting and Developing an Emerging Technology"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
10/03 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Jerome Waser, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne
"Electrophilic Alkynylation Reagents and Aminocyclopropanes: from Catalysis to Alkaloid Synthesis"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
10/03 West Campus & Department of Chemistry
Professor Michael R. Wasielewski, Northwestern University
"Integrated Molecular Systems for Artificial Photosynthesis"
2:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
10/09 Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Professor Ka Yee C. Lee, The University of Chicago
"Stressing Lipid Films: Relaxation Mechanism in Lung Surfactant and Effects of Polymers on Membrane Structural Integrity"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
10/10 Chemical Biology Retreat
Professor Alanna Schepartz, Yale University
Professor Farren Isaacs, Yale University
Professor Scott Miller, Yale University
Professor Elizabeth Rhoades, Yale University
Professor Karen Anderson, Yale University
Professor Jason Crawford, Yale University
Professor Matthew Simon, Yale University
Dr. Jonathan O'Connell, Bristol-Myers Squibb
9:00 - 5:00 pm Grace Murray Hopper Auditorium, B-25
West Campus, West Haven, CT
10/10 Lecture in Inorganic/Physical Chemistry
Professor Suzanne Blum, University of California, Irvine
"Optical Microscopy Studies of Catalysts and Dual-Metal Catalysis with Gold"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
10/11 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Daniel J. Weix, University of Rochester
"No More Nucleophiles: Direct, Selective Cross Coupling of Electrophiles"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
10/16 Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Professor Rafael P. Brüschweiler, The Florida State University
"From Protein Dynamics to Function by NMR and Computation"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
10/17 2012 CT Organic Chemistry Symposium
Stuart L. Schreiber, Harvard University, HHMI, Broad Institute
Craig A. Townsend, Johns Hopkins University
Seth B. Herzon, Yale University
Randall L. Halcomb, Gilead Sciences
12:30 - 7:00 pm Grace Murray Hopper Auditorium, B-25
Yale West Campus, West Haven, CT
10/25 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Jin-Quan Yu, The Scripps Research Institute
"Ligand-enabled C–H Activation Reactions: A Shortcut to Drug Molecules from Chemical Feedstock"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
10/27 J. Michael McBride Retirement Symposium
Mark D. Hollingsworth, Kansas State University
Meir Lahav, Weizmann Institute of Science
Gilbert M. Nathanson, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Cristobal Viedma, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Stephen F. Nelsen, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Bart Kahr, New York University
J. Michael McBride, Yale University
8:00 - 4:45 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory

November

11/06 William A. Chupka Lecture
Professor Paul Corkum, National Research Council Canada
"Laser Induced Molecular Imaging"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
11/13 Lecture in Chemical Biology
Professor Pieter C. Dorrestein, University of California-San Diego
"Mass Spectrometric Approaches to Visualize Microbial Metabolic Exchange Factors"
3:00 PM Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
11/13 Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Professor John D. Lambris, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
"Innate Immunity: More Than a "Guard" Against Invading Pathogens"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
11/15 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Liviu Mirica, Washington University
"Oxidative Organometallic Reactivity of Pd(III) and Pd(IV) Complexes Supported by Flexible Multidentate Ligands"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
11/16 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Curtis P. Berlinguette, University of Calgary
"Extending the Warranty of the Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
11/27 Special Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Yogesh Surendranath, University of California, Berkeley
"Controlling Holes for Efficient Solar-to-fuels Conversion"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
11/29 Special Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Joanna Slusky, Fox Chase Cancer Center
"The Ins and Outs of Charges in Membrane Proteins"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
11/30 Lecture in Chemical Biology
Professor Chuan He, University of Chicago
"Reversible Epigenetic Methylation of DNA and RNA in Mammalian Cells"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory

December

12/03 Special Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Ayush Verma, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics
"Engineering Nanoparticles: From Biomolecular Recognition to Delivery of Self-amplifying RNA Vaccines"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
12/04 Special Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Renee Frontiera, Northwestern University & University of California, Berkeley
"Obtaining Structural Snapshots of Reacting Molecules in Real Time with Ultrafast Vibrational Surface-Enhanced Spectroscopies"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
12/05 Special Lecture in Physical Chemistry
Sean Roberts, University of Southern California
"Can Triplet Excitons Play a Role in Plastic Photovoltaics?"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
12/06 Special Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Jeffrey Warren, California Institute of Technology
"Electron Flow in Biomolecules: Lessons from Artificial and Natural Systems"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
12/12 Special Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry
Edward O'Brien, University of Cambridge
"Understanding Cotranslational Protein Folding at the Molecular and Cellular Levels"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
12/13 Special Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Corinna Schindler, Harvard University
"Natural Product Synthesis: Design and Discovery of New Avenues to Molecular Complexity"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
12/14 Special Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Timothy Newhouse, Harvard University
"Mechanism-based Chemical Synthesis"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
12/17 Special Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Omar Farha, Northwestern University
"TBA"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
12/18 Special Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Smaranda Marinescu, California Institute of Technology
"Catalytic Processes for Organometallic Reactions and Solar Energy Conversiohn"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
12/21 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Theodor Agapie, California Institute of Technology
"Heterometallic Models of the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory

Spring 2013

January

01/07 Special Lecture in Physical Chemistry
Josh Vura-Weis, University of California, Berkeley
"Photophysics of transition metal oxides revealed by femtosecond tabletop x-ray transient absorption spectroscopy"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
01/09 Special Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Abhishek Chatterjee, Scripps Research Institute
"Discovery and Engineering of Novel Biochemical Systems: I. Understanding the Biosynthesis of Vitamin B1 and II. Expanding the Scope of Unnatural Amino Acid Mutagenesis in Vivo"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
01/10 Special Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Seth Herzon, Yale University
"Target-Driven Total Synthesis"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
01/14 Special Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry
Revati Kumar, University of Chicago
"Chemistry at interfaces: From liquid/vapor to electrode/electrolytes"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
01/17 Special Lecture in Chemical Biology
Jiaoyang Jiang, Harvard Medical School
"Mechanism, Inhibition & Proteolytic Activity of Human O-GlcNAc Transferase"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
01/28 Lecture in Physical Chemistry
Professor Hrvoje Petek, University of Pittsburgh
"TiO2 Photocatalysis: Hunt for the Vertical Electron/Hole Acceptor States by Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Theory"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
01/29 Special Lecture in Chemical Biology
Nozomi Ando, Massachusettes Institute of Technology
"Allostery in a Radical Enzyme"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory

February

02/05 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Theodore Betley, Harvard University
"Correlation of electronic structure to reactivity in organometallic catalysis and polynuclear small molecule activation"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
02/08 Lecture in Chemical Biology
David Clemmer, Indiana University
CANCELLED due to weather!
02/12 Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Professor Garth J. Simpson, Purdue University
"Nonlinear Optics of Proteins: Implications for Structural Biology"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
02/14 Jerome A. Berson Lecture
Professor Gerhard Klebe, Philipps Universität Marburg
"Molecular Recognition in Protein-Ligand Complexes: What drives the Binding?"
2:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
02/19 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Christine Thomas, Brandeis University
"Metal-Metal Multiple Bonds in Early/Late Heterobimetallic Complexes: Small Molecule Activation and Catalytic Applications"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
02/25 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Zeev Gross, Technicon Israel Institute of Technology
"Controlling Redox Properties of Metal Complexes for Catalyzing Oxidation and Reduction Processes Relevant to Medicine and Energy"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
02/26 Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Professor Paul Cremer, The Pennsylvania State University
"Exploring the Interactions of Cu2+ with Lipid Membranes"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
02/27 Special Lecture in Chemical Biology
Ke Xu, Harvard University
"Biological Order at the Nanoscale: A Novel, Periodic Cytoskeleton in Neurons Revealed by Sub- 10 nm Super-Resolution Optical Microscopy"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
02/28 Student Colloquium
Professor James Mayer, University of Washington
"Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: From Hydrogen Atom Transfer and Marcus Theory to Electrocatalysis and Nanoparticles"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory

March

03/01 Lecture in Chemical Biology
Professor Minkui Lui, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
"Tailoring Enzyme Cofactor to Profile Substrates and Inhibitors of Protein Methyltransferases"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
03/05 Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Professor Scott Showalter, The Pennsylvania State University
"Folding Upon Binding Events Involving Intrinsically Disordered Proteins"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
03/28 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Ryan E. Looper, The University of Utah
"Propargyl Guanidine Hydroaminations and their Application to Important Heterocyclic Systems"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory

April

04/05 Lecture in Chemical Biology
Professor Philip A. Cole, Johns Hopkins University
"Chemical Approaches to Sorting Out Protein Phosphorylation"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
04/11 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Michael Meijler, Ben-Gurion University
"Chemical Crosstalk Within and Between Species: What are Bacteria Telling Us?"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
04/16 Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Professor Jay T. Groves, University of California-Berkeley
"TBA"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
04/19 Lecture in Chemical Biology
Professor Scott M. Sternson, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Chemical Thinking About Neural Circuits"
4:00 pm Room 305 BASS
04/23 Lecture in Biophysical Chemistry
Professor Vadim Gaponenko, University of Illinois-Chicago
"Design and Investigation of Novel GPCR Antagonists"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
04/25 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Hung-Wen (Ben) Liu, University of Texas-Austin
"Search for a Naturally Selected Diels Alderase"
4:00 pm Room 160 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
04/30 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Justine P. Roth, The Johns Hopkins University
"Oxygen Isotope Effects as Probes of Catalytic Water Oxidation"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory

May

05/07 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Xuan Zhao, The University of Memphis
"Design of Photocatalytic Systems for H2 Production"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
05/10 2013 Yale Chemical Biology Symposium
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, NICHD, National Institutes of Health
Jonathan S. Weissman, University of California, San Francisco
David A. Tirrell, California Institute of Technology
David Baker, University of Washington
Steven A. Carr, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Andrew J. Phillips, Yale University
8:45 am - 4:50 pm Grace Murray Hopper Auditorium, B-25
Yale West Campus, West Haven, CT
05/13 AbbVie Lectures
Professor Daniel Kahne, Harvard University
"Lipopolysaccharide Transport and Assembly in Escherichia Coli"
Dr. Michael Kort, AbbVie Inc.
"Too Hot to Handle? TRPV1 Antagonists for Treatment of Chronic Pain"
3:30 pm Room 305 BASS
05/21 Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Richard Kemp, The University of New Mexico
"TBA"
4:30 pm Room 253 Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
05/23 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Erik Alexanian, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"TBA"
4:00 pm Room 123 Chemical Research Building
05/30 Aldrich Lecture
Professor Dionicio R. Siegel, The University of Texas-Austin
"TBA"
4:00 pm Room 305 BASS

June

06/26 Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Professor Mick Sherburn, Australian National University
"TBA"
4:00 pm Room 123 Chemical Research Building