Jan 7

Professor David Gin

Molecular Pharmacology & Chemistry
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
(Host: Professor John Porco)

Synthesis of Carbohydrate Immunostimulants and Bioactive Alkaloids (Read Abstract)

Feb 11

Novartis Lecture

Professor Mohammad Movassaghi

Department of Chemistry

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(Host: Professor Scott Schaus)

Cascade Reactions in
Complex Alkaloid Synthesis

Feb 25

Professor Jeffrey Johnson

Department of Chemistry

UNC Chapel Hill

(Host: Professor Corey Stephenson)

Strategies in Carbonyl Polarity Reversal: Recent Case Studies (Read Abstract)

Mar 3

Professor David Cane

Department of Chemistry
Brown University
(Host: Professor Pinghua Liu)

Polyketide Antibiotic Biosynthesis:  Mechanistic and Structural Basis of the Programming of Multistep Biosynthetic Pathways
(Read Abstract)

Mar 17

Professor Ann Valentine

Department of Chemistry
Yale University

(Host: Professor Sean Elliott)

Bioinorganic Chemistry of Titanium in Medicine and the Environment (Read Abstract)

Mar 24

BUWIC Colloquium

Dr. Jennifer Hollingsworth

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Nanocrystal Quantum Dot Flourophores: Fine-Tuning Optical Properties Through Chemistry (Read Abstract)

Mar 31

Professor Jeffrey A. Cina

Department of Chemistry

University of Oregon

(Host: Professor Lawrence Ziegler)

Wave-Packet Interference in Vibrational Dynamics, State Reconstruction, and the Control of Excitation Transfer (Read Abstract)

Apr 7

Professor James M. Mayer

Department of Chemistry

University of Washington

(Host: Professor Sean Elliott)

Oxidations of C–H and O–H bonds: From hydrogen atom transfer to proton-coupled electron transfer (Read Abstract)

Apr 28

Professor Anne-Frances Miller

Department of Chemistry

University of Kentucky

(Host: Professor Linda Doerrer)

"How proteins control electrons: Protons !"

May 1

BUYCC Colloquium

Professor David Evans

Department of Chemistry

Harvard University

Studies in Natural Product Synthesis