Upcoming Seminars, Colloquia & Thesis Defense
TIME & LOCATION DETAILS

Organic Seminar
Monday, May 12
4:00 PM
1205 Natural Sciences Building
Assistant Professor Vladimir Birman
Washington University in St. Louis
Title: Design, development and applications of a new class of enantioselective acyl transfer catalysts
Host: Professor Tadeusz Molinski 858-534-7115
Physical/Analytical Seminar
Tuesday, May 13
4:00 PM
3500 Pacific Hall
Professor Joseph Francisco
Purdue University, Department of Chemistry
Title: HOCO Radical Chemistry
Host: Professor Judy Kim 858-534-8080
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, May 16
11:00 AM
4500 Pacific Hall
Assistant Professor Jeremy M. Smith
New Mexico State University
Title: Single electron transformations of high valent iron imido and nitrido complexes
Host: Professor Seth Cohen 858-822-5596
Organic Seminar
Monday, May 19
4:00 PM
1205 Natural Sciences Building
Professor Mark Zabriskie
Oregon State University
Title: Recent Studies on the Biosythesis of the Peptide Antibiotic Enduracidin
Host: Professor Tadeusz Molinski 858-534-7115
Organic Seminar
Wednesday, May 21
4:00 PM
1205 Natural Sciences Building
Robert Glaser, 2008 Winstein Visiting Lecturer
University of California Los Angeles and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Title: Chiral Recognition via Helical Sense and Phase in a Crystalline Supramolecular Array of Intermeshed Triple-Helices
Host: Professor Charles Perrin 858-534-2164
Comment: Special Organic Seminar
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, May 23
11:00 AM
4500 Pacific Hall
Assistant Professor Xianhui Bu
California State University, Long Beach
Title: Homochiral Metal-Organic Framework Materials
Host: Professor Seth Cohen 858-822-5596
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, May 30
11:00 AM
4500 Pacific Hall
Professor Jack Norton
Columbia University
Title: The Use of Vanadium Hydrides to Effect Radical Cyclizations
Host: Professor Joshua Figueroa 858-822-7478
Organic Seminar
Monday, June 02
4:00 PM
1205 Natural Sciences Building
Assistant Professor Olafs Daugulis
University of Houston
Title: Regioselective Functionalization of Unreactive C-H Bonds
Host: Professor Yoshihisa Kobayashi 858-822-5870
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, June 06
11:00 AM
4500 Pacific Hall
Assistant Professor Mike Knapp
University of Massachusetts
Title: TBD
Host: Professor Dave Hendrickson 858-534-5580
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, June 13
4:00 PM
NSB Audiorium
Professor Didier Astruc
University of Bordeaux, France
Title: Metallodendrimers and Gold Nanoparticles for Molecular Electronics, Sensing and Catalysis
Host: Professor Joseph O'Connor 858-534-5836
Comment: Special inorganic/organic seminar
Organic Seminar
Friday, June 13
4:00 PM
NSB Auditorium
Professor Didier Astruc
University of Bordeaux, France
Title: Metallodendrimers and Gold Nanoparticles for Molecular Electronics, Sensing and Catalysis
Host: Professor Joseph O'Connor 858-534-5836
Comment: Special joint organic/inorganic seminar
 
 
Thesis Defense
Tuesday, May 20
10:00am
NSB 1205
The Development of New Convertible Isocyanides for the Ugi Reaction; Application to the Synthesis of Pyroglutamic Acid Derivatives and Proteasome Inhibitor Omuralide
Cynthia Gilley
Chair: Yoshihisa Kobayashi
Co-Chair: ,
Members: Yitzhak Tor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Jerry Yang, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Wei Wang, Chemistry and Biochemistry
William Fenical, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine
Thesis Defense
Thursday, May 22
11:30 a.m.
Pacific Hall 4500
Regulation of the Human NTPDase 2 Activity by Its Transmembrane Domanins.
Wei-Chieh Chiang
Chair: Aileen Knowles
Co-Chair: William Stumph, Chemistry and Biochemistry, S.D.S.U.
Members: Peter Wolynes, Chemistry and Biochemistry, U.C.S.D.
John Love, Chemistry and Biochemistry, S.D.S.U.
Elizabeth Komives, Chemistry and Biochemistry, U.C.S.D.
Terrence Frey, Biology, S.D.S.U.
Maurice Montal, Div. of Biological Sciences, U.C.S.D.
Thesis Defense
Tuesday, June 03
2:00 p.m.
Natural Science Building, Rm. 1205
Design and Optimization of Polymeric Silole and Boronate Fluorescent Probes for Improved Explosives Detection Applications
Jason c. Sanchez
Chair: William Trogler
Co-Chair: ,
Members: Seth Cohen, Chemistry and Biochemistry
David Hendrickson, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Andrew Kummel, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Yu-Hwa Lo, Electrical Computer Engineering (ECE)

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