
Chemistry Department Colloquium - Spring 2008

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Host
February 1	Professor Alejandro Vila	University of Rosario, Argentina	Catalytic Mechanism and Evolutionary Traits of Metallo-beta-Lactamases: Does it take two to tango?	George A. Petersson
February 8	Professor Alan Jasanoff	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Toward Molecular Imaging of Neural Activity in Animals	T. David Westmoreland
February 15	Professor Margaret Kerr	Worcester State College	Green Chemistry: Promoting Sustainability through Education, a Fulbright Experience in Thailand	Andrea Roberts
February 22	Professor Jonathan Kenny	Tufts University	Multidimensional Fluorescence Analysis of Natural Waters	Stewart E. Novick
February 29	Professor Lila Mary Gierasch	University of Massachusetts at Amherst	Moving the Protein Folding Problem from the Test Tube to the Cell	P. Bolton/S.Paramasivan
March 28	Professor Kevin Moeller	Washington University at St. Louis	Organic Electrochemistry: Developing New Umpolung Reactions for the Synthesis of Organic Molecules	Albert J. Fry
April 4	Professor Craig Townsend	Johns Hopkins University	Deconstruction of Iterative Type I Polyketide Synthase Function	Rex F. Pratt
April 11	Dr. David Gin	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	Synthesis of carbohydrate immunostimulants and bioactive alkaloids.	Erika A. Taylor
April 18	Professor John Gerlt	University of Illinois, Urbana	Discovering and Predicting Functions in the Enolase Superfamily	Erika A. Taylor
April 25	Prof. Karen Anderson	Yale University	Design and Evaluation of Novel Bifunctional Inhibitors of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase	Rex F. Pratt
May 2	Prof. Stephen Cooke	University of North Texas	Measuring Highly Resolved Molecular Spectral Signatures between 0.5 and 110 GHz	Stewart E. Novick