Seminars This Week

Today is the day that I'm proud to be hosting Scott Snyder from Columbia University for his seminar at noon titled "Lessons in Chemoselectivity: Total Synthesis of Polyphenolic Natural Products" in 7-135 Weaver-Densford Hall. Scott and I overlapped at Scripps for a couple years, so it will be great to hear about the success of his independent research program at Columbia.

Alison Frontier from the University of Rochester will then be on campus this Wednesday and Thursday for the latest Abbott Workshop Series in Synthetic Organic and Medicinal Chemistry hosted by the Department of Chemistry. Her seminar, "New Twists in Nazarov Cyclization Chemistry," will be on Wednesday at 4:15 pm in 331 Smith Hall. The workshop discussion will be held on Thursday, July 14 at 10:00 am in 114 Science Teaching & Student Services. This will be followed by a pizza lunch, and the Fecik group meets with Alison from 1:30-2:15 pm.

Summer Seminar Scheduled Announced, Scott Synder (Columbia University) Confirmed

The Department of Medicinal Chemistry released its Summer 2011 seminar program today, which runs from June 21 to August 2. The summer talks are reserved for third year graduate students to present their research seminar. There was one open slot for an external speaker, and I'm pleased to be hosting Assistant Professor Scott Snyder from Columbia University on Tuesday, July 12. Scott is a friend since the time we overlapped at Scripps where he received his Ph.D. with K.C. Nicolaou in 2004. He's off to a fantastic start in his independent career at Columbia, which he began in 2006. Scott gave a great, inspiring talk at the Natural Products Gordon Conference a couple years ago, so this will be a super seminar. The title of Scott's seminar is "Lessons in Chemoselectivity: Total Synthesis of Polyphenolic Natural Products."

Scott Snyder

Here's the entire summer seminar schedule. All talks are in 7-135 WDH; lunch will be served at 11:30 (bring your own drinks), and the seminars begin at noon.


June 21 - Amit Gangar (Wagner lab): Design and Development of Bispecific Chemically Self-Assembled Nanostructures for Anti-Cancer Drug Delivery


June 28 - Kathryn Nelson (Aldrich lab): Total Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of the Siderophore Acinetobactin and the Structurally Related Natural Product (+)-Transvalencin Z


July 5 - Adwait Ranade (Georg lab): Syntheses of a 2,3-Dihydropyridone Library and Epothilone Photoaffinity Probes


July 12 - Scott Snyder (Columbia University): Lesson in Chemoselectivity: Total Synthesis of Polyphenolic Natural Products


July 19 - Srikanth Kotapati (Tretyakova lab): Urinary Biomarkers of Human Exposure to 1,3-Butadiene (BD) and Influence of BD–DNA


July 26 - Xia Zhang (Amin lab): Experimental and Computational Methods for Identification of Novel Fungal Histone Acetyltransferase Rtt109 Inhibitors


August 2 - Martin Phillips (Peterson lab): The Chemistry of Bioactivated Electrophilic Intermediates of Furan