Week of March 11, 2012 to March 17, 2012

1. Monday, March 12, 2012

   1. 4:00 pmProfessor Paul Wender
      Marvel Lecture, Professor Paul Wender, Stanford University, "TOWARD TRANSFORMATIVE THERAPIES AND THE IDEAL SYNTHESIS: STUDIES ON HIV/AIDS ERADICATION, ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, AND IMMUNOTHERAPY"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   2. 4:00 pm   MatSE Department ColloquiumProf. Jiaxing Huang, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, "Soft carbon sheets at interfaces"
      100 Materials Science and Engineering Building

2. Tuesday, March 13, 2012

   1. 1:30 pm   Final Defense, Professor Yi Lu, AdvisorMs. Tiffany Wilson, UIUC, "A Biosynthetic Approach to Understanding the Assembly of CuA Centers"
      B124 CLSL
   2. 2:00 pm   116 RALSeminar of Special Interest, "Single-Walled Aluminosilicate Nanotubes: Emerging Materials for Separations and Renewable Energy Technology", Dr. Dun-Yen Kang, Georgia Institute of Technology
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   3. 4:00 pmProfessor Paul Wender
      Marvel Lecture, Professor Paul Wender, Stanford University, "MOLECULAR TRANSPORTERS FOR BREACHING BIOLOGICAL BARRIERS: FUNCTION ORIENTED SYNTHESIS, OVERCOMING RESISTANTCANCER, AND siRNA DELIVERY"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory

3. Wednesday, March 14, 2012

   1. 4:00 pmNeha Garg (Nair & van der Donk Labs) - "Two novel peptide antibiotics from Geobacillus thermodenitrificans"
      116 RAL
   2. 4:00 pmYi Yu (van der Donk Lab) - "Studies on a Promiscuous New Member of the Lantipeptide Synthetase Family "
      116 RAL

4. Thursday, March 15, 2012

   1. 10:00 am - 11:00 amDr. Aviva Joseph
      School of Molecular & Cellular Biology Seminar: Dr. Aviva Joseph, Delft University of Technology, "Out of the box approaches in the fight against HIV-1: T cells, B cells and HIV-1 genome export inhibition"
      B102 CLSL
   2. 2:00 pm   116 RALSeminar of Special Interest "Discovering Novel Drug Targets to Prevent Antibiotic-resistance Transfer in Bacteria Using Systems Biology Based Approaches, Dr. Anushree Chatterjee, Los Alamos National Laboratory
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   3. 4:00 pmMr. Noah Bindman, Ms. Junqi Li, & Ms. Karen Morrison
      Fuson Student Talks: Mr. Noah Bindman, UIUC, "Fluorescent Labeling of Lantipeptides"; Ms. Junqi Li, UIUC, "Pinene-Derived Iminodiacetic Acid (PIDA): A Powerful Ligand for Stereoselective Synthesis and Iterative Cross-Coupling of C(sp3)Boronate Building Blocks"; Ms. Karen Morrison, UIUC, "Accessing Stereochemically Complex and Structurally Diverse Compounds through Chemical Modification of Gibberellic Acid, and their Activity in Biological Systems"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory