Seminar Program Fall 2009
All departmental seminars take place on Tuesdays at 3:30pm in NPC Room 2066 unless otherwise noted

*Denotes Graduate Student Presentation

9/1 David Pasco - "Role of endophytic bacterial components in the immune enhancing properties of Echinacea and other botanicals"

9/8 Daneel Ferreira - "Absolute Configuration of Marine Diterpene Cembranoids via Circular Dichroism"

9/15 Yu-Dong Zhou - "Natural Product Drug Discovery that Targets Tumor Hypoxia" TBA

9/22 No Seminar

*9/29 Brian Morgan - Evaluation of brevisamide - the latest metabolite isolated from K. brevis

10/2 1:30 PM Mark Liles, PhD - "Two Approaches for the Discovery of Antimicrobial Natural Products: Metagenomics and Biological Control of Disease"

10/6 No Seminar due to the off-schedule seminar held on Friday, Oct. 2.

10/13 TBA

10/20 Jordan Zjawiony - “High-affinity irreversible ligands for kappa-opioid receptor”

10/27 Alice Clark - "The Evolution of Antifungal Drug Discovery and Development"

11/3 James Sims – "Biosynthesis of Manzamines and Hawaiimycin by Marine Bacteria"

*11/10 Kevin Lewellyn - TBA

*11/17 Mohamed Ali Ibrahim -"Palladium-Catalyzed Cross- Coupling Reactions and their Utilization in the Synthesis of Rapamycin as an Example of Unique Natural Product"

11/24 No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holidays

*12/1 Sandipan Datta - TBA

12/7 No Seminar Finals Week