Mar 14
Dr. Christopher T. Walsh (Harvard Medical School)
Nature's Inventory of Biohalogenation Catalysts.
Edward J. Delaney (Bristol-Myers Squibb)
Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium
Harvard Univ., Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St., 3:00 pm

Mar 16
Jonathan Steckel (Bawendi Group)
The Synthesis of Inorganic Semiconductor Nanocrystalline Materials for the Purpose of Creating Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Light-Emitting Diodes
MIT, Room 6-120, 4:00 pm

Dr. Erwin London (Brookhaven National Lab.)
The Organization of Lipids and Proteins within Biological Membranes
Northeastern Univ., 129 Hurtig Hall, 12 noon

Mar 21
Prof. Mary J. Shultz (Tufts Univ.)
Water, Water at Every Surface
Brandeis Univ., Edison Lecks Building, Gerstenzang 122, 3:30 pm

Mar 22
Prof. Timothy Jamison (MIT)
Catalytic, Stereoselective Fragment Coupling Reactions for Total Synthesis
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm

Prof. Justin Du Bois (Stanford Univ.)
C-H Bond Oxidation Reactions for Fine Chemical Synthesis
Brandeis Univ., Edison Lecks Building, Gerstenzang 122, 3:30 pm

Prof. Barry B. Snider (Brandeis Univ.)
Organic Chemistry
UMass Lowell, Olney Hall, Room 218, 5:30 pm

Prof. Mike Richmond (Univ. of North Texas)
Synthesis and Reactivity Studies of Os3 (CO)10(diphosphine) Clusters: Ligand Isomerization, Orthometalation and Benzyne Formation in Os3(CO)10(P-P) Clusters
UNH, Iddles L103, 11:10 am

Mar 23
Julien Bachmann (Nocera Group)
Expanding Redox Activity into the Coordination Sphere: Towards the Design of Multielectron Reactivity Patterns
MIT, Room 6-120, 4:00 pm

Dr. Jianhua Zhou (Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester)
Functional Studies of SMN Protein in Spinal Muscular Atrophy
UMass Dartmouth, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 115, 4:00

Mar 24
Prof. Barbara Imperiali (MIT) and Prof. T. Ross Kelly (Boston College)
Organic Syntheses, Inc., Lectures
MIT, Room 6-120, 4:00 pm

Mar 28
Prof. Francis DiSalvo (Cornell Center for Materials Research, Cornell Univ.)
Challenges and Opportunities in Nanoscience: Ordered IntermetallicCatalysts for Fuel Cell Applications
Tufts Univ., Dept. of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Crane Room, Paige Hall, 12 Upper Campus Road, Medford, 12 noon

Mar 29
Dr. Adrian Whitty (Biogen Idec Inc)
Tufts Univ., Pearson Chemistry Building, 62 Talbot Ave., Medford, Room P-106, 4:30 pm

Mar 30
Prof. Ronald Breslow (Columbia Univ.)
Buchi Lecture in Organic Chemistry
MIT, Room 6-120, 4:00 pm

Prof. Paul Champion (Northeastern Univ. Physics Dept.)
" Experimental Studies of Structure, Function and Coherent Oscillations in Heme Proteins"
Northeastern Univ., 129 Hurtig Hall, 12 noon

Prof. David Tannor (Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel)
Joint-- Harvard BU MIT-- Theoretical Chemistry Lecture Series
MIT-- 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Room 54-100, 3:00-5:00 pm

Mar 31
Prof. Gregory Hillhouse (Univ. of Chicago)
" Unusual Reactivity of NR, PR, and CR2 Complexes of Nickel"
Dartmouth College, Room 006 Steele Hall, 10:30 am
Prof. Ronald Breslow (Columbia Univ.)
Buchi Lecture in Organic Chemistry
MIT, Room 6-120, 4:00 pm

September 7
Prof. Steven V. Ley (Univ. of Cambridge)
Wyeth Lecture
MIT, Room 6-120. 4 pm

Sep 13
Dr. Mitch Delong (Procter & Gamble)
" The Discovery and SAR of 'Osteoprost' a Preclinical Candidate for the Treatment of Osteoporosis"
UNH, Room L103 11:10 am

Sep 20
Prof. Samuel Gellman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Structure and Function in Foldamers
Pearson Chemistry Building, 62 Talbot Avenue, Medford, Room P-106, 4:30pm

Sep 22
Prof. Sarah Larsen (Univ. of Iowa)
[Nanotechnology]
UNH, Room L103 11:10 am

Dr. Vince Rotello (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Nanoparticles in Biology and Materials
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Room 006, Steele Hall, 10:30 - 11:45 am

Sep 26
Stephen H. Friend, M.D., Ph.D.( President, Rosetta Inpharmatics Executive Vice President, Advanced Technologies and Oncology, Merck & Co., Inc.)
The 9th Andrew H. Weinberg Memorial Lecture: Reality Testing: Are we leaving the Age of Alchemy in Oncology yet?
The Smith Family Room, Dana 1620, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, 4:00 pm

Sep 27
Dr, Jeffrey Elton (COO, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research)
" Pharmaceuticals: Good Medicine for Business!" Cambridge College presents the Carl F. Barron Distinguished Lecture Series
Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre, 820 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 7:00 pm

Prof. Louis Brus (Columbia Univ.)
A. D. Little lectures in Physical Chem
MIT, Room 6-120 [Subject to change], 4:30 pm

Prof. John Frost, Michigan State University
Drugs, Energetic Materials, and Polymers: The Role of Microbial Catalysis
Tufts Univ., Pearson Chemistry Building, 62 Talbot Avenue, Medford, Room P-106, 4:30pm

Sep 28
Prof. Louis Brus (Columbia Univ.)
A. D. Little lectures in Physical Chem
MIT, Room 6-120 [Subject to change], 4:00 pm

Dr. Anne English Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec Canada
The Reactions of Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) with Thiols - Biological Implications
Northeastern University, Hurtig Hall, room 129, 12 noon

Sep 29
Prof. Louis Brus (Columbia Univ.)
A. D. Little lectures in Physical Chem
MIT, Room 6-120 [Subject to change], 4:00 pm

Prof. William Jones
C-H and C-C Bond Activation by Transition Metals: Dynamics of Alkane-Complex Intermediates and Mechanism of Activation
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Room 006, Steele Hall, 10:30 - 11:45 am

October 3
Prof. Gary Haller (Yale Univ.)
Distinguished Lectures in Nanotechnology Series
Tufts Univ, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Crane Room, Paige Hall, 12 Upper Campus Road, Medford, 12:00 m

Oct 4
Prof. Michael P. Doyle (Univ. of Maryland)
" New Advances in Catalysis with Dirhodium (II) Compounds"
Brandeis Univ., Edison Lecks Bldg., Gerstenzang 122, 3:30 pm

Oct 5
Dr. Mitchell Albert-Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Womans Hospital
Hyperpolarized Noble Gas MRI of the Lungs and Brain
Northeastern University, Hurtig Hall, room 129, 12 noon

Oct 6
Prof. Steven Bradforth (Univ. of Southern Calif.)
" Energy Flow in UV-excited Solution-phase Polymers: Nucleic Acids and Cyclic Polymers"
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm

Prof. Stuart Rowan (Case Western Univ.)
" Supramolecular Polymerizations: Using Weak Forces to Build Responsive Materials"
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Room 006, Steele Hall, 10:30 - 11:45 am

Dr. Alex Bradley (DuPont)
" Advanced Interconnect Materials for the Integrated Circuit "
UNH, Iddles L103, 11:10 am

Oct 11
Prof. Peter Vollhardt (Univ. of Calif. Berkeley)
" Apparent Progress in the Total Synthesis of Carbon" (Novartis Lecture Series, Part 2)
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm

Dr. Ed Grabowski (Merck Pharmaceutical Research)
Special Seminar: "Reflections on Process Research"
UNH, Iddles L103, 11:10 am

Oct 13
Prof. Bern Kohler (Ohio State Univ.)
" Time-resolved Spectroscopy of DNA: Following Electronic across Hydrogen Bonds and along Base Slacks" (Phys. Chem.)
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm

Dr. Ed Grabowski (Merck Pharmaceutical Research)
" Novel Asymmetric Hydrogenations"
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Room 006, Steele Hall, 10:30 - 11:45 am

Oct 14
Dr. Olafs Daugulis - University of Houston, Houston TX
Regioselective Functionalization of Unreactive C-H Bonds
Northeastern University, Hurtig Hall, room 129, 12 noon

Oct 17
Prof. Olafs Daugulis (Univ. of Houston)
" Regioselective Functionalization of Unreactive C-H Bonds"
Brandeis Univ., Edison Lecks Bldg., Gerstenzang 122, 3:30 pm

Prof. Catherine L. Drennan (MIT)
" From Epoxidation to Halogenation, the Diverse Reactivity of Mononuclear Iron Enzymes - A Structural Perspective"
Harvard Univ., Pfizer Lecture Hall, 4:15 pm to 5:15 pm

Oct 18
Prof. Seth Cohen, University of California, San Diego
Novel Metalloligands for Heterometallic, Chiral Metal-Organic Frameworks
Tufts Univ., Pearson Chemistry Building, 62 Talbot Avenue, Medford, Room P-106, 4:30pm

Oct 19
Prof. Seth Cohen (Univ. of Calif. San Diego)
" New Approaches for Metalloprotein Inhibition"
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm
Dr. Mary Jo Ondrechen Northeastern University, Boston MA
THEMATICS: Predicting Protein Active Sites via Computational Methods
Northeastern University, Hurtig Hall, room 129, 12 noon

Oct 20
Prof. Charles Schmuttenmaer (Yale Univ.)
" Terahertz Emission Spectroscopy: From Molecular Monolayers to Magnetic Thin Films" (Phys. Chem.)
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm

Prof. Howard R. Mayne (UNH)
" Exploring the Rugged Landscape -- Towards Understanding and Manipulating the Properties of Mixed van der Waals Clusters"
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Room 006, Steele Hall, 10:30 - 11:45 am

Oct 24
Prof. Ged Parkin (Columbia Univ.)
" Kinetic and Equilibrium Isotope Effects Pertaining to the Interaction of C-H and H-H Bonds with Transition Metal Centers: When Is a Bond Not a Bond?
Brandeis Univ., Edison Lecks Bldg., Gerstenzang 122, 3:30 pm

Oct 25
Prof. Lizbeth Hedstrom (Brandeis Univ.)
" IMP Dehydrogenase and the Dynamics of Drug Selectivity"
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm

Dr. Stephen Baxter, Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.
Chemical Patents
Tufts Univ., Pearson Chemistry Building, 62 Talbot Avenue, Medford, Room P-106, 4:30pm

Oct 26
Dr. Victor Marquez - Center for Cancer Research, NCI, Frederick Maryland
Understanding How the Herpes Thymidine Kinase Orchestrates Optimal Sugar and Nucleobase Conformations to Accommodate its Substrate at the Active Site: A Chemical Approach
Northeastern University, Hurtig Hall, room 129, 12 noon

Oct 27
Prof. Kenneth Suslick (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
" Chemical Effects of Ultrasound" (Phys. Chem.)
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm
Prof. Justin DuBois (Stanford Univ.)
" Drawing Inspiration for Reaction Design from Nature's Products"
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Room 006, Steele Hall, 10:30 - 11:45 am

Nov 1
Prof. Nadrian Seeman (New York Univ.)
DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life ; Chemical Biology Seminar
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm

Nov 3
Prof. Piotr Piotrowiak (Rutgers Univ.)
Electron Transfer at Complex Interfaces from Nanoparticles to Biomolecules
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm

Nov 4
Prof. Ib Chorkendorff (Danmarks Teknikske Universitet)
Production and Conversion of Hydrogen on Alloys and Inorganic Compounds
Tufts Univ., Pearson Chemistry Building, 62 Talbot Ave., Medford, Room P-106, 4:30 pm

Nov 7
Dr. Mihaly Mezei (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
" Open-ensemble Concepts in Biomolecular Simulations"
Brandeis Univ., Edison Lecks Bldg., Gerstenzang 122, 3:30 pm

Prof. Jingguang Chen (Univ. of Delaware)
Rational Design of Alternative Electrocatalysts for PEM Fuel Cells Distinguished Lectures in Nanotechnology Series
Tufts Univ., Science and Technology Center, Room 136, 4 Colby Street, Medford, 12:00

Nov 8
Prof. Robert Westervelt (Harvard Univ.)
Imaging a One-electron Quantum Dot using SPM
Tufts Univ., Pearson Chemistry Building, 62 Talbot Ave., Medford, Room P-106, 4:30 pm

Nov 10
Prof. Tianquan Tim Lian (Emory Univ.)
Ultrafast Electron Transfer at the Molecule/Nanoparticle Junction
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm

Prof. Ann Valentine (Yale Univ.)
Bioinorganic Chemistry of Titanium in Medicine and the Environment
Dartmouth College, Room 006 Steele Hall, 10:30 am

Nov 14
Prof. Mary Roberts (Boston College)
" Phosphatidylinositol-Specific Phospholipase C Enzymes: Connecting Interfacial Binding to Catalysis"
Brandeis Univ., Edison Lecks Bldg., Gerstenzang 122, 3:30 pm

Prof. Ravi Kane (RPI)
Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Tufts Univ, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Crane Room, Paige Hall, 12 Upper Campus Road, Medford, 12:00

Nov 15
Prof. Craig Townsend (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Synthetic, Mechanistic and Engineering Studies of Unusual Biosynthetic Reactions
Tufts Univ., Pearson Chemistry Building, 62 Talbot Ave., Medford, Room P-106, 4:30 pm

Nov 16
Prof. Krishna Kumar(Tufts Univ.)
A New Paradigm for Protein Design and Molecular Engineering
Northeastern Univ., Room 129 Hurtig Hall, 12 noon

Nov 17
Prof. Paul Champion (Northeastern Univ.)
Experimental Studies of Structure, Function, and Coherent Oscillations in Heme Proteins
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm

Prof. Jeffrey S. Johnson (Univ. of North Carolina)
" Polarity Reversal Catalysis: New Strategies and Applications"
MIT, Room 6-120

Nov 18
Prof. Richard G. Finke (Colorado State Univ.)
" Synthetic and Mechanistic Insights into Transition-metal Nanoparticle Self-Assembly and Catalysis"
Brandeis Univ., Edison Lecks Bldg., Gerstenzang 122, 3:30 pm

Nov 22
Prof. Nicola Pohl (Iowa State Univ,)
Proteomics and Synthetic Strategies to Decipher the Glycocode
MIT, Room 56-114, 4:00 pm

Prof. Carston Wagner (Univ. of Minnesota)
Chemically Controlled Assembly of Protein Nanostructures
Tufts Univ., Pearson Chemistry Building, 62 Talbot Ave., Medford, Room P-106, 4:30 pm

Nov 28
Prof. Dimitrios Maroudas (UMass Amherst)
Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Tufts Univ, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Crane Room, Paige Hall, 12 Upper Campus Road, Medford, 12:00 noon

Nov 29
Prof. Paul Wender (Stanford Univ.)
The Chemistry-Medicine Continuum: From Bio-Inspired Function Oriented Synthesis to the Generation and Evaluation of Novel Therapeutic Leads;
2005-2006 University Lectures in Chemistry; Sponsored by Aldrich Chemical
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm

Prof. Jebrell Glover (MIT)
" Biochemical Analysis of the Campylobacter Jejuni Pgl N-linked Glycosylation Pathway"
MIT, Room 56-114, 4:00 pm

Prof. Anne Baranger (Wesleyan Univ.)
Recognition of Single-stranded RNA by Proteins and Small Molecules
Tufts Univ., Pearson Chemistry Building, 62 Talbot Ave., Medford, Room P-106, 4:30 pm

Nov 30
Prof. Paul Wender (Stanford Univ.)
Toward the Ideal Synthesis: New Transition Metal Catalyzed Reactions for Step Economical Synthesis and for Pharmacophore Assembly of Therapeutic Leads;
2005-2006 University Lectures in Chemistry; Sponsored by Aldrich Chemical
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm

Prof. Dianne Newman (Caltech)
" How Bacteria Make Magnetite", Harvard/MIT Inorganic Chem.
MIT, Room 6-120, 4:00 pm
Prof. Doug Turner (Univ. of Rochester)
Predicting RNA Structure
Northeastern Univ., Room 129 Hurtig Hall, 12 noon