February 1 and 2
Prof. Jonathan Ellman (Univ. of Calif., Berkeley )
George Buchi Lectures in Organic Chemistry
MIT, room 6-120, 4:00 pm

Feb 6
Dr. Russell Hemley (Carnegie Institute of Washington)
Physical Chemistry Seminar Series
MIT, room 56-114, 4:30 pm

Feb 7
Prof. Michael Krische (Univ. of Texas, Austin)
"Hydrogen-Mediated Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation: Discovery and Development"
Novartis Lecture Series, Part 3
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm

Feb 9
Prof. Sunney Xie (Harvard Univ.)
"Holding Single Molecules up to the Light: From in Vitro to in Vivo Studies"
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm

Feb 10
Prof. Ron Weiss (Univ. of Princeton)
"Engineering Collaborative Behavior for Synthetic Multicellular Systems"
Brandeis Univ., Gerstenzang 122, 3:45 pm

Feb 13
Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald (MIT)
"Progress in Metal-Catalyzed C-C and C-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Reactions"
Brandeis Univ., Gerstenzang 122, 3:45 pm

Feb 14
Prof. Ana de Bettencourt-Dias (Syracuse Univ.)
Univ. New Hampshire, Room L103, 11:10 am

Feb. 21
Prof. Frank McDonald (Emory Univ.)
"Chemical Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products: Methodology, Development, and Applications"
Univ. New Hampshire, Room L103, 11:10 am

Feb 22
Prof. Ken Caulton (Indiana Univ.)
Harvard/MIT Inorganic Chemistry Seminar Series
MIT, room 6-120, 4:00 pm

Feb 28
Prof. Steven Rokita (Univ. of Maryland)
"Predicting and Controlling Selective Alkylation of DNA"
Boston College, Merkert 130, 4:00 pm

March 1
Dr. Bryant C. Nelson (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD)
"Folate Deficiency - An Emerging Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor"
Northeastern Univ., 129 Hurtig Hall, 12 noon

Mar 2
Prof. Rick Geier (Colgate University)
"Synthesis of Porphyrinic Macrocycles with Alteres Core Structures"
Brandeis University, Gerstenzang 122, 3:30 pm

Mar 6
Prof. Oliver Steinbock (Florida State University)
"Self-organization in Nonequilibrium Systems"
Brandeis University, Gerstenzang 122,3:30 pm

Mar 13
Prof. Soumya Ray (Harvard Medical School)
Title: TBA
Brandeis University, Gerstenzang 122,3:30 pm

Mar 15
Dr. Timothy Logan (Florida State University, Tallahassee FL)
"Mechanisms of Metal Activation in Diphtheria Toxin Repressor"
Northeastern Univ., 129 Hurtig Hall, 12 noon

Mar 20
Prof. Arthur Johnson (Texas A&M)
"Protein Trafficking at the ER Membrane"
Brandeis University, Gerstenzang 122, 3:30 pm

Mar 22
Dr. Plamen Atanassov (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM)
"Electrochemical Biosensors Based on Direct Electron Transfer"
Northeastern Univ., 129 Hurtig Hall, 12 noon

Mar 27
Prof. Kenneth Showalter (West Virginia University)
"Collective Behavior in Addressable Excitable Media"
Brandeis University, Gerstenzang 122, 3:30 pm

Mar 29
Dr. Vivek Murthi (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH)
Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Graduate Student Research Award Winner
"Alkaline Fuel Cells: Current Challenges and Potential Routes for Future Technological Viability"
Northeastern Univ., 129 Hurtig Hall, 12 noon

April 3
F. Dean Toste, (Univ.of California Berkeley) ; John Hartwig (Yale Univ.) ; James Audia, (Eli Lilly & Co.)
Eli Lilly Symposium.
Harvard Univ. Mallinckrodt: Pfizer Lecture Hall, 2:30 PM.

Maurice Brookhart (Univ. of North Carolina)
"Catalytic Transformations Based on C-H Bond Activation Reactions"
Brandeis Univ. Gerstenzang 122, 3:45PM.

Apr 3-4
Michael A. Marletta (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
TBA
MIT, Rm TBA, 9:00AM

Apr 5
Mahdi Abu-Omar (Purdue Univ.)
TBA
MIT Rm 6-120 4:00PM

Catherine Fenselau (Univ. Maryland, College Park)
" Rapid Detection of Airborne Microorganisms by Mass Spectrometry"
Northeastern Univ. 129 Hurtig Hall. 12 Noon

Apr 6
Klaus Schulten, (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
ã Towards Understanding Membrane Channels.ä (Woodward Lecture Series)
Harvard University, Mallinckrodt:Pfizer Lecture Hall, 5:00PM

Apr 10
Melanie S. Sanford (Univ. of Michigan)
"Synthetic Applications and Mechanistic Investigations Transition-Metal Catalyzed CH Bond Functionalization." (Woodward Lecture Series.)
Harvard Univ.Mallinckrodt: Pfizer Lecture Hall, 4:15PM.

Anne Gershenson (Brandeis Univ.):
"Investigating Molecular Mousetraps: Single Molecule Studies of Protease-Serpin Complexes"
MIT: 56-114, 4:30PM

Apr 11
Krishna Kumar (Tufts Univ)
" A New Paradigm for Protein Design and Molecular Engineering"
MIT. Room .TBD. All Day

Mukund Sibi, Ph.D.(North Dakota State Univ.)
TBA; Novartis Lecture Series, Part 4
Boston College. Merkert 130 4:00 PM

Apr 12
Professor Jeffrey Zaleski (Indiana Univ.)
TBA
MIT: 6-120, 4:00 PM

Eric Anslyn (Univ. Texas, Austin)
"Organic Chemistry Approaches to Single and Multi-Analyte Sensing"
Northeastern Univ. 129 Hurtig Hall. 12 Noon

Apr 14
Karl Weiss Symposium on Membrane and Membrane Systems.
Northeastern Univ. Curry Student Ctr, McLeod Suites#318-322. 9:40AM-1:50PM.

Apr 18
James M. Cook (Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
"General Approach to the Synthesis of Ring-A Alkoxy Substituted Indole Alkaloids via the Asymmetric Pictet-Spengler Reaction"
Brandeis Univ. Gerstenzang 122 3:45PM.

Pamela Bjorkman (Cal Tech)
" The Molecular Basis of Iron Overload in Hereditary Hemochromatosis"
Univ. of New Hampshire, Iddles Auditorium, Room L101, 11AM

Pamela Bjorkman (Cal Tech)
" What We can Learn from 3D Structures of Proteins"
Univ. of New Hampshire Iddles Auditorium, Room L101,4 PM

Apr 19-20
Jackie Barton (California Institute of Technology)
TBA; Arthur D. Little Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry.
MIT, Rm: TBA, 4:00PM

Apr 24
Philip Baran, (The Scripps Research Institute); Erik Sorensen (Princeton Univ.)
Pfizer Symposium.
Harvard. Mallinckrodt Pfizer Lecture Hall 2:30 PM.

Dr. Gerhard Hummer (NIH)
"Water, Proton, and Ion Transport: From Nanotubes to Biomolecular Machines"
Brandeis Univ. Gerstenzang 122 Time: 3:45 PM.

Apr 25
Alanna Schepartz (Yale Univ.)
" Miniature and Non-Natural Proteins?"
MIT: 56-114, 4:00PM

Apr 26
John P Fackler (Texas A&M Univ.)
TBA
MIT. Location: TBA, 4:00PM

Apr 27
David Chandler, (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
TBA; G. B. Kistiakowsky Lecture,
Harvard Mallinckrodt: Pfizer Lecture Hall, , 8:00PM.

Apr 27-28
Fred Wudl (Univ. of California Los Angeles)
TBA
MIT, Rm 6-120, 4:00PM

Oct 3
Prof. Mark Hersam (Northwestern Univ.)
"Probing Chemistry and Electronic Structure at the Single Molecule Level with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy"
Tufts University, Pearson Chemistry Building, Room P-106 4:30 PM

Prof. Hisashi Yamamoto (Univ. of Chicago)
2006/2007 Novartis Lecturer
Boston College, Merkert Center Rm. 130 4:00 PM

Oct 4
Dr. David Beveridge, (Wesleyan University)
"Do Collective Atomic Fluctuations Account for Cooperative Effects? Molecular Dynamics Studies of the U1A-RNA Complex"
Northeastern University, 129 Hurtig Hall. 12 NOON

Dr. Scott E. Schauss (Boston University)
TBA
U Mass (Dartmouth) Building Group II, Room 115 Info: 508-999-8232
4:00 PM

Oct 5
Prof. Randall Lee, (Univ. of Houston)
"Wettability and Friction of Fluorocarbon Interfaces"
U. Mass. (Lowell), Olney Hall OH 218. 4:00 PM

James Skinner (Univ. of Wisconsin)
" Vibrational spectroscopy, molecular dynamics, and hydrogen bonding in water and aqueous solutions"
Woodward Lecture Series:, Harvard-MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar.
Harvard University, Pfizer Lecture Hall,12 Oxford St., Cambridge 5:00 PM

Prof. Christopher J. Bardeen, (Univ. of California)
" Exciton Dynamics and Transport in Organic Materialsä
Boston College, Merkert 130 4:00 PM

Jim Marshall (Univ. of North Texas)
" Rediscovery of the Elements"
Univ. New Hampshire, Iddles Auditorium, Room L103 11:10 AM

Oct 9
Prof. Anthony Auerbach (SUNY Buffalo)
The Transition State of an Ion Channel Nanomachine
Brandeis Univ., Gerstenzang 122 3:45 p.m

Oct 10
Prof. William Herndon (Univ. of Texas, El Paso)
" Verifiable Aromatic Stabilization Energies: From Benzene to Bucky Balls and Carbon Nanotubes"
Univ. of New Hampshire, Iddles Auditorium, Room L103 11:10 AM

Prof. Vlad Sadchenko (George Washington University)
"Fast Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy Studies of Dynamics and Reactions in Ice"
Tufts University Pearson Chemistry Building, Room P-106 4:30 PM.

Oct 11
Michael Maroney (Univ. Mass., Amherst)
Harvard/MIT Inorganic Seminar: "Cysteine dioxygenase: A theme and variations"
Harvard Univ. Mallinckrodt Lab, Pfizer Lecture Hall, Lower level 4:00PM

Dr. Joseph Sadighi, (MIT)
"N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of the Group 11 Metals: Synthetic and Catalytic Studies."
UMass Dartmouth Building Group II, Room 115 Info: 508-999-8232 4:00 PM

Oct 12
Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institut, Gottingen.
TBA (Woodward Visiting Scholar)
Harvard University, Pfizer Lecture Hall,12 Oxford St., Cambridge 4:00 PM

Marion Muskiewicz, (Univ. of Mass., Lowell)
"Library Resources for Polymer Science"
Univ. Mass (Lowell), Olney Hall OH 218. 4:00 PM

Oct 16
A. D. Little Inorganic Seminar:
Jean-Michel Saveant (University of Paris, France)
"Breaking Bonds with Electrons"
MIT, Building 6, Room 120 4:00ö5:30PM

Prof. Travis Holman (Georgetown Univ.)
TBA
Brandeis Univ. , Gerstenzang 122 3:45 PM

Oct 17
Prof. Geert-Jan Boons (Univ. of Georgia)
"A Fully Synthetic Three-Component Cancer Vaccine"
Tufts University Pearson Chemistry Building, Room P-106 4:30 PM

Matomu Kanai, (University of Tokyo)
" TBA." (Merck-Banyu Lecture)
Harvard University, Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St., Cambridge 4:15 PM

Prof. Jinquan Yu (Brandeis Univ.)
Boston College, Merkert Center Rm. 130 4:00 PM

Oct 18
A.D. Little Inorganic Seminar
Jean-Michel Saveant (University of Paris, France)
"Electrochemical Approach to Proton-Coupled Electron Transfers"
IT Building 6, room 120 4:00-5:30 PM

Dr. Isabella Lagadic (Univ. Connecticut, Storrs)
"Nanoreservoirs and Nanozippers"
UMass Dartmouth Building Group II, Rm. 115 Info: 508-999-8232 4:00 PM

Dr. Joe Zaia, Boston University, Boston MA
"Glycomics of Tissue Using Tandem Mass Spectrometry"
Northeastern University, 129 Hurtig Hall. 12 NOON

Oct 19
Prof. Glen Miller, (Univ. of New Hampshire)
"Fullerenes, SWNTs, Buckyonions and Nanowhiskers: Research at the Border between Organic Chemistry and Nanotechnology"
Univ. Mass (Lowell), Olney Hall OH 518. 4:00 PM

Oct 20
Prof. Motomu Kanai (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Boston College, Merkert Center Rm. 130 4:00 PM.

Oct 23
Dr. Gerhard Hummer (NIH)
TBA
Brandeis Univ. Gerztenzang 122 3:45 PM

Oct 24
Prof. Richard Johnson (Univ. of New Hampshire)
"Mechanisms of Fragmentation in Carbohydrate Mass Spectrometry and Other Tales of High Energy Molecules"
Tufts University, Pearson Chemistry Building, Room P-106 4:30 PM.

Doug Rees (HHMI and California Institute of Technology)
" TBA" (Student-sponsored Chemistry Seminar)
Harvard University, Pfizer Lecture Hall,12 Oxford St., Cambridge 4:15 PM

John Seelenbinder ö Smiths Detection
"Portable Spectroscopy Technology for Homeland Defense"
Society for Applied Spectroscopy, Hampton Inn, Speen St. Natick, MA 7:30 PM Free to public (Dinner 6:30 PM, $30.00)
Contact Mark Druy at (978) 738-8195 or druy@psicorp.com to reserve.

Oct 25
Dr. Sunil Saxena, (Univ. of Pittsburg, Pittsburg PA)
"ESR Spectroscopic Rulers: A New Spin on Protein Dynamics"
Northeastern University, 129 Hurtig Hall. 12 NOON

Dr. Michael Knapp, (U.Mass, Amherst)
" TBA"
UMass Dartmouth Building Group II, Rm. 115 Info: 508-999-8232, 4:00 PM

Prof. Bernhard Breit (Albert Ludwigs Universitat Freiburg, Germany)
Boston College, Merkert Center Rm. 130 4:00 PM

Oct 26
Prof. Robert Weiss (Univ. of Conn.)
TBA
Univ. Mass (Lowell), Olney Hall OH 218 4:00 PM

Prof. Albena Ivanisevic (Purdue Univ.)
" Fabrication and Characterization of Biological and Chemical Architectures"
Boston College, Merkert Center Rm. 130 4:00 PM

Oct 30
Serono Symposium.
E.J. Corey, Harvard University
" Chiral Cations as Catalysts for Enantioselective Synthesis Pathways and Applications,"
Christopher T. Walsh, Harvard Medical School
" Enzymatic Construction and Transfer of Pyrroles in Natural Product Biosynthesis,"
Serono Speaker, TBA.
Harvard University, Pfizer Lecture Hall,12 Oxford St., Cambridge 2:30 PM

Prof.Kay Brummond (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Transition-Metal Catalyzed Reactions of Allenes
Brandeis Univ., Gerstenzang 122 3:45 PM

Oct 31
Prof. Melanie S. Sanford (Univ. Michigan)
Boston College, Merkert Center Rm. 130 4:00 PM
Prof. Martin Case, (Univ. of Vermont)
"Metal Directed Protein Assembly"
Tufts University, Pearson Chemistry Building, Room P-106 4:30 PM

Nov 2.
Michele Parrinello, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
" TBA"
Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences, Harvard-MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar
Harvard University, Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St., Cambridge 5:00 p.m.