Schedule
Thursday, May 13
1:55 – 2:00 pm
Opening Remarks - Seth Herzon
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Véronique Gouverneur (Introduction by Timothy Newhouse)
Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
“Late Stage Fluorination with Metal Alkali Fluoride”
3:00 – 4:00 pm
Matthew D. Disney (Introduction by Jason Crawford)
Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
“Sequence-based Design of Small Molecules Targeting RNA Structures”
4:00 – 5:00 pm
Kami L. Hull (Introduction by Jonathan Ellman)
Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin
“Transition Metal-Catalyzed Amination Reactions”
5:00 pm
Closing Remarks - Seth Herzon
Friday, May 14
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Paul J. Hergenrother (Introduction by Stacy Malaker)
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“New Strategies for Anticancer and Antibacterial Drug Discovery”
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Elizabeth Sattely (Introduction by Sarah Slavoff)
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
“Plant Chemistry: Mechanisms and Biochemical Pathways”
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Stephen L. Buchwald (Introduction by Scott Miller)
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Palladium-Catalyzed Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Reactions for the Functionalization of Molecules Big and Small”
3:00 pm
Closing Remarks - Seth Herzon