2013 Seaborg Symposium Program
Computation and Experiment:
Collaborations for Chemical and Biochemical Discovery
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Poster Session - UCLA CNSI Lobby - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Symposium - UCLA CNSI Auditorium - 1:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Dinner and Award Ceremony - UCLA Covel Commons, Grand Horizon Ballroom - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 pm. |
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Poster Session (CNSI lobby) |
1:30 p.m. |
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Neil Garg, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair, UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Session I Co-Chair |
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1:40 p.m. |
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Robert H. Grubbs, Ph.D.
2005 Nobel Prize Recipient, Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology
"Design and Applications of Selective Olefin Metathesis:
The Interplay of Theory and Experiments" |
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2:20 p.m. |
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William L. Jorgensen, Ph.D.
Sterling Professor of Chemistry, Director, Division of Physical Sciences & Engineering,
Yale University
"Drug Discovery Accelerated by Computational Methods" |
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3:00 p.m. |
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Paul A. Wender, Ph.D.
Bergstrom Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University
"30 Years with Ken: New Reactions, the Ideal Synthesis & Transformative Therapies" |
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3:40 p.m. |
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Coffee Break and Poster Session |
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David Eisenberg, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Director,
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics & Proteomics,
Paul D. Boyer Professor of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Session II Chair
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4:00 p.m. |
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Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Ph.D.
T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley, HHMI Investigator, and Senior Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Bioorthogonal Chemistry: From Mechanism to Organism" |
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4:40 p.m. |
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David Baker, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry, University of Washington, HHMI Investigator
"Challenges in Enzyme Design" |
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5:20 p.m. |
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Ken Houk, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry, Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry, UCLA
"Computations, Collaborations, and the Distortion/Interaction Model of Bimolecular Reactivity" |
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6:00 p.m. |
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Miguel Garcia-Garibay, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair,
UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Closing Remarks |
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Dinner and Award Ceremony:
UCLA Covel Commons
6:30 p.m. Reception ♦ 7:30 p.m. Dinner ♦ 8:15 p.m. Award Ceremony |
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