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  Houk receiving award "Computation and Experiment:
Collaborations for Chemical and
Biochemical Discovery"

On Saturday, October 26, 2013,
the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
awarded the 2013 Glenn T. Seaborg Medal

to
Kendall N. Houk, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry, Saul Winstein Chair
in Organic Chemistry, UCLA

Professor Houk's Biography

Many thanks to our generous donors
who made this event possible!

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2013 Seaborg Symposium Program
Garcia-Garibay
  Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, Ph.D. (Video)
Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Welcoming Remarks
 
Garg
  Neil K. Garg, Ph.D. (Video)
Professor and Vice Chair, UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Session I Co-Chair
 
Alexandrova
  Anastassia N. Alexandrova, Ph.D. (Video)
Assistant Professor, UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Session I Co-Chair
 
Grubbs
  Robert H. Grubbs, Ph.D. (Video)
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"
 
Jorgensen
  William L. Jorgensen, Ph.D. (Video)
Sterling Professor of Chemistry, Director, Division of Physical Sciences & Engineering, Yale University
"Drug Discovery Accelerated by Computational Methods"
 
Wender
  Paul A. Wender, Ph.D. (Video)
Bergstrom Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University
"30 Years with Ken: New Reactions, the Ideal Synthesis & Transformative Therapies"
 
Eisenberg
 

David S. Eisenberg, Ph.D. (Video)
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

 
Bertozzi
  Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Ph.D. (Video)
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"
 
Baker
  David Baker, Ph.D. (Video)
Professor of Biochemistry, University of Washington, HHMI Investigator
"Challenges in Enzyme Design"
 
Houk
  Ken N. Houk, Ph.D. (Video)
Professor of Chemistry, Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry, UCLA
"Computations, Collaborations, and the Distortion/Interaction Model of Biomolecular Reactivity"
 
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