The 2015 Paquette Legacy Symposium Meet and Greet 12:30 p.m. in 100 CBEC/Lobby Lectures: 1:30 p.m. 130 CBEC, 151 Woodruff Ave. Reception: 4:30 p.m. 100 CBEC/lobby, 151 Woodruff Ave. Professor Michael T. Crimmins Michael Crimmins was born in E. St. Louis, Illinois on January 3, 1954. He received his B.A. degree from Hendrix College (1976) and his Ph.D. from Duke (1980), where he worked on synthetic applications of intermolecular photochemical cycloadditions under the direction of Professor Steven W. Baldwin. He was a postdoctoral associate at the California Institute of Technology working with Professor David A. Evans from 1980-81. He joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry. He was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor (1988) and Professor (1993). In 2003 he was named Mary Ann Smith Distinguished Professor. His research interests are in the development of new synthetic methods and their application to the total synthesis of biologically active compounds. New synthetic methods that have emerged from his lab include development of photochemical cycloadditions, diastereoselective aldol additions and tandem processes. His laboratory has completed the total synthesis of more than 40 architecturally complex natural products including ginkgolide B, spongistatin 1, sorangicin A, inciniastatin A, deoxyasbestinin D, and brevetoxin A. Professor Crimmins’ work has been recognized by a number of awards including a Tanner Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at UNC-CH, the Charles H. Herty Medal from the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society as well as a Cope Scholar Award and the Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products from the national American Chemical Society. He has served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry and as Senior Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences and is currently the co-director of the AAU Project Site for Undergraduate STEM Teaching at UNC-CH. Professor Emily Balskus Dr. Balskus graduated from Williams College in 2002 as valedictorian with highest honors in chemistry. After spending a year at the University of Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar in the lab of Prof. Steven Ley, she pursued graduate studies in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) at Harvard University, receiving her PhD in 2008. Her graduate work with Prof. Eric Jacobsen focused on the development of asymmetric catalytic transformations and their application in the total synthesis of complex molecules. From 2008–2011 she was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in the lab of Prof. Christopher T. Walsh. Her research in the Walsh lab involved elucidating and characterizing biosynthetic pathways for the production of small molecule sunscreens by photosynthetic bacteria. She also received training in microbial ecology and environmental microbiology as a member of the Microbial Diversity Summer Course at the Marine Biology Lab at Woods Hole during the summer of 2009. Emily joined the CCB faculty in 2011. She is also an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and is Professor Sergey Kozmin a Faculty Associate of the Microbial Sciences Initiative at Harvard. Her independent research has been recognized with multiple awards, including the 2011 Smith Family Award for Excellence inUniversity Biomedical Research, theuntil 2012 NIH Director’s Dr. Kozmin obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1998. He was a Postdoctoral Associate at the of Pennsylvania from 1998 2000, and has been a Professor at the University of Chicago to the present. Dr. Kozmin is the recipient of the 2008 Magomedov-Scherbinina Memorial Prize, University of Rochester, the New Innovator Award, andfrom the2000 2013 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. She is also a 2012 Searle Scholar. 2007 Novartis Chemistry Lectureship, the 2006 SSOCJ Lectureship Award, Japan, the 2005 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the 2005 GlaxoSmithKline Chemistry Scholar Award, the 2004 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and the 2004 Amgen Young Investigator's Award.He was named the 2004 American Cancer Society Research Scholar, the 2003 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, and received the 1997 Elizabeth R. Norton Prize for Excellence in Graduate, and the 1993 Diploma with Honors, Moscow State University Professor Emeritus Leo A. Paquette Leo A. Paquette was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received his B.S. degree from Holy Cross College in 1956 and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from MIT in 1959. After serving as a Research Associate at the Upjohn Company from 1959 to 1963, he joined the faculty of The Ohio State University. He was promoted to full professor in 1969, held the Kimberly Professorship from 1981-1987 and was named Distinguished University Professor in 1987. A member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1984, Dr. Paquette has been a Visiting Professor at institutions across the United States and Europe. He has served in an advisory capacity for advisory committees of the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, and has been a member of the editorial boards of numerous publications including the Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Organic Syntheses, Organic Reactions, and as the head editor of the Electronic Encyclopedia of Organic Reagents (eEros). Dr. Paquette’s other honors include Sloan Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the ACS, the S.T. Li prize for Science and Technology and he was chosen as the Centenary Lecturer of the Royal Chemical Society, just to name a few. He has been a fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, and has been selected to serve as the Plenary Lecturer for more than a dozen international conferences. He is also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from his alma mater. According to a nominator for one of his many awards, Dr. Paquette’s prolific career has resulted in remarkable contributions to numerous areas of relevance in the broad field of organic chemistry, including synthesis and properties of unusual molecules, natural products total synthesis, new synthetic methodology, rearrangement processes and stereoelectronic control. In the field of hydrocarbon chemistry, Dr. Paquette is best known for achieving the first total synthesis of the Platonic solid dodecahedrane in 1982, which still stands as one of the landmark achievements in the history of organic synthesis and hydrocarbon chemistry. Meet and Greet with Leo Paquette in CBEC 100/Lobby 12:30-1:30 p.m. 1:30-1:35 p.m. Symposium Opening Remarks for Paquette Legacy 130 CBEC 1:35-2:25 p.m. Professor Sergey Kozmin, University of Chicago 2015 Leo Paquette Legacy Symposium May 8, 2015 “Studies in Chemistry and Chemical Biology of Natural Products” 2:30-3:20 p.m. Professor Emily Balskus, Harvard “TBD” 3:25-3:35 p.m. Break 3:35-4:25 p.m. Professor Michael Crimmins, UNC “TBD” Reception following Lectures In CBEC 100/Lobby 151 W. Woodruff Avenue For information on the lecture: 614-292-0534 fax: 614-292-1685 [email protected] www.chemistry.osu.edu Featuring: Sergey Kozmin, U. of Chicago Emily Balskus, Harvard Michael Crimmins, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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