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