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IOCB Invited Lectures 2013


14 March 2013
Prof. Robert Crabtree (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA):
Organometallic Precatalysts for Oxidation of Water and Alkyl C-H Bonds

20 March 2013
Prof. Steven M. Reppert (University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA):
Monarch Butterfly Migration: From Behavior to Neurons to Genes

22 March 2013
Prof. Harry L. Anderson (Oxford University, UK):
New Approaches to the Design and Synthesis of Molecular Wires for Biomedical and Nanotechnology Applications

15 April 2013
Prof. David Avnir (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel):
Organic Molecules within Metals: Principles and Applications

26 April 2013
Prof. Frank Glorius (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany):
Stories on Design & Surprise: C-H Activation, Asymmetric Arene Hydrogenation and NHC Organocatalysis

13 May 2013
Prof. Thomas R. Cech (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA):
Crawling out of the RNA World: From Ribozymes to Telomerase

17 May 2013
Prof. Tom L. Blundell (University of Cambridge, UK):
Genomes, Structural Biology and Drug Discovery: Exploring Chemical and Biological Space

10 June 2013
Prof. Lawrence T. Scott (Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA):
Can Organic Chemists Deliver Structurally Uniform Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes by Custom Synthesis?

12 July 2013
Prof. Charles S. Craik (University of California San Francisco, CA, USA):
Profiling and Detecting Unregulated Proteolytic Activity

18 October 2013
Prof. Ronald Breslow (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA):
The Origin of Homochirality in Amino Acids and Sugars on Prebiotic Earth

13 December 2013
Prof. Thomas Carell (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich & Charité Universitätsklinikum, Berlin, Germany):
DNA Bases Beyond Watson and Crick