IOCB Invited Lectures 2012


12 March 2012
Prof. Christian Haass (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany):
The Molecular Clock Work of Alzheimer's Disease

18 April 2012
Prof. Richard R. Schrock (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA):
The Unique Abilities of MAP Catalysts for Olefin Metathesis

23 April 2012
Prof. Kai Simons (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany):
Lipids Organizing Cell Membranes

10 May 2012
Prof. Shankar Balasubramanian (University of Cambridge & Cambridge Research Institute, UK):
Sequencing Nucleic Acids: From Chemistry to Life Sciences and Medicine

25 May 2012
Prof. Matthew Freeman (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK):
The Control of Intercellular Signalling by Rhomboid-Like Proteins

18 June 2012
Prof. F. Dean Toste (University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA):
Concepts and Catalysts for Enantioselective Reactions of C-C Multiple Bonds

22 June 2012
Prof. Dennis P. Curran (University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA):
Radical, Ionic and Organometallic Reactions of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Boranes

5 October 2012
Prof. Peter Bäuerle (University of Ulm, Germany):
Functional Thiophene-Based Nanomaterials for Organic Photovoltaic

23 October 2012
Prof. Andreas Hirsch (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany):
Functionalization of Synthetic Carbon Allotropes

5 November 2012
Prof. Bernd Giese (University of Fribourg, Switzerland):
Electron Transfer through Peptides: Consequences for Enzymatic Reactions

16 November 2012
Prof. Ronald Micura (University of Innsbruck, Austria):
Synthetic modified RNA – Probes to Study Riboswitch and Ribosome Function

3 December 2012
Prof. M. Christina White (University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA):
C—H Oxidations and Organic Synthesis

10 December 2012
Prof. Dirk Trauner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany):
Optochemical Genetics