IOCB Invited Lectures 2010
20 January 2010
Prof. Aalt Bast (University of Maastricht, Netherlands):
Antioxidants as Drugs
9 February 2010
Prof. John E. Walker (Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge, UK):
Energy Conversion in Biology
19 February 2010
Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Tarragona, Spain):
Gold Catalysis in the Construction of Molecular Complexity
12 March 2010
Prof. J. Michael McBride (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA):
Did Life Grind to a Start? A Brief History of the Origins of Homochirality
16 April 2010
Prof. Carl Djerassi (Stanford University, CA, USA):
The Chemical History of the Pill
30 April 2010
Prof. Ben L. Feringa (University of Groningen, Netherlands):
In Control of Molecular Motion: From Molecular Switches to Molecular Motors
10 May 2010
Prof. David Milstein (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel):
Design of New Catalytic Reactions for "Green" Synthesis and Sustainable Energy
28 May 2010
Prof. Kenso Soai (Tokyo University of Science, Japan):
Asymmetric Autocatalysis and the Origin of Homochirality
16 June 2010
Prof. Cynthia J. Burrows (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA):
Mechanisms of Guanine Oxidation Leading to DNA Mutations
18 June 2010
Prof. Gregory C. Fu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA):
Palladium- and Nickel-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions of Alkyl Electrophiles
20 September 2010
Prof. Jacqueline K. Barton (Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA):
DNA-mediated Signaling
4 October 2010
Prof. C. Oliver Kappe (University of Graz, Austria):
Microwave-Assisted Organic Synthesis: From Laboratory Curiosity to Standard Practice in 25 Years
25 October 2010
Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki (International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw & Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznañ, Poland):
New Methods for 3D Structure Prediction of RNAs and RNPs
22 November 2010
Prof. Burkhard König (Universität Regensburg, Germany):
Synthetic Receptors for Selective Molecular Recognition and Catalysis