Event Program

Friday, May 1st

3:00 PM    Seminar, Prof. Bill Baker, Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida,

               “Treasures from Under the Antarctic ice:  Malaria, Leishmania, Influenza and Cancer Treatment Leads from Way Down Under”

4:00 PM    Refreshments/Social Time

4:30 PM    Seminar, Prof. Jason Kingsbury, Department of Chemistry, Boston College (Title TBA)

Saturday, May 2nd

1:00-5:00 PM        Seminars by Hamilton Alums

1:00    Jeffrey Rubino ’05, Duke University, “Characterization of Thioether-Only Cu(I) Binding by Ctr1 Methionine Motifs”

1:30    Matthew Liptak ’03, University of Rochester, “Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Characterization of Cytochromes c"

2:00    Christopher Butts ’04, University of Pennsylvania, “"Identification of a Fluorescent Anesthetic, 1-Aminoanthracene"

2:30    Rebecca Parkhurst ’07, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "New Applications of the Diels-Alder Reaction in Polymer Chemistry"

3:00    Break

3:30    Daniel Roston ’07, University of Iowa, “"Quantum Tunneling and Transition State Structure in Alcohol Dehydrogenase"

4:00    Stephen Wrzesinski ’95, Yale University School of Medicine, “Novel Approaches to Deliver Anti-TGF-beta Agents to Enhance Antitumor Responses Against Murine Melanomas

4:30    Jamie McCabe Dunn ‘01, Schering-Plough, “The Route from Hamilton College to Big Pharma”

6:00 PM        Music Recital, List 106

7:00 PM        Dinner

8:00PM    Keynote Address, Prof. Jerrold Meinwald, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University