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Chemistry Seminar Program
Inorganic Chemistry Seminar Tuesday, February 6th Professor Chris Chang “Chemical Approaches to Understanding Copper and Peroxide Biology in the Brain”  4:15pm - 5:15pm Braun Lecture Hall S.G.Mudd Chemistry Building Stanford University This seminar is free and open to the public. All Stanford University Chemistry students are encouraged to attend this special event. About the seminar: The brain requires among the highest concentrations of copper and iron in the body for normal physiology, but cellular mismanagement of these redox-active metals and their contribution to oxidative stress is connected to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and related neurodegenerative diseases. Motivated to interrogate the complex roles of metal ions and redox biology in neurological health and disease, we are developing new small-molecule fluorescent probes to selectively track metal ions and oxygen metabolites in living cells at the molecular level. The synthesis and characterization of our most recent fluorophore platforms and their application for molecular imaging in living systems will be presented. About Chang: Chris Chang was born in Ames, Iowa and grew up in Indiana and California. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Caltech in 1997, working with Prof. Harry Gray. After spending a year as a Fulbright scholar in Strasbourg, France, Chris was an NSF and Merck predoctoral fellow at MIT and received his Ph.D. in 2002 under the supervision of Prof. Dan Nocera. He stayed at MIT as a Jane Coffins Childs postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Steve Lippard from 2002 to 2004 and then began his independent career at UC Berkeley in July 2004. Chris’ research laboratory uses inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, and chemical biology approaches to study problems in neuroscience and energy research. He has received several awards, including a Dreyfus New Faculty Award, an American Federation for Aging Research Award, a Beckman Young Investigator Award, an NSF CAREER Award, and a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. Questions: Please contact Patricia Dwyer at 650-723-4770.
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