Organic Chemistry Seminar

Friday, March 16th
Professor Patrick Harran
"Synthetic Means to Reach Natural Ends"

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:
This lecture will describe synthesis and synthetic methods – as means to study new structural types from nature, to probe small molecule assembly in general, and to drive research in biochemistry and cell biology.


About Harran:
Patrick Harran (b 1969) was raised in upstate New York and first trained in chemistry at Skidmore College (BA 1990). He attended Yale University for graduate work with F Ziegler, completing his doctorate in 1995. After an NIH-sponsored postdoctoral fellowship with P Wender at Stanford University, Harran joined the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1997. He was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2002 and Professor in 2005.

Harran has been a Fellow of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, the recipient of a CAREER award from the NSF, an Eli Lilly Grantee, the AstraZenenca Excellence in Chemistry Award, the Pfizer Award for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, the Distinguished Alumni Award from Skidmore College, and the Merck Chemistry Council Award. In 2005 he was awarded the E. Bright Wilson Prize from Harvard University and named the Mar Nell and F Andrew Bell Distinguished Chair in Biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. In 2007 he received the Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research from the Robert A Welch Foundation.

Questions
Please contact Patricia Dwyer at 650-723-4770.