Organic Chemistry Seminar

Wednesday, April 25th
Professor Eric Meggers
"Morphing natural architectures into simplified metal complexes"

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 seminar will revolve around a strategy to supplement organic with inorganic elements to create compounds with novel biological, physicochemical, and materials properties. This will include the design of metal-containing simplified nucleic acids and organometallic protein kinase inhibitors.

About Meggers:
Eric Meggers received his Diploma in Chemistry from the University of Bonn in 1995 and a PhD from the University of Basel in 1999, working under the guidance of Professor Bernd Giese on the transport of charge in DNA. He then spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Peter G. Schultz at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, USA, investigating metal-mediated base pairing in DNA. Since 2002, Eric is an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He was recently awarded a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (2002), a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2006), and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2006).

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