Organic Chemistry Seminar

Wednesday, May 14th
Professor Steve Bruner
"Chemistry of Peptide Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways"


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:
Structurally complex natural products, such as the medicinally relevant antibiotics vancomycin and pencillins, are biosynthesized by large, macromolecular enzyme assemblies. These assemblies frequently orchestrate difficult and interesting chemical transformations to construct diverse molecular scaffolds. Our group uses the tools of synthetic organic chemistry, enzymology and structural biology to dissect the mechanism of these systems. The chemistry of two enzymes are described in this lecture, both involved in the biosynthesis of nonproteinogenic blocking blocks in, respectively, vancomycin and enediyne antibiotics.


About Bruner:
Steven Bruner is in the Department of Chemistry at Boston College. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry in 2000 from Harvard University under the direction of Prof. Gregory Verdine. From 2000–2003, he was a Damon Runyon Cancer Research postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Christopher Walsh at Harvard Medical School. In 2003, he joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Boston College. As an assistant professor, he received a Damon Runyon Scholar Award, a Camille Dreyfus New Faculty Award and an NSF CAREER award.

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