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The 2002-2003 Schedule
of the
J. Clarence Karcher and Rosetta Briegel Barton Lectures





Thursday

September 26, 2002

Professor Charles H. Winter
Department of Chemistry
Wayne State University

ãMetal Complexes Containing Five-Membered Nitrogen Heterocyclic Ligands: Toward Pentazolato Complexesä



Thursday

October 3, 2002

Professor Debra Dunaway-Mariano
Department of Chemistry
University of New Mexico

ãRiding the Research Roller Coaster: The Mechanism of PEP Mutaseä



Thursday

October 10, 2002

Professor Olga Lomovskaya
Associate Director of Efflux Biology
Microcide, Inc., California

ãInhibitors of Efflux Pumps in Bacteria and Fungi as Novel Agents for Combination Therapyä




Thursday

October 31, 2002

Professor H. Ronald Kaback
Departments of Physiology and Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California at Los Angeles

ãUnique Approaches to Gain Structure/Function Insight Into Nasty Membrane Proteinsä



Thursday

November 7, 2002

Professor Melanie H. Cobb
Department of Pharmacology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

ãInformation Flow in MAP Kinase Cascadesä



Thursday

November 14, 2002

Professor Franklin A. Davis
Department of Chemistry
Temple University

ãAsymmetric Synthesis of Aminesä



Thursday

November 21, 2002

Professor William B. Tolman
Department of Chemistry and Center for Metals in Biocatalysis
University of Minnesota

ãLigand Structural Effects on Biologically Relevant Copper (I)/Dioxygen Reactivityä




Thursday

March 6, 2003

Professor Nicholas R. Cozzarelli
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California at Berkeley

ãMechanisms of Chromosome Unlinking and Segregationä



Thursday

March 13, 2003

Professor John F. Hartwig
Department of Chemistry
Yale University

ãDiscovery and Understanding of New Transition Metal-Catalyzed Reactionsä


Thursday

April 3, 2003

Professor X. Sunney Xie
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University

ãSingle Molecule Enzymatic and Conformational Dynamicsä



Thursday

April 10, 2003

Professor Victor J. Hruby
Department of Chemistry
University of Arizona

ãDesign of Peptide Hormones and Neurotransmitters That Affect Behavior: Scientific and Ethical Considerationsä

(hosted by the PLU Society)



Thursday

April 24, 2003

Professor Tetsuhiko Yoshimura
Deputy Director General
Institute for Life Support Technology, Yamagata, Japan

ãBioimaging of Nitric Oxideä




Unless otherwise noted, lectures begin at 3:45 pm in Room 108 of the Physical Sciences Center, 601 Elm Avenue, Norman, Oklahoma.  Coffee and pastries will be served at 3:30 pm.

For additional information, please contact Dr. Ann West at (405) 3251529 or (405) 325-4811, or by electronic mail:  awest@ou.edu.

 


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