Chemformation Chemformation
Volume 14, Number 16
Friday, April 24, 1998
Next issue: Friday, May 1st. Chemformation is published by the Office of the Department Chairman. The deadline for the next issue is Tuesday, April 28th. Please convey items of interest (or mailing list changes) to Linda Earle, Room 18-390, Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, 617/253-1803; 617/258-7500 (fax) or e-mail to lkn@mit.edu Back issues of Chemformation can be accessed via the Chemistry Department Website.
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Seminar Calendar
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Monday, April 27, 1998 |
"Resculpting a Protein's Structure: Stable Mutants of the Arc Repressor Lacking the Wild-type b-sheet" |
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Tuesday, April, 28, 1998 |
"Mechanistic Studies of Beta Protein Amyloid Formation in Alzheimer's Disease: Identification and Characterization of Protofibril Intermediates". |
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Tuesday, April 28, 1998 |
"Revealing Hidden Dynamics Through the Rotational Spectrum of a Highly Vibrationally Excited Molecule" |
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Tuesday, April 28, 1998 |
"How One Chemist Can Make 10,000 Discrete Compounds 5 mg Each, Under One Year" |
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Wednesday, April 29, 1998 |
"Hydrocarbon Hydroxylation with Electrophilic Platinum Complexes"
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Thursday, April 30, 1998 |
"Solvation Dynamics and Vibrational Relaxation in Liquids" |
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Thursday, April 30, 1998 |
"Probing the Activity of the Hammerhead RNA Using Analogue Complexes" |
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Thursday, April 30, 1998 |
"Adapting Combinatorial Research Strategies to Problems in Materials Science"
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1998 George Büchi Lectureship in Organic
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Lecture I: "From Fantasy to Reality: A Travelog in the Fascinating World of Total Synthesis"
Lecture II: "On the Chemistry-Biology Interface: From Glycals to Clinically Evaluatable Carbohydrate-Based Antitumor Vaccines" |
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Tuesday, May 5, 1998 |
"Adapting Combinatorial Research Strategies to Problems in Materials Science" |
Please mark your calendars and plan on attending the First Undergraduate Research Symposium for Course 5 on Saturday, May 9th, 1998 hosted by Professor Christopher Cummins. The event will begin with a poster session at 12:00 noon in Room #56-154. Participants can be any undergraduates doing research in Course 5 and if you are interested you should notify Professor Cummins by email at: ccummins@mit.edu.
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12:00-2:00 p.m. |
Poster session with refreshments in Room 56-154 |
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2:00 -3:30 p.m. Talks in Room 56-114 |
(These will be three 20-25 minute talks with 5-10 minutes for questions) Speakers this year will be (all in Schrock group) John Gavenonis, Laura Turculet and Maria Manzoni
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3:30 |
Closing remarks by UROP coordinator |
Hoffmann LaRoche in Basel, Switzerland and Bayer AG in Leverkusen, Germany invite applications for postdoc positions. Individuals should have an Organic background and Synthesis experience. Positions are for one year, with option to extend for a second year. Application should include a résumé, a brief description of research experience, list of publications, and names of contacts for recommendations.
For more information on Bayer AG, refer to http://www.bayer.com or contact Mr. Dr. Herbert Hugl, Head of Synthesis Research. Telephone: 011-49-214-30 30 68. FAX: 011-49-214-30 5 56 39. E-mail : HERBERT.HUGL@bayer-ag.de. Send Applications with Ref. No. 465 to: Bayer AG, Personalmarketing, Frau Höller Fengler, Hauptstrasse 119, D-51368 Leverkusen, Germany.
For information on Hoffmann LaRoche, contact Dr. Bernard Orsat (former postdoc in Department with Professor Klibanov) at BERNARD.ORSAT@roche.com or M.-T. Kouo in 18-390 at 3-1804 or at mtk@MIT.EDU.
If you are a postdoc who defended and received (or will receive) your Ph.D. between January 1, 1996 and July 1st, 1998, The Merrill Lynch Forum will award a cash prize of $15,000 to five Ph.D. students who best explain the commercial application of their dissertation. In addition to the cash awards, winners will meet with leading entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to discuss their ideas. Winning candidates' university departments will also receive a $5,000 Innovation Grant in recognition of their support of the Competition. Pick up applications and details of competition in Department Headquarters Office in 18-390; deadline is July 1st. Please feel free to pass this information on to other postdocs or Ph,D. candidates who will finish by July 1, 1998.
Bob DiGiacomo will be coming in on Wednesdays or Thursdays to pick up any glass blowing work that you may have available. Please bring any work to room 6-031 or call Ed Udas or John Annese at 3-4505. Bob will do the work on a first-come, first-served basis.
Call Ed Udas at 253-4505 or stop by room 6-026 if students, faculty, or staff need help in organizing their MIT space.
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
These seminars will meet in Room 6-120 from 9:30 to 11:00 A.M.
Director, Structural Biology Center, University of Houston, Medical School,invites applications for the Director of the Center. Given the expertise already present, the Center will develop X-ray crystallography. The incentives for assuming this position include a significant budget, an endowed Chair, development funds to purchase needed equipment, and the opportunity to make junior faculty appointments. The Director and other Center faculty will hold an academic appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Ongoing faculty recruitment and research development in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology are expected to enhance the research goals of the Structural Biology Center. The Deadline for applications is July 1, 1998. Submit cv, and names of three references and future research plans to: Dr. Henry W.Strobel, Chair,Structural Biology Search Committee, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas-Houston, Medical School, P.O. Box 20708, Houston, Texas 77225-0708.
RESEARCH FELLOW - NANOSCALE PHYSICS LABORATORY PHOTOLUMINESCENCE OF SILICON NANOSTRUCTURES University of Birmingham - School of Physics and Space Research, Birmingham,UK. A Research Fellows is required to study the optical properties of nanostructured Si, for example, size-selected silicon cluster-assembled films. Using either an argon ion or a Ti:sapphire laser, photoluminescence will be studied on time scales ranging from cw down to the ultrafast regime. Experience in photoluminescence, SHG/SFG at interfaces, laser/surface interactions or ultrafast time-resolved measurements is desirable. The post is for 1 year in the first instance with the possibility of extension. Salary on the scale =A314,732- =A316,450. Application forms are returnable by 1 July 1998. Working towards equal opportunities. Web Page: http://nprl.bham.ac.uk/inex.htm - Informal enquiries - Professor R E Palmer or Dr K W Kolasinski - E-mail Address: R.E.Palmer@bham.ac.uk K.W.Kolasinski@bham.ac.uk Application forms and further particulars- Contact Name:- Director of Staffing Services E-mail Address: STAFFING@BHAM.AC.UK Telephone: 0121 414 6486 The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
Indiana University: A postdoctoral fellowship exists in the laboratory of Professor George Ewing, to understand the strucutre and properties of thin film water and ice near ambient conditions. Please contact: Professor George Ewing, Indiana University at (812) 855-5754 and e-mail ewingg@indiana.edu or fax at 812-855-8300. Applications are invited from suitably qualified chemical physicists, for a postdoctoral research fellowship to work in collaboration with Professor John Simons FRS and Dr Mark Brouard. The prime aim of the programme is to explore and interpret the dynamical stereochemistry of reactive molecular> collisions. Further details of the research group can be found through web-site, http://physchem.ox.ac.uk - some leading references are listed below. The appointment is tenable for up to two years, beginning 1st August, 1998 or as soon as possible thereafter, at a starting salary in the range A315,159 - =A322,785 per annum, depending on age and experience. Applicants, who should be experienced in laser techniques and computer literate, are invited to send a CV identifying two referees, to Professor J P Simons, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, England: FAX ++44 1865 275410. 'O(1D) + H2 -> OH|v',N'> + H ; the anatomy of a reaction', A J Alexander, D A Blunt M Brouard, J P Simons, F J Aoiz, L Banares, Y Fujimura and M Tsubouchi, Faraday Discussions Chem Soc., (1997) 103, in press. The Ins and Outs of Collision Complexes', J P Simons, J Chem Soc Farada Trans, 1997, 93, 4095. Stereodynamics of the reaction O(1D) + H2(v=3D0) -> OH|v=3D0,N,f> + H: state=20 resolved linear and angular momentum distributions', A J Alexander, F J Aoiz, L Banares, M Brouard, J Short and J P Simons, J Phys Chem, 1997, 1= 01, 7544. The H + H2O -> OH + H2 reaction: OH state-resolved differential cross sections and H2 internal energy distributions', M Brouard, I Burak, G A J 20 Markillie, K McGrath and C Vallance, Chem Phys Letters, 1997, 281, 97.