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Scott A. Snyder of Columbia University will deliver a seminar entitled, "Lessons in Chemoselectivity: Total Synthesis of Polyphenolic Natural Products." Hosted by Keith Woerpel.

Michael Fayer of Stanford University will deliver a seminar entitled, "Dynamics of Liquids and Interfaces Studied with Ultrafast 2D IR Vibrational Echo Spectroscopy." Hosted by Mark Tuckerman.

Michelle Chang of the University of California at Berkeley will deliver a seminar entitled, "Building New Chemical Function in Living Organisms." Hosted by Lara Mahal.

Jeffrey A. Reimer of the University of California at Berkeley will deliver a seminar entitled, "Spin Control Without the Politics." Hosted by Alexej Jerschow.

MICA (Molecular Imaging Contrast Agent Group) Seminar. Speaker: Matt Brevard from Burker Biopsin, Billerica, MA.

Jeff Gildersleeve of the National Institutes of Health will deliver a seminar entitled, "New Cancer Vaccine Biomarkers from Glycan Microarray Profiling." Hosted by Lara Mahal.

Bruce E. Bursten of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville will deliver a seminar entitled, "Fun at the Bottom of the Periodic Table: Theoretical Studies of the Structure and Bonding in Actinide Complexes." Hosted by Marc Walters.

Aaron James Link of Princeton University will deliver a seminar entitled, "How to Tie Peptide Knots." Hosted by Kent Kirshenbaum.

Heather Maynard of the University of California at Los Angeles will deliver a seminar entitled, "Polymer Bioconjugates: Synthetic Strategies and Applications in Drug Delivery." Hosted by Marcus Weck.

Stacey E. Brenner of Brooklyn College will deliver a seminar entitled, "Organocascade Reactions: New Mechanisms and New Stereochemical Outcomes." Hosted by Keith Woerpel.

Leslie Leiserowitz of the Weizmann Institute of Science will deliver a seminar entitled, "Nucleation of the Malaria Pigment Hemozoin in Plasmodium Falciparum studied by X-ray Fe-fluorescence and Diffraction and by X-ray and Electron Imaging." Hosted by Bart Kahr.

Krzysztof Szalewicz of the University of Delaware will deliver a seminar entitled, "How to Fix Density-Functional Theory." Hosted by the Graduate Students.

MICA (Molecular Imaging Contrast Agent Group) Seminar. Speaker TBA.

Karl-Heinz Ernst of EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) will deliver a seminar entitled, "Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Flatland: From Sergeants-and-Soldiers to Unidirectional Movement." Hosted by Bart Kahr and Jim Canary.

Jean-Marie Lehn of the University of Strasbourg will deliver the MRSEC Distinguished Seminar entitled, "Dynamic Materials Towards Functional Adaptive Materials." Hosted by Michael D. Ward.

Webster Santos of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute will deliver a seminar entitled, "Copper-Catalyzed Borylation and Inhibition of Protein-RNA Interactions Using Branched Peptide Boronic Acids." Hosted by Paramjit Arora.

Zlatko Bacic of New York University will deliver a seminar entitled, "Squeezing Hydrogen Molecules in Tight Places: Quantum Dynamics, Energetics, and Spectroscopy." Hosted by the Kent Kirshenbaum.

Emilie Ringe from Northwestern University will deliver a seminar entitled, "Nanoparticle Shape: Effects and Modeling." Hosted by Adam Braunschweig.

Kurt Kremer of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research will deliver a seminar entitled, "TBA." Hosted by Michael D. Ward.

Marc Greenberg of Johns Hopkins University will deliver a seminar entitled, "Mechanistic Studies of Nucleic Acid Damage and Repair in Naked and Nucleosomal DNA." Hosted by David Schuster.

Alumnus Marc Greenberg, Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, will chat with chemistry majors. Co-hosted by the Draper Society.

Ron Naaman of the Weizmann Institute of Science will deliver a seminar entitled, "Cooperative molecular field effect- from sensors to spintronics." Hosted by Zlatko Bacic.

Bryan Krantz of the University of California at Berkeley will deliver a seminar entitled, "The Unfolding Story of Anthrax Toxin Protein Translocation." Hosted by Neville Kallenbach.

MICA (Molecular Imaging Contrast Agent Group) Seminar. Speaker TBA.

New York Nanoscience Discussion Group Meeting, featuring speakers Gallaway, Vologodskii and Boutis.

Carlos Cabrera of the University of Puerto Rico will deliver a seminar entitled, "Nanostructuring Electrochemical Interfaces: Synthesis of Fuel Cell Catalyst/Support Systems." Hosted by Michael D. Ward.

Alumnus Steve Isaacman, CEO and founder of Nanometics, will chat with chemistry majors. Co-hosted by the Draper Society.

Stephen Fesik of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine will deliver a seminar entitled, "Cancer Drug Discovery Using Fragment-Based Methods." Co-Hosted by Paramjit Arora (Chemistry) and Dafna Bar-Sagi (Biochemistry).

MICA (Molecular Imaging Contrast Agent Group) Seminar. Speaker: Jae-Sung Lee, NYU Chemistry (Jerschow Group).

Alex Nevzorov from North Carolina State University will deliver a seminar entitled, "Structure Determination of Membrane Proteins by Solid-State NMR: Uniaxial Alignment, Spectroscopic Assignment, and Structure Calculations." Hosted by Nate Traaseth.

"Information-Directed Multiscale Assembly: From Nature to Design" is a symposium in honor of Professor Nadrian C. Seeman.

MICA (Molecular Imaging Contrast Agent Group) Seminar. Speaker: Jeff Bulte, Johns Hopkins University.

Eric Anslyn of the University of Texas at Austin will deliver a seminar entitled, "Supramolecular Chirality Analysis." Hosted by Jim Canary.

Noa Marom of the University of Texas at Austin will deliver a seminar entitled, "A First Principles Treatment of Polymorphism in Molecular Crystals using Dispersion-Corrected Density Functional Theory." Hosted by Bart Kahr.

Brent Iverson of the University of Texas at Austin will deliver a seminar entitled, "The Study of Large Molecular Systems at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology." Hosted by Lara Mahal.

New York Nanoscience Discussion Group Meeting, featuring speakers Stojanovic, Grosberg and Mahal.

MICA (Molecular Imaging Contrast Agent Group) Seminar. Speaker: Alexej Bogdanov, UMass.

Alumnus Arash Rahi, Surgeon at Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College, will chat with chemistry majors. Co-hosted by the Draper Society.

William Dichtel from Cornell University will deliver a seminar entitled, "Bottom-up Synthesis of Structurally Precise Organic Materials." Hosted by Adam Braunschweig.

Shawn Chen of the National Institutes of Health will deliver a seminar entitled, "Multimodality Molecular Imaging of Response to Cancer Therapeutics." Hosted by Yingkai Zhang.

Daniel E. Hooks of Los Alamos National Laboratory will deliver a seminar entitled, "Materials Science of Explosives." Hosted by Michael D. Ward.

Herschel Wade of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will deliver a seminar entitled, "Cracking the Code of Multidrug Recognition." Hosted by Kent Kirshenbaum.

MICA (Molecular Imaging Contrast Agent Group) Seminar. Speaker: Stewart Russell, NYUSOM.

Elizabeth Boon of SUNY StonyBrook will deliver a seminar entitled, "The Molecular Basis of Nitric Oxide in Regulating Bacterial Group Behavior." Hosted by Paramjit Arora.

Neil Garg of the University of California/Los Angeles will deliver a seminar entitled, "Complex Molecule Synthesis as a Fuel for Deiscovery." Hosted by Marc Walters.

Alumnus Neil Garg, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at UCLA, will chat with chemistry majors. Co-hosted by the Draper Society.

Krishna Kumar of the Tufts University will deliver a seminar entitled, "Bioorthogonal Noncovalent Chemistry." Hosted by Paramjit Arora.

Wayne Harding of Hunter College (CUNY) will deliver a seminar entitled, "Aporphines as 5-HT2A Antagonists: Synthetic and Biological Explorations." Hosted by Bobby Arora.

Joel Bowman of Emory University will deliver a seminar entitled, "Construction and Dynamic Exploration of High Dimensional Potential Energy Surfaces: From "Roaming" to Hydration." Hosted by Zlatko Bacic.

Bradley Nilsson of the University of Rochester will deliver a seminar entitled, "Peptide Self-Assembly: Pathological Amyloid to Engineered Biomaterials." Hosted by Kent Kirshenbaum.

New York Nanoscience Discussion Group Meeting, featuring speakers Venkataraman, Sukhishvili and Wadghiri.

Gabor Csanyi of Cambridge University will deliver a seminar entitled, "Adaptive QM/MM Simulations of Chemical Reactions in Solution." Hosted by Yingkai Zhang.

Bobby Arora from NYU Chemistry will deliver a seminar entitled, "A Portrait of the Bioorganic Chemist as a Young Man." Hosted by NYU Chemistry.

Tristan Lambert of Columbia University will deliver a seminar entitled, "Reaction Design and Catalysis with Aromatic Ions." Hosted by Keith Woerpel.

Derek Tan of Sloan-Kettering will deliver a seminar entitled, "Diversity and Design: New Chemical Probes for Biology and Medicine." Hosted by Paramjit Arora.

MICA (Molecular Imaging Contrast Agent Group) Seminar. Speaker: Parag V. Chitnis, Riverside Research.

Tae-Hee Lee of Penn State University will deliver a seminar entitled, "Single Molecule Studies on the Structure and Assembly of Nucleosomes." Hosted by Tamar Schlick.

Vladimir Kolosov from Ural Federal University will deliver a seminar entitled, "New Solid State Order: Transrotational Crystals and Nanostructures Revealed by Transmission Electron Microscopy in Crystallizing Amorphous Films/Layers/Spots." Hosted by Alexander Shtukenberg and Bart Kahr.

Hien Nguyen of the University of Iowa will deliver a seminar entitled, "Synthesis of Bioactive Carbohydrates and Allylic Fluorides for PET Imaging." Hosted by Lara Mahal.

Jianmin Gao of Boston College will deliver a seminar entitled, "Targeting Membrane Lipids with Designed Peptides." Hosted by Bobby Arora.

David Shaw of D.E. Shaw Research will deliver a seminar entitled, "Millisecond-Long Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins on a Special-Purpose Machine." Hosted by Yingkai Zhang.

Seogjoo (Suggy) Jang of Queens College will deliver a seminar entitled, "New theories of resonance energy transfer for quantum coherence and inelastic effects in soft environments." Hosted by Mark Tuckerman.

MICA (Molecular Imaging Contrast Agent Group) Seminar. Speaker: Yu-Shin Ding, NYUSOM.