Dr. Scott Gilbertson to Give Seminar at
A&M-Kingsville
KINGSVILLE (April 19, 2004) — Dr. Scott Gilbertson,
Director of Program in Chemical Biology, Department of Pharmacology
and Toxicology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston,
Texas will give a seminar at A&M-Kingsville Wednesday, April
28 from 3:00 to 4:00 pm. His seminar, entitled "Parallel and
'Rational' Uses of Transion Metal Reagents in Organic Chemistry"
will take place in Room 251 of Nierman Hall.
Professor Gilbertson attended the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse,
graduating in 1979 with a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry. In
1982 he received a M.S. Degree from the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor. He attended the University of Chicago from 1983 to 1988
from where he received his Ph.D. working with William D. Wulff,
working on the development of Fischer carbene complexes for use
in organic synthesis. From 1988 to 1990 he was a National Institutes
of Health Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of David G. Lynn
at the University of Chicago. Professor Gilbertson started his independent
career in 1990 in the Chemistry Department at Washington University
where he was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1997
and Professor in 2000. In addition to serving as a faculty member,
Professor Gilbertson served as a Residential College Faculty Fellow
at Washington University from 1999-2003. In the July of 2003 Professor
Gilbertson will begin his appointment as the Robert A. Welch Distinguished
University Chair in Chemistry and the Director of the Program in
Chemical Biology at UTMB. Professor Gilbertson has served as a member
of the NIH, Bio-Organic and Natural Products Chemistry Study Section,
and is an Invited Expert Analyst for CHEMTRACTS. Professor Gilbertson
is the winner of the 2002 Saint Louis Award, given by the Saint
Louis Section of the American Chemical Society. His research is
supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes
of Health, The Petroleum Research Fund administered by the ACS,
and private industry.
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