Adventures with Organic Synthesis: From Methodology to Total Synthesis to Protein Isolation

Speaker: Professor Daniel Romo
When: November 15, 2002
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Where: Nierman Hall Room 251

Professor Daniel Romo, Associate Professor of Chemistry from Texas A&M University will be speaking on Adventures with Organic Synthesis: From Methodology to Total Synthesis to Protein Isolation. Dr. Romo did his post-doctorate at Harvard University, and received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University.

Below are just some of his honors and lectures. For more information please log on to Dr. Daniel Romo's website at www.chem.tamu.edu/rgroup/romo/web/.

Honors and Awards:
2001 Pfizer Award for Creativity in Organic Chemistry
Novartis Chemistry Lecturer 2001-2002
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (1999-2004)
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1998-2002)

Lectures and Presentation:
"Marine Natural Products as Probes of Biological Processes" Mentor Talk, NASA SHARP PLUS, July 27, 2001.

"Synthetic and Biomechanistic Investigations of the Immunosuppressive Marine Alkaloids, Pateamine A and Palau'amine" 10th Marine Natural Products Symposium, Nago, Okinawa.

"Total Synthesis and Biological Studies of Marine Natural Products/Catalytic, Asymmetric Beta-Lactone Synthesis"

For more information please contact the Dr. Apu Bhattacharya in the Department of Chemistry at ext. 2664.