Loyola University Chicago

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

COS 2016 Program

Program for Saturday, October 1st, 2016.
The symposium will be held in Kasbeer Hall, 15th floor within the Corboy Law Center, at 25 E. Pearson St., Chicago, IL

  
8:00 - 8:30  Registration
8:30 - 8:45  Opening remarks, Chad C. Eichman (Loyola University Chicago) 
8:45 - 9:15  Kami Hull (University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana)
"Development of Transition-Metal Catalyzed Amination Reactions"
9:15 - 9:45  Kevin Brown (Indiana University)
"No Strain, No Gain: Advances in the Synthesis and use of Cyclobutanes"
9:45 - 10:15  Terry Moore (University of Illinois at Chicago)
"Constrained Peptide Inhibitors of the Estrogen Receptor/Coactivator Interaction"
10:15 - 10:30  Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00  Elizabeth McCusker (Dow AgroScience)
"The Role of Modern Crop Protection Products in a Growing World"
11:00 - 11:30 Daniel Becker (Loyola University Chicago)
"Facing the Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance"
11:30 - 12:00  Selected Short Poster Talks
12:00 - 1:00  Lunch
1:00 - 2:30  Poster Session
2:30 - 3:00  Bill Morris (Merck)
"The Development of a Commercial Manufacturing Route for Verubecestat"
3:00 - 3:30 George Sheppard (AbbVie)
"The Discovery of BET Bromodomain Inhibitor ABBV-075"
3:30 - 4:10  Scott Snyder (University of Chicago)
"Strategies and Tactics for the Synthesis of Complex Alkaloids"
4:10 - 4:25  Coffee Break
4:25 - 5:20  Brian Stoltz (Caltech)
"Complex Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry"
5:20  Closing remarks, J.T. Mohr (University of Illinois at Chicago)