Dear faculty, Please have an early lunch and join us for the following talks this and next week. Please strongly encourage your students and postdocs to attend these talks. THIS FRIDAY (Oct 31), 12.15-1.15 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Walter Kowtoniuk, Liu Lab Talk title: A chemical screen for biological small molecule-RNA conjugates reveals coenzyme A-modified RNA Speaker: Paul Bracher, Whitesides Lab Talk title: Chemistry on the prebiotic earth NEXT FRIDAY (Nov 7), 12.15-1.15 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Dr. Prashant Jain, Cohen Lab Talk title: Plasmonic nanostructures for enhancing optical activity Speaker: Dr. Debarati Mazumder, Saghatelian Lab Talk title: A mass spectrometry-based global profiling approach to identify physiological peptidase-substrate interactions Refreshments and snacks will be provided at noon outside Pfizer. See you there! CCB Student/Postdoc Seminar Series

Dear faculty, Please have an early lunch and join us for the following talks this and next week. Please strongly encourage your lab members to come! THIS FRIDAY (Nov 14), 12.15-1.15 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Joseph Wzorek, Evans Lab Talk title: Towards the synthesis of (-)-tetracycline via transannular reactions Speaker: Dr. Semion Saikin, Aspuru-Guzik Lab Talk title: Modeling of surface enhanced Raman scattering processes NEXT FRIDAY (Nov 21), 12.15-1.15 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Jordan Krall, Macbeath Lab Talk title: High- and low-affinity receptors in epidermal growth factor signaling Speaker: Dr. Arthur Catino, Evans Lab Talk title: Studies toward the total synthesis of Phorbol Refreshments and snacks will be provided at noon outside Pfizer. See you there! CCB Student/Postdoc Seminar Series

Dear faculty, Please have an early lunch and join us for the following talks this and next week. Please strongly encourage your lab members to come! THIS FRIDAY (Dec 5), 12.15-1.15 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Anthony O'Brien, Anderson Lab Talk title: Insights into cirrus cloud formation from in-situ water isotope measurements Speaker: Dr. Lourdes Gude, Verdine Lab Talk title: RIPtides & RNA targeting: an opportunity for telomerase inhibition NEXT FRIDAY (Dec 12), 12.15-1.15 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Dr. Kok-Ping Chan, Myers Lab Talk title: Synthesis and biological evaluation of avrainvillamide and its analogs as antiproliferating agents Speaker: Dr. Jingshan Zhang, Shakhnovich Lab Talk title: Slowly replicating lytic viruses: persistence and within-host competition Refreshments and snacks will be provided at noon outside Pfizer. See you there! CCB Student/Postdoc Seminar Series

Dear faculty, The CCB Student/Postdoc Seminar Series for Spring is starting up THIS FRIDAY (Jan 23) from 12.30-1.30 pm (NEW TIME) at Pfizer LH. Please find attached is a list of speakers for the semester from Jan 23 through May 8, 2009. Based on an online survey conducted two months ago by the GPC, about 42% of students/postdocs would prefer faculty to attend the Friday talks. Another 42% of the community did not have any preference as to whether faculty attended these talks. Since most people would like or do not mind having faculty at these seminars, we would like to encourage all faculty to try their best to attend the series. Your feedback will be invaluable to the students/postdocs. Therefore, please have an early lunch and join us for the following talks THIS FRIDAY and next week. Please strongly encourage your lab members to attend! THIS FRIDAY (Jan 23), 12.30-1.30 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Yui Vinayavekhin, Saghetalian Lab Talk title: Global metabolite profiling of natural product gene clusters Speaker: Dr. Qinliang Zhao, Betley Lab Talk title: Design, synthesis and reactivities of trimetallic reactive sites: a new approach to driving multi-electron redox chemistry NEXT FRIDAY (Jan 30), 12.30-1.30 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Ryan Quiller, Friend Lab Talk title: Transient hydroxyl formation from water on oxygen-covered Au(111) Speaker: Dr. Danaya Pakotiprapha, Verdine Lab Talk title: Structure and function of the bacterial nucleotide excision repair protein UvrA Refreshments and snacks will be provided at 12.15 pm outside Pfizer. See you there! CCB Student/Postdoc Seminar Series

Dear faculty, Please have an early lunch and join us for the following talks THIS FRIDAY and next week. Please encourage your lab members to come! THIS FRIDAY (Feb 6), 12.30-1.30 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Kevin Fortner, Shair Lab Talk title: Synthesis of the western half of Cephalostatin 1 Speaker: Dr. Bo Huang, Zhuang Lab Talk title: Seeing the unseen with super-resolution fluorescence microscopy NEXT FRIDAY (Feb 13), 12.30-1.30 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Dr. Laura Wieland Brown, Clardy Lab Talk title: Biosynthesis of the thiocillin antibiotics Speaker: Dr. Giovanni Muncipinto, Schreiber Lab Talk title: Skeletal diversity arising from a densely functionalized template Refreshments and snacks will be provided at 12.15 pm outside Pfizer. See you there! CCB Student/Postdoc Seminar Series

Dear faculty, We are really sorry for sending a second email, but the last reminder was not quite updated. The following are the talks for this and next week. THIS FRIDAY (Feb 13), 12.30-1.30 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Dr. Laura Wieland Brown, Clardy Lab Talk title: Biosynthesis of the thiocillin antibiotics Speaker: Dr. Giovanni Muncipinto, Schreiber Lab Talk title: Skeletal diversity arising from a densely functionalized template NEXT FRIDAY (Feb 20), 12.30-1.30 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Dr. Allon Hochbaum, Aizenberg Lab Talk title: Directed adhesion of bacteria on nanostructured surfaces Speaker: Kevin Esvelt, Liu Lab Talk title: Towards the continuous directed evolution of biomolecules See you there! CCB Student/Postdoc Seminar Series

Dear faculty, Please have an early lunch and join us for the following talks THIS FRIDAY and next week. Please encourage your lab members to attend. THIS FRIDAY (Feb 27), 12.30-1.30 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: David Powers, Ritter Lab Talk title: Reductive elimination of carbon-heteroatom bonds from bimetallic Pd(III) complexes Speaker: Yiqiao Tang, Cohen Lab Talk title: Superhelical light for enhancing chiroptical effect in small molecules NEXT FRIDAY (Mar 6), 12.30-1.30 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Dr. Catherine Grimes, O'Shea Lab Talk title: Activation of the innate immune system by bacteria cell wall Speaker: Thomas Baker, Kaxiras/Friend Lab Talk title: Nature of oxidation of the Au(111) surface: experimental and theoretical investigation See you there! CCB Student/Postdoc Seminar Series

Dear faculty, ***Due to G0 visiting, the seminar series for THIS FRIDAY and NEXT FRIDAY will be held from 11.30 am-12.30 pm.*** Please join us for the following talks THIS FRIDAY and next week. THIS FRIDAY (Mar 13), 11.30 am-12.30 pm, Pfizer LH (NOTE TIME CHANGE) Speaker: Huiyi Chen, Xie Lab Talk title: Single cell analyses of the E. coli proteome with single molecule sensitivity Speaker: Jakub Svenda, Myers Lab Talk title: Chemical synthesis of Trioxacarcin A aglycon NEXT FRIDAY (Mar 20), 11.30 am-12.30 pm, Pfizer LH (NOTE TIME CHANGE) Speaker: Mark Sevecka, Macbeath Lab Talk title: EGFR and beyond: analysis of signal transduction networks using lysate microarrays Speaker: Bozhi Tian, Leiber Lab Talk title: Silicon nanowire heterostructures for photovoltaic applications Refreshments will be provided 15 min before the lectures. See you there! CCB Student/Postdoc Seminar Series

Dear faculty, Please note that from this week on, the seminar series will take place during its original time slot from 12.30-1.30 pm. Please join us for the following talks THIS FRIDAY and next week. Please encourage your lab members to attend! THIS FRIDAY (Mar 27), 12.30-1.30 pm, Pfizer LH (ORIGINAL TIME) Speaker: Dr. Jenny O'Neill, Walker Lab Talk title: Discovery of small molecules that restore methicillin sensitivity to MRSA Speaker: Christopher Uyeda, Jacobsen Lab Talk title: Enantioselective Claisen rearrangements catalyzed by hydrogen-bond donors NEXT FRIDAY (Apr 3), 12.30-1.30 pm, Pfizer LH (ORIGINAL TIME) Speaker: Leslie Vogt, Aspuru-Guzik Lab Talk title: Engineering efficient energy transfer in artificial arrays Speaker: Dr. Xinyu Liu, Walsh Lab Talk title: Pyrrolidinedion in natural product biosynthesis Refreshments will be provided 15 min before the lectures. See you there! CCB Student/Postdoc Seminar Series

Dear faculty, Please join us for the following talks THIS FRIDAY and next week. Please encourage your lab members to come! THIS FRIDAY (Apr 10), 12.30-1.30 pm, Pfizer LH (ORIGINAL TIME) Speaker: Evan King, Betley Lab Talk title: Late transition metal dipyrrole complexes capable of multi-electron redox and C-H functionalization Speaker: Maryann Sargent, Anderson Lab Talk title: Measurements of water vapor in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: Understanding the control of stratospheric humidity NEXT FRIDAY (Apr 17), 12.30-1.30 pm, Pfizer LH (ORIGINAL TIME) Speaker: Shu Sin Chng, Kahne Lab Talk title: Reconstituting lipopolysaccharide transport across the cell envelope of Escherichia coli Speaker: Alexander Speed, Evans Lab Talk title: A synthesis of the microtubule stabilizing agent (+)-Peloruside A Refreshments will be provided 15 min before the lectures. See you there! CCB Student/Postdoc Seminar Series

Dear faculty, Please join us for the following talks THIS FRIDAY and next week. Please encourage your lab members to attend! THIS FRIDAY (Apr 24), 12.30-1.30 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Peiqiu Chen, Shakhnovich Lab Talk title: Thermal adaptation in bacteria and viruses Speaker: Benjamin Stanton, Schreiber Lab Talk title: The development and mechanistic studies of Sonic Hedgehog pathway inhibitors NEXT FRIDAY (May 1), 12.30-1.30 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Sindy Tang, Whitesides Lab Talk title: A multi-color microfluidic dye laser Speaker: TBA Talk title: TBA Refreshments will be provided 15 min before the lectures. See you there! CCB Student/Postdoc Seminar Series

Dear faculty, Please join us for the following talks THIS FRIDAY! This is the last session for this semester! THIS FRIDAY (May 8), 12.30-1.30 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Brian Landry, Heller Lab Talk title: Correlated Thomas-Fermi: semiclassical ground-state energies of many-electron systems Speaker: Dr. Liang Deng, Holm Lab Talk title: All-ferrous iron-sulfur clusters with carbene ligation: modeling the [Fe4S4]0 protein state Refreshments will be provided 15 min before the lectures. See you there! CCB Student/Postdoc Seminar Series