The Twentieth Annual Organic Area Allerton Conference
Sponsored by Dr. Seemon H. Pines and Merck & Company
Saturday, November 11, 2006
| 8:00 a.m. | Check-in/Continental Breakfast |
| Session I: | Benjamin J. Leslie, Chair |
| 8:40 a.m. | Opening Remarks |
| 9:00 a.m. | Christopher S. Regens (Prof. Scott E. Denmark) A Total Synthesis of Papulacandin D |
| 9:20 a.m. | Gregory C. Patton (Prof. Wilfred A. van der Donk) Investigation of Substrate Specificity of the Bifunctional Lantibiotic Enzyme LctM |
| 9:40 a.m. | Daniel S. Palacios (Prof. Martin D. Burke) Synthesis-Enabled Investigation of the Amphotericin B-Based Ion Channel |
| 10:00 a.m. | Poster Session I |
| 10:45 a.m. | Kenneth J. Fraunhoffer (Prof. M. Christina White) Macrolactonization via Hydrocarbon Oxidation |
| 11:05 a.m. | Yan Fan (Prof. Anne M. Baranger) Stem Loop II RNA-binding Peptides Selection by Phage Display |
| 11:25 a.m. | Nathan C. Ackroyd (Prof. John A. Katzenellenbogen) Organometallic Rhenium Tricarbonyl Ligands for Use as PET Imaging Agents for ER+ Breast Tumors |
| 11:45 a.m. | Lunch in the Main Dining Room |
| 1:15 p.m. | Dr. James P. Edwards (Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R & D) The Impact of Synthetic Chemistry in Validating Novel Targets for Drug Discovery: The Histamine H4 Receptor |
| 1:35 p.m. | Stephanie L. Elmer (Prof. Steven C. Zimmerman) Exploring the Dynamics of Ring-Closing Metathesis of Dendrimers |
| 1:55 p.m. | Mary Smalley Scanlan (Prof. Scott K. Silverman) Investigating xpt G-Riboswitch Folding Using FRET |
| 2:15 p.m. | Poster Session II |
| 3:00 p.m. | Stephanie L. Potisek (Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore) Link-Functionalized Poly(methyl acrylate) for Studying Mechanochemical Triggers |
| 3:20 p.m. | Jaclyn M. Murphy (Prof. John F. Hartwig) The Synthesis of Organoboronic Compounds by C-H Activation of Alkanes and Arenes |
| 3:40 p.m. | Joseph S. Sandhorst (Prof. Paul J. Hergenrother) Waking the Executioner: Procaspase-3 Activating Compounds (PACs) that Selectively Induce Apoptosis in Cancer Cells |
| 4:00 p.m. | Break |
| 4:15 p.m. | Closing Remarks and Presentation of the Seemon H. Pines Award and Pines Travel Awards |