Please note that this year's conference will be held at the University Club Conference Center. The center is located on Old Davis road near the arboretum. A map and driving directions are available here.

- Best Presentation Awards 2007-2008

- Conference Photos

The conference is sponsored by the UC Davis Department of Chemistry and by Prof. Richard Larock (Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University)

Conference program

The conference begins at 10 am with registration followed by the opening address at 10:20 am. Presentations are then scheduled to start at 10:30 am and will be moderated by a faculty member who also facilitates a brief discussion afterwards. After lunch, presentations resume at 12:45 pm. After a 15 min coffee break at 2:15 pm, the conference concludes with the keynote address by Prof. Kenneth Raymond at 2:30 pm and with the awards ceremony at 3:30 pm.

Registration, Coffee, and Laptop Setup	10:00 - 10:20 a.m.
Opening Address by Prof. Neil Schore	10:20 - 10:30 a.m.
Session I	10:30 - 12:00 noon
Lunch	12:00 - 12:45 p.m.
Session II	12:45 - 2:15 p.m.
Refreshments	2:15 - 2:30 p.m.
Keynote Address by Prof. Kenneth N. Raymond	2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Awards Ceremony	3:30 - 3:45 p.m.

Presentation Schedule

Session I (Morning)

10:30 am Development and Screening of Macrocyclic Helix-Threading Peptides

Nicole Schirle, Peter Beal

10:45 am An approach to Biosensors using Overlayer Enhanced Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared (OE-ATR-FTIR) Spectroscopy

Simon S.M. Park, Donald P. Land

11:00 am Design and Synthesis of a New Amino-silanol Catalyst

Jennifer Etcheson, Taewoo Min, Annaliese K. Franz

11:15 am Thin Film Target Device for Ultrafast Laser-driven X-ray Production to Improve Time Resolution in X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

George David Suarez, Ting Guo

11:30 am New Catalysts for the Allylsilane Annulation with Isatins

Toby Chang, Nadine V. Hanhan, Annaliese K. Franz

11:45 am A Statistically Based Program to Classify Mass Spectra and Identify Spectral Markers

Sean Beecroft, Carlito Lebrilla

Session II (Afternoon)

12:45 pm Chromophore dynamics in retinal Schiff bases and novel rhodopsin mimics characterized by ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy

Kostia Malley, Delmar Larsen

1:00 pm Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Galβ1, 4GlcNAcβ-propyl-azide

Roland Ma, Xi Chen

1:15 pm Incorporation of Modified Nucleosides into DNA: Tricking Enzymes into Revealing Themselves

Benjamin Garman, Sheng Cao, Sheila David

1:30 pm Multi-modal Imaging Probes for in vivo Detection of Lymphoid Cancers

Zachary Stauber, Angelique Louie

1:45 pm Oxidation Reaction of NaGe to Prepare Germanium Nanoparticles

Fengyi Wu, Xuchu Ma, and Susan M. Kauzlarich

2:00 pm Eliminating Greenhouse Gases using a Novel Dry Reforming Catalyst

Alex Sutherland, Ting Guo

2:30 - 3:30 pm Prof. Kenneth N. Raymond (UC Berkeley), Keynote Address 'Supramolecular Metal Complex Clusters as Enzyme Mimics'

Born 1942; B. A. Reed College (1964); Ph. D. Northwestern University (1968); Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1971-1973); Miller Research Professor (1977-1978, 1996, 2004); Guggenheim Fellow (1980-1981); Selected as one of the "Technology 100, 1981" by Technology Magazine; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (1984); DOE Ernest O. Lawrence Award (1984); Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Technology Transfer award (1988, 1991); Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists (1992); American Chemical Society Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry (1994); Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (1997); Elected to National Academy of Sciences (1997); Basolo Medal, Northwestern University (1997); Max-Planck-Institut fur Strahlenchemie "Frontiers in Biological Chemistry" Award (1997); Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001); Reed College Howard Vollum Award (2002); ACS Auburn Section G. M. Kosolapoff Award (2004); Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic Chemistry (2005); Joe L. Franklin Memorial Lectureship (2006); Paulo Fasella Lectureship (2006); ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry (2008), UC Berkeley Chancellor's Professor, (2007-).

Raymond Group: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/knrgrp/home.html