Extra credit (2 point) – Attend an Organic Chemistry Seminar
Attend an Organic Chemistry seminar at a nearby university and write a summary summarizing what the talk was about.
Due date: Summary due at the start of the final exam
Requirements of the summary to get full credit:
Title of that day’s talk
Date, Time, and Location (include the name of the University as well as the specific Building and Room Number)
The speaker’s name and academic institution the speaker came from
One chemical drawing in Marvin Sketch related to a structure or a reaction that the talk was about
At least one paragraph, but no more than one page
Describe one question that someone asked at the end of the talk and describe the speaker’s answer (just the basic gist of it)
Describe one question you might have wanted to ask the speaker (related to the talk) if it was your turn to ask a question
Include the statement "On my honor, I sign here to confirm that I indeed attended the talk above and have based it on my own notes." Then sign your name at the bottom.
For the COVID-19 remote learning period, you may watch ANY webinar from the following site (if you already watched one of these videos from a previous semester, please choose a new video to watch for this extra credit assignment).
Any video from the following site (ACS Free Webinars: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/acs-webinars.html
Synthesis of a 5-HT4 Receptor Agonist in Water. This is an interesting talk showing you how the principles of green chemistry intersect with developing industrial-scale syntheses (process chemistry) Link
Dr. Jennifer Doudna (Berkeley); 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on CRISPR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUe-cOgpDDw
Dr. Jen Heemstra - Embracing Failure Seminar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKGhnWuDezo
2016 UCLA Seaborg Symposium honoring Prof. Michael Jung. You may choose one of the talks below:
at 29:58 mark Dr. John C Martin (former CEO of Gilead) on antiviral compounds at Syntex and Gilead: https://youtu.be/Qh3rafQJ_lI?t=1803
at 1:20:30 mark Dr. Paul Wender (Stanford) on treatments for Alzheimer's disease: https://youtu.be/Qh3rafQJ_lI?t=4830
at 2:54:18 mark Dr. Peter Dervan (Caltech) on small molecules binding DNA: https://youtu.be/Qh3rafQJ_lI?t=10455
at 3:48:57 mark Dr. Michael Jung (UCLA) on development of a prostate cancer drug: https://youtu.be/Qh3rafQJ_lI
Fall 2020 - Cal State University San Marcos Chemistry Seminars webinar series
Watch ALL Webinars LIVE at 5:30PM via YouTube here:
Youtube live event (5:30pm at various weekdays): https://www.youtube.com/user/rgiafe/featured
List of Speakers: https://www.csusm.edu/chemistry/documents/2020seminarflyer.pdf
STEMinars (where graduate students and postdocs from Princeton give talks sharing their experiences)
list of speakers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HBlbdYpDlXYmlQ8uxWAM1izuOiL5kc_L/view?usp=sharing
access the Youtube live talks and also recordings of past talks: https://www.youtube.com/user/rgiafe/featured