January 30, 2008 Professor John Richard Department of Chemistry University at Buffalo Flexible Protein Loops and Enzymatic Catalysis of Proton Transfer, Hydride Transfer and
Decarboxylation Reactions

February 13, 2008 Professor Daniel Gewirth Structural Biology Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Structure and Function of Hsp90 Chaperones

February 20, 2008 Professor Yoshihisa Kobayashi Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, San Diego Heterocycles in Natural Product Synthesis

February 27, 2008 Professor Kiong Ho Department of Biological Sciences University at Buffalo Mechanism of Action of RNA Ligase

March 5, 2008 Dr. Craig Williams School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences University of Queensland, Australia "So Close But Yet So Far Away". Towards the Total Synthesis of Various Vibsane Diterpenes

CANCELED -- March 19, 2008 --CANCELED Professor Debashis Ghosh Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Aromatase and Estrogen Biosynthesis: A View from the Real Structure!

March 26, 2008 Dr. Akin Davulcu Bristol-Myers Squibb From the Bench to the Plant: Case Studies in the Development and Scale Up of Chemical Processes

April 2, 2008 Professor Michael Yu Department of Biological Sciences University at Buffalo Regulation of Gene Expression by Protein Arginine Methylation

April 23, 2008 Professor Bing Gong Department of Chemistry University at Buffalo Directed Molecular Association, Folding, and Macrocyclization: Bioinspired Systems