Breslow Symposium Program



All talks will be in 309 Havemeyer Hall, Broadway and 118th St. on the Columbia University campus.

For a schedule of dinner events, please click here.

Please click here for a pdf version of the program.



8:00 - 8:25 Breakfast / Registration

8:25 - 8:45 Opening Remarks

Prof. John Groves and Prof. Ronald Breslow

Session I


8:45 - 10:45

Dr. Anthony Czarnik
Illumina

Prof. Marcey Waters
Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Prof. Bartolo Gabriele
Dipartimento di Chimica
Universita della Calabria

Dr. Carsten Schmuck
Institute fur Organische Chemie
Universitaet zu Koeln

Prof. Tim Glass
Department of Chemistry
The Pennsylvania State University

Prof. Yves Rubin
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Los Angeles

Prof. Virginia Cornish*
Department of Chemistry
Columbia University

*Session Chair

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break

Session II


11:00 - 12:30

Prof. William Jenks
Department of Chemistry
Iowa State University

Dr. Mike Varney
Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Prof. Jim Canary
Department of Chemistry
New York University

Prof. Eric Anslyn
Department of Chemistry
University of Texas at Austin

Prof. Albrecht Berkessel
Institut fur Organische Chemie
University of Cologne

Prof. Jean Chmielewski*
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University

*Session Chair

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Reserved Guests Only)

Session III


1:30 - 4:15

Dr. Julio Medina
Tularik, Inc.

Prof. Sam Gellman
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Prof. Don Hilvert
Department of Chemistry
ETH

Prof. Eric Kool
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University

Prof. Uday Maitra
Department of Organic Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science

Prof. Jeff Winkler
Department of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania

Prof. Steve Zimmerman
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Prof. Alanna Schepartz*
Department of Chemistry
Yale University

*Session Chair

4:15 - 4:30 Coffee Break

Session IV


4:30 - 6:00

Prof. Joseph Gajewski
Department of Chemistry
Indiana University

Prof. Shun-Ichi Murahashi
Department of Chemistry
Osaka University

Prof. Bob Bergman
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley

Prof. Robert Grubbs
Department of Chemistry
California Institute of Technologyv

Prof. Larry Overman
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Irvine

Prof. Jay Groves*
Department of Chemistry
Princeton University

*Session Chair

6:00 - 6:15 Closing Remarks

6:30 - 8:30 Dinner (Reserved Guests Only)