Ohio University’s Chemistry & Biochemistry Department presents the 2016 Roenigk Lecturer, Dr. Julius Rebek Jr., on “Molecular Behavior in Small Spaces” on Thursday, April 14, at 4:35 p.m. in Clippinger 194.
Dr. Julius Rebek Jr.
This lecture follows the course of molecular recognition by synthetic receptors that completely surround their targets: encapsulation complexes. These operate through the proper filling of space and reveal new forms of stereochemistry, isomerism, asymmetry, contortions and reactivity of molecules held inside. Capsules with spacers offer a set of molecular devices that operate through compression and expansion of alkanes. An encapsulation complex of anandamide is shown here.
About Julius Rebek Jr.
Rebek was born in Hungary in 1944 and lived in Austria from 1945-49. He and his family then emigrated to the United States and settled in Kansas, where they became naturalized U.S. citizens in 1954. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of Kansas in 1966, and he received a Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1970) for studies in peptide chemistry with Professor D.S. Kemp.
As an Assistant Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (1970-76) he developed the three-phase test for reactive intermediates. He moved in 1976 to the University of Pittsburgh where he rose to the rank of Professor of Chemistry and developed cleft-like structures for studies in molecular recognition. In 1989 he returned to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was the Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry and devised synthetic, self-replicating molecules.
He moved his research group in July of 1996 to the Scripps Research Institute to become director of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, where he continues to work in self-assembling systems and the sensing and destruction of nerve agents. In November of 2013 he began an appointment as a Visiting Professor under the Thousand Talents Program in the Chemistry Department of Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
About the Roenigk Lecture
The Roenigk Lecture is named for Henry H. Roenigk Jr., MD, FACP, and is a joint initiative from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and its first Roenigk Chair, Professor Eric Masson. Dr. Roenigk earned his bachelor of arts degree from Ohio University College of Arts and Sciences and his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School.
Dr. Roenigk is a nationally recognized dermatologist. He attended Northwestern University Medical School, completed his internship at Tripler Army Hospital, Fellowship in Dermatology at Cleveland Clinic. He was the Chairman of Dermatology at both Northwestern University, as well as Cleveland Clinic for 25 years. He is Board Certified with the American Board of Dermatology.
Roenigk is Professor Emeritus of Dermatology at Northwestern University Medical School. He has edited multiple medical textbooks including Roenigk’s Dermatologic Surgery: Current Techniques in Procedural Dermatology and Psoriasis. He has served on the boards of many professional associations, including serving as president for both the American and the International Societies for Dermatologic Surgery. He was also the Chairman of Dermatology at Northwestern University for 16 years and at the Cleveland Clinic for nine years. He is a member of the editorial board for Cutis and has authored more than 300 journal articles, 11 books, and numerous book chapters on psoriasis and dermatology.
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