AGENDA

8:30am - Welcome from President G.P. "Bud" Peterson and Dean Paul Goldbart

8:40am - Richard Zare, Stanford University 
               Mass Spectrometry: Drop by Drop

9:30am - Bruce Lipshutz, UC Santa Barbara
               Transitioning Organic Synthesis from Organic Solvents to Water

10:20am - Coffee break 

10:35am - Joan Brennecke, University of Notre Dame
                 Reaction Chemistry of Ionic Liquids with CO2 for Post-Combustion Capture

11:25am - Donna Blackmond, The Scripps Research Institute
                 Models for the Origin of Biological Homochirality

12:15pm - Lunch

1:30pm - Dennis Liotta, Emory University 
               Novel Therapeutics for Treating Viral Diseases, Cancers and Inflammatory Disorders

2:20pm - Kendall Houk, UCLA
               Computational Chemical Biology

3:10pm - Coffee break 

3:25pm - Ram Krishnamurthy, The Scripps Research Institute
               Alternatives in the Search for the Chemistry of Life's Origin

4:15pm - Nick Hud, Georgia Institute of Technology
               A Physical Organic Chemistry Approach to the Origin of RNA

5:05–6:00pm - Reception 

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