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Sessler Lectureship

About the Sessler Lectureship: The Department of Chemistry received a generous donation in 1997 from Professor Jonathan Sessler of the University of Texas-Austin, establishing an endowment to support the Sessler Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series. Jonathan L. Sessler earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1982, working under the direction of Professor James P. Collman and John I. Brauman. Sessler is best known for his pioneering work on "expanding porphyrins." The Sessler Lecture is scheduled every two years, and alumni of Stanford University's Department of Chemistry are chosen as the speakers. Professors Jonathan Sessler (2001), Roger Kornberg (2003),  K. Barry Sharpless (2005), James R. Williamson (2007), Andrew A.  Gewirth (2008), Peter Dervan (2011), Daniel Gamelin (2013), James Skinner (2015), Geoffrey Coates (2017), Peng Chen (2018-19), and Julie Biteen (2021) have presented these lectures in previous years. For questions or additional information, please contact: chemistry-events [at] stanford.edu (chemistry-events[at]stanford[dot]edu).  

Past Events

Date
Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning
376 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305
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About the Seminar Making, Breaking, and Traversing Lipid Membranes in Synthetic and Living Cells
Date
Tuesday, November 30, 2021, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall
Sessler Lectureship: Professor Julie Biteen, University of Michigan (Host: W.E.
Date
Thursday, November 8, 2018, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall
Sessler Lectureship: Professor Peng Chen, Cornell University (Host: Ed Solomon) About the Lecture "Single-molecule catalysis: nanoparticles and polymers" This presenta
Date
Wednesday, February 1, 2017, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
About the Seminar:
Date
Thursday, April 9, 2015, 4:15pm
Location:
Braun Lecture Hall
S.G. Mudd Building
Stanford University
The Mystery of Water and Its Condensed Phases
Date
Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 12:00am
Location:
Carl F. Braun Lecture Hall
About the Seminar:  "Dopants and Charge Carriers in Colloidal Quantum Dots"
Date
Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 12:00am
Location:
Carl F. Braun Lecture Hall
About the Seminar:  "Targeting Transcription Factor-DNA Interfaces by Small Molecules" 
Date
Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 12:00am
Location:
Carl F. Braun Lecture Hall
About the Seminar:  "Oxygen Reducation and the Potential Dependent Structure of Water: Surface-Molecule Interactions Relevant to Fuel Cell Catalysis" 
Date
Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 12:00am
Location:
Carl F. Braun Lecture Hall
About the Seminar:  "RNA Folding and RNP assembly: From Loops to Ribosomes"
Date
Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 12:00am
Location:
Carl F. Braun Lecture Hall
About the Seminar:  "Stitching with Nitrogen"