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The 9th Annual Joseph F. Bunnett Research Organic Chemistry Symposium

	Joseph F. Bunnett

Friday, May 1, 2009

             2009 Lecture
   This year's lecture will be titled:
"Shedding Light on Glycans"

 
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, Carolyn Bertozzi
University of California, Berkeley

Carolyn Bertozzi is the T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Director of the Molecular Foundry, a DOE Nanoscale Science and Research Center at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She completed her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Harvard University in 1988 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley in 1993. After postdoctoral work at UCSF in the field of cellular immunology, she joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1996.

Prof. Bertozzi’s research interests span the disciplines of chemistry and biology with an emphasis on studies of cell surface glycosylation pertinent to disease states. Her lab focuses on profiling changes in cell surface glycosylation associated with cancer, inflammation and bacterial infection, and exploiting this information for development of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. In addition, her group develops nanoscience-based technologies for probing cell function and for medical diagnostics.

Prof. Bertozzi has been recognized with many honors and awards for both her research and teaching accomplishments. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She has been awarded the Whistler Award, the Ernst Schering Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, and the Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award of the Protein Society, among many others. Her efforts in undergraduate education have earned her the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award and the Donald Sterling Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Prof. Bertozzi participates in high-school outreach programs such as the Catalyst Program sponsored by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, as well as programs that promote the participation of women in science. She was recently given the Li Ka Shing Award for Women in Science in recognition of these efforts.

4:00 pm
Poster presentation & reception in the Physical Sciences Building Atrium

5:00 pm
Awards Ceremony and Lecture in the Baskin Engineering Auditorium

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