Recent Lectures, Presentations, Seminars

(1995-2000)

Invited Lecturer, Universidad do Sao Paulo, School of Pharmacy, Sao Paulo, Brasil.  "Total Synthesis and Process Development of Epothilone, its Pharmacophore Modeling, and Analog Design", March 2, 2000.

Invited Lecturer, Universidad Federal do Rio de Janiero, School of Pharmacy.  "Synthesis and SAR of Bioactive Natural Products", January 23-27, 2000.

Invited Lecturer, World Health Organization CHEMAL malperox Section; Geneva, Switzerland.  "Optimization Approaches to the Synthesis of 3rd Generation, Orally Active Analogs of Artemisinin", January 12, 1999.

Invited Speaker, NaPro Biotherapeutics, Boulder, CO May 21-23, 1998.  Topic: Epothilone Total Synthesis.

Invited Lecturer, Universidad do Sao Paulo, School of Pharmacy, Sao Paulo, Brasil.  "Synthesis and SAR of Artemisinin Analogs", February 2, 1998; and "Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Epothilone", February 3, 1998.

Invited Lecturer, Universidad Federal Fluminense, School of Pharmacy, Rio de Janiero, Brazil.  "Synthesis and SAR of Artemisinin Analogs", February 2, 1998.

Invited Lecturer, Universidad Federal do Rio de Janiero, School of Pharmacy.  "Synthesis and SAR of Bioactive Natural Products", January 26-30, 1998.

Invited Lecturer, World Health Organization, CHEMAL Section; Geneva, Switzerland.  "Efficient Synthesis, Antimalarial Assay, and In Vitro Neurotoxicity Studies of 3rd Generation, Orally Active Analogs of Artemisinin", November 19, 1997.

American Chemical Society Symposium, Biologically Active Natural Products: Potential in Agriculture, Las Vegas, NV  "Structure-Activity Relationships of Peroxide-based Artemisinin Antimalarials", Sept. 7-10, 1997.

Invited Lecturer, World Health Organization, CHEMAL Section; Wash. D.C.  "The Organic and Medicinal Chemistry of Artemisinin", March 9, 1996.

Invited Lecturer, American Cyanamid Company, Agricultural Research Division.  "Total Synthesis of Artemisinin and SAR Studies", Princeton, NJ; September 21st, 1995.

Invited Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa  "Total Synthesis of Artemisinin and SAR Studies", December 7th, 1995.

Invited Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Mississippi  "Total Synthesis of Artemisinin and SAR Studies", December 8th, 1995.

Invited Speaker, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Santa Cruz "Total Synthesis, Mode of Action and Structure-Activity Relationship Studies of (+)-Artemisinin, the Antimalarial Constituent of Artemisia annua L.", June 5, 1995.