Chemical Landmark 2015 – Fribourg Chaim Weizmann Lecture 2015
Die «Platform Chemistry» der Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz (SCNAT), die Freiburger Chemische Gesellschaft (FCG) und die Universität Freiburg laden ein zur Auszeichnung «Chemical Landmark 2015» und zur «Fribourg Chaim Weizmann Lecture 2015».
Dienstag, 13. Oktober 2015, 15.30 Uhr
Department of Chemistry, Chemin du Musée 9, 1700 Fribourg
Chemical Landmark 2015
Die siebte Auszeichnung einer «Historischen Stätte der Chemie» geht an das erste chemische Institut der Universität Freiburg.
Im Jahr 1896 wurde eine als Zeughaus genutzte Waggonfabrik zum ersten Chemieinstitut ausgebaut. Das Gebäude zeugt von der Übergangszeit der Industrialisierung und somit vom Vormarsch der Naturwissenschaften und beherbergte zwischen 1896 und 1974 die chemischen Institute der Universiät Freiburg. Es wurde erfolgreich eine Kombination der deutschen und französischen Bildungs- und Forschungskulturen gelebt, was z. B. zur Entdeckung des Farbstoffe moleküls Phthalocyanin führte, welches auch heute noch in ca. 25 Prozent der organischen Pigmente verwendet wird. Die Verleihung des Chemical Landmark wird in diesem Jahr mit der jährlichen Fribourg Chaim Weizmann Lectureship kombiniert.
Website SCSNAT, Chemical Landmarks
Fribourg Chaim Weizmann Lectureship
Chaim Weizmann erhielt im Jahre 1899 seinen Doktortitel in Chemie am oben genannten Chemieinstitut.
Der Preisträger 2015 ist der Nobelpreisträger Alan J. Heeger, der zum Thema «Creativity, Discovery and Risk – Nobel Prizes Past and Future» referieren wird.
Alan J. Heeger, Professor für Physik und Materialien an der University of California in Santa Barbara, erhielt im Jahr 2000, zusammen mit A. G. MacDiarmid und H. Shirakawa, den Nobelpreis in Chemie für die Entdeckung und Entwicklung leitfähiger Polymere. Er wird über die enge Verbindung zwischen Kreativität und Risikobereitschaft in der Wissen schaft reden. Anhand von Beispielen aus seinem Leben und vergangenen Nobelpreisen wird er die Kreativität von der Entdeckung unterscheiden. Er wird seine frühen Ergebnisse im Bereich leitfähiger Polymere zusammenfassen und dabei die Risiken in seiner Forschung veranschaulichen. Dann wird er über seine jetzigen wissenschaftlichen und unternehmerischen Aktivitäten erzählen, die von «Plastik»-Solarzellen, über flexible Polymer-Feldeffekttransistoren zu Biosensoren reichen.
Die «Platform Chemistry» der Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz (SCNAT), die Freiburger Chemische Gesellschaft (FCG) und die Universität Freiburg freuen sich, Sie zur Auszeichnung «Chemical Landmark 2015» und zur «Fribourg Chaim Weizmann Lecture 2015» nach Freiburg einzuladen.
Programm
| 15.30 | Ankunft/Kaffee |
| 16.00 | Begrüssung: Katharina Fromm, Jürg Pfister, Andreas Zumbühl, Beat Vonlanthen |
| 16.30 |
Laudatio/historische Retrospektive zum ehemaligen Chemieinstitut der Universität Freiburg durch Alexander von Zelewsky |
| 17.00 |
Einführung der FCWL: Katharina M. Fromm und Natalie Banerji |
| ab 18.00 | Apéro und Möglichkeit eines Spaziergangs zum ehemaligen Chemiegebäude. |
David Spichiger, SCS
08.10.2015
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair".
More details on the Website of the Chemistry Nobel Prize
Read the inverview to the topic with Prof. Christian Leumann, University of Bern
David Spichiger, SCS | SCNAT
07.10.2015
Official Press Release, 7 October 2015
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 to
Tomas Lindahl,
Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory, Hertfordshire, UK
Paul Modrich,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
and
Aziz Sancar,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
“for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"
The cells’ toolbox for DNA repair
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 is awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for having mapped, at a molecular level, how cells repair damaged DNA and safeguard the genetic information. Their work has provided fundamental knowledge of how a living cell functions and is, for instance, used for the development of new cancer treatments.
Each day our DNA is damaged by UV radiation, free radicals and other carcinogenic substances, but even without such external attacks, a DNA molecule is inherently unstable. Thousands of spontaneous changes to a cell’s genome occur on a daily basis. Furthermore, defects can also arise when DNA is copied during cell division, a process that occurs several million times every day in the human body.
The reason our genetic material does not disintegrate into complete chemical chaos is that a host of molecular systems continuously monitor and repair DNA. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 awards three pioneering scientists who have mapped how several of these repair systems function at a detailed molecular level.
In the early 1970s, scientists believed that DNA was an extremely stable molecule, but Tomas Lindahl demonstrated that DNA decays at a rate that ought to have made the development of life on Earth impossible. This insight led him to discover a molecular machinery, base excision repair, which constantly counteracts the collapse of our DNA.
Aziz Sancar has mapped nucleotide excision repair, the mechanism that cells use to repair UV damage to DNA. People born with defects in this repair system will develop skin cancer if they are exposed to sunlight. The cell also utilises nucleotide excision repair to correct defects caused by mutagenic substances, among other things.
Paul Modrich has demonstrated how the cell corrects errors that occur when DNA is replicated during cell division. This mechanism, mismatch repair, reduces the error frequency during DNA replication by about a thousandfold. Congenital defects in mismatch repair are known, for example, to cause a hereditary variant of colon cancer.
The Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 2015 have provided fundamental insights into how cells function, knowledge that can be used, for instance, in the development of new cancer treatments.
Web Portal for Natural Sciences Switzerland
Do you know the Natural Science Switzerland portal run and provided by the Swiss Academy of Science (SCNAT)? A wide range of activities for experts and laymen are promoted on this web portal and helps to strengthen the awareness and position of sciences in the public.
The Swiss Chemical Society also runs a portal page and promotes its major offers to the community.
http://www.naturalsciences.ch/organisations/scg
David Spichiger, SCS
07.10.2015
Who's Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be announced on October 7, 2015.
The results so far suggest an American chemist in the organic field will win the 2015 Nobel Prize. The top three write-in suggestions are: Antoine Fécant, George M. Whitesides, and Omar M. Yaghi.
Looking at other predictions for the next Nobel Laureates, Thomson Reuters 2015 Citation Laureates for example suggests Carolyn R. Bertozzi, who contributed to bioorthogonal chemistry, or Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna, who developed the CRISPR/cas 9 method for genome editing, have a good chance.
Read the full article and see the results of the survey on chemistryviews.org
Author: ChemistryViews.org
Published: 25 September 2015
Copyright: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
SCS - Syngenta Symposium, October 15, 2015
Swiss Chemical Society - Syngenta Symposium 2015
«Chirality – Upsides for Chemical Innovation»
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Syngenta Research Center Stein, Switzerland
Auditorium WST-810.E.75
The Swiss Chemical Society and Syngenta are pleased to announce the 3rd edition of a one-day symposium entitled Chirality – Upsides for Chemical Innovation on Thursday 15th October 2015. The focus will be on cutting-edge research in chirality and its role in life science, from synthesis and beyond for chemical innovation.
Program
| 08.00 | Registration |
| 08.45 | Welcome and Opening Remarks Dr. Gerardo Ramos, Head Crop Protection R&D, Syngenta |
| 09.00 | Plenary Lecture 1 – Prof. Ben Feringa (University of Groningen, NL) Exploring Chiral Space beyond the Molecule |
| 09.45 | Invited Lecture 1 - Prof. Oliver Trapp (University of Heidelberg, D) Coulomb Explosion Imaging of (R,R)-2,3-Dideuterooxirane and Unambiguous Access to the Absolute Configuration of (+)-Glyceraldehyde |
| 10.15 | Coffee Break |
| 10.45 | Invited Lecture 2 - Dr. Alexander Mayweg (Roche, Basel, CH) Chirality in Medicinal Chemistry: Crucial or Curse? |
| 11.15 | Invited Lecture 3 - Dr. Christoph Taeschler (Lonza, Visp, CH) Process development aspects for L-Carnitine |
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11.45 |
Plenary Lecture 2 - Prof. Manfred Reetz (University of Marburg, D) Directed Evolution of Stereoselective Enzymes: A Prolific Source of Catalysts for Asymmetric Reactions |
| 12.30 | Lunch and Poster session (room E-20-22) |
| 14.00 | Plenary Lecture 3 – Prof. Scott Miller (Yale University, USA) Searching for Selective Reactions on Complex Molecular Scaffolds |
| 14.45 | Invited Lecture 4 – Dr. Eric Francotte (Novartis, Basel, CH) Exploiting the Chiral Recognition Power of Natural Polysaccharides for Large Scale Separation of Stereoisomers |
| 15.15 | Invited Lecture 5 – Dr. Edouard Godineau (Syngenta, Stein, CH) Chirality in Agrochemicals |
| 15.45 | Invited Lecture 6 – Prof. Jérôme Lacour (University of Geneva, CH) On the Use of Stereogenic Nitrogen Atoms |
| 16.15 | Coffee Break |
| 16.45 | Plenary Lecture 4 - Prof. Eric Jacobsen (Harvard University, USA) Anion-Binding Catalysis |
| 17.30 | Closing Remarks Dr. Camilla Corsi, Head Chemical Research R&D, Syngenta |
| 17.45 | Aperitif |
Poster Session
A poster session will round out the program and poster prices will award the best posters.
Registration
A maximum of 150 participants can attend the symposium and all available seats are taken. Therefore the registation is closed.
Contact
Dr. Sarah Sulzer
Syngenta Crop Protection Münchwilen AG
Schaffhauserstrasse
CH-4332 Stein
Phone: +41 62 866 0000
Website
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