Event Host: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Short Description: Judith P. Klinman of the University of California at Berkeley will be the featured speaker for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry's 2018 William Lloyd Evans Lecture.
Judith P. Klinman of the University of California at Berkeley will give the 2018 William Lloyd Evans Lecture on Sept. 26 and 27, 2018.
Wednesday, Sept. 26
4:10 p.m., McPherson Lab 1000
"New Models for Origins of Enzyme Catalysis"
5:15 - 7 p.m., CBEC Lobby
Reception and Graduate Student Poster Session
- Reception will be catered by Aladdin's Eatery
Thursday, Sept. 27
12:45 p.m., Stillman Hall 100
"Scientists and Climate Change: The Time is Now"
Dr. Judith P Klinman received her A.B. and Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in l962 and l966 and then carried out postdoctoral research with Dr. David Samuel atthe Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and Dr. Irwin Rose at the Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia. She was an independent researcher at the Institute for Cancer Research for several years, before moving to the University of California at Berkeley in l978, where she is now a Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Chemistry, the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, and the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3). Dr. Klinman has been focused on understanding the fundamental properties that underlie enzyme catalysis. Early in her career, she developed the application of kinetic isotope effects to the study of enzyme catalysis. Her most recent investigations are directed at expanding the principles uncovered from hydrogen transfer processes to other classes of enzyme reaction that include the large class of methyltransferases, as well as the TIM barrel superfamily.
The William Lloyd Evans Lecture at The Ohio State University was established in 1961 upon the dedication of Evans Laboratory, in recognition of the late William Lloyd Evans for his distinguished service to the Department of Chemistry. Each year, a faculty committee has been charged with selecting a chemist of outstanding international stature to receive the Evans Award and present the Evans Lecture.
