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Frontiers in Mass Spectrometry – Keynote Speaker
Professor Neil L. Kelleher received a B.S. and B.A. from Pacific Lutheran
University in 1992, a Fulbright Fellowship the following year, and a Ph.D. with
Tadhg Begley and Fred McLafferty (Cornell University) in 1997. After a NIH
Postdoctoral Fellowship with Chris Walsh (Harvard Medical School), Kelleher
joined the faculty at the University of Illinois in 1999. He has received several
awards including a Packard Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the Lilly
Analytical Chemistry Award, and support from the Burroughs Wellcome, the
Searle, and the Dreyfus Foundations. Kelleher has interests in the biosynthesis
of clinically-used natural products, including polyketides and non-ribosomally produced
peptides. Further themes of the Kelleher laboratory include “Top Down” proteomics using intact
proteins for efficient detection of their post-translational modifications, with specific interests in
chromatin and human cell biology.
Chemistry, Energy, and Sustainability – Keynote Speaker
Daniel G. Nocera is the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Director of the Solar Revolutions Project
and Director of the Eni Solar Frontiers Center at MIT. His group pioneered
studies of the basic mechanisms of energy conversion in biology and chemistry.
He has recently accomplished the solar fuels process of photosynthesis outside
of the leaf - the splitting of water to hydrogen and oxygen using light from
neutral water, at atmospheric pressure and room temperature. This discovery
sets a course for the large scale deployment of solar energy by providing a
mechanism for its storage as a fuel. He is the recipient of many awards including the Eni-Italgas
Prize (2005), IAPS Award (2006), Burghausen Prize (2007), Harrison Howe Award (2008), ACS
Inorganic Chemistry Award (2008), Time Magazine 100 Award (2009) and the United Nations
Science and Technology Award (2009) for his contributions to the development of renewable
energy. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2009). Nocera is a frequent guest
on TV and radio, and is regularly featured in print. His 2006 NOVA show was nominated for an
Emmy Award. He opened the Mountain Film Festival 2007 in Telluride CO, the World Science
Festival in NYC in 2008 and the Aspen Forum in Aspen CO in 2008 and 2009. In 2008, he
founded Sun Catalytix, a company committed to bringing personalized energy to the non-legacy
world.
C. Workshops
From Context to Content: The Chemistry in Context Approach
Wednesday: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, Morken 103
In this workshop participants had the opportunity to interact with three authors of
Chemistry in Context, a successful curriculum project of the American Chemical Society
for non-science majors at the college level. Discussions focused on the “nuts and bolts”
of teaching and learning with Chemistry in Context, and offered many opportunities to
ask questions and to try out new ideas.