Origins of Life Chemistry
Apr 29, 2019 to May 5, 2019
12:00AM to 12:00AM
Date/Time
Date(s) - 29/04/2019 - 05/05/2019
12:00 am
Jonathan S Lindsey – North Carolina State University
Visit Date: Week beginning 29th April 2019
Local Host: Paul Harrison
Jonathan S Lindsey’s work involves studying the diversity of natural product synthesis in Cyanobacteria, and the synthetic chemistry of light-capturing molecules like chlorophylls. He is also designing new fluorophore molecules useful in clinical diagnosis of cancer.
Jonathan S. Lindsey received his B.S. Degree in Chemistry from Indiana University at Bloomington. He earned the Ph.D. degree from The Rockefeller University in 1983. His doctoral work with Dr. David C. Mauzerall concerned the synthesis and characterization of a 3-dimensional molecular architecture for studies of light-driven electron-transfer reactions, as occur in the reaction center of photosynthetic bacteria. After continuing for one-year as a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller, he spent 12 years on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, and moved in 1996 to North Carolina State University as Glaxo Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry.