April 6, 2006

 NORMAN – Brent Iverson, professor of organic chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, will give a free, public presentation titled “The Chemistry of Large Molecules: From Foldamers to Protein Engineering” Thursday, April 13, at the University of Oklahoma.

The lecture is part of the Karcher-Barton Seminar series sponsored by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences and will begin with refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in 108 Physical Sciences Center, 601 Elm Ave.

Iverson’s research interests focus on the production, characterization and manipulation of large, functional molecules, including antibody and enzyme engineering, higher order structure and function of artificial macromolecules, and the chemistry of nucleic acid binding, recognition and modification.

In 1990, Iverson completed a post doctorate at Scripps Research Institute. He received his doctoral degree in 1987 from the California Institute of Technology and his bachelor of science degree in 1982 from Stanford University.

The Karcher-Barton seminars are named for J. Clarence Karcher, a 1916 OU alumnus who was the primary developer of the reflection seismographic method of oil exploration nearly 70 years ago, and Rosetta Briegel Barton, who became the first woman faculty member in OU’s Department of Chemistry in 1916. The seminar series brings prominent chemists and biochemists to OU to discuss their current research projects.

For more information and accommodations on the basis of disability, contact Ann West at (405) 325-1529 or awest@ou.edu. For a complete schedule of lectures in the Karcher-Barton Seminar series, visit http://cheminfo.chem.ou.edu.