2017年5月11日下午4点,应四川大学化学学院邀请,美国杨百翰大学Steven L. Castle教授访问我院并做了题为“New Strategies for the Synthesis of Unusual Peptides”的学术报告。在化学馆321演播厅,Steven L. Castle教授详细介绍了他的研究小组近年来在多肽的合成及表征方面的工作。
此次报告会由化学学院余志鹏教授主持,化学学院的数位老师及相关专业的研究生聆听了报告。Steven L. Castle教授的报告内容丰富,讲解深入浅出,激起了在座老师和同学的浓厚兴趣,报告在热烈的掌声中落下帷幕。报告结束后,Steven L. Castle教授与部分师生进行了多方面的交流和讨论。
Steven L. Castle was born in 1971 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He worked in the laboratory of his grandfather, Prof. Raymond N. Castle of the University of South Florida, during summers in high school. He received his B.S. with Honors in chemistry from Brigham Young University in 1995, where he performed research with Prof. Jerald S. Bradshaw. He earned his Ph.D. in 2000 from The Scripps Research Institute under the direction of Prof. Dale L. Boger. Upon completing a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Prof. Larry E. Overman at the University of California, Irvine, he began his independent career at Brigham Young University in 2002. His research interests encompass the development of new synthetic methods targeting complex bioactive natural products, studies of their modes of action, and peptide science. He is the recipient of a Research Innovation Award from Research Corporation and a Long-Term Invitation Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.