Stanley Dagley Regents Professor of Biochemistry BMBB Faculty 1970-1987

Stanley Dagley
Lectureship Series

Dr. Stephen Withers, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
4:00-5:00 pm
105 Cargill
"Sugars are good for you: their roles as therapeutics."

Thursday ,October 16, 2008
4:00-5:00 pm
105 Cargill
"Engineering and evolution of old enzymes for new tasks: glycoside assembly"

Background - Stanley Dagley
Stanley Dagley was Regents Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Minnesota. Known for his luminary teaching, Professor Dagley was also highly regarded for his research on microbial oxidation reactions. Dagley first studied microbial biochemistry from a thermodynamics standpoint with Chemistry Nobel Laureate Sir Cyril Hinshelwood at Oxford. He started his professorial career at the University of Leeds prior to his distinguished tenure at the University of Minnesota.

Dagley Lectures
Professor Stanley Dagley inspired a legion of scientists to investigate novel and exotic microbial biochemistry using simple, but elegant, biochemical logic. Some of those he inspired have initiated the Stanley Dagley Lectureship. Support for the Dagley Lectureship comes from the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota through the Center for Microbial Genomics.

Year	Speaker/Affiliation	Title
2001	Dr. Daniel Koshland, Jr. University of California, Berkeley	Propogation of Conformational Changes in Receptors and Enzymes. Scientific Advances: What Will We be Able To Do and What Will We Be Allowed To Do?
2002	Dr. Arthur Kornberg (Nobel Laureate) Stanford University School of Medicine	Reflections on DNA Replication and Current Studies on Inorganic Polyphosphate. Biotechnology: Academia and/or Business.
2003	Dr. Rolf Thauer Max Plank Institute, Germany	On Methanogens and Methanotrophs. Biochemistry of Methanogenesis.
2004	Sir David Hopwood John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK	The discovery and development of antibiotics. Using Streptomyces genes to make new antibiotics.
2005	Dr. Perry Frey University of Wisconsin, Madison	A story of hydrogen bonding: The low-barrier hydrogen bond in chymotrypsin. Science and Antiscience.
2006	Dr. Peter G. Schultz The Scripps research Institute, La Jolla, CA	An expanding genetic code. Synthesis at the interface of chemistry and biology.
2007	Dr. Gregory A. Petsko Brandeis University; Waltham, MA (Adjunct Professor, Harvard Medical School)	Structural Enzymology in Four Dimensions: Time-Resolved Crystal Structures of Enzymes At Work. The Next Epidemic: What Happens To Your Brain As You Get Older and What We're Trying To Do About It.
2008	Dr. Stephen Withers University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada	Sugars are good for you: their roles as therapeutics. Engineering and evolution of old enzymes for new tasks: glycoside assembly.