Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry Robin B. Kinnel visited the Boston College Chemistry Department at the invitation of Jason Kingsbury, '97, now an assistant professor there. At Kingsbury's suggestion Kinnel prepared a retrospective talk, which he titled "Adventures and Lessons from Three Decades of Natural Products Chemistry: Some Finished and Unfinished Business."
In the audience were graduates Kevin Brown, '02, and Ming Chan, '05, both graduate students in chemistry at B.C. Also in attendance were Danielle Massee, '07, now at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, and Elita Pastra-Landis, professor of chemistry at Wheaton College and mother of Tanya Pastra-Landis, '98. In his talk, Kinnel touched on nine projects dating back to work at Cornell on a sabbatical leave in 1977-78, and continuing forward to two ongoing projects, pursued by several current and recent students, on chemical cues for oviposition in two upstate butterflies and on a search for peptides derived from alphafetoprotein that are potentially useful against breast cancer.
In the audience were graduates Kevin Brown, '02, and Ming Chan, '05, both graduate students in chemistry at B.C. Also in attendance were Danielle Massee, '07, now at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, and Elita Pastra-Landis, professor of chemistry at Wheaton College and mother of Tanya Pastra-Landis, '98. In his talk, Kinnel touched on nine projects dating back to work at Cornell on a sabbatical leave in 1977-78, and continuing forward to two ongoing projects, pursued by several current and recent students, on chemical cues for oviposition in two upstate butterflies and on a search for peptides derived from alphafetoprotein that are potentially useful against breast cancer.
