When   Friday, November 20, 2009   Time   2:30 PM - 4:00 PM  
Where   Technological Institute - 132 LR3   map it
Audience   - Faculty/Staff - Student - Public
Contact   Estelle Ure   8474673005  
Group   Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
More Info   http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/events/documents/hoffman-kanatzidis-lecture-poster-2009.pdf

BRIAN HOFFMAN, Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry

Riding Three Horses

Friday, November 20, 2:30 PM, Tech, LR3

Hoffman's research program rides three horses. They have pioneered the use of electron-nuclear double resonance, a combination of NMR and EPR spectroscopies, to determine metalloenzyme mechanisms. His presentation will describe progress in determining the mechanism of "Nitrogen Fixation" - the reduction of dinitrogen to two ammonia molecules - by the enzyme, nitrogenase, a process essential for all life.