First Annual Distinguished Lecture in Chemical Biology

Cynthia Burrows is is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah, where she leads and active group investigating the chemistry and biochemistry of oxidative damage to DNA. Her early training was in chemistry at the University of Colorado (B.A. 1975) and Cornell University (Ph.D. 1982). She followed this with an NSF-CNRS postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn at the Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg (1981-1983). From 1983-1995 she rose to the rank of Full Professor of Chemistry at SUNY Stony Brook. She returned to the west in 1995 as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah.

Professor Burrows research program rests at the interface of organic, inorganic, and biological chemistry. Her long-standing interest in the mechanisms of transition metal-mediated oxidation led in recent years to a focus on oxidative damage to DNA. These studies now range from the identification of new heterocyclic compounds and the mechanisms by which they are formed during DNA oxidation to the investigation of the biological effects of these lesions on DNA replication and repair.

Professor Burrows has been a member of numerous editoria boards and review panels; she also served as Associate Editor of Organic Letters from its inception until 2002, and is currently Senior Editor of the Journal of Organic Chemistry. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the recipient of the Robert Parry Teaching Award at the University of Utah. Her research was recently recognized with the ACS Utah Award, the ACS Cope Scholar Award, and the University of Utah's Distinguished Creative and Scholarly Research Award. In October 2009, she will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Burrows will deliver two lectures, both open to the general public:

11:00 AM	Chemistry and Biology of Guanine Oxidation in DNA: From Free Radicals to Mutations (Abstract)	428 Aubert Hall
4:00 PM	Outliers in Chemical Biology: Where will the next generation come from and where will they be headed?	316 Aubert Hall