BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Unit,Department of SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
University Campus, Medicine Building
E-28871 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain
Phone: +34-91 885 45 13 Fax: +34-91 885 45 85
Dr. Angel Herráez
Phone: +34-91 885 45 11 angel.herraez@uah.es

Estimados compañeros, colegas y alumnos:
Durante la semana del 19 al 23 de mayo disfrutaremos de la visita de Bob Hanson a la UAH.
El Dr. Hanson es profesor de química y de química orgánica en el St. Olaf College y además
durante los últimos 8 años ha sido el principal responsable del desarrollo del programa Jmolpara la visualización de estructuras moleculares en 3D.
Durante su estancia, tendremos dos presentaciones en las que Bob nos hablará de algunas
funcionalidades añadidas recientemente a Jmol y en especial de dos aplicaciones muyinteresantes en docencia e investigación. Os animo a que hagáis lo posible por asistir ydifundáis esta información.

Robert M. Hanson
Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry Department, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, USA
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonrRobert Hanson is the Edolph A. Larson and Truman E. Anderson Sr. Chair of Chemistry andcurrently serves as chair of the St. Olaf College Chemistry Department.
He joined the St. Olaf faculty in 1986 after earning a B.S. from the California Institute ofTechnology, a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and completing postdoctoral work at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.
Over the course of his career, Hanson has been the recipient of many awards and grants
from organizations that include the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes ofHealth, the Research Corporation, the American Chemical Society, DuPont, Eli Lilly, and theW.M. Keck Foundation. He has also earned a Magnus the Good Award from St. Olaf and has
twice served on the college's curriculum committee and as an alumni liaison.
Hanson has published numerous articles in the areas of chemistry, material science,
informatics, and mathematics, as well as two books: Molecular Origami: Precision Scale Models
from Paper and Introduction to Molecular Thermodynamics. He is the co-inventor on one patent
titled Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation (with K. Barry Sharpless, who received the Nobel Prizein Chemistry in 2001).
Since 2006 Hanson has been the project leader and principal developer for the Jmol
Molecular Visualization Project, a global open-source interdisciplinary effort to develop novel
web-based capabilities for the visualization of molecular structure and energetics. Applicable ina wide range of fields, the Jmol applet can be found on thousands of websites, including theProtein Data Bank. In 2010 Jmol became part of an exhibit on nanotechnology in theInnoventions pavilion at the Walt Disney Epcot theme park, where more than 300,000 visitors
have interacted with it. The exhibit has also been duplicated at Disneyland, where it will runthrough September 2012.
At St. Olaf, Hanson primarily teaches organic chemistry and has worked to further thecollege's green chemistry curriculum. He also developed the Interim course Medicinal
Chemistry in Jamaica: An International Perspective, which brings students to the University of
the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica, every other year for an in-depth look into how drugs workand how they are designed and developed, with a particular focus on the interactions of culture,
traditional healing, and pharmaceutical medicine.

UNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALÁ • PATRIMONIO DE LA HUMANIDAD • WORLD HERITAGE • WWW.UAH.ESMiércoles, 21 de mayo de 2014, 11.30 h
Aula de Grados de la Facultad de Farmacia

Prof. Robert M. Hanson; St. Olaf College, USA
Molecular visualization in the age of international connectivity:
Easy-to-use connection between chemical structure and spectra forteachers and students.
Abstract:
We are entering a new age ofconnectivity often referred to as“cloud computing”, where multiple
processes in far-off lands arecoupled to accomplish tasks of local
interest. In this presentation I willshow how a collaboration between
the University of the West Indies
and St. Olaf College is changing theway students, educators, andresearchers access and utilize
molecular structures and spectra bytapping into rich resources in several different countries. This work is already having an
impact in several areas, including general, organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry as
well as biochemistry and molecular biology.

Jueves, 22 de mayo de 2014, 11.30 h
Aula de Grados de la Facultad de Farmacia

Prof. Robert M. Hanson; St. Olaf College, USA
Innovative molecular visualization in biochemistry and pharmacology:
Using surfaces to depict contacts and interactions.
Abstract:
The visual depiction of drug-receptor
interactions has been a great challenge forstudents, teachers, and authors alike. There isno single magic solution to this complex issue.
In this presentation I will illustrate several
innovative features of Jmol and how they canbe used to rapidly explore binding pockets andother drug-receptor issues.

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