Amy Deveau gives seminar to the University of New Hampshire's Chemistry Department

Amy Deveau, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry & Physics and affiliated faculty member of the Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences, delivered an invited seminar to the University of New Hampshire's Chemistry Department on April 19, 2011.  Dr. Deveau's seminar was titled "No Pain, No Gain: Adventures in the Synthesis, Structural Evaluation, and Biological Analysis of Novel Naltrexol Analogs".  The seminar highlighted contributions from UNE undergraduate students Andrea Pelotte (Biochem/Med Bio, 09'), Liz Andrews (Biochem/Med Bio, 10'), Tanya Lawrence (Med Bio, 11'), Vernon Chan (Biochem/Neuroscience, 12'), Paul Fitz-Morris (Biochem, 11'), and Jen Bayron (Biochem/Med Bio, 10'), and UNECOM student Dave Martin (12').   Data obtained from collaborations with the labs of pharmacologists Richard Rothman (NIDA-NIH) and Edward Bilsky (UNECOM) and chemists Rebecca Conry (Colby College), and John Stubbs (UNE, Chemistry & Physics) were also featured in the presentation.

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