The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry's Fry Lecture Series will host a seminar given by Tadhg P. Begley of Texas A&M University. The title of the seminar is "New catalytic motifs in flavoenzymology."

The seminar will take place at 3:30 p.m. Monday, March 2 in the Chemistry Building in room 144. There will be a reception after the talk in room 105. The talk is free and open to the public. 

Begley is a Distinguished Professor, the Robert A. Welch Foundation Chair, and the Barton Professor in Chemistry at Texas A&M University. His research area is mechanistic enzymology of complex organic transformations, particularly those found on the vitamin biosynthetic pathways.

He has received the Merck Faculty Development Award and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. He recently co-authored The Organic Chemistry of Biological Pathways with John McMurry.

Begley is also the editor of Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology, a four volume set, and a member of five editorial boards.