Seminar archive
Spring 2021
Date | Speaker |
Monday Virtual seminar |
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Monday Virtual seminar |
Dennis Hore, University of Victoria Molecular structure at surfaces Host: Alex Brolo |
Monday Virtual seminar |
David Sinton, University of Toronto |
Monday Virtual seminar |
David Harrington, University of Victoria |
Wednesday Virtual event |
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Monday Virtual seminar |
Lisa Willis, University of Alberta |
Monday Virtual seminar |
Eric Derrah, Dycar Pharmaceuticals |
Monday Virtual seminar |
Alison Narayan, University of Michigan |
Monday Virtual seminar |
Alison Flynn, University of Ottawa Studies on student learning in an organic chemistry curriculum designed to deepen understanding of reactivity and chemistry principles Host: Violeta Iosub |
Monday Virtual seminar |
Jean-Francois Morin, Université Laval |
Monday Virtual seminar |
Russ Algar, UBC |
Thursday Virtual seminar |
Yunjie Xu, University of Alberta Molecular spectroscopy of chirality recognition/transfer/amplification: fundamental and practical advances Host: Dave Leitch |
Fall 2020
Date | Speaker |
Monday Virtual seminar |
Zhenan Bao, Stanford University Skin-inspired organic electronics Host: Liting Bi |
Monday Virtual seminar |
Sophie Rousseaux, University of Toronto New Strategies for the Synthesis and Functionalization of Cyclopropanols and Nitriles Host: Jeremy Wulff |
Monday Virtual seminar |
Erin Johnson, Dalhousie University |
Monday Virtual seminar |
Stacey Wetmore, University of Lethbridge |
Monday Virtual seminar |
Prashant Kamat, University of Notre Dame |
Monday Virtual seminar |
Zohrab Ahmadi, Econotech Services |
Monday Virtual seminar |
Fred Menard, UBC Okanagan |
Monday Virtual event |
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Monday Virtual seminar |
Jeffrey Moore, University of Illinois |
Monday Virtual seminar |
Gilbert Walker, University of Toronto |
Monday Virtual seminar |
Rachel O'Reilly, University of Birmingham |
Spring 2020
Date | Speaker |
Thursday January 9 |
Fraser Hof, University of Victoria Bio-supramolecular chemistry: recognition, assembly, disassembly, and sensing in warm salty water Host: Alok Shaurya |
Monday January 13 |
Frederic Menard, UBC Okanagan - Cancelled |
Monday |
Rebekka Klausen, Johns Hopkins University |
Monday |
Helen Mitchell, Merck |
Monday |
Susanne Riegel, Nanalysis Scientific |
Monday |
Steen Schougaard, Université du Québec à Montréal |
Tuesday |
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Monday |
Cornelia Bohne, University of Victoria |
Monday |
Jennifer Heemstra, Emory University |
Monday |
Graham Dobereiner, Temple University |
Monday |
Stacey Wetmore, University of Lethbridge - Cancelled |
Monday March 23 |
Sabine Kuss, University of Manitoba - Cancelled |
Monday March 30 |
Vy Dong, University of California, Irvine - Cancelled |
Fall 2019
Date | Speaker |
Monday September 9 |
Ruth Signorell, ETH Zurich Spectroscopy of submicron-sized aerosol droplets Host: Katherine Elvira |
Monday September 23 |
Mita Dasog, Dalhousie University Synthesis and Application of Plasmonic Metal Nitride Nanostructures Host: Alex Brolo |
Monday |
Patrick Kolsch, Spectra-Physics Lasers |
Monday |
Paul Walton, University of York |
Monday |
Francesco Paesani, University of California, San Diego Tuesday October 22 Lansdowne Lecture: Bridging the Gap with Reality: Molecular-Level Computer Simulations for Water Harvesting and Purification Technologies |
Monday |
Sarah Styler, University of Alberta |
Thursday |
Franz Geiger, Northwestern University |
Tuesday |
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Monday |
Dan Lehnherr, Merck |
Monday |
Rebecca Jockusch, University of Toronto |
Monday |
Lars Konermann, Western University - Cancelled |
Spring 2019
Date | Speaker |
Monday January 7 |
Ian Tonks, University of Minnesota 2019 DOW Lecturer Ti-Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer Reactions: Harnessing the TiII/TiIV Redox Couple for New Transformations Host: Scott McIndoe |
Monday January 14 |
Ian Burgess, University of Saskatchewan Attenuated Total Reflectance Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy Host: Dennis Hore |
Thursday |
Alex Radosevich, MIT |
Thursday |
Warren Chan, University of Toronto |
Monday |
Jesse Greener, Laval University |
Thursday |
Gregory Adam, Merck |
Wednesday |
Graduate Student Research Day |
Monday |
Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto |
Monday |
Jan Weigand, Technical University of Dresden |
Thursday |
Eric Price, University of Saskatchewan |
Wednesday |
Karen Wooley, Texas A&M University Lansdowne Lecture |
Thursday March 14 |
Karen Wooley, Texas A&M University The Development of Synthetic Methodologies for the Transformation of Regiochemically- and Stereochemically-diverse Natural Products into Functional Polymer Systems Host: Alex Brolo |
Monday March 18 |
Mircea Dinca, MIT Teaching Sponges New Tricks: Catalysis and Charge Transport in Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks Host: Robin Hicks |
Monday March 25 |
Jose Moran-Mirabal, McMaster University Micro- and nanostructured materials: from stretchable gold to “green materials” for tissue engineering Host: Dennis Hore |
Fall 2018
Date | Speaker |
Monday September 10 |
Joe Gilroy, Western University - Molecular and Macromolecular Materials Derived from Boron Difluoride Formazanates Host: Robin Hicks |
Monday September 17 |
Michael Gerken, University of Lethbridge The Chemistry of SF4 and the Structure of Protonated Carbonyl Compounds Host: Lisa Rosenberg |
Monday |
Jen Pape, SGS Axys SGS AXYS: Ensuring Excellence in Specialty Environmental Analysis Host: Scott McIndoe |
Thursday |
Sam Dagorne, University of Strasbourg Combining N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) with oxophilic and earth-abundant metal centers: coordination chemistry, small moleculese activation and use in catalysis Host: Lisa Rosenberg NOT 509 |
Monday |
Kristen Burford, Xenon Pharmaceuticals Medicinal Chemistry at Xenon: A Selective Sodium 1.6 Channel Blocker Approach for the Potential Treatment of Epilepsy Host: Jeremy Wulff |
Thursday |
Oliver Wenger, Basel University From Photoinduced Multi-Electron Transfer to New Photoactive Metal Complexes Host: Robin Hicks NOT 509 |
Thursday |
Pat Holland, Yale University Nitrogen Binding and Fixation using Iron Complexes Host: Robin Hicks |
Monday |
Claudia Turro, Ohio State University 2018 Merck Lecturer Targeting Cancer with Transition Metal Complexes: From Basic Science Toward Therapy Host: Natia Frank |
Monday |
Dwight Seferos, University of Toronto 2018 Xerox Lecturer Advances in Polymer Semiconductors and Energy Storage Devices Host: Robin Hicks |
Monday |
Hanadi Sleiman, McGill University DNA Nanostructures for Cellular Delivery of Therapeutics Host: Fraser Hof |
Thursday |
Ilya Zharov, University of Utah Functional nanoporous materials from "hairy" nanoparticle building blocks Host: Matt Moffitt NOT 509 |
Tuesday |
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Friday |
William Lubell, University of Montreal Synthesis of Heterocyclic Turn Mimics for Allosteric Receptor Modulation in Biomedical Applications Host: Jeremy Wulff NOT 509 |
Thursday |
Gino DiLabio, UBC Okanagan How do radical enzymes control their highly-reactive intermediates? Host: Jeremy Wulff NOT 509 |
Monday |
Chris Gill, Vancouver Island University Advances and Applications of Direct Mass Spectrometry Host: Scott McIndoe |
Monday |
Scott McIndoe, University of Victoria Building and Designing in the World's Finest Workshop |
Spring 2018
Thursday March 29 | Scott Wolkenberg, Merck Two approaches to reverse HIV latency: histone deacetylase and farnesyltransferase inhibition Host: Fraser Hof |
Thursday April 5 | Janine Mauzeroll, McGill University The Wonderful World of Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM) Host: Alex Brolo |
Monday |
Ingo Krossing, University of Freiburg - Elliott 228 Stabilization of Reactive Cations by Large and Weakly Coordinating Anions Host: Neil Burford NOT CHEM 509 |
Date | Speaker |
Monday January 8 | Thomas Hoye, University of Minnesota The (ongoing) evolution of the hexadehydro-Diels-Alder (HDDA) reaction Host: Andy Un |
Monday January 15 | Paul Ragogna, Western University An examination of phosphinidene chalcogenide chemistry: Versatile low coordinate P(III) units Host: Neil Burford |
Monday January 22 | Michael Campbell, Lakehead University Application of Solid Phase Synthesis to Radiochemistry and Other Tales of an Accidental Radiochemist Host: Peter Wan |
Monday January 29 |
CHEM 509 Discussion for Grad Students (attendance mandatory) |
Monday February 5 | Shana Kelley, University of Toronto Profiling Cells Inside and Out Using Nanostructured Materials Host: Natia Frank |
Thursday February 15 | Graduate Student Research Day |
Monday February 19 | Tim Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dynamic Droplets Host: Robin Hicks |
Monday February 26 | Mario Bieringer, University of Manitoba Keeping Things Moving - From Bottleneck to Bottleneck! Oxide ion conductors for solid oxide fuel cell applications Host: Lisa Rosenberg |
Monday March 5 | John Murphy, University of Strathclyde Redox Processes with Organic Reagents Host: Nicholas Richard |
Monday March 12 | Alex Adronov, McMaster University Developing New Polymers for Selective Interactions with Carbon Nanotubes Host: Natia Frank |
Monday March 26 | Emily Weiss, Northwestern University Photocatalysis of Fuel-forming Reactions Enhanced by Energy and Charge Funneling within Colloidal Assemblies Host: Natia Frank |
Fall 2017
Date | Speaker |
Thursday September 7 | Equity and Human Rights Presentation and Discussion for Grad Students (attendance mandatory) Location: Elliott 226 |
Monday September 11 | CHEM 509 Introduction for Grad Students (attendance mandatory) Location: Elliott 062 |
Thursday September 14 | Mark Taylor, University of Toronto Noncovalent and Reversible Covalent Interactions: Fundamental Studies and New Applications Host: Fraser Hof |
Monday September 18 | Allan East, University of Regina Modelling Solvated Systems Host: Irina Paci |
Monday September 25 | Allan Hendry, North Robotics Modular Robotics for Laboratory Automation Host: Scott McIndoe |
Monday October 2 | Charlie Campbell, University of Washington Transition metal catalysts for energy technologies: Pathways to catalyst design Host: David Harrington |
Thursday October 12 | Emma Guns, The Prostate Centre Natural Ligands: Ginseng and Vitamin D Working Together to Prevent and Treat Prostate Cancer Host: Jeremy Wulff |
Monday October 16 | Seth Brown, University of Notre Dame The Oxidation State and its Discontents Host: Robin Hicks |
Thursday November 2 | John Walmsley, Starfish Medical Scientist amongst Engineers: A Career in Product Development Host: Dennis Hore |
Monday November 6 | Laurel Schafer, UBC From Molecules to Materials - Sustainable Approaches for Amine Synthesis Featuring Early Transition Metal Catalysis Host: Robin Hicks |
November 14 | Graduate Student Research Day |
Monday November 20 | Christina Bottaro, Memorial University Enviroanalysis using Smart Polymers: Skipping Chromatography and the Complexities of Molecular Imprinting Host: Chris Gill |
Thursday November 23 | Sandy Briggs - NOT CHEM 509 Two Expeditions in One: Hiking and Rafting in the Northwest Territories; Skiing in Nunavut (Boothia Penninsula) |
Monday November 27 | Sara Eisler, University of New Brunswick Synthesis, Cyclizations and Switches: Controlling Regiochemistry and Molecular Motion in ∏-Extended Heterocycles Host: Fraser Hof |
Spring 2017
Date | Speaker |
Mon. Jan. 16 | Thomas Baumgartner, University of Calgary Strongly Electron-Accepting, Phosphorus-bridged Viologens - From Synthesis to Applications Host: Neil Burford |
Mon. Jan. 23 | Cathleen Crudden, Queen's University Metal catalysts, clusters and surfaces: From the synthesis of chiral bio-molecules to carbon-based self assembled monolayers. Host: Robin Hicks |
Mon. Jan. 30 | David Stuart, Portland State University Exploring Divergent Reactivity of Diaryliodonium Salts for Metal-Free Arylation Reactions Host: Scott McIndoe |
Fri. Feb. 3 | Hicham Fenniri, Northeastern University Engineering Function in Supramolecular Nanomaterials Host: Tom Fyles Location: CLE D134 |
Mon. Feb. 6 | Christopher Jones, Georgia Tech Title TBC Host: Scott McIndoe |
Thur. Feb. 16 | Graduate Student Research Day Details to be confirmed in January |
Mon. Feb. 20 | Ariel Louwrier, Stressmarq Biotech Startups - Life, Risk and Everything Host: Fraser Hof |
Mon. Feb. 27 | Paul Chirik, Princeton University Catalysis with Earth Abundant Metals Host: Robin Hicks |
Mon. Mar. 6 | Lüis Campos, Columbia University Thiophene Rust in Single-Molecule Electronics and Singlet Fission Host: Cornelia Bohne |
Thurs. Mar. 16 | Mario Leclerc, Université Laval Green Chemistry for Green Energy Host: Matt Moffitt |
Mon. Mar. 20 | Philip Power, University of California, Davis Interactions of Olefins, Alkynes and Related Molecules with Heavier Main Group Hydrides and Multiple Bonded Species Host: Paul Gray |
Mon. Mar. 27 |
Rylan Lundgren, University of Alberta Copper-Mediated Oxidative Cross-Coupling Reactions of Carbon Nucleophiles Host: Neil Burford |
Mon. Apr. 3 | Christa Brosseau, Saint Mary's University Adventures in Plasmonics: Sensing to Sustainability Host: Alex Brolo |
Thurs. Apr. 6 | Charles Stone, Eon Consultants The Rise and Shutterings of Ballard Power Systems - A Business Odyssey Host: Lisa Rosenberg |
Fri. Apr. 21 | Graham Bodwell, Memorial University [n]Cyclophanes as Stepping Stones on the Way to Aromatic Belts and Warped Nanographenophanes Host: Tom Fyles Location: MAC D110 |
Wed. June 7 | Adam Bergren and Andrew Myles, National Institute for Nanotechnology From Fundamental Science to Rock and Roll: The Heisenberg Molecular Overdrive Host: Fraser Hof Location: ELL 226 |
Mon. June 19 | Carlos Romero-Nieto, University of Heidelberg Novel phosphaphenalene derivatives: en route towards a new generation of multifunctional organophosphorus materials Host: Neil Burford Location: ELL 226 |
Fall 2016
Date | Speaker |
Thur. Sep. 8 |
Kirsten Wolthers, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Initiating and Controlling Radical Chemistry in Coenzyme B12-dependent Mutases Host: Neil Burford |
Mon. Sep. 12 | Graduate student Chem 509 introduction |
Thur. Sep. 15 | Curtis Berlinguette, University of British Columbia Solar Chemistry at the Interface Host: Robin Hicks |
Mon. Sep. 19 | Jean-François Paquin, Université Laval Exploration and Some Discoveries in Organofluorine Chemistry Host: Jeremy Wulff |
Thur. Sep. 22 | Rhett Kempe, Universität Bayreuth Catalysts for a more sustainable chemistry Host: Neil Burford |
Mon. Oct. 3 | Edith (Phoebe) Glazer, University of Kentucky Developing a research platform for the discovery of cytotoxic metal complexes Host: Genevieve Boice |
Thur. Oct. 13 | Miguel Garcia-Garibay, University of California, Los Angeles Control of Chemical Reactivity and Rotational Dynamics: Applications in the Construction of Molecular Machines Host: Peter Wan |
Mon. Oct. 17 | Belinda Heyne, University of Calgary From tuning aggregation to amplifying singlet oxygen: a photochemist approach Host: Alex Brolo |
Mon. Oct. 24 | Ken Dill, Stony Brook University How cell behaviors are encoded in the physical chemistry of the proteome Host: Fraser Hof |
Thurs. Oct. 27 |
Preston Chase, GreenCentre Canada Development and Commercial Application of Novel Catalyst and Green Solvent Technologies Host: Robin Hicks |
Mon. Oct. 31 | David Rabuka, Catalent Biologics Translating technology from the bench top to the clinic, the story of Redwood Bioscience Host: Tom Fyles |
Mon. Nov. 7 | Richard Layfield, University of Manchester From Molecular Magnets to Catalytic Transformations of Main Group Substrates Host: Neil Burford |
Wed. Nov. 9 | Graduate Student Research Day |
Mon. Nov. 14 | Elizabeth Gillies, University of Western Ontario Controlling end-to-end depolymerization: new polymer backbones, mechanisms and applications Host: Matt Moffitt |
Mon. Nov. 21 | Gonzalo Cosa, McGill University Visualising Chemistry at the Single Molecule Level Host: Cornelia Bohne |
Mon. Nov. 28 | Paul Wiseman, McGill University Mapping protein dynamics and interactions in podosomes in living cells with image correlation spectroscopy Host: Natia Frank |
Mon. Dec. 5 | Andreea Schmitzer, Université de Montréal Controlable transmembrane transport processes and their biological applications Host: Cornelia Bohne |
Spring 2016
Date | Speaker |
Thur. Jan. 7 |
Robert Gomez, Inception Sciences Canada Evolution of a Next Generation, Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor for the Treatment of HIV |
Thur. Jan. 14 |
Françoise Winnik, Université de Montréal & National Institute for Materials Science, Japan Tailor-cut polymer colloids and interfaces: from design to applications |
Mon. Jan. 18 |
David Palmer, University of Saskatchewan Hitting an antibacterial target where it hurts – design, synthesis, and enzymology |
Mon. Jan. 25 |
Steven Boxer, Stanford University Vibrational Stark Spectroscopy Connects Electrostatics to Catalytic Rates at Enzyme Active Sites |
Mon. Feb. 1 |
cancelled |
Tues. Feb 9 |
Graduate Student Research Day -click here for schedule and other details- |
Mon. Feb. 15 |
Robert Froese, The Dow Chemical Company Mechanistic Aspects of the Hydroformylation of Olefins |
Thur. Feb. 18 |
Jennifer Dubois, Montana State University Tales of the tetrapyrrole: making, breaking, and using heme |
Mon. Feb. 22 |
Felix Castellano, North Carolina State University Photochemical Upconversion: Molecules, Materials, and New Frontiers |
Mon. Feb. 29 |
Joe Hupp, Northwestern University Metal-Organic Frameworks for Energy Applications |
Thur. Mar. 3 |
René Boeré, University of Lethbridge Stable and Persistent Group 15 Element R3E+• Radical Cations: Electrochemistry and EPR Spectroscopy |
Mon. Mar. 7 |
Philip Britz-McKibbin, McMaster University Chemical Separations for Metabolomics: New Advances in Biomarker Discovery for Population Health |
Mon. Mar. 14 |
Björn Reinhard, Boston University Plasmonic Coupling in Sensing and Imaging: Fundamentals and Selected Case Studies |
Mon. Mar. 21 |
Paul Cremer, Penn State University Metallomembranes: Exploring the Interactions of Copper Ions with Lipid Membranes |
Thur. Mar. 31 |
Taekjip Ha, Johns Hopkins University Investigating how molecules come to life using advanced single molecule fluorescence techniques |
Mon. Apr. 4 |
Guy Lloyd-Jones, University of Edinburgh 2B or not 2B, and other mix-ups |
Fall 2015
Date | Speaker |
Thur. Sep. 10 |
Mengxiu Zheng, University of Victoria Does microfluidic mixing produce vesicles from natural and synthetic lipids? |
Mon. Sep. 14 |
Takuzo Aida, The Unviersity of Tokyo Stimuli-Responsive Soft Matters towards Artificial Intelligence |
Mon. Sep. 21 |
Carlos Bustamante, University of California, Berkeley Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated Ring ATPase |
Mon. Sep. 28 |
Christopher Yip, University of Toronto Re-Imagining Imaging: Doing More With Less |
Mon. Oct. 5 |
Ratmir Derda, University of Alberta Discovery of Functional Ligands from Genetically-Encoded Libraries of Peptide Derivatives |
Thur. Oct. 15 |
Jennifer Love, UBC Developing Catalytic Reactions One Step at a Time |
Mon. Oct. 19 |
Stephen Craig, Duke University Covalent Mechanochemistry for New Reactions, Self-healing Materials, and Soft Devices |
Thur. Oct. 22 |
Wei Li, University of Victoria Two supramolecular methods for detecting a cancer metabolite |
Mon. Oct. 26 |
Holger Braunschweig, University of Würzburg Transfer, Metathesis and Catenation: Reactivity Patterns Emerging from Borylenecomplexes |
Thur. Nov. 5 |
Karen Goldberg, University of Washington Catalysis, Mechanistic Understanding and Collaboration as Tools to Sustainable Production of Chemicals and Fuels |
Tue. Nov. 10 |
Graduate Student Research Day -click here for schedule and other details- |
Mon. Nov. 16 |
Mathieu Lessard-Viger, University of California San Diego Exploiting Nanomaterial Disassembly for Biomedical Applications |
Thur. Nov. 19 |
Katherine Elvira, ETH Zürich Exploring the boundaries: hard science in simple structures |
Mon. Nov. 23 |
Vlad Iluc, Notre Dame University Secondary Metal-Ligand Interactions: C-H Activation and Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonding in Palladium Carbene Complexes |
Tue. |
Jane Stockmann, Université Paris Diderot Interfacial Electrochemistry |
Mon. Nov. 30 |
Aaron Wheeler, University of Toronto Digital Microfluidics for Chemistry, Biology, and Medicine |
Thur. Dec. 3 |
Drew Marquardt, University of Graz Stress-Free Asymmetric Lipid Vesicles for Sub-nanometer Structural Investigation |
Mon. Dec. 7 |
Alison Thompson, Dalhousie University Adventures with pyrroles: one, two, three! |
Spring 2015
Date | Speaker |
Thur. Jan. 8 |
Paul Covert, University of Victoria Gaining geochemical perspective through nonlinear optical methods |
Mon. Jan. 12 |
John Yates, The Scripps Research Institute Understanding Disease using Mass Spectrometry |
Mon. Jan. 19 |
Clark Landis, University of Wisconsin, Madison New Methods for Efficient Study of Catalytic Reactions |
Thur. Jan. 22 |
Abby Xu, University of Victoria Block copolymer micellization on microfluidic reactors |
Mon. Jan. 26 |
Geraldine Richmond, University of Oregon Calming the Seas but not the Science: Molecular Assembly at Oil-Water Interfaces |
Mon. Feb. 2 |
Michael Freund, University of Manitoba Manipulating Conjugated Polymer Structure and Chemistry: Creating Active Materials for Applications in Electronics, Sensing and Energy Storage/Conversion |
Thur. Feb. 5 |
Stephanie Bonvicini, University of Victoria Lanthanide-Based Nanoparticles for Use in Various Applications |
Mon. Feb. 16 |
Robin Theron, University of Victoria Investigating Homogenous Catalysis by realtime Mass Spectrometry-Infrared Spectroscopy |
Thur. Feb. 19 |
Chakri Simhadri,University of Victoria Antagonists and photoaffinity probes of epigenetic reader protein CBX7 |
Mon. Feb. 23 |
Kyoko Nozaki, University of Tokyo Development of new catalytic reactions toward utilization of renewable resources |
Thur. Feb. 26 |
Brian Coleman, University of Victoria Block Co-Polymer Mimetic Self-Assembly of Inorganic Nanoparticles |
Mon. Mar. 2 |
Mitchell Albert, Lakehead University Hyperpolarized Gas MRI and HP Xenon Biosensor MRI for the Study of Physiological and Molecular Function |
Thur. Mar. 5 |
Mehraveh Seyedalikhani, University of Victoria Characterization of binding of a small guest molecule with a biocompatible gel system |
Mon. Mar. 9 |
Theodore Betley, Harvard University Radical frontiers in catalysis |
Thur. Mar. 12 |
Kyle Duncan, University of Victoria Development and application of condensed phase membrane introduction mass spectrometry |
Mon. Mar. 16 |
Rob Corn, University of California Irvine Nanotextured Surfaces and On-Chip Biosynthesis: Smart Materials and Smart Chemistries for Advanced Optical Biosensors and Biomimetic Devices |
Thur. Mar. 19 |
Suma Thomas, University of Victoria Dynamics of complexation for small guest molecules with cucurbiturils and octa acid capsules |
Mon. Mar. 23 |
Arun Ghosh, Purdue University Natural Product-inspired Molecular Design Targeting HIV/AIDS and Alzheimer’s disease |
Thur. Mar. 26 |
Chemistry Industrial Speaker Neal Anderson, Anderson's Process Solutions Looking Ahead from Academia to Pharma |
Mon. Mar. 30 |
Chemistry Industrial Speaker Stephen Campbell, Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation Corp. A career in fuel cell research |
Thur. |
Hiroaki Suga, University of Tokyo A RaPID way to discover pseudo-natural products and peptides for therapeutic applications |
Mon. |
Mike Meanwell, University of Victoria Synthetic lipids for drug delivery applications |
Thur. |
Genevieve Boice, University of Victoria When Chemistry Gives You Lemons, Remember They Go Well with Vodka: Thioindigo Diimines and Related Compounds. |
Mon. |
Corey Sanz, University of Victoria A Radical Perspective on Palladium: Ligand-Centered Redox Chemistry |
Thurs. |
Richard Schrock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology My Role in Elucidating the Catalytic Reaction that led to a Nobel Prize in 2005 |
Fall 2014
Date | Speaker |
Mon. Sept. 8 |
David Ginger, University of Washington Probing and Pulling: From Polymer Solar Cells to Photoswitchable DNA Nanoparticles |
Mon. Sept. 15 |
Marc Hillmyer, University of Minnesota Sustainable block polymers: sophisticated materials from natural feedstocks |
Thur. Sept. 25 |
Chemistry Industrial Speaker Matthew Henderson, Fusion Technology Inc. Bridging the gap from grad school to industry: what I've learned along the way |
Mon. Sept. 29 |
Ken Raymond, University of California Berkeley Confinement and Catalysis in Chiral, Self-Assembled, Nanoscale Flasks |
Mon. Oct. 6 |
Chris Braddock, Imperial College Studies on Halogenated Marine Natural Products as inspired by their Probable Biogenesis |
Thur. Oct. 16 |
Tomislav Friscic, McGill University Cleaner and Greener Synthesis of Molecules and Materials Inspired by Concepts of Mechanochemistry & Biogeochemistry |
Mon. Oct. 20 |
Chang-Chun Ling, University of Calgary Cyclodextrin-based polyvalent systems for studying biological interactions |
Thur. Oct. 23 |
Paria Parvizi, University of Victoria Structure-based prediction of gene transfection by pyridinium lipids |
Mon. Oct. 27 |
Chemistry Industrial Speaker David Powell, Inception Sciences Canada Challenges in Pharmaceutical Research: The Development of Liver-Targeted Molecules for the Treatment of Diabetes |
Thur. Oct. 30 |
Drew Bennett, University of Waterloo Thermodynamics of saturated to unsaturated phospholipid exchange in membranes with cholesterol |
Mon. Nov. 3 |
Vladimir Michaelis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology High Field Dynamic Nuclear Polarization: Design, Innovation and Chemical Applications |
Thur. Nov. 6 |
Jake Pushie, University of Saskatchewan Illuminating Health Research using Chemical Insight |
Thur. Nov. 13 |
Keith Pardee, Harvard University Paper-based Synthetic Gene Networks |
Mon. Nov. 17 |
Theo Agapie, Caltech Synthetic Cluster Models of Biological and Heterogeneous Oxygen Evolving Catalysts |
Thur. Nov. 20 |
Paul Wender, Stanford University Toward the Ideal Synthesis and Transformative Therapies for Aids, Alzheimer’s and Cancer |
Mon. Nov. 24 |
Aman Bains, University of Victoria Microfluidic Self-assembly of Biodegradable Block Copolymers for Drug Delivery |
Thur. Nov. 27 |
Jieming Cao, University of Victoria Lead-based core-shell-shell quantum dots: synthesis and characterization |
Mon. Dec. 1 |
Nick Davy, University of Victoria/Vancouver Island University Mobile Mass Spectrometer Development for Real-Time Quantification of Atmospheric VOCs |
Thur. Dec. 4 |
Doug Stephan, University of Toronto Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry: New Avenues in Synthesis and Metal-free Catalysis |
Spring 2014
Date | Speaker |
Mon. Jan. 13 |
Jeffrey Long, UC Berkeley Carbon Dioxide Capture and Hydrocarbon Separations in Metal-Organic Frameworks |
Thur. Jan. 16 |
John Vederas, University of Alberta Structures & Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Peptides from Bacillus and Related Species |
Mon. Jan. 20 |
Christy Landes, Rice University In Search of Concurrence between Biological and Synthetic Single Molecule Structure/Function |
Thur. Jan. 23 |
Rhonda Stoddard, University of Victoria Mechanistic comparisons in catalysis using PSI-ESI-MS, NMR and PowerSim |
Mon. Jan. 27 |
Milton Wang, University of Victoria Surface plasmon enhanced energy conversion |
Thur. Feb. 6 |
Gavin Mitchell, University of Victoria Stabilizing Lipids |
Thur. Feb. 13 |
Donald Eadie , LB Foster Friction Management Wheel / Rail Interaction and Friction Control: Technology Development for the Global Railway Industry |
Mon. Feb. 17 |
David Masiello , University of Washington Elucidating the Signatures of Electromagnetic Hot Spots and Fano Interferences in EELS and CL via Multiscale Electrodynamics Simulations |
Thur. |
Saurabh Chitnis, University of Victoria Novel coordination chemistry of Antimony Cations |
Mon. Mar. 3 |
Heather Allen, Ohio State University Ions, lipids, and water at the air-aqueous interface: Organization and electric fields |
Thur. Mar. 6 |
Andrew Grosvenor, University of Saskatchewan Understanding nuclear materials using X-ray absorption spectroscopy |
Wed. |
Lansdowne Speaker Public Lecture Cynthia Friend, Harvard University Science as a Vehicle for Improving Quality of Life: Examples from Catalysis |
Thur. |
Lansdowne Speaker Cynthia Friend, Harvard University Surface Science and Catalysis for Sustainable Chemical Synthesis: The Power of Fundamental Understanding |
Mon. Mar. 17 |
Tom Pinter, University of Victoria Tetrazoles are potent ion recognition elements on a wide variety of structural scaffolds |
Thur. Mar. 20 |
Andre Beauchemin, University of Ottawa Synthesis of Nitrogen-Containing Molecules from Alkenes Using Metal-Free Approaches |
Mon. Mar. 24 |
Daniel Stack, Stanford University Advances in Our Understanding of Cu-Dioxygen Species in Biological Systems: Synthetic Complexes with Stoichiometric and Catalytic Activity |
Thur. |
Mike Brant, University of Victoria Development of Bicyclic Neuraminidase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Influenza |
Thur. Apr. 10 |
Peter Lee, University of Victoria Borane-mediated Post-polymerization Modification of Poly(phenylsilane) |
Thur. Apr. 17 |
Emma Nicholls-Allison, University of Victoria To "Nindigo" and Beyond: The Synthesis and Characterization of New Organic Dyes |
Mon. Apr. 28 |
Tim Kelly, University of Saskatchewan Turning Lead Into Gold: Perovskite Solar Cells |
Fri. May 30 ELL 162 |
Gino Lavoie, York University TBA |
Fall 2013
Date | Speaker |
Thur. Sept. 5 |
Rainer Streubel, University of Bonn Phosphinidenoid complexes: opening new avenues for P1 building blocks |
Mon. Sept. 9 |
Andrei Yudin, University of Toronto Forced orthogonality in chemical synthesis |
Mon. Sept. 16 |
Richard Zare, Stanford University Desorption Electrospray Mass Spectrometry |
Mon. Sept. 23 |
Peng Wu, Yeshiva University Imaging glycans in living organisms |
Thur. Sept. 26 |
Chemistry Industrial Speaker Daryll Harrison, Nova Chemicals TBA |
Mon. Sept. 30 |
Jason Hein, University of California Merced Applications of reaction progress analysis: Mechanistic insight from continuous in situ measurements |
Mon. Oct. 7 |
Odile Eisenstein, University of Montpellier Computational studies and chemical complexity: The example of olefin metathesis catalysis with the Schrock alkylidene complexes |
Thur. Oct. 10 |
Chemistry Industrial Speaker Bryce McGarvey, Imperial Oil Research and Technology in an Industrial Petroleum Laboratory |
Thur. Oct. 17 |
John Klassen, University of Alberta New MS Tools for the Discovery and Characterization of Protein-Ligand Interactions |
Mon. Oct. 21 |
Scott Kroeker, University of Manitoba NMR Studies of Nuclear Waste Materials: Cutting Through Compositional and Morphological Complexity |
Thur. Oct. 24 |
Kevin Daze, University of Victoria Chemical tools that probe protein-protein interactions important in epigenetic pathways |
Mon. Oct. 28 |
Kim Baines, Western University Positively Fun: The Chemistry of Germanium Cations and Multiple Bonds |
Mon. Nov. 4 |
Chemistry Industrial Speaker Scott Tanner, DVS Sciences Cytometry and Atomic Mass Spectrometry Converge in Single Cell Deep Profiling of the Human Immune System |
Thur. Nov. 7 |
Tahei Tahara, Riken Japan Seeing the unseen with ultrashort optical pulses |
Wed. Nov. 13 |
George Whitesides, Harvard University Soft robotics |
Thur. Nov. 14 |
Aicheng Chen, Lakehead University Electrocatalysis and Photoelectrochemistry Based on Functional Nanomaterials |
Mon. Nov. 18 |
Franc Meyer, University of Goettingen Metal Centers Acting in Concert: Biomimetic Metallosites, Bioinspired Catalysts, and Beyond |
Thur. Nov. 21 |
Graham Garnett, University of Victoria Self-association phenomena of sulfonato calix[4]arenes |
Thur. Nov. 28 |
Sara Tabet, University of Victoria Supramolecular hosts that bind methylated lysines: new assays and structure-function relationships |
Mon. Dec. 2 |
Ye Zong, University of Victoria Voltage-dependent ion channels |
Thur. Dec. 5 |
Nick Mosey, Queen's University First-Principles Simulations of Tribological Processes |
Mon. Dec. 9 |
Paul Vu, University of Victoria Dissipative Assembly of an Ion Transport System |
Thur. Dec. 12 |
Jingwei Luo, University of Victoria Mechanism investigations of organometallic catalytic reactions by ESI-MS |
Mon. Dec. 16 |
Chemistry Industrial Speaker Pete Craig, Stantec (un)Sustainable remediation |
Fall 2012
Date | Speaker |
Mon. Sept. 10 |
Hermann Gaub, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich Force and Function: Probing and Controlling the Interactions of Individual Bio-Molecules |
Thur. Sept. 20 |
Robert Scott, University of Saskatchewan Designing Nanoparticles for Catalysis |
Mon. Sept. 24 |
Rich Eisenberg, University of Rochester Solar energy conversion and the light driven generation of hydrogen from water: New developments, strategies and results |
Mon. Oct. 1 |
Eli Zysman-Colman, University of Sherbrooke Illuminating Iridium : From Visual Displays to Solar Cells |
Thur. Oct. 11 |
Tom Woo, University of Ottawa Which MOF Is Best? New Computational Tools to Screen Metal Organic Framework Materials for Clean Energy Applications |
Mon. Oct. 15 |
Gregory Voth, University of Chicago cancelled Theory and Simulation of Biomolecular Systems: Surmounting the Challenge of Bridging the Scales |
Mon. Oct. 22 |
Paul Weiss, University of California Los Angeles Designing, Measuring, and Controlling Molecular and Supramolecular Devices |
Mon. Oct. 29 |
Tomas Hudlicky, Brock University Chemoenzymatic synthesis of morphine and Amaryllidaceae alkaloids and other natural products |
Thur. Nov. 1 |
Stephen Loeb, University of Windsor Building Dynamics into Metal-Organic Framework Materials |
Mon. Nov. 5 |
Mark Stradiotto, Dalhousie University Catalyst Design as a Route to More Sustainable Chemical Synthesis |
Thur. Nov. 8 |
Sandra Roy, University of Victoria Water and peptide structure at hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces |
Thur. Nov. 15 |
Ben Liu, University of Texas at Austin Search for a Naturally Selected Diels-Alderase |
Mon. Nov. 19 |
Helene Lebel, University of Montreal Stereoselective Amination Reactions |
Mon. Dec. 3 |
Mark MacLachlan, University of British Columbia For Richer Pore: Porous Molecules and Materials Through Supramolecular Chemistry |
Thur. Dec. 6 |
Tatiana Popa, University of Victoria Theoretical studies of chiral self-assembly |
Mon. Dec. 10 Wright A104 |
Cooper Johnston, University of Victoria Verdazyl Radicals, Metals, and their Electrochemistry |
Thur. Dec. 13 Wright A104 |
Cameron Newhook, University of Victoria Development and application of membrane introduction mass spectrometry as an in-situ reaction monitoring platform for the chlorination of model compounds, humic substances, and natural waters. |
Spring 2013
Date | Speaker |
Thur. Jan. 10 |
Morgan Millard, University of Victoria Applications of Electroless deposition of gold nanoparticles onto Si |
Mon. Jan. 14 |
Jason Davy, University of Victoria Synthesizing Didemnaketal A |
Mon. Jan. 21 |
Christy Haynes, University of Minnesota Measuring Immune Cell Response to Inflammatory Cytokines |
Mon. Jan. 28 |
Chris Murray, University of Pennsylvania Muti-component nanocrystal self assembly as a route to mutifunctional materials and devices |
Mon. Feb. 4 |
Daniel Mindiola, Indiana University Bloomington Titanium Alkylidynes. C-H Bond Activation and Beyond |
Thur. |
Chemistry Industrial Speaker Havind Sehmi, Mitacs Vancouver Island Connecting Industry with University Expertise |
Mon. Feb. 18 |
Christy Landes, Rice University CANCELLED |
Thur. Feb. 21 |
Chemistry Industrial Speaker Darryl Morrison, NOVA Chemicals Corporation High Performance Polyethylene Resins through Catalyst and Process Design |
Mon. Feb. 25 |
Kevin Allen, University of Victoria Lanthanide binding ligands for use as MRI contrast agents |
Thur. |
Chemistry Industrial Speaker Ryan Dercho, Centre for Drug Research and Development Transforming Discovery into Opportunity - CDRD Resources to Advance Academic Discoveries Toward Commercialization |
Mon. |
John Sorensen, University of Manitoba Biologically active natural products from Northern Manitoba lichen and other fungi |
Thur. Mar. 7 |
Chiara Valsecchi, University of Victoria Development and Characterization of a Plasmonic Sensor for Leukemia Diagnosis |
Mon. Mar. 11 |
Chris Cairo, University of Alberta Chemical tools to probe the role of human neuraminidase enzymes in cell adhesion |
Mon. Mar. 18 |
Don Hilvert, ETH Zurich Designer enzymes |
Thur. Mar. 21 |
Graeme Nawn, University of Victoria Nindigo: a new multifunctional ligand family |
Mon. Mar. 25 |
Chemistry Industrial Speaker Paul Smith, Xerox Research Centre of Canada CANCELLED |
Thur. Mar. 28 |
Jonathan Sweedler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign New approaches for measuring the brain’s chemistry a cell at a time |
Thur. Apr. 4 |
Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley Strategies and Tactics Inspired by Complex Alkaloids |
Mon. Apr. 8 |
Zohrab Ahmadi, University of Victoria Mechanistic insight into homogeneous catalytic reactions by ESI-MS |
Thur. Apr. 11 |
Jonathan Strobl, University of Victoria The Role of Supporting Electrolyte in the Electroxidation of Formic Acid on Au |
Mon. Apr. 15 |
Natasha O'Rourke, University of Victoria Mechanistic Investigation of Orthogonal Transformations of Bis-Vinyl Ether Substrates |
Thur. Apr. 18 |
Chemistry Industrial Speaker James Wilkin, Industrial Research Assistance Program, NRC Chemistry - for careers and innovation |
Mon. Apr. 22 |
Robert Mawhinney, Lakehead University A Quantum Based Parameter for Describing the Inductive Effect |
Fall 2011
Date | Speaker |
Thur Sept 8 |
Matthew Cook, Queens' University, Belfast Sigmatropic Rearrangements to Build Molecular Complexity |
Mon Sept 12 |
Allan East, University of Regina Two Recent Theoretical Chemistry Projects: Molten BiCl3 and Carbocations |
Thurs Sept 15 |
Travis Williams, University of Southern California Toward a Bifunctional Catalyst for Hydride Manipulation |
Mon Sept 19 |
Colin Nuckolls, Columbia University Reaction Chemistry, Self-Assembly and Properties of Nano-structured Forms of Carbon |
Mon Sept 26 |
Brian Wilson, University Health Network, Toronto |
Mon Oct 3 |
Jan Weigand, University of Muenster, Germany Phosphorus Cations as Synthetic Targets - From Fundamentals to Application |
Thur Oct 6 |
Makoto Fujita, The University of Tokyo The Structure and Function of Self-assembled Coordination Architectures: Lessons from Nature |
Mon Oct 17 |
Jothir Pichaandi, UVic student Synthesis and Surface Modification of Luminescent Nanocrystals: Their Performance and Potential as Prospective Biolabels |
Mon Oct 24 |
Kevin Smith, UBC Okanagan Exploring Reversible Chromium-Alkyl Bond Homolysis with Well-Defined CpCr(Nacnac)(R) Complexes |
Mon Oct 31 |
Katherine Davies, UVic student Iterative Synthesis of Oligo-Vinyl Ethers |
Mon Nov 7 |
Richard J. Saykally, UC Berkeley cancelled |
Thur Nov 10 |
Joe Wang, UVic student Flow-directed self-assembly of block copolymer micelles in microfluidic devices |
Mon Nov 14 |
Derek Pratt, Univeristy of Ottawa The Chemistry of Radical-Trapping Antioxidants: Are Phenols Really Best? |
Tues Nov 15 10:30am CLE C115 |
Mark Taylor, University of Toronto Noncovalent and Reversible Covalent Interactions: Fundamental Studies and Applications in Catalysis |
Mon Nov 21 |
David Milstein, Weizmann Institute, Israel Design of Metal-catalyzed Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry |
Mon Nov 28 |
Sam Minaker, UVic student cancelled |
Tues Dec 13 11am COR B112 |
Benoît Moreau, Boehringer-Ingelheim Asymmetric Snthesis of Cyclopropane Amino Acids (with application to the synthesis of corontine) and Discovery of New Iron-Catalyzed Reactions |
Spring 2012
Date | Speaker |
Thurs Jan 12 |
Charles Walsby, SFU The Role of Biomolecule Interactions in the Prodrug Behaviour of Ru(III) Anticancer Complexes |
Mon Jan 16 |
Gren Patey, UBC rescheduled |
Mon Jan 23 |
Paul Weiss, UCLA cancelled |
Thurs Feb 2 |
Rajesh Odedra, Seastar Chemicals Inc. TBA |
Mon Feb 6 |
Norbert Braun, Symrise Singapore Fragrances and Flavours - Chemistry Touching Your Senses |
Thurs Feb 9 |
Ting Yu, UVic student Detection of EGFR Biomarkers for Lung Cancers using SPR Nanohole Arrays |
Mon Feb 13 |
Andrew Dambenieks, UVic student Self-assembly in Ion Channel Design |
Thurs Feb 16 |
Sam Minaker, UVic student Development of Tools for Reading the Histone Code |
Mon Feb 20 |
Julianne Gibbs-Davis, University of Alberta The Noncovalent Chemistry of Confinement: From DNA Recognition to Buried Interfaces |
Thurs Feb 23 |
Gren Patey, University of British Columbia Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation: Insights from Computer Simulation |
Mon Feb 27 |
Joelle Pelletier, Université de Montréal Harnessing enzymes for biocatalysis, antibiotic discovery and understanding drug resistance |
Thurs Mar 1 |
Daniel Collins, UVic student A versatile platform for the exploration of new electrodes and electronic materials |
Wed Mar 7 7:30 pm ELL 167 |
Lansdowne Public Seminar Paul McEuen, Cornell University The Future of Small |
Thurs Mar 8 |
Lansdowne Chemistry Seminar Paul McEuen, Cornell University Nanotubes and Graphene: Blurring the Boundaries of Hard and Soft Matter |
Mon Mar 12 |
Mohammad Movassaghi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Complex Alkaloid Total Synthesis |
Thurs Mar 15 |
Caleb Bromba, UVic student Synthetic Investigation of Pharmacore-Protein Interactions Leading to Potential Therapeutics |
Mon Mar 19 |
Stephen Leone, UC Berkeley and LBNL Attosecond Electron Dynamics in Atoms and Molecules |
Thurs Mar 22 |
Amanda Whiting, UVic student Synthesis and study of protein structure mimics for binding biologically relevant cations |
Mon Mar 26 |
Abdel Hidalgo, UVic/TRU student Theoretical Determination of Physico-Chemical Properties of Perfluorinated Compounds |
Thurs Mar 29 |
Krista Morrow, UVic student [2+2]-Cycloadditions of Unsaturated Substrates at a Ruthenium-Phosphorus Pi-Bond |
Mon Apr 2 |
Ben Feringa, University of Groningen From Molecules to Dynamic Molecular Systems |
Thurs Apr 5 |
Julia Bobak, UVic student Non-covalent chemical modification of graphene |
Thurs Apr 19 |
Jillian Buriak, University of Alberta and NINT The self-assembly of block copolymer templates for nanolithography of inorganic materials |
Mon Apr 23 |
Andrew Bennet, Simon Fraser University Influenza Neuraminidases—the 'N' in H5N1—Are Current Therapeutics Really Transition State Analogues |
Mon May 14 3 pm ELL 062 |
Robert Hilts, Grant MacEwan University Soluble Organic Compounds in the Tagish Lake Meteorite |
Fall 2010
Date | Speaker |
Thurs Sept 9 |
Christopher Rowan, UVic student DFT interband optical properties of Ag/PVDF nanocomposites |
Mon Sept 13 |
Michael Marletta, University of California, Berkeley Building Selective Diatomic Gas Sensors: Nature’s Way |
Mon Sept 20 |
Jennifer Pape, UVic student From Super-hydrated Ions to Emerging Contaminants |
Mon Sept 27 |
Lloyd Smith , University of Wisconsin-Madison New Technologies for the Genome Age |
Mon Oct 4 |
Robert Sacci, UVic student Electrooxidation of Carbon Monoxide and Formic acid on Palladium |
Thur Oct 7 |
Aaron Massari, University of Minnesota Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Organic Electronic Materials |
Mon Oct 18 |
Stan Brown, Queen's University, ON Development of metal ion-catalyzed alcoholysis as a rapid methodology for the destruction of organophosphorus chemical weapons, their simulants and pesticides. |
Mon Oct 25 |
Dan Gamelin, University of Washington Unusual Photoluminescence Phenomena in Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals |
Mon Nov 1 |
Shih-Yuan Liu, University of Oregon Developing the basic science and applications of boron(B)-nitrogen(N)-containing heterocycles |
Mon Nov 8 |
Floyd Romesberg, Scripps Expansion of the Genetic Alphabet |
Mon Nov 15 |
Mitchell Winnik, University of Toronto Novel Nanostructures via BlockCopolymer Self Assembly |
Mon Nov 22 |
Phillip Jessop, Queen's University Fizzy Liquids and Dispersible Powders: Unexpected Consequences of Simple CO2 Chemistry |
Spring 2011
Date | Speaker |
Mon Jan 10 |
Trevor Hayton, University of California, Santa Barbara Oxo ligand functionalization in the uranyl ion |
Thurs Jan 13 |
Robert J. McMahon, University of Wisconsin, Madison Synthesis and Characterization of Organic Glassy Materials with Exceptional Stability |
Mon Jan 17 |
Shaun Hall, UVic student Orientation of molecules at surfaces from nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy and molecular simulations |
Mon Jan 24 |
Joanne Moszynski, UVic student |
Mon Feb 7 |
Raymond Kapral, University of Toronto Chemically-Powered Synthetic Self-Propelled Nanomotors |
Wed Feb 9 ECS 125 |
Robert Young, Simon Fraser University - Disinguished Alumni |
Mon Feb 14 |
Xiaoqiang Zhang, UVic student Surface enhanced Raman scattering from bow tie and cross bow tie apertures |
Thurs Feb 17 |
James McCusker, Michigan State University Zero-field Spin Polarization Effects on the Physical and Photophysical Properties of Molecules |
Mon Feb 21 |
Teri Odom, Northwestern University All Things Pyramids: New Platforms for Imaging and Sensing |
Mon Feb 28 |
Gerhard Erker, University of Münster Frustrated Lewis Pairs: Metal-free Hydrogen Activation and More |
Mon Mar 7 |
Jun Ye, University of Colorado Polar molecules in the quantum regime |
Mon Mar 14 |
Keith Abel, UVic student Colloidal lead chalcogenide quantum dots: efforts towards developing a single photon source |
Thurs Mar 17 |
Saman Harirchian Saei, UVic student Surface-Directed Patterning of Polymer-Nanoparticle Assemblies on Microcontact-Printed Substrates |
Mon Mar 21 |
Christopher Cummins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Phosphorus: From the Element to Compounds Containing it |
Thur Mar 24 |
Benoît Moreau, Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Discovery of BI 201335: A Potent and Specific Inhibitor of the Hepatitis C Virus NS3/4A Protease with Proven Antiviral Effect in Humans |
Mon Mar 28 |
Todd Martinez, Stanford University Controlling Chemistry with Light and Force |
Thurs Mar 31 |
Krista Vikse, UVic student ESI-MS as a Mechanistic Probe of Catalytic Organometallic Reactions |
Mon Apr 4 |
Louis Barriault, University of Ottawa New Directions in Catalysis by Gold (I) and Synthesis of Natural Products |
Thurs Apr 7 |
Noah Johnson, UVic student TBA |
Thurs Apr 14 |
Jean-François Masson, University of Montreal SPR and SERS Sensors Based on Hole Arrays |
Mon Apr 18 |
Cerize Santos, UVic student Photochromism in Bile Salts |
Thurs Apr 21 |
Mark Zsombor, UVic student An Investigation of the Effect of Structure on Magnetoconducting Properties of Stable Radicals |
Thurs Apr 28 |
Tim McCinnis, UVic student TBA |
Mon May 2 |
Cindy Wang, UVic student TBA |
Fall 2009
Date | Speaker |
Thurs Sept 10 |
Nikola Basaric, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia Photoinitiated Domino Reactions of Adamantyl-phthalimides |
Mon Sept 14 |
Jean-François Carpentier, Université de Rennes, France Discrete Complexes of Oxophilic Metals for Catalytic Polymerization Processes |
Thurs Sept 17 |
Niloufar Behin Aein, UVic student Photochemical and Photophysical Studies of Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT) in Biphenyl Compounds |
Mon Sept 21 |
Ekkehardt Hahn, Universität Münster, Germany Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry with Poly-NHC Ligands |
Mon Sept 28 |
Kirk Schanze, University of Florida, Gainesville FL Photophysics of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes: Fundamental Studies and Biosensor Applications |
Thurs Oct 8 4pm SCI A104 |
Hansjörg Grützmacher, ETH Zürich Straight Forward Routes to "Exotic" Phosphorus Compounds |
Thurs Oct 15 |
Yunjie Xu, University of Alberta Spectroscopy of chiral molecules: from the gas phase to solution |
Mon Oct 19 |
Kathryn Uhrich, Rutgers University, NJ Polymer Therapeutics: from PolymerDrugs to Polymeric Micelles |
Mon Oct 26 |
Tim Giesbrecht, UVic student Determination of Aluminum in the Arctic Ocean and its use as a geochemical tracer |
Mon Nov 2 |
Robert Cava, Princeton University, NJ Solid State Chemistry of the new Chalcogenide and Pnictide Superconductors |
Mon Nov 9 |
Travis Trudeau, UVic student Molecular Simulation of Adsorption at Solid-Aqueous Interfaces |
Thurs Nov 12 |
Tom Livinghouse, Montana State University, MT New Cationic and Metal Mediated Cyclization Reactions for the Synthesis of Naturally Occurring Ring Systems |
Mon Nov 16 |
David Schriemer, University of Calgary Structural Biology with a Mass Spectrometer |
Thurs Nov 19 |
Hao Tang, UVic student Host-Guest Dynamics for Three Different Host Systems: beta-Cyclodextrin, Cucurbit[7]uril and an Octa Acid Capsule |
Mon Nov 23 |
Didier Bourissou, Université Paul Sabatier, France Transition Metals and Lewis Acids: A Multi-facet Association |
Mon Nov 30 |
Thomas Huser, University of California, Davis CA Ultra-Sensitive Imaging of Cells and Cellular Organelles by Doubly-Resonant Four-Wave Mixing Microscopy |
Mon Dec 7 SCI A104 |
Alan Heyduk, University of California, Irvine CA Bond-Activation Reactivity of Tantalum (V) Complexes with Redox-Active Ligands |
Thurs Dec 10 1 pm ELL 167 |
Nick Oakley, UVic student Synthesis and Properties of Triazinyl Radical Systems for Multifunctional Materials Applications |
Mon Dec 14 SCI A104 |
Gregory Scholes, University of Toronto Feynman's space-time quantum mechanics in photosynthesis |
Spring 2010
Date | Speaker |
Mon Jan 4 |
Danielle Chisholm, UVic student Charged ligands for direct ESI-MS analysis of catalytic reactions |
Mon Jan 11 cancelled |
Olga Sarycheva |
Thurs Jan 14 |
Paul Ortiz de Montellano, UCSF, CA Mycobacterium tuberculosis hemoproteins and therapeutic approaches |
Mon Jan 18 |
Michel Gravel, University of Saskatchewan Discovery of New Reactions Catalyzed by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes |
Thurs Jan 21 |
Hui Ting Zhang, UVic student Study of asphaltene aggregation by fluorescence technique |
Mon Jan 25 |
Dmitrii Makarov, UT Austin, TX Dynamics of biomolecules at the single-molecule level: lessons from theory and computer simulations |
Thurs Jan 28 |
Mark Lautens, University of Toronto The Synthesis of Heterocycles via Ring Forming and Ring Cleaving Reactions |
Mon Feb 1 2:30pm SCI A104 |
Jonathan Chui, UVic student Structure-Activity Relationships of Cyclodextrin Ion Channels |
Mon Feb 15 |
Brynn Dooley, UVic student The Incorporation of Benzonitronyl Nitroxide Radicals into Organic Open-Shell Donor-Acceptor Systems |
Mon Feb 22 |
Dean Amantea, UVic student Synthesis and Characterization of Ion Channels: Green Metrics Analysis |
Mon Mar 1 |
Ulrich Krull, UofT Mississauga Optical biosensing at the nanoscale - polymer brushes on planar surfaces and quantum dots for control of nucleic acid hybridization |
Mon Mar 8 |
Peter Caravan, Harvard Medical School, MA Coordination Chemistry, Dynamics, and Biomedical MRI |
Mon Mar 15 |
Bart Nowak, UVic student Synthesis, Redox Activity, and Chemical Utility of Second-Generation Metal-Verdazyl Complexes |
Thurs Mar 18 |
David Vocadlo, Simon Fraser University Chemical biology tools to study protein O-glycosylation in cells and tissues |
Thurs Mar 25 11:30am SSM A110 |
Lansdowne Chemistry Lecture: Jonathan Sessler, UT Austin, TX Synthesis and applications of expanded porphyrins |
Thurs Mar 25 7:30pm SCI A104 |
Lansdowne Public Lecture: Jonathan Sessler, UT Austin, TX Receptors for potentially hazardous materials |
Mon Mar 29 |
Brad Moore, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD Genomics-inspired discovery and engineering of natural products |
Thurs Apr 8 |
Olga Sarycheva, UVic student Investigation of phenanthroline linked dihydropyrenes as photochromes |
Mon Apr 12 SCI A104 |
Michelle Paquette, UVic student Designing Optically Switchable Multifunctional Materials Based on Photochromic Spirooxazine Ligands |
Thurs Apr 15 SCI A104 |
Andrew Chou, UVic student Development of nanoholes-based sensors for early detection of ovarian cancer |
Mon Apr 19 SCI A104 |
Liang Li, University of Alberta Development and Applications of Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry for Comprehensive Proteome and Metabolome Profiling of Biological Systems |
Thurs Apr 22 SCI A104 |
Chris Chapman, UVic student Mean Field and Quantum Studies of Mixed Azobenzene-Alkylthiol Monolayers |
Mon Apr 26 SCI A104 |
Jin Zou, UVic student The synthesis, characterization and reactivity of Lanthanide complexes with Carbazole bisoxazoline ligands |
Thurs Apr 29 SCI A104 |
Dirk Guldi, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Nanotubes See the Light |
Mon May 3 cancelled |
Chris Rowan |
Thurs May 6 |
Steve Hansen, UVic student Electrodialysis using supported liquid membranes |
Mon May 10 SCI A104 |
Paul Chirik, Cornell University, NY Modern Alchemy: Catalysis with Iron and Cobalt |
Fall 2008
15 Sep | Khurshid Ayub, University of Victoria "The Metacyclophanediene to Dihydropyrene Rearrangement - The Nature of the Transition State" |
29 Sep | Professor Scott Prosser, University of Toronto "Approaches to the Study of Protein Action by 19F NMR - Mutagenesis Free Approaches to Assignment and 19F-Edited Schemes for Structure Studies" |
06 Oct | Simon Birnie-Lefcovitch, University of Victoria "In Situ Spectroscopic Studies of Cysteine Adsorbed on Silver Electrodes" |
THURS 16 Oct |
Professor Steven Holdcroft, Simon Fraser University "Model Polymers for Morphological Studies of Fuel Cell Membranes" |
20 Oct | Professor Stephen Withers, UBC Merck-Frosst Lecture "Engineering and evolution of old enzymes for new tasks: glycoside assembly" |
27 Oct | Professor Paula Diaconescu, University of California, Los Angeles "Reactivity of inert bonds with electrophilic ferrocene diamide complexes" |
03 Nov | Jason Anema,University of Victoria "Enhanced Raman Scattering from Nanostructured Surfaces" |
10 Nov | Marie-Pascale Manseau, University of Victoria "Upconverting Biolabels for the Near-Infrared" |
20 Nov | Professor Tom Ziegler, University of Calgary "Approaching Chemistry from First Principles with the Help of Density Functional Theory" |
24 Nov | Professor Michael Sailor, University of California, San Diego "Chemistry and Materials Science of Porous Silicon Applied to Sensing, Microfluidics, and Medicine" |
01 Dec |
Dr. Deepak Shukla, Kodak Research Laboratories, N.Y. "Structural Effects in Naphthalene Diimide Based Organic Thin Film Transistors: Effect of Configurational control on Charge Mobility" |
08 Dec |
Jakub Drnec, University of Victoria "Ionic layers on Platinum Surfaces: How tasty can platinum be?" |
Spring 2009
05 Jan | Professor Nancy Levinger, Colorado State University "Exploring the impact of confinement on chemistry: a multifaceted approach" |
12 Jan | Professor Heather Maynard, UCLA "Synthesis of Well-Defined Polymers by Controlled Radical Polymerizations for Site-Specific Conjugation to Proteins" |
19 Jan | Professor Karine Auclair, McGill University "Our Fight Against Aminoglycoside Antibiotic Resistance" |
26 Jan | Dr. Richard Tillyer, Merck Research Laboratories, NY "Platform Technologies in Process Research and Development" |
02 Feb | Yunyong Guo, University of Victoria "Synthesis, Characterization and Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Quantum Dots with Mixed Polymer Brush Layers" |
05 Feb | Dr. Byron Gates, Simon Fraser University "Investigations into the Surface Chemistry of Nanoscale Materials" |
09 Feb | Meikun Fan, University of Victoria "Metallic nanoparticles as SERS substrates" |
Thurs 12 Feb | Dr. Rich Carter, Oregon State University "Development of Novel Approaches to the Synthesis of Structurally Complex Natural Products and Non-natural Compounds" |
16 Feb | Tyler Trefz, University of Victoria "Redox and Coordination Chemistry of disubstituted 1, 4-Quinones" |
23 Feb | Kevin Anderson, University of Victoria "Electronic communication in verdazyl-based metal-radical complexes" |
Thurs 26 Feb | Dr. Dustin Maly, University of Washington, Seattle "Affinity- and Activity-Based Probes for Analyzing Protein Kinase Function" |
02 Mar | Professor William Evans, UC Irvine "The Importance of Questioning Scientific Assumptions: Lessons from Lanthanide and Actinide Chemistry" |
09 Mar | Professor Laren Tolbert, Georgia Institute of Technology "The green fluorescent protein: Taking it apart and putting it back together" |
16 Mar | Professor Barney Ellison, University of Colorado at Boulder "Marine Aerosols, Organic Radicals, and a Molecular View of Cloud Formation" |
Thurs 19 Mar |
Matt Henderson, University of Victoria "Method development and catalyst discovery by ESI-MS" |
26 Mar |
Professor Andre Charette, University of Montreal "Recent Advances in Stereoselective Synthesis and Catalysis" |
30 Mar | Professor Barry Trost, Stanford University "On Inventing Reactions for Atom Economy" |
06 Apr | Professor Brian Stoltz, California Institute of Technology CANCELLED |
Thurs 09 Apr | Yunyan Hou, University of Victoria "New Photochemistry with Anthraquinones" |
Thurs 16 Apr | Pengrong Zhang, University of Victoria "Photochromic and aromatic properties of selected dimethyldihydropyrene derivatives" |
20 Apr | Steve McKinnon, University of Victoria title TBA |
23 Apr | Professor Edward Solomon, Stanford University "Spectroscopic Methods in Bioinorganic Chemistry: Blue to Green to Red Copper Sites" |
27 Apr | Cunhai Dong, University of Victoria "Synthesis and Reactivity of Lanthanide Fluoride Nanoparticles and their Application as MRI Contrast Agents" |
30 Apr |
Bin Yan, University of Victoria "Magnetic conducting polymers: synthesis and properties of triazinyl open-shell polymers" |
Fall 2007
17 Sep | Dr. Madeleine Jouillé, University of Pennsylvania "Synthetic Studies of Heterocyclic Natural Products" |
27 Sep Thurs ECS 116 |
Dr. Ulrich Fekl, University of Toronto - Mississauga "Intriguing reactivity at co-ordinated ligands: Facile formation of carbon-sulfur bonds during alkene reactions of nickel and molybdenum dithiolenes" |
04 Oct Thurs ECS 116 |
Dr. Heiko Ihmels, Universitat Siegen "Variations on aromatic azonia- and diazoniapolycyclic derivatives: From intercalation into duplex DNA to selective association with triplex- and quadruplex-DNA and topoisomerase inhibition" |
11 Oct Thurs ECS 116 |
Dr. William Lubell, University of Montreal |
18 Oct Thurs ECS 116 |
Dr. Aurora Clark, Washington State University "The Unique Photophysical Properties of Organic Aggregates" |
22 Oct | Dr. Julius Rebek Jr., Scripps Research Institute "The Inner Space of Molecules" |
05 Nov | Dr. Richard McCreery, University of Alberta "Building Functional Electronic Devices from Molecular Components" |
15 Nov Thurs ECS 116 |
Horace Luong,University of Victoria "Solid-Phase Synthesis of Ion Channels" |
19 Nov | Dr. Mary-Anne White, Dalhousie University "Thermoelectrics: New Materials by Design?" |
29 Nov Thurs ECS 116 |
Dr. Deryn Fogg, University of Ottawa "Shining Light into a Black Box: Perspectives on Transfomations in Catalysis" |
03 Dec |
Dr. Gary Drobny, University of Washington "Solid State NMR Studies of Proteins at Biomaterial Interfaces" |
13 Dec Thurs CLE A - 311 |
Dr. Colin Nuckolls, Columbia University "Reaction Chemistry meets Lithography" |
Spring 2008
07 Jan |
Joe Gilroy, University of Victoria |
14 Jan | Dr. Michael Blades, University of British Columbia "Applications of Raman Spectroscopy in the Life Sciences" |
21 Jan |
Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz, Queen's University |
28 Jan | Timothy Connolly, Bristol-Myers Squibb "Water Soluble Prodrugs of Ravuconazole" |
04 Feb | Dr. Graham George, University of Saskatchewan "From Functional to Fatal - Probing the Chemistry of Metals in Biology using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy" |
11 Feb | Dr. Robert Waymouth, Stanford University "Organocatalysis: Strategies for Controlled Polymerization Reactions" |
18 Feb | Dr. Mark Andrews, McGill University " Guided Wave Self-Inscription in Photosensitive Network Glasses" |
28 Feb MEDS 160 |
Dr. Edward Yeung, Ames National Laboratory |
03 Mar | Eric Derrah, University of Victoria "A Ruthenium Phosphido Complex and Advances Toward Hydrophosphination" |
10 Mar | Tamara Pace, University of Victoria "Dynamics of Guests Bound to Biomolecules" |
13 Mar |
Dr. Darren Johnson, University of Oregon |
17 Mar | Dr. Klaus Muellen, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research "Structural Hierarchies in Materials Chemistry" |
27 Mar |
Dr. Robert Britton, Simon Fraser University "Old Reactions, New Applications" |
31 Mar | Dr. Shana Kelly, University of Toronto "Nanostructured Materials as Ultrasensitive Cellular and Molecular Sensors" |
07 Apr COR A-229 |
Dr. Andrew Hamilton, Yale University Merck-Frosst Lecture "Synthetic approaches to the disruption of protein-protein interactions" |
14 Apr COR A-229 |
Dr. Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology Lansdowne Lecturer "The Currents of Life: Electron Flow through Proteins" |
15 Apr |
Dr. Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology |
17 Apr Thurs CLE A-311 |
Dr. William Tolman, University of Minnesota "Using synthetic chemistry to understand copper and iron protein active sites" |
24 Apr ELL 061 |
Keri McQuinn, University of Victoria "Water Clusters - ESI-MS Investigation of Nanodroplets in the Gas Phase" |
28 Apr Mon ELL 061 |
Simon Oakley, University of Victoria "Novel Derivatives of Indigo as a Bridging Ligand" |
Fall 2006
18 Sep | Dr. Hugh Cartwright, University of Oxford TBA |
25 Sep | Dr. Dan Wayner, National Research Council Canada TBA |
02 Oct | Dr. Ann English, Concordia University TBA |
12 Oct Thurs |
Dr. James Boncella, Los Alamos National Laboratory TBA |
16 Oct | Dr. Michel Gagné, University of N. Carolina Chapel Hill TBA |
19 Oct Thurs |
Dr. David Tierney, University of New Mexico TBA |
23 Oct | Dr. Patrick Holland, University of Rochester TBA |
30 Oct | Dr. David Walba, University of Colorado, Boulder TBA |
06 Nov | Dr. Clifford Leznoff, York University "Strategies for the Synthesis of Phthalocyanines: Past, Present and Future" |
20 Nov | Dr. Garry Hanan, University of Montreal TBA |
04 Dec | Dr. Paul Corkum, National Research Council Canada TBA |
14 Dec | Dr. Michael Gelb, University of Washington TBA |
Spring 2007
22 Jan | Dr. Molly Shoichet, University of Toronto TBA |
05 Feb | Dr. Anna Ritcey, Université Laval TBA |
12 Feb | Dr. M.G. Finn, Scripps Research Institute TBA |
26 Feb | Dr. Sunney Xie, Harvard University TBA |
12 Mar | Dr. Thomas Moore, Arizona State University TBA |
26 Mar | Dr.Michael Georges, University of Toronto TBA |
10 Apr | Dr. Michael Haley, University of Oregon TBA |
23 Apr | Dr. John Simon, Duke University TBA |
Spring 2006
09 Jan | Dr. Nongjian Tao, Arizona State University "Controlling electron transport in single molecules" |
16 Jan | Dr. Derek Gates, University of British Columbia "Putting P into Polymers: Synthetic Approaches to Functional Phosphorus Macromolecules" |
23 Jan | Dr. Teri Odom, Northwestern University "Manipulating light in nanohole arrays and nanoparticles" |
30 Jan | Dr. Robert Schurko, University of Windsor "Observing the "Invisible" Nucleus: NMR of unreceptive nuclei in inorganic, organometallic and other solid materials" |
06 Feb | Dr.Bruce Arndtsen, McGill University "Palladium catalyzed multicomponent reactions: New routes to heterocycle and amino acid synthesis" |
13 Feb | Dr. Vicki Colvin, Rice University "Safe Nanotechnology: Implications and Applications of Nanomaterials" |
27 Feb | Dr. Francois Gabbai, Texas A&M University "Fluoride complexation by polydentate Lewis acids" |
06 Mar | Dr. Andrew Gewirth, University of Illinois "Studies of Metal Surface-Molecular Interactions Relevant to Fuel Cell Catalysis" |
13 Mar | Dr.Maurice Brookhart, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Catalytic Transformations based on Transition Metal Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Activation Reactions" |
20 Mar | Dr. Richard Crooks, University of Texas at Austin "Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Applications of 1-3 nm-Diameter Dendrimer-Encapsulated Nanoparticles" |
27 Mar | Dr. Robert Lipson, University of Western Ontario "Fabricating Photonic Crystals with Light, for Light Applications" |
30 Mar Thurs ELL 162 |
Sri Sivakumar, University of Victoria "Lanthanide-Based Nanophotonic Materials" |
03 Apr | Dr. Wilson Ho, University of California, Irvine "The Interior of Single Molecules" |
10 Apr CLE. A-201 |
Dr. Royce Murray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Size-Dependent Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Monolayer Protected Gold Clusters" |
13 Apr Thurs. ELL 162 |
Dr. Nelaine Mora-Diez, Thompson Rivers University "Computational calculations of equilibrium constants of organic compounds" |
18 Apr |
Dr.Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto "Microfluidic reactors for polymer particles" |
24 Apr ELL 062 |
Sharon Caldwell, University of Victoria "Synthesis and Characterization of Bis-bidentate para-Dioxolenes Towards Molecular Magnets" |
04 May Thurs. HSD A-240 |
Dr. Victor Snieckus, Queen's University Merck-Frosst Lecturer "Lithium as a Conduit to Synthetic Aromatic Chemistry" |
08 May DSB C-112 |
Tao Wang, University of Victoria "Mechanism Elucidation using the Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance (EQCM)" |
Spring 2005
10 Jan | Dr. Sylvie Morin, York University "Study of Low-Dimensional, Electrodeposited Metal Nanostructures and Thin Films" |
17 Jan | Bryan Koivisto, University of Victoria "Metal-Verdazyl Radical Interactions: Towards Molecular-Based Magnets" |
24 Jan | Dan Myles, University of Victoria "Synthesis and Electronic Properties of Sulfur-Bridged Thiophene Oligomers" |
31 Jan | Dr. Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz, University of Saskatchewan "Bio-organometallic Peptide Conjugates: Adventures in Electron Transfer" |
07 Feb | Dr. Neil Branda, Simon Fraser University "Molecular switching to control structure and function" |
14 Feb | Dr. George Christou, University of Florida "Single-molecule magnets: A molecular approach to nanoscale magnetic materials" |
21 Feb | Dr. Robert E. Campbell, University of Alberta "Expanding the fluorescent protein tool kit: new colors, sensors, and FRET pairs" |
28 Feb | Dr. Harald Stöver, McMaster University "Study of structured microspheres: Towards tiny onions" |
07 Mar | Professor Dr. Joel C. Rubim, Universidade de Brasília "Analysis of Biodiesel and Diesel by Fourier Transform Infrared, Near Infrared, and Raman Spectroscopy" |
14 Mar | Dr. Seth Marder, Georgia Institute of Technology "Recent advances in two-photon absorbing materials" |
21 Mar | Dr. Younan Xia, University of Washington "Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials" |
31 Mar THUR ELL 168 |
Dr. Vincent Rotello, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Nanoparticles: scaffolds and building blocks" |
04 Apr |
Dr. John Hartwig, Yale University MERCK FROSST LECTURE "A synergy between synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry" |
11 Apr CUNN 146 |
Christine Tong, University of Victoria |
18 Apr |
Dr. Christopher Chidsey, Stanford University "Interfacial assembly and control of electron transfer using the 'click' reaction" |
22 Apr FRI ELL 160 |
Dr. Andrew Weller, University of Bath "The transition metal chemistry of "greasy ball anions": from pseudo alkane complexes to high-hydride content clusters" |
25 Apr | Wei Fan, University of Victoria "The syntheses and photochromism of cyclopent[e]dimethyldihydropyrene anion and its metal complexes" |
26 Apr TUES 10:30 AM ELL 060 |
Dr. Heiko Ihmels, University of Siegen "Can old dogs learn new tricks? - Fluorescence detection of cations, anions and biomacromolecules with anthracene and quinolizinium derivatives" |
28 Apr THUR |
Rob Cheyne, University of Victoria "Hierarchical block co-polymer/quantum dot surface features via self-assembly at the air-water interface" |
02 May |
Dr. Michael Rubner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Bio-inspired polyelectrolyte multilayers: From pH-gated Bragg reflectors to patterned superhydrophobic surfaces" |
09 May Clearihue C-110 |
Karen Button, University of Victoria "Divalent and trivalent lanthanide amido-oxazoline complexes" |
Fall 2004
20 Sep | Dr. Hogan Yu, Simon Fraser University "New chemistry on old CD's" |
30 Sep THURS Cornett B-145 |
Dr. Paul S. Pregosin, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland "PGSE (Diffusion) and 1H,19F HOESY NMR studies on homogeneous catalysts: Ion pairing and learning about anions" |
18 Oct | Dr. Ernest McEachern, AnorMed "AMD3100: The evolution of AnorMed's first clinical CXCR4 receptor antagonist" |
20 Oct WED MacLaurin D-111 |
Jo Wang, University of Victoria |
25 Oct | Sierra Rayne, University of Victoria "Solution-phase photochemistry of dibenzo[1,4]dioxins" |
01 Nov | Dr. Hélène Perreault, University of Manitoba "Glycoproteins in virology, immunology, etc., and mass spectrometry" |
08 Nov | Dr. Masad J. Damha, McGill University "Development of oligonucleotide-based probes and therapeutics" |
15 Nov | Dr. G. Andrew Woolley, University of Toronto "Designing photo-controlled peptides and proteins" |
22 Nov | Catrin Hughes, University of Victoria |
29 Nov | Dr. Douglas W. Stephan, University of Windsor "Highly active homogeneous catalysts for olefin polymerization: Molecular design, optimization and utilization" |
06 Dec | Peter Diamente, University of Victoria |
13 Dec | Dan Harrison, University of Victoria |