Visiting Speakers Seminars
2020/21 Schedule
All seminars will be held online via Zoom for the 2020/21 academic year.
Date/time |
Speaker/Institution |
Title/Sponsorship |
Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday September 11 1:30 pm |
Professor Florence Williams Department of Chemistry University of Iowa |
Structure-Activity Relationship of Neurotrophic Phenylbutenoid Dimers and Progress Towards Uncovering Mechanism of Action | A. Thompson |
| Friday September 18 1:30 pm |
Professor Tao Huan Department of Chemistry University of British Columbia |
Addressing Big Data Challenges in Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics | A. Doucette |
| Friday September 25 1:30 pm |
Professor Brian P. Timko Department of Biomedical Engineering Tufts University |
Bioelectronics in Tissue Engineering and Disease Modeling | M. Freund |
| Friday October 2 1:30 pm |
Professor Katherine Elvira Department of Chemistry University of Victoria |
Artificial Cells and Microfluidic Technologies for Drug Discovery |
A. Thompson |
| Friday October 9 1:30 pm |
Professor David Gonzalez Department of Organic Chemistry University of the Republic Montevideo, Uruguay | Biocatalysis and Green Chemistry for the Preparation of Complex Molecular Structure | Tina Taskovic |
| Friday October 16 1:30 pm |
Professor Christopher Wiebe Department of Chemistry University of Winnipeg |
Magnetic Monopoles under Pressure: Exotic Magnetism in Spin Ice Pyrochlores | M. Dasog |
| Friday October 23 1:30 pm |
Professor Drew Marquardt Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Windsor |
Mechanism Determination of the Effects of Pancratistatin on Model Mitochondrial Membranes | J.W. Zwanziger |
| Friday November 6 1:30 pm |
Professor Tara F. Kahan Department of Chemistry University of Saskatchewan |
Environmental Chemistry on Ice: Reaction Kinetics and Spectromicroscopic Characterization of Ice Surfaces | R. Chisholm |
| Friday November 13 1:30 pm |
Professor Dajana Vuckovic Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry Concordia University |
Advances in LC-MS Lipidomics for Biomedical Applications | A. Doucette |
| Friday November 20 1:30 pm |
Professor David Leitch Department of Chemistry University of Victoria |
Developing Catalytic And Flow Processes For Synthesizing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients – Perspectives From An Industrial-Turned-Academic Chemist | M. Stradiotto |
| Friday November 27 1:30 pm |
Professor Prashant Jain Department of Chemistry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Harnessing Chemical Potential from Light | M. Dasog |
| Friday December 4 1:30 pm |
Professor David C. Powers Department of Chemistry Texas A&M University |
Development of High-Valent Aerobic Oxidation Catalysis | A. Speed |
| Friday December 11 1:30 pm |
Professor Christina Woo Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Harvard University |
Discovery of Binding Site Hotspots in Cells |
A. Speed |
| Friday January 8 1:30 pm |
Professor Russ Algar Department of Chemistry The University of British Columbia |
The Right Tool for the Job: Optimum Fluorescent Materials and Bioconjugates for Smartphone-based Bioanalysis | R. Chisholm |
| Friday January 15 1:30 pm |
Professor Etienne Caron Department of Chemistry University of Montreal |
Immunopeptidomics to Support T cell Epitope Discovery and COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy | A.A. Doucette |
| Friday January 22 1:30 pm |
Professor Ellen Sletten Department of Chemistry University of California Los Angeles |
Multiplexed in Vivo Imaging with Near and Shortwave Infrared Polymethine Fluorophores | A. Speed |
| Friday January 29 1:30 pm |
Professor Sally Price Dept. of Chemistry University College London |
The Crystallisation of Organic Molecules - a Challenge to Theory and Experiment | K. Marczenko |
| Friday February 12 1:30 pm |
Professor Tomislav Rovis Department of Chemistry Columbia University |
New Tools for Catalysis | A. Speed |
| Friday February 19 1:30 pm |
Professor Eva Hemmer Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Science University of Ottawa |
Lanthanide Luminescence and More: Exploring Lanthanide-based Features in Materials and Molecules | M. Dasog |
| Friday February 26 1:30 pm |
Professor Jennifer Chen Department of Chemistry York University |
Plasmonic and Photonic Nanomaterials for Sensing and Energy Conversion | M. Freund |
| Friday March 5 1:30 pm |
Professor Parisa Mehrkhodavandi Department of Chemistry The University of British Columbia |
Using cationic indium catalysts to generate functionalized copolymers from commodity monomers | S. Chitnis |
| Friday March 19 1:30 pm |
Professor Paul Johnson Department of Chemistry Université Laval |
Simple Treatment of Strong Electron Correlation | E.R. Johnson |
| Friday April 9 1:30 pm |
Professor Rebekka Klausen Department of Chemistry Johns Hopkins University |
Atomistic Control of Complex Polysilanes | S. Chitnis |
| Friday April 16 1:30 pm |
Professor Lee M. Thompson Department of Chemistry University of Louisville |
Excited Electronic States with the Resonant Hartree-Fock Approach | E.R. Johnson |
| Friday May 7 1:30 pm |
Professor Michael Metzger Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science Dalhousie University |
Sustainable Energy, Mobility, and Water | A. Thompson |