Visiting Speakers Seminars
2024/25 Schedule
Date/time |
Speaker/Institution |
Title/Sponsorship |
Host |
Friday |
Professor Alex Speed |
There and Back Again: Sulfur Hexafluoride Reduction as Inspiration for the Discovery of New Radical Catalysts |
H. Andreas |
| Friday September 27 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Paul A. Johnson Department of Chemistry Laval University |
Strong Correlation in Molecules: Valence Bonds and Cooper Pairs |
J. Zwanziger |
| Friday October 4 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Christopher N. Boddy Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences University of Ottawa |
Harnessing biosynthetic enzymes for macrocyclization: chemoenzymatic total synthesis and protein engineering |
C. Charron |
| Friday October 11 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Yonghoon Kwon Department of Applied Biology and Chemistry Seoul National University |
A new cascade method for the synthesis of highly substituted arenes | A. Speed |
| Friday October 18 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Khaled Benis Department of Process Engineering and Applied Science Dalhousie University |
Closing the Loop: Waste Valorization for a Circular Economy |
M. Dasog |
| Friday November 1 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Dr. Bruno Garrido National Research Council Canada |
Reproducible science and the role of metrology in ensuring traceable and accurate chemical measurements |
A. Doucette |
| Thursday November 14 5:00 pm Scotiabank Auditorium Marion McCain Arts & Social Sciences Building |
Professor Hemamala Karunadasa Department of Chemistry Stanford University |
Improving perovskite solar-cell absorbers through chemistry for Walter J. Chute Lecture | J. Zwanziger |
| Friday November 15 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Hemamala Karunadasa Department of Chemistry Stanford University |
The molecular chemistry of extended solids |
J. Zwanziger |
| Friday November 22 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Andrei Yudin Department of Chemistry University of Toronto |
Synthetic Half-Reactions |
C. Charron |
| Friday January 24 1:30 pm Virtual |
Dr. Guihua Yu Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin |
A Soft Material Paradigm To Address Water-Energy-Food Nexus Challenges | S. Evans |
| Friday February 14 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Dr. Daniel Beach |
Mass Spectrometry Methods for Measuring Cyanotoxins and Their Application to the Study of Cyanobacteria in Atlantic Canada |
A. Doucette |
| Friday February 21 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Dr. Juli Gibbs Department of Chemistry University of Alberta |
Developing Rapid, Responsive DNA Systems that Operate At Room-Temperature: For Biodiagnostics and Beyond | M. Dasog |
| Friday March 7 1:30 pm Virtual |
Dr. Ned Budisa |
Genetic Code Expansion via Directed Evolution: Tools for Biophysics, Materials Science, and Beyond | A. Baker |
| Friday March 21 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Dr. Locke Davenport Huyer School of Biomedical Engineering Dalhousie University |
Degradable Polyesters with Backbone Monomer Release as Anti-Inflammatory Therapeutics | C. Charron |
| Friday March 28 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Dr. Nicoletta Faraone Department of Chemistry Acadia University |
Chemistry in Motion: from Natural Products to Ecological Interactions | A. Baker |
| April 4 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Dr. Cheryl Ann Carson Eli Lilly and Company |
Coffin Lecture: From Making Molecules to Making Medicines: Lessons Learned Along the Way | A. Thompson |
| June 27 1:30pm LSC Room238 |
Dr. Vianney Delplace INSERM research centre “Regenerative Medicine and Skeleton” (RMeS) Nantes, France |
Boronate ester hydrogels: from new chemical insights to biomedical applications | A. Baker |
| July 28 1:30pm Room226 | Dr. Jochen Brandt Department of Chemistry Queen Mary University of Londo |
Helicenes and the added value of chirality in technological applications | A. Thompson |