| January |
7 January
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Terry F. Bidleman (Environment Canada)
Tracing Pesticides across North America, from the Tropics to the Arctic |
14 January
3:00pm
ROOM |
Christopher A. Pohl (Dionex Corporation)
Recent Progress in the Development of High Performance Anion Exchange Materials |
16 January
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Albert Stolow (Steacie Institute, NRC)
Ultrafast Molecular science: From Femtochemistry to Biophotonics |
28 January
11:00am
NRE 2-003 |
Samuel Gellman (University of Wisconsin)
2007 Boehringer Ingelheim Lecture
Structure and function in foldamers |
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February
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21 February
11:00am
E3-25 |
Mark Thompson (University of Southern California)
The Use of Heavy Metal Complexes in Organic LEDs and Solar Cells |
27 February
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Erin L. Elliott (U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
The Solid Phase Synthesis of Phenylene Ethynylene Oligomers and its Application to the Synthesis of Molecular Ladders |
| March |
3 March
11:00am
NRE 2-003 |
Michael Organ (York University)
NAEJA Lecture
Building a better cross coupling catalyst by rational design |
13 March
11:00am
E3-25 |
Shannon Stahl (University of Wisconsin)
Palladium-Dioxygen Reactivity and Aerobic Oxidation Catalysis |
14 March
3:00pm
MSB 4-70 |
Joerg Stetefeld (U.Manitoba)
Insights into Fuctional Protein Evolution at Atomic Level |
18 March
1:15pm
E3-25 |
Bohdan Kotur (Lviv University, Ukraine)
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv: Prospects for International Research Cooperation |
20 March
11:00am
E3-25 |
Bohdan Kotur (Lviv University, Ukraine)
The Er-{Fe,Co}-{Ti,V} systems and hydrogenation properties of alloys based on ErFe2 and ErNi2 compounds |
27 March
9:30am
V-103 |
C.N.R. Rao (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India)
The liquid-liquid interface as a medium to generate materials |
27 March
11:00am
1-013 ETLC |
Howard Alper (University of Ottawa)
Green Chemistry for Organic Synthesis
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27 March
7:30pm
Room 150, Telus Centre |
Howard Alper (University of Ottawa)
Positioning Canada for a Vibrant Future
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28 March
9:00am
Heritage Lounge, Athabasca Hall |
Howard Alper (University of Ottawa)
Building Inclusive Networks in Science - An Informal Discussion
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28 March
11:00am
Kings University |
Howard Alper (University of Ottawa)
Using the Tools of Science and Science Education to Meet Global Needs - An Informal Discussion
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31 March
11:00am
E3-25 |
David Johnson (University of Oregon)
Nanoengineered Materials for Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance |
| April |
3 April
11:00am
NRE 2-001 |
James Leighton (Columbia Univ.)
Silicon as a Lewis Acid: New concepts and new opportunities for practical asymmetric synthesis |
7 April
11:00am
NRE 2-003 |
Louis Barriault (U. Ottawa)
Cascade Reactions: Building Complex Carbocyclic Frameworks for Natural Product Synthesis |
7 April
11:00am
E3-25 |
Allan Adam (U. New Brunswick)
High Resolution Spectroscopy of Small Metal Phosphides |
8 April
4:00pm
2-115 Ed. S |
Stephen Withers (UBC)
Engineering and evolution of enzymes for the synthesis of glycosides |
11 April
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Marc Porter (U. Utah)
Nanometric Materials In Optical And Magnetic Strategies For Disease Diagnosis |
23 April
11:00am
CEB-321 |
Thomas Back (U. Calgary)
New approaches to the synthesis of alkaloids and related heterocycles |
25 April
2:00pm
E3-25 |
John Nolan (La Jolla Bioengineering Institute)
Raman Spectroscopy meets Flow Cytometry: High Speed Multiplexed Cell and Biomolecular Analysis |
28 April
11:00am
E1-60 |
Stephen Hanessian (University of Montreal)
2008 Merck Frosst Lecture
Structure-based Synthesis: From Natural Products to Drug Prototypes |
29 April
11:00am
E3-25 |
Gary Schrobilgen (McMaster University)
Xenon(II) Sulfur Nitrogen Fluoride Cations Derived from NSF3; the Synthesis and Structure of FXeONO2; and New Xenon(IV) and (VI) Oxide Fluoride Anions and Cations |
| May |
2 May
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Paul D'Agostino (Chemical and Biological Defence Section, Defence Research Establishment Suffield)
LC-ESI-MS and DESI-MS analysis of chemical warfare agents at DRDC Suffield |
5 May
11:00am
NRE 2-003 |
Andy Whiting (Durham University)
Palladium, polyenes and natural products |
5 May
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Jeremy Harvey (University of Bristol)
Exploring Chemical Reactivity: Spin-forbidden Processes and Bioinorganic Oxidation
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22 May
2:00pm
V-102 |
Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague (UC, Davis)
Bio-inspired sulfones, iodides and scaffolds in the design and synthesis of chemotherapeutics |
23 May
2:00pm
V-102 |
Shaoyi Jiang (University of Washington)
Molecular Engineering of Surfaces for Biomedical and Engineering Applications |
| June |
10 June
11:00am
E3-25 |
Nicholas Walker (University of Bristol)
Studies of laser ablation and gas phase metal ion complexes by infrared spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry |
11 June
11:00am
E3-25 |
Zhifeng Ding (University of Western Ontario)
Insight into Grain Structures and Their Reactivity of Ti, Zr Alloys by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy |
27 June
11:00am
E3-25 |
Stefan Oscarson (University College, Dublin)
Approaches towards glycoconjugate vaccines based on synthetic oligosaccharides |
| July |
3 July
11:00am
E3-25 |
Michael Wolf (University of British Columbia)
Functional Conjugated Polymer Materials |
14 July
11:00am
E3-25 |
Zlatko Bacic (New York University)
Clusters of hydrogen molecules inside nanocages of clathrate hydrate: Quantum dynamics of coupled translational and rotational motions in confined geometries |
29 July
10:30am
Taylor Room, NINT |
Tomasz Wesolowski (University of Geneva)
Embedding a quantum mechanical system in orbital free environment: Theory and computational practice |
| August |
6 August
9:00am
CEB 325 |
Sean DeHan (CEM)
Discover the Latest in Microwave Synthesis from CEM
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6 August
11:00am
E3-25 |
Gary Douberly (University of Georgia)
Infrared Spectroscopy of Size Selected Carbocations in the Gas Phase |
7 August
11:00am
E3-25 |
Jamie Scott (SFU)
Peptide Ligands for Broadly-neutralizing Antibodies against HIV-1: Implications for Epitope-targeted Vaccine Design |
7 August
11:00am
CAB 265 |
Frank van Veggel (U. Victoria)
Luminescent Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications |
19 August
3:00pm
E3-25 |
Donald F. Weaver (Dalhousie)
Design and Development of Disease Modifying Therapeutics for Neurological Disorders |
21 August
11:00am
E3-25 |
Mark Thachuk (U. British Columbia)
Dissociation of Gas Phase Protein Complexes |
| September |
8 Sept.
11:00am
MEC 2-1 |
Stephen Benkovic (Pennsylvania State University)
2008 Sandin Lecture
A Perspective on Biological Catalysis |
9 Sept.
11:00am
DP 2022 |
Stephen Benkovic (Pennsylvania State University)
2008 Sandin Lecture
Biochemistry in the Cell, the Purinosome |
9 Sept.
2:00pm
V1-03 |
Robert E. Campbell (U. Alberta)
Engineered Fluorescent Proteins and the Development of Genetically Encoded Biosensors |
11 Sept.
11:00am
E3-25 |
Bernd Harbrecht (Phillips University [Marburg])
Tantalum-Rich Tellurides - A Case Study on Decoding Structurla Complexity |
11 Sept.
2:00pm
V1-03 |
Alex Brown (U. Alberta)
Understanding and Controlling Photochemistry |
12 Sept.
1:30pm
E3-25 |
Marek Pruski (Iowa State U.)
Chemical Shift Correlation NMR Spectroscopy under Fast Magic Angle Spinning: Studies of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials |
16 Sept.
3:00pm
NINT-Taylor |
Richard A. Dluhy (U. Georgia, Athens)
Development of Nanorod Array Substrates for High Sensitivity Biosensing Using SERS |
22 Sept.
11:00am
MEC 2-1 |
Ian Paterson (University of Cambridge)
2008 AstraZeneca Lecture
Synthesis of Marine Polyketides as Promising Anticancer Agents |
29 Sept.
11:00am
MEC 2-1 |
Barbara Baird (Cornell University)
Spatial Regulation and Subcellular Targeting in IgE-Receptor Signaling |
29 Sept.
2:00pm
CAB 239 |
Lai-Xi Wang (University of Maryland)
Chemoenzymatic synthesis of homogeneous glycoproteins |
| October |
1 October
1:00pm
V-102 |
Martin Gruebele (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
2008 Gunning Lecturer
Protein and RNA folding: physics or evolution? |
2 October
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Martin Gruebele (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
2008 Gunning Lecturer
Vibrational energy flow and control of molecular reactivity |
3 October
11:00am
DP 2022 |
Martin Gruebele (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
2008 Gunning Lecturer
Single molecule absorption spectroscopy at room temperature |
6 October
11:00am
MEC 2-1 |
Tomas Hudlicky (Brock University)
Total synthesis of natural products via chemoenzymatic and/or new reagent-based strategies: The story of morphine, pancratistatin, and balanol |
7 October
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Charles Chase (Eisai Res. Institute)
Process Research on the Halichondrin B Analog Eribulin |
8 October
11:00am
E3-25 |
David Beratan (Duke University)
Dynamical control of electron transfer in large and small molecules |
16 October
3:00pm
E3-25 |
David Reingold (Juniata College)
Aromatic Systems with Gaps and Holes |
30 October
11:00am
CEB 321 |
René T. Boeré (U. Lethbridge)
Modern Electrochemical Methods in Main Group Chemistry |
| November |
10 November
11:00am
MEC 2-1 |
Jennifer Love (UBC)
Developoing Catalytic Reactions One Step at a Time |
13 November
2:00pm
CEB 331 |
Michael Heien
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17 November
11:00am
MEC 2-1 |
Frank Wuest (Cross Cancer Institute)
Transition metal-mediated reactions for C-C and C-N bond formation with the hort-lived positron emitters carbon-11 and fluorine-18 |
17 November
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Francesco Paesani (University of Utah)
Understanding Condensed-Phase Phenomena Through Quantum Molecular Dynamics |
20 November
11:00am
CEB 321 |
Craig MacKinnon (Lakehead University)
The Intersection of Crystal Engineering and Molecular Semiconductors - Controlling the Solid-State Structures of New Materials |
20 November
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Ramses van Zon (University of Toronto)
Transport and fluctuations in mesoscopic systems: Insight from nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and simulations |
24 November
11:00am
MEC 2-1 |
Larry Scott (Boston College )
Progress Toward the Chemical Synthesis of Single Chirality Carbon Nanotubes |
24 November
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Gabriel Hanna (University of Michigan)
Mixed quantum-classical Liouville dynamics of a hydrogen-bonded complex in liquid solution: From proton transfer to two-dimensional IR spectroscopy |
| December |
1 December
11:00am
MEC 2-1 |
Laurel Schaefer (University of British Columbia)
Modular Early Transition Metal Amidate Complexes for Tunable Catalytic Reactivity. Applications in Hydroamination, Ring Opening Polymerization and C-H Functionalization Reactions |
8 December
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Zachary Schultz (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH)
Characterizing Nanoscale Heterogeneity in Biomembrane Systems |
10 December
3:00pm
E3-25 |
Amanda Hummon (National Cancer Institute, NIH)
Functional Interrogation of Genes Driving Colorectal Cancer |
12 December
10:00am
E3-25 |
Fraser Hof (Univ. of Victoria)
Chemical tools for mimicking and interfering with protein-protein interaction hot spots |
13 December
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Michael Serpe (Duke University)
Responsive Polymeric Materials: From Functional Materials to Single-Molecule Characterization |
