| January |
12 January
11:00am
NRE 2-003 |
Dasantila Golemi-Kotra (York University)
Understanding the Staphylococcus aureus Response to Cell Wall Inhibitors |
13 January
3:00pm
Taylor, NINT |
Paul F. Nealey (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)
Assembly of block copolymers on chemically nanopatterned substrates: a platform for nanoscale lithography |
30 January
11:00am
CAB 281 |
Richard Jordan (University of Chicago)
Metal-Catalyzed Copolymerization of Olefins with Polar Vinyl Monomers |
30 January
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Marc Snapper (Boston College)
New Reagents, Reactions, and Strategies: Improving Synthetic Efficiency |
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February
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2 February
11:00am
NRE 2-003 |
Keith Woerpel (Univ. of California, Irvine)
Stereoselective Reactions of Oxocarbenium Ions: Conformational Analysis, Stereoelectronic Effects, and Reactivity |
5 February
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Jean-François Paquin (Laval University)
New Synthetic Approaches to Organofluorine Compounds |
12 February
10:00am
CAB 229 |
James M. Tour (Rice University)
Nanotechnology: The Passive, Hybrid and Active Sides |
23 February
11:00am
NRE 2-003 |
David Gin (Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre)
2009 NAEJA Lecture
Synthesis of diterpenoid alkaloids of Aconitum |
26 February
11:00am
E3-25 |
Brian Sterenberg (University of Regina)
Metal Templated Synthesis - Controlling Alkyne Cycloaddition |
26 February
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Mark R. Hoffman (U. of North Dakota, Grand Forks)
Generalized Van Vleck Perturbation Theory and its Application to Ground and Excited Electronic States of Molecules |
27 February
4:00pm
E3-25 |
Jonathan M. Curtis (Food Sciences, U. of Alberta)
Unresolved Questions in Quantitative Lipid Analysis |
| March |
3 March
11:00am
E3-25 |
Yining Huang (U. Western Ontario)
Characterization of Inorganic Framework Materials by Solid-state NMR |
9 March
11:00am
NRE 2-003 |
Michel Gravel (U. Saskatchewan)
Discovery of New NHC-Catalyzed Reactions |
13 March
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Michael Tremblay (Boehringer Ingelheim )
Total Synthesis of Marine Natural Products |
16 March
11:00am
NRE 2-003 |
Scott Gilbertson (Univ. of Texas-Medical Branch )
Projects in Diversity- and Target-Oriented Synthesis; From Plague to Epilepsy |
16 March
1:00pm
V-103 |
Richard A. Mathies (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
2009 Boomer Lecture
Exploration of Mars with Microchip Organic Analysis |
17 March
2:00pm
CEB 251 |
Richard A. Mathies (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
2009 Boomer Lecture
Sequencing with Microchips |
18 March
1:00pm
V-103 |
Richard A. Mathies (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
2009 Boomer Lecture
Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy |
26 March
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Richard Holm (Harvard University)
Metal Clusters in Biology: An Ongoing Challenge to Inorganic Synthesis |
26 March
4:00pm
ED N2-115 |
Carolyn Bertozzi (U. California, Berkeley)
2009 Sandin Lecture
Imaging the Glycome |
27 March
3:00pm
E1-60 |
Carolyn Bertozzi (U. California, Berkeley)
2009 Sandin Lecture
Nanoscale Engineering of Bio/Material Interfaces: Research from the Molecular Foundry |
30 March
11:00am
NRE 2-003 |
Ole Hindsgaul (Carlsberg Laboratories)
Chemistry Yields New Tools to Probe the Structure and Function of Carbohydrates |
| April |
3 April
4:00pm
E3-25 |
Kingsley K. Donkor (Thompson Rivers University)
Capillary Electrophoresis of Lantibiotics |
8 April
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Herschel Rabitz (Princeton University)
Hiking Over Quantum Control Landscapes |
17 April
4:00pm
E3-25 |
Tadeusz Górecki (University of Waterloo)
Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography: from developments to applications |
24 April
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Warren Piers (University of Calgary)
Novel Boron-Containing Heterocycles for Materials Applications |
27 April
11:00am
MEC 2-1 |
Kazunori Koide (University of Pittsburgh)
Development and Applications of Cell-Permeable Fluorogenic Probes for Biology and Environment |
28 April
2:00pm
MSB 2-27 |
Kazunori Koide (University of Pittsburgh)
Synthesis and Biological Studies of FR901464 and its Analogs |
| May |
11 May
11:00am
MEC 2-1 |
Bradley Moore (University of California, San Diego)
Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Natural Product Salinosporamide A, a Potent Inhibitor of the Proteasome |
22 May
11:00am
E3-25 |
Daniel Leznoff (Simon Fraser University)
Ancient Metals in Advanced Materials: Linear d10-Metal Cyanide-based Coordination Polymers |
25 May
11:00am
NRE 2-003 |
Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay (UCLA)
Amphidynamic Materials and Molecular Machines: The Design, Fabrication and Testing of Crystalline Solids with Moving Parts |
| June |
17 June
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Mick Sherburn (Australian National University)
The Dendralenes: Synthesis, Properties and Applications |
25 June
11:00am
E3-25 |
Holger Kleinke (University of Waterloo)
Transition metal antimonides for thermoelectric power generation |
| July |
6 July
11:00am
E3-25 |
Sota Sato (University of Tokyo)
Chemistry In and On Single-Structured Nanocapsules |
8 July
11:00am
E3-25 |
Jenny Albanese (Applied BioSystems)
Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Glycans and Glycopeptides for the Characterization of Biopharmaceuticals |
13 July
11:00am
E3-25 |
Jianjun Li (NRC - Institute for Biological Sciences)
Development of novel mass spectrometry techniques for glycoanalysis |
13 July
3:30pm
BioSci CW313 |
Jianjun Li (NRC - Institute for Biological Sciences)
Career Talk and discussion - open to all students and faculty |
20 July
11:00am
E3-25 |
Sanshiro Komiya (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
Synthesis, Reactions and Catalysis of Heterodinuclear Organotransition Metal Complexes |
24 July
11:00am
E1-60 |
Herbert Waldmann (Max Planck Institute)
2009 Merck Frosst Lecture
Biology Oriented Synthesis |
31 July
11:00am
NRE 1-001 |
Guy R. Cornelis (University of Base, Switzerland)
The Yersinia type III secretion injectiosome |
| August |
14 August
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Colin L. Raston (University of Western Australia)
Dynamic thin films: Controlled engineering of nano-particles, self assembly, and chemical reactivity and selectivity |
17 August
11:00am
E3-25 |
Jianliang Xiao (University of Liverpool)
From asymmetric transfer hydrogenation to hydrogenation: Developing innovative catalysis for organic synthesis |
24 August
11:00am
E3-25 |
Susan Olesik (Ohio State University)
Advances in Separation Science using Nanoscopic Supports |
| September |
3 Sept.
11:00am
E3-25 |
David Emslie (McMaster University)
Uncommonly Rigid Non-Carbocyclic Ligands in Organoactinide Chemistry |
4 Sept.
1:00pm
E3-25 |
William Wulff (Michigan State University)
Asymmetric Catalysis - Serendipity and Rational Design as Co-equals? |
11 Sept.
11:00am
ETL2-002 |
Karol Jackowski (University of Warsaw)
Recent NMR Studies in the Gas Phase |
11 Sept.
11:00am
CAB 281 |
David Jakeman (Dalhousie University)
Engineering enzyme substrate specificity and glycosylated natural products |
14 Sept.
11:00am
MEC 2-1 |
Erika Plettner (Simon Fraser University)
Discovery of Insect Control Agents that Target the Olfactory System |
17 Sept.
11:00am
E3-25 |
Jean-François Carpentier (Université de Rennes)
Discrete Complexes of Oxophilic Metals for Stereoselective Polymerization Catalysis |
17 Sept.
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Tom Baker (University of Ottawa)
Mechanistic Studies of Metal Complex-Catalyzed Ammonia-Borane Dehydrogenation: A Promising Material for Chemical Hydrogen Storage |
18 Sept.
1:00pm
MEC 2-1 |
Ronald Raines (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Chemical Forces that Stabilize Proteins |
18 Sept.
4:00pm
NRE 2-001 |
Laura Kiessling (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
2008 Boehringer Ingelheim Lecture
Multivalent Ligand Probes of Carbohydrates in Signaling |
22 Sept.
11:00am
E3-25 |
Robert Batey (University of Toronto)
Advances in Organic Synthesis using Organoboron and Pericyclic Chemistry |
25 Sept.
11:00am
CAB 281 |
Mark Nitz (University of Toronto)
Design of Fluorescent Glycosaminoglycan Probes from Peptides to Cyclodextrins |
28 Sept.
11:00am
E3-25 |
Michael L. Gross (Washington University in St. Louis)
Mass-Spectrometry-Based Biophysics: The Fourth Pillar of Proteomics |
30 Sept.
11:00am
E3-25 |
Morton Z. Hoffman (Boston University)
Teaching and Learning Chemistry: The Three Guiding Principles |
30 Sept.
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Abdul Malik (University of South Florida)
Sol-gel Approach to Column Technology for Analytical Microseparation and Sample Preconcentration |
| October |
1 Oct.
1:30pm
E3-25 |
James A. Wisner (University of Western Ontario)
Design and Synthesis of Hydrogen-Bonded Double-Helical Duplexes |
2 Oct.
4:00pm
E3-25 |
Richard Van Duyne (Northwestern University)
Molecular Plasmonics: Nanoscale Sensing and Spectroscopy |
5 Oct.
11:00am
MEC 2-1 |
Andrew Whiting (Durham University)
Clean, green and asymmetric: new bifunctional aminoboronic acid-based catalytic processes |
19 Oct.
11:00am
MEC 2-1 |
Don Coltart (Duke University)
Leveraging the Reactivity of Thioesters and Activated Hydrazones in the Development of New Synthetic Methods: Applications to Natural Product Synthesis |
22 Oct.
11:00am
E3-25 |
Rory Waterman (University of Vermont)
Zirconium-Mediated Bond Formation: Stripping off Hydrogen to Make σ- and π-Bonds |
27 Oct.
3:00pm
Taylor-NINT |
David Cahen (Weizmann Institute of Science)
The ENERGY CHALLENGE - What is the problem and where is the role of basic science? |
28 Oct.
3:00pm
Taylor-NINT |
David Cahen (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Towards Molecular Modulation of Electronic Devices. New and renewed vistas for solar cells? |
| November |
12 November
11:00am
E3-25 |
Karthik Shankar (University of Alberta)
Arrays of Vertically Oriented One-Dimensional TiO2 Nanostructures: Growth and Applications |
12 November
7:00pm
CAB 243 |
Dennis Hall (University of Alberta)
Boronic acids: An answer to contemporary problems in chemical biology and green chemistry
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16 November
11:00am
MEC 2-1 |
David Perrin (University of British Columbia)
Studies on Synthetic Protein-like RNA-Cleaving DNAzymes with Amines, Imidazoles, and (now) Guanidines |
19 November
time
room |
Samson Jenekhe (University of Washington)
title |
23 November
11:00am
MEC 2-1 |
Hans Reich (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)
Structure and Reactivity of Organolithium Reagents |
23 November
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Benjamin King (University of Nevada, Reno)
New Circulenes: Quadrannulene (Like Corannulene but Smaller) to Septuléne (Like Kekuléne but Bigger) |
24 November
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Michael M. Haley (University of Oregon, Eugene)
Aryl-acetylene Scaffolding as Carbon-Rich, Multifunctional pi-Electronic Materials |
26 November
4:00pm
CAB-265 |
George O'Doherty (West Virginia University)
De Novo Synthesis in carbohydrate chemistry: Application to medicinal chemistry |
| December |
11 December
4:00pm
E3-25 |
Gary Siuzdak (Scripps Research Institute)
Mass Spectrometry - Based Therapeutic Metabolomics from Biofluids and Tissues |
