| January |
7 January
10:00am
E3-25 |
Christopher M. Overall (UBC)
Quantitative N-terminal Positionall Proteomics Revels Surprisingly Extensive Proteolysis Modification of Inflammatory and Breast Cancer Proteomes |
11 January
11:00am
E3-25 |
George Agnes (Simon Fraser University)
Particulate Air Pollution: Interfaces Between Atmospheric Chemistry and Lung Cell Biology |
13 January
11:00am
E3-25 |
Catherine J. Murphy (U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Three Short Stories About Gold Nanorods |
14 January
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Jennifer van Wijngaarden (University of Manitoba)
Resolving molecular mysteries: High resolution spectroscopy in the microwave and far infrared regions |
17 January
11:00am
E3-25 |
Eric Schmidt (University of Utah)
Sporadic diversity in natural product biosynthesis |
17 January
3:00pm
CAB 243 |
Dwight Seferos (University of Toronto)
Conjugated Polymer Nanomaterials |
18 January
11:00am
E3-25 |
David C. Schriemer (University of Calgary)
Beyond Proteomics - Mass Spectrometry as an Emerging Approach to Structural Biology |
18 January
4:15pm
E3-25 |
Glenn Sammis (UBC)
Development of New Heteroatom-Centered Radical Reactions for Use in Natural Product Synthesis |
21 January
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Hans D. Osthoff (University of Calgary)
Quantification of nitryl chloride at part per trillion mixing ratios by thermal dissociation cavity ringdown spectroscopy and atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometrys |
24 January
9:300am
E3-25 |
Hélène Perreault (University of Manitoba)
Studies on Monoclonal Antibodies using MALDI-MS |
27 January
11:00am
E3-25 |
Kevin M. Smith (UBC-Okanagan)
Exploring Reversible Chromium(III)-Alkyl Bond Homolysis Reactions With Well-Defined CpCr(Nacnac)(R) Complexes |
28 January
4:00pm
E1-60 |
Alan G. Marshall (Florida State University)
Petroleomics: Chemistry of the Underworld |
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February
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17 February
11:00am
E3-25 |
Geoffrey Rayner-Canham (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Turning Students on to Chemistry-in the community and in the classroom |
18 February
12:00pm
E3-25 |
Geoffrey Rayner-Canham (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Periodic Patterns |
18 February
4:00pm
E3-25 |
Adam Woolley (Brigham Young University)
Miniaturization in Chemistry: Integrated Microfluidic Analysis Systems and Biotemplated Nanofabrication
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| March |
3 March
11:00am
E3-25 |
Jillian Buriak and Richard McCreery (U Alberta)
Where are you going to publish that paper? |
4 March
2:30pm
2F1.04D WMHSC |
Frank Gobas (Simon Fraser University)
Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology and the Law |
7 March
11:00am
E3-25 |
Michael Fryzuk (UBC)
Organometallic Approaches to Dinitrogen Activation |
7 March
1:00pm
E3-25 |
R. Scott Murphy (University of Regina)
Photoresponsive Liiposomes: Developing Photochromic Membrane Disruptors |
7 March
11:00am
NRE 2-003 |
Mark Glover (University of Alberta)
Title |
11 March
3:15pm
E1-60 |
Gregory Scholes (U of Toronto)
Do algae really use quantum mechanics to harvest light for photosynthesis |
17 March
11:00am
E3-25 |
Oleg Ozerov (Texas A&M)
Breaking and Making Bonds With Pincer Complexes |
29 March
2:30pm
E3-25 |
David D.Y. Chen (UBC)
Moving from column separation and fraction collection to continuous purification by 2-D electro fluid dynamic devices
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30 March
3:00pm
E3-25 |
Tom Baker (U. Ottawa)
Selective Aerobic Oxidation of beta-O-4 Lignin Models: Copper vs. Oxovanadium Complexes |
| April |
1 April
4:00pm
E3-25 |
Alan Doucette (Dalhousie University)
New (or Old) Adventures in Proteomics: Still Searching for Solid Ground |
8 April
4:00pm
E3-25 |
Kimberley Kenny (RCMP, Edmonton - Forensics Unit)
Forensics in the RCMP - The Role of a Forensic Chemist |
11 April
4:00pm
CAB 243 |
Mark Wightman (U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
2011 Boomer Lecture
Electrochemical Detection of Neurotransmitters: a Historical Perspective |
12 April
4:00pm
DP 2022 |
Mark Wightman (U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
2011 Boomer Lecture
Voltammetric detection of neurotransmitters: dopamine and what it does |
13 April
4:00pm
DP 2022 |
Mark Wightman (U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
2011 Boomer Lecture
Voltammetric detection of brain norepinephrine and serotonin |
14 April
4:00pm
CAB 243 |
Mark Wightman (U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
2011 Boomer Lecture
Carbon electrodes for in vivo detection of neurotransmitters |
14 April
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Mario Leclerc (Université Laval)
Conjugated Polymers: From Micro-Electronics To Genomics |
28 April
11:00am
CAB 239 |
Don Weaver (Dalhousie University)
Design and Optimization of New Chemical Entities for Alzheimer's Disease |
29 April
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Stephanie Brock (Wayne State University)
The Role of Synthetic Levers for Control of Phase, Size and Morphology in Nanoscale Transition Metal Pnictides: Consequences for Magnetic and Catalytic Properties |
| May |
date
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no seminars currently scheduled |
| June |
10 June
2:00pm
E5-36 |
Tao (Toby) Zeng (University of Waterloo)
Insights into Chemistry: from Quantum Mechanics to Molecular Dynamics |
13 June
11:00am
NRE 1-001 |
Michael Harmata (University of Missouri)
Title |
| July |
19 July
11:00am
E3-25 |
Michael T. Bowers (UCalifornia at Santa Barbara)
Amyloid assembly and oligomer structure: General mechanism and application to Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes |
28 July
11:00am
E3-25 |
Thomas Peters (Medical University of Leubeck)
Some like it sweet - NMR investigations into Norovirus-host interactions |
| August |
4 August
3:00pm
E3-25 |
Gonzalo Cosa (McGill University)
Fluorescence visualization, from reactive oxygen species in cell membranes to biomolecular structures at the single molecule level |
10 August
3:00pm
E3-25 |
T. Bruce Grindley (Dalhousie University)
Polyester Glycodendrimers as Potential Antiadhesion Drugs |
26 August
2:30pm
WMHSC 2F1.04 |
Wenwan Zhong (University of California, Riverside)
Analytical Chemistry at the Nano-Bio Interface |
29 August
11:00am
E3-25 |
Todd Houston (Griffith University, Australia)
Manipulating boron and sugar acid interactions for sensing and catalysis |
| September |
2 Sept.
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Shoji Hara (Hokkaido University)
Stereoselective Synthesis of (2_Fluoroalkenyl)boranes and their Use for Stereoselective Synthesis of Fluoroalkenes |
6 Sept.
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Masahiro Toyota (Osaka Prefecture University)
Synthetic Organic Chemistry in Japan - Past, Present and Future |
6 Sept.
4:00pm
E3-25 |
Louis Barriault (University of Ottawa)
Total synthesis of vinigrol. A long and winding road |
8 Sept.
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Masahiro Toyota (Osaka Prefecture University)
Synthesis of the Potent Immunosuppressant Mycalamide A |
12 Sept.
11:00am
CCIS L1 140 |
Masahiro Toyota (Osaka Prefecture University)
Development of Two Different Types of Palladium-Catalyzed Cycloalkenylations and Application to Bioactive Natural Product Synthesis |
15 Sept.
2:30pm
CEB 336 |
Christopher Cairo (Dept of Chem, Univ of Alberta)
Probing chemical and conformational change at the plasma membrane |
16 Sept.
2:00pm
E3-25 |
Peter Duggan (CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering)
Boronated and fluorinated amino acids, peptides, and peptidomimetics |
19 Sept.
11:00am
CCIS L1-140 |
Michinori Suginome (Kyoto University)
New catalytic accesses to organoboronic acids using new reacting, protecting, and directing groups on the boron atom |
20 Sept.
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Thomas Back (University of Calgary)
Selenium compounds as catalysts in biologically and synthetically relevant redox processes |
21 Sept.
4:00pm
E3-25 |
Jeffrey Johnston (Vanderbilt University)
Reagent and reaction development in the service of target-oriented synthesis: chiral proton catalysis and the advent of Umpolung Amide Synthesis |
22 Sept.
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Robert Britton (Simon Fraser University)
Exploiting chlorohydrins in natural product synthesis |
23 Sept.
10:00am
E3-25 |
Yuan-Pern Lee (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)
Distinguished Asian Speaker Program
Studying reaction intermediates using step-scan FTIR, p-H2 matrix isolation, and IR-VUV ionization techniques |
23 Sept.
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Michel Gagné (University of North Carolina)
Au(I) catalysis: new reactions, unusual mechanisms and other twists |
23 Sept.
2:00pm
E1-60 |
Andrew Wee (University of Regina)
Lactam intermediates via Rh(II)-carbenoid C-H insertion reactions: explorations and applications in alkaloid synthesis |
23 Sept.
2:30pm
WMHSC 2F1.02 |
Frank Wania (U Toronto, Scarborough)
Mechanistic Modeling of Human Exposure to Bioaccumulating Contaminants |
26 Sept.
11:00am
CCIS L1-140 |
Vern Schramm (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University)
Sandin Lecturer
Drug design from transition state analysis |
27 Sept.
4:00pm
CCIS L1-140 |
Vern Schramm (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University)
Sandin Lecturer
Dynamics and thermodynamics of inhibitors and catalysis |
28 Sept.
10:00am
E3-25 |
Viola Birss (University of Calgary)
Ordered nanotemplates for electrocatalytic and sensing applications |
29 Sept.
1:00pm
CAB 265 |
Joanne Blanchfield (University of Queensland)
Rigid antigen presenting scaffolds in synthetic vaccines |
| October |
3 Oct.
11:00am
CCIS L1-140 |
Biao Yu (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry)
Distinguished Asian Speaker Program
New glycosylation protocols for the synthesis of complex glycoconjugates |
13 Oct.
11:00am
E3-25 |
Dennis Clouthier (University of Kentucky)
Terrestrial and extraterrestrial studies of nonexistent compounds |
17 Oct.
4:00pm
CCIS L1-160 |
Shana O. Kelley (U of Toronto)
Metallic and Semiconductor Nanomaterials for Sensing and Imaging |
18 Oct.
2:00pm
E3-25 |
P.-N. Roy (University of Waterloo)
Quantum molecular dynamics: doped nano-clusters, water cages, and biomolecules |
18 Oct.
7:30pm
Ziedler Hall, Citadel Theatre |
Shana O. Kelley (U of Toronto)
Nanotech Tools for Early Disease Diagnosis |
19 Oct.
12:00pm
CEB-325 |
Shana O. Kelley (U of Toronto)
Mitochondrial Drug Delivery with Peptide Carriers |
25 October
11:00am
E3-25 |
Roland Roesler (University of Calgary)
Variations on the N-heterocyclic Carbene Theme |
31 October
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Christine Thomas (Brandeis University)
Metal-metal multiple bonds in early/late heterobimetallics: small molecule activation and catalytic applications
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| November |
1 November
11:00am
E3-25 |
Zubin Jacob (University of Alberta)
Hyperbolic metamaterials |
3 November
11:00am
E3-25 |
Alan Goldman (Rutgers University)
Activation of C-H Bonds by Pincer Iridium Complexes ... and then ... |
4 November
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Matthew Paige (University of Saskatchewan)
Ultrasensitive microscopy and spectroscopy of chemical systems |
7 November
time
room |
Phil Dawson (Scripps)
title |
10 November
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Dennis Hore (University of Victoria)
Solvent and Biomolecular Structure at the Solid-Liquid Interface |
18 November
1:00pm
E3-25 |
Paul Wiseman (McGill University)
Mapping molecular interactions & transport in living cells with fluorescence fluctuation methods |
25 November
4:00pm
E3-25 |
Charles Lucy (University of Alberta)
title |
28 November
11:00am
CCIS L1 140 |
Jean Gariepy (University of Toronto)
Design and Discovery of New Biotherapeutics |
| December |
2 December
4:00pm
E3-25 |
Janusz Pawliszyn (University of Waterloo)
Bioanalytical Applications Of Solid-Phase Microextraction |
5 December
10:00am
E3-25 |
Jean Bouffard (University of California, Riverside)
Synthesis and Applications of Mesoionic Carbenes (MICs) |
5 December
11:00am
CCIS L1 140 |
Victor Snieckus (Queens University)
From Urea to Viagra: The Fascination of Organic Synthesis |
8 December
11:00am
E3-25 |
Jeremy Smith (New Mexico State University)
Nitrogen atom transfer from high valent iron |
12 December
10:00am
E3-25 |
Jennifer Chen (University of Washington)
Molding the flow of light: from optically amplified photocatalysts to plasmon-based biosensors |
14 December
10:00am
E3-25 |
Nicholas Piro (University of California, Berkeley)
Transforming Phosphorus- and Nitrogen-Based Small Molecules on Transition Metal Platforms |
