Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

What can we learn about protein folding from atomistic simulations?

Dr. Robert Best, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, NIH.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 24 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry - Nano Puzzle and More

Professor Iris Oppel, RWTH Aachen University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 16:30-17:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

BP 3rd Years PhD Talks

Talks by 3rd Yr PhD students in the Materials RIG

various.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 10:15-16:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Selective targeting of epigenetic effector domains of the bromodomain family

Professor Stefan Knapp, Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Physical Chemistry

Unpicking the local structure of adsorbate molecules on surfaces atom by atom

Professor Phil Woodruff, University of Warwick.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Allostery and Conformational Control in Signaling: The Ubiquitin E3 Ligases

Dr Ruth Nussinov. Professor, Department of Human Genetics, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Senior Principal Scientist and Principal Investigator at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Frederick, MD.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Physical Chemistry

Title to be confirmed

Dr Lucy Carpenter (University of York).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

Physical Chemistry

Watching Single Molecules

David Klenerman (University of Cambridge).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo for strongly correlated systems

CPGS talk

Robert Thomas (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 19 October 2012, 12:30-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Investigating tunneling rates using instanton theory

CPGS talk

Conan Zhang (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 19 October 2012, 12:00-12:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Sequence-based predictions of secondary structure populations in disordered proteins

CPGS talk

Pietro Sormanni (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 12 October 2012, 12:30-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Quantum transition state theory?

CPGS talk

Tim Hele (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 12 October 2012, 12:00-12:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

"Molecular mechanisms of O-GlcNAc signalling"

Professor Daan van Aalten, FRSE, Associate Dean, Division of Molecular Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 18 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Tailored Polymers for Controlling Cell Signaling

Prof Laura Kiessling, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

New Insights into Proteasome Function: From Protein Degradation to Cancer Therapy

Alfred Lewis Goldberg, Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 10:30-12:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

New Protein Structures and Assemblies by Rational Design

Dek Woolfson, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 11 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Catalytic MetalloDrugs – New Therapies for Old Problems

Professor James Cowan, Ohio State University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 30 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Predicting protein-peptide and protein-chemical interactions using biological networks

Biological RIG seminar

Robert B. Russell, Professor Protein Evolution, CellNetworks, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 09 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Future perspectives of metal compounds in cancer therapy

Professor Bernhard Keppler, University of Vienna.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 02 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Physical Chemistry

Mechanical Atom Manipulation: Towards a Matter Compiler

Professor Philip Moriarty, University of Nottingham.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 16:15-17:15

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

From Fragments and Hot-Spots to Novel Lead Structures

Professor Dr Gerhard Klebe, Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Philipps-University Marburg.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 03 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Exploiting Cryptic Biosynthetic Pathways in Microorganisms

Joint Biological and Synthesis Seminar

Prof. Dr. Christian Hertweck, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, HKI, Jena, Germany.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 27 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanisms matter: understanding and optimizing drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis

Joint Biological/Synthetic RIG Seminar

Dr Clifton E. Barry III, Tuberculosis Research Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 January 2012, 17:00-18:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modeling a single-site spring-like hypothesis for Fe-mediated N2 reduction

Professor Jonas Peters, California Institute of Technology.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 08 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Expanding the central dogma

Professor Philipp Holliger, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 25 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Sialidases in respiratory disease

Prof Garry Taylor FRSE, Head of the School of Biology, BSRC, University of St Andrews.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 18 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Melville Lecturer 2011 - Development of New Routes to Benign Polymeric Materials

Prof Geoffrey Coates, Cornell University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Quantum Tunnelling Splittings from Ring-Polymer Instanton Theory

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

Adam Reid (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 28 October 2011, 12:30-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Ring Polymer Tunnelling Rates and the Connection with Instanton Theory

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

Adrian Hemmen (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 28 October 2011, 12:00-12:30

Physical Chemistry

Timescales of chemical reactions

Prof. Mike J Pilling CBE, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 16:15-17:15

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Joint Materials/Biological Colloquia

Professor Bill Rutherford, CEA, France.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 21 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Water Photolysis in Biology: Photosystem II

Joint Materials/Biological Colloquia

Professor Bill Rutherford, Imperial College, London.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 21 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Cooperative dynamics in supercooled liquids

Note unusual venue.

Dr Jacob Stevenson (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 21 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Can hydrophobic surfaces catalyze unfolding?

Note unusual venue.

Dr Patrick Varilly (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 14 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Networking the Self-assembled Cages

Professor Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 08 July 2011, 14:00-15:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Molecular Nanostructures and Sensors by Self-Assembly

Extra Inorganic Seminar

Professor Kay Severin, EPFL, Switzerland.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

Physical Chemistry

Very narrow lasers to measure wide lines: Frequency comb-referenced determination of pressure broadening, narrowing and shifts for remote sensing

Professor Trevor Sears, Brookhaven National Laboratory & Stony Brook University NY.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

RSC Faraday Lecture

The Molecular Dance in Surface Reactions Followed a-Molecule-at-a-Time by STM

Professor John Polanyi, University of Toronto.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 07 April 2011, 16:15-17:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Diels Alder Polymers with Unusual Properties: Re‐Mending and Shape Memory

Prof Fred Wudl, UCSB Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

Physical Chemistry

Physical Chemistry Graduate Seminar

David Madden, Matthew Ashford, Isabella Stocker.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Physical Chemistry

Vehicle exhaust nanoparticles: sources and control.

Dr Martyn Twigg - previously Chief Scientist of Johnson Matthey.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

What surfactants do at interfaces

Professor Robert Thomas, University of Oxford.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 01 March 2011, 16:15-17:15

Inorganic Chemistry

BP Day

3rd Year PhD students.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 13:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Probing nanostructures and optoelectronic properties of plastic solar cells by scanning probe microscopy

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Center for Polymers and Organic Solids and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 15:30-16:30

Chemistry Departmental Colloquia

Conjugated Polyelectrolytes for Emerging Optoelectronic Devices and Bioelectronic Applications

Professor Gui Bazan, Department of Materials Engineering and Chemistry & Biochemistry University of California, Santa Barbara.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental Colloquia

Multicomponent Block Polymers for Templating and Separations

Professor Marc Hillmyer Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 12 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental Colloquia

Multifunctional Polymer Films and Coatings

BP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Physical Chemistry

Multifunctional Polymer Films and Coatings

BP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Chemistry Departmental Colloquia

Amphiphide Monolayers to study interfacial interactions

A Reception will follow this talk in the Todd Hamied Room

BP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 09 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Physical Chemistry

Amphiphide Monolayers to study interfacial interactions

There will be a reception following this lecture in the Todd Hamied.

BP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 09 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Chemistry Departmental Colloquia

Supramolecular Approaches to Stimuli-Responsive Materials: From Sea Cucumbers to Self-Healing Films

Professor Stuart Rowan, Kent Hale Smith Professor, Case Western University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 02 November 2010, 15:30-16:30

Society of Chemical Industry

Can we feed 9 billion?

Event organised by RSC Mid-Anglia Section & SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region

Dr John Emsley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 19:00-20:00

Physical Chemistry

"From clays to the cytosol - approaches for characterising soft matter"

Professor Athene Donald ( Director, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 16:15-17:15

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo study of the uniform electron gas

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

James Shepherd (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 08 October 2010, 12:30-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Spin in Fermion Monte Carlo

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

Simon Smart (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 08 October 2010, 12:00-12:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Structure-property relationships of molecular crystals

Professor Len Barbour, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 22 September 2010, 14:00-15:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Designing metal containing anticancer drugs in the absence of a well defined target

THIS IS A CHANGE FROM THE ORIGINAL TIME

Professor Paul Dyson, EPFL.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 15:00-16:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Recharging the Planet: New Approaches for Optimizing the Performance of Lithium-Ion Batteries and Fuel Cells

Inaugural Lecture

Professor Clare Grey.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 16:15-17:15

Chemistry Departmental Colloquia

Recharging the Planet: New Approaches for Optimizing the Performance of Lithium-Ion Batteries and Fuel Cells

Inaugural Lecture

Professor Clare Grey, Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor of Chemistry.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 16:15-17:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Nanosized Clusters with Main Group elements as Ligands

Lewis Lecture

Professor Dieter Fenske.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 30 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Stabilizing ordered bicontinuous phases in diblock copolymer systems

Note late change of venue

Dr Francisco Martinez (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 06 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Hydrogen bonding structure and ultrafast dynamics of bulk, interfacial, and confined water

(Joint Theory/Physical Seminar)

Professor James L Skinner, University of Wisconsin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Gas diffusion in the [NiFe]-hydrogenase

M.Phil. thesis presentation. Note unusual venue.

Po-hung Wang (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 30 October 2009, 12:25-12:50

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

FCIMC, naturally

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

Deidre Cleland (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 30 October 2009, 12:00-12:25

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Design of protein sequences with funneled free energy landscapes using a coarse-grained caterpillar model

Note unusual venue

Dr Ivan Coluzza (National Institute for Medical Research, London).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 16 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Ring-polymer transition-state theory

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

Jeremy Richardson (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 09 October 2009, 12:25-12:50

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Coarse-grained modelling of biological and biomimetic surfactants

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

Craig Kitchen (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 09 October 2009, 12:00-12:25

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ocean iron-fertilisation by volcanic ash

Baerbel Langmann, Institute of Geophysics, University of Hamburg.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 20 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Organometallic f-Element Chemistry and the Importance of Questioning Scientific Assumptions

RSC Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship

Professor William J Evans, University of California Irvine, USA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 May 2009, 11:00-12:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Construction Principles in the Development of New Molecular Catalysts

Dr Lutz Gade, University of Heidelberg.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

New Perspectives on Linkages between Ozone Depletion and Climate Change

Dr Susan Solomon, Aeronomy Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 12 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Antarctic ozone hole: review and update

Prof. Susan Solomon, NOAA/ERL, Chemical Sciences Division.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Functionalized cucurbiturils and their applications

Professor Kimoon Kim, Center for Smart Supramolecules, Pohang University of Science & Technology.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 November 2007, 14:15-15:15