Department of Chemistry

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Antibodies by design: from drug development to brain drug delivery

User Prof Peter M. Tessier, University of Michigan.

Monday 08 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Building Enzymes with New Function - Professor Anthony Green

User Professor Anthony Green - University of Manchester.

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 14:40-15:40

Fourth SynTech Annual Symposium - Student talks

User Variety of speakers from the SynTech CDT programme..

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 10:30-14:40

House Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

Organic Nanoionics in Polymers for Energy Conversion System

User Prof. Manabu Tanaka, Tokyo Metropolitan University.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Toward understanding iodine and sulfur secondary aerosol formation in marine atmosphere

User Xu-Cheng He - University of Helsinki/University of Cambridge.

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

Formulating protein behaviour in nanospace: Key to rational glue screening

User Prof. Daishi Fujita, Kyoto University iCeMS Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Collective Dynamics in Non-Equilibrium Fluids

User Professor Robert Jack, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 14:30-15:30

Discovery and scale-up of a novel herbicide by Paul Burton from Syngenta

User Syngenta.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Taming the reactivity of small ring hydrocarbons - Prof Edward Anderson

User Edward Anderson - Oxford University.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Correlation and Collaboration: using model results to design functionals

User Professor Lucia Reining, ETSF Palaiseau.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Extreme rainfall event in December 2021 over Peninsular Malaysia

User Andy Chan - Dean of Engineering, Robert Gordon University.

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Extreme rainfall event in December 2021 over Peninsular Malaysia

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89826306833?pwd=cnNHSG9OWHRjVngzMGVMc2F0NnA4dz09

User Prof Andy Chan, Dean of Engineering, Robert Gordon University.

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Liquid Water at Coupled Cluster Accuracy

User Professor Dominik Marx, Ruhr-University Bochum.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Foundation Models for Materials Chemistry

User Professor Gábor Csanyi, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chemical transport modelling to support the UNECE Air Convention

User David Simpson - EMEP MSC-W, Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

London Dispersion in Density-Functional Theory and the Exchange-Hole Dipole Moment Model

A joint Lennard-Jones Centre talk

User Professor Erin Johnson, Dalhousie University.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 15:30-16:30

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What can we learn from simulations of the dust intensification over Greenland during the last ice-age?

User Peter Hopcroft, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK..

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

All-atom simulations of DNA in complex 3D arrangements

User Dr Agnes Noy, University of York.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 14:30-15:30

House BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Discovery of PAXLOVID - Royal Society of Chemistry BMCS Lecture 2024

User Dr Dafydd Owen - Pfizer.

Monday 22 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Inverting Amine Reactivity

User Dr. Alex Cresswell, University of Bath.

Friday 19 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Artificial chemistries: From designing matter to mimicking life  

User Dr Zorana Zeravcic, ESPCI Paris PSL Research University.

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 14:30-15:30

"Protein mimicry and recognition with foldamers”

User Professor Ivan Huc.

Friday 15 December 2023, 11:00-13:00

Supramolecular Hosts: From Energy Intensive Separations to Sensors and Soft Robotics

User Prof. Nivine Khashab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

Thursday 14 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Computational Roadmap of Emerging Materials: Implications of Piezochromism and Rashba Phenomena

User Dr Sudip Chakraborty, Harish-Chandra Research Institute Allahabad.

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Hydrogen – the second best option – taking a whole system view

To join this seminar in-person or online, please register for details by emailing njw44@cam.ac.uk.

User Jon Saltmarsh, Energy Systems Catapult.

House Chemistry Dept, Todd Hamied room and Zoom.

Monday 11 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Designing enzymes from scratch

User Professor Donald Hilvert, (ETH) Zürich.

Thursday 07 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tools and Tactics for Targeting RNA with Small Molecules

User John 'Jay' Schneekloth, Jr., Ph.D. from NIH/NCI.

Tuesday 05 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Dept of Chemistry, BMS Lecture Theatre .

Computational Chemistry Event

User Dr Kadi Liis Sar, Dr Emma King-Smith, Dr Sam Niblett and Professor Angelos Michaelides.

Friday 01 December 2023, 14:00-16:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Sugars & proteins

User Benjamin G. Davis The Rosalind Franklin Institute and University of Oxford.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Magnetism in 2D materials

User Professor Biplab Sanyal, Uppsala University.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Synthesis planning, mechanistic analysis and discovery of new reaction classes in the age of computers

User Prof. Bartosz Grzybowski, UNIST, Republic of Korea.

Monday 27 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Making Sense of Electrical Noise by Simulating Electrolyte Solutions

User Professor Benjamin Rotenberg, Sorbonne University.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Evaluation of 14CO as a Tracer of OH in a Global Model

Last talk of term

User Liam Blyth – Imperial College London.

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 11:30-12:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Towards Operando Modelling of Zeolites

User Dr. Christopher Heard, Charles University.

Monday 20 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Uncovering Molecular Transport Mechanisms by Counting with Colloids

User Professor Alice Thorneywork, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Enabling discovery by in-cell structural biology

User Dr Julia Mahamid, EMBL Heidelberg.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 10:30-11:30

Prof. Julio Lloret

User Prof. Julio Lloret, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Solvation Across Length Scales: A Classical Density Functional Theory

1st Year PhD Report

User Anna Bui, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 15:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Path Integral Approaches to Spin-Phonon Coupled Systems

1st Year PhD Report

User Ilija Srpak, University of Cambridge and Max Planck Institute.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 14:30-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Fifty Years Simulating Water and Electrolyte Solutions : Where Are We?

User Professor Carlos Vega de las Heras, University Complutense of Madrid.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Informatics-based approaches to natural products discovery in an age of reisolation

User Professor Roger Linington, Simon Fraser University.

Monday 30 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Development of Solid-State Solar Thermal Fuels

User Dr. John Griffin, Lancaster University.

Friday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

From Computational Chemistry to Computational Microbiology: A Few Successes and Many Challenges

User Professor Syma Khalid, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Comparison of methods to estimate aerosol effective radiative forcings in climate models

Note unusual time and location

User Mark Zelinka; PCMDI | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

House U202 Meeting room, Department of Chemistry and Zoom.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Relativistic QED developments for atomic and molecular bound state computations

User Dr Edit Mátyus, ELTE Faculty of Science, Budapest.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

A new phase in structural biology

User Prof Dame Carol V Robinson, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chemicals and fuels from CO2 via thermo and electrochemical routes: Insights from quantum chemistry

User Prof. Felix Studt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Friday 13 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Little Solutions to Big Problems: How we use nanoporous materials to address sustainability challenges

User Prof. Camille Petit,Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Learning from molecular dynamics trajectory ensembles

User Professor Peter Bolhuis, University of Amsterdam.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ozone Secrets: Heterogeneous Chemistry in the Martian Atmosphere

User Megan Brown, The Open University and University of Cambridge.

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 11:30-12:30

MSD lecture: Abi Doyle

User Abi Doyle - UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry + Dr Ian Bell, MSD .

Monday 09 October 2023, 14:30-17:00

House Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

Diastereoselective self-assembly of low-symmetry metal-organic cages

User Dr Jamie Lewis, University of Birmingham.

Wednesday 20 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Illuminating the Quantum Dynamics in Photoelectrochemistry

Special Lennard-Jones Centre seminar

User Dr Thomas Sayer, University of Colorado Boulder.

Thursday 14 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Supramolecular Control: Strategic Uses of Carbon Nanohoops, Fluorinated Cyclohexanes and Organophosphates

User Prof. Max von Delius, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Ulm University.

Thursday 24 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Calibrate Weak Intermolecular Ligand Interactions on Nanoparticles via the Dynamic Volume of Chain Segments

User Prof. Xueqian Kong, Institute of Translational Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University .

Thursday 20 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Technologies for the Synthesis, Semi-Synthesis and Biosynthesis of Modified Peptides and Proteins

User Professor Richard J. Payne, University of Sydney.

Friday 23 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Colloidal nanocrystals to advance catalysis and energy technologies

User Prof. Raffaella Buonsanti, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne .

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

In-cell NMR for real-time studies of protein-ligand interactions in human cells

User Dr. Enrico Luchinat, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, and Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM), Florence, Italy.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Snowpack nitrate photolysis drives the summertime atmospheric nitrous acid (HONO) budget in coastal Antarctica

User Millie Bond, British Antarctic Survey.

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81374421855?pwd=bHdnVmxxTUlyL3lzTlpiVTRmZWtIQT09.

Tuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Todd Hamied Room, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

In Search of Coulson's Lost Theorem

User Professor Patrick Fowler, University of Sheffield.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Developing Hybrid Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithms for Low Quantum Overheads and Improved Noise Resilience

User Dr Maria-Andreea Filip, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Lessons from Collagen

User Professor Ronald T. Raines, MIT.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Disposable Chiral Plasmonics for Sensing

User Dr. Affar S. Karimullah, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling marine aerosol, airborne microplastics and rocket launches

User Associate Professor Laura Revell, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of Canterbury.

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87388257085?pwd=Ylh5RjVpRGZuWURoaVBab2ljcEY2QT09.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Transcorrelated method for periodic systems

https://zoom.us/j/98420964527?pwd=K2NzWXBWZjZLd2MzaktMOXcxV3pDUT09 Meeting ID: 984 2096 4527 Passcode: 933217

User Professor Masayuki Ochi, Osaka University Japan.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Bioinspired Nucleophilic Fluorination with Alkali Metal Fluoride and Beyond

User Prof. Veronique Gouverneur, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Tackling Topology with TopoStats

User Dr Alice Pyne, University of Sheffield.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Quantum Theory of Imperfect Crystals

User Professor Aron Walsh, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Seeing memories through the looking glass: hippocampal circuit activity in mice performing spatial and working memory tasks

User Prof. Simon R. Schultz, Centre for Neurotechnology, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Towards emulated Lagrangian particle dispersion model footprints for satellite observations

User Dr Elena Fillola Mayoral, University of Bristol.

House Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87824253668?pwd=eHpVZ1VwemkxbTY1a1ZYdmlUZS9Pdz09.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Molecular design approaches to organic semiconductors

User Prof. Iain McCulloch, University of Oxford.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Towards the development of neural network potentials for describing chemistry under challenging conditions

First Year PhD Report

User Samuel Brookes, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 15:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Non-unitary Trotter circuits for imaginary time evolution

First Year PhD Report

User Chiara Leadbeater, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 14:30-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Quantum theory of electronic friction

User Professor Rocco Martinazzo, University of Milan.

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 14:30-15:30

From theoretical chemistry to integrated drug discover platforms. Methods and applications

User Prof. Artem Cherkasov, University of British Columbia.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

The shape of things to come

User Professor Nicola Marzari, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI).

Thursday 20 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Machine-learning-enabled discovery of extreme chemistry

User Prof. Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick.

Monday 17 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Weakly Bound Molecular Materials: Competing Energy Scales, Quantum Effects and More

User Dr Mariana Rossi, MPI.

Thursday 06 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

New developments in electrosynthesis and redox catalysis

User Prof. Song Lin, Cornell University.

Friday 31 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Modernist Materials Synthesis: Finding Thermodynamic Shortcuts with Hyperdimensional Chemistry

User Professor Jamie Neilson, Colorado State University .

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry & Zoom.

Activity induced phase separation and ordering in various model soft matter systems

Theoretical Chemistry/Lennard-Jones Centre Seminar https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

User Professor Prabal Maiti, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

House Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

AI/ML in Chemical Development

User Marwin Segler(Microsoft Researcher).

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Establishing a structure-function relationship between biomolecular condensates and protein degradation

User Janet Kumita, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 10:30-11:30

Exploring chemical reactivity in the age of automation and ML

User Professor Fernanda Duarte, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 28 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

House BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Joy of Discovery - A Lecture in Memory of Alex Hopkins

User Professor Ben Feringa.

Friday 24 March 2023, 17:00-18:00

House Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Prof Daniele Leonori talk (Title TBC)

User Prof Daniele Leonori Institute of Organic Chemistry RWTH Aachen University.

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chemical modelling of (exo)planetary atmospheres: some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it mild but old

Last talk of term

User Dr Éric Hébrard, University of Exeter.

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever and Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84554294579?pwd=Und2Zkd3MHBZRG1GbHROeWNjQ2Ivdz09 .

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Correlative imaging to resolve molecular structures in living tissues

User Dr. Oxana Klementieva, Associate professor in molecular imaging, Department of Experimental Medicine, Lund University, Sweden.

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 10:30-11:30

‘Machine-learning in chemistry from the bottom up’

User Professor Michele Ceriotti, Institute of Materials, EPFL.

Tuesday 21 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Synthetic biology approaches to new chemistry

User Michelle C. Chang, University of California, Berkeley.

Monday 20 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

"Selective Functionalization of Pyridines, Diazines and Pharmaceuticals via Unconventional Intermediates" and "Synthesis in Drug Discovery"

Pharmaron-Sponsored Lecture

User Prof. Andy McNally, Colorado State University and Dr. Ben Rahemtulla, Pharmaron.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 15:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Crumbling Crystals

First Year PhD Report

User Niamh O'Neill, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 15:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Exploring and implementing molecular counterfactuals for chemical toxicology prediction

First Year PhD Report

User Katie Beckwith, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 14:30-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Mechanisms that Contribute to Proteostasis Collapse in Aging and Disease

User Prof Richard I. Morimoto, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Rice Institute of Biomedical Research, Northwestern University, USA.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 11:15-12:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Topology, Molecular Simulation, and Machine Learning as Routes to Exploring Structure, Dynamics, and Phase Behavior in Atomic and Molecular Crystals

User Professor Mark Tuckerman, New York University.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Photosynthesis on an electrode

User Dr Jenny Zhang, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Spin dynamics in radical pairs

User Professor David Manolopoulos, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Discovery of cyclotides and their applications in peptide-based drug design

User Professor David Craik (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland).

Monday 27 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Discovery of cyclotides and their applications in peptide-based drug design

User Professor David Craik (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland).

Monday 27 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

The structure of the carbon/electrolyte interface from molecular dynamics simulations

User Professor Paola Carbone, University of Manchester.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Heterogenous Chemistry and The Possibility for Life in the Clouds of Venus

User Paul Rimmer, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

House Chemistry Dept, Unilever.

Monday 20 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Discovering New Materials By Combining Computation And Intelligent Mobile Robotic Chemists

User Andrew I. Cooper, University of Liverpool.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

T-Shaped Transition Metal Complexes and their Metalloradical Nature

User Prof. Lutz Gade, Heidelberg University.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Unravelling adsorption interactions and establishing benchmark accuracy: The case of hydrogen adsorption on low-dimensional materials

User Dr Yasmine Al-Hamdani, UCL.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Mechanistic design, understanding, and multicatalysis in the development of catalytic chemical processes

User Dr Pawel Dydio, University of Strasbourg.

Monday 13 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Iron catalysed cyclotrimerisation: Reactions of alkynes and phosphaalkynes

User Dr Ruth Webster, University of Bath.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Energy landscapes of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs)

First Year PhD Report

User Arun Kumar Rajasekaran, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 15:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Found In Translation: Using Language Models To Predict C–H Borylation Regioselectivity

First Year PhD Report

User Ruslan Kotlyarov, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 14:30-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Modification of α-synuclein for inhibition of nucleation and elongation of amyloid fibrils

User Prof Wolfgang Hoyer, Junior Professor of Chemical Biology of Protein Aggregation, Institute for Physical Biology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 10:30-11:30

Simplified Earth-abundant metal catalysis, C–H activation and transborylation

User Dr Jamie Docherty, The University of Manchester.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic control of peptide and protein architectures

User Professor Yu Heng Lau, The University of Sydney.

Friday 03 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Multiscale Simulation of DNA

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminar

User Dr Modesto Orozco, IRB Barcelona.

Friday 03 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Electrophilic Amination Strategies for N-Heterocycle Synthesis

User Prof. John Bower, University of Liverpool.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

The importance of fundamental hydrocarbons and their use in step economic total synthesis

User Dr Madison Sowden, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany (formerly at Australian National University, Canberra).

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Applying Matsubara Dynamics to Study Rates in Thermally Dissipative Systems

First Year PhD Report

User William Moore, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 15:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

DMC-ICE13: ambient and high pressure polymorphs of ice from Diffusion Monte Carlo and Density Functional Theory

First Year PhD Report

User Flaviano Della Pia, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 14:30-15:00

Jeremy Wulff: Universal Polymer Crosslinkers: Synthesis, Structure–Function Relationships, and Applications in Materials Science

User Jeremy Wulff .

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 15:30-16:30

Chlorine activation and enhanced ozone depletion induced by wildfire aerosol

User Prof. Susan Solomon (Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

House zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88479554336.

Monday 30 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

The unusual reactivity inside the supramolecular resorcinarene capsule catalyst – from terpene cyclizations to glycosylations

User Prof. Konrad Teifenbacher, University of Basel.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Recent developments with the Transcorrelated method

User Professor Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Some new perspectives on old problems: From water to materials and back again.

User Professor Michael Klein, Temple University.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Invisible Ship Tracks: What can we learn about the aerosol effect on clouds and climate from previously unseen ship-polluted clouds?

User Peter Manshausen (University of Oxford).

House Unilever Lecture Hall (and zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86500676542?pwd=NTFuNnpJQ1orMzZtem10cFNySjJiZz09 )).

Wednesday 07 December 2022, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The 18.6-year lunar nodal cycle and its modelled effect on the oceans

User Prof. Manoj Joshi.

House Unilever Lecture Hall (and zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84313398848?pwd=b1RaNGV5cm1jQ1hIOXBLd1hQRzdGQT09 ).

Monday 05 December 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Go EAST, young scientist - First principles view on chemical compound space

User Professor Anatole von Lilienfeld, University of Toronto.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

The Chemical Physics of Correlated Materials

https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

User Professor Garnet Chan, Caltech.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Assessment of Major Air Pollutants in the Tropical Urban Environment of Kuala Lumpur

User Prof. Mohd Talib Latif (University Kebangsaan Malaysia).

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88446733633?pwd=UVZDWjZJaVg1UHZwS2tlRFpyTm5IZz09.

Monday 21 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Supramolecular Peptide Assemblies For Functional Systems

User Javier Montenegro, Santiago de Compostela University.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Development of a sequence-dependent coarse-grained model for probing protein aggregation

1st Year PhD Report https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

User Kieran Russell, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 15:00-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Designing multiphase biomolecular condensates

First Year PhD Report https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

User Pin Yu Chew, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:30-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

The role played by interactions in the assembly of active colloids: Discovering dynamic laws from observations.

https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

User Dr Chantal Valeriani, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, multiple rooms throughout the day.

Merck Lecture day 7th November 2022

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Monday 07 November 2022, 09:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Programmable Folding of Droplet Colloidomers

https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

User Professor Jasna Brujic, NYU.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, multiple rooms throughout the day.

Prof Huw Davies talk 1st November 2022

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 15:00-17:00

House BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Gender Equity in Academia: Why and How

User Prof. Paul Walton, University of York.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 15:30-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

The many phases of Filinov filtration: mixed-limit semiclassical dynamics

https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

User Dr Nandini Ananth, Cornell University.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Protection against self-oxidation by copper oxygenases

User Prof. Paul Walton, University of York.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

NAD as a building block in natural product biosynthesis

User Dr Takayoshi Awakawa, University of Tokyo.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, multiple rooms throughout the day.

Recent Advances in Asymmetric Catalysis and Medicinal Chemistry

User Professor Pat Guiry, University College Dublin.

Monday 24 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

UNICORN (UNIted COarse gRaiNed) Force Field

https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

User Dr Adam Sieradzan, University of Gdańsk.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LR6.

Understanding and tuning the surface chemistry of perovskite oxides to activate oxygen exchange and water splitting

User Prof Bilge Yildiz, MIT.

Thursday 29 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Harnessing Radicals and Carbenes To Enable Unconventional Reactivity

User Prof. David Nagib, The Ohio State University.

Thursday 15 September 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Catalysis: Gold, Silver, Pd, Light, Dark

User Dr. Ai-Lan Lee, Heriot-Watt University.

Thursday 08 September 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

Conjugated organic and carbon nitride photocatalysts for solar driven hydrogen synthesis: insights from time resolved spectroscopies

User Prof James Durrant, ICL.

Thursday 01 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

Protein phase transitions in health and disease

User Prof Tuomas Knowles, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 August 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts: Born in a Vacuum, Tested in Reactors, and Understood In Silico

User Prof Charlie Sykes, Tufts.

Friday 12 August 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LR6.

Insights from Physical Chemistry into the Aerosol Route for Respiratory Disease Transmission

User Prof Jonathan Reid, University of Bristol.

Wednesday 20 July 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LR6.

Electrons in novel materials, water, and their interplay

User Prof Mischa Bonn, MPI .

Thursday 14 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric ozone and stratosphere-troposphere exchange in the Last Glacial Maximum

User Qiang Fu (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington and Leverhulme Visiting Professor in DAMPT, Cambridge University).

House Todd-Hamied room, Chemistry Department (and on zoom).

Monday 20 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A new approach to Coupled Data Assimilation and Earth System Reanalysis – climate science for the decades ahead":

User Prof. Detlef Stammer, University of Hamburg.

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89859792053?pwd=M1dIZFd5NlNwRVdBV2RKZWJpV1pGUT09 .

Monday 13 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Bringing Quantum Mechanics for Electrons and Nuclei to Larger Scales

https://zoom.us/j/97412460697?pwd=SkZzdjZGNFUyakg2RkpwMnRCWkZ3dz09 Meeting ID: 974 1246 0697 Passcode: 804768

User Dr Mariana Rossi, Max Planck Institute .

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Designing an Advanced Cancer Therapeutic Protein (GABPA Binding Inhibitor) Using an Artificial Intelligence-based DNA Binding Protein Design system.

https://zoom.us/j/96081156517?pwd=dmVGcVdDMXYvcVljdjVUQVIrd3F3QT09 Meeting ID: 960 8115 6517 Passcode: 135523

User Haseem Deen Mohamed Sarif Mohamed Iqbal, University of Cambridge .

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 15:00-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

A computational model for protein phase separation: hnRNPA1 as a case study

https://zoom.us/j/96081156517?pwd=dmVGcVdDMXYvcVljdjVUQVIrd3F3QT09 Meeting ID: 960 8115 6517 Passcode: 135523

User Maria Julia Maristany, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 14:30-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The role of chemistry and oxidants on the forcing from vegetation emissions and the next steps for understanding the atmospheric composition changes and forcing from widespread tree planting

User Dr James Weber (The University of Sheffield).

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88391274319?pwd=ZzhVaGtkYUtBTWdsQUR4dm5IWnprZz09.

Monday 16 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom and will be lived streamed in the Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Building bridges over mountain passes with variational path sampling

https://zoom.us/j/92686443414?pwd=OXVvY3lubnYxdU04enVZNFEzcjNmdz09 Meeting ID: 926 8644 3414 Passcode: 815149

User Dr David Limmer, UC Berkeley.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 16:30-17:30

Metal Complexes as Diagnostics and Therapeutics

User Prof. Gilles Gasser, Chimie ParisTech.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Machine Learning for Molecular Simulation - from Quantum Chemistry to Protein Dynamics

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/91726565686?pwd=cmpNYmswRlRRamgycGhiT29jSE44UT09 Meeting ID: 917 2656 5686 Passcode: 592709

User Professor Frank Noé, Free University Berlin.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Angstrom-scale capillaries: Ion selectivity beyond steric effects

https://zoom.us/j/93042336923?pwd=V0dZc1hjcEhESXdGcGhDbGxYRTZQZz09 Meeting ID: 930 4233 6923 Passcode: 942671

User Professor Radha Boya, University of Manchester.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Chemical Biology Comes of Age: Targeted Protein Degradation as a New Therapeutic Modality

User Professor Craig Crews, Yale University.

Wednesday 06 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

The liquid genome: Multiscale modelling of DNA packaging inside cells

https://zoom.us/j/99261863179?pwd=cExLK0QrdTF5R1c3bDNiWWwrbUtwdz09 Meeting ID: 992 6186 3179 Passcode: 180099

User Dr Rosana Collepardo-Guevara, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 11:15-12:15

House https://zoom.us/j/95370222402.

Liquid-Liquid Crystalline Phase Separation of Amyloid Fibrils

User Prof. Raffaele Mezzenga, ETH Zurich.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 10:00-11:00

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

One becomes two: assemblies that split cells across evolution

https://zoom.us/j/92220720173?pwd=WWVpVzVRY3dGRlhCRnFJZE81enRlUT09 Meeting ID: 922 2072 0173 Passcode: 070083

User Dr Anđela Šarić, IST Austria .

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Simple Models for Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Biological Cells

https://zoom.us/j/92110994248?pwd=VHVlRE15bUJRZ0pOcDdwdlQ3V0cwUT09 Meeting ID: 921 1099 4248 Passcode: 360337

User Professor Halim Kusumaatmaja, Durham University.

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Development of a transferable coarse-grained model for biomolecular phase-separation with near-quantitative accuracy.

1st Year PhD Report https://zoom.us/j/97218330219?pwd=cm5obGVnMVJ1RmZML3Rtc1RNRlc1dz09 Meeting ID: 972 1833 0219 Passcode: 540145

User Anne Aguirre, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 15:00-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry & Zoom.

General embedded cluster protocol for accurate modelling of oxygen vacancies in metal-oxides

First Year PhD Report https://zoom.us/j/99862441719?pwd=OHc4d0hpczU4SVpEK0ppUHliUVRSUT09 Meeting ID: 998 6244 1719 Passcode: 373295https://zoom.us/j/97218330219?pwd=cm5obGVnMVJ1RmZML3Rtc1RNRlc1dz09 Meeting ID: 972 1833 0219 Passcode: 540145

User Benjamin Shi (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 14:30-15:00

House Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Quantum simulations of materials for sustainable energy generation and use

https://zoom.us/j/99306849914?pwd=dDg3YWkvTjZKaTc3RHZQbWxsb1QvUT09 Meeting ID: 993 0684 9914 Passcode: 982405

User Professor Giulia Galli, University of Chicago.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry & Zoom.

Hot electrons in chemical reactions at metal surfaces: From molecular beam scattering to plasmonic chemistry

https://zoom.us/j/98783704195?pwd=L0hDVDJYeDdRYkR5TGFyeEV3RE1vZz09 Meeting ID: 987 8370 4195 Passcode: 689645

User Dr Reinhard J. Maurer, University of Warwick.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Energy Landscape of Hybrid Restraint Functions Based on NMR Data

1st Year PhD Report. Join Zoom meeting https://zoom.us/j/99862441719?pwd=OHc4d0hpczU4SVpEK0ppUHliUVRSUT09 Meeting ID: 998 6244 1719 Passcode: 373295

User Yifei Wang, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 15:00-15:30

Variational calculations of monoatomic endofullerenes

First Year PhD Report. Join Zoom meeting https://zoom.us/j/99862441719?pwd=OHc4d0hpczU4SVpEK0ppUHliUVRSUT09 Meeting ID: 998 6244 1719 Passcode: 373295

User Kripa Panchagnula, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 14:30-15:00

Realistic simulations of IR spectra using path-integrals: quasicentroid molecular dynamics

First Year PhD Report https://zoom.us/j/97542686010?pwd=OHY3Mzd6NUptaHpzTDJkOUY2QTFzZz09 Meeting ID: 975 4268 6010 Passcode: 417918

User Christopher Haggard, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 January 2022, 15:00-15:30

The origin of enantioselectivity in photochemical reactions with diarylprolinol silyl ether catalysts

First Year PhD Report https://zoom.us/j/97542686010?pwd=OHY3Mzd6NUptaHpzTDJkOUY2QTFzZz09 Meeting ID: 975 4268 6010 Passcode: 417918

User Ching Ching Lam, University of Cambridge.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Wednesday 26 January 2022, 14:30-15:00

Climate and Composition Implications of a hydrogen economy

User Nicola Warwick (University of Cambridge).

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85220058971?pwd=ZVVTSHB2bDBadzJTMHZMTUQ1eDdZQT09.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

House https://zoom.us/j/99301642413.

Uncovering the role of Alzheimer’s disease risk genes using stem cells and human brains

User Prof Li-Huei Tsai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Genome Organization through Phase Separation: Random yet Precise

https://zoom.us/j/99705960225?pwd=VnB5WW9YWHNrUXRFZmFQOU1wQW5lUT09 Meeting ID: 997 0596 0225 Passcode: 198245

User Dr Bin Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 14:30-15:30

House https://zoom.us/j/94174933868 .

Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine

User Prof George Malliaras, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The role of Short-lived Climate Forcers (SLCFs) in the climate system

User Dr. Vaishali Naik from the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton.

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88979629588?pwd=cGNPbnZnK2IxZmJXVHdXcHYyc3duZz09.

Wednesday 08 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

House https://zoom.us/j/96577382505.

From mad cows to mini brains

User Cath Haig, NIH - NIAID - RML.

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Exploring the interface between carbon based materials and electrolytes: Insights from simulations

https://zoom.us/j/98671840072?pwd=TXRNaHVIS0VlYWEzTm5YVUVWbThCQT09 Meeting ID: 986 7184 0072 Passcode: 366353

User Dr Céline Merlet, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier .

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 14:30-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

New Broad Scope Catalytic Strategies for Amine and Complex Natural Product Synthesis

User Professor Darren Dixon, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Scalable multi-reference chemistry using quantum Monte Carlo

https://zoom.us/j/93027947380?pwd=TTIrV3hPaFV4SlRyZm85UHF0d0RxUT09 Meeting ID: 930 2794 7380 Passcode: 697350

User Dr Nick Blunt, Riverlane.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

House https://zoom.us/j/95320855185.

Photopharmacology: Towards Light-Controlled Therapy

User Prof. Wiktor Szymanski, University Medical Center Groningen.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 10:00-11:00

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Development Of A Multiscale Chromatin Coarse-Grained Model

First Year PhD Report

User Charles Phillips, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 15:00-15:30

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Base flipping in DNA using potential energy landscapes

First Year PhD Report

User Nicy, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 14:30-15:00

House https://zoom.us/j/92675147881.

How to discover prodromal Parkinson's disease and why

User Wolfgang Oertel, Philips University of Marburg.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 10:30-11:30

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre.

Synthesis RIG Postdoc Seminar

User Dr Avene Colgan and Dr. Stephen Walsh, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

On Loss Function Landscapes of Neural Networks

First Year PhD Report. Zoom details Meeting ID: 915 2238 0125 Passcode: 224474

User Max Niroomand, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 15:00-15:30

House Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions of Two Species Driven Diffusive Lattice Gas

First Year PhD Report. Zoom details: Meeting ID: 915 2238 0125 Passcode: 224474

User Honghao Yu, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 14:30-15:00

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre.

The power of chemoselectivty: Next generation bioconjugates for extra- and intracellular targeting

User Prof. Christian Hackenberger, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom: Meeting ID: 977 4633 0653 Passcode: 379093.

Coarse-Graining Markov State Models

User Dr Edina Rosta, UCL.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre.

Synthetic Lectins – The Host-Guest Chemistry of Carbohydrates in Water

User Professor Anthony P Davis, University of Bristol.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom: Meeting ID: 929 3874 2761 Passcode: 803269.

Nucleation in first order phase transitions starting from the top

User Dr Eduardo Sanz, University Complutense of Madrid.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

House https://zoom.us/j/92675147881.

Title to be confirmed

User Macr Diamond, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 17:00-18:00

House https://zoom.us/j/92564124601.

ApoE, Ab and Alzheimer’s disease: From test tube to transgenic mice

User Mary Jo LaDu, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom: Meeting ID: 915 2897 9304 Passcode: 474419.

Encoding quantum-chemical knowledge into machine-learning models

User Professor Clemence Corminboeuf, EPFL.

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

House https://zoom.us/j/99567836121.

The landscape of amyloid misfolding

User Prof. Jeremy Schmit (Kansas State University).

Wednesday 21 July 2021, 10:30-11:30

House https://zoom.us/j/92040905282.

Peptide and metabolite self-assembly: Physiology, Pathology, and Nanotechnology

User Prof. Ehud Gazit, Tel Aviv University.

Wednesday 07 July 2021, 10:30-11:30

House Zoom meeting (Meeting ID: 967 7032 7126 Passcode: 077949).

Final Year PhD Talks (by Hugh Ryan and Francesca Firth)

User Hugh Ryan and Francesca Firth (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom meeting (Meeting ID: 937 3157 5068, Passcode: 994936).

Who gets to do research? - Equity in STEMM viewed through a funding lens

Materials RIG Seminar

User Prof. Rachel Oliver (Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 10 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

House https://zoom.us/j/98205706861?pwd=MitmZ2pqVHNKWmdwMWlVUkpWZkNDdz09.

Phase separation as an organizing principle in biology and disease

User Simon Alberti, Technische Universität Dresden.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 10:30-11:30

House via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Curious Electrostatics in Concentrated Electrolytes

User Prof Susan Perkin, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 08 June 2021, 11:00-12:00

House Zoom meeting (Meeting ID: 944 5796 1273, Passcode: 773568).

Controlling photonic properties from the micro to the macroscale

Final year PhD student talk

User Clement Chan (Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 03 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

House https://zoom.us/j/96842517234.

Functional Protein Fibrils in the Fight Against Pathogens

User Prof. Meytal Landau, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 10:30-11:30

House via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

In-situ Liquid TEM: Imaging Iron Corrosion

User Surabhi Agrawal, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 11:30-12:00

House via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Air pollution and climate change in the UK: A future perspective and open questions

User Dr Alex Archibald, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 11:00-11:30

House Zoom: Meeting ID: 977 2817 4648 Passcode: 343584.

Noncovalently bound molecular dimers with more than four atoms: Inter- and intramolecular rovibrational states and frequency shifts from full-dimensional and fully coupled quantum calculations

User Professor Zlatko Bačić, New York University.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

House https://zoom.us/j/92985851709.

Probing proteome foldedness and conformational changes under proteostasis stresses

User Prof. Danny Hatters, University of Melbourne.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 09:00-10:00

House via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Modelling Some of the Environmental Impacts of a Hydrogen Economy

User Prof John Pyle, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 11:30-12:00

House via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Imaging the First Events in T-Cell Activation

User Markus Koerbel, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 11:00-11:30

House https://zoom.us/j/95836951805.

Single molecule electrometry: "far-field" electrostatic fingerprints of molecular 3D conformation and shape

User Professor Madhavi Krishnan ( University of Oxford).

Friday 21 May 2021, 10:30-11:30

House Zoom meeting (Meeting ID: 933 8200 8737, Passcode: 991562).

Talks delivered by two final year PhD students

User Taylor Uekert and Rajesh Jethwa (Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Universit of Cambridge.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

House https://zoom.us/j/99781367340.

Cellular Communication via Adhesion

User Prof. Demet Araç, University of Chicago.

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Zoom: Meeting ID: 919 4908 5468 Passcode: 711578.

Light-matter interactions: from ab initio molecular dynamics and machine learning to x-ray spectroscopy

User Dr Morgane Vacher, University of Nantes.

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

House via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Using the Analytical Power of Surface Science for “New” Challenges

User Prof Giovanni Costantini, University of Warwick.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

House https://zoom.us/j/97334125524.

Cellular Organization Through Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation

User Prof. Michael Rosen, Department of Biophysics, University of Texas .

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Zoom: Meeting ID: 936 2232 6567 Passcode: 659838.

Machine Learning for Intermolecular Interactions

User Professor David Sherrill, Georgia Tech.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

House via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Investigating Disorder in Solids using NMR Spectroscopy, Isotopic Enrichment and First-Principles Calculations

User Prof Sharon Ashbrook, University of St Andrews.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

House https://zoom.us/j/97805738886 .

Whole-brain imaging of mating behavior in C. elegans

User Prof. Aravinthan Samuel, Harvard University.

Friday 07 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

House https://zoom.us/j/99781367340.

Phase separation as an organizing principle in biology and disease

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

House https://zoom.us/j/94961379063.

Gating Mechanisms and drug modulation in Pentameric Ligand-gated Ion Channels: Insights from Cryo-EM

User Prof. Sudha Chakrapani, Case Western Reserve University.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Zoom: Meeting ID: 993 0985 5457 Passcode: 520993.

Nanoconfined Water and it's Anomalies

User Professor Biman Bagchi, Indian Institute of Science - Bengaluru.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 10:00-11:00

House via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Ice and Surface Chemistry in Space

User Prof Wendy Brown, University of Sussex.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

House Zoom: Meeting ID: 960 7975 3507 Passcode: 674325.

The Phase Behaviour of Supercooled Water: Recent Computational Results.

User Professor Pablo Debenedetti, Princeton University.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 14:30-15:30

House https://zoom.us/j/92521025039.

The switch from choice to commitment: an example from HIV

User Dr. Maike Hansen, Radboud University Nijmegen.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 10:30-11:30

House https://zoom.us/j/95477079823.

Deciphering the role of post-translational modifications in p53 regulation with protein semisynthesis

User Dr. Manuel Muller .

Wednesday 21 April 2021, 10:30-11:30

House https://zoom.us/j/92582731025.

Cell morphogenesis across scales, from molecules to forces

User Prof. Ewa Paluch Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 April 2021, 10:30-11:30

House https://zoom.us/j/92635473991.

Self-entangled misfolded structures are the molecular bridge connecting synonymous mutations to long-timescale changes in protein structure and function

User Ed O'Brien, Pennsylvania State University.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

External talks

Electrochemical Technology for the Low Carbon Transition

User Professor Nigel Brandon (Imperial College London).

House Zoominar (registration required): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bp-icam-webinar-electrochemical-technology-for-the-low-carbon-transition-tickets-141658982831.

Thursday 25 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

House https://zoom.us/j/97842548910.

Stabilization of Protein-Protein Interactions; from biophysical concept to medicinal chemistry application

User Prof. Luc Brunsveld, Eindhoven University of Technology .

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 10:30-11:30

House via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Designing brighter dyes for advanced fluorescence microscopy

User Dr Luke Lavis, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Tuesday 23 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom: Meeting ID: 974 4858 8660 Passcode: 016125.

Quantum Machine Learning for Accurate and Low-Cost Computational Chemistry

User Professor Thomas F. Miller III, Caltech.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

House https://zoom.us/j/99203574537.

Glutamate receptors: from single molecules to physiology

User Prof. Vasanthi Jayaraman, University of Texas Health Science Center.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

House via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Liquid microjet photoelectron spectroscopy

User Prof Helen Fielding, Department of Chemistry, University College London.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

KiD-A: How Different Are Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions from a Variety of Microphysics Schemes?

User Adrian Hill - Met Office.

Monday 15 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

House Zoom - link to be announced.

Let there be light: exploiting machine learning to elucidate optical spectroscopy in the condensed phase

User Professor Thomas Markland, Stanford University.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 17:00-18:00

House https://zoom.us/j/98085179345.

A detailed look at tail-anchored membrane protein targeting - from metazoans to plants to protists

User Prof. William Clemons, Caltech.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

House via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Physical RIG, Internal Speakers

User Alex Fellows & Dr Lucien Weiss & Dr Hans de Leeuw, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom meeting ID: 920 8107 6877; Passcode: 119678.

Chemical reactivity in solution and under confinement – Applications and computational developments

User Professor Fernanda Duarte (Hertford College, University of Oxford).

Thursday 04 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom: Meeting ID: 956 7058 2700 Passcode: 141090.

Structure and dynamics of ionic liquids confined between metallic surfaces

User Professor Marialore Sulpizi, Johannes Gutenberg University.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 14:30-15:30

House https://zoom.us/j/94270162364?pwd=VTBVMGhUTEttNHlkaGRtcFF2TzdUUT09.

We were unable to deliver your parcel: Tumour biophysics and drug delivery

User Sally Peyman, University of Leeds.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 10:30-11:30

House via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Methods for rapid 3D fluorescence microscopy

User Dr Reto Fiolka, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Right ozone, wrong reasons

User Mat Evans - University of York.

Monday 01 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

House https://zoom.us/j/99827103152?pwd=K0ZGZk9xSzBsSHFRbDRwZTF4dExiQT09.

Probing intracellular physicochemical environments at the nanoscale, one molecule at a time

User Ke Xu, UC-Berkeley.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Zoom - Meeting ID: 946 2143 4053 Passcode: 203059.

Reaction mechanism discovery using random walks in chemical space

User Professor Scott Habershon, University of Warwick.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 14:30-15:30

House https://zoom.us/j/97411702169?pwd=c3JEeVBWemdQb3FHeGc0Smk3M2ZiQT09.

Conformational control: From single molecules to biotechnologies

User Prof. Taekjip Ha, Johns Hopkins University .

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Zoom: Meeting ID: 971 8360 9971 Passcode: 458262.

Generalization of Quasicentroid Molecular Dynamics to complex systems

First Year PhD Report

User Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 15:00-15:30

House Zoom: Meeting ID: 971 8360 9971 Passcode: 458262.

A systematic conformational searching method

First Year PhD Report

User Mengman Wei, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 14:30-15:00

House via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Molecular Tools for Imaging and Controlling Complex Biological Systems

User Prof Ed Boyden, MIT.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The importance of ice-nucleating particles in tropical deep convective clouds

User Rachel Hawker - University of Leeds.

Monday 15 February 2021, 11:00-12:00

House Zoom Meeting ID: 983 5633 9540 Passcode: 268115.

Computational modelling of genome organisation - Understanding the compaction of DNA within cells

First Year PhD Report

User Esmae Woods, University of Cambridge .

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 15:00-15:30

House Zoom Meeting ID: 983 5633 9540 Passcode: 268115.

Quantifying the applicability domain between two datasets using Tanimoto similarity

First Year PhD Report

User Marcus Wang, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 14:30-15:00

House https://zoom.us/j/99760374933?pwd=cXlRUVBabWpCUWZ4NHRGWnRmLzV3dz09.

Molecular Biology of Prion Infections

User Prof. Adriano Aguzzi, University hospital of Zurich.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 10:30-11:30

House via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Physical RIG, Internal Speakers

User Dr Thomas Aubry & Sabine Matysik & Ezra Bruggeman, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

House https://zoom.us/j/92316143946?pwd=RmFpcnlrNWkrUldWbzZRazhxRjM2QT09.

Models of neurological disease

Meeting ID: 923 1614 3946 Passcode: 186434

User Prof. Roger D Kamm.

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Zoom - Meeting ID: 922 6672 0201 Passcode: 427839.

Rapid development of robust single purpose machine learning potentials for complex aqueous systems

User Dr Christoph Schran, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 14:30-15:30

House https://zoom.us/j/98208866632?pwd=RW1QeWtUNzViZTRiVlBGU2d0b1Evdz09.

Fragments of stories: biophysics, chemical biology and drug discovery

User Rod Hubbard, University of York and Vernalis.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 10:30-11:30

House Zoom: Meeting ID: 976 0491 4122 Passcode: 108408.

Predicting material properties with the help of machine learning

User Dr Bingqing Cheng, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 14:30-15:30

House via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Covariance-map imaging: a new tool for chemical dynamics studies

User Prof Claire Vallance, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom: Meeting ID: 983 4340 7484 Passcode: 162366.

Understanding transition metal heterogeneous catalysis

User Professor Jens Kehlet Nørskov, Technical University of Denmark.

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

House via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Physical RIG, Internal Speakers

User Dr John Danial & James Weber & Dr Mike Casford, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 19 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Natural halogens and tropospheric ozone

User Dr. Fernando Iglesias-Suarez, DLR.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 18 January 2021, 11:00-12:00

House Department of Chemistry (Webinar registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dgeAAcB4S32rsR1o-_4kOw).

Studies in Dexter Energy Transfer with Quantum Dot Donors

BP Sustainability Lecture 2021 (Webinar)

User Prof. Emily Allyn Weiss, Northwestern University .

Thursday 14 January 2021, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry (Webinar registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dgeAAcB4S32rsR1o-_4kOw).

“It’s how you think, not what you think about”: a Career Spent at Interfaces

Athena SWAN Talk (Webinar)

User Prof. Emily Allyn Weiss, Northwestern University .

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 15:30-16:30

House Department of Chemistry (Webinar registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dgeAAcB4S32rsR1o-_4kOw).

Colloidal Photocatalysis for Organic Synthesis and Energy Conversion

BP Sustainability Lecture 2021 (Webinar)

User Prof. Emily Allyn Weiss, Northwestern University .

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 14:15-15:15

House Zoom - Meeting ID: 916 8928 5361 Passcode: 848429.

Ice nucleation without supercooling: on the search for the most potent ice nucleants.

User Professor Valeria Molinero, University of Utah.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Trends and emissions of ammonia and its influence on air quality in the UK deduced with satellite and surface observations and the GEOS-Chem model

User Dr. Eloise Marais, University College London.

House Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89471866908?pwd=THAxZDNzc2ZhSURyRmh6VGtpSXAyQT09.

Monday 30 November 2020, 11:00-12:00

House Zoom - link to be announced.

The hydrophobic effect characterises the thermodynamic signature of amyloid fibril growth

User Dr Sanne Abeln, Vrije University Amsterdam.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 14:30-15:30

House Zoom Meeting ID: 928 9045 3974 Passcode: 313781.

Evolved minimal frustration - How multiple functions are encoded in biomolecules

User Dr Konstantin Röder, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Aerosol Research at ECMWF

User Dr. Angela Benedetti, ECMWF.

House Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81480247722?pwd=Q0cvSGVCSzJYb0hlVUUreXJpb1BoUT09.

Monday 16 November 2020, 11:00-12:00

House Zoom Meeting ID: 981 1605 6934 Passcode: 258737.

First-principles simulation of electronic processes due to ionic projectiles traversing matter

User Professor Emilio Artacho, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 14:30-15:30

House Zoom - Meeting ID: 933 6001 1482 Passcode: 782662.

Wavefunction based correlation methods for molecular condensed phase systems

User Professor Jürg Hutter, University of Zurich.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Estimating and attributing greenhouse gas fluxes using radiocarbon

User Dr. Heather Graven, Imperial College London.

House Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84731267634?pwd=UEtxdFhjWDQxUDhsVFBEb1U2Q2RFUT09.

Monday 02 November 2020, 11:00-12:00

House Zoom - Meeting ID: 924 3189 5042 Passcode: 306870.

In silico identification of reactivity driven MIEs

First Year PhD Report

User Charles Gong, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 15:00-15:30

House Zoom - Meeting ID: 924 3189 5042 Passcode: 306870.

Machine Learning for Critical Care: Using Neural Networks to Predict Patient Mortality

First Year PhD Report

User Conor Cafolla, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 14:30-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Prof M Kevin Brown, INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON.

Monday 26 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Zoom Meeting ID: 986 1567 0048 Passcode: 266539.

Cloud-mounted Molecular Experiments during COVID times

User Dr David Glowacki, University of Bristol.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 14:30-15:30

House Zoom Meeting ID: 994 9249 3911 Passcode: 603941 .

Theoretical Predictions of Superconducting and Superhard Materials

User Professor Eva Zurek, University at Buffalo.

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The utility of simple climate models

User Dr. Chris Smith, University of Leeds.

House Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86969774219?pwd=Unp0SVZQdVBSQ3ZvT1NsVTFUOGViUT09.

Monday 05 October 2020, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE): Mission overview and latest results

User Prof. Peter Bernath - University of Waterloo.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 29 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

House PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Using CO2 to Your Advantage

User Prof Matt Kanan (Stanford University, USA).

Monday 04 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Explosive and Degassing volcanic eruptions: natural analogues with relevance for geoengineering schemes

User Professor Jim Haywood, University of Exeter/Met Office.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

RSC Award Lecture: Title TBC

User Prof. David Britt (U.C Davies, USA).

Tuesday 21 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

CANCELLED: Alex Hopkins Lecture: the joy of discovery

User Professor Ben Feringa, University of Groningen.

Friday 20 March 2020, 17:00-18:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Lewis Lecture (Part II): Title TBC

User Prof. Andy Cooper (University of Liverpool).

Friday 13 March 2020, 11:00-12:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Lewis Lecture (Part I): Title TBC

User Prof. Andy Cooper (University of Liverpool).

Thursday 12 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Venue to be confirmed.

Cancellation - Computational Modelling at the Interface of Physical Organic and Supramolecular Chemistry

This talk has been canceled.

User Prof. Fernanda Duarte (Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford).

Thursday 05 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Approaching Exact Quantum Chemistry by Stochastic Wave Function Sampling and Deterministic Coupled-Cluster Computations

User Professor Piotr Piecuch, Michigan State University.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Dissipative systems showing signs of life

User Prof. W.T.S. Huck, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Photoinduced Assembly of C–N and C–C Bonds

User Daniele Leonori.

Monday 02 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Innovation in synthetic methodology through use of flow

Joint Materials/Synthesis RIG Seminar

User Prof. Timothy Noël (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands).

Monday 02 March 2020, 15:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

To fly or not to fly? Improving volcanic ash forecasts for aviation

User Dr. Natalie Harvey, University of Reading.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Designed Polynuclear Metal Compounds For the Activation of Small Molecules

User Prof Leslie Murray (University of Florida, USA).

Friday 28 February 2020, 10:00-11:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Towards 3D characterization of nanomaterials under realistic conditions

User Prof Sara Bals (University of Antwerp, Belgium).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

The Sum of its Parts: MBE-FCI Theory

User Dr Janus Juul Eriksen, University of Bristol.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

House PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Bioinspired Nano- and Microstructured Surfaces: From Analysis and Replication to Applications

User Prof. Dr. Hendrik Hoelscher (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Microstructure Technology, Germany).

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Physical phenotyping of cells in biology and medicine

User Prof. Jochen Guck, Director, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Matthew Powner, University College London.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Matthew Powner, University College London.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Professor John Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor John Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-18:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Nuclear Quantum Effects – Fast and Accurate

User Venkat Kapil, EPFL.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Protein misfolding in Alzheimer’s disease

User Prof. Louise Serpell, University of Sussex, UK.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Quantum topological effects in the transport properties of ionic conductors

User Professor Stefano Baroni, SISSA — Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Sudi Avanzati, Trieste.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance: from the Lab to the Clinic and back

User Prof. Nathalie Q. Balaban, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Daniele Leonori, University of Manchester.

Monday 10 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Present day anthropogenic climate forcings: The impact of including Earth System interactions

User Dr. Fiona O'Connor, Met Office.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Multi-billion speedup of glassy dynamics with swap Monte Carlo: equilibrium phase transitions and rugged energy landscapes

User Dr Ludovic Berthier, CNRS & Universite de Montpellier.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Dynamic supramolecular materials for medicine

User Prof Dr Tanja Weil.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Reversible Catalysis in Redox Matrices

User Prof. Dr. Nicolas Plumeré (Department of Chemistry, University of Bochum).

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 10:00-11:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospherically significant reactions of Criegee intermediates

User Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing, University of Bristol.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Deep Learning for Molecular Physics

User Professor Frank Noe, Freie Universitaet Berlin.

Friday 31 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuning Properties and Functionality in the Modulated Self-Assembly of Metal-Organic Frameworks

User Prof. Ross Forgan (School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow).

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Higher order from high disorder: DNA condensation by linker histone tails

User Katherine Stott (Department of Biochemistry).

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Functional amyloid in bacteria

User Professor Daniel E. Otzen, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK.

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Molecular chaperones in protein folding and quality control

User Prof. Dr. F. Ulrich Hartl ( Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

High Frequency Dynamic Nuclear Polarization β-Amyloid, Membranes and the Magic Angle

User Prof. Robert G. Griffin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceutical Compounds

User Dr Martin Eastgate, Bristol- Myers Squibb.

Monday 20 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceutical Compounds

User Dr Martin Eastgate, Bristol- Myers Squibb.

Monday 20 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Biosphere-atmosphere interactions in Earth System Models

User Dr. Cat Scott, University of Leeds.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Risks of Climate Change: What is Plan B? Climate Repair

User Professor Sir David King.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Small Things Make Big Differences

Athena SWAN Talk

User Professor Catherine J. Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

The Golden Road: Synthesis and Surface Chemistry of Gold Nanocrystals

BP Sustainability Lecture

User Professor Catherine J. Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Catalytic Conversion of Biomass and Platform Chemicals

User Prof. Feng Wang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics).

Friday 10 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

PM2.5/NOx modelling for health exposure research

User Nathan Pavlovic.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 December 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Custom-tailored Self-Assembled Nanotubes through Hierarchical Coupling of Cooperative Interactions

User Professor David Gonzàlez- Rodríguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Synthetic maps for navigating high-dimensional data spaces

User Professor Alessandro Laio, SISSA Trieste.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Artificial Cells and Cellular Bionics

User Prof. Oscar Ces, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

"Chirality and Light: Enantioselective Catalysis of Photochemical Reactions"

User Professor Thorsten Bach, TU Munich.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Photoenzymatic Catalysis - Using Light to Reveal New Enzyme Functions

User Professor Todd Hyster, Princeton University.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Is an efficient intermolecular energy transfer from vibrations to electronic motion possible?

User Professor Lorenz Cederbaum, Universitat Heidelberg.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

Autophagy and neurodegeneration

User Professor David Rubinsztein ( CIMR).

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Corrosion Studies on Copper-Coated Carbon Steel Containers for Used Nuclear Fuel

User Prof. James J. Noël (The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada).

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

User Dr. Nicolas Bellouin, University of Reading.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Are you interested in the Pharmaceutical industry as a profession after graduation?

User Novartis - Dr Adrian Clarke, Dr Chi Ming Cheung & Dr Aude Figuccia.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

System-bath quantum dynamics in chemical physics

User Professor Peter Saalfrank, University of Potsdam.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Emergence of life-like properties in coacervate droplets

User Evan Spruijt, Radboud University, the Netherlands.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Making bonds by breaking bonds: An unconventional approach to making molecules

User Professor Jun Yamaguchi, Waseda University.

Monday 18 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Pathway to Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Discrete Dipoles

First Year PhD Report

User Haydn Lloyd, University of Cambrisge.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:40-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Multireference Stochastic Coupled Cluster

First Year PhD Report

User Maria-Andreea Filip, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:15-14:35

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A Preliminary Simulation of Convections and Airflows Using An Unstructured Adaptive Mesh Finite-Element Model Fluidity-Atmosphere

User Dr. Jinxi Li, University of Cambridge.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Mechanism in Collective Organizations of Living and Synthetic Cells

User Professor Joachim P. Spatz, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research & Heidelberg University.

Monday 11 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Fluorescent Nucleoside Analogues with New Properties for Biophysics

User Byron W Purse San Diego State University.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Hierarchical equations of motion

First Year PhD Report

User Adam Prada, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:40-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Rapid Route-Finding for Bifurcating Organic Reactions

First Year PhD Report

User Sanha Lee, University of Cambride.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:15-14:35

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Enantioselective Lewis Base Catalysis using Isothioureas

User Professor Andrew Smith, University of St Andrews.

Monday 04 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

DP4-AI Automated NMR Data Analysis: Straight from Spectrometer to Structure

First Year PhD Report

User Alexander Howarth, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 14:40-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Composite Gaussian processes for probabilistic PES prediction

First Year PhD Report

User Fabio Albertani, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 14:15-14:35

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ice cores and aerosols: Past atmospheric chemistry from new generation, continuous ice core analyses

User Dr. Joe McConnell, Desert Research Institute.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

"Moving away from equilibrium: from molecular interactions to transmembrane nano devices"

User Prof. Scott Cockroft, University of Edinburgh.

Monday 21 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

New tools for using single-molecule spectroscopy to elucidate biophysical behavior

User Professor Randall Goldsmith, University of Wisconsin Madison.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Single-Molecule Spectroscopy with Catalysts, Conductive Polymers, and Optical Microresonators

User Professor Randall Goldsmith, University of Wisconsin Madison.

House Pfizer LT.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Rapid discovery and chemical synthesis of proteins

User Professor Bradley Pentelute, MIT Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 14:30-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Biomolecular interactions in crowded cellular environments

User Dr Yuji Sugita, Theoretical Molecular Science Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research.

Thursday 12 September 2019, 14:15-15:15

"Quantum Chemistry in the Continuum"

User Professor Anna Krylov, University of Southern California.

Wednesday 11 September 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

“The crystallisation of organic molecules – a challenge to theory and experiment”

User Prof Sarah (Sally) L Price, University College London.

Thursday 05 September 2019, 11:30-12:30

House PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

From molecular self-association to novel weapons in the fight against antimicrobial resistance

User Dr Jennifer R. Hiscock (School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent).

Thursday 29 August 2019, 14:00-15:00

House PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Synthesis and applications of mechanically chiral molecules

User Prof. Steve Goldup (University of Southampton).

Wednesday 28 August 2019, 14:00-15:00

House PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Confined Electron Transfer for Premium Photocatalysis within Metal-Organic Architectures

User Prof Chunying Duan (Dalian University of Technology, China).

Friday 09 August 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Dispersion Interactions in Density-Functional Theory and Application to Molecular Crystal-Structure Prediction

User Professor Erin Johnson, Dalhousie University.

Monday 05 August 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Todd Hyster, Princeton University.

Friday 26 July 2019, 15:00-16:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Overview of dense self-assembled collagen materials for tissue engineering and morphogenesis studies

User Dr Nadine Nassif (CNRS, Collège de France, Sorbonne Université).

Wednesday 17 July 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Accelerated Synthesis of Modified Proteins via Novel Ligation Technologies

User Professor Richard Payne, University of Sydney.

Friday 12 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor John Montgomery, University of Michigan.

Monday 08 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Aromatic foldamer based protein mimicry and recognition

User Prof. Ivan Huc (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität).

Thursday 04 July 2019, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Detection of Alzheimer’s Protein Biomarker Clusterin using novel Graphene Biosensors

User Shakil A. Awan, Wolfson Nanomaterials & Devices Laboratory, School of Computing, Electronics and Mathematics, University of Plymouth.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

House PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

TBC

User Dr. Wim L. Noorduin (AMOLF).

Thursday 13 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Materials Chemistry to Mimic Living Matter

User Prof. Samuel Stupp, Simpson Querrey Institute for Bio-Inspired Science and Technologies Northwestern University.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

NEW drugs from OLD pathways - Teaching Nature New Tricks

User Professor Tom Simpson, University of Bristol.

Monday 10 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Understanding the Dynamics of Unentangled Associating Polymers by Means of Molecular Simulations

User Professor Jorge Ramírez García, Universidad Politecnica De Madrid.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Selective inhibition of phosphatases to boost protein quality control : A possible treatment for degenerative diseases

User Anne Bertolotti, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Will climate-volcano interactions be modulated by ongoing climate change? Perspective from explosive eruption column rise.

User Thomas Aubry, University of Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Using the Energy Landscape to Elucidate Protein-Ligand Interactions

First Year PhD Report

User Alasdair Keith, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 14:15-14:35

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Determination of protein structure and dynamics with integrative approaches

User Massimiliano Bonomi, Structural Bioinformatics Unit, Institut Pasteur.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

TBC

User Prof. Dr. Sven Schneider (Georg-August-Universität).

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

3D nanostructures for biosensing in living tissues

User Dr. Francesco De Angelis, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia .

Thursday 23 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

New Directions for Random Search

User Professor Chris Pickard, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Protein phase transition: from biology towards new protein materials

User Paolo Arosio, Dept of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

'shuttle catalysis - a conceptual blueprint for reversible functional group transfer'

User Professor Bill Morandi, ETH Zurich.

Monday 20 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Highly Polar Supramolecular Species with Enhanced IR Activity

User Professor Fedor Naumkin, University of Ontario.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Protein dynamics and molecular recognition

User Carlo Camilloni, Department of Biosciences, University of Milan.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Global models for atmospheric new particle formation from the CERN CLOUD experiment

User Hamish Gordon, University of Leeds.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling and Assessing the Impacts of Intercropping, as a Sustainable Farming Practice, on Food Security, Air Quality, and Public Health

User Ka Ming Fung, Graduate Division of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 10 May 2019, 11:00-12:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

X-ray and light scattering in disordered textured systems: wood and cellulose nano-composites

User Prof Yoshiharu Nishiyama (French National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS).

Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:30-14:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Reviving an old idea of Boys and Handy: the transcorrelated method in the context of FCIQMC

User Professor Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

House PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

DENdrimicelles Dendrimer-Encapsulated-Nanoparticle coacervate-core Micelles

User Prof. Dr. Aldrik Velders (Wageningen University & Research).

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Sustaining Life with Genes and Proteins Designed ‘From Scratch’

User Professor Michael Hecht, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Stabilization of AgI’s polar surfaces by the aqueous environment, and its implications for ice formation

User Dr Stephen Cox, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Deep Proteomes, iPS cells & Data Mountains

User Prof. Angus Lamond, Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, University of Dundee.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular Theory of Ion Transport through Liquid-Liquid Interfaces

User Professor Akihiro Morita, Tohoku University.

Monday 29 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Proteostasis function and disfunction: the folding machines that maintain proteome health

User Judith Frydman, Stanford University.

Friday 26 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Complex materials: A journey from disappearing ice phases and ‘pink’ phosphorus to stacking disordered silver iodide

User Prof. Christoph G. Salzmann (University College London).

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Simulating the Quantum Behavior of Matter: Algorithms and Applications

User Professor Michele Ceriotti, EPFL.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Coordination-Assisted Bioorthogonal Chemistry: Bringing Orthogonality in the Tetrazine Ligation with (strained) alkenes

User Kimberly M. Bonger.

Tuesday 23 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

The ribosome – from far past to near future

User Ada Yonath, Structural Biology Department, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Wednesday 17 April 2019, 10:30-11:30

Melville Mini-symposium: Programming materials with classical conditioning algorithms

User Prof. Olli Ikkala, Molecular Materials (Molmat) - Aalto University.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 15:10-16:00

Melville Mini-symposium: Assembly of nano-polysaccharides and plant polyaromatics at interfaces

User Prof. Orlando J. Rojas, Aalto University (Finland) & North Carolina State University (US).

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 14:00-14:50

Melville Mini-symposium: Wood Hemicelluloses: Molecular Structure and Interactions in Woody Tissues

User Prof. Francisco Javier Vilaplana Domingo, UNIVERSITETSLEKTOR.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 13:00-13:50

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Diversity Oriented Biosynthesis: Making Complex Cyclic Peptides Using a Combination of Synthesis and Enzymes

User Prof. Marcel Jaspars (Marine Biodiscovery Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen).

Friday 05 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

PROTAC-mediated Protein Degradation: A New Therapeutic Modality

User Professor Craig Crews, Yale University..

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Recent progress in electron cryomicroscopy

User Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 10:30-11:30

Modified nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids for medicinal chemistry and chemical biology

User Prof Michal Hocek - IOCB Prague - Czech Republic.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The nature of chemistry publishing

User Dr Stuart Cantrill, Chief Editor Nature Chemistry.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre at the Department of Chemistry (off the SPRI car park).

Alex Hopkins Lecture - ‘Is the Milky Way Special?’ Professor Chris Lintott

User Professor Chris Lintott, University of Oxford.

Friday 22 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Modulating Disease-relevant Tau Oligomeric Strains by Small Molecules

User Filippa Lo Cascio, University of Texas Medical Branch.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Investigating the propagation and spreading of protein aggregates in C. elegans

User Carmen Nussbaum-Krammer, Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH).

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Switchable Polymerization Catalysis: Ordered Block Polymers from Monomer Mixtures

User Prof. Charlotte Williams (University of Oxford).

Friday 15 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Stereoelectronic control of cyclizations, fragmentations, and unusual molecules

User Professor Igor Alabugin, Florida State University.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Catalytic Activation of Renewable Resources to make Polymers and Fuels

User Prof. Charlotte Williams (University of Oxford).

Thursday 14 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

How Space Constrains Evolution: Lessons from Microbes and Bacteriophage

User Dr Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Material properties of functional amyloids

User Dr Ulyana Shimanovich, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weitzmann Institute of Science.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Establishing meso-methyl BODIPYs as viable visible-light excitable photocages

User Roy Weinstain - Tel-Aviv University.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

The Vibrational Dynamics of the Hydrated Proton

User Professor Joel Bowman, Emory University.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Prion propagation and its wider relevance in neurodegeneration

User John Collinge, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

On discovery in catalysis

User Professor Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster.

Monday 04 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Air Pollution in Delhi, India

User Ying Chen, Lancaster.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Unileaver Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Samir Zard, Ecole Polytechnique, France.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Use of different types of information to better understand compounds’ Mechanism of Action.

First Year PhD Report

User Maria-Anna Trapotsi, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:15-14:35

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

A chemical biology approach to the modulation of cell fate and cell state

User Dr Luke Lairson, Scripps.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Oxidation catalysis imparted by donor-flexible ligands

User Professor Martin Albrecht (Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Bern).

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Making the tiniest machines

User Professor David Leigh, University of Manchester.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Ab Initio Thermodynamics with the help of Machine Learning

User Bingqing Cheng, EPFL.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

A super-resolved look at synthetic nanomaterials

User Lorenzo Albertazzi, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC).

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Interactions between stratospheric ozone and climate change in the Arctic

User Dr Jian Kai Zhang, Lecturer, Lanzhou University and Academic Visitor at Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Going green with black: On Biomass, Carbon and Clean Energy

User Professor Magdalena Titirici (Imperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering).

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

Spin-Vibronic Dynamics in Organic Electronics: From Simulations to Molecular Design using Dynamo-phores.

User Dr Thomas Penfold, Newcastle University.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Surprises in the Self-Assembly of Particles in Spherical Confinement

User Prof. Alfons van Blaaderen (Debye Institute for Nanomaterials, Utrecht University).

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Melville Lectures "Breakable and self-assembled materials: Synthesis and applications"

User Professor Luisa de Cola, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie, Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg.

Monday 11 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Melville Lectures 2019 "Luminescent complexes: assemblies, sensing, towards artificial virus"

User Professor Luisa de Cola, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie, Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Uncertainty-Driven Construction of Markov Models from Accelerated Molecular Dynamics

User Dr Thomas D Swinburne, Aix-Marseille University.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Aggregation of tau and alpha-synuclein: towards a therapeutic target in neurodegenerative diseases

User Maria Grazia Spillantini, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Talk is postponed as of 01.02.2019

User Dr Scott Yiu, Cambridge University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

In Situ Self-Assembly of Conjugated Polymers

User Prof. Tae-Lim Choi (Seoul Natinoal University) .

Thursday 31 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Biomolecular Hydration Shells: Dynamics and Biochemical Function

User Professor Damien Laage, ENS Paris.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Using protein side-chain dynamics to probe enzymatic function and regulation

User Professor Flemming Hansen, Department of Structural & Molecular Biology, University College London.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Engineered proteins as tools for assembly of functional structures and materials

User Aitziber L. Cortajarena, CIC biomaGUNE.

Friday 25 January 2019, 11:15-12:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

SUPERCHIRALITY AND BLOCH SURFACE WAVES

User Prof. Paolo Biagioni, Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano (IT).

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

House Seminar Room, BP Institute.

Molecular Photosynthesis: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On

User Professor Marcella Bonchio (University of Padova and ITM-CNR, Department of Chemical Sciences).

Thursday 24 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Supramolecular Architectures for Artificial Photosynthesis

User Professor Marcella Bonchio (University of Padova and ITM-CNR, Department of Chemical Sciences).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 15:45-16:45

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Force Fields and Potential Energy Surfaces

User Professor Gábor Csányi, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Athena SWAN Presentation

User Professor Marcella Bonchio and Dr Emma Chapman.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Physical and Chemical Aspects of Surface Chirality

User Professor Stephen Jenkins, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ARPP21 mutations reveal the role of RNA granule dysfunction in ALS and FTD

User Christopher E Shaw, King's College London.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 10:00-11:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Multicatalytic Transformations with and without Light

User Professor Kirsten Zeitler, Institut für Organische Chemie, Universitat Leipzig..

Wednesday 19 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Multicatalytic Transformations with and without Light

User Professor Kirstin Zeitler.

Wednesday 19 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Scott Yiu, Cambridge University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 December 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Understanding somatic and germline cancer mutations at the structural level using biomolecular simulations and graph theory

User Professor Elena Papaleo.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 10:30-11:30

House Unileaver Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

New arylation strategies in synthesis’

User Professor Michael Greaney, University of Manchester.

Monday 03 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Direct measurements of urban pollutant emissions

User Eiko Nemitz, CEH.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 December 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Hybrid molecular materials for water splitting applications

User Antoni Llobet, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Using the Force with Quantum Monte Carlo

User Professor Claudia Filippi, University of Twente.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chemical Ionisation Mass Spectrometry: ground and airborne measurements

User Dr Thomas Bannan University of Manchester.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials

User Professor Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Metal-containing organic cages and macrocycles with open/close feature

User Prof Shigehisa Akine (Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University).

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

The role of α-synuclein at the pre-synapse

User Dr. Gabriele Kaminski Schierle, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 10:30-11:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Visualizing Electrostatics of a Single Biomolecule in the Fluid Phase

User Professor Madhavi Krishnan, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

2018 Merck Lectureship

User Professor Sarah Reisman- Caltech.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 15:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

2018 Merck Lectureship

User Professor Sarah Reisman, Caltech and Dr. Caroline McGregor, Merck.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 15:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Using Microwell Array Technology to Probe Chemistry and Biology at Their Fundamental Limits

User Professor David R Walt, Harvard Medical School.

Monday 12 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Satellite Observations, Earth System Models and Public Engagement Synergies: from Oil and Natural Gas Operations, Enhanced Weathering to Ozone Gardens

User Maria Val Martin, University of Sheffield.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

MAGNETIC BLOCKING AND LARGE COERCIVITY IN LANTHANIDE-BASED SINGLE-MOLECULE MAGNETS

User Selvan Demir - University of Göttingen, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

New Avenues in Synthesis Enabled by Organic Photoredox Catalysis

User Professor David Nicewicz, UNC Chapel Hill .

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Simulation of Reversible Transitions in Multifunctional Biomolecules: the Energy Landscape Perspective

First Year PhD Report

User Daniel Sharpe, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:40-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Structural Parametrisation of Lanthanide-Based Single-Molecule Magnets for Room Temperature Quantum Computing

First Year PhD Report

User David Izuogu, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:15-14:35

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Molecular Studies in Vascular Dementia

User Atticus Hainsworth, St George's University of London.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Synchrotron Adventures with Criegee Intermediates: Studies of Tropospheric Chemistry in the Lab

User Rebecca Caravan, Sandia National Labs.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 05 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Programming Hierarchical Self-Assembly for Colloidal Open Crystals

User Dr Dwaipayan Chakrabarti, University of Birmingham.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Cellular responses to DNA damage: mechanistic insights and therapeutic applications

User Prof. Steve Jackson, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Chemistry Postdoc Seminar

User Dr Kristaps Ermanis (Goodman group) and Dr. Darren Willcox (Gaunt group).

Thursday 25 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Pathways of Amyloid Aggregation

User Dr Birgit Strodel, Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: RNA as a key factor in driving or preventing self-assembly of the TAR DNA-binding protein 43

User Prof. Annalisa Pastore.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 10:30-11:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Functional Nanoparticles: A Pathway to Low Viscosity Nanofluids, High Graft Density Polymers and Other Fun Things

User Prof. David Andrew Lewis, PhD, FRACI (Flinders centre for NanoScale Science and Technology, Flinders University) .

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

On the structure-function uncertainties of proteins

User Prof. Monika Fuxreiter, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Debrecen, Hungary.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Energy Landscapes of Amyloid Oligomers

First Year PhD Report

User Luke Dicks, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 14:40-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Matsubara Fluctuations and their Effects on Infrared Spectra

First Year PhD Report

User Raz Benson, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 14:15-14:35

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Tuning protein biogenesis at the level of translation: probing dimensionality beyond the linear sequence of mRNA

User Prof. Zoya Ignatova, Institute of Biochem. & Mol. Biol., Univ. of Hamburg, Germany.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

An expanding picture of Criegee intermediate tropospheric chemistry

User Dr Joseph Beames, Cardiff University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 15 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Neurons Put Out the Trash: A Novel Facet of Proteostasis and Mitochondrial Quality Control

User Prof. Monica Driscoll, Rutgers University, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Piscataway, NJ, USA.

Monday 15 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Leveraging Dispersion and Electrophilicity in Catalysts for Challenging Coupling Reactions

User Professor Brad Carrow, Princeton University..

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Constant-Uncertainty Molecular Dynamics - A New Method for Approximating Quantum Dynamics?

First Year PhD Report

User Sundeep Popat, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 14:40-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Symmetry in Multiple Hartree–Fock Self-Consistent-Field Solutions of Transition-Metal Complexes

First Year PhD Report

User Bang Huynh, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 14:15-14:35

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Protein Misfolding Diseases. The Structural Determinants of Protein Misfolded Oligomers Responsible for Toxicity and the Mechanism through which Toxicity is Mediated

User Prof. Fabrizio Chiti, Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences “Mario Serio”, Section of Biochemistry, University of Florence, Italy.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 10:30-11:30