Department of Chemistry

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.

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

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

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

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Cell Uptake and Trafficking: from amyloid proteins to drug delivery vehicles

User Prof. Elin K. Esbjörner, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

Friday 05 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

The Mechanics of DNA and its Assemblies: From Twist-Bend Coupling to Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

User Professor Jonathan Doye, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

The role of chirality on the assembly of short peptides into supramolecular hydrogels

User Prof. Silvia Marchesan, University of Trieste.

Tuesday 02 October 2018, 11:30-12:00

Stimuli Responsive Supramolecular Materials Formed from Host and Guest Polymers

User Prof. Yoshinori Takashima (Osaka University, Japan).

Tuesday 02 October 2018, 11:00-11:30

Pillar-Shaped Macrocyclic Compounds "Pillar[n]arenes": from Simple Molecular Receptors to Bulk Supramolecular Assemblies

User Prof. Tomoki Ogoshi (Kanazawa University, Japan).

Tuesday 02 October 2018, 10:30-11:00

Development of New Chirality-switchable Functional Materials Based on the Solvent-dependent Helix Inversion of Poly(quinoxaline-2,3-diyl)s

User Prof. Yuuya Nagata (Kyoto University, Japan).

Tuesday 02 October 2018, 10:00-10:30

Polymer/clay nanocomposites: The catalytic effect of clay

User Prof Miroslav Huskić (National Institute of Chemistry).

Friday 28 September 2018, 10:00-11:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Optimizing the Ordered Self-Assembly of Soft and Hard Nanoscale Building Blocks: Pure Components and Alloys

User Professor Fernando Escobedo, Cornell University.

Thursday 30 August 2018, 14:15-15:15

Solid State Seminar Series

Solid State Seminar August 2018

User Dr Nick Funnell, ISIS.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 17 August 2018, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Catalyst design for energy and environmental applications

User Dr Muhammad Zaheer.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 August 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nanostructures Prepared from Self-Assembly of Pillararene-Based Macrocyclic Amphiphiles and Supramolecular Amphiphiles

User Professor Feihe Huang, Zhejiang University.

Tuesday 24 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

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

Asymmetric Radical Transformations (Arts) via a Copper-catalyzed Radical Relay

User Professor Guosheng Liu, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China.

Thursday 19 July 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

From new dynamically self-assembling materials to chemical reactivities in confined environments

User Professor Rafal Klajn (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) .

Thursday 19 July 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Prof Ralf Jungmann, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Wednesday 04 July 2018, 10:30-11:30

Solid State Seminar Series

Solid State Seminar June 2018

User Dr Lucy Clark (University of Liverpool).

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

[CANCELLED] Power and benefit of harnessing of phosphatase for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

User Anne Bertolotti, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Wednesday 27 June 2018, 10:30-11:30

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

Bridging Molecular and Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis Through Graphite Conjugation

User Prof. Yogesh Surendranath, MIT, Cambridge, USA.

Monday 25 June 2018, 15:00-16:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Binding without folding: Extreme disorder and dynamics in a high-affinity protein complex

User Ben Schuler, University of Zurich, Department of Biochemistry and Department of Physics, Zurich, Switzerland.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Functionalization and Heteroleptic Assembly of Coordination Cages

User Prof. Dr. Guido Clever (Anorganische Chemie, Technische Universität Dortmund).

Monday 11 June 2018, 10:00-11:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Microfluidic methods to study single cells and peptide-membrane interactions

User Prof. Petra S. Dittrich, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Designing a strategy for merging atmospheric chemistry models and measurements: Going after what matters

Please note, venue and time.

User Prof. Michael Prather, Earth system Science Dept, UC Irvine.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Todd Hamied, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular Imaging of Disease

User Bruno Oliveira, Chemistry Dept, Cambridge.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Atomistic graph partitioning across scales: from molecules to precision healthcare

User Professor Sophia Yaliraki, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

PrP post-translational modifications determine prion disease outcome

User Christina J. Sigurdson, D.V.M., Ph.D., Department of Pathology, UC San Diego.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 10:30-11:30

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

Aqueous Catalysis: From Fundamental Water Oxidation to the Commercialisation of Hydrothermal Biomass Upgrading

User Prof. Thomas Maschmeyer, Australian Institute of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 15:30-16:30

Solid State Seminar Series

Solid State Seminar May 2018

User Emma McCabe (University of Kent) and David Jarvis (Dept. of Physics, University of Cambridge).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 25 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

From kB to kB: Universal and Efficient Entropy Estimation using a Compression Algorithm

User Professor Roy Beck-Barkai, Tel-Aviv University.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Multicomponent Reactions in Peptide and Protein Chemistry

User Prof Daniel García Rivera from the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Havana (Cuba).

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Atmospheric research from the molecular to city scale

User Dr Francis Pope, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Weighing single molecules with light

User Philipp Kukura, Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Selected CI and Jastrow-free QMC methods for Chemistry

User Dr Pierre-Francois Loos, Université de Toulouse.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The search for signs of ozone recovery

User Dr James Keeble, Cambridge University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Using Sequence Data to Probe the Determinants of Higher Order Structure in Fibrallar Collagens

First Year PhD Report

User Anna Puszkarska, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 14:40-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

How can we understand Quantum Rate Theory with the help of Matsubara Dynamics?

First Year PhD Report

User Eszter Pós, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 14:15-14:35

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

What are Extrasolar planets made of? Molecular line lists for hot atmospheres.

User Professor Jonathan Tennyson, University College London.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Polyaromatic Nanocapsules: from Strategic Synthesis to Host Functions

User Professor Michito Yoshizawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Friday 27 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Symmetry, Degeneracy, and Strong Correlation

User Professor Gustavo E. Scuseria, Rice University.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Democratising high-quality live-cell super-resolution microscopy enabled by open-source analytics in ImageJ

User Ricardo Henriques, MRC-Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Artificial Metalloenzymes: Challenges and Opportunities"

User Professor Thomas Ward, University of Basel.

Monday 16 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

David Chandler Linnett Memorial Symposium

User Dr Céline Merlet, Prof. Christoph Dellago, Prof. Iris Antes, Prof. Juan P. Garrahan, Dr Lester Hedges, Prof. Pieter Rein ten Wolde, Prof. Berend Smit, Dr Benjamin Rotenberg, Prof. Tuomas Knowles, Dr Ulf Pedersen.

Friday 13 April 2018, 11:00-18:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Encapsulating Matter, from inert to alive: design and applications.

User Professor Jérôme Bibette, ESPCI, Laboratoire Colloïdes et Matériaux divisés.

Thursday 05 April 2018, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

INFRARED TRANSMITTING SILVER HALIDE FIBERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

User Prof. Abraham Katzir, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University.

Tuesday 03 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

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

Cycloadditions via TMM-Pd Intermediates: New Strategies for Asymmetric Induction and Total Synthesis

User Professor Barry Trost, Stanford University.

Friday 23 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Cancelled

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 21 March 2018, 10:30-11:30

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

Self-assembling Organic Nanostructures for Solar Energy Conversion

User Professor Michael R. Wasielewski, Northwestern University.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Source-and-Sink Models for Molecular Conduction

User Professor Patrick Fowler, Unitversity of Sheffield .

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

NMR atomic-resolution structures of amyloids

User Beat H. Meier (Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich).

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 10:30-11:30

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

Aromatic foldamers: mastering molecular shape

User Professor Ivan Huc, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Modelling diffusion-osmosis

First Year PhD Report

User Simon Ramirez Hinestrosa, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 14:55-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Depolarising Polar Surface Simulations

First Year PhD Report

User Thomas Sayer, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 14:35-14:55

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Extracting Adverse Drug Events from Spontaneous Reporting Data for Understanding Drug Side Effects

First Year PhD Report

User Ines Smit, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 14:15-14:35

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Perylene-Based Poly(N-Heterocycles): Organic Semiconductors, Biological Fluorescence Probes and Building Blocks for Molecular Surface Networks

User Professor Lutz Gade, Heidelberg University.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Identification of Active Species and Mechanistic Pathways in the Enantioselective Catalysis with 3d Transition Metal Pincer Complexes

User Professor Lutz H. Gade, Heidelburg University.

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Methane and the Paris Agreement

User Professor Euan Nisbet, Royal Holloway and NERC Project MOYA.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Efficient Storage Mechanisms for Building Better Supercapacitors

User Professor Mathieu Salanne, Sorbonne Université.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Developing drugs for neurodegeneration and other diseases in academia, industry and in-between

User John Skidmore, Alzheimer’s Research UK Cambridge Drug Discovery Institute.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 10:30-11:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

Novel proteins that orchestrate starch granule formation in plants

User Dr. David Seung, John Innes Centre.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 09:00-10:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Emissions and Chemistry of air pollution in London and Beijing: a tale of two cities.

User Professor James Lee, University of York.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

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

Biopolymers for photonics - painting opals with water and light

User Prof. Fiorenzo Omenetto, Tufts University.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Second Harmonic Scattering: Atomistic Simulation and Machine Learning

User Dr David M. Wilkins, Laboratory of Computational Science and Modelling, EPFL.

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

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

Electron Catalysis

User Prof Armido Studer, Organisch-Chemisches Institut, WWU Münster.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 15:00-16:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Time Reversal Symmetries and the Simulation of Charge Transport in an External Magnetic Field

User Dr Sara Bonella, EPFL.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Fundamental Limits to Volcanic Cooling and its Implications for Past Climate on Earth

User David Wade, Cambridge University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 05 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Stokes-Smoluchowski-Einstein-Langevin Theory for Active Colloidal Suspensions

User Dr. Ronojoy Adhikari, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

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

Functional Nanoscale and Hierarchical Materials by Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly

User Professor Ian Manners, University of Bristol.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

The Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation

User Dr Karel Proesmans, University of Hasselt.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ambient air quality and human health in India

User Luke Conibear, University of Leeds.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

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

Catalytic Chirality Generation: New Strategies for Organic Synthesis

User Professor John Bower, University of Bristol.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

From binary anionic P4 analogs to ternary intermetalloid clusters

User Stefanie Dehnen, Philipps University Marburg.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Big Molecules and Small Particles

User Professor Lennart Lindfors, University of Gothenburg.

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Biologically inspired de novo protein structure prediction

User Professor Charlotte Deane, Professor of Structural Bioinformatics & Head of Department, Department of Statistics University of Oxford.

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 10:30-11:30

Improving the Prediction of In vivo Drug Activity

User Peter Tonge, Institute for Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery, Stony Brook University USA.

Tuesday 16 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

What inspires us to learn?

User Fun Man Fung, National University of Singapore.

Friday 15 December 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

New insights into protein misfolding in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases using in vivo systems

User Professor Dennis Selkoe, Harvard Medical School, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham & Women’s Hospital.

Wednesday 13 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

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

Organic Electronics for Monitoring and Hosting of 3D Cell Biology Models

User Dr. Róisín M. Owens, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 December 2017, 14:30-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stereodivergent Catalysis, Strategies and Tactics Towards Secondary Metabolites as enabling tools for the Study of Natural Products Biology

User Professor Erick M. Carreira, ETH Zürich.

Thursday 07 December 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Covalent and Non-Covalent Interactions in Molecular Systems

User Professor Alexandre Tkatchenko, University of Luxembourg.

Wednesday 06 December 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Kinetic Insights into amyloid-β metal ion interactions and implications for AD.

User Dr Liming Ying, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 06 December 2017, 10:30-11:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Frontiers in Biocatalytic C-H Functionalization

User Professor Greg Challis, University of Warwick.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Nuclear Quantum Effects in Water Reorientation & Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics

User Professor James T. (Casey) Hynes.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Learning from Nature to Form New Organic Materials for Tissue Regeneration

User Dr. Lihi Adler-Abramovich, Tel Aviv University.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 10:30-11:30

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

Assembly Line Synthesis

User Professor Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol.

Monday 27 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

House TCM Seminar room (530), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Halide Double Perovskites: The search for environmentally benign alternatives to the lead-based materials

User Patrick M. Woodward, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio State University.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 15:30-16:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Slimming Down Through Frustration

User Dr Martin Lenz, Université Paris-Sud.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Microfluidic Single-Cell Manipulation and Analysis

User Dr. Stefano Pagliara, University of Exeter.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Dual air quality benefit of SO2 emission controls by decreasing sulfate and biogenic secondary organic aerosol

User Dr Eloïse Marais, University of Birmingham.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

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

Synthesis RIG Postdoc Seminar

User Dr Katrine Qvortrup & Dr Claudio Bomio.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 16:00-18:00

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

Solid State Seminar Series: "Oxide Ion Conductors for Energy Applications: Structure and Dynamics"

User Dr Ivana Evans (Durham University).

Thursday 16 November 2017, 15:30-16:00

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

Solid State Seminar Series: "Crystal structure prediction for next-generation battery anodes"

User Matthew Evans (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 16 November 2017, 15:00-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

The Challenges to Theory of Predicting the Crystallisation of Organic Molecules

User Professor Sally Price, University College London.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

"A TREMendous mechanism for Alzheimer's Disease: therapeutic insights"

User Dr Damian Crowther, Neuroscience, IMED Biotech Unit, AstraZeneca.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 10:30-11:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre at the Department of Chemistry (off the SPRI car park).

Bonfires with a bang

Warning: There will be smoke, bright flashes and loud bangs!

User Dr Andy Szydio.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Quantum Machine Learning

User Professor Anatole von Lilienfeld, University of Basel.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Evolution and assembly of protein complexes

User Dr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Using past decadal temperature changes to understand present and future climate

User Dr Andrew Schurer, University of Edinburgh.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 06 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

On-The-Fly AB Initio Semiclassical Dynamics for Computing Vibrationally Resolved Electronic Spectra

User Professor Jiří Vaníček (EPFL, Lausanne).

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

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

Throwing light on organocatalysis: new opportunities in enantioselective synthesis

User Professor Paolo Melchiorre, ICIQ.

Monday 30 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Liquid State Theory Meets Deep Learning and Molecular Informatics

User Dr Alpha Lee, University of Cambridge, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Deep Learning in Chemistry

User Dr Richard Dybowski, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Detailed Modelling of Organic Chemistry in the Atmosphere – Recent Advances (and Limitations)

User Dr Peter Brauer, University of York.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

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

Predicting and designing the self-assembly of colloidal particles: a computer game

User Professor Marjolein Dijkstra, Utrecht University.

Friday 20 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Predicting and Designing the Self-Assembly of Colloidal Particles: A Computer Game

Formal Materials - Theory Seminar

User Professor Marjolein Dijkstra, Utrecht University.

Friday 20 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Computing and Understanding the Ro-Vibrational Spectrum of CH5+

User Professor Tucker Carrington, Queen's University.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Microglia eating neurons and TREM2:Abeta interactions in neurodegeneration

User Prof. Guy Brown, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 10:30-11:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre at the Department of Chemistry (off the SPRI car park).

Shedding some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic Universe: Ribozymes, Telomerase and Regulating Epigenetics

2017 Herchel Smith Lecture given by Nobel Laureate Professor Tom Cech

User Professor Tom Cech, University of Colorado Boulder.

Monday 16 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Self-assembly of Si- and SiGe-based dielectric Mie resonators via templated solid-state dewetting

User Marco Abbarchi, Aix-Marseille Université.

Friday 13 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Holomorphic Hartree-Fock Theory: Exploiting Multiple SCF Solutions for Non-Orthogonal Configuration Interaction

1st Year PhD Report

User Hugh Burton.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 14:40-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Mean-Fielding in Path-Integral Simulations of Quantum Condensed Matter Systems

1st Year PhD Report

User George Trenins.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 14:15-14:35

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Redox-dependent modulation of haemostasis and vascular function by amyloid peptide beta: a new interpretation of the vascular component of dementia.

User Dr Giordano Pula, University of Exeter Medical School.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 10:30-11:30

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

Deciphering the human microbiota with chemistry

User Professor Emily Balskus, Harvard University.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CPGS Seminars

User Andrea di Antonio and Anika Krause, Cambridge University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

The artificial leaf for efficient generation of solar fuels: involved elementary steps and material's design

User Prof. Wolfram Jaegermann, TU Darmstadt.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

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

BP KEYNOTE LECTURE: Importance of C-O Bond Activation for CO2/COUtilization - An Approach to Energy Conversion and Storage

User Yuhan Sun, CAS Key Lab of Low-Carbon Conversion Science and Engineering, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai..

Tuesday 03 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Pre-degenerative deficits in dopamine transmission in an alpha-synuclein mouse model of Parkinson’s disease: the role of lipids and the dopamine transporter

User Sarah Threlfell, Senior Research Fellow, Dept. Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre.

Wednesday 27 September 2017, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

First Principles Monte Carlo Simulations of Phase, Sorption, and Reaction Equilibria

User Professor Ilja Siepmann (University of Minnesota).

Friday 22 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Learning and Applying Nature's Biosynthetic Logic

User Prof. Bradley S. Moore, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego.

Thursday 14 September 2017, 14:00-16:00

House Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

Photosynthetic water oxidation - the substrates view

For more information, please contact Dr. Erwin Reisner (reisner@ch.cam.ac.uk)

User Prof. Johannes Messinger, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Sweden.

Wednesday 13 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

First Principles Monte Carlo Simulations of Phase, Sorption, and Reaction Equilibria

User Professor Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota.

Monday 11 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

Manufacturing of designed nanomaterials

If you would like more information regarding Dr. Torrente's talk, please contact Dr. Erwin Reisner (reisner@ch.cam.ac.uk)

User Dr. Laura Torrente Murciano, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium

Registration essential: £110 (3-5 Sept) http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/pfei/registration

User Keynote Speakers: Professor Sir Alan Fersht and Professor Dame Carol Robinson.

House McGrath Centre.

Tuesday 05 September 2017, 09:00-18:00

Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium

Registration essential: £110 (3-5 Sept) http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/pfei/registration

User Keynote Speakers: Professor Sir Alan Fersht and Professor Dame Carol Robinson.

House McGrath Centre.

Monday 04 September 2017, 09:00-18:00

Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium

Registration essential: £110 (3-5 Sept) http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/pfei/registration

User Keynote Speakers: Professor Sir Alan Fersht and Professor Dame Carol Robinson.

House McGrath Centre.

Sunday 03 September 2017, 16:00-18:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Cryo-EM structures of Tau filaments from Alzheimer's disease brains

User Anthony W.P. Fitzpatrick.

Wednesday 30 August 2017, 10:30-11:30

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

Cyclic Peptides: Building Blocks for Supramolecular Designs

User Professor Juan R. Granja - University of Santiago de Compostela .

Tuesday 22 August 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Networks, resilience and complexity

User Professor Gabriel Cwilich, Yeshiva University, New York, USA.

Tuesday 15 August 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Biomolecular self-assemblies by solid-state NMR: functional amyloids and bacterial filaments

User Dr Birgit Habenstein, CBMN UMR5248 CNRS, Institut de Biologie & Chimie des Membranes & Nanoobjets.

Wednesday 19 July 2017, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Rational Metallodrug Development: Novel Pharmacophores and Mode of Action Investigations

User Christian G Hartinger, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Friday 14 July 2017, 14:00-16:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sulfur Chemistry for Biology and the Environment

User Dr Justin Chalker.

Thursday 13 July 2017, 12:00-13:00

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

Applications of the (4+3) cycloaddition of Epoxy Enolsilanes to the synthesis of cortistatin A and himandrine

User Professor Pauline Chiu, Hong Kong University.

Monday 10 July 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Designing drugs on an intrinsically disordered protein involved in pancreatic cancer

User Professor José Luis Neira, Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche (Alicante), Spain.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 10:30-11:30

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

Correlation between reflected and transmitted light in scattering media

User Dr. Jacopo Bertolotti, University of Exeter.

Thursday 29 June 2017, 15:30-16:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

Alternative Approaches to Chemical Risk Assessment: Assays, Databases, Models

Dr Richard Judson is a research chemist at the US EPA's National Center for Computational Toxicology. His research involves the development of databases and computer models to predict toxicological effects across a wide variety of chemicals.

User Dr Richard Judson, EPA National Centre for Computational Toxicology.

Monday 26 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Unlocking new potentials: Incorporating atomic-level anisotropy and improved radial dependencies into simple intermolecular force fields

User Mary Van Vleet, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Friday 23 June 2017, 12:00-12:40

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Perspectives in Chemistry: From Supramolecular Chemistry towards Adaptive Chemistry

User Professor Jean-Marie Lehn.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Mutant HTT aggregation and conformers: what we know and what we don’t know

User Erich E. Wanker, Head Neuroproteomics and Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch.

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 10:30-11:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Theory RIG Informal Symposium

User Fredrik Svensson, Laura Mitchell & Brian Ng.

Monday 12 June 2017, 16:00-19:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

What has the Antarctic ozone hole to do with biological evolution?

User Prof Michael Edgeworth McIntyre (University of Cambridge).

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

LILBID-mass spectrometry: interrogating non-covalent complexes

User Nina Morgner, nstitute of physical and theoretical chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 10:30-11:30

Disorder by Design

User Prof. Andrew Goodwin, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Joost Reek, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Molecular evolution of macrocyclic rescuers of disease-associated protein misfolding

User Dr. Georgios Skretas, Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry & Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuning charge transfer in low-dimensional nano carbons

User Prof. Dirk Guldi, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric ozone in the Earth system

User Fernando Iglesias Suarez, Lancaster University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Coordination Self-Assembly: From the Origins to the Latest Advances

User Prof. Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

NMR spectroscopy to study dynamics with applications to immunology and neurodegeneration

User Professor Christian Griesinger, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tropospheric ozone: Short-lived climate forcer

User Dr Richard Derwent, rdscientific.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 15 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Recent Forays in Methods Development and Complex Molecule Synthesis

User Professor Neil Garg, University of California, Los Angeles.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Amyloids from the origin to the end of life

User Professor Roland Riek, ETH Zurich.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Merck, Sharp & Dohme Lecture

User Professor Stephen Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr Richard Tillyer, Merck.

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:30-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Prebiotic Chemistry on Other Worlds

User Paul B. Rimmer (University of Cambridge).

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Switching to the dark side: Repositioning of Polyglutamine Repeat Promotes Amyloid Fibril Formation by the Model Protein, β-Lactamase BlaP

User Dr Mireille Dumoulin, University of Liege.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 10:30-11:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

The Entropy Production Paradox: The Mysterious World Between Diffusion and Waves.

User Professor Christopher Essex, University of Western Ontario.

Monday 01 May 2017, 10:00-11:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

2017 Lord Lewis Lecture (II) Plasmonics for sustainability: harvesting light energy for new solar applications

User Professor Naomi Halas, RICE University.

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

2017 Lord Lewis Lecture (I) Sustainable plasmonics: abundant materials for modular photocatalysis

User Professor Naomi Halas, RICE University.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Dynamics and thermodynamics of ligand binding to galectin-3

User Professor Mikael Akke, Lund University.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Enzyme Catalysis, Inhibition & Resistance: A Design Perspective

User Professor Bruce Tidor, MIT.

Friday 21 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Design and use of chemical tools to modulate gene expression in cancer cells based on the targeting of DNA methyltransferase

User Paola B. Arimondo, CNRS Pierre Fabre Laboratories, Toulouse France Overseas Fellow Churchill College, Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Biophysical Seminar Series 2016/17

Amyloid oligomers : precursors, competitors or inhibitors of fibril formation

User Professor Martin Muschol, Dept. of Physics, University of South Florida.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Cellulose-based helical micro/nano filaments and films

User Prof. Maria Helena Figueiredo Godinho, Universidad Nova de Lisboa.

Tuesday 11 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Fuzziness in function and evolution of proteins

User Dr Monika Fuxreiter, MTA-DE Momentum Laboratory of Protein Dynamics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Debrecen, Hungary.

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Using and Developing the Weather Research and Forecasting model with Chemistry (WRF-Chem)

User Dr Scott Archer-Nicholls, Cambridge University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 March 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

RSC Prizewinner's seminar: Self-assembed coordination cages: host-guest chemistry and functional behaviour

User Prof. Michael Ward, University of Sheffield.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Studies on the Molecular Recognition of aminoglycoside antibiotics by nucleic acids and proteins

User Juan Luis Asensio, Instituto de Química Orgánica General, Madrid.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A comprehensive model analysis of the UK atmospheric composition and air-surface exchange of pollutants

User Dr Massimo Vieno, CEH, Edinburgh.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 March 2017, 14:15-15:15

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

Late-Stage Fluorination for PET Imaging

User Professor Tobias Ritter, Max Planck Institute.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

Understanding SAR of the apelins and how it impacts patho-physiology

User Dr Eric Marsault, Univerisity of Sherbrooke.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Electron cryomicroscopy of biological structures: overcoming the barriers to further progress.

User Richard Henderson, MRC lab.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Modeling the Physical Multi-Phase Interactions of HNO3 Between Snow and Air on the Antarctic Plateau (Dome C) and coast (Halley)

User Hoi Ga Chan, British Antarctic Survey.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 06 March 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Pathogenic vs. Reversible Amyloid & Inhibition of Aggregation

User Prof David Eisenberg, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCLA-DOE Institute, Departments of Biological Chemistry and Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

New Developments in Climate Observations

User Prof Stephen Briggs, European Space Agency.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

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

Counter-ions and Cascades

User Professor Martin Smith, University of Oxford.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Disentangling Polydispersity in Biological Systems by SAXS

User Pau Bernadó, Centre de Biochimie Structurale (CBS).

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Global modelling of tropospheric halogens and their impacts on air quality and climate

User Dr Tomás Sherwen, University of York.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

New insights into protein misfolding in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases using in vivo systems

User Prof Dennis Selkoe, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Friday 17 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Biomimicry with Synthetic Receptors: Self-Assembly and Molecular Recognition

User Richard Hooley, University of California.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Interaction between gaseous halogen oxides and other radical families

User Dr David Rowley, University College, London.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Melville Lecture 2: Rational Strategy for Chain-Growth Supramolecular Polymerization

User Professor Takuzo Aida, University of Tokyo .

Thursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

First-principles simulation of electrochemical reactions at solid-liquid interface

User Dr Minoru Otani, National Institute of Advanced Inductrial Science and Technology (AIST).

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Melville Lecture 1: Stimuli-Responsive Smart Soft Materials abricated under Nonequilibrated Conditions

User Professor Takuzo Aida, University of Tokyo .

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Inferring causality in the atmosphere - constraining aerosol-cloud interactions from observations

User Edward Gryspeerdt, Imperial College, London.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 06 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Inhibition of Protein-Protein Interactions Using Biomimetic Approaches

User Professor Andrew Wilson, University of Leeds.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Halocarbons in Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology: New opportunities and challenges

User Pierangelo Metrangolo, Politecnico di Milano.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 31 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Air Pollution and Human Health (APHH) in a Chinese Megacity (Beijing): campaign overview

User Dr Lekan Popoola.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 January 2017, 14:15-15:15

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

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Organic Synthesis

User Professor Robert Knowles, Princeton University.

Monday 23 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular Organisation: Working with Molecules on the Nanoscale

User Prof. Neil Champness, University of Nottingham.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

From the bush to the bench: a short-lived african fish reveals novel aspects of the genetic control of aging

User Alessandro Cellerino, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy and Leibniz Institute on Aging, Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 10:30-11:30

Ultrafast optical spectroscopy: from new tools to insights into printable photovoltaic materials

User Justin Hodgkiss, RSC Easterfield Prize Winner 2016.

Tuesday 17 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Directions in Ni-catalyzed Cross Coupling

User Professor Abigail Doyle, Princeton University.

Friday 13 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Label-free detection mechanism for carbon nanoparticles using non-linear optical excitation

User Dr. Christian Steuwe, Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, University of Leuven.

Friday 13 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

Directed self-assembly of Janus rods

User Professor Dirks Aarts ( Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford).

Tuesday 10 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

A combined experimental and computational approach to study protein aggregation

User Professor Salvador Ventura, UAB Barcelona.

Wednesday 14 December 2016, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Interfacial Coordination Programming of 1D and 2D Materials

User Prof. Hiroshi Nishihara, University of Tokyo.

Thursday 08 December 2016, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

How will the storm tracks change? High resolution studies of the future of extratropical storm tracks

User Walter Robinson, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Insights into unfolded protein states and GPCR function by solution NMR

User Prof. Dr. Stephan Grzesiek, University of Basel.

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

RSC Prizewinner's seminar - From the Digitisation of Matter to Chemical Cybernetics

User Prof. Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Symposium

User Fatima Baldo & Nadia Petersen.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

Inside a Collapsing Bubble: Sonochemistry and Sonoluminescence

User Prof Kenneth S Suslick, Marvin T. Schmidt Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Impacts of tropical UTLS ozone feedback on surface climate change projections

User Dr Peer Nowack, Cambridge University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Network Properties of Atomic Clusters

Thesis Seminar

User John Morgan (University of Cambridge).

Friday 25 November 2016, 12:00-12:40

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

Unorthodox Interactions at Work

User Professor Stefan Matile, University of Geneva.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

Synthetic ligands for the interception of bacterial communication – New languages, new outcomes

User Professor Helen Blackwell, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Variability of the Indian Summer Monsoon during the past 6000 years

User Daniel Befort, University of Birmingham.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Development of the first proteochemometric model to understand the selectivity of bromodomains for small molecule inhibitors

1st Year PhD Report

User Kathryn Giblin (University of Cambridge).

Friday 18 November 2016, 12:20-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Insights into compound mode-of-action by exploring gene expression space

1st Year PhD Report

User Benjamin Alexander-Dann (University of Cambridge).

Friday 18 November 2016, 12:00-12:20

House Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

Artificial photosynthesis: From bio-inspired H2-evolving catalysts to photoelectrode materials

Informal Materials RIG Seminar

User Dr. Vincent Artero, SolHyCat, Université Grenoble Alpes.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 14:30-16:00

House Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular catalysis for the reduction of CO2 with Fe complexes

Informal Materials RIG Seminar

User Prof. Marc Robert, Université Paris.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 14:30-16:00

House Department of Chemistry (Pfizer lecture theatre).

Molecular Chaperone Functions in Protein Folding and Quality Control

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

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Using redox mediators for Li-O2 and Li-S batteries and Li recycling

User Prof Nuria Garcia-Araez, University of Southampton.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

CPGS seminars

User Jake Smith, Conor Bolas, Amy King.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Mapping the molecular landscape of disease

1st Year PhD Report

User Erin Oerton (University of Cambridge).

Friday 11 November 2016, 12:20-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Lattice models for DNA origami self-assembly

1st Year PhD Report

User Alexander Cumberworth (University of Cambridge).

Friday 11 November 2016, 12:00-12:20

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

Synthesis RIG Postdoc Seminar

User Dr Michael Taylor, Dr. Matthew Langton, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Self-assembly of jammed heterogeneous colloidal shells by combining electrohydrodynamics and dielectrophoresis

User Prof. Jon Otto Fossum, Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Thursday 10 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Polymers through protein pores: single-molecule experiments with nucleic acids, polypeptides and polysaccharides

User Professor Hagan Bayley, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 10:30-11:30

New approaches to imaging angiogenesis and oxidative stress in living systems.

User Sarah Bohndiek (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Comprehensive laboratory studies of hydrocarbon oxidation mechanisms

User Dr Max McGillen, Bristol University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 07 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Predictive Multiscale Modelling: Multidisciplinary Challenges for the Future of Computational Chemistry

User Dr. Judith B. Rommel (University of Cambridge).

Friday 04 November 2016, 12:00-12:40

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Direct Detection of Criegee Intermediates and Reaction Products Using Time-Resolved Absorption Spectroscopy

For details of this seminar, please contact Dr Ferracci as above

User Dr Dan Stone, University of Leeds.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 31 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stochastic Coupled Cluster in Model Solid Systems

1st Year PhD Report

User Verena Neufeld (University of Cambridge).

Friday 28 October 2016, 12:20-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Synthesis and Analysis of Nanobody Sequence and Structure Data

1st Year PhD Report

User Laura Mitchell (University of Cambridge).

Friday 28 October 2016, 12:00-12:20

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

From radical cascades to metal-free C-H couplings: New methods for target synthesis

User Professor David Procter, University of Manchester.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Beta-hairpin motifs of amyloidogenic IDP

User Dr. Wolfgang Hoyer, University of Dusseldorf.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 10:30-11:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

BP Keynote Lecture: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery and supercapacitor technologies function

User Professor Clare Grey, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 03:00-04:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Interactions of HOx with aerosols; Nitric acid-HONO-NOx cycling via particulate nitrate photolysis

User Daniel Moon and Dr Chunxiang Ye, University of Leeds.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Hadean, pre-biotic Photosynthesis and Enzyme-like Heterogeneous Catalysts: Mimicking a state we do not know

User Prof. Markus Antonietti, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 15:30-16:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Controlling Life with Photons

User Guglielmo Lanzani, Center for Nano Science and Technology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia & Dep.of Physics, Politecnico di Milano .

Thursday 20 October 2016, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

'Exposure Track' -The Impact of Mobile Device Based Mobility Patterns on Quantifying Population Exposure to Air Pollution

User Dr Marguerite Nyhan, Havard University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

National air quality monitoring network and model forecast in China: current status, perspectives and challenges

For details of this seminar, please contact Bin Ouyang, details above

User Xiaoyan Wang and Wei Wang, China National Environment Monitoring Centre.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Applying Stochastic Coupled Cluster Theory to the Solid State

1st Year PhD Report

User Charlie Scott (University of Cambridge).

Friday 14 October 2016, 12:20-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Energy Landscape Landscaping

1st Year PhD Report

User Konstantin Roeder (University of Cambridge).

Friday 14 October 2016, 12:00-12:20

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

Studies on Enzymatic Catalysis of Polar Reactions: Proton Transfer, Hydride Transfer and Decarboxylation

User Professor John P. Richard, University at Buffalo.

Monday 10 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stochastic Coupled Cluster Theory

User Alex Thom (University of Cambridge).

Friday 07 October 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Computers helping chemists: a toolkit for a ChemBio lab

User Gonzalo JIMÉNEZ-OSÉS, University of La Rioja.

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Materials and devices for electrochemical water splitting: a fresh look at some old catalysts and some new(er) catalysts for old applications

User Dr Mark D. Symes, University of Glasgow.

Tuesday 27 September 2016, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

A model for super El Ninos

User Dr Saji Hameed, University of Aizu, Japan.

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 September 2016, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: A community-wide effort to quantify tropospheric ozone in a rapidly changing world

Note unusual time

User Dr Owen Cooper, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 02 September 2016, 11:00-12:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Quantum dynamics in condensed phase using the non-perturbative hierarchical equations of motion approach

User Qiang Shi, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Tuesday 30 August 2016, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Designing drugs on an intrinsically disordered protein involved in pancreatic cancer

All welcome

User Jose L Neira Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular. Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Elche (Alicante) Spain.

Wednesday 24 August 2016, 10:30-11:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Is the crystallisation of pharmaceutical molecules controlled by thermodynamics or kinetics?

User Prof. Sarah (Sally) Price, UCL.

Thursday 04 August 2016, 14:00-15:00

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

Stereocontrolled Cyclizations for Complex Molecule Synthesis

User Professor Alison J. Frontier, University of Rochester, USA.

Tuesday 12 July 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Decorating the room at the bottom – designer nanomaterials for catalytic renewables conversions

User Prof. Anthony Masters, The School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Australia.

Monday 11 July 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

CO2 + H2O + Sunlight → Chemical Fuels + O2

User Prof. Peidong Yang, Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA.

Thursday 07 July 2016, 14:00-15:00

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

Aerobic Oxidation Reactions for Organic Chemical Synthesis

User Professor Shannon S. Stahl, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Wednesday 06 July 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

Exploration of Cooperative Asymmetric Catalysts Toward Efficient Synthesis of Therapeutics

User Dr Naoya Kumagai, Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Tokyo.

Wednesday 06 July 2016, 15:15-16:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Artificial photosynthesis—From catalysts to devices for water splitting

User Professor Licheng Sun, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Friday 01 July 2016, 15:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Studying Interfacial Processes During Water Splitting and CO2 Reduction

User Dr Alexander Cowan, Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool.

Friday 01 July 2016, 15:00-17:00

House Todd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

The origin of anomalously high melting temperatures in gallium clusters

User Nicola Gaston, University of Auckland.

Wednesday 29 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Laboratory Studies of Criegee Intermediate Reactions

User Rabi Chhantyal Pun, Bristol University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Unusual NMR experiments using home-made and open-resource systems

User Dr. Kazuyuki Takeda, .

Thursday 16 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Teaching Sponges New Tricks: Catalysis and Charge Transport in Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks

User Prof. Mircea Dincă Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Monday 13 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Semi-stochastic and excited-state approaches in FCIQMC

User Nicholas Blunt (Chemistry).

Friday 10 June 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Informal TMI RIG Seminar

User Patrick Lewis, Chongli Qin & Dr Nitin Sharma.

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 16:00-17:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Cytoplasm, nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum differ in their responses towards toxic protein aggregation

All welcome

User Dr. Mark S. Hipp, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Imaging organic aerosols

User Dr Francis Pope, Birmingham University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 06 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Theoretical advances in aqueous ion solvation: Charge asymmetry

User Dr Stephen J. Cox - University of California, Berkeley, College of Chemistry.

Friday 03 June 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

The cutting edge of Alzheimer’s disease research

All welcome

User Prof. Bart De Strooper, University of Leuven and University College London.

Wednesday 01 June 2016, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

How bonding topology affects polyacene spectra: design principles for singlet fission chromophores

User Timothy Hele.

Friday 27 May 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Biomineralization of nacre

User Prof. Pupa Gilbert, University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Thursday 26 May 2016, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

The properties of nano-scale amyloid fibril fragments in vitro and in vivo

All welcome

User Dr Wei-Feng Xue, School of Biosciences, University of Kent.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

De novo Design of Transmembrane Helix-Helix Interactions in Membrane Proteins

User Dr Anne Dixon, University of Warwick.

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Is the mid-latitude winter storm frequency predictable?

User Dr Gregor Leckebusch, University of Birmingham.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Simple microscopic models of complex systems

User Professor Jeremy Schofield (University of Toronto).

Friday 20 May 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Biogenic light induced tuneable photonic crystals

User Dvir Gur - Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Reprogramming the Genetic Code

User Dr Jason Chin, Centre for Chemical & Synthetic Biology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Expanding the universe of protein structure and function by design

User Dek Woolfson Schools of Chemistry and Biochemistry, & BrisSynBio University of Bristol, UK.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 10:30-11:30

Extending the Range of the Glassy State: Novel properties and applications exploiting non-crystallinity

User Professor Lindsay Greer ( Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy).

Tuesday 17 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Synthetic, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry in the Smith Group at the University of Pennsylvania

User Professor Amos B. Smith, III, University of Pennsylvania.

Monday 16 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The annual cycle in tropical lower stratospheric temperatures

User Dr Alison Ming, Cambridge University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Todd Hamied, Department of Chemistry.

NEW ADVANCES IN ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY: GOING FAR BEYOND TRADITIONAL ANALYSIS WITH AFFINIMETER

User AFFINImeter.

Monday 16 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

In-Silico Prediction of Bioactive Small Molecules

User Avid Afzal (University of Cambridge).

Friday 13 May 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

A New Approach to Asymmetric Lewis Acid Catalysis

User Prof. Dr. Benjamin List, Max-Planck-Institute, Mülheim.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Using Proteins to Prepare Functional Polymeric Nanomaterials

User Prof. Nico Bruns, Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Order disorder transitions in the regulation of transcription: biomedical implications

User Xavier Salvatella, IRB Barcelona.

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Developing a unified framework for modelling (exo)planets

User Nathan Mayne, University of Exeter.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 May 2016, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

DFT study of oxygen vacancies in pure and doped ceria for chemical looping reforming

User Dr Rachel Kerber (Grey Group).

Friday 06 May 2016, 12:00-12:40

Melville Laboratory Seminars

“TRANSLATION OF FUNDAMENTAL CHEMISTRY TO FUNCTIONAL NANOSCOPIC MACROMOLECULES DESIGNED FOR ADVANCED APPLICATIONS”

User Karen L. Wooley, W. T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Todd Hamied, Department of Chemistry.

NEW ADVANCES IN ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY: GOING FAR BEYOND TRADITIONAL ANALYSIS WITH AFFINIMETER

User ITC Analysis company: AFFINImeter.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

α-Synuclein: amyloid inclusions and supra-fibrillar structures

User Prof. Mireille Claessens (University of Twente, The Netherlands).

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 10:30-11:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

“NATURAL PRODUCT-BASED ENGINEERING POLYMERS: A SPECIAL EMPHASIS TOWARD (DEGRADABLE) MATERIALS FOR ORTHOPEDIC, DRUG DELIVERY AND OTHER APPLICATIONS”

User Karen L. Wooley, W. T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular Electronics for Chemical Sensors

User Prof. Timothy M. Swager, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Friday 29 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Designing “Materials that Compute”: Exploiting the Properties of Self-oscillating Polymer Gels

User Prof. Anna C. Balazs, University of Pittsburgh.

Friday 29 April 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

2016 Lord Lewis Lecture: Dynamic Particles for Biological and Chemical Sensing

User Prof. Timothy M. Swager, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

CANCELLED Functional versatility and regulation of proteins with intrinsically disordered regions

Cancelled

User M. Madan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Iodine compounds in polar regions and their relevance to regional aerosol & climate.

User Dr Howard K Roscoe, British Antarctic Survey.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 April 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Mechanism-of-action analysis of structurally and biologically similar compounds

2nd year PhD Talk

User Azedine Zoufir.

Friday 22 April 2016, 12:20-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Assessment of broad-spectrum in vitro screening for toxicity profiling: Bioactivity space of target focussed and phenotypic assays

2nd year PhD Talk

User Samar Mahmoud.

Friday 22 April 2016, 12:00-12:20

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Enhancing nanopore sensing with DNA nanotechnology

All welcome

User Ulrich F. Keyser, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge .

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 10:30-11:30

Shedding new light on photochemistry in nature: from biological motifs to photoactive protein chromophores

User Professor Helen Fielding, University College London.

Tuesday 19 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

The self-assembly, functionalization and cellular interactions of short amyloid fibril forming peptides

All welcome

User Sally Gras, The University of Melbourne.

Tuesday 19 April 2016, 10:30-12:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Diamond B23 beamline for synchrotron radiation circular dichroism (SRCD) and applications to time resolved CD with micro-devices, spatially resolved CD of thin films, protein-ligand binding interactions and high throughput CD with 96-well plates

All welcome

User Giuliano Siligardi - Diamond Light Source Ltd.

Wednesday 13 April 2016, 11:00-12:00

Tissue-like materials from communicating droplet networks

User Professor Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 12 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

House BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Professor Steven Ley's 70th Birthday Symposium

User Professor D. Enders, Professor M. Gaunt, Professor D. MacMillan, Professor R. Grubbs.

Friday 08 April 2016, 09:00-17:00

House BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Functional materials using metathesis initiators

User Professor Robert Grubbs, Caltech.

Thursday 07 April 2016, 15:30-16:30

Studying membrane bioactivity with super-resolution optical microscopy

User Professor Christian Eggeling, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford.

Tuesday 05 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

CANCELLED Directed self-assembly of Janus rods

User Professor Dirks Aarts ( Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford).

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 22 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Stratospheric Sulfur Geoengineering – Benefits and Risks

NOTE UNUSUAL START TIME

User Professor Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 March 2016, 11:30-12:45

Melville Laboratory Seminars

The EvoDevo and Physics of Skin Appendages and Skin Colours in Vertebrates

User Prof. Michel C. Milinkovitch, Laboratory of Artificial & Natural Evolution (LANE), Dept of Genetics & Evolution, University of Geneva and SIB (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics). .

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 March 2016, 10:00-11:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Alumni Medal Ceremony and Talk

User Dr Yusuf K Hamied.

Thursday 17 March 2016, 15:00-16:00

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

Pfizer Chemical and Biological Synthesis and Catalysis Symposium

User Professor Edward Anderson.

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 12:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Novel insights into the molecular mechanism of α-synuclein amyloid formation - The effects of intrinsic and extrinsic factors

User Dr Celine Galvagnion, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Pushing the Envelope – Advancing Atmospheric Observations using Aerial Robotics

User Dr Rick Thomas, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Active Pressure

User Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP).

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Structural Analysis of Amyloid-like Protein Fibrillation

All welcome

User Bente Vestergaard, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 10:30-11:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Active Pressure

User Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP).

Friday 04 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Computer-Aided Rational Drug Design for Alzheimer’s Disease

User Professor Donald F. Weaver, University of Toronto.

Friday 04 March 2016, 12:00-12:50

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

An In Silico High Throughput Screening Strategy to Identify Putative Disease Modifying Agents for Chronic Neurological Disorders

User Professor Donald F. Weaver, University of Toronto.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Electron microscopy studies of protein aggregation and disaggregation

All welcome

User Helen Saibil ISMB, Birkbeck College London.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 10:30-11:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Plasmonic nanobiosensors: From therapeutic drug monitoring to optophysiology of live cells

User Prof. Jean-François Masson, Université de Montréal.

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Association between health responses and indoor air quality in London primary classrooms

User Dr Lia Chatzidiakou.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Association between health responses and indoor air quality in London primary classrooms

User Dr Lia Chatzidiakou.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

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

Collaborative Approach for C-H Functionalization

User Professor Huw Davies, Emory.

Friday 26 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

Computing Cycloisomerizations - Understanding Unusual Regioselectivities and Designs for Optimal Stereoselectivities

User Professor Robert Paton, University of Oxford.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Fates of mitochondrial proteins.

User Prof. Agnieszka Chacinska.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 10:30-11:30

Probing gene control at the molecular stage

User Professor Mark C. Leake, University of York.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

The Tangled World of Reactive Oxygen Species: the Search for the Bad Actors in Ambient Particles

User Prof Suzanne Paulson, UCLA.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Seeing the Invisible: Vibrational Imaging for Biology and Medicine

User Prof. Xiaoliang Sunny Xie - Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University.

Friday 19 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Analysis of bonding patterns and reactivity in molecular systems exhibiting partial biradical character

User Dr. Sotiris Xantheas, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Friday 19 February 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Single Molecule Enzymology: Transcription against Supercoiling

User Prof. Xiaoliang Sunny Xie - Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry

Intensified-Process Integration at All Scales – flow reactor networks and end-to-end intensified chemical plants

User Prof. Volker Hessel, Eindhoven University of Technology.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Including Quantum effects into Molecular Simulation.

User Dr Jens Poulsen, University of Gothenburg.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

The role of extrinsic and intrinsic factors in amyloid β peptide aggregation

User Prof. Sara S. Linse, Lund University.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Linnett Lecture - Life at the Single Molecule Level: Single Cell Genomics

User Prof. Xiaoliang Sunny Xie, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A marine biogenic source of atmospherically relevant ice nucleating particles

User Dr Theo Wilson, University of Leeds.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 15 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ExoMol project: Molecular line lists for exoplanet and other hot atmospheres

User Sergey Yurchenko.

Friday 12 February 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Rational design of protein aggregation

User Prof. Frederic Rousseau, VIB (Belgium).

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

El Niño 2015/16: the kid is back

User Eric Guilyardi, University of Reading.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Understanding the neuronal control of ageing and proteostasis

User Dr. Rebecca Taylor, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 10:30-11:30

Small is beautiful: low cost air quality sensors and sensor networks show what they can do

User Professor Rod Jones, University of Cambridge.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Laboratory studies of halogen oxide radical reactions and sensor development for reactive gases

User Dr Valerio Ferracci, Cambridge University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 01 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Using explicit correlation with FCIQMC

Thesis Seminar

User Jennifer Kersten.

Friday 29 January 2016, 12:00-12:40

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

Title to be confirmed

User Professor John Sutherland, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Chaperoning single proteins

All welcome

User Prof. Sander Tans, AMOLF.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Extracting policy relevant findings from air pollution monitoring networks

User Dr Gary Fuller, King's College London.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 January 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Phase Behavior of Deeply Supercooled Water: a Computational Perspective

Note unusual time

User Pablo Debenedetti (Professor in Engineering and Applied Science and Dean for Research of Princeton University).

Friday 22 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Variability of the polar stratospheric vortex and its impact on surface climate patterns

Note unusual time and place

User Aditi Sheshadri, Columbia University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Highly accurate electronic wavefunctions for large molecules. Does density functional theory have a future?

User Dr David Tew ( University of Bristol).

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

"Acid sensing and sensory innervation: from molecules to mammals”

All welcome

User Dr. Ewan St. John Smith, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Recent advances in knowledge of the kinetics and mechanism of Criegee Intermediates as tropospheric oxidizing species

NOTE SLIGHTLY LATER START TIME

User Dr R.A. Cox, Cambridge University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 January 2016, 14:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Atom Tunnelling as a General Phenomenon in Chemistry: from the Interstellar Medium to Enzymes

User Johannes Kaestner (Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart).

Friday 15 January 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

Recipient of RSC Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award.

User Prof Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry

Catalysts for CO2 reduction: from molecules to solids

User Prof. Marc Fontecave, College de France.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 14:30-15:30

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

This talk has been postponed

User Marc Robillard, CEO of TagWorks.

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

How cryo-EM is revolutionising structural biology

User Dr. Sjors Scheres, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nature Inspired Manufacturing Workshop

User Roberto Cingolani, Erwin Reisner, Pierre Emannuel Fayemi, Danilo De Rossi, Carlos Rego.

Tuesday 15 December 2015, 09:00-13:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nature Inspired Manufacturing Workshop

User Thomas Speck, Ryad Benosman, Carlos Saez, Theresa Millard, Iain Valentine.

Monday 14 December 2015, 14:00-18:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Non-covalent Peptide Assembly: The latest Results

All welcome

User Mike Bowers, UC Santa Barbara.

Thursday 10 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nanostructures for Energy Conversion: From Metal Oxides to Electroactive Covalent Organic Frameworks

User Prof. Thomas Bein, Department of Chemistry and Center for NanoScience (CeNS), University of Munich (LMU), Germany.

Thursday 10 December 2015, 14:30-15:30

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

The nature of chemistry publishing

User Dr Stuart Cantrill, Chief Editor of Nature Chemistry.

Wednesday 09 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Shining new light on chemistry and biology with inteferometric scattering microscopy

User Professor Philipp Kukura ( Dept of Chemistry, University of Oxford ).

Tuesday 08 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Disordered Hyperuniform Many-Particle Systems: New States of Amorphous Matter

User Salvatore Torquato Dept. of Chemistry, Dept. of Physics, Materials Institute and Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton University.

Monday 07 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CPGS Seminars

User Steve Campbell, Cameron Rae, David Wade.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 07 December 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Membrane protein folding, the regulation of membrane function and construction of synthetic membrane modules

User Prof. Paula Booth, King's College London.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Vortex splitting in the stratosphere by sub planetary-scale cyclogenesis in the troposphere, and some other thoughts about the dynamics of stratospheric sudden warmings

User Professor Alan O'Neill, Reading University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Linked Coupled Cluster Monte Carlo

2nd Year PhD Talk

User Ruth Franklin.

Friday 27 November 2015, 12:20-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Modelling Collective Behaviours of Bacterial Colonies

2nd Year PhD Talk

User Matthew Griffiths.

Friday 27 November 2015, 12:00-12:20

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

Uncovering the mechanisms of Protein O-Glycosylation

User Dr Ramon Hurtado-Guerrero, University of Zaragoza.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

The mechanical control of neuronal development

User Dr Kristian Franze, University of Cambridge (PDN).

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 10:30-11:30

Ultrafast infra-red spectroscopy as a probe of chemical reaction mechanisms.

User Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing – University of Bristol.