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This list includes all of the lists of talks in the various different Department of Chemistry seminar series.

No talks should be posted directly to this list; instead, they should be posted to the relevant Department seminar list (e.g https://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/24646 for Department-wide seminars)

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19 upcoming talks and 1910 talks in the archive.

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Special Careers Session with Dr Yuval Elani - RSC Prizewinner

UserDr. Yuval Elani, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockThursday 05 December 2024, 15:15-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"New guidelines for molecular materials design beyond the frontier orbital picture"

UserDr Felix Plasser, Dept. of Chemistry, Loughborough University.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 December 2024, 11:00-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Enabling the first-principles modelling of electrochemical interfaces at the nanoscale"

UserDr. Clotilde Cucinotta, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 02 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Giving Chemistry Direction

UserProfessor David Leigh, University of Manchester.

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 28 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Novel Approaches to Unravel the Nature of On-Water Catalysis

UserProfessor Thomas D. Kühne, CASUS Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Marvellous metastabilities of battery cathode materials"

UserDr Annalena Genreith-Schriever, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Prediction-Led Discovery of Functional Molecular Organic Crystals

RSC 2023 Corday-Morgan Prize Winner

UserProf Graeme Day, University of Southampton.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2024, 15:15-16:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Understanding defects and disorder in energy materials

UserDr Sean Kavanagh (Harvard University, Center for the Environment).

HouseDept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Understanding defects and disorder in energy materials

UserDr Sean Kavanagh (Harvard University, Center for the Environment).

HouseDept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Understanding defects and disorder in energy materials

UserDr Sean Kavanagh (Harvard University, Center for the Environment).

HouseDept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Understanding defects and disorder in energy materials

UserDr Sean Kavanagh (Harvard University, Center for the Environment).

HouseDept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Writing Computational Models that are FAIR and VRAI

UserDr Dominic Orchard; Institute of Computing for Climate Science, University of Cambridge, and University of Kent.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Practical Functional Oxide Thin Films for Electronic Devices

UserProf. Judith Driscoll (Device Material Group, Materials Science and Metallurgy).

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

ClockThursday 14 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Special Careers Session with Prof. Judith Driscoll

UserDepartment of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockThursday 07 November 2024, 15:15-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Biomolecular Condensates Through a Computational Microscope

Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88371879047?pwd=vhtVw2UZOqP1euo1PGZsG6oZdOa84I.1

UserMaria Julia Maristany, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric Heterogeneous Chemistry after the 2019–2020 Australian Wildfires

UserDr. Kane Stone, Research Scientist, Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 05 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

When the loss is not enough: misspecification uncertainty in atomic simulations

UserDr Thomas Swinburne, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille, CNRS.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2024, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Fascinating World of Lightning Research

User Dr Daniel Mitchard, Senior Lecturer Lightning Laboratory, Cardiff University.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ensembling climate models with Gaussian processes to better characterise future extremes

Note unusual time

User Kenza Tazi (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey).

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 08 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

From sulfonium salts to samarium catalysis: new radical chemistry for synthesis

UserProf. David John Procter (Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester .

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 13 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Aerosols and clouds in the UKCA across time and space

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89998723970?pwd=ekw0Q3RqaUVFU3NaT3J1djlHTytiQT09

User Daniel Grosvenor, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS), University of Leeds,.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 04 June 2024, 11:30-12:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Adaptive Hybrid Density Functionals

UserDr Alastair Price, University of Toronto.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2024, 14:30-15:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Building Bonds with Boron

UserProf. M. Kevin Brown, Indiana University.

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 21 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Epistemic Exclusion in Climate Science: Why We Grow the Wrong Trees in the Wrong Places

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88161587298?pwd=U0I2ejRHTXROQmhiNHo2OTF6NE1kZz09

UserJittip Mongkolnchaiarunya, The George Washington University.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 21 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Macromolecular Engineering by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

UserProfessor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Center for Macromolecular Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockThursday 16 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Fundamentals and Recent Advances in Controlled Radical Polymerization

UserProfessorKrzysztof Matyjaszewski, Center for Macromolecular Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockTuesday 14 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

"Hops, Walks, and Spins: The Choreography of Cellular Electron Transport at Biotic-Abiotic Interfaces"

User Professor Moh El-Naggar, Departments of Physics, Biological Sciences, and Chemistry, University of Southern California, USA.

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

ClockMonday 13 May 2024, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The role of methane for chemistry-climate interactions: rapid radiative adjustments and climate feedbacks

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

UserLaura Stecher, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (Engl: German Aerospace Center, Institute of Atmospheric Physics).

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2024, 11:30-12:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Fourth SynTech Annual Symposium - Student talks

UserVariety of speakers from the SynTech CDT programme..

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Formulating protein behaviour in nanospace: Key to rational glue screening

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

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Extreme rainfall event in December 2021 over Peninsular Malaysia

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

UserProf Andy Chan, Dean of Engineering, Robert Gordon University.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

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

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

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Inverting Amine Reactivity

UserDr. Alex Cresswell, University of Bath.

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

UserProf. Nivine Khashab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

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

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

UserJon Saltmarsh, Energy Systems Catapult.

HouseChemistry Dept, Todd Hamied room and Zoom.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Computational Chemistry Event

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

HouseDept of Chemistry, BMS Lecture Theatre .

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Sugars & proteins

UserBenjamin G. Davis The Rosalind Franklin Institute and University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Magnetism in 2D materials

UserProfessor Biplab Sanyal, Uppsala University.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Towards Operando Modelling of Zeolites

UserDr. Christopher Heard, Charles University.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Enabling discovery by in-cell structural biology

UserDr Julia Mahamid, EMBL Heidelberg.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Prof. Julio Lloret

UserProf. Julio Lloret, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Path Integral Approaches to Spin-Phonon Coupled Systems

1st Year PhD Report

UserIlija Srpak, University of Cambridge and Max Planck Institute.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

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

Note unusual time and location

UserMark Zelinka; PCMDI | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

HouseU202 Meeting room, Department of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Biophysical Seminars

A new phase in structural biology

UserProf Dame Carol V Robinson, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

MSD lecture: Abi Doyle

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

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Illuminating the Quantum Dynamics in Photoelectrochemistry

Special Lennard-Jones Centre seminar

UserDr Thomas Sayer, University of Colorado Boulder.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Colloidal nanocrystals to advance catalysis and energy technologies

UserProf. Raffaella Buonsanti, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne .

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

In Search of Coulson's Lost Theorem

UserProfessor Patrick Fowler, University of Sheffield.

HouseTodd Hamied Room, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Disposable Chiral Plasmonics for Sensing

UserDr. Affar S. Karimullah, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Transcorrelated method for periodic systems

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

UserProfessor Masayuki Ochi, Osaka University Japan.

HouseZoom.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The shape of things to come

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

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

UserProfessor Prabal Maiti, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry & Zoom.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

AI/ML in Chemical Development

UserMarwin Segler(Microsoft Researcher).

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Prof Daniele Leonori talk (Title TBC)

UserProf Daniele Leonori Institute of Organic Chemistry RWTH Aachen University.

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Correlative imaging to resolve molecular structures in living tissues

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

‘Machine-learning in chemistry from the bottom up’

UserProfessor Michele Ceriotti, Institute of Materials, EPFL.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Crumbling Crystals

First Year PhD Report

UserNiamh O'Neill, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Mechanisms that Contribute to Proteostasis Collapse in Aging and Disease

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Photosynthesis on an electrode

UserDr Jenny Zhang, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Spin dynamics in radical pairs

UserProfessor David Manolopoulos, University of Oxford.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

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

UserPaul Rimmer, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Energy landscapes of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs)

First Year PhD Report

UserArun Kumar Rajasekaran, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multiscale Simulation of DNA

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminar

UserDr Modesto Orozco, IRB Barcelona.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

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

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chlorine activation and enhanced ozone depletion induced by wildfire aerosol

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

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Chemical Physics of Correlated Materials

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

UserProfessor Garnet Chan, Caltech.

Housevia zoom .

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Peptide Assemblies For Functional Systems

UserJavier Montenegro, Santiago de Compostela University.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

UserKieran Russell, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Designing multiphase biomolecular condensates

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

UserPin Yu Chew, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

UserDr Chantal Valeriani, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Programmable Folding of Droplet Colloidomers

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

UserProfessor Jasna Brujic, NYU.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Gender Equity in Academia: Why and How

UserProf. Paul Walton, University of York.

HouseBMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

UserDr Nandini Ananth, Cornell University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

UNICORN (UNIted COarse gRaiNed) Force Field

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

UserDr Adam Sieradzan, University of Gdańsk.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Protein phase transitions in health and disease

UserProf Tuomas Knowles, University of Cambridge.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

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

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

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Bringing Quantum Mechanics for Electrons and Nuclei to Larger Scales

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

UserDr Mariana Rossi, Max Planck Institute .

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

UserHaseem Deen Mohamed Sarif Mohamed Iqbal, University of Cambridge .

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

UserMaria Julia Maristany, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Building bridges over mountain passes with variational path sampling

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

UserDr David Limmer, UC Berkeley.

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

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Metal Complexes as Diagnostics and Therapeutics

UserProf. Gilles Gasser, Chimie ParisTech.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

UserProfessor Frank Noé, Free University Berlin.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Angstrom-scale capillaries: Ion selectivity beyond steric effects

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

UserProfessor Radha Boya, University of Manchester.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The liquid genome: Multiscale modelling of DNA packaging inside cells

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

UserDr Rosana Collepardo-Guevara, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Liquid-Liquid Crystalline Phase Separation of Amyloid Fibrils

UserProf. Raffaele Mezzenga, ETH Zurich.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/95370222402.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

One becomes two: assemblies that split cells across evolution

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

UserDr Anđela Šarić, IST Austria .

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Simple Models for Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Biological Cells

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

UserProfessor Halim Kusumaatmaja, Durham University.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

UserAnne Aguirre, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

UserBenjamin Shi (University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry & Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum simulations of materials for sustainable energy generation and use

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

UserProfessor Giulia Galli, University of Chicago.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

UserDr Reinhard J. Maurer, University of Warwick.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry & Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Energy Landscape of Hybrid Restraint Functions Based on NMR Data

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

UserYifei Wang, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Variational calculations of monoatomic endofullerenes

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

UserKripa Panchagnula, University of Cambridge.

Housevia zoom .

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

UserChristopher Haggard, University of Cambridge.

Housevia zoom .

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

UserChing Ching Lam, University of Cambridge.

Housevia zoom .

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

UserProf Li-Huei Tsai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/99301642413.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Genome Organization through Phase Separation: Random yet Precise

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

UserDr Bin Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Housevia zoom .

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

Biophysical Seminars

Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine

UserProf George Malliaras, University of Cambridge.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/94174933868 .

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

Biophysical Seminars

From mad cows to mini brains

UserCath Haig, NIH - NIAID - RML.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/96577382505.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

UserDr Céline Merlet, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier .

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Scalable multi-reference chemistry using quantum Monte Carlo

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

UserDr Nick Blunt, Riverlane.

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Photopharmacology: Towards Light-Controlled Therapy

UserProf. Wiktor Szymanski, University Medical Center Groningen.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/95320855185.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Development Of A Multiscale Chromatin Coarse-Grained Model

First Year PhD Report

UserCharles Phillips, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Base flipping in DNA using potential energy landscapes

First Year PhD Report

UserNicy, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

How to discover prodromal Parkinson's disease and why

UserWolfgang Oertel, Philips University of Marburg.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/92675147881.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthesis RIG Postdoc Seminar

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

HouseBristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

On Loss Function Landscapes of Neural Networks

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

UserMax Niroomand, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

UserHonghao Yu, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserMacr Diamond, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/92675147881.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

UserMary Jo LaDu, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/92564124601.

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

Biophysical Seminars

The landscape of amyloid misfolding

UserProf. Jeremy Schmit (Kansas State University).

Househttps://zoom.us/j/99567836121.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Materials RIG Seminar

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

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Controlling photonic properties from the micro to the macroscale

Final year PhD student talk

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

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

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

Biophysical Seminars

Functional Protein Fibrils in the Fight Against Pathogens

UserProf. Meytal Landau, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/96842517234.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Talks delivered by two final year PhD students

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

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

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

Biophysical Seminars

Cellular Communication via Adhesion

UserProf. Demet Araç, University of Chicago.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/99781367340.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Cellular Organization Through Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation

UserProf. Michael Rosen, Department of Biophysics, University of Texas .

Househttps://zoom.us/j/97334125524.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Whole-brain imaging of mating behavior in C. elegans

UserProf. Aravinthan Samuel, Harvard University.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/97805738886 .

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nanoconfined Water and it's Anomalies

UserProfessor Biman Bagchi, Indian Institute of Science - Bengaluru.

HouseZoom: Meeting ID: 993 0985 5457 Passcode: 520993.

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

Biophysical Seminars

The switch from choice to commitment: an example from HIV

UserDr. Maike Hansen, Radboud University Nijmegen.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/92521025039.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Cell morphogenesis across scales, from molecules to forces

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

Househttps://zoom.us/j/92582731025.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Designing brighter dyes for advanced fluorescence microscopy

UserDr Luke Lavis, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Glutamate receptors: from single molecules to physiology

UserProf. Vasanthi Jayaraman, University of Texas Health Science Center.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/99203574537.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Liquid microjet photoelectron spectroscopy

UserProf Helen Fielding, Department of Chemistry, University College London.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Physical RIG, Internal Speakers

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

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Methods for rapid 3D fluorescence microscopy

UserDr Reto Fiolka, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Right ozone, wrong reasons

UserMat Evans - University of York.

HouseZoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Generalization of Quasicentroid Molecular Dynamics to complex systems

First Year PhD Report

UserVijay Ganesh Sadhasivam, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom: Meeting ID: 971 8360 9971 Passcode: 458262.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

A systematic conformational searching method

First Year PhD Report

UserMengman Wei, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom: Meeting ID: 971 8360 9971 Passcode: 458262.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Molecular Biology of Prion Infections

UserProf. Adriano Aguzzi, University hospital of Zurich.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/99760374933?pwd=cXlRUVBabWpCUWZ4NHRGWnRmLzV3dz09.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Physical RIG, Internal Speakers

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

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Models of neurological disease

Meeting ID: 923 1614 3946 Passcode: 186434

UserProf. Roger D Kamm.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/92316143946?pwd=RmFpcnlrNWkrUldWbzZRazhxRjM2QT09.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

UserProf Claire Vallance, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Understanding transition metal heterogeneous catalysis

UserProfessor Jens Kehlet Nørskov, Technical University of Denmark.

HouseZoom: Meeting ID: 983 4340 7484 Passcode: 162366.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Physical RIG, Internal Speakers

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

Housevia zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

In silico identification of reactivity driven MIEs

First Year PhD Report

UserCharles Gong, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom - Meeting ID: 924 3189 5042 Passcode: 306870.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

This talk has been canceled.

UserProf. Fernanda Duarte (Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Dissipative systems showing signs of life

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Innovation in synthetic methodology through use of flow

Joint Materials/Synthesis RIG Seminar

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

HousePfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Physical phenotyping of cells in biology and medicine

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Matthew Powner, University College London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor John Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Protein misfolding in Alzheimer’s disease

UserProf. Louise Serpell, University of Sussex, UK.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum topological effects in the transport properties of ionic conductors

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

UserProf. Nathalie Q. Balaban, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Reversible Catalysis in Redox Matrices

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Functional amyloid in bacteria

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Molecular chaperones in protein folding and quality control

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceutical Compounds

UserDr Martin Eastgate, Bristol- Myers Squibb.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Small Things Make Big Differences

Athena SWAN Talk

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 15 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The Golden Road: Synthesis and Surface Chemistry of Gold Nanocrystals

BP Sustainability Lecture

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Artificial Cells and Cellular Bionics

UserProf. Oscar Ces, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Autophagy and neurodegeneration

UserProfessor David Rubinsztein ( CIMR).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Emergence of life-like properties in coacervate droplets

UserEvan Spruijt, Radboud University, the Netherlands.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Pathway to Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Discrete Dipoles

First Year PhD Report

UserHaydn Lloyd, University of Cambrisge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multireference Stochastic Coupled Cluster

First Year PhD Report

UserMaria-Andreea Filip, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Mechanism in Collective Organizations of Living and Synthetic Cells

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Hierarchical equations of motion

First Year PhD Report

UserAdam Prada, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

UserProfessor Randall Goldsmith, University of Wisconsin Madison.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

UserProfessor Randall Goldsmith, University of Wisconsin Madison.

HousePfizer LT.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Rapid discovery and chemical synthesis of proteins

UserProfessor Bradley Pentelute, MIT Department of Chemistry.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Biomolecular interactions in crowded cellular environments

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Quantum Chemistry in the Continuum"

UserProfessor Anna Krylov, University of Southern California.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Materials Chemistry to Mimic Living Matter

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Determination of protein structure and dynamics with integrative approaches

UserMassimiliano Bonomi, Structural Bioinformatics Unit, Institut Pasteur.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

TBC

UserProf. Dr. Sven Schneider (Georg-August-Universität).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

New Directions for Random Search

UserProfessor Chris Pickard, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Protein phase transition: from biology towards new protein materials

UserPaolo Arosio, Dept of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Protein dynamics and molecular recognition

UserCarlo Camilloni, Department of Biosciences, University of Milan.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Sustaining Life with Genes and Proteins Designed ‘From Scratch’

UserProfessor Michael Hecht, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Seminars

Deep Proteomes, iPS cells & Data Mountains

UserProf. Angus Lamond, Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, University of Dundee.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Seminars

The ribosome – from far past to near future

UserAda Yonath, Structural Biology Department, Weizmann Institute of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 17 April 2019, 10:30-11:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Mini-symposium: Programming materials with classical conditioning algorithms

UserProf. Olli Ikkala, Molecular Materials (Molmat) - Aalto University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 09 April 2019, 15:10-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Mini-symposium: Assembly of nano-polysaccharides and plant polyaromatics at interfaces

UserProf. Orlando J. Rojas, Aalto University (Finland) & North Carolina State University (US).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 09 April 2019, 14:00-14:50

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Diversity Oriented Biosynthesis: Making Complex Cyclic Peptides Using a Combination of Synthesis and Enzymes

UserProf. Marcel Jaspars (Marine Biodiscovery Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 05 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

PROTAC-mediated Protein Degradation: A New Therapeutic Modality

UserProfessor Craig Crews, Yale University..

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 03 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Biophysical Seminars

Recent progress in electron cryomicroscopy

UserRichard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 03 April 2019, 10:30-11:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

The nature of chemistry publishing

UserDr Stuart Cantrill, Chief Editor Nature Chemistry.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 26 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Biophysical Seminars

Investigating the propagation and spreading of protein aggregates in C. elegans

UserCarmen Nussbaum-Krammer, Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Catalytic Activation of Renewable Resources to make Polymers and Fuels

UserProf. Charlotte Williams (University of Oxford).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Biophysical Seminars

Material properties of functional amyloids

UserDr Ulyana Shimanovich, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weitzmann Institute of Science.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Seminars

Prion propagation and its wider relevance in neurodegeneration

UserJohn Collinge, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

On discovery in catalysis

UserProfessor Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster.

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

ClockMonday 04 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Oxidation catalysis imparted by donor-flexible ligands

UserProfessor Martin Albrecht (Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Bern).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Biophysical Seminars

A super-resolved look at synthetic nanomaterials

UserLorenzo Albertazzi, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Interactions between stratospheric ozone and climate change in the Arctic

UserDr Jian Kai Zhang, Lecturer, Lanzhou University and Academic Visitor at Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 18 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Going green with black: On Biomass, Carbon and Clean Energy

UserProfessor Magdalena Titirici (Imperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockThursday 14 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Surprises in the Self-Assembly of Particles in Spherical Confinement

UserProf. Alfons van Blaaderen (Debye Institute for Nanomaterials, Utrecht University).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Lectures "Breakable and self-assembled materials: Synthesis and applications"

UserProfessor Luisa de Cola, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie, Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Lectures 2019 "Luminescent complexes: assemblies, sensing, towards artificial virus"

UserProfessor Luisa de Cola, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie, Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Biophysical Seminars

Aggregation of tau and alpha-synuclein: towards a therapeutic target in neurodegenerative diseases

UserMaria Grazia Spillantini, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Seminars

Using protein side-chain dynamics to probe enzymatic function and regulation

UserProfessor Flemming Hansen, Department of Structural & Molecular Biology, University College London.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 10:30-11:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

SUPERCHIRALITY AND BLOCH SURFACE WAVES

UserProf. Paolo Biagioni, Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano (IT).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 24 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Molecular Photosynthesis: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On

UserProfessor Marcella Bonchio (University of Padova and ITM-CNR, Department of Chemical Sciences).

HouseSeminar Room, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 24 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Supramolecular Architectures for Artificial Photosynthesis

UserProfessor Marcella Bonchio (University of Padova and ITM-CNR, Department of Chemical Sciences).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 15:45-16:45

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Athena SWAN Presentation

UserProfessor Marcella Bonchio and Dr Emma Chapman.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Multicatalytic Transformations with and without Light

UserProfessor Kirsten Zeitler, Institut für Organische Chemie, Universitat Leipzig..

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 19 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Hybrid molecular materials for water splitting applications

UserAntoni Llobet, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockThursday 29 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Metal-containing organic cages and macrocycles with open/close feature

UserProf Shigehisa Akine (Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Biophysical Seminars

The role of α-synuclein at the pre-synapse

UserDr. Gabriele Kaminski Schierle, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 10:30-11:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

2018 Merck Lectureship

UserProfessor Sarah Reisman- Caltech.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2018, 15:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

2018 Merck Lectureship

UserProfessor Sarah Reisman, Caltech and Dr. Caroline McGregor, Merck.

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

ClockTuesday 13 November 2018, 15:00-17:00

Biophysical Seminars

Molecular Studies in Vascular Dementia

UserAtticus Hainsworth, St George's University of London.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2018, 10:30-11:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Chemistry Postdoc Seminar

UserDr Kristaps Ermanis (Goodman group) and Dr. Darren Willcox (Gaunt group).

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

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Pathways of Amyloid Aggregation

UserDr Birgit Strodel, Forschungszentrum Jülich.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Functional Nanoparticles: A Pathway to Low Viscosity Nanofluids, High Graft Density Polymers and Other Fun Things

UserProf. David Andrew Lewis, PhD, FRACI (Flinders centre for NanoScale Science and Technology, Flinders University) .

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2018, 14:30-15:30

Biophysical Seminars

On the structure-function uncertainties of proteins

UserProf. Monika Fuxreiter, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Debrecen, Hungary.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Energy Landscapes of Amyloid Oligomers

First Year PhD Report

UserLuke Dicks, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 14:40-15:00

Biophysical Seminars

Tuning protein biogenesis at the level of translation: probing dimensionality beyond the linear sequence of mRNA

UserProf. Zoya Ignatova, Institute of Biochem. & Mol. Biol., Univ. of Hamburg, Germany.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Seminars

Neurons Put Out the Trash: A Novel Facet of Proteostasis and Mitochondrial Quality Control

UserProf. Monica Driscoll, Rutgers University, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Piscataway, NJ, USA.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockMonday 15 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Biophysical Seminars

Protein Misfolding Diseases. The Structural Determinants of Protein Misfolded Oligomers Responsible for Toxicity and the Mechanism through which Toxicity is Mediated

UserProf. Fabrizio Chiti, Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences “Mario Serio”, Section of Biochemistry, University of Florence, Italy.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Stimuli Responsive Supramolecular Materials Formed from Host and Guest Polymers

UserProf. Yoshinori Takashima (Osaka University, Japan).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Polymer/clay nanocomposites: The catalytic effect of clay

UserProf Miroslav Huskić (National Institute of Chemistry).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserProf Ralf Jungmann, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Solid State Seminar Series

Solid State Seminar June 2018

UserDr Lucy Clark (University of Liverpool).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

UserBen Schuler, University of Zurich, Department of Biochemistry and Department of Physics, Zurich, Switzerland.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Functionalization and Heteroleptic Assembly of Coordination Cages

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Microfluidic methods to study single cells and peptide-membrane interactions

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Molecular Imaging of Disease

UserBruno Oliveira, Chemistry Dept, Cambridge.

HouseTodd Hamied, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

PrP post-translational modifications determine prion disease outcome

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Solid State Seminar Series

Solid State Seminar May 2018

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multicomponent Reactions in Peptide and Protein Chemistry

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric research from the molecular to city scale

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Weighing single molecules with light

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

David Chandler Linnett Memorial Symposium

UserDr 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.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

UserProfessor Jérôme Bibette, ESPCI, Laboratoire Colloïdes et Matériaux divisés.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

INFRARED TRANSMITTING SILVER HALIDE FIBERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Cancelled

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

NMR atomic-resolution structures of amyloids

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modelling diffusion-osmosis

First Year PhD Report

UserSimon Ramirez Hinestrosa, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Depolarising Polar Surface Simulations

First Year PhD Report

UserThomas Sayer, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Methane and the Paris Agreement

UserProfessor Euan Nisbet, Royal Holloway and NERC Project MOYA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Second Harmonic Scattering: Atomistic Simulation and Machine Learning

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Electron Catalysis

UserProf Armido Studer, Organisch-Chemisches Institut, WWU Münster.

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Big Molecules and Small Particles

UserProfessor Lennart Lindfors, University of Gothenburg.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Biologically inspired de novo protein structure prediction

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Improving the Prediction of In vivo Drug Activity

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

What inspires us to learn?

UserFun Man Fung, National University of Singapore.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

New Frontiers in Biocatalytic C-H Functionalization

UserProfessor Greg Challis, University of Warwick.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Microfluidic Single-Cell Manipulation and Analysis

UserDr. Stefano Pagliara, University of Exeter.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

UserDr Damian Crowther, Neuroscience, IMED Biotech Unit, AstraZeneca.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Bonfires with a bang

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

UserDr Andy Szydio.

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum Machine Learning

UserProfessor Anatole von Lilienfeld, University of Basel.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Evolution and assembly of protein complexes

UserDr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Deep Learning in Chemistry

UserDr Richard Dybowski, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Formal Materials - Theory Seminar

UserProfessor Marjolein Dijkstra, Utrecht University.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Microglia eating neurons and TREM2:Abeta interactions in neurodegeneration

UserProf. Guy Brown, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

UserProfessor Tom Cech, University of Colorado Boulder.

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CPGS Seminars

UserAndrea di Antonio and Anika Krause, Cambridge University.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Learning and Applying Nature's Biosynthetic Logic

UserProf. Bradley S. Moore, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Photosynthetic water oxidation - the substrates view

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

UserProf. Johannes Messinger, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Sweden.

HouseTodd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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)

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

HouseTodd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium

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

UserKeynote Speakers: Professor Sir Alan Fersht and Professor Dame Carol Robinson.

HouseMcGrath Centre.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium

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

UserKeynote Speakers: Professor Sir Alan Fersht and Professor Dame Carol Robinson.

HouseMcGrath Centre.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium

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

UserKeynote Speakers: Professor Sir Alan Fersht and Professor Dame Carol Robinson.

HouseMcGrath Centre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Networks, resilience and complexity

UserProfessor Gabriel Cwilich, Yeshiva University, New York, USA.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Designing drugs on an intrinsically disordered protein involved in pancreatic cancer

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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.

UserDr Richard Judson, EPA National Centre for Computational Toxicology.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

LILBID-mass spectrometry: interrogating non-covalent complexes

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Disorder by Design

UserProf. Andrew Goodwin, University of Oxford.

HousePfizer LT.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

UserProf. Joost Reek, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Molecular evolution of macrocyclic rescuers of disease-associated protein misfolding

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Tuning charge transfer in low-dimensional nano carbons

UserProf. Dirk Guldi, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

NMR spectroscopy to study dynamics with applications to immunology and neurodegeneration

UserProfessor Christian Griesinger, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Merck, Sharp & Dohme Lecture

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminar Series 2016/17

Amyloid oligomers : precursors, competitors or inhibitors of fibril formation

UserProfessor Martin Muschol, Dept. of Physics, University of South Florida.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cellulose-based helical micro/nano filaments and films

UserProf. Maria Helena Figueiredo Godinho, Universidad Nova de Lisboa.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Fuzziness in function and evolution of proteins

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Pathogenic vs. Reversible Amyloid & Inhibition of Aggregation

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Disentangling Polydispersity in Biological Systems by SAXS

UserPau Bernadó, Centre de Biochimie Structurale (CBS).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Halocarbons in Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology: New opportunities and challenges

UserPierangelo Metrangolo, Politecnico di Milano.

HousePfizer LT.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

New Directions in Ni-catalyzed Cross Coupling

UserProfessor Abigail Doyle, Princeton University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Directed self-assembly of Janus rods

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

HousePfizer LT.

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

DAMTP Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

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

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

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Inside a Collapsing Bubble: Sonochemistry and Sonoluminescence

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

HousePfizer LT.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Network Properties of Atomic Clusters

Thesis Seminar

UserJohn Morgan (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

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

1st Year PhD Report

UserBenjamin Alexander-Dann (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

Informal Materials RIG Seminar

UserDr. Vincent Artero, SolHyCat, Université Grenoble Alpes.

HouseTodd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Molecular catalysis for the reduction of CO2 with Fe complexes

Informal Materials RIG Seminar

UserProf. Marc Robert, Université Paris.

HouseTodd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Molecular Chaperone Functions in Protein Folding and Quality Control

UserProf. Dr. F. Ulrich Hartl, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry (Pfizer lecture theatre).

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

UserProf Nuria Garcia-Araez, University of Southampton.

HousePfizer LT.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Mapping the molecular landscape of disease

1st Year PhD Report

UserErin Oerton (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Lattice models for DNA origami self-assembly

1st Year PhD Report

UserAlexander Cumberworth (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthesis RIG Postdoc Seminar

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

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

UserDr Dan Stone, University of Leeds.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Stochastic Coupled Cluster in Model Solid Systems

1st Year PhD Report

UserVerena Neufeld (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Synthesis and Analysis of Nanobody Sequence and Structure Data

1st Year PhD Report

UserLaura Mitchell (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Beta-hairpin motifs of amyloidogenic IDP

UserDr. Wolfgang Hoyer, University of Dusseldorf.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Controlling Life with Photons

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

UserXiaoyan Wang and Wei Wang, China National Environment Monitoring Centre.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Applying Stochastic Coupled Cluster Theory to the Solid State

1st Year PhD Report

UserCharlie Scott (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Energy Landscape Landscaping

1st Year PhD Report

UserKonstantin Roeder (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

DAMTP Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

A model for super El Ninos

UserDr Saji Hameed, University of Aizu, Japan.

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Designing drugs on an intrinsically disordered protein involved in pancreatic cancer

All welcome

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

UserProf. Anthony Masters, The School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Australia.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

CO2 + H2O + Sunlight → Chemical Fuels + O2

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Artificial photosynthesis—From catalysts to devices for water splitting

UserProfessor Licheng Sun, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Studying Interfacial Processes During Water Splitting and CO2 Reduction

UserDr Alexander Cowan, Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Informal TMI RIG Seminar

UserPatrick Lewis, Chongli Qin & Dr Nitin Sharma.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Theoretical advances in aqueous ion solvation: Charge asymmetry

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

The cutting edge of Alzheimer’s disease research

All welcome

UserProf. Bart De Strooper, University of Leuven and University College London.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Biomineralization of nacre

UserProf. Pupa Gilbert, University of Wisconsin – Madison.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

All welcome

UserDr Wei-Feng Xue, School of Biosciences, University of Kent.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Simple microscopic models of complex systems

UserProfessor Jeremy Schofield (University of Toronto).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Reprogramming the Genetic Code

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Expanding the universe of protein structure and function by design

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

UserProfessor Lindsay Greer ( Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy).

HousePfizer LT.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

A New Approach to Asymmetric Lewis Acid Catalysis

UserProf. Dr. Benjamin List, Max-Planck-Institute, Mülheim.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Using Proteins to Prepare Functional Polymeric Nanomaterials

UserProf. Nico Bruns, Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

α-Synuclein: amyloid inclusions and supra-fibrillar structures

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Molecular Electronics for Chemical Sensors

UserProf. Timothy M. Swager, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

UserProf. Timothy M. Swager, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Enhancing nanopore sensing with DNA nanotechnology

All welcome

UserUlrich F. Keyser, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge .

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Tissue-like materials from communicating droplet networks

UserProfessor Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford.

HousePfizer LT.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Professor Steven Ley's 70th Birthday Symposium

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

HouseBMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Studying membrane bioactivity with super-resolution optical microscopy

UserProfessor Christian Eggeling, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford.

HousePfizer LT.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

CANCELLED Directed self-assembly of Janus rods

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

HousePfizer LT.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric Sulfur Geoengineering – Benefits and Risks

NOTE UNUSUAL START TIME

UserProfessor Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Pushing the Envelope – Advancing Atmospheric Observations using Aerial Robotics

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

Biophysical Seminars

Structural Analysis of Amyloid-like Protein Fibrillation

All welcome

UserBente Vestergaard, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Probing gene control at the molecular stage

UserProfessor Mark C. Leake, University of York.

HousePfizer LT.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Seeing the Invisible: Vibrational Imaging for Biology and Medicine

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Single Molecule Enzymology: Transcription against Supercoiling

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

UserProf. Xiaoliang Sunny Xie, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Rational design of protein aggregation

UserProf. Frederic Rousseau, VIB (Belgium).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Understanding the neuronal control of ageing and proteostasis

UserDr. Rebecca Taylor, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor John Sutherland, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

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

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

Biophysical Seminars

Chaperoning single proteins

All welcome

UserProf. Sander Tans, AMOLF.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

The Phase Behavior of Deeply Supercooled Water: a Computational Perspective

Note unusual time

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

All welcome

UserDr. Ewan St. John Smith, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

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

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Recipient of RSC Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award.

UserProf Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry

Catalysts for CO2 reduction: from molecules to solids

UserProf. Marc Fontecave, College de France.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

How cryo-EM is revolutionising structural biology

UserDr. Sjors Scheres, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nature Inspired Manufacturing Workshop

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nature Inspired Manufacturing Workshop

UserThomas Speck, Ryad Benosman, Carlos Saez, Theresa Millard, Iain Valentine.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Non-covalent Peptide Assembly: The latest Results

All welcome

UserMike Bowers, UC Santa Barbara.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Shining new light on chemistry and biology with inteferometric scattering microscopy

UserProfessor Philipp Kukura ( Dept of Chemistry, University of Oxford ).

HousePfizer LT.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CPGS Seminars

UserSteve Campbell, Cameron Rae, David Wade.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Seminars

The mechanical control of neuronal development

UserDr Kristian Franze, University of Cambridge (PDN).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

UserProfessor Andrew Orr-Ewing – University of Bristol.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR): New Paradigms for Next Generation Energy Storage

UserProf George Crabtree, Director, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

Biophysical Seminars

Microtechnologies for biomolecular complex analysis and cryo-microscopy

All welcome

UserDr Thomas Burg, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CCFCS event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockMonday 16 November 2015, 14:15-17:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

The Exact Functional

UserAron Cohen (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 13 November 2015, 12:00-12:40

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Solar Powered CO2-to-Fuel”

UserProfessor Geoffrey Ozin, University of Toronto.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 15:30-16:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Improving pharmaceutical manufacturability through crystal engineering

UserProfessor Calvin Sun, University of Minnesota.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

Chemistry

"Studies at the abiotic-biotic interface"

UserProf. Carole Perry, Nottingham Trent University.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 05 November 2015, 14:30-15:30

Biophysical Seminars

Controlling Protein Damage

All welcome

UserDr. Stefan Rüdiger, Utrecht University.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theater.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Dynamics of Airborne Droplets

Joint RIG seminar - note unusual time and place

UserProfessor Jonathan Reid, Bristol University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2015, 16:00-17:15

Biophysical Seminars

Proteome homeostasis and protein aggregation in ALS

Everyone is welcome

UserDr. Justin Yerbury, University of Wollongong.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theater.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2015, 10:30-11:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mass Spectrometry in Structural Biology

UserDr Dijana Matak-Vinkovic, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 16 September 2015, 14:00-15:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Using Surfaces to Direct Microphase Separation

UserClarion Tung (Department of Chemistry, Columbia University).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 11 September 2015, 13:30-14:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Evolution of Functionality of Porous Coordination Polymers

2013 winner of RSC de Gennes Prize for outstanding & exceptional work in the field of Materials Chemistry

UserProfessor Susumu Kitagawa, Kyoto University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 24 July 2015, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanisms of microbial elemental sulfur reduction at the community, cellular and enzymatic levels

Informal Chemical Biology Lecture

UserProfessor E J Crane (III), Pomona College, Claremont, California.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

DE NOVO PROTEINS: MYTH OR MYSTERY?

UserErich Bornberg-Bauer, The Westfalian Wilhelms University of Münster.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

sc867's list

Luminescent materials by controlling and managing self-assembly

UserProfessor Luisa De Cola - University of Strasbourg, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nanomaterials Design for Energy and Environment

Inaugural Schlumberger Lectures

UserProfessor Yi Cui, Stanford University, USA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

TBC

UserProf. Edward Tate, Imperial College.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 18 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cephalopod-derived Materials for Photonic and Protonic Devices

Informal Materials RIG seminar

UserProfessor Alon Gorodetsky, University of California, Irvine.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Interplay of X-ray Spectroscopy with Functional Materials - Addressing Scientific Issues with Synchrotron Capabilities

Information Materials RIG seminar

UserProfessor Tsun-Kong Sham, Canadian Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Canada.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Non lithium based technologies: walking on the sodium side

UserDr Rosa Palacin, CSIC, Inst Ciencia Mat Barcelona, Spain.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Nanoparticle growth and Ostwald ripening: aggregate growth, size distributions, and the breakdown of scaling

UserProf. Dr. Juergen Vollmer, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Goettingen, Germany.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 06 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Sampled Energy Landscapes: Analysis and Comparison

UserFrederic Cazals, Inria Sophia-Antipolis, Algorithms-Biology-Structure.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Volcanic outgassing

UserDr Marie Edmonds (Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 26 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Computer simulations of thermally induced electric fields in water.

UserPeter Wirnsberger, Deparment Chemistry, University of Cambridge (Frenkel Group).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 23 January 2015, 12:00-12:45

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Application of normal forms and TST to the reaction dynamics of quantum wave packets

UserDr. Andrej Junginger, University of Stuttgart, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Stuttgart, Germany.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 16 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Physical Chemistry Graduate Seminars

UserGrad speakers to be confirmed.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockMonday 01 December 2014, 15:30-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Digital Discovery and Design: the new age of materials on demand

2nd BP Lecture 2014

UserProfessor Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Soft Matter Quasicrystals and Their Complex Cousins

First BP lecture 2014

UserProfessor Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Exotic morphologies of highly charged solvated macromolecules

UserProf. Styliani Constas, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario London, ON N6A 5B7 CANADA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 21 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Lewis Acids based on Aluminium and Phosphorus

UserProfessor Drasko Vidovic, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

RSC Lecture

UserProfessor Eric Bakker, University of Geneva.

HousePfizer LT.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Entropic Utopia: Shaping disorder for targeted self-assembly

UserPablo F. Damasceno, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 07 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CCfCS IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report Symposium

UserProfessor Eric Wolff, Professor Douglas Crawford-Brown, Professor David MacKay.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 14:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthetic RIG Graduate Symposium

UserDr Gonçalo Bernardes, Philip Murray, Terence Kwan, Dean Holt, Alex Stross.

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

ClockFriday 31 October 2014, 14:00-18:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

High-dimensional surprises near the glass and the jamming transitions

UserProf. Patrick Charbonneau, Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0354.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 31 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Molecular random tilings

UserProfessor Juan Garrahan (University of Nottingham).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Packing polyhedra: from ancient math to advanced materials

UserDr. Daphne Klotsa, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseScott Polar Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 24 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Computational analyses of RNA repeat expansions causing genetic disease

UserDr. Ilyas Yildirim, Deparment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 10 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Disordered Photonics

UserProfessor Diederik Wiersma, University of Florence.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 02 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Interacting with Protein Interactions

"Special Event" Cambridge Cheminformatics Network Meetings

UserProfessor Arthur J Olson, Departmen of Interactive Structure & Computational BIology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla CA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre Department of Chemistry Lensfield Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 3RA.

ClockWednesday 09 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Molecular origins of "internal friction" in protein folding

UserDr. David de Sancho, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 13 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Chaperone-guided protein folding at the single-molecule level

UserProf. Sander Tans, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 06 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

RSC Easterfield Award Winner Lecture

UserDr Bridget Stocker - RSC Easterfield Award Winner.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 06 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"CADD & ENAC - A bad hand at Scrabble..?"

Please note that the date of this seminar has been changed

UserDr Peter Hunt, Optibrium Ltd.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2014, 14:15-15:45

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Thermodynamics of Dissipative Self-Assembly

UserDr. ing. Ger J. M. Koper, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 30 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

“Development of new antibiotics by targeting essential enzymes in bacteria: structure-based design and simulation studies”

UserDr Concepción González-Bello , Associate Professor, Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CIQUS), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Chirality in NMR Spectroscopy

UserProfessor David Buckingham FRS (University of Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Embedded correlation within strongly correlated materials

UserDr. George Booth, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 02 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Development of visible light responsive photocatalysts for water splitting

Second Lewis Lecture 2014

UserProfessor Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Organic Photoredox Catalysis: Methods and Mechanistic Insight

UserProfessor David Nicewicz, University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 15:00-16:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Solar-fuels production from water using photocatalysts

First Lewis Lecture 2014

UserProfessor Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"From fragments to target-selective ligands by reaction-driven de novo design"

UserProfessor Gisbert Schneider. Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences ETH Zurich.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 April 2014, 14:15-15:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Asymmetric Organocatalysis – Challenges and Innovations

UserProf Paolo Melchiorre, ICIQ Prof Alan Armstrong, Imperial College London Prof Nicholas Tomkinson, University of Strathclyde Dr Paul Alsters, DSM Pharma Products Prof Karl Anker Jørgensen, Aarhus University.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

ClockFriday 04 April 2014, 10:30-18:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Odorant space: From chemistry to physiology

UserDr Michael Schmuker, Neuroinformatics & Theoretical Neuroscience, Freie Universität Berlin.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 25 March 2014, 14:15-15:45

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The ups and downs of coenzyme A biosynthesis as an antimicrobial drug target

UserProfessor Erick Strauss, Department of Biochemistry, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

dsk26's list

The ups and downs of coenzyme A biosynthesis as an antimicrobial drug target

UserProfessor Erick Strauss, Department of Biochemistry Stellenbosch University South Africa.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Folding of RNA tetraloop hairpins using Discrete Path Sampling

UserDebayan Chakraborty, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Protein-Ligand Binding by Free Energy Simulations: Issues, Successes and Failures

Please note the change of date, one week earlier than originally planned

UserProfessor Jonathan Essex, University of Southampton.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2014, 14:15-15:45

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Importance and Application of Chemical Activation in Atmospheric Chemistry

Note this is a joint CAS/Phys Chem RIG seminar.

UserProf Paul Seakins (University of Leeds).

HousePfizer Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

High-dimensional random landscapes and random matrices

UserProf. Yan Fyodorov, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, UK.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 31 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Coordination Clusters as Building Blocks for New Materials

UserProfessor Annie Powell, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Diffusion in confined systems

UserProfessor J. Miguel Rubi (University of Barcelona), Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry Imperial College .

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Land-atmosphere interactions: what models do and don't tell us

UserProf Rob MacKenzie (University of Birmingham) - Director, Birmingham Institute of Forest Research.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 20 January 2014, 14:15-15:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Coarse-grained modelling of RNA and DNA

UserPetr Sulc, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford, UK.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mitochondria-targeted Delivery Systems

UserDr Shanta Dhar, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 06 January 2014, 14:00-15:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

First Passage Time Boxed Molecular Dynamics

UserBoris Fackovec (University of Cambridge), Wales Group.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 13 December 2013, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Chiral Nematic Properties of Cellulosic Materials

Melville/Materials Seminar

UserProfessor Derek G Gray, McGill University, Canada.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Modeling reactive events in complex systems

UserProf. Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Courant Institute, NYU 251, Mercer Street New York, NY, 10012 .

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 06 December 2013, 12:00-13:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Protein folding, unfolding, and ligand docking by generalized-ensemble algorithms

UserProf. Yuko Okamoto, Department of Physics, School of Science, Nagoya University.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 29 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Various

UserFirst year CPGS talks: Michal Filus, Brendan Mahon, Peer Nowack and Francis Wragg.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 14:15-15:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

"Catalyst-Enabling Chemistry toward Transformative Molecules"

UserSynthesis and Catalysis Symposium - Professor Kenichiro - Nagoya University, Japan and Professor Tim Jamison - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockFriday 22 November 2013, 14:00-18:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Biomimetic approaches to cell-cell adhesion, fusion and lipid domain formation

UserProf. Jasna Brujic, New York University, Center for Soft Matter Research.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 22 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

CANCELLED

UserProfessor Jiri Vanicek (EPFL, Lausanne).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Nanotechnology for Medicine

BP Lectures 2013

UserProfessor James M. Tour, Rice University, Texas.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nanotechnology for Medicine

BP Lectures 2013

UserProfessor James Tour, Rice University, USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Graphene Growth & Applications

BP Lectures 2013

UserProfessor James M. Tour, Rice University, Texas.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Graphene Growth and Applications

BP Lectures 2013

UserProfessor James Tour, Rice University, USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Towards the reconstitution of a minimal cell?

UserProf. Marileen Dogeterom, FOM Institute, The Netherlands.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 18 October 2013, 15:00-16:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

UserJun.-Prof. Dr. Guido Clever, Inorg Chemistry Department, Gottingen University, Germany.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Protein-Ligand Binding by Free Energy Simulations: Issues, Successes and Failures

We regret that due to illness this talk has been cancelled

UserProfessor Jonathan Essex, University of Southampton.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2013, 12:00-13:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Density functional theory as a framework to develop new methods

UserProfessor Andreas Savin (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 09 October 2013, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Global Protein Structural Analysis for Drug Discovery"

UserDr Krishna Bulusu, from the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR).

HouseTodd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 08 October 2013, 14:15-15:45

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Using Locally Dense Basis Sets for NMR Shielding Calculations

UserDavid Reid, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 04 October 2013, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Boron Reagents in the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds

Dalton Young Researcher Award Lecture

UserDr Rebecca Melen, University of Toronto.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 29 August 2013, 09:30-11:00

Organic Chemistry

"Porous Organic Cages - A Serious Alternative to Extended Framework Materials"

UserProfessor Michael Mastalerz, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 August 2013, 14:00-15:30

"Asymmetric Autocatalysis and the Origin of Homochirality"

UserProfessor Kenso Soai, Department of Applied Chemistry Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 26 July 2013, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

"Asymmetric Autocatalysis and the Origin of Homochirality"

UserProfessor Kenso Soai, Department of Applied Chemistry Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockFriday 26 July 2013, 16:00-17:00

Physical Chemistry

Ionic Liquids: Applications in the Chemical-, Electro- and Bio- Sciences

UserDouglas R. MacFarlane Australian Centre for Electromaterials Science Monash University, Victoria, Australia.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 16 July 2013, 12:00-13:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in Bose-Einstein Condensates

UserProf. Lincoln D. Carr, Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, U.S.A..

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 05 July 2013, 12:00-13:00

What was first: the genetic code or its products?

UserProfessor Ada E. Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 17 June 2013, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Approaching protein dynamics in the post-genome era

UserProfessor Modesto Orozco, Dept. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona .

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 11 June 2013, 14:15-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Solid Liquid Crystals and Soft Motors

UserProfessor Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State University.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 05 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Why Does Cyclobutane-1,2,3,4-tetraone Have a Triplet Ground State?

A TMI RIG Presentation

UserProfessor Wes Borden, Unversity of Texas.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Ionic Liquids - From DFT to CG Simulations

UserProf. Dr. Christian Holm, Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 17 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanoresponsive Materials and Self-Healing Systems

2013 Melville Lectureship

UserProfessor Jeffrey S Moore, University of Illnois.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 16 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

On ripples, rafts, and networks - insights from generic models

UserProf. Friederike Schmid, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Germany.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 10 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Enzyme dynamics, conformations and catalysis

UserProfessor Adrian Mulholland, Centre for Computational Chemistry, Univeristy of Bristol.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2013, 14:15-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

BP 3rd Years PhD Talks

Talks by 3rd Yr PhD students in the Materials RIG

Uservarious.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The weather and climate: emergent laws and multifractal cascades

This is a special additional talk taking place outside of term time.

UserProfessor Shaun Lovejoy (McGill University).

HousePfizer Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 April 2013, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Relationship between Greenhouse Gases and Global Temperature

This is a special additional talk taking place outside of term time.

UserProf Murry Salby (Macquarie University).

HousePfizer Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

TB or not TB

Physical chemistry Linnett lecture series

UserProfessor Richard Zare (Stanford University).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockThursday 14 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Searching for intermediates in liquid reactions

Physical chemistry Linnett lecture series

UserProfessor Richard Zare (Stanford University).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Amos B. Smith III - University of Pennsylvania .

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Selective targeting of epigenetic effector domains of the bromodomain family

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

"Chromatin: An Expansive Canvas for Chemical Biology"

UserProfessor Tom Muir, Princeton University, USA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 01 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

“Data Driven Molecular Design & Discovery”

UserDr Scott Lusher, Netherlands eScience Centre.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 11:00-12:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Pushing the frontiers of wavefunction based ab initio quantum chemistry

UserProfessor Frank Neese (Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockMonday 11 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modeling of electrochemical interfaces at the atomic scale

UserProfessor Jan Rossmeisl (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

The Materials Project for Accelerated Materials Design

UserDr Kristin Persson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 18 January 2013, 12:00-13:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Theory, Dynamics, and Mechanisms of Cycloadditions

RSC Robert Robinson award Lecture

UserProfessor Kendall Houk (University of California, Los Angeles).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Allostery and Conformational Control in Signaling: The Ubiquitin E3 Ligases

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Assembly on Designer Templates

UserProfessor Mitsuhiko Shionoya, University of Tokyo.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 06 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

Physical Chemistry

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Lucy Carpenter (University of York).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

Watching Single Molecules

UserDavid Klenerman (University of Cambridge).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Selective adsorption of ions to aqueous interfaces and its effects on evaporation rates

RSC Faraday Lecture

UserProfessor Richard Saykally (University of California, Berkeley).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"The mechanisms of solute flux through membrane channels from multi-microsecond equilibrium simulations"

UserDr Martin Ulmschneider, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 14:15-15:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Dynamol Symposium

UserJeremy Sanders, Fraser Stoddart, Christoph Schalley and Rafal Klajn.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 13:00-19:00

BP Lectures 2012

Functionalized Antibodies

UserProfessor Akira Harada, Osaka University, Japan.

HouseBP Institute.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 11:30-12:30

BP Lectures 2012

Polyrotaxanes and Supramolecular Catalysis

UserProfessor Akira Harada, Osaka University, Japan.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

BP Lectures 2012

Macroscopic Self-Assembly and Self-Healing through Molecular Recognition

UserProfessor Akira Harada, Osaka University, Japan.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

1st Year CPGS talks

UserSarah Connors, Antara Banerjee and Ewa Bednarz.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 14:15-15:30

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Successes and challenges in the prediction of P450 mediated drug metabolism

UserProfessor Patrik Rydberg, University of Copenhagen, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 04 September 2012, 14:00-15:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Clusters in the bulk - the topological cluster classification

Note unusual day and time

UserDr Paddy Royall (University of Bristol).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 30 July 2012, 14:30-15:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Self-assembly in simple colloidal systems

Note slightly earlier time

UserProf. Vinothan Manoharan (Department of Physics, Harvard).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 13 July 2012, 11:30-12:30

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Dynamics of Biomolecules: from the Glass Transition to Drug Design"

A joint Theory/UCC talk as part of the TMI Research Interest Group

UserProfessor Jeremy C Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 20 June 2012, 14:15-15:30

"Molecular Behaviour in Small Spaces"

UserProfessor Julius Rebek, Jr., Ph.D - Director, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2012, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Stabilizing Proteins with Polymer Conjugates

UserProf Heather D Maynard, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 31 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

TBC

UserProfessor Andrea Ferrari, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2012, 16:00-17:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Departmental Lecture

UserProfessor Andrea Ferrari, Department of Engineering.

HouseScott Polar Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Institute.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2012, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Microwave remote sensing of volcanic ash clouds.

UserDr Mario Montopoli, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 May 2012, 14:15-15:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

"Molecular mechanisms of O-GlcNAc signalling"

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Tailored Polymers for Controlling Cell Signaling

UserProf Laura Kiessling, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

New Protein Structures and Assemblies by Rational Design

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

The Inner Beauty of Crystals

SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc

UserIan Mercer, Geological Museum, London (retired).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 19:00-20:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Physical properties of metal organic frameworks

UserProfessor Anthony K Cheetham, Materials Science, Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Topological Ring-Currents in Conjugated Systems

UserDr Roger Mallion, School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanistic and structural studies on thiamin biosynthetic enzymes

UserProfessor Tadgh P. Begley, D. H. R. Barton and Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry, Texas A&M University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 17:00-18:00

"Accelerated C-H Activation: A Shortcut to Molecular Complexity from Chemical Feedstock"

UserProfessor Jin-Quan Yu, The Scripps Research Institute.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 27 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Understanding the Action of Proteins

Note unusual day

UserProf. Peter Bolhuis, University of Amsterdam (CCP5 Lecturer).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockThursday 15 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Artificial Leaf

Lewis Lectures 2012

UserProfessor Dan Nocera, MIT.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

'Chemistry of Oxygen Sensing in Animals'

UserProf. Christopher Schofield, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Biological RIG seminar

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Development of New Synthetic Methods and Fundamental Studies of Conjugated Polymers

website: http://www.cm.utexas.edu/christopher_bielawski

UserProf Christopher W Bielawski, University of Texas at Austin.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 02 March 2012, 15:00-16:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Designing Functional Molecular Nanostructures

UserProfessor Stefan Hecht (Humboldt University of Berlin).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere and it's role in Climate.

UserDr Andrew Gettelman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 February 2012, 14:15-15:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

RSC Prize Lecture

UserDr G Marius Clore, National Institutes of Health, USA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthetic Molecular Systems (th)at Work

UserProfessor Stefan Matile, University of Geneva.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

The early stages of biomimetic calcium phosphate formation: amorphous phases and pre-nucleation complexes

UserDr Nico A.J.M.Sommerdijk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Exploring new chiral space in asymmetric catalysis"

UserProf. Ben Feringa, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Groningen.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 16:45-17:45

Physical Chemistry

Mechanical Atom Manipulation: Towards a Matter Compiler

UserProfessor Philip Moriarty, University of Nottingham.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Self-assembly and cryo-TEM in the study of bioinspired hybrid materials"

UserDr Nico A.J.M. Sommerdijk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 15:45-16:45

Melville Laboratory Seminars

New Materials for Phosphorescent OLEDs and Polymer Photovoltaics

Please note the change in the time

UserDr Youtian Tao, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Univeristy of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 15:00-16:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Light-in, Light-out - the yin and yang of sustainable materials chemistry

RSC Lecture (Sustainable Energy Award)

UserDr Ed Constable, University of Basel.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Molecular Model Solutions

SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc

UserDr Jonathan Goodman, Chemistry.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 19:00-20:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

From Fragments and Hot-Spots to Novel Lead Structures

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

What could materials chemistry do for anti-inflammatory therapies. Oxidation-sensitive polymers and other examples.

UserProf Nicola Tirelli, FRSC, School of Biomedicine and School of Materials, University of Manchester.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 02 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Lessons from Yeast: Drug Uptake and Systems Biology

UserDr Paul D Dobson, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2012, 14:00-15:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Exploiting Cryptic Biosynthetic Pathways in Microorganisms

Joint Biological and Synthesis Seminar

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Origins of life chemistry - reconciling the iron-sulfur and the RNA worlds

Materials/Synthesis Departmental Lecture

UserDr John Sutherland, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Herbal remedy to Pharmaceutical - the story of botany and medicine

SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Group and RSC's Mid-Anglia Section

UserDr Alison Foster, Director, Oxford University Botanic Garden.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 19:00-20:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Small Molecule Control of Intracellular Protein Levels

Joint Synthesis/Biological RIG Colloquium

UserProf. Craig M. Crews, Dept. of Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology, Dept. of Pharmacology & Dept. of Chemistry, Yale University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 18 January 2012, 17:00-18:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Joint Biological/Synthetic RIG Seminar

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Geoengineering Mini Symposium.

Note unusual time and location

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Coordination-Driven Capsules and Cages

UserProfessor Paul Lusby - University of Edinburgh.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 09 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Coordination-Driven Capsules and Cages

UserProfessor Paul Lusby, University of Edinburgh.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 09 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Jonas Peters, California Institute of Technology.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 08 December 2011, 00:00-00:00

Is Water H20?

SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc

UserProfessor Hasok Chang, History & Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 19:00-20:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Light-Responsive Polymers and Composites for Biomedical Applications

UserProfessor Jason A Burdick, (Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/directory/profile.php?ID=13.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

New Methods of Bioanalysis using Functionalised Nanoparticles and SERS

UserProfessor Duncan Graham (University of Strathclyde ) http://www.chem.strath.ac.uk/people/academic/duncan_graham.

HouseTodd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 November 2011, 14:30-16:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Expanding the central dogma

UserProfessor Philipp Holliger, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Self assembly of DNA coated colloids

CPGS talk

UserMatthew Llewellyn-Jones (CUC3).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 25 November 2011, 12:30-13:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

How fast folding proteins fold

UserProf. Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, University of Copenhagen.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

'The Chemistry of Genome Maintenance'

UserProf. Dr Thomas Carell - Chemical Science Lecturer.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2011, 16:50-17:35

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

'The Chemistry of Genome Maintenance'

UserProfessor Thomas Carell -Chemical Science Lecturer.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2011, 16:50-17:35

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Sialidases in respiratory disease

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Dielectric response of interfacial water

Note unusual day and time.

UserDouwe Jan Bonthuis (Technische Universität München).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling the living world?

Note unusual day and time

UserDr Mike Harfoot, United Nations Environment Programme - WCMC.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2011, 15:30-16:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Linnett Lecture: "The Theory of the Structural Glass Transition"

Joint Theory/Biological Seminar

UserProf. Peter Wolynes, Rice University.

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Timescales of chemical reactions

Joint with Phys. Chem. (NOTE unusual date and place)

UserProf Michael Pilling, University of Leeds.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

Timescales of chemical reactions

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Joint Materials/Biological Colloquia

UserProfessor Bill Rutherford, CEA, France.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Water Photolysis in Biology: Photosystem II

Joint Materials/Biological Colloquia

UserProfessor Bill Rutherford, Imperial College, London.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Cooperative dynamics in supercooled liquids

Note unusual venue.

UserDr Jacob Stevenson (CUC3).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Erick Carreira, ETH- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Switzerland.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Erick Carreira, ETH- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Switzerland.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Second Year PhD Presentations - II

UserJames Keeble (University of Cambridge), Matthew McLeod (University of Cambridge) and Pete Gallimore (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Can hydrophobic surfaces catalyze unfolding?

Note unusual venue.

UserDr Patrick Varilly (CUC3).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Science in the House of Commons (PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME 19:45)

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

UserDr Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 19:45-20:45

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Conformational dynamics of single protein molecules under load

Joint Theory/Biological Seminar

UserProf. Matthias Rief, Technische Universität München.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Second Year PhD Presentations - I

UserOliver Squire (University of Cambridge), Pete Gallimore (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Reaction Design and Catalysis with Aromatic Ions

UserProfessor Tristan Lambert, Columbia University, USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 22 September 2011, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"New Developments in Semiempirical MO Theory for Drug and Materials Design"

This Lecture is part of Professor Clark's MGMS Lecture tour

UserProfessor Tim Clark, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 22 September 2011, 14:00-15:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Networking the Self-assembled Cages

UserProfessor Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

ac313's list

Molecular Simulations in Structure-Based Drug Design

UserDr Julien Michel, Royal Society University Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 07 July 2011, 15:30-16:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Controlling bacterial motors

UserProf. Berenike Maier (Univeristy of Cologne).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 24 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Soft and hard nanomaterials made by self-assmebly

UserProfessor Ullrich Steiner, Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 09 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry

What's wrong with density-functional theory?

UserProfessor Nicola Marzari, University of Oxford.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Biophysical Colloquia

Key macromolecules in bacterial infections: a structural perspective

UserDr. Rita Berisio, Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging, Italian National Research Council..

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2011, 10:30-11:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Molecules and nanostructures for solar energy conversion

UserProfessor James Durrant, Imperial College London.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 02 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Australian HFC, PFC and SF6 emissions: atmospheric verification

Note unusual day and time

UserDr Paul Fraser, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 01 June 2011, 15:30-16:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Simulations of ionic liquids for energy applications

UserProfessor Mathieu Salanne, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 01 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Biophysical Colloquia

Manipulating protein aggregation in the nervous system

UserProf Michael Cheetham, Division of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, UCL.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 01 June 2011, 10:30-11:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Hard sphere crystal growth

UserDr Michiel Hermes (University of Utrecht).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 27 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Exploring free-energy landscapes

UserProfessor Daan Frenkel FRS, Cambridge University Centre for Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

The power of coarse-graining in biomolecular simulations

UserProfessor Siewert-Jan Marrink, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 14:00-15:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Anion Supramolecular Chemistry: Sensing and Materials

UserProfessor Jonathan Steed, Durham University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CANCELLED ##### Air Pollution and health: myths and realities #######

Unfortunately this seminar has been canceled but will be rescheduled for next term.

UserProf Jon Ayres, Director of Institue of Occupational and Environmental Medicene, University of Birmingham.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 16 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Molecular Nanostructures and Sensors by Self-Assembly

Extra Inorganic Seminar

UserProfessor Kay Severin, EPFL, Switzerland.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Design of New Catalytic Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry

Lewis Lecture 2011

UserProfessor David Milstein, Weizmann Institute, Israel.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 13 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Stimuli-responsive macromolecules: polymer-protein bioconjugates and sugar-responsive micelles

UserProf. Brent S. Sumerlin, Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Soft matter physics and bacteria

UserProfessor Gerard Wong, UCLA and the University of Illinois.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

RSC Organic Symposium at the University of Cambridge

UserProfessor Kevin Booker-Milburn University of Bristol - Dr Matthew Clarke University of St Andrews - Professor Dieter Enders RWTH-Aachen.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 May 2011, 14:00-18:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Primo Levi’s Lesson: a Bridge between Chemistry and Literature

UserProfessor Luigi Dei Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff” University of Florence via della Lastruccia, 3 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze) - Italy.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Noncovalent Nanostructures in Aqueous Medium: Robust yet Adaptive

UserDr Boris Rybtchinski, Weizman Institute of Science, Israel.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 28 April 2011, 14:00-15:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Self-assembly and hydrodynamics of Janus particles

Note unusual venue. This talk is on Good Friday and the building will be single-locked. Anyone without access who wishes to attend should contact Mark Miller (mam1000).

UserProf. Erik Luijten (Northwestern University, USA).

HouseRoom 357, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 22 April 2011, 12:00-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry

An Ising-like Model for Protein Folding

UserDr William Eaton, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, USA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 20 April 2011, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Ultrafast Protein Folding"

Professor Eaton is this year's Alexander Todd Visiting Professor

UserProfessor William Eaton, NIH Distinguished Investigator Chief, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, Bethseda.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 14 April 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry

The theory of single molecule force and fluorescence spectroscopy

UserDr Attila Szabo, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, USA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 13 April 2011, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

“Physical chemistry and searching for a cure for sickle cell disease”

Professor Eaton is this year's Alexander Todd Visiting Professor

UserProfessor William Eaton, NIH Distinguished Investigator Chief, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, Bethseda.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 April 2011, 17:00-18:00

Physical Chemistry

RSC Faraday Lecture

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

UserProfessor John Polanyi, University of Toronto.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Tooling Up for Nanoworld: The Magic of Molecular Machines

Alex Hopkins Lecture 2011

UserProfessor David Leigh, University of Edinburgh.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 25 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Modelling synthesis and catalytic applications of doped AlPOs

Inorganic/Theoretical Joint Seminar

UserDr Furio Cora, University College London.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 March 2011, 15:30-16:30

Physical Chemistry

Physical Chemistry Graduate Seminar

UserDavid Madden, Matthew Ashford, Isabella Stocker.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Colloquia

TBC

UserNobu Tokuriki, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge..

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 10:30-11:30

Physical Chemistry

Vehicle exhaust nanoparticles: sources and control.

UserDr Martyn Twigg - previously Chief Scientist of Johnson Matthey.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Colloquia

Quality control in the IgM factory: the many roles of ERp44

UserRoberto Sitia, San Raffaele Hospital, MILAN.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2011, 10:30-11:30

Physical Chemistry

What surfactants do at interfaces

UserProfessor Robert Thomas, University of Oxford.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

What we don't know about nano-assembly for nanomaterials

UserProf. Jeremy Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre, University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Engineering microenvironments to control cell fate and behaviour

UserDr Chunming Wang, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

BP Day

User3rd Year PhD students.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

UserFabio Falsone, University of Graz, Austria.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Neurotransmitter transporters: from ligand-based to systems chemical biology approaches

UserProfessor Olivier Taboureau, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2011, 14:15-15:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Form Matters: Catalysis with "Butterflies"

UserProfessor Hansjorg Grutzmacher, ETH Zurich.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 14:00-15:30

Biophysical Colloquia

Applications of single molecule fluorescence to biology

UserProf. David Klenerman, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2011, 10:30-11:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biophysical Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

UserAndreas Ramos, NIMR, London.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 10:30-11:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Under pressure: quasi-high pressure effects in nano-pores

UserProfessor Keith Gubbins, North Carolina State University.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Biophysical Colloquia

Structural insights into the initiation of DNA synthesis in eukaryotic replication

UserDr. Luca Pellegrini, Department of BIochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2011, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

UserAndras Malnasi-Csizmadia, Department of Biochemistry Eötvös University, Budapest.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 10:30-11:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Geometrical aspects of hydrophobic hydration

UserDr Joachim Dzubiella, Technische Universität München.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 14:15-15:15

Biophysical Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

UserDr. Robert Best, University of Cambridge..

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 10:30-11:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Cognac and Armagnac - a scientific brandy tasting

To reserve a ticket or for more information please contact: John O'Toole T: 01223 894174 E: john.otoole9@btopenworld.com

UserBruce Perry (Eaux de Vie Ltd, London).

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 09 December 2010, 19:00-21:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Catalytic Capsids: reactions in confinement

UserProf. Dr. Jeroen J.L.M. Cornelissen, Laboratory for Biomolecular Nanotechnology, University of Twente.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 02 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

Organic Chemistry

CANCELLED

UserProfessor Mike Krische, University of Texas.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 17:00-18:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Giovanni Bussi, Statistical and Biological Physics Sector, SISSA, Trieste.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 14:15-15:15

Biophysical Colloquia

Structural Ensembles of Small Peptides - An NMR Perspective

UserDr. Stephan Schwarzinger Institute of Biopolymers, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 10:30-11:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Metallopolyynes and Metallophosphors: Multifunctional Materials with Emerging Applications in Optical Devices

RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award Lecture 2010

UserProfessor Raymond Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

POSTPONED TO LENT TERM

UserDr Karolina Wahlstrom, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 16:30-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Conjugated Polyelectrolytes for Emerging Optoelectronic Devices and Bioelectronic Applications

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

POSTPONED TO LENT TERM

UserDr Xian Jun Loh, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-16:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Quantum dynamics of chemical reactions

Royal Society of Chemistry Liversidge Lecture

UserProfessor David Clary FRS, University of Oxford.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Biophysical Colloquia

Designing protein polymerases for unnatural nucleic acids

UserVitor Pinheiro MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Visualising and Predicting Organic Reactivity"

UserDr Scott L Cockroft, Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2010, 14:15-15:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Exploring Ras Super-family Proteins : A Chemical Biology Approach

UserDr Debapratim Das, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseTodd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 15:00-16:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Inorganic 2nd Yr PhD Student Talks

UserUniversity of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 10:00-16:00

Biophysical Colloquia

From coarse-grained models of fibril formation to atomistic details of potential inhibitors

UserProf. Amedeo Caflisch Department of Biochemistry, the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2010, 10:30-11:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Title: From coarse-grained models of fibril formation to atomistic details of potential inhibitors

Joint Theoretical/Biophysical Colloquium *** NOTE: UNUSUAL TIME: 10:30 AM ***

UserAmedeo Caflish, University of Zurich.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2010, 10:30-11:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Multicomponent Block Polymers for Templating and Separations

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Systems chemistry – Teaching simple molecules to do complex things

UserProf Douglas Philp, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Novel Types of Organic Electronic Materials: Polyselenophenes and Oligofurans

UserProfessor Michael Bendikov, Weizman Institute, Israel.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Polymeric Multilayer Capsules in Materials- and Biosciences

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

HouseBP Institute, Madingley Road.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

Physical Chemistry

Polymeric Multilayer Capsules in Materials- and Biosciences

UserBP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

HouseBP Institute, Madingley Rise, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Multifunctional Polymer Films and Coatings

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

Multifunctional Polymer Films and Coatings

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theoretical Chemistry

Metal-mediated molecular traps and junctions: a computational design

UserDr Fedor Naumkin, University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Amphiphide Monolayers to study interfacial interactions

A Reception will follow this talk in the Todd Hamied Room

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

Amphiphide Monolayers to study interfacial interactions

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

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Organic Chemistry

No Strain, No Gain?: Lessons in Catalysis

UserProfessor Mark Lautens, University of Toronto.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Gaussian Approximation Potentials: quantum mechanical accuracy without electrons

UserDr Gabor G. Csányi, Engineering Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

Pfizer Graduate Symposium and talk

Graduate speakers: Mr Pawel Sledz (Abell Group), Mr Mike Housden (Paterson Group), Mr Michael Cooke (Gaunt group)

UserDr Daffydd Owen, Pfizer Global Research & Development,.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 13:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

The Use of Cucurbit[8]uril for Gold Nanoparticle Self-Assembly in Water

UserMr Sam Jones, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Towards the syntheses of chiral bidentate ligands in the form of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers

UserMiss Anna Andreou, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-16:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Engineering microenvironments to control cell fate and behaviour

UserDr Chunming Wang, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Deformation of droplet/double emulsion in microfludics

UserMr Shaohua Ma, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 16:00-16:30

Physical Chemistry

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

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Monolithic Polymers: Innovations in Stationary Phase Technology for Separation Science

UserDr Zarah Walsh, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 14 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Application of Informatics within Unilever

UserDr Ian Stott, Informatics & Maths Leader, Unilever R & D, Port Sunlight.

HouseTodd Hamied Room, Dept. of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 13 October 2010, 14:15-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric Reactions of Peroxy Radicals – Key Intermediates in Ozone Formation and Loss

NOTE unusual DAY and LOCATION Joint with Physical Chemistry

UserDr Geoff Tyndall, NCAR Colorado USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 12 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Spin in Fermion Monte Carlo

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

UserSimon Smart (CUC3).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Organic Chemistry

New Supramolecular Strategies in Transition Metal Catalysis

Joint with Inorganic Chemistry

UserProfessor Joost Reek, Van t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Amsterdam..

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

Inorganic Chemistry

New Supramolecular Strategies in Transition Metal Catalysis

UserProfessor Joost Reek, Van t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Amsterdam.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry

LeuRS Synthetase: An example of water-mediated editing reaction in a hybrid RNA/protein system

UserDr Mauro Boero, University of Strasbourg, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Materiaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

Small Molecules and Light as Tools for the Regulation of Biological Processes

UserProfessor Alex Dieter North Carolina State University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 01 October 2010, 16:15-17:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Structure-property relationships of molecular crystals

UserProfessor Len Barbour, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Past, present, and future of semiempirical methods

UserDr James J P Stewart, Stewart Computational Chemistry, Colorado Springs, USA.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 16 September 2010, 14:15-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Understanding and using the tropopause: trends and characterization

UserDr. Juan Anel, Environmental Physics Laboratory, Facultade de Ciencias de Ourense, Universidade de Vigo, Spain..

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 14 September 2010, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Developing Catalytic Reactions One Step at a Time

UserProfessor Jennifer Love, University of British Columbia, Canada.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 10 September 2010, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Macromolecular Self-Assembly through Cucurbit[8]uril Ternary Complexes

UserMr Urs Rauwald, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 01 July 2010, 16:00-16:30

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

In Silico Drug discovery and molecular library focusing

UserProfessor Amiram Goldblum, The Institute of Drug Research, Faculty of Medicine The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 30 June 2010, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Variability of the winter stratosphere: the sudden stratospheric warming of 2009

Note unusual time and day

UserDr Yvonne Hinssen, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 15 June 2010, 10:30-11:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Regulation of amyloid self-assembly under partially denaturing solution conditions

Note change of day and time

UserProf Martin Muschol (University of South Florida).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 10 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Lewis acid-base pairs and host-guest interactions: towards dynamic functional materials

UserMr Nicolas Nouvel, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 10 June 2010, 15:00-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Organic Aerosol: A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma

Note unusual time and unusual location

UserProf. Colette Heald, Colorado State University..

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 08 June 2010, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Tuning hierarchical structures with multiple hydrogen bonding interactions

UserMr Adam Celiz, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

The synthetic aspects of polyelectrolyte brushes

UserMiss Nan Cheng, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 16:00-16:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Smart and Flexible: Stimulus-responsive polymer brushes on elastic substrates

UserMr Tim Kelby, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 15:30-16:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Critical depletion

UserProf Roberto Piazza (Politecnico di Milano).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 21 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

CANCELLED - Synthesis of Polymeric Probes to Control Cell Recognition and Signaling

Melville Lectureship Speaker

UserProf Laura L Kiessling, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

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

THIS IS A CHANGE FROM THE ORIGINAL TIME

UserProfessor Paul Dyson, EPFL.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theoretical Chemistry

Symmetry, equivalence and molecular self-organisation

UserDr Jack Douglas, National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 19 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Materials Chemistry and Climate Change

UserProfessor Peter Bruce, University of St Andrews.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

Inaugural Lecture

UserProfessor Clare Grey, Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor of Chemistry.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Organic Chemistry

CANCELLED

UserJuan Granja.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

E. coli superdiffusion and chemotaxis

UserDr Franziska Matthäus (University of Heidelberg).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 07 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Free Energy methods to study complex biological phenomena

UserDr Francesco Gervasio, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry

Anomalous Liquids

UserProfessor Giancarlo Franzese, University of Barcelona.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

Joe Spencer Memorial Lectures

User11.00 Prof Peter Leadley (Cambridge), 11.45 Dr Joseph Wright (UEA), 12.15 Dr Dieter Spiteller (MPI Jena), 1.45 Prof Timor Baasov (Technion, Isreal), 2.30 Dr Andrew Truman (Cambridge), 3.00 Prof David O'Hagan (St Andrews), 4.15 Prof Jin-Quan Yu (Scripps).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 23 April 2010, 11:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Tailoring multivalent interactions in the design of biomaterials

UserProfessor Kristi Kiick (Materials Science & Engineering, University of Delaware).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 21 April 2010, 11:00-12:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Recent developments in multireference quantum chemistry

Note late change of venue

UserDr Yuki Kurashige (Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan).

HouseU202, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 16 April 2010, 12:00-13:00

Inorganic Chemistry

What will a nanobot look like?

Alex Hopkins Lecture

UserProfessor Tony Ryan.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 18 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Complex architecures of conjugated polymers via Suzuki and Kumada chain-growth polycondensations

Please note the venue is the Wolfson Lecture Theatre

UserDr Anton Kiriy (Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V.).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 11 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

BP Day

User3rd Year PhD students.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 11 March 2010, 12:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Constraints on Atmospheric CO2 from other Trace Species

UserDr Parvadha Suntharalingam, Laboratory for Global Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Framework Materials: Fascinating Properties

UserProfessor John Evans, University of Durham.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 14:00-15:30

Organic Chemistry

Chiral Carbenoids for Asymmetric Synthesis

UserProfessor Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Pinatubo and UKCA hindcasts

UserDr Paul Telford, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

Sequencing genomes and sequences in the genome: from chemistry to medicine

Inaugural Professorial Lecture: in the presence of Marcus and Jennifer Smith

UserProfessor Shankar Balasubramanian, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Water: from bulk to interfaces

UserProf Giancarlo Franzese, Department of Physics, University of Barcelona.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 19 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Dynamics and Structure of Short Biopolymers Probed by Fluorescence

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Seminar

UserProfessor Werner Nau (Jacobs University, Bremen).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Self-Assembly and Self-Sorting: How to Construct and Characterize Complex Architectures

UserProfessor Christoph Schalley, Institut fur Chemie & Biochemie der Freien Universitat Berlin.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Fluctuation induced forces: The critical Casimir effect

UserProfessor Clemens Bechinger, Universität Stuttgart.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry

No Lecture as Royal Society of Chemistry Meeting

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 00:00-00:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

CANCELLED

CANCELLED

UserProf Alenka Luzar (Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Semiconductor Block Copolymers for Organic Electronic Devices

UserDr Michael Sommer (Melville Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Detection and Attribution of changes in European Temperature and Precipitation

Note unusual time

UserProf. Simon Tett, School of Geosciences, The University of Edinburgh.

HouseU202, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Painleve condensation, counter-ion condensation and Coulombic elasticity of biopolymers

UserProf Emmanuel Trizac (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, Université Paris-Sud, France).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Cyclodextrin Nanomachines at Work

UserDr Roger Coulston (Melville Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 28 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Colourful chemistry with zwitterionic-type pi-ligands and their metal complexes

UserProfessor Pierre Braunstein, University of Strasbourg.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Machine like functions at the molecular level

UserProf. Dr. Rainer Herges, Otto-Diels-Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität zu Kiel.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2010, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

New Catalysis Concepts

UserProfessor David W. C. MacMillan, Princeton University, USA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 13 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Ions at Aqueous Interfaces: From Water Surface to Hydrated Proteins

UserProfessor Pavel Jungwirth, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 13 January 2010, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Chaperonin-assisted protein folding: "The peculiar case of the bacteriophage T4 major capsid protein"

Note unusual day and time

UserProf Saskia van der Vies (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 12 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

MCM Box Modelling of the OP3 Aircraft Campaign

UserMr Daniel Stone, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 12 January 2010, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

BP Day

User3rd Year PhD students.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 07 January 2010, 13:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

UKCA: NOT the United Kingdom Cheerleading Association

UserDr Luke Abraham, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 30 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry

Long Range Magnetic Interactions in Pure Carbon Materials

UserProfessor Nicholas M Harrison, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

New Genetic Codes

UserDr Jason Chin, University of Cambridge, MRC-LMB.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Modelling bacterial populations in changing environments

UserDr Rosalind Allen (Department of Physics, University of Edinburgh).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Binding Studies on CB[6] with a Series of 1-Alkyl-3-methylimidazolium Ionic Liquids

UserMiss Nan Zhao, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Polymeric building blocks for supramolecular complexation with cucurbit[8]uril

UserMr Eric Appel, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Interpreting recent changes in atmospheric methane using satellite observations of gravity

Note unusual day

UserProfessor Paul Palmer, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry

Modeling Protein Aggregation

UserProfessor Srikanth Sastry, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Crawling Across the Web of Chemistry Using ChemSpider

UserDr Antony Williams, VP Strategic Development, ChemSpider, RSC, Wake Forest USA.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Microdroplets in Microfluidics: Towards Emulsion Crystals

UserMr Wolfgang-Andreas Bauer, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Heterojunction Control of Organic & Hybrid Photovoltaic Semiconductor Devices

UserMiss Einat Elmalem, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 16:00-16:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Metal-organic frameworks for chemistry and medicine - Can we design them?

UserProfessor Russell Morris, University of St Andrews.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Explicit and implicit microion representations of dispersions of oppositely charged nanoparticles: expectations and surprises

UserProfessor Jean-Pierre Hansen FRS, Emeritus 1968 Professor of Chemistry, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Functional Nanostructures and Sensors by Self-Assembly

User Prof Kay Severin (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Chemistry

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

(Joint Theory/Physical Seminar)

UserProfessor James L Skinner, University of Wisconsin.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Organic Chemistry

Design of chiral ligands for asymmetric copper-catalyzed reactions

UserProfessor Alex Alexakis, University of Geneva.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 02 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Gas diffusion in the [NiFe]-hydrogenase

M.Phil. thesis presentation. Note unusual venue.

UserPo-hung Wang (CUC3).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

FCIMC, naturally

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

UserDeidre Cleland (CUC3).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Colloids, surfaces and reversible supramolecular interactions: Towards light-driven motion

UserMr Feng Tian, University of Cambridge, Mellville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Determination of binding constants for cucurbit[8]uril complexes: differences in aqueous versus gas-phase binding

UserMr Frank Biedermann, University of Cambridge, Meville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-16:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Probing the structure of organic-inorganic biocomposites

UserDr Melinda Duer, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Single-molecule force spectroscopy: theory, analysis, interpretation

UserProfessor Olga K Dudko, University of California at San Diego.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Synthesis of Chiral Bidentate Phosphorous Ligands in the Form of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIP)

UserMiss Mei-Hsuan Tsai, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Synthesis and Isolation of cucurbit[n]uril: a supramolecular host

UserMr Dezhi Jiao, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 16:00-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

An Isoprene Mechanism Intercomparison

UserDr Alex Archibald, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

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

Note unusual venue

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Turning Cavitands into Materials

UserProfessor Enrico Dalcanale, University of Parma.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

The Many Faces of Heme in Biology

UserProfessor Emma Raven, University of Leicester.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Calculating selectivities in homogeneous catalysis"

UserProfessor Per-Ola Norrby, Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg,.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Transport and processing of ozone in the West African monsoon

UserMichelle Cain, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Ring-polymer transition-state theory

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

UserJeremy Richardson (CUC3).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Computing absolute free energies of disordered structures by molecular simulation

CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS

UserDr Tanja Schilling (Department of Physics, University of Mainz).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 02 October 2009, 11:00-12:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Halogen Bonding and Metal Ion Coordination in Supramolecular Complexes

UserProfessor Kari Rissanen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 01 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Organic Chemistry

Atom Economic Transformations Catalysed by Low-Valent Cobalt Complexes

All Welcome

UserProfessor Gerhard Hilt (Marburg University).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 24 September 2009, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Chirality in supramolecular polymers

UserMaarten Smulders, University of Technology, Eindhoven.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 10 September 2009, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Molecular Understanding, Design and Development of Zwitterionic-based Biomaterials

UserProf Shaoyi Jiang, Boeing-Roundhill Professor of Chemical Engineering & Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 August 2009, 14:00-15:00

Organic Chemistry

Recent advances in the area of asymmetric hydrogenation

UserProfessor Xumu Zhang, Rutgers University, USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 03 August 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Synthetic Peptides for DNA and Protein recognition

UserProfessor Jose-Luis Mascarenas, University of Santiago de Compostela.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 22 July 2009, 11:00-12:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Dynamics of a bacterium moving by chemotaxis in its own secretion

Extra seminar

UserDr Ankush Sengupta (Institute for theoretical physics, University of Duesseldorf).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 10 July 2009, 12:00-13:00

Organic Chemistry

"Mechanisms, Structures and Chemical Informatics"

UserDr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 June 2009, 17:00-18:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Physical theory of vaccine design for influenza and dengue fever

Note unusual day and time

UserProfessor Michael W Deem (Rice University, USA).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 16 June 2009, 14:30-15:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Using single-molecule manipulation to probe the dynamics of protein and DNA molecules

Note unusual day and time

UserProfessor Ching-Hwa Kiang (Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, USA).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 15 June 2009, 14:30-15:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Birth of a liquid droplet

UserProfessor Hans-Hennig von Gruenberg (University of Graz).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 12 June 2009, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

DOAS studies of volcanic emissions

UserDr Vitchko Tsanev, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Electrochemical formation of responsive hydrogel films for bioanalytics

UserDr. Johanna Bünsow, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 04 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Assessing the longwave radiative effect of Saharan dust using

UserDr Helen Brindley, Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, Imperial College, London..

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 01 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Molecular tectonics: from building blocks to crystals

UserProfessor M.W. Hosseini, Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Universite de Strasbourg.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 28 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Nanofluidics

UserProfessor Nick Quirke, Nano-bio Physics, University College Dublin.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Matrix elasticity directs stem cell lineage – Better (polymeric) materials for Better biology

Melville Lecture

UserProfessor Dennis Discher, Biophysical Eng. & Nanobiopolymers Lab, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ocean iron-fertilisation by volcanic ash

UserBaerbel Langmann, Institute of Geophysics, University of Hamburg.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Organic Chemistry

Merck Lectureship Talk 3 - Probing Intracellular Signalling Processes with Phosphatidyl Inositol Polyphosphates .

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

UserProfessor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 15 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Assembling and breaking: competitive interactions between polymer, drug and cyclodextrin

UserDr Cecile Dreiss, Pharmaceutical Science Division, King's College London.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Organic Chemistry

Merck Lectureship Talk 2 - Pericyclic Reactions in the Synthesis of Medium Ring Ether and Piperidine Alkaloids of Biological Importance

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

UserProfessor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Merck Lectureship Talk 1 - Seeing the Light With Polymers

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

UserProfessor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Inorganic Chemistry

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

RSC Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Simulations of self-assembling synthetic proteins

UserDr Peter Bolhuis (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 08 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Fun and controversy in modelling polarons

UserProf Alexander Shluger (University College London).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 01 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Investigation of multivalent glycan interactions on functional surfaces

UserDr Carlo Fasting, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 30 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

Organic Chemistry

Sustainability Through the Confluence of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis

Talk of interest to all branches of chemistry

UserSir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

Organic Chemistry

Sugars and Enzymes

UserProfessor Ben Davis, University of Oxford.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 April 2009, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Lucy Carpenter, Department of Chemistry, University of York.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 April 2009, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

New Anion Receptors and Transporters

UserProfessor Phil Gale, University of Southampton.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 21 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

Organic Chemistry

SCI Graduate Symposium

More details to be confirmed nearer the time

UserSCI Graduate Symposium speakers to be confirmed.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 20 April 2009, 13:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Asymmetric Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles using Sulfinimines

UserProfessor Franklin Davis, Temple University, Philadelphia USA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 15 April 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Amino Acid Promoted Ullman Reactions and their Applications in Organic Synthesis

UserProfessor Dawei Ma, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 03 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Chemistry saves lives

UserDr Tony Wood, Vice President and Worldwide Head of Medicinal Chemistry at Pfizer.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 18 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Physical Chemistry

Redox chemistry of diamond

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserDr Katherine Holt (University College London).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Investigating natural impacts on atmospheric composition and climate in the remote troposphere

UserDr Steve Arnold, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Graduate Student Seminars

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserRachel Pike, Amy Stevens.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Decadal variability of tropospheric ozone

UserDr Martin Schultz, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany,.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2009, 10:15-11:15

Physical Chemistry

Graduate Student Seminars

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserNeil Dickson, Tamsin Phillips.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Graduate Student Seminars

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserAndrew Cassidy, Paul Dunne.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

It's not (all) --rocket-- atmospheric science

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserProfessor John Pyle (University of Cambridge).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Formation and Transformation of Secondary Organic Aerosol

UserProf. Urs Baltensperger, Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerlzand..

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

Physical Chemistry

Density functional simulation of a fast-ion conducting glass

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserProfessor David Drabold (Ohio University).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Bionanoscience

UserProfessor Gil Lee – University College Dublin.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Troposphere-to-stratosphere exchange: constraints by water vapour

UserYu Liu, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 26 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Single-Molecule Magnets and Magnetic Refrigerants

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/inorg.html

UserProfessor Euan Brechin (University of Edinburgh).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 22 January 2009, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Understanding glass transition on the basis of elastic interactions in a liquid

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/theo.html

UserProfessor Kostya Trachenko (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

How physics can be applied to biological problems

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserDr Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2009, 16:15-17:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Measurements of OH and HO2 in the Tropics

UserDr Lisa Whalley, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

Finding the Needle in a Haystack and From Bathtubs to Pipes

UserDr David Ager (DSM, Raleigh-Durham, USA).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 15 December 2008, 17:00-18:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Exchange and Dynamic Correlation

UserProfessor Nicholas Handy FRS (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Nitrogen and oxygen isotopic constraints on the budget of NOx and nitrate in polar regions

UserDr Samuel Morin of Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geohysique de l'Environnement, Grenoble, France.

HouseRoom 307, British Antarctic Survey.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2008, 11:00-12:00

Organic Chemistry

Biomimetic Organocatalysis: From Concepts to Applications

UserProfessor Magnus Rueping (University of Frankfurt, Germany).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Multiscale modelling of catalytic nanoparticles for CNT synthesis

UserDr James Elliot (Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Chemical Activity on Graphene Under Stress

UserDr Pedro de Andres (CSIC, Madrid).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Organic Chemistry

Epoxide-Opening Cascades

ELI LILLY LECTURE

UserProfessor Tim Jamison (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 17 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Measured Optical Properties of Aerosols

UserDr Dan Peters, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 17 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry

Intermolecular Coulombic Decay and Ultrafast Energy Transfer

UserProfessor Lorenz Cederbaum (University of Heidelberg).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Accelerating Chemistry & Biology: Intelligent Microfluidics

UserProfessor Andrew de Mello (Imperial College).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Organic Chemistry

Progress Toward a Synthesis of Phomactin A

UserProfessor Richard Hsung (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Size resolved modelling of UTLS aerosol

UserDr Rene Hommel, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Making semiconducting polymers - the long and the short of it

UserProfessor Michael Turner (University of Manchester).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Non-equilibrium phase transitions in complex systems

UserDr Sergei Taraskin (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Predicting Molecular Properties: the Role of Data Visualisation and Feature Selection

UserProf. Ian Nabney, Neural Computing Research Group, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Atmospheric Aerosols: Their Effect on Climate and on Human Health

UserDr Markus Kalberer (University of Cambridge).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Effects of surface chemistry on epidermal stem cell differentiation

UserMiss Britta Trappmann (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Stimuli-Responsive Materials - Aqueous Phase Cucurbituril Assemblies

UserMr Jameel Zayed (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Cold Molecules: Production and Control

UserProfessor Jeremy Hutson (University of Durham).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Particle Engineering: Role of Surface Chemistry

UserDr Jerry Heng (Imperial College).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A brief introduction to Astrochemistry

UserDr Valentine Wakelam, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France..

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Hierarchical self-assembly in aqueous media

UserMr John Lee (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Droplet-interface Bilayers Formation in Microfluidic Devices

UserMr Yunpeng Bai (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Entropy as an ordering force

Inaugural Lecture

UserProfessor Daan Frenkel FMRS (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

Modern Medicinal Chemistry in the Hit to Lead Arena

PFIZER GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

UserDr Dafydd Owen (Pfizer Global Research & Development, Sandwich, UK).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Nanoimprinting Functional Polymers

UserMiss Jo Slota (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Catalytic Interfaces for Organic Synthesis in Microdroplets

UserMiss Ashleigh Theberge (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Dynamics on the way to forming glass: past, present and future

UserProfessor David Chandler (University of California at Berkeley).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry

Quantum transitions in Lennard-Jones clusters

UserProfessor Vladimir Mandelshtam (University of Southern California).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 08 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Representation and predictive modeling of complex biomolecular datasets

UserProf. Alexander Tropsha, School of Pharmacy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

ClockFriday 26 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserMr Luis Fidalgo (University of Cambridge – Melville Laboratory).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 12 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Probing the internal structure of polymer brushes

UserMr Ron Oren (University of Cambridge – Melville Laboratory).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: New Applications in Materials Chemistry

UserDr Chris Bielawski (University of Texas, Austin, Texas).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 29 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Dynamic Self-Assembly of Macromolecules and Small Molecules

UserProfessor Sam Stupp, The Stupp Laboratory at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 16 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

The Chemistry, Structure and Function of the DNA Quadruple Helix

UserProf Shankar Balasubramanian (University of Cambridge – Department of Chemistry).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Developing Quantum Topological Molecular Similarity (QTMS)

UserDr. Paul Popelier, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Simultaneous determination of protein structure and dynamics

UserDr Michele Vendruscolo (University of Cambridge – Department of Chemistry).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 24 April 2008, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Using Ontology to Classify Members of a Protein Family

UserDr. Robert Stevens, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Parameterisations of Heterogeneous Atmospheric Reactions: Recent work of the IUPAC Kinetics Data Evaluation Panel

UserDr. R. A. Cox, CAS, Chairman, The IUPAC Subcommittee for Kinetics Data Evaluation for Atmospheric Chemistry.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 03 March 2008, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Oligomerization-deoligomerization synthetic strategy and cucurbituril

UserDr Li Liu, University of Cambridge - Melville Laboratory.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Casting Nanostructures for NanoPhotonics

UserProf Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge - NanoPhotonics Centre.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Analysis of Antibody Sequence and Structure

UserDr. Andrew Martin, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Part III student talks

UserClare Davis , Colin Berkley, Joe Moed , Peter Smith , Lee Harper , Lay May Leow.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 18 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Functional Amphiphilic Block Copolymers prepared via Ring Opening metathesis Polymerization

UserDr Kurt Stubenrauch, University of Cambridge - Melville Laboratory.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

QM to QSAR

UserProf. Jonathan Hirst, School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Design of New Generations of "Smart" Materials using Controlled Radical Polymerizations Techniques

UserDr Jean-Francois Lutz, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 07 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Antarctic ozone hole: review and update

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition

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

HouseScott Polar Research Institute.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2008, 16:30-17:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

DNA Block Copolymers: Programmable Macromolecular Amphiphiles

UserProf Dr Andreas Herrmann, University of Groningen - Polymer Chemistry and Bioengineering.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Nanoimprint lithography for application in polymer electronics

UserXimin He, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 06 December 2007, 16:00-16:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Functionalized cucurbiturils and their applications

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Aviation and climate

Joint seminar with the Institute for Aviation and the Environment

UserDr. Piers Forster, Univeristy of Leeds.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Design and synthesis of new biocatalysts

UserProfessor Ehud Keinan, Scripps Research Institute, California and The Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Instiitute of Technology.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Cucurbituril meets polymer: Be my guest!

UserUrs Rauwald, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 16:30-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Second Year Project Talks

UserAilsa Benton, Luke Knowles, Evgenia Ilyinskaya, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 October 2007, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey

Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling: The Importance of Stationary Planetary Waves

Open to non-BAS; please contact Gary Abel (gaab@bas.ac.uk or 221281) if you would like to attend.

UserEdwin Gerber, Columbia University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockTuesday 02 October 2007, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

1st year PhD student presentations

Each PhD student will present a short talk about their project.

UserLouise O'Brien, Scott Hosking, Angela Symington, Neil Dickson (CAS).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 October 2006, 14:15-15:15

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