Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Porous Organic Cages - A Serious Alternative to Extended Framework Materials"

User Professor Michael Mastalerz, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg.

Monday 12 August 2013, 14:00-15:30

"Asymmetric Autocatalysis and the Origin of Homochirality"

User Professor Kenso Soai, Department of Applied Chemistry Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science.

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

Friday 26 July 2013, 16:00-17:00

"Evolution of Anion Relay Chemistry (ARC) Leading to Siloxane-Based Transfer Agents for Palladuim Cross-Coupling Reactions"

User Professor Amos B Smith - University of Pennsylvania.

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

Thursday 07 March 2013, 14:30-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Geoff Moore.

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

"Formation of C-C Bonds via Catalytic Hydrogenation and Transfer Hydrogenation"

User Professor Mike Krisches - University of Texas at Austin.

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

Monday 26 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Hybrid Inclusion Complex (HIC) and its Key Role in Constructing New Polymeric Materials

User Prof Ming Jiang, Fudan University, Shanghai.

Monday 16 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Department of Chemistry

"Molecular Behaviour in Small Spaces"

User Professor Julius Rebek, Jr., Ph.D - Director, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 June 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stabilizing Proteins with Polymer Conjugates

User Prof Heather D Maynard, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tailored Polymers for Controlling Cell Signaling

User Prof Laura Kiessling, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

"Conformational Telecommunication: From Atropisomers towards Artificial Receptors"

User Professor Jonathan Clayden, University of Manchester.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 May 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Utilizing Supramolecular Chemistry in Polymeric Systems: A Route to Dynamic, Adaptive Materials

User Prof Stuart J Rowan, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.

Tuesday 24 April 2012, 15:30-16:30

"New catalytic reactions designed for the efficient synthesis of natural products"

User Professor Tim Donohue, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 02 April 2012, 17:00-18:00

"Aromatic Ions as a Design Element in Catalysis"

User Professor Tristan Lambert, Columbia University, USA.

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

Thursday 29 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

'Chemistry of Oxygen Sensing in Animals'

User Prof. Christopher Schofield, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Monday 12 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

"Natural Products, Synthetic Catalyst and Unnatural Products"

User Professor Scott Miller, Yale University.

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

Monday 05 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Development of New Synthetic Methods and Fundamental Studies of Conjugated Polymers

website: http://www.cm.utexas.edu/christopher_bielawski

User Prof Christopher W Bielawski, University of Texas at Austin.

Friday 02 March 2012, 15:00-16:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Designing Functional Molecular Nanostructures

User Professor Stefan Hecht (Humboldt University of Berlin).

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The early stages of biomimetic calcium phosphate formation: amorphous phases and pre-nucleation complexes

User Dr Nico A.J.M.Sommerdijk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Exploring new chiral space in asymmetric catalysis"

User Prof. Ben Feringa, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Groningen.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 16:45-17:45

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Self-assembly and cryo-TEM in the study of bioinspired hybrid materials"

User Dr Nico A.J.M. Sommerdijk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 15:45-16:45

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Materials for Phosphorescent OLEDs and Polymer Photovoltaics

Please note the change in the time

User Dr Youtian Tao, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Univeristy of Cambridge.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 15:00-16:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

What could materials chemistry do for anti-inflammatory therapies. Oxidation-sensitive polymers and other examples.

User Prof Nicola Tirelli, FRSC, School of Biomedicine and School of Materials, University of Manchester.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Exploiting Cryptic Biosynthetic Pathways in Microorganisms

Joint Biological and Synthesis Seminar

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

Friday 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

User Dr John Sutherland, Cambridge.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Small Molecule Control of Intracellular Protein Levels

Joint Synthesis/Biological RIG Colloquium

User Prof. Craig M. Crews, Dept. of Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology, Dept. of Pharmacology & Dept. of Chemistry, Yale University.

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Joint Biological/Synthetic RIG Seminar

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Jonas Peters, California Institute of Technology.

House Venue to be confirmed.

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Light-Responsive Polymers and Composites for Biomedical Applications

User Professor Jason A Burdick, (Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/directory/profile.php?ID=13.

Thursday 01 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Todd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

New Methods of Bioanalysis using Functionalised Nanoparticles and SERS

User Professor Duncan Graham (University of Strathclyde ) http://www.chem.strath.ac.uk/people/academic/duncan_graham.

Monday 28 November 2011, 14:30-16:00

'The Chemistry of Genome Maintenance'

User Prof. Dr Thomas Carell - Chemical Science Lecturer.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 16:50-17:35

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

[2+2]-Photocycloaddition reactions: New selectivity patterns and synthetic applications

User Professor Thorsten Bach, Technical University of Munich, Germany.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Studies towards engineered wood and designed cell wall polymer interactions

User Ms Emma-Rose Coad (University Of Cambridge).

Thursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Dynamic heteroogenized metal nanoparticles by CB[n] assembly in water: from synthesis to application

User Ms Enass Abo-Hamed (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 20 October 2011, 16:00-16:30

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Erick Carreira, ETH- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Switzerland.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Reaction Design and Catalysis with Aromatic Ions

User Professor Tristan Lambert, Columbia University, USA.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 22 September 2011, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Spin crossover complexes and macrocyclic single-molecule magnets

User Professor Sally Brooker, University of Otago.

Monday 11 July 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Networking the Self-assembled Cages

User Professor Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo.

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

ac313's list

Molecular Simulations in Structure-Based Drug Design

User Dr Julien Michel, Royal Society University Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.

House Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 07 July 2011, 15:30-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Identification of Active Species and Reaction Pathways in Molecular Catalysis: Recent Case Histories

User Professor Lutz Gade, University of Heidelberg.

Thursday 23 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Soft and hard nanomaterials made by self-assmebly

User Professor Ullrich Steiner, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Responsive polymer-stabilised droplets and the 3D structuring of liquids

User Dr Jonathan Weaver, Imperial College London.

Thursday 02 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Molecules and nanostructures for solar energy conversion

User Professor James Durrant, Imperial College London.

Thursday 02 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Anion Supramolecular Chemistry: Sensing and Materials

User Professor Jonathan Steed, Durham University.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular Nanostructures and Sensors by Self-Assembly

Extra Inorganic Seminar

User Professor Kay Severin, EPFL, Switzerland.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Design of New Catalytic Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry

Lewis Lecture 2011

User Professor David Milstein, Weizmann Institute, Israel.

Friday 13 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stimuli-responsive macromolecules: polymer-protein bioconjugates and sugar-responsive micelles

User Prof. Brent S. Sumerlin, Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

RSC Organic Symposium at the University of Cambridge

User Professor Kevin Booker-Milburn University of Bristol - Dr Matthew Clarke University of St Andrews - Professor Dieter Enders RWTH-Aachen.

Monday 09 May 2011, 14:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

A transition metal chemist's view of C-H and C-F bond activation

User Professor Robin Perutz FRS, University of York.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Noncovalent Nanostructures in Aqueous Medium: Robust yet Adaptive

User Dr Boris Rybtchinski, Weizman Institute of Science, Israel.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

User Prof Fred Wudl, UCSB Chemistry and Biochemistry.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tooling Up for Nanoworld: The Magic of Molecular Machines

Alex Hopkins Lecture 2011

User Professor David Leigh, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 25 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Modelling synthesis and catalytic applications of doped AlPOs

Inorganic/Theoretical Joint Seminar

User Dr Furio Cora, University College London.

Monday 14 March 2011, 15:30-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Development and characterization of protecting groups that enhance the solubility of synthetic peptides

User Dr Karolina Wahlström, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Hydrogen Storage and Carbon Dioxide Capture in Metal-Organic Frameworks

User Professor Jeffrey R Long, Berkeley, USA.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Supramolecular Polymers with Hydrogen Bonding: From Morphology to Structural Control and Use

User Professor Wolfgang Binder (Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg).

Thursday 03 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Influencing Folding and Structure of Large RNAs by Metal Ions: Moving from Bulk to the Single Molecule Level

User Professor Roland Sigel, University of Zurich.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Engineering microenvironments to control cell fate and behaviour

User Dr Chunming Wang, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

BP Day

User 3rd Year PhD students.

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Form Matters: Catalysis with "Butterflies"

User Professor Hansjorg Grutzmacher, ETH Zurich.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 14:00-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stimuli-responsive biodegradable poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate]-based copolymers for drug delivery and tissue engineering

User Dr Xian Jun Loh, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stable Silicon Clusters with Partial Substitution – Exploring the SI6R6 Potential Energy Surface Experimentally

User Dr David Scheschkewitz, Imperial College London.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Studies of Ion Mobility in Materials for Alternative Energy Applications Using Solid-State NMR

User Professor Gillian Goward, McMaster University, Canada.

Thursday 27 January 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Catalytic Capsids: reactions in confinement

User Prof. Dr. Jeroen J.L.M. Cornelissen, Laboratory for Biomolecular Nanotechnology, University of Twente.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

CANCELLED

User Professor Mike Krische, University of Texas.

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Metallopolyynes and Metallophosphors: Multifunctional Materials with Emerging Applications in Optical Devices

RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award Lecture 2010

User Professor Raymond Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Monday 29 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Metallopolyynes and Metallophosphors: Multifunctional Materials with Emerging Applications in Optical Devices RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award Lecture 2010

RSC award lecture - joint with Inorganic Chemistry

User Professor Raymond Wong, RSC award lecture.

Monday 29 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

POSTPONED TO LENT TERM

User Dr Karolina Wahlstrom, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

POSTPONED TO LENT TERM

User Dr Xian Jun Loh, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-16:30

House Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

Exploring Ras Super-family Proteins : A Chemical Biology Approach

User Dr Debapratim Das, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 15:00-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Inorganic 2nd Yr PhD Student Talks

User University of Cambridge.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 10:00-16:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Discovery of Orally Bioavailable CGRP Receptor Antagonists: From Concept to Clinical Efficacy

User Dr Ian Bell, Merck, USA.

Monday 15 November 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Systems chemistry – Teaching simple molecules to do complex things

User Prof Douglas Philp, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Novel Types of Organic Electronic Materials: Polyselenophenes and Oligofurans

User Professor Michael Bendikov, Weizman Institute, Israel.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

No Strain, No Gain?: Lessons in Catalysis

User Professor Mark Lautens, University of Toronto.

Monday 08 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Pfizer Graduate Symposium and talk

Graduate speakers: Mr Pawel Sledz (Abell Group), Mr Mike Housden (Paterson Group), Mr Michael Cooke (Gaunt group)

User Dr Daffydd Owen, Pfizer Global Research & Development,.

Monday 01 November 2010, 13:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Use of Cucurbit[8]uril for Gold Nanoparticle Self-Assembly in Water

User Mr Sam Jones, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Towards the syntheses of chiral bidentate ligands in the form of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers

User Miss Anna Andreou, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Engineering microenvironments to control cell fate and behaviour

User Dr Chunming Wang, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Deformation of droplet/double emulsion in microfludics

User Mr Shaohua Ma, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monolithic Polymers: Innovations in Stationary Phase Technology for Separation Science

User Dr Zarah Walsh, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 14 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Supramolecular Strategies in Transition Metal Catalysis

User Professor Joost Reek, Van t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Amsterdam.

Thursday 07 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Supramolecular Strategies in Transition Metal Catalysis

Joint with Inorganic Chemistry

User Professor Joost Reek, Van t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Amsterdam..

Thursday 07 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Small Molecules and Light as Tools for the Regulation of Biological Processes

User Professor Alex Dieter North Carolina State University.

Friday 01 October 2010, 16:15-17:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Structure-property relationships of molecular crystals

User Professor Len Barbour, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Developing Catalytic Reactions One Step at a Time

User Professor Jennifer Love, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Friday 10 September 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Organic Host Materials for Highly Efficient Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

User Prof Chuluo Yang, Wuhan University, China.

Tuesday 07 September 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Macromolecular Self-Assembly through Cucurbit[8]uril Ternary Complexes

User Mr Urs Rauwald, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 01 July 2010, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Lewis acid-base pairs and host-guest interactions: towards dynamic functional materials

User Mr Nicolas Nouvel, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 10 June 2010, 15:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chiral Azopolymers and Azobenzene-Containing Linear-Dendritic Block Copolymers: Synthesis, Characterization and Optical Properties

User Dr Jesus del Barrio, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 17:00-17:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuning hierarchical structures with multiple hydrogen bonding interactions

User Mr Adam Celiz, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The synthetic aspects of polyelectrolyte brushes

User Miss Nan Cheng, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Smart and Flexible: Stimulus-responsive polymer brushes on elastic substrates

User Mr Tim Kelby, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 15:30-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Exploring the evolutionary relationships and the reaction chemistry in a family of crucial biosynthetic aldolases

User Professor Emily J Parker, University of Canterbury - Christchurch, New Zealand.

Monday 24 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

CANCELLED - Synthesis of Polymeric Probes to Control Cell Recognition and Signaling

Melville Lectureship Speaker

User Prof Laura L Kiessling, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

THIS IS A CHANGE FROM THE ORIGINAL TIME

User Professor Paul Dyson, EPFL.

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Materials Chemistry and Climate Change

User Professor Peter Bruce, University of St Andrews.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inaugural Lecture

User Professor Clare Grey.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Multicomponent approaches to organic synthesis and chemical biology

User Jared Shaw.

Monday 10 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

CANCELLED

User Juan Granja.

Monday 10 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Shedding Light on the Biosynthesis of Cyanobacterial Sunscreens

User Dr Emily Balskus, Harvard Medical School.

Friday 30 April 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nanosized Clusters with Main Group elements as Ligands

Lewis Lecture

User Professor Dieter Fenske.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Joe Spencer Memorial Lectures

User 11.00 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).

Friday 23 April 2010, 11:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

EPR spectroscopy of transition metal clusters and clusters-of-clusters

User Professor Eric McInnes, University of Manchester.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tailoring multivalent interactions in the design of biomaterials

User Professor Kristi Kiick (Materials Science & Engineering, University of Delaware).

Wednesday 21 April 2010, 11:00-12:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

CANCELLED DUE TO AIR TRAVEL PROBLEMS

User Emily Parker.

Monday 19 April 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Structural biology of small RNA-mediated gene regulation and methylation-mark mediated epigenetic regulation

User Dr, Dinshaw J. Patel, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York.

Thursday 25 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

What will a nanobot look like?

Alex Hopkins Lecture

User Professor Tony Ryan.

Thursday 18 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Complex architecures of conjugated polymers via Suzuki and Kumada chain-growth polycondensations

Please note the venue is the Wolfson Lecture Theatre

User Dr Anton Kiriy (Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V.).

Thursday 11 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

BP Day

User 3rd Year PhD students.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 12:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Extended ß-Triketone Derivatives: Versatile Building Blocks for Metallosupramolecular Chemistry and Crystal Engineering

RSC Centenary Lecturer, 2009-2010

User Professor Leonard Lindoy.

Monday 08 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Colloidal forces – Tackling mechanics and interactions of complex particles using AFM/optics combination

User Prof Andreas Fery, University of Bayreuth Department of Physical Chemistry.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Framework Materials: Fascinating Properties

User Professor John Evans, University of Durham.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 14:00-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chiral Carbenoids for Asymmetric Synthesis

User Professor Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol.

Monday 01 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Strong CH Hydrogen Bonds: The Newest Player in the field of Anion Receptors

User Professor Amar Flood, University of Indiana.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sequencing genomes and sequences in the genome: from chemistry to medicine

Inaugural Professorial Lecture: in the presence of Marcus and Jennifer Smith

User Professor Shankar Balasubramanian, University of Cambridge.

Monday 22 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Dynamics and Structure of Short Biopolymers Probed by Fluorescence

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Seminar

User Professor Werner Nau (Jacobs University, Bremen).

Thursday 18 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Self-Assembly and Self-Sorting: How to Construct and Characterize Complex Architectures

User Professor Christoph Schalley, Institut fur Chemie & Biochemie der Freien Universitat Berlin.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Semiconductor Block Copolymers for Organic Electronic Devices

User Dr Michael Sommer (Melville Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 04 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Cyclodextrin Nanomachines at Work

User Dr Roger Coulston (Melville Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 28 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Development of New Methods for Catalytic C–H Functionalization: Critical Interplay between Catalyst Design and Mechanistic Analysis

Eli Lilley Lecture

User Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Mighigan, USA.

Monday 25 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Colourful chemistry with zwitterionic-type pi-ligands and their metal complexes

User Professor Pierre Braunstein, University of Strasbourg.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Catalysis Concepts

User Professor David W. C. MacMillan, Princeton University, USA.

Wednesday 13 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

BP Day

User 3rd Year PhD students.

Thursday 07 January 2010, 13:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Designer Crystals: Bio-Inspired Approaches to Controlling Crystallisation

User Professor Fiona Meldrum, University of Leeds.

Thursday 10 December 2009, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chemistry of Acenes - toward a Possible Poly(acene)

User Dr Douglas Neckers.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Strategies for the Synthesis of Glycopeptides and Glycoproteins

User Dr Richard Payne, University of Sydney.

Monday 30 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Genetic Codes

User Dr Jason Chin, University of Cambridge, MRC-LMB.

Monday 23 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Binding Studies on CB[6] with a Series of 1-Alkyl-3-methylimidazolium Ionic Liquids

User Miss Nan Zhao, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Polymeric building blocks for supramolecular complexation with cucurbit[8]uril

User Mr Eric Appel, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The physical and chemical state of nanoparticulate catalysts during carbon nanotube and silicon nanowire CVD

User Dr Stephan Hoffman, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Engineering.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Metallonitrene/Alkyne Metathesis and Beyond: Transition Metal Catalyzed Oxidative Amination for Organic Synthesis

User Professor Simon Blakey, Emory University, USA.

Monday 16 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Microdroplets in Microfluidics: Towards Emulsion Crystals

User Mr Wolfgang-Andreas Bauer, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Heterojunction Control of Organic & Hybrid Photovoltaic Semiconductor Devices

User Miss Einat Elmalem, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Metal-organic frameworks for chemistry and medicine - Can we design them?

User Professor Russell Morris, University of St Andrews.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Adventures in conjugate addition chemistry: from alkene hydroacylation to protein bioconjugation

User Professor Steve Caddick, UCL.

Monday 09 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Functional Nanostructures and Sensors by Self-Assembly

User Prof Kay Severin (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne).

Thursday 05 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Design of chiral ligands for asymmetric copper-catalyzed reactions

User Professor Alex Alexakis, University of Geneva.

Monday 02 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Colloids, surfaces and reversible supramolecular interactions: Towards light-driven motion

User Mr Feng Tian, University of Cambridge, Mellville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Determination of binding constants for cucurbit[8]uril complexes: differences in aqueous versus gas-phase binding

User Mr Frank Biedermann, University of Cambridge, Meville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Probing the structure of organic-inorganic biocomposites

User Dr Melinda Duer, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Graduate Symposium plus Successful Drug Discovery and Development at Pfizer: Thanks to Organic Synthesis

User Dr Dafydd Owen from Pfizer.

Monday 26 October 2009, 13:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Synthesis of Chiral Bidentate Phosphorous Ligands in the Form of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIP)

User Miss Mei-Hsuan Tsai, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Synthesis and Isolation of cucurbit[n]uril: a supramolecular host

User Mr Dezhi Jiao, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 16:00-16:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff - Route Selection using Kepner-Tregoe Decision Analysis

User Dr Jeremy Parker from Astra Zeneca.

Monday 19 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Turning Cavitands into Materials

User Professor Enrico Dalcanale, University of Parma.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

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

The Many Faces of Heme in Biology

User Professor Emma Raven, University of Leicester.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Motifs Blocks for Molecular Recognition: From DNA Bases and Protein-Surfaces to a-Helices and b-Sheets

User Dr Andrew J Wilson (University of Leeds).

Thursday 08 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Halogen Bonding and Metal Ion Coordination in Supramolecular Complexes

User Professor Kari Rissanen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Thursday 01 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Atom Economic Transformations Catalysed by Low-Valent Cobalt Complexes

All Welcome

User Professor Gerhard Hilt (Marburg University).

Thursday 24 September 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chirality in supramolecular polymers

User Maarten Smulders, University of Technology, Eindhoven.

Thursday 10 September 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular Understanding, Design and Development of Zwitterionic-based Biomaterials

User Prof Shaoyi Jiang, Boeing-Roundhill Professor of Chemical Engineering & Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle.

Wednesday 26 August 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Opportunities and Lessons in Chemistry and Biology Stemming from an Investment in Total Synthesis

User Professor Andrew Phillips, University of Colorado.

Thursday 13 August 2009, 17:00-18:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Characterisation of Adhesion Phenomena & contact of surfaces by Soft Colloidal Probe – AFM

User Johann Erath, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Tuesday 04 August 2009, 15:00-16:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Recent advances in the area of asymmetric hydrogenation

User Professor Xumu Zhang, Rutgers University, USA.

Monday 03 August 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Synthetic Peptides for DNA and Protein recognition

User Professor Jose-Luis Mascarenas, University of Santiago de Compostela.

Wednesday 22 July 2009, 11:00-12:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chiral Proton Catalysis: The Development of New Reactions and Reagents for Alkaloid Synthesis

User Professor Jeff Johnston, Vanderbilt University.

Friday 03 July 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Mechanisms, Structures and Chemical Informatics"

User Dr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge.

Monday 22 June 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Self-Assembled Soft Materials and the In Situ Synthesis of Nanoparticles

User Dr George John, The City College of New York, CUNY.

Friday 05 June 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Electrochemical formation of responsive hydrogel films for bioanalytics

User Dr. Johanna Bünsow, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 04 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Synthesis of Bridged Natural Products

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Monday 01 June 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular tectonics: from building blocks to crystals

User Professor M.W. Hosseini, Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Universite de Strasbourg.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Matrix elasticity directs stem cell lineage – Better (polymeric) materials for Better biology

Melville Lecture

User Professor Dennis Discher, Biophysical Eng. & Nanobiopolymers Lab, University of Pennsylvania.

Thursday 21 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Merck Lectureship Talk 3 - Probing Intracellular Signalling Processes with Phosphatidyl Inositol Polyphosphates .

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

User Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Friday 15 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Assembling and breaking: competitive interactions between polymer, drug and cyclodextrin

User Dr Cecile Dreiss, Pharmaceutical Science Division, King's College London.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of 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

User Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Merck Lectureship Talk 1 - Seeing the Light With Polymers

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

User Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Monday 11 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

RSC Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship

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

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Boronic acid based materials for carbohydrate detection

User Dr Tony James, University of Bath.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

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

Model Chemistry, theoretical calculations and recent advances in understanding the chemistry of nitrogenase

User Professor Dimitri Coucouvanis, University of Michigan.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Investigation of multivalent glycan interactions on functional surfaces

User Dr Carlo Fasting, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Rapid and efficient production and oxidation of hydrogen by air-sensitive metalloenzymes: electrochemistry, mechanisms and implications for life and energy

Lewis Lecture

User Professor Fraser Armstrong, University of Oxford.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 14:00-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sustainability Through the Confluence of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis

Talk of interest to all branches of chemistry

User Sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sugars and Enzymes

User Professor Ben Davis, University of Oxford.

Monday 27 April 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Construction Principles in the Development of New Molecular Catalysts

User Dr Lutz Gade, University of Heidelberg.

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

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

New Anion Receptors and Transporters

User Professor Phil Gale, University of Southampton.

Tuesday 21 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

SCI Graduate Symposium

More details to be confirmed nearer the time

User SCI Graduate Symposium speakers to be confirmed.

Monday 20 April 2009, 13:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Asymmetric Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles using Sulfinimines

User Professor Franklin Davis, Temple University, Philadelphia USA.

Wednesday 15 April 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Amino Acid Promoted Ullman Reactions and their Applications in Organic Synthesis

User Professor Dawei Ma, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry.

Friday 03 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

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

Uranium Sandwiches: Activating Small Molecules with Uranium Petalene and Cyclooctatetraene Complexes

User Dr Geoff Cloke, University of Sussex.

Thursday 02 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

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

From Polyoxometalate-based building blocks to Functional Nanoclusters, Frameworks and Self-Fabricating Materials

User Professor Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow.

Thursday 26 March 2009, 14:00-15:00

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

Single-Molecule Magnets and Magnetic Refrigerants

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/inorg.html

User Professor Euan Brechin (University of Edinburgh).

Thursday 22 January 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Finding the Needle in a Haystack and From Bathtubs to Pipes

User Dr David Ager (DSM, Raleigh-Durham, USA).

Monday 15 December 2008, 17:00-18:00

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

Technomimetic Nanomachines: A wheelbarrow and a molecular motor

User Gwenael Rapenne (University of Toulouse).

Thursday 11 December 2008, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Designing screens and screening designs: from catalytic antibodies to peptide dendrimer enzyme models

User Jean-Louis Reymond (University of Berne).

Monday 08 December 2008, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nano-sized architectures: folding, metal coordination and assembly

User Dr Ivan Huc (Bordeaux University).

Thursday 04 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Biomimetic Organocatalysis: From Concepts to Applications

User Professor Magnus Rueping (University of Frankfurt, Germany).

Monday 24 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

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

Controlled redox and activation reactions in organometallic f-block complexes

User Dr Polly Arnold (University of Edinburgh).

Thursday 20 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Epoxide-Opening Cascades

ELI LILLY LECTURE

User Professor Tim Jamison (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA).

Monday 17 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Progress Toward a Synthesis of Phomactin A

User Professor Richard Hsung (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA).

Monday 10 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Making semiconducting polymers - the long and the short of it

User Professor Michael Turner (University of Manchester).

Thursday 06 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

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

CPGS Talks

User CPGS Talks.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Search for New Antibacterials Using Diversity-Oriented Synthesis

User Dr David Spring (University of Cambridge).

Monday 03 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Effects of surface chemistry on epidermal stem cell differentiation

User Miss Britta Trappmann (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stimuli-Responsive Materials - Aqueous Phase Cucurbituril Assemblies

User Mr Jameel Zayed (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

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

Selective Molecular Transformations Using Organic Superbases

User Professor Yoshinori Kondo (Tohoku University).

Thursday 30 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Hierarchical self-assembly in aqueous media

User Mr John Lee (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Droplet-interface Bilayers Formation in Microfluidic Devices

User Mr Yunpeng Bai (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

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

New Bond Activations at Transition Metal Centers: Fundamental Studies and Applications to Catalysis

User T. Don Tilley (University of California at Berkeley).

Monday 20 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Modern Medicinal Chemistry in the Hit to Lead Arena

PFIZER GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

User Dr Dafydd Owen (Pfizer Global Research & Development, Sandwich, UK).

Friday 17 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nanoimprinting Functional Polymers

User Miss Jo Slota (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Catalytic Interfaces for Organic Synthesis in Microdroplets

User Miss Ashleigh Theberge (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Mr Luis Fidalgo (University of Cambridge – Melville Laboratory).

Thursday 12 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Probing the internal structure of polymer brushes

User Mr Ron Oren (University of Cambridge – Melville Laboratory).

Thursday 05 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: New Applications in Materials Chemistry

User Dr Chris Bielawski (University of Texas, Austin, Texas).

Thursday 29 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Dynamic Self-Assembly of Macromolecules and Small Molecules

User Professor Sam Stupp, The Stupp Laboratory at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.

Friday 16 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Chemistry, Structure and Function of the DNA Quadruple Helix

User Prof Shankar Balasubramanian (University of Cambridge – Department of Chemistry).

Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Surface modification of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) via self-organization of vinyl-terminated small molecules

User Ms Maaike van Poll (University of Cambridge – Melville Laboratory).

Thursday 01 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Simultaneous determination of protein structure and dynamics

User Dr Michele Vendruscolo (University of Cambridge – Department of Chemistry).

Thursday 24 April 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Biomimetic self-assembly of block copolymers: polypeptide-based vesicle as synthetic model of viral capsid

User Prof Sebastien Lecommandoux.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Oligomerization-deoligomerization synthetic strategy and cucurbituril

User Dr Li Liu, University of Cambridge - Melville Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Casting Nanostructures for NanoPhotonics

User Prof Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge - NanoPhotonics Centre.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Functional Amphiphilic Block Copolymers prepared via Ring Opening metathesis Polymerization

User Dr Kurt Stubenrauch, University of Cambridge - Melville Laboratory.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Design of New Generations of "Smart" Materials using Controlled Radical Polymerizations Techniques

User Dr Jean-Francois Lutz, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Moving microdroplets: Techniques for manipulating picolitre droplets in microchannels

User Dr Graeme Whyte, University of Cambridge - Melville Laboratory.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

DNA Block Copolymers: Programmable Macromolecular Amphiphiles

User Prof Dr Andreas Herrmann, University of Groningen - Polymer Chemistry and Bioengineering.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Supramolecular Polymers Bearing Self-Complementary Hydrogen Bonding End-Groups

User Adam Celiz, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory.

Thursday 06 December 2007, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nanoimprint lithography for application in polymer electronics

User Ximin He, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory.

Thursday 06 December 2007, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Coordination polymers, metallo-gels and discrete metallo-supramolecular assemblies with cyclotriveratrylene-based or flat tripodal ligands

User Dr Michaele J Hardie, University of Leeds.

Thursday 29 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Functionalized cucurbiturils and their applications

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

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

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Bio-inspired nanomaterials for sensing and regenerative medicine

User Dr Molly M Stevens, Imperial College, London.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Design and synthesis of new biocatalysts

User Professor Ehud Keinan, Scripps Research Institute, California and The Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Instiitute of Technology.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Cucurbituril meets polymer: Be my guest!

User Urs Rauwald, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:30-17:00