Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Harnessing Radicals and Carbenes To Enable Unconventional Reactivity

Prof. David Nagib, The Ohio State University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Catalysis: Gold, Silver, Pd, Light, Dark

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Piotr Piecuch, Michigan State University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Dissipative systems showing signs of life

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Sum of its Parts: MBE-FCI Theory

Dr Janus Juul Eriksen, University of Bristol.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Physical phenotyping of cells in biology and medicine

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nuclear Quantum Effects – Fast and Accurate

Venkat Kapil, EPFL.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Protein misfolding in Alzheimer’s disease

Prof. Louise Serpell, University of Sussex, UK.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Dynamic supramolecular materials for medicine

Prof Dr Tanja Weil.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Reversible Catalysis in Redox Matrices

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

Katherine Stott (Department of Biochemistry).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Functional amyloid in bacteria

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Catalytic Conversion of Biomass and Platform Chemicals

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthetic maps for navigating high-dimensional data spaces

Professor Alessandro Laio, SISSA Trieste.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Artificial Cells and Cellular Bionics

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Lorenz Cederbaum, Universitat Heidelberg.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

System-bath quantum dynamics in chemical physics

Professor Peter Saalfrank, University of Potsdam.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Emergence of life-like properties in coacervate droplets

Evan Spruijt, Radboud University, the Netherlands.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Pathway to Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Discrete Dipoles

First Year PhD Report

Haydn Lloyd, University of Cambrisge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multireference Stochastic Coupled Cluster

First Year PhD Report

Maria-Andreea Filip, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Mechanism in Collective Organizations of Living and Synthetic Cells

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Hierarchical equations of motion

First Year PhD Report

Adam Prada, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Rapid Route-Finding for Bifurcating Organic Reactions

First Year PhD Report

Sanha Lee, University of Cambride.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

First Year PhD Report

Alexander Howarth, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Composite Gaussian processes for probabilistic PES prediction

First Year PhD Report

Fabio Albertani, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Jorge Ramírez García, Universidad Politecnica De Madrid.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

Anne Bertolotti, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Using the Energy Landscape to Elucidate Protein-Ligand Interactions

First Year PhD Report

Alasdair Keith, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Determination of protein structure and dynamics with integrative approaches

Massimiliano Bonomi, Structural Bioinformatics Unit, Institut Pasteur.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

New Directions for Random Search

Professor Chris Pickard, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Protein phase transition: from biology towards new protein materials

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Highly Polar Supramolecular Species with Enhanced IR Activity

Professor Fedor Naumkin, University of Ontario.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Protein dynamics and molecular recognition

Carlo Camilloni, Department of Biosciences, University of Milan.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Reviving an old idea of Boys and Handy: the transcorrelated method in the context of FCIQMC

Professor Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Biophysical Seminars

Sustaining Life with Genes and Proteins Designed ‘From Scratch’

Professor Michael Hecht, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Stabilization of AgI’s polar surfaces by the aqueous environment, and its implications for ice formation

Dr Stephen Cox, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Biophysical Seminars

Deep Proteomes, iPS cells & Data Mountains

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Proteostasis function and disfunction: the folding machines that maintain proteome health

Judith Frydman, Stanford University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Friday 26 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Simulating the Quantum Behavior of Matter: Algorithms and Applications

Professor Michele Ceriotti, EPFL.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

Biophysical Seminars

Recent progress in electron cryomicroscopy

Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Modulating Disease-relevant Tau Oligomeric Strains by Small Molecules

Filippa Lo Cascio, University of Texas Medical Branch.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

How Space Constrains Evolution: Lessons from Microbes and Bacteriophage

Dr Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

Biophysical Seminars

Material properties of functional amyloids

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Vibrational Dynamics of the Hydrated Proton

Professor Joel Bowman, Emory University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

Biophysical Seminars

Prion propagation and its wider relevance in neurodegeneration

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Use of different types of information to better understand compounds’ Mechanism of Action.

First Year PhD Report

Maria-Anna Trapotsi, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:15-14:35

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Ab Initio Thermodynamics with the help of Machine Learning

Bingqing Cheng, EPFL.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

A super-resolved look at synthetic nanomaterials

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Uncertainty-Driven Construction of Markov Models from Accelerated Molecular Dynamics

Dr Thomas D Swinburne, Aix-Marseille University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Biomolecular Hydration Shells: Dynamics and Biochemical Function

Professor Damien Laage, ENS Paris.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Engineered proteins as tools for assembly of functional structures and materials

Aitziber L. Cortajarena, CIC biomaGUNE.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Friday 25 January 2019, 11:15-12:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Force Fields and Potential Energy Surfaces

Professor Gábor Csányi, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Physical and Chemical Aspects of Surface Chirality

Professor Stephen Jenkins, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Biophysical Seminars

ARPP21 mutations reveal the role of RNA granule dysfunction in ALS and FTD

Christopher E Shaw, King's College London.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 10:00-11:00

Biophysical Seminars

Understanding somatic and germline cancer mutations at the structural level using biomolecular simulations and graph theory

Professor Elena Papaleo.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 10:30-11:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Using the Force with Quantum Monte Carlo

Professor Claudia Filippi, University of Twente.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials

Professor Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

The role of α-synuclein at the pre-synapse

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Visualizing Electrostatics of a Single Biomolecule in the Fluid Phase

Professor Madhavi Krishnan, University of Oxford.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Simulation of Reversible Transitions in Multifunctional Biomolecules: the Energy Landscape Perspective

First Year PhD Report

Daniel Sharpe, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:40-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Structural Parametrisation of Lanthanide-Based Single-Molecule Magnets for Room Temperature Quantum Computing

First Year PhD Report

David Izuogu, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Molecular Studies in Vascular Dementia

Atticus Hainsworth, St George's University of London.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Programming Hierarchical Self-Assembly for Colloidal Open Crystals

Dr Dwaipayan Chakrabarti, University of Birmingham.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Cellular responses to DNA damage: mechanistic insights and therapeutic applications

Prof. Steve Jackson, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 10:30-11:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Pathways of Amyloid Aggregation

Dr Birgit Strodel, Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: RNA as a key factor in driving or preventing self-assembly of the TAR DNA-binding protein 43

Prof. Annalisa Pastore.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Seminars

On the structure-function uncertainties of proteins

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Energy Landscapes of Amyloid Oligomers

First Year PhD Report

Luke Dicks, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Matsubara Fluctuations and their Effects on Infrared Spectra

First Year PhD Report

Raz Benson, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 14:15-14:35

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Constant-Uncertainty Molecular Dynamics - A New Method for Approximating Quantum Dynamics?

First Year PhD Report

Sundeep Popat, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 14:40-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Symmetry in Multiple Hartree–Fock Self-Consistent-Field Solutions of Transition-Metal Complexes

First Year PhD Report

Bang Huynh, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 14:15-14:35

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Jonathan Doye, University of Oxford.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Fernando Escobedo, Cornell University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Ralf Jungmann, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

Anne Bertolotti, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Microfluidic methods to study single cells and peptide-membrane interactions

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Atomistic graph partitioning across scales: from molecules to precision healthcare

Professor Sophia Yaliraki, Imperial College London.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

PrP post-translational modifications determine prion disease outcome

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Roy Beck-Barkai, Tel-Aviv University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Selected CI and Jastrow-free QMC methods for Chemistry

Dr Pierre-Francois Loos, Université de Toulouse.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

First Year PhD Report

Anna Puszkarska, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

First Year PhD Report

Eszter Pós, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Jonathan Tennyson, University College London.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Symmetry, Degeneracy, and Strong Correlation

Professor Gustavo E. Scuseria, Rice University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Cancelled

Speaker to be confirmed.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Source-and-Sink Models for Molecular Conduction

Professor Patrick Fowler, Unitversity of Sheffield .

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

NMR atomic-resolution structures of amyloids

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modelling diffusion-osmosis

First Year PhD Report

Simon Ramirez Hinestrosa, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Depolarising Polar Surface Simulations

First Year PhD Report

Thomas Sayer, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

First Year PhD Report

Ines Smit, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Efficient Storage Mechanisms for Building Better Supercapacitors

Professor Mathieu Salanne, Sorbonne Université.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Second Harmonic Scattering: Atomistic Simulation and Machine Learning

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Dr Sara Bonella, EPFL.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Dr. Ronojoy Adhikari, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation

Dr Karel Proesmans, University of Hasselt.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Big Molecules and Small Particles

Professor Lennart Lindfors, University of Gothenburg.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Covalent and Non-Covalent Interactions in Molecular Systems

Professor Alexandre Tkatchenko, University of Luxembourg.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

Dr Liming Ying, Imperial College London.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nuclear Quantum Effects in Water Reorientation & Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics

Professor James T. (Casey) Hynes.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Learning from Nature to Form New Organic Materials for Tissue Regeneration

Dr. Lihi Adler-Abramovich, Tel Aviv University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Slimming Down Through Frustration

Dr Martin Lenz, Université Paris-Sud.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Microfluidic Single-Cell Manipulation and Analysis

Dr. Stefano Pagliara, University of Exeter.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Challenges to Theory of Predicting the Crystallisation of Organic Molecules

Professor Sally Price, University College London.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum Machine Learning

Professor Anatole von Lilienfeld, University of Basel.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Evolution and assembly of protein complexes

Dr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Liquid State Theory Meets Deep Learning and Molecular Informatics

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Deep Learning in Chemistry

Dr Richard Dybowski, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Computing and Understanding the Ro-Vibrational Spectrum of CH5+

Professor Tucker Carrington, Queen's University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Microglia eating neurons and TREM2:Abeta interactions in neurodegeneration

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

1st Year PhD Report

Hugh Burton.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

1st Year PhD Report

George Trenins.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

Dr Giordano Pula, University of Exeter Medical School.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Ilja Siepmann (University of Minnesota).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

Anthony W.P. Fitzpatrick.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Designing drugs on an intrinsically disordered protein involved in pancreatic cancer

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Theory RIG Informal Symposium

Fredrik Svensson, Laura Mitchell & Brian Ng.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

LILBID-mass spectrometry: interrogating non-covalent complexes

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Molecular evolution of macrocyclic rescuers of disease-associated protein misfolding

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

NMR spectroscopy to study dynamics with applications to immunology and neurodegeneration

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Amyloids from the origin to the end of life

Professor Roland Riek, ETH Zurich.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

Dr Mireille Dumoulin, University of Liege.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Dynamics and thermodynamics of ligand binding to galectin-3

Professor Mikael Akke, Lund University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Fuzziness in function and evolution of proteins

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Disentangling Polydispersity in Biological Systems by SAXS

Pau Bernadó, Centre de Biochimie Structurale (CBS).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

A combined experimental and computational approach to study protein aggregation

Professor Salvador Ventura, UAB Barcelona.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Insights into unfolded protein states and GPCR function by solution NMR

Prof. Dr. Stephan Grzesiek, University of Basel.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Beta-hairpin motifs of amyloidogenic IDP

Dr. Wolfgang Hoyer, University of Dusseldorf.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Designing drugs on an intrinsically disordered protein involved in pancreatic cancer

All welcome

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Informal TMI RIG Seminar

Patrick Lewis, Chongli Qin & Dr Nitin Sharma.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

All welcome

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

The cutting edge of Alzheimer’s disease research

All welcome

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

All welcome

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Expanding the universe of protein structure and function by design

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Order disorder transitions in the regulation of transcription: biomedical implications

Xavier Salvatella, IRB Barcelona.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

α-Synuclein: amyloid inclusions and supra-fibrillar structures

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

** CANCELLED** Functional versatility and regulation of proteins with intrinsically disordered regions

Cancelled

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Enhancing nanopore sensing with DNA nanotechnology

All welcome

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

All welcome

Sally Gras, The University of Melbourne.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

All welcome

Giuliano Siligardi - Diamond Light Source Ltd.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

Dr Celine Galvagnion, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Active Pressure

Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Structural Analysis of Amyloid-like Protein Fibrillation

All welcome

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Active Pressure

Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Donald F. Weaver, University of Toronto.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Electron microscopy studies of protein aggregation and disaggregation

All welcome

Helen Saibil ISMB, Birkbeck College London.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Fates of mitochondrial proteins.

Prof. Agnieszka Chacinska.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Including Quantum effects into Molecular Simulation.

Dr Jens Poulsen, University of Gothenburg.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

Prof. Sara S. Linse, Lund University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Rational design of protein aggregation

Prof. Frederic Rousseau, VIB (Belgium).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Understanding the neuronal control of ageing and proteostasis

Dr. Rebecca Taylor, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Chaperoning single proteins

All welcome

Prof. Sander Tans, AMOLF.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Dr David Tew ( University of Bristol).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

All welcome

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

How cryo-EM is revolutionising structural biology

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

Non-covalent Peptide Assembly: The latest Results

All welcome

Mike Bowers, UC Santa Barbara.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

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

Prof. Paula Booth, King's College London.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Biophysical Seminars

The mechanical control of neuronal development

Dr Kristian Franze, University of Cambridge (PDN).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Upside Down and Inside Out: The Biomechanics of Cell Sheet Folding

Ray Goldstein, DAMTP, Cambridge University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Biophysical Seminars

Pathways of protein quality control in the cytosol

Dr. Ramanujan Hegde, LMB Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 10:30-11:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Heavy mice and lighter things: a chemistry approach to understanding the structure and roles of the extracellular matrix.

Prof. Melinda Duer, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Hierarchical propagation of chirality through reversible polymerization: the cholesteric phase of DNA oligomers

Cristiano De Michele, University of Rome "La Sapienza".

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Renormalization of myoglobin–ligand binding energetics by quantum many-body effects

Dr. Cedric Weber (Kings' College, London).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Faceting of multicomponent elastic vesicles

Dr Rastko Sknepnek (University of Dundee).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Chirality in NMR Spectroscopy

Professor David Buckingham FRS (University of Cambridge).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Computer simulation of peptide adsorption

Professor Michael Allen (University of Warwick).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Diffusion in confined systems

Professor J. Miguel Rubi (University of Barcelona), Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry Imperial College .

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 22 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modelling Energy Conversion at Interfaces: A Dynamical View

Professor Karsten Reuter (Technische Universität München).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum fluctuations in hydrogen bond networks: from atmospheric science to enzyme catalysis.

Professor Thomas Markland (Stanford University).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Tuesday 26 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Intrinsic atomic orbitals: An unbiased bridge between quantum theory and chemical concepts

Dr. Gerald Knizia (University of Stuttgart).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

CANCELLED

Professor Jiri Vanicek (EPFL, Lausanne).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multidimensional quantum mechanics with trajectory guided basis sets of Coherent States. From nonadiabatic photochemical reactions to dynamics of electrons in strong laser field.

Dr. Dmitry Shalashilin, University of Leeds.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Density functional theory as a framework to develop new methods

Professor Andreas Savin (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 09 October 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Solid Liquid Crystals and Soft Motors

Professor Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Conformational dynamics of single protein molecules under load

Joint Theory/Biological Seminar

Prof. Matthias Rief, Technische Universität München.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 12 October 2011, 14:15-15:15