Department of Chemistry (Pfizer lecture theatre)


2014-11-19 19:00: Recent advances: Nanotechnology in... (Dr. Tuomas Knowles, Dr. Tom Badcock)

2014-11-25 13:30: Assembly of Dimeric Capsules with Polar Interiors (Pablo Ballester - Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia)

2014-11-25 14:00: Free Energy Perturbation All-Atom Simulations to Predict Protein-Ligand Binding Affinities (Martin Packer - AstraZeneca, Alderley Park)

2014-11-25 14:30: All Happens at the Interface: Gold Nanoparticles and Beyond (Paolo Scrimin - Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova)

2014-11-25 15:00: Solid State Pharmaceutics and Prediction ( James McCabe - AstraZeneca, Macclesfield)

2014-11-25 15:30: Title to be confirmed (Colin Bain - Department of Chemistry, University of Durham)

2015-06-08 17:30: Effective policy to address the UK's STEM gap: education, immigration and women in science (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-11-16 11:00: Molecular Chaperone Functions in Protein Folding and Quality Control (Prof. Dr. F. Ulrich Hartl, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry)

2017-04-19 16:00: Design and use of chemical tools to modulate gene expression in cancer cells based on the targeting of DNA methyltransferase (Paola B. Arimondo, CNRS Pierre Fabre Laboratories, Toulouse France Oversea Fellow Churchill College, Cambridge)

2018-12-03 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Eiko Nemitz (CEH))

2019-03-07 18:15:  Time-Lapse Phenotyping in Complex Growth-conditions (Somenath Bakshi (University of Cambridge))

2020-02-24 18:00: Synthetic Genetics Beyond DNA and RNA (Philipp Holliger: MRC Laboratory)

2023-09-19 17:30: Taking Rejuvenation to Longevity Escape Velocity (Dr. Aubrey de Grey)

2023-10-18 17:30: The 'Tock Tick' of Senescence (Cleo Bishop - Queen Mary University of London)

2024-01-09 15:00: Machine Learning  (Prof Miguel Hernandez Lobato, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge & Ben Pellegrini, Intellegens Ltd)

2024-02-06 15:00: Digital Twins (Jiaru Bai (University of Cambridge) & Dr Amit Bhave (CMCL))

2025-10-20 19:00: Computationally Cooking Up New Materials (Professor Chris Pickard ( University of Cambridge))

2025-11-03 17:30: Talk by Professor Eric Miska (Eric Miska, Department of Biochemistry and Gurdon Institute)

2025-11-10 17:30: The World’s Stickiest Proteins and Insights on Creating New Technologies from Einstein to Steve Jobs (Mark Howarth, Sheild Professor of Pharmacology)

2025-11-17 17:30: Small RNAs in Genome Defence and Beyond (Greg Hannon, Cancer Research UK)

2025-12-01 17:30: Computational Ethology for Disease Modelling and Drug Screening (Andre Brown, Imperial College London)

2026-02-02 17:30: How Cells Make Membrane Proteins (Manu Hegde, MRC LMB Group Leader)

2026-02-13 19:00: Searching for Superconducting Hydrides (Dr. Maélie Caussé, Materials Theory Group, University of Cambridge)

2026-02-23 17:30: Physics, Biology and Medicine meet in the lungs (Pietro Cicuta, Professor in Biological Physics at University of Cambridge)

2026-03-02 17:30: Hallucinating Mice, Neural Circuits and Immunity - Towards Mechanistic Treatments for Psychosis (Katharina Schmack, Group Leader at Francis Crick Institute)