Wolfson Lecture Theatre,  Department of Chemistry


2008-04-29 14:15: Developing Quantum Topological Molecular Similarity (QTMS) (Dr. Paul Popelier, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester)

2008-10-15 14:15: Dynamics on the way to forming glass: past, present and future (Professor David Chandler (University of California at Berkeley))

2008-10-17 17:00: Modern Medicinal Chemistry in the Hit to Lead Arena (Dr Dafydd Owen (Pfizer Global Research & Development, Sandwich, UK))

2008-10-22 14:15: Entropy as an ordering force (Professor Daan Frenkel FMRS (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge))

2008-11-03 17:00: Search for New Antibacterials Using Diversity-Oriented Synthesis (Dr David Spring (University of Cambridge))

2008-11-10 17:00: Progress Toward a Synthesis of Phomactin A (Professor Richard Hsung (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA))

2008-11-17 17:00: Epoxide-Opening Cascades (Professor Tim Jamison (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA))

2008-11-24 17:00: Biomimetic Organocatalysis: From Concepts to Applications (Professor Magnus Rueping (University of Frankfurt, Germany))

2008-12-15 17:00: Finding the Needle in a Haystack and From Bathtubs to Pipes (Dr David Ager (DSM, Raleigh-Durham, USA))

2009-04-03 16:00: Amino Acid Promoted Ullman Reactions and their Applications in Organic Synthesis (Professor Dawei Ma, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry)

2009-04-15 17:00: Asymmetric Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles using Sulfinimines (Professor Franklin Davis, Temple University, Philadelphia USA)

2009-04-20 13:00: SCI Graduate Symposium (SCI Graduate Symposium speakers to be confirmed)

2009-04-27 17:00: Sugars and Enzymes (Professor Ben Davis, University of Oxford)

2009-05-11 17:00: Merck Lectureship Talk 1 - Seeing the Light With Polymers (Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia)

2009-05-13 17:00: Merck Lectureship Talk 2 - Pericyclic Reactions in the Synthesis of Medium Ring Ether and Piperidine Alkaloids of Biological Importance (Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia)

2009-05-15 17:00: Merck Lectureship Talk 3 - Probing Intracellular Signalling Processes with Phosphatidyl Inositol Polyphosphates . (Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia)

2009-05-21 16:00: Matrix elasticity directs stem cell lineage – Better (polymeric) materials for Better biology (Professor Dennis Discher, Biophysical Eng. & Nanobiopolymers Lab, University of Pennsylvania)

2009-06-22 17:00: "Mechanisms, Structures and Chemical Informatics" (Dr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge)

2009-08-13 17:00: Opportunities and Lessons in Chemistry and Biology Stemming from an Investment in Total Synthesis (Professor Andrew Phillips, University of Colorado)

2009-10-19 17:00: Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff - Route Selection using Kepner-Tregoe Decision Analysis (Dr Jeremy Parker from Astra Zeneca)

2009-10-26 13:00: Graduate Symposium plus Successful Drug Discovery and Development at Pfizer: Thanks to Organic Synthesis (Dr Dafydd Owen from Pfizer)

2009-11-02 17:00: Design of chiral ligands for asymmetric copper-catalyzed reactions (Professor Alex Alexakis, University of Geneva)

2009-11-09 17:00: Adventures in conjugate addition chemistry: from alkene hydroacylation to protein bioconjugation (Professor Steve Caddick, UCL)

2009-11-16 17:00: Metallonitrene/Alkyne Metathesis and Beyond:  Transition Metal Catalyzed Oxidative Amination for Organic Synthesis (Professor Simon Blakey, Emory University, USA)

2009-11-23 17:00: New Genetic Codes (Dr Jason Chin, University of Cambridge, MRC-LMB)

2009-11-30 17:00: New Strategies for the Synthesis of Glycopeptides and Glycoproteins (Dr Richard Payne, University of Sydney)

2010-01-13 17:00: New Catalysis Concepts (Professor David W. C. MacMillan,  Princeton University, USA)

2010-01-25 17:00: Development of New Methods for Catalytic C–H Functionalization: Critical Interplay between Catalyst Design and Mechanistic Analysis (Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Mighigan, USA)

2010-02-22 17:00: Sequencing genomes and sequences in the genome: from chemistry to medicine (Professor Shankar Balasubramanian, University of Cambridge)

2010-03-01 17:00: Chiral Carbenoids for Asymmetric Synthesis (Professor Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol)

2010-03-11 16:00: Complex architecures of conjugated polymers via Suzuki and Kumada chain-growth polycondensations (Dr Anton Kiriy (Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V.))

2010-03-25 17:00: Structural biology of small RNA-mediated gene regulation and methylation-mark mediated epigenetic regulation (Dr, Dinshaw J. Patel, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York)

2010-04-19 17:00: CANCELLED DUE TO AIR TRAVEL PROBLEMS (Emily Parker)

2010-04-23 11:00: Joe Spencer Memorial Lectures (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))

2010-04-23 11:00: Biosynthesis of Polyketides (tbc) (Prof. Peter Leadlay (Cambridge))

2010-04-23 11:45: Model hydrogenase subsites: seeing hydride formation as it happens (Dr Joseph Wright (Univ. of East Anglia))

2010-04-23 12:15: How do microbial symbionts help higher organisms to fight infections? ( Dr Dieter Spiteller (M.P.I. Jena))

2010-04-23 13:45: Designer Aminoglycosides: The Race to Develop Improved Antibiotics and Compounds for the Treatment of Human Genetic Diseases (Prof. Timor Baasov (Technion, Israel))

2010-04-23 14:30: Engineering Glycosyl Transferases (tbc) (Dr Andrew Truman (Cambridge))

2010-04-23 15:00: The fluorinase from Streptomyces cattleya: Where we are now (Prof. David O'Hagan (St Andrew's))

2010-04-23 16:15: C-H Activation Reactions (tbc) (Prof. Jin-Quan Yu  (Scripps))

2010-04-30 17:00: Shedding Light on the Biosynthesis of Cyanobacterial Sunscreens (Dr Emily Balskus, Harvard Medical School)

2010-05-10 17:00: Multicomponent approaches to organic synthesis and chemical biology (Jared Shaw)

2010-05-10 17:00: CANCELLED (Juan Granja)

2010-05-20 16:00: CANCELLED - Synthesis of Polymeric Probes to Control Cell Recognition and Signaling (Prof Laura L Kiessling, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2010-10-01 16:15: Small Molecules and Light as Tools for the Regulation of Biological Processes (Professor Alex Dieter North Carolina State University)

2010-11-01 13:00: Pfizer Graduate Symposium and talk (Dr Daffydd Owen, Pfizer Global Research & Development,)

2010-11-08 14:00: No Strain, No Gain?: Lessons in Catalysis (Professor Mark Lautens, University of Toronto)

2010-11-15 17:00: The Discovery of Orally Bioavailable CGRP Receptor Antagonists: From Concept to Clinical Efficacy (Dr Ian Bell, Merck, USA)

2010-11-29 14:00: Metallopolyynes and Metallophosphors: Multifunctional Materials with Emerging Applications in Optical Devices RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award Lecture 2010 (Professor Raymond Wong, RSC award lecture)

2010-12-01 17:00: CANCELLED (Professor Mike Krische, University of Texas)

2011-05-09 14:00: RSC Organic Symposium at the University of Cambridge (Professor Kevin Booker-Milburn University of Bristol  - Dr Matthew Clarke University of St Andrews - Professor Dieter Enders RWTH-Aachen)

2011-10-17 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Erick Carreira, ETH- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Switzerland)

2011-10-17 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Erick Carreira, ETH- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Switzerland)

2011-11-03 17:00: [2+2]-Photocycloaddition reactions: New selectivity patterns and synthetic applications (Professor Thorsten Bach, Technical University of Munich, Germany)

2011-11-22 16:50: 'The Chemistry of Genome Maintenance' (Prof. Dr Thomas Carell - Chemical Science Lecturer)

2011-11-22 16:50: 'The Chemistry of Genome Maintenance' (Professor Thomas Carell -Chemical Science Lecturer)

2012-01-18 17:00: Small Molecule Control of Intracellular Protein Levels (Prof. Craig M. Crews, Dept. of Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology, Dept. of Pharmacology & Dept. of Chemistry, Yale University)

2012-02-02 16:00: What could materials chemistry do for anti-inflammatory therapies. Oxidation-sensitive polymers and other examples. (Prof Nicola Tirelli, FRSC, School of Biomedicine and School of Materials, University of Manchester)

2012-02-23 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr G Marius Clore, National Institutes of Health, USA)

2012-03-01 16:00: Designing Functional Molecular Nanostructures (Professor Stefan Hecht (Humboldt University of Berlin))

2012-03-02 15:00: Development of New Synthetic Methods and Fundamental Studies of Conjugated Polymers (Prof Christopher W Bielawski, University of Texas at Austin)

2012-03-12 17:00: 'Chemistry of Oxygen Sensing in Animals' (Prof. Christopher Schofield, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford)

2012-04-30 17:00: Mechanistic and structural studies on thiamin biosynthetic enzymes (Professor Tadgh P. Begley, D. H. R. Barton and Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry, Texas A&M University)

2013-08-12 14:00: "Porous Organic Cages - A Serious Alternative to Extended Framework Materials" (Professor Michael Mastalerz, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg)

2014-03-12 19:00: G-quadruplex: the DNA quadruple helix (Professor Shankar Balasubramanian FMedSci FRS (CRUK and Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge))

2015-05-14 14:30: Luminescent materials by controlling and managing self-assembly (Professor Luisa De Cola - University of Strasbourg, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS))

2015-10-27 16:00: Dynamics of Airborne Droplets (Professor Jonathan Reid, Bristol University)

2015-11-17 16:00: Urban Air Quality: An Increasing Challenge for Public Health (Professor Frank Kelly, King's College London)

2015-12-14 14:00: Nature Inspired Manufacturing Workshop (Thomas Speck, Ryad Benosman, Carlos Saez, Theresa Millard, Iain Valentine)

2015-12-15 09:00: Nature Inspired Manufacturing Workshop (Roberto Cingolani, Erwin Reisner, Pierre Emannuel Fayemi, Danilo De Rossi, Carlos Rego)

2016-04-27 16:00: 2016 Lord Lewis Lecture: Dynamic Particles for Biological and Chemical Sensing (Prof. Timothy M. Swager, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2016-04-29 16:00: Molecular Electronics for Chemical Sensors (Prof. Timothy M. Swager, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2016-05-03 16:00: “NATURAL PRODUCT-BASED ENGINEERING POLYMERS:  A SPECIAL EMPHASIS TOWARD (DEGRADABLE) MATERIALS FOR ORTHOPEDIC, DRUG DELIVERY AND OTHER APPLICATIONS” (Karen L. Wooley, W. T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University)

2016-05-05 16:00: “TRANSLATION OF FUNDAMENTAL CHEMISTRY TO FUNCTIONAL NANOSCOPIC MACROMOLECULES DESIGNED FOR ADVANCED APPLICATIONS”  (Karen L. Wooley, W. T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University)

2016-11-10 14:00: Self-assembly of jammed heterogeneous colloidal shells by combining electrohydrodynamics and dielectrophoresis (Prof. Jon Otto Fossum, Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU))

2016-12-01 14:00: RSC Prizewinner's seminar - From the Digitisation of Matter to Chemical Cybernetics (Prof. Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow)

2016-12-08 14:00:  Interfacial Coordination Programming of 1D and 2D Materials (Prof. Hiroshi Nishihara, University of Tokyo)

2017-01-13 12:30: Label-free detection mechanism for carbon nanoparticles using non-linear optical excitation (Dr. Christian Steuwe, Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, University of Leuven)

2017-01-19 14:00: Molecular Organisation: Working with Molecules on the Nanoscale (Prof. Neil Champness, University of Nottingham)

2017-02-07 16:00: Melville Lecture 1: Stimuli-Responsive Smart Soft Materials abricated under Nonequilibrated Conditions (Professor Takuzo Aida, University of Tokyo )

2017-02-09 16:00: Melville Lecture 2: Rational Strategy for Chain-Growth Supramolecular Polymerization (Professor Takuzo Aida, University of Tokyo )

2017-02-16 14:00: Biomimicry with Synthetic Receptors: Self-Assembly and Molecular Recognition (Richard Hooley, University of California)

2017-03-16 14:00: RSC Prizewinner's seminar: Self-assembed coordination cages: host-guest chemistry and functional behaviour  (Prof. Michael Ward, University of Sheffield)

2017-04-11 14:00: Cellulose-based helical micro/nano filaments and films (Prof. Maria Helena Figueiredo Godinho, Universidad Nova de Lisboa)

2017-04-26 16:00: 2017 Lord Lewis Lecture (I) Sustainable plasmonics: abundant materials for modular photocatalysis (Professor Naomi Halas, RICE University)

2017-04-28 16:00: 2017 Lord Lewis Lecture (II) Plasmonics for sustainability: harvesting light energy for new solar applications (Professor Naomi Halas, RICE University)

2017-05-18 14:00: Coordination Self-Assembly: From the Origins to the Latest Advances (Prof. Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo)

2018-01-18 14:00: From binary anionic P4 analogs to ternary intermetalloid clusters (Stefanie Dehnen, Philipps University Marburg)

2018-02-27 14:00: Identification of Active Species and Mechanistic Pathways  in the Enantioselective Catalysis with 3d Transition Metal Pincer Complexes (Professor Lutz H. Gade, Heidelburg University)

2018-03-01 14:00: Perylene-Based Poly(N-Heterocycles):  Organic Semiconductors, Biological Fluorescence Probes and Building Blocks for Molecular Surface Networks (Professor Lutz Gade, Heidelberg University)

2018-06-28 16:00: Solid State Seminar June 2018 (Dr Lucy Clark (University of Liverpool))