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


2009-12-11 09:00: 3rd Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Symposium for Postgraduates (
Dr Tony Wood (Worldwide Head of Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer); 
Prof Malcolm Stevens (University of Nottingham); Prof Shankar Balasubramanian (University of Cambridge).)

2014-10-31 14:00: Synthetic RIG Graduate Symposium (Dr Gonçalo Bernardes, Philip Murray, Terence Kwan, Dean Holt, Alex Stross)

2014-11-05 16:00: Chemistry at Mesoscopic Regime Connecting the Molecular and the Real World (Professor Eiichi Nakamura, The University of Tokyo)

2014-11-10 16:00: Alkaloid biosynthesis and engineering (Professor Sarah O'Connor, John Innes Centre)

2014-12-04 16:00: Achieving new reactivity and selectivity using transition metal catalysis (Professor Michael Willis, University of Oxford)

2015-01-28 16:00: Metal-Organic Nontrivial Molecules: From Structure to Application (Professor Ali Trabolsi )

2015-02-09 16:00: "Ni-catalyzed Functionalization of Carbon Dioxide and C-O Bonds" (Professor Rubén Martín Romo)

2015-03-05 16:00: Cross Coupling 2.0 (Professor Jeffrey Bode)

2015-03-13 09:00: ‘Pfizer Chemical and Biological Synthesis and Catalysis Symposium 2015’ (students from both the Biological and Synthetic RIGS will be interested in this Symposium) (Professor Edward Tate)

2015-03-17 16:00: Synthetic Methodology Emerging from Activation of Si-H and B-H Bonds (Professor Martin Oestreich)

2015-03-24 16:00: Anticancer Discovery from Simple and Complex Compounds (Professor Paul Hergenrother )

2015-04-17 16:00: “Cu-Catalysed Reactions: Asymmetric Catalysis, Carbohydrate Derivatisations, and C-H Functionalization” (Professor Motomu Kanai, The University of Tokyo)

2015-04-21 16:00: Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry: New Avenues in Synthesis and Metal-free Catalysis (Professor Doug Stephan)

2015-05-06 14:30: "Discovery of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Prolyl Hydroxylase 1-3 (HIF-PHD1-3) Inhibitor for the Treatment of Anemia" (Dr Petr Vachal, Merck)

2015-05-19 16:00: Harnessing the Power of Non-Covalent Interactions for Organocatalysis (Professor Steven Wheeler, Texas A&M University)

2015-06-24 16:00: Silicon Tether Motif in C-H Functionalization Reactions (Professor Vladimir Gevorgyan)

2015-10-15 14:15: Synthesis RIG Graduate Symposium (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-11-04 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Michael Willis, University of Oxford)

2015-11-12 16:00: Adventures in Organometallic Catalysis - Computation and Experiment (Professor Franziska Schoenebeck, RWTH Aachen University)

2015-11-19 16:00: Mechanistically Playful Metals (Professor Cristina Nevado, University of Zurich)

2016-01-28 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor John Sutherland, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

2016-02-25 16:00: Computing Cycloisomerizations - Understanding Unusual Regioselectivities and Designs for Optimal Stereoselectivities (Professor Robert Paton, University of Oxford)

2016-02-26 16:00: Collaborative Approach for C-H Functionalization (Professor Huw Davies, Emory)

2016-03-16 12:00: Pfizer Chemical and Biological Synthesis and Catalysis Symposium (Professor Edward Anderson)

2016-07-06 15:15: Exploration of Cooperative Asymmetric Catalysts Toward Efficient Synthesis of Therapeutics (Dr Naoya Kumagai, Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Tokyo)

2016-07-06 16:00: Aerobic Oxidation Reactions for Organic Chemical Synthesis (Professor Shannon S. Stahl, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

2016-07-12 16:00: Stereocontrolled Cyclizations for Complex Molecule Synthesis (Professor Alison J. Frontier, University of Rochester, USA)

2016-10-10 16:00: Studies on Enzymatic Catalysis of Polar Reactions: Proton Transfer, Hydride Transfer and Decarboxylation (Professor John P. Richard, University at Buffalo)

2016-10-27 16:00: From radical cascades to metal-free C-H couplings: New methods for target synthesis (Professor David Procter, University of Manchester)

2016-11-10 16:00: Synthesis RIG Postdoc Seminar (Dr Michael Taylor, Dr. Matthew Langton, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-22 16:00: Synthetic ligands for the interception of bacterial communication – New languages, new outcomes (Professor Helen Blackwell, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

2016-11-24 16:00: Unorthodox Interactions at Work (Professor Stefan Matile, University of Geneva)

2017-01-23 16:00: Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Organic Synthesis (Professor Robert Knowles, Princeton University)

2017-02-23 16:00: Counter-ions and Cascades (Professor Martin Smith, University of Oxford)

2017-03-09 16:00: Late-Stage Fluorination for PET Imaging (Professor Tobias Ritter, Max Planck Institute)

2017-10-10 16:00: Deciphering the human microbiota with chemistry (Professor Emily Balskus, Harvard University)

2017-10-30 16:00: Throwing light on organocatalysis: new opportunities in enantioselective synthesis (Professor Paolo Melchiorre, ICIQ)

2017-11-16 16:00: Synthesis RIG Postdoc Seminar (Dr Katrine Qvortrup & Dr Claudio Bomio)

2017-11-27 16:00: Assembly Line Synthesis (Professor Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol)

2018-01-18 16:00: Catalytic Chirality Generation: New Strategies for Organic Synthesis (Professor John Bower, University of Bristol)

2018-02-08 15:00: Electron Catalysis (Prof Armido Studer, Organisch-Chemisches Institut, WWU Münster)

2018-03-08 16:00: Aromatic foldamers: mastering molecular shape (Professor Ivan Huc, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)

2018-03-23 16:00: Cycloadditions via TMM-Pd Intermediates: New Strategies for Asymmetric Induction and Total Synthesis (Professor Barry Trost, Stanford University)

2018-07-19 16:00: Asymmetric Radical Transformations (Arts) via a Copper-catalyzed Radical Relay (Professor Guosheng Liu, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China)

2018-10-10 16:00: Leveraging Dispersion and Electrophilicity in Catalysts for Challenging Coupling Reactions (Professor Brad Carrow, Princeton University.)

2018-10-25 16:00: Chemistry Postdoc Seminar  (Dr Kristaps Ermanis (Goodman group) and Dr. Darren Willcox (Gaunt group))

2018-11-07 16:00: New Avenues in Synthesis Enabled by Organic Photoredox Catalysis (Professor David Nicewicz, UNC Chapel Hill )

2018-11-13 15:00: 2018 Merck Lectureship (Professor Sarah Reisman, Caltech and Dr. Caroline McGregor, Merck)

2018-12-19 14:00: Multicatalytic Transformations with and without Light (Professor Kirstin Zeitler)

2019-02-21 16:00: Making the tiniest machines (Professor David Leigh, University of Manchester)

2019-03-04 16:00: On discovery in catalysis (Professor Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster)

2019-03-14 16:00: Stereoelectronic control of cyclizations, fragmentations, and unusual molecules (Professor Igor Alabugin, Florida State University)

2019-05-20 16:00: 'shuttle catalysis - a conceptual blueprint for reversible functional group transfer' (Professor Bill Morandi, ETH Zurich)

2019-06-10 16:00: NEW drugs from OLD pathways - Teaching Nature New Tricks (Professor Tom Simpson, University of Bristol)

2019-07-08 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor John Montgomery, University of Michigan)

2019-07-12 16:00: Accelerated Synthesis of Modified Proteins via Novel Ligation Technologies (Professor Richard Payne, University of Sydney)

2019-07-26 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Todd Hyster, Princeton University)

2019-10-21 15:00: "Moving away from equilibrium: from molecular interactions to transmembrane nano devices" (Prof. Scott Cockroft, University of Edinburgh)

2019-11-04 16:00: Enantioselective Lewis Base Catalysis using Isothioureas (Professor Andrew Smith, University of St Andrews)

2019-11-18 16:00: Making bonds by breaking bonds: An unconventional approach to making molecules (Professor Jun Yamaguchi, Waseda University)

2019-11-27 15:00: Photoenzymatic Catalysis - Using Light to Reveal New Enzyme Functions (Professor Todd Hyster, Princeton University)

2019-11-27 16:00: "Chirality and Light: Enantioselective Catalysis of Photochemical Reactions" (Professor Thorsten Bach, TU Munich)

2019-12-05 16:00: Custom-tailored Self-Assembled Nanotubes through Hierarchical Coupling of Cooperative Interactions (Professor David Gonzàlez- Rodríguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

2020-01-20 16:00: Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceutical Compounds (Dr Martin Eastgate, Bristol- Myers Squibb)

2020-02-10 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Daniele Leonori, University of Manchester)

2020-02-20 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor John Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley)

2020-02-25 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Matthew Powner, University College London)

2020-03-02 16:00: Photoinduced Assembly of C–N and C–C Bonds (Daniele Leonori)

2020-10-26 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof M Kevin Brown, INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON)

2021-11-24 16:00: New Broad Scope Catalytic Strategies for Amine and Complex Natural Product Synthesis (Professor Darren Dixon, University of Oxford)

2022-04-06 16:00: Chemical Biology Comes of Age: Targeted Protein Degradation as a New Therapeutic Modality (Professor Craig Crews, Yale University)