Unilever  Lecture Theatre,  Department of Chemistry


2010-10-07 14:00: New Supramolecular Strategies in Transition Metal Catalysis (Professor Joost Reek, Van t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Amsterdam.)

2011-02-14 16:00: ADF: Amsterdam Density Functional, Developments and Applications (Stan van Gisbergen, SCM)

2011-11-10 16:15: Ice-atmosphere-ocean interactions around Greenland (Dr Poul Christoffersen, University of Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute)

2012-06-27 11:00: How Can One Measure Sodium In Cells, Tissues, and In Vivo? (Alexej Jerschow,  New York University)

2014-05-06 14:15: Visualization of Chemical Space for Medicinal Chemists (Dr Peter Ertl, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland)

2014-06-03 14:15: "CADD & ENAC - A bad hand at Scrabble..?" (Dr Peter Hunt, Optibrium Ltd)

2014-06-04 15:30: Variability in upwelling in the tropical lower stratosphere: effects on tracers and dynamical forcing (Marta Abalos (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (CNRS/IPSL)))

2014-06-19 14:15: Synergism between Theory and Experiments in Asymmetric Catalysis: Transition State Modeling for Rationalizations and Catalyst Design  (Professor Raghavan B. Sunoj, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)

2014-09-24 14:15: A Bridge to Freedom (Nuno Figueiredo, University of Lisbon)

2014-10-08 14:30: Protein Disorder in Assembly and Regulation of Macromolecular Machines (Elisar Barbar, Oregon State University)

2016-05-19 14:00: Biogenic light induced tuneable photonic crystals (Dvir Gur)

2016-07-11 14:00: Decorating the room at the bottom – designer nanomaterials for catalytic renewables conversions (Prof. Anthony Masters, The School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Australia)

2016-10-26 10:30: Beta-hairpin motifs of amyloidogenic IDPs (Dr Wolfgang Hoyer, Institute of Physical Biology, University of Dusseldorf)

2017-05-23 15:00: Tuning charge transfer in low-dimensional nano carbons (Prof. Dirk Guldi, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

2017-05-31 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Joost Reek, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

2017-07-14 14:00: Rational Metallodrug Development: Novel Pharmacophores and Mode of Action Investigations (Christian G Hartinger, University of Auckland, New Zealand)

2017-09-14 14:00: Learning and Applying Nature's Biosynthetic Logic (Prof. Bradley S. Moore, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego)

2018-04-03 11:00: INFRARED TRANSMITTING SILVER HALIDE FIBERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS  (Prof. Abraham Katzir, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University)

2018-05-25 16:00: Solid State Seminar May 2018 (Emma McCabe (University of Kent) and David Jarvis (Dept. of Physics, University of Cambridge))

2019-02-26 16:00: A chemical biology approach to the modulation of cell fate and cell state  (Dr Luke Lairson, Scripps)

2019-04-05 11:00: Diversity Oriented Biosynthesis: Making Complex Cyclic Peptides Using a Combination of Synthesis and Enzymes (Prof. Marcel Jaspars (Marine Biodiscovery Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen))

2019-04-23 16:00: Coordination-Assisted Bioorthogonal Chemistry: Bringing Orthogonality in the Tetrazine Ligation with (strained) alkenes (Kimberly M. Bonger)

2019-06-03 14:15: Will climate-volcano interactions be modulated by ongoing climate change? Perspective from explosive eruption column rise. (Thomas Aubry, University of Cambridge)

2019-11-25 13:00: Are you interested in the Pharmaceutical industry as a profession after graduation? (Novartis - Dr Adrian Clarke, Dr Chi Ming Cheung & Dr Aude Figuccia)

2020-02-10 11:00: Present day anthropogenic climate forcings: The impact of including Earth System interactions (Dr. Fiona O'Connor, Met Office)

2023-06-09 14:00: A Deep Dive into Biomolecular Condensates using Vibrational Raman and Single-Molecule FRET (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-01-27 14:00: Condensates through a multiscale computational microscope (Maria Julia Maristany (University of Cambridge))