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Bookmark this page to keep up with the latest news, events, and developments taking place at the Department of Chemistry.
Our Seminar Series hosts guest speakers who present on a variety of topics, thanks to the support of Friends of Chemistry and GreenCentre Canada.
You can also catch up with everything that's happened over the past year (or more!) through our QChem Chronicles.
Sep 2023 | Oct 2023 | Nov 2023 | Dec 2023 | Jan 2024 | Feb 2024
Mar 2024 | Apr 2024 | May 2024 | Jun 2024 | Jul 2024 | Aug 2024
September 2023
September 6th
Grad Orientation
Speaker: Michelle Boutilier - Graduate Assistant
Title: Grad Orientation Day & Grad Talks: Understanding Your Graduate Financials
Host: Department of Chemistry
September 8th
Organic Reactions Inc. Lecture
Speaker: Robert A. Britton - Simon Fraser University
Title: Exploiting 𝛂-Haloaldehydes in Complex Molecule Synthesis
Host: A. Evans
September 15th
Grad Town Hall
Speaker: Amanda Bongers - Seminar Coordinator
Title: CHEM802: Thoughts and Feedback
Host: Department of Chemistry
September 22nd
Speaker: Michelle Boutilier - Graduate Assistant
Title: Grad Talks: Graduate Financials Part II – Awards
Host: Department of Chemistry
September 29th
Speaker: Eric McCalla - McGill University
Title: Advancing Secondary Battery Materials with Semi-automated Combinatorial Experiments
Host: P. Duchesne
October 2023
October 6th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Hailey Tomm - PhD Student
Title: Stimulating Natural Product production in Pseudoalteromonas rubra with CRISPR-dCas9
Host: A. Ross - Supervisor
October 11th at 2:30 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Md. Shahiduzzaman - Kanazawa University
Title: High Stable Perovskite Solar Cells using Ionic-liquid Addition and Cesium Halides Intercalation Technology
Host: J.M. Nunzi
October 13th
Jones Lecture
Speaker: Bernie Kraatz - University of Toronto
Title: Beyond Peptide Materials: Aerogel Composites for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2
Host: G. Jerkiewicz
October 19th 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Masaru Kondo - University of Shizuoka
Title: Data-driven Multi-parameter Screening of Electrochemical and Flow Reaction Conditions Using Bayesian Optimization
Host: C. Crudden
October 20th
Robert S. Brown Lecture
Speaker: Jeffrey Keillor - University of Ottawa
Title: Targeted Covalent Inhibition of Transglutaminase in Cancer Stem Cells
Host: G. Howe
October 27th
QGCS Grad Symposium
Speaker: David McMullin - Carleton University
Title: Cyanobacteria natural products chemistry: application of metabolomics to decipher cyanopeptide mixtures from blooms in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec
Host: Queen's Graduate Chemistry Society
November 2023
November 3rd
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Michael Ylagan - PhD Student
Title: Stereoselective Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed Carbocyclization Reactions with 1,6-Chloroenynes – The “Universal Alkyne”
Host: A. Evans - Supervisor
Title: The Study of Rieske Oxygenase Enzymes Catalysing Oxidative Cyclisation and the Identification of Serine Proteases with Anti-nociceptive Activity
Host: A. Ross - Supervisor
November 10th
Speaker: Bradley Cowie - Oxford University
Title: From the Molecular d- and f-Block to Nanomaterials: Synthetic Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
Hosts: L. Lee & P. Wang
November 17th
Speaker: Michelle Boutilier - Graduate Assistant
Title: Grad Talks: Conference Travel Awards
Host: Department of Chemistry
November 24th
Speaker: Leanne Chen - University of Guelph
Title: Understanding Ammonia Oxidation and Urea Oxidation on Ni-based Materials
Host: A. Bongers
November 30th at 10:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Lingzi Sang - University of Alberta
Title: Thioantimonate Electrolytes for All-solid-state Sodium Batteries – the Evolving Structure, Interface, and Electrochemical Performance
Host: G. Howe
December 2023
December 1st
Speaker: Xavier Banquy - Université de Montréal
Title: Bioinspired bottlebrush polymers for lubrication, antifouling, drug delivery …and more
Host: G. Liu
December 8th
Frost Lecture
Speaker: Byron Gates - Simon Fraser University
Title: At the Interface of Nanomaterials: Challenges and Opportunities in Creating and Utilizing Advanced Nanomaterials
Host: G. Jerkiewicz
December 11th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Shaun McKinnie - University of California Santa Cruz
Title: New insights into the chemistry and biochemistry of vanadium-dependent enzymes
Host: A. Ross
January 2024
January 12th
Speaker: Daryn Lehoux - Department of Philosophy, Queen's University
Title: Fact and Theory in Spontaneous Generation Debates
Host: Jess Deng
January 19th
McRae Lecture
Speaker: Sophie Rousseaux - University of Toronto
Title: New Developments in Ni-Catalyzed Transnitrilation
Host: QGCS - Alex
January 26th
Speaker: Reyne Pullen - University of Sydney
Title: Investigating the shift to online delivery of final exams and how this impacted student experience
Host: A. Bongers
February 2024
February 2nd Virtual via Zoom
Speaker: Asher Newsome - Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute
Title: Sampling, Ambient Mass Spectrometry, and the Philosophy of Damage in a Museum Setting
Host: R. Oleschuk
February 9th Virtual via Zoom
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Adam Bernicky - PhD Student
Title: Characterization of solid samples with flame emission spectroscopy and artificial neural networks
Host: P. Loock - Supervisor
February 16th at 2:30 p.m. in CHE415
Speaker: Dave Adams - University of Glasgow
Title: Adaptive supramolecular polymer systems
Host: C. Crudden
February 16th
Speaker: Kelly LeBlanc - National Research Council Canada, Ottawa
Title: Toxin or Essential Nutrient? Selenium Speciation in the Environment and Human Health: Analytical Challenges and the Role of Metrology
Host: D. Beauchemin
February 23rd
Speaker: Rachel Baker - Queen's University
Title: Stitching Molecules Together from Renewable Building Blocks with Electricity
Host: C. Crudden
March 2024
March 1st at 9:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: David Bergbreiter - Texas A&M University
Title: Designing Safer, Sustainable Fully Recyclable Homogeneous Catalysts Systems
Host: P. Jessop
March 1st
Speaker: Stephanie MacQuarrie - Cape Breton University
Title: "Burning Questions" Exploring the Science and Sizzle of Biochar from Wood and Crustaceans
Host: C. Crudden - C2MCI
March 8th
Speaker: Christian S. Hamann - Albright College
Title: Teaching NMR Spectroscopy Concepts Using Specifically Deuterated Molecules
Host: A. Bongers
March 15th
Dr. Michael Baird Lecture
Speaker: Jens MĂĽller - University of MĂĽnster
Title: Metal-Modified Nucleic Acids: From Silver(I)-Mediated Base Pairs to Phosphorescent Platinum(II)-Bearing DNA
Host: Z. She
March 22nd
Speaker: Michelle Boutilier - Graduate Assistant
Title: Grad Talks: Progress Milestones and Expectations Part II: PhD Comprehensive/Candidacy Exam, Thesis Submission, & Completion
Host: Department of Chemistry
March 26th at 1:30 p.m. in CHE117
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Jian Yu - PhD Student
Title: Shortcut to microbial metabolome analysis starts with spatial profiling
Host: R. Oleschuk - Supervisor
March 29th (University Closed – No Seminar)
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April 2024
April 5th
Dr. Stan Brown Lecture
Speaker: Kevin Plaxco - University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: Molecular vital signs: recent advances in in vivo biosensors
Host: Z. She
April 8th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Steven P. Armes - University of Sheffield
Title: Polymerisation-Induced Self-Assembly
Host: M. Cunningham
April 12th
Speaker: Ralf Tonner-Zech - University of Leipzig
Title: Learning from fundamental surface science for atomic layer deposition – an ab initio endeavour
Host: C. Crudden - C2MCI
April 19th
Organic Syntheses Lecture
Speaker: Jeff Bode - ETH Zurich
Title: Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry for Biologics
Host: C. Crudden
April 26th
Harrison-MacRae Lecture
Speaker: Olexandr Isayev - Carnegie Mellon University
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Host: F. Heidar-Zadeh
May 2024
May 3rd
Dr. Stan Brown Lecture
Speaker: Squire J. Booker - Pennsylvania State University
Title: A Radical Solution for C(sp3)–C(sp3) Bond Formation during the Biosynthesis of Macrocyclic Membrane Lipids
Host: G. Howe
May 10th
Walter A. Szarek Lecture
Speaker: Mia Huang - Scripps Research
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Host: C. Capicciotti
May 17th
Speaker: Michelle Boutilier - Graduate Assistant
Title: Grad Talks: TA Application and Selection Process & Annual Progress Reports
Host: Department of Chemistry
May 24th
Kenneth Russell Lecture
Speaker: Raffaella Buonsanti - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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Host: C. Crudden
May 28th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Samira Siahrostami - Simon Fraser University
Title: Advanced Catalyst Discovery for Clean Energy Transformation Using Computational Material Design
Host: G. Jerkiewicz
May 31st
PhD Departmental Seminar
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June 2024
June 3rd at 1:00 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Sergei Manzhos -Tokyo Institute of Technology
Title: Machine learning with kernel methods in high dimensional spaces
Host: T. Carrington
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June 14th
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June 21st
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June 28th
Speaker: Michelle Boutilier - Graduate Assistant
Title: Grad Talks: Conference Travel Awards Part II – The Claim
Host: Department of Chemistry
July 2024
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August 23rd
Speaker: Cosima Stubenrauch - University of Stuttgart
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August 26th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Boon Siang (Jason) YEO - National University of Singapore
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August 30th
Speaker: Kenneth Ozoemena - University of Witwatersrand
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September 2024
September 6th
Grad Orientation
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Title: Grad Orientation Day
Host: Department of Chemistry
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September 20th
Speaker: Ben Turnbull - Merck Process
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September 27th
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October 25th
Jones Lecture
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January 24th
Frost Lecture
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