Seminar Series Archive

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

Abstract (PDF, 110 KB)

Organic Reactions Inc. Lecture Brochure (PDF, 312 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 45 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 45 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 94 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 52 KB)

Jones Lecture Brochure (PDF, 290 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 129 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 80 KB)

Robert S. Brown Lecture Brochure (PDF, 392 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 11 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 150 KB)

Abstract (PDF, 193 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 96 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 45 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 60 KB)

December 1st
Speaker: Xavier Banquy - Université de Montréal
Title: Bioinspired bottlebrush polymers for lubrication, antifouling, drug delivery …and more
Host: G. Liu

Abstract (PDF, 72 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 10 KB)

Frost Lecture Brochure (PDF, 340 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 32 KB)

January 12th
Speaker: Daryn Lehoux - Department of Philosophy, Queen's University
Title: Fact and Theory in Spontaneous Generation Debates
Host: Jess Deng

Abstract (PDF, 99 KB)

January 19th
McRae Lecture
Speaker: Sophie Rousseaux - University of Toronto
Title: New Developments in Ni-Catalyzed Transnitrilation
Host: QGCS - Alex

Abstract (PDF, 134 KB)

McRae Lecture Brochure (PDF, 242 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 14 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 71 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 113 KB)

February 16th at 2:30 p.m. in CHE415
Speaker: Dave Adams - University of Glasgow
Title: Adaptive supramolecular polymer systems
Host: C. Crudden

Abstract (PDF, 56 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 60 KB)

February 23rd
Speaker: Rachel Baker - Queen's University
Title: Stitching Molecules Together from Renewable Building Blocks with Electricity
Host: C. Crudden

Abstract (PDF, 81 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 70 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 125 KB)

March 8th
Speaker: Christian S. Hamann - Albright College
Title: Teaching NMR Spectroscopy Concepts Using Specifically Deuterated Molecules
Host: A. Bongers

Abstract (PDF, 85 KB)

March 15th
Dr. Michael Baird Lecture
Speaker: Jens Müller - University of Münster
Title: Metal-Modified Nucleic Acids: From Silver(I)-Mediated Base Pairs to Phosphorescent Platinum(II)-Bearing DNA
Host: Z. She

Abstract (PDF, 74 KB)

Dr. Michael Baird Lecture Brochure (PDF, 312 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 142 KB)

March 29th (University Closed – No Seminar)
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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

Abstract (PDF, 95 KB)

Dr. Stan Brown Lecture Brochure (PDF, 439 KB)

April 8th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Steven P. Armes - University of Sheffield
Title: Polymerisation-Induced Self-Assembly
Host: M. Cunningham

Abstract (PDF, 327 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 110 KB)

April 19th
Organic Syntheses Lecture
Speaker: Jeff Bode - ETH Zurich
Title: Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry for Biologics
Host: C. Crudden

Abstract (PDF, 80 KB)

April 26th
Harrison-MacRae Lecture
Speaker: Olexandr Isayev - Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Accelerating Molecular Design with Machine Learning and AI
Host: F. Heidar-Zadeh

Abstract (PDF, 92 KB)

Harrison-MacRae Brochure (PDF, 406 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 92 KB)

Dr. Stan Brown Lecture Brochure (PDF, 459 KB)

May 10th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE202
Walter A. Szarek Lecture
Speaker: Mia Huang - Scripps Research
Title: Taming complex protein glycoconjugate functions with chemical biology
Host: C. Capicciotti

Abstract (PDF, 72 KB)

May 24th at 11:30 a.m.
Kenneth Russell Lecture
Speaker: Raffaella Buonsanti - Laboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy (LNCE)
Title: Collodial nanocrystals to advance catalysis and energy technologies
Host: C. Crudden

Abstract (PDF, 80 KB)

Kenneth Russell Brochure (PDF, 194 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 100 KB)

May 31st
Speaker: Alison Murray - Department of Art History and Art Conservation, Queen's University
Title: Art Conservation – Where Art Meets Science
Host: A. Bongers

Abstract (PDF, 58 KB)

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

Abstract (PDF, 51 KB)

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June 28th
University Closed
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July 19th
PhD Departmental Seminar
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August 2nd
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Hengmu Xie - PhD Student
Title: Sequential Enantioselective Iridium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation/Cope Rearrangement for Construction of Acyclic γ-Stereocenters
Host: A. Evans

Abstract (PDF, 51 KB)

August 9th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Daniel Barker - PhD Student
Title: Developing bioderived CO₂-responsive polymers as alternatives to petroleum-based polymers
Hosts: P. Jessop/G. Liu

Abstract (PDF, 59 KB)

Speaker: Andre Castillo - PhD Student
Title: Investigation of arsenic and various elements in garden soils and vegetables from Yellowknife
Host: D. Beauchemin

Abstract (PDF, 152 KB)

August 16th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Angus Sullivan - PhD Student
Title: Expanding the Synthetic Methodology of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Protected Gold Nanoclusters and Altering their Properties for Biomedical Application
Host: C. Crudden

Abstract (PDF, 147 KB)

August 22nd at 10:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Aiko Fukazawa - Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Institute for Advanced Study, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Title: Exploring Novel Nonbenzenoid Hydrocarbons toward Unusual Yet Stable Optoelectronic Materials
Host: C. Crudden

Abstract (PDF, 198 KB)

August 22nd at 11:15 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Hiroshi Naka - Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University
Title: Deuterium Switch in Material Design
Host: C. Crudden

Abstract (PDF, 88 KB)

August 23rd
Speaker: Cosima Stubenrauch - University of Stuttgart
Title: Innovative Foam-Based Cleaning Concepts for Historical Objects
Host: P. Jessop

Abstract (PDF, 133 KB)

August 30th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Rachel Shum - PhD Student
Title: Development of Smudge-Resistant, Antimicrobial Ladder-Like Polysilsesquioxane Coatings
Host: G. Liu

Abstract (PDF, 284 KB)

Abstract (PDF, 160 KB)

September 3rd via Zoom
Organic Reactions
Speaker: Paul Knochel - University Munich
Title:Functionalization of N-Heterocycles using Li, Mg and Zn Organometallics
Host: A. Evans

Abstract (PDF, 170 KB)

Friday, August 30th at 1:30 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Jianfu Ding - National Research Council of Canada
Title: Single-walled carbon nanotubes and their preparation, purification and applications
Host: G. Liu

Wednesday, September 4th at 1:00 p.m. in CHE117
12 Annual Queen's Graduate Chemistry Society Symposium
Speaker: Dr. Cathleen Crudden - Queen's University
Title: Metal catalysts, clusters, and surfaces: Catalytic preparation of chiral bio-molecules and carbon-based self-assembled monolayer
Host: QGCS

September 6th
Department of Chemistry Graduate Orientation Session & PhD Departmental Seminar (at 12:15 p.m.)
Speaker: Timothy Wright - PhD Student
Title: Enantioselective Rhodium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation of Enolates and Homoenolates: Construction of alpha- and beta-Stereogenic Carbonyl Compounds
Host: A. Evans - Supervisor

Young Persons’ Lecture Competition Talk
Speaker: Morgan Lehtinen - PhD Student
Title: H2Only: Smart filters for efficient oil/water separation
Host: McDonald Institute

September 20th
Green Chemistry Lecture
Speaker: Audrey Moores - McGill University
Title: Solvent-free Approaches to Nanoparticles Synthesis and Polymer Functionalization and Plasmonic Catalytic Hydrogenation Reactions
Host: P. Jessop

September 27th
Speaker: Christopher Lohans - Biomedical and Molecular Sciences - Queen's University
Title: Alternative mechanisms of β-lactam antibiotic degradation by bacterial β-lactamases and transpeptidases
Host: G. Howe

September 30th at 3:00 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Md. Shahiduzzaman - Nanomaterials Research Institute
Title: Perovskite Nanoparticle Seeding Mediated Growth for Enhanced Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells

October 4th
Speaker: Luc Robitaille - Chemistry Industry Association of Canada
Title: Responsible Care a proven model of voluntary self-regulation
Host: D. Zechel

October 11th
Speaker: Philip Jessop - Department of Chemistry - Queen's University
Title: Seeking a Silver Lining: Addressing Environmental Problems with Waste CO₂
Host: G. Liu

October 11th at 3:30 p.m. in CHE415
Speaker: Donald A. Tryk - University of Yamanashi
Title: Recent progress in understanding electrocatalytic processes using theory
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

October 18th at 1:00 p.m. in CHE415
Speaker: Tatiana Ferreira - University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ
Title: Anaerobic bacteria role in bio-based products production: a biorefinery opportunity
Host: P. Jessop

October 21st at 3:30 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Marian Chatenet - L’Universite Grenoble Alpes
Title: Can we split water with stainless steel electrodes?
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

October 22nd at 11:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Federico Grillo - University of St. Andrews
Title: Adsorption studies from model to real substrates: the case of benzotriazole
Host: C. Crudden

October 25th
Baird Lecture
Speaker: Douglas W Stephan - University of Toronto
Title: New Directions in FLP Chemistry
Hosts: S. Wang & C. Crudden

October 28th at 12:30 p.m. in CHE415
Speaker: Saber Naserifar - California Institute of Technology
Title: New Description of ‘Mysterious’ Water and Phenomena Underlying Supercooled Critical Point
Host: T. Carrington

November 1st
Speaker: David Bryce - University of Ottawa
Title: Non-Covalent and Covalent Bonding from a Multinuclear Solid-State Magnetic Resonance Perspective: Structure, Symmetry, and Dynamic Processes
Host: G. Wu

November 8th
Russell Lecture
Speaker: Shigehiro Yamaguchi - Nagoya University
Title: Main-Group p-Materials for Organic Electronics and Bioimaging
Host: Wang, S

November 15th
Speaker: W. Stephen McNeil - UBC Okanagan
Title: Concepts, Content, Context: Assessment of a Strategic Redesign of a First-Year Chemistry Curriculum
Host: A. Bongers

November 22nd
Speaker: Stephen Newman - University of Ottawa
Title: Engaging esters, aldehydes, and alcohols in cross-coupling reactions
Host: A. Evans

November 29th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Josh Clarke - PhD Student
Title: Borocation Catalyzed Pyridine Reductions by a Dearomative Hydrosilylation/Hydrogenation Cascade
Host: C. Crudden - Supervisor

Speaker: Alex Cormier - PhD Student
Title: Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Particles for Forward Osmosis
Host: P. Jessop - Supervisor

Speaker: Amy MacLean - PhD Student
Title: Design of an SPR system to study surface reactions in organic solvents
Host: P. Loock - Supervisor

December 3rd at 11:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Travis Fridgen - Memorial Fridgen
Title: The Physical Chemistry of Gas-Phase Ionic Nucleic Acid Base Complexes Using Ion Trapping Mass Spectrometry
Host: P. Loock

December 6th
Szarek Lecture
Speaker: Laura Kiessling - MIT
Title: Chemical Biology of Microbial Glycans
Host: C. Crudden

December 13th
McRae Lecture
Speaker: Jillian Buriak - University of Alberta
Title: Let's Do the Twist: From Epitaxial Block Copolymer Nanopatterns to Graphene Bilayers
Host: D. Zechel

December 20th
Speaker: Germano Tremiliosi-Filho - University of Sao Paulo, Institute of Chemistry at Sao Carlos
Title: Development of Photo-assisted Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells: Application of the Self-doped TiO2/Pt Nanotube in the Ethanol Photo-electro-oxidation
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

January 7th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE211
Speaker: Gabriel Ménard - University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: Targeting Energy Solutions: From Fundamental to Applied Inorganic Redox Chemistry
Host: C. Crudden

January 10th
Harrison-MacRae Lecture
Speaker: Ulrich Schollwöck - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Title: Tensor Networks: A Useful Method For Quantum Chemistry?
Host: T. Carrington

January 17th
Jones Lecture
Speaker: Paul Ayers - McMaster University
Title: Strong Electron Correlation
Host: T. Carrington

January 24th
Speaker: Ronald Brisbois - Macalester College
Title: Leveraging Cyclophane and 1,2,3-Triazole Synthesis to Prospect for Novel Light-Emitting and Colorimetric Sensor Molecules
Host: A. Evans

January 31st
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Bidur Ghimire - PhD Student
Title: Use of Patterned Super (hydrophobic) Surfaces in Digital Microfluidics
Host: R. Oleschuk - Supervisor

February 7th at 12:30 p.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Michael Eikerling - Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Jülich, Germany
Title: Deciphering Electrocatalytic Reactions with Theory and Computation
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

February 14th
Speaker: Zac Hudson - University of British Columbia
Title: Multiblock Nanofibers from Organic Electronic Materials
Host: G. Howe

February 20th at 10:00 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Paul Duchesne - University of Toronto
Title: In situ X-ray Characterization of Advanced Energy Materials
Host: R. Oleschuk

February 21st at 10:00 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Héloïse Thérien-Aubin - Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Title: Polymer under confinement: from polymer/nanoparticles hybrids to functional materials
Host: R. Oleschuk

February 24th at 10:00 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Sayed Youssef Sayed Nagy - University of Alberta
Title: Materials for High Capacity Li-and Na-Based Batteries
Host: R. Oleschuk

February 26th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Raychelle Burks - St. Edward's University
Title: Seeing Clearly: Exploring new vapor-phase stains for cyanoacrylate processing of latent prints
Host: C. Crudden

February 27th at 10:00 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Mahdi Hesari - The University of Western Ontario
Title: Interrogating Light interactions with Nanomaterials Towards Single Particle Level
Host: R. Oleschuk

February 28th
Inaugural Dr. Stan Brown Lecture
Speaker: Peter R. Schreiner - Institute of Organic Chemistry, Justus Liebig University
Title: Carbohydrate formation in the absence of biosynthesis
Host: C. Crudden

March 2nd at 10:00 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Andrew Bennet - Simon Fraser University
Title: Tuning the Reactivity of Carbasugars to Permit Temporal Control of Glycoside Hydrolase Activity
Host: C. Crudden

March 3rd at 10:00 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: R. J. Dwayne. Miller^1,2 - ¹Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matters & ²Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto
Title: Mapping Atomic Motions with Ultrabright Electrons: Fundamental Space-Time Limits to Imaging Chemistry
Host: T. Carrington

March 13th
Speaker: Anne Petitjean - Department of Chemistry, Queen's University
Title: 'Guanine quadruplexes: A tale of expanding discoveries in nucleic acid targeting’
Host: G. Liu

May 8th at 11:30 a.m. via Microsoft Teams
Speaker: P. Andrew Evans - Department of Chemistry, Queen's University
Title: Stereoselective Construction of Challenging C-C Bonds: Total Synthesis of Complex Bioactive Agents
Host: G. Liu

June 5th at 11:30 a.m. via Microsoft Teams
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Haili Zheng - PhD Student
Title: Fabrication of an Inverse Size-Selective Membrane Using an Electrospun Nanofiber Mat as a Template
Host: G. Liu - Supervisor

June 12th at 11:30 a.m. via Microsoft Teams
Speaker: Chantelle Capicciotti - Department of Chemistry, Queen's University
Title: The Sweet Side of Health and Disease: Harnessing Chemistry to Understand the Biology of Carbohydrates
Host: G. Liu

June 19th
Speaker: Gregory Jerkiewicz - Department of Chemistry, Queen's University
Title: Interfacial Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis at Monocrystalline Electrodes
Host: G. Liu

June 26th at 11:30 a.m. via Microsoft Teams
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Goonay Yousefalizadeh - PhD Student
Title: Atomically Precise Metal Clusters: Synthesis, Excited State Properties and Unique Optical Properties
Host: K. Stamplecoskie - Supervisor

August 7th via Microsoft Teams
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Yagya Paudel - PhD Student
Title: Discovery and investigation of the biosynthesis of a novel lanthipeptide molecule from a marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas flavipulchra 2ta6
Host: A. Ross - Supervisor

August 14th via Zoom
Speaker: Marilyn Rampersad Mackiewicz - Oregon State University
Title: Inclusive Leadership: Your role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive
Host: A. Evans

August 21st via Microsoft Teams
Speaker: Bruno G. Pollet - Department of Energy and Process Engineering - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Title: Sono-Electrocatalysis: The Use of Sound for the Development of Water Electrolyser and Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

August 28th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Robert Teuma-Castelletti - PhD Student
Title: A heated sample introduction system increasing sensitivity and robustness in ICPMS
Host: D. Beauchemin - Supervisor

September 4th
11th Annual Queen's Chemistry Graduate Symposium
Speaker: Molly Shoichet - University of Toronto
Title: Engineering the Cellular Microenvironment: 3D Cell Culture for Drug Screening
Host: QGCS

September 6th
Speaker: Wanlin Guo - Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Title: Emerging Hydrovoltaic Technology
Host: G. Liu

September 12th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Charles Yeung & Greg Hughes - Merck Research Laboratories
Title:
Host: C. Crudden

September 13th at 2:00 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Mark Workentin - University of Western Ontario
Title: Towards the Fabrication of Functional Nanoparticles via Bioorthogonal Chemistry
Host: C. Crudden

September 14th
Speaker: Jean-Pierre Perreault - Université de Sherbrooke
Title: G-quadruplexes impacts the human transcriptome
Host: A. Petitjean

September 21st
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Shuaishuai Huang - PhD Student
Title: Waterborne PDMS-containing polyurethane formulation for anti-smudge coatings and superhydrophobic textiles
Host: G. Liu - Supervisor

September 28th
Speaker: Jennifer Love - University of British Columbia
Title: Developing catalytic reactions one step at a time
Host: A. Evans

October 5th
Speaker: Angela Lyon - Parteq
Title: Intro to Intellectual Property (IP)
Host: P. Loock

Thank you to Ridout & Maybee LLP for sponsoring this seminar.

October 10th at 1:30 p.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Fumitoshi Shibahara - Gifu University
Title: Imidazo[1,5-a]pyridine Carbenes as a Strong π-Accepting and σ-Donating NHC: Properties and Catalytic Utilities.
Host: C. Crudden

October 12th
Speaker: Steve MacNeil - Wilfrid Laurier University
Title: Promoting Metacognitive Skills Development in Students
Host: V. Snieckus

October 23rd at 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Brian Popp - West Virginia University
Title: Reductive Carboxylation of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons with CO²
Hosts: C. Crudden/D. Zechel

October 26th
Speaker: Katherine Elvira - University of Victoria
Title: Microfluidic Platforms for Drug Discovery
Host: D. Zechel

November 9th
Speaker: Zoltan Takats - Imperial College London
Title: In-vivo Mass Spectrometry from Bacteria to the Operating Theatre
Host: P. Loock

November 12th at 9:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Amanda Bongers - Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre & University of Ottawa
Title: Developing and understanding new reactivity: From the wet lab to chemistry education research
Host: P. Loock

November 14th at 9:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Brett McCollum - Mount Royal University
Title: Representational competencies in chemistry: Mapping the student learning experience
Host: P. Loock

November 14 at 11:30 a.m. in CHE202
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Yaoting Zhang - PhD Student
Title: A Computational Study of Pressure-Induced Bulk Reactions of Thioaldehydes
Host: N. Mosey - Supervisor

Speaker: Kaka Zhang - PhD Student
Title: Hard Anti-Smudge Epoxy Coatings
Host: G. Liu - Supervisor

November 16th at 9:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Erin Duffy - Michigan State University
Title: Engaging Students in Scientific Practices: Characterizing Instruction, Training TAs, and Measuring Student Mastery
Host: P. Loock

November 23rd
Speaker: Mark Stradiotto - Dalhousie University
Title: Move Over Palladium: Developing PAd-DalPhos/Nickel-Catalysed C-N Cross-Couplings
Host: C. Crudden

November 27th at 9:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Graeme Howe - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Probing the origins of enzymatic catalysis through physical organic chemistry
Host: P. Loock

November 28th at 9:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Rebecca Davis - University of Manitoba
Title: Searching for the Remote - Stereocontrol in Organocatalysis
Host: P. Loock

November 29th at 9:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Christine Le - University of California Berkeley
Title: Mechanism-Driven Design of Catalytic Carbofunctionalization Reactions
Host: P. Loock

November 30th
Russell Lecture
Speaker: Mitchell A. Winnik - University of Toronto
Title: Biomedical applications of metal-chelating polymers and lanthanide nanoparticles
Host: G. Liu

December 3rd at 9:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Rylan Lundgren - University of Alberta
Title: Discovery, Mechanism, and Application of Chemoselective Cross-­Coupling Reactions
Host: P. Loock

December 4th at 9:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Marc-André Légaré - University of Wurzburg
Title: Main-Group Metallomimetics: Strategies for Metal-Free Catalysis and Small-Molecule Activation
Host: P. Loock

December 10th at 9:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Sergei Manzhos - National University of Singapore
Title: Computational modelling and design of materials for post-lithium and organic metal ion batteries: practical design strategies and methodological issues
Host: P. Loock

December 13th at 9:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Farnaz Shakib - University of California San Diego
Title: Novel Quantum Dynamics Methods for Excited-State Non-adiabatic Dynamics
Host: P. Loock

December 14th
Baird Lecture
Speaker: Karen I. Goldberg - University of Pennsylvania
Title: Molecular Oxygen as a Reagent in Late Transition Metal Organometallic Chemistry
Host: C. Crudden

December 17th at 9:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Kyle Hall - Temple University
Title: Casting Light on Things Unseen: Molecular Simulation and Data Visualization
Host: P. Loock

December 18th at 9:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Farnaz Heidar-Zadeh - University of Luxembourg
Title: Unraveling Atoms in Molecules: A Theoretical Perspective
Host: P. Loock

January 11th
Speaker: Kei Murakami - Nagoya University
Title: Catalytic aromatic functionalization inspired and accelerated by interdisciplinary studies
Host: C. Crudden

January 18th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Adeela Manzoor - PhD Student
Title: Catalysis of Cross- and Homo-Coupling Reaction of Aryl Halides Utilizing Ni(0), Ni(I) and Ni(II) Precursors
Host: P. Jessop - Supervisor

Speaker: David Simon - PhD Student
Title: Cryptic Biosynthetic Pathways in Streptomyces curacoi
Host: D. Zechel & R. Oleschuk - Supervisors

January 24th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Maciej Grajewski - University of Groningen
Title: A microfluidic system for real-time monitoring of biliary transport in precision-cut liver slices
Host: R. Oleschuk

January 25th
McRae Lecture
Speaker: Sarah E. Reisman - California Institute of Technology
Title: Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Natural Products and the Chemistry They Inspire
Host: A. Evans

January 28th at 10:00 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Hiroshi Naka - Nagoya University
Title: (Photo)catalytic Conversion of Water and Alcohols for Selective Chemical Synthesis
Host: C. Crudden

February 1st
Frost Lecture
Speaker: Paul Anastas - Yale University
Title: Green Chemistry: The Path Forward
Hosts: P. Jessop & QGCS

February 8th
Harrison-MacRae Lecture
Speaker: Chihaya Adachi - Kyushu University
Title: Exciton management in OLEDs and organic laser diodes
Host: J.M. Nunzi

February 15th
Speaker: Lisa Willis - University of Alberta
Title: EDI: What Faculty Need To Know"
Host: D. Zechel

February 22nd
Speaker: David Lacy - University at Buffalo
Title: Designing new manganese and iron catalysts for sustainability
Host: D. Zechel

March 1st
Speaker: Andrei Yudin - University of Toronto
Title: Development of bioactive molecules using the tools of chemical synthesis
Host: C. Crudden

March 13th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Todd Marder - University of Würzburg
Title: Transition Metal Catalyzed Borylation of C-H and C-X Bonds: Synthesis of Aryl and Alkyl Boronates
Host: S. Wang

March 15th
Harrison-MacRae Lecture
Speaker: Peter Willis - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Title: The Search for Chemical Signatures of Life Beyond Earth
Host: R. Oleschuk

March 22nd
Speaker: William Skene - Université de Montréal
Title: Taming Reversible Covalent Bonds for Tuneable Opto-Electronic Properties
Host: G. Liu

March 29th
Harrison-MacRae Lecture
Speaker: Ian Harrison - University of Virginia
Title: Alkane Reaction Dynamics at Metal Surfaces
Host: T. Carrington

April 5th
Jones Lecture
Speaker: Thomas F. Miller III - California Institute of Technology
Title: Classical and Machine-Learning Methods for Quantum Simulation
Host: T. Carrington

April 10th at 11: 30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Alex Spokoyny - UCLA
Title: Boron Cluster Building Blocks for Hybrid Materials
Host: S. Wang

April 12th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Mina Narouz - PhD Student
Title: N-Heterocyclic Carbenes as Novel Ligands for Surfaces, Nanoparticles and Nanoclusters
Host: C. Crudden - Supervisor

May 1st at 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Dario Dekel - Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Title: Main Current Challenges in Anion-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

May 3rd
Speaker: Sean Brady - Rockefeller University
Title: Watch your step, there is new chemistry everywhere.
Host: D. Zechel

May 10th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Abouzar Toubaei - PhD Student
Title: Do Strong Hydrogen Bonds Exist in Solution?
Host: G. Wu - Supervisor

May 17th
Speaker: David Palmer - University of Saskatchewan
Title: Lessons from nature in catalysis and inhibitor design
Host: D. Zechel

May 30th at 11: 30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Stuart Cantrill - Nature Chemistry
Title: The nature of chemistry publishing
Host: C. Crudden

June 14th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Haijun Li - PhD Student
Title: Photochemical Reactivity and CO2 Sensing Applications of Organoboron Compounds
Host: Wang, S - Supervisor

August 8th at 2:30 p.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Thomas Bürgi - University of Geneva
Title: Thiolate-protected metal clusters: Chirality and dynamic nature
Host: C. Crudden

August 27th at 2:00 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Christopher Thibodeaux - McGill University
Title: Examining the Role of Conformational Changes in Peptide Natural Product Biosynthesis
Host: D. Zechel
 

August 30th at 1:30 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Jianfu Ding - National Research Council of Canada
Title: Single-walled carbon nanotubes and their preparation, purification and applications
Host: G. Liu

September 1st at 11:30 in CHE202
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Xilong (Ryan) Yuan - PhD Student
Title: CO₂-modified solvents for chromatographic separations
Host: R. Oleschuk - Supervisor

September 7th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
10th Annual Queen's Chemistry Graduate Symposium
Speaker: Nathan Magarvey - McMaster University
Title: Computing Chemistry and Genomes for Natural Product Drug Discovery
Host: QGCS

September 22nd
Speaker: Cosima Stubenrauch - Stuttgart University
Title: About Monodisperse Polymer Foams and Gelled Complex Fluids
Host: P. Loock

September 29th
Inaugural Baird Lecture
Speaker: Richard Schrock - MIT
Title: Adventures in the Chemistry of Transition Metal to Carbon Multiple Bonds
Hosts: M. Baird & P. Loock

October 6th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Sean McDonald - PhD Student
Title: Binding Modes and Reactivity of Pyrido[2,1-a]isoindole as a Neu-tral Carbon Donor with Main Group and Transition Metal Elements.
Host: S. Wang - Supervisor

October 11th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Frédéric-Georges Fontaine - Laval University
Title: Ligand design in organometallic chemistry taken to the extreme: when the metal is no longer needed
Host: S. Wang

October 13th
Speaker: Tao Zeng - Carleton University
Title: Our Recent Studies on Vibronic Coupling: Applications in Singlet Fission and Paper-and-Pencil Works on Deriving Hamiltonians
Host: S. Wang

October 20th
Speaker: Alexander Radosevich - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: “Geometric Deformation in the Design of Biphilic Organophosphorus Catalysts”
Host: C. Crudden

October 27th
Jones Lecture
Speaker: Jeffery Bode - ETH Zürich
Title: Synthetic Methods for the Building Block Economy
Host: C. Crudden

October 30th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE213
E Gordon Young Lecture 2017 (#CICEGYLecture)
Speaker: Polly Arnold - University of Edinburgh
Title: Putting the f in chemistry – making molecules that help us safeguard our nuclear waste
Host: P. Jessop

November 3rd
Speaker: Bruno Pollet - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Title: Introduction to Sono-electrochemistry: The Effect of Power Ultrasound on Electrochemical Parameters
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

November 6th at 1:00 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Martin Albrecht - Universität Bern
Title: Exploring and Exploiting Ligands with Dynamic Bonding Properties for Catalytic Applications
Host: C. Crudden

November 10th
Speaker: Ramzi Asfour - Office of Partnerships and Innovation, Queen's University
Title:
Host: P. Loock

November 14th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Peng L. Wang - Redlen Technologies
Title: From Energy Harvesting to Radiation Detection: Chemistry of Crystalline Materials
Host: P. Loock

November 17th
Speaker: Lu Yang - National Research Council (Ottawa)
Title: Metrological and SI traceable measurements by ICPMS and MC-ICPMS
Host: D. Beauchemin

November 28th at 10:30 a.m. in CHE415
Speaker: Kevin Thurbide - University of Calgary
Title: Novel Approaches for Improving the Chromatographic Analysis of Sulfur Compounds
Host: R. Oleschuk

November 28th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Elisa Fatila - Louisiana Tech University
Title: Intermolecular Interactions: from Magnetism to Host-Guest Chemistry
Host: P. Loock

November 29th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE213
Speaker: George Chan - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: Optical Isotopic Analysis with Laser-induced Plasma
Host: P. Loock

December 1st
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Ram Lamsal - PhD Student
Title: Exploration of new applications of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) to fuel cell electrochemistry
Host: D. Beauchemin & G. Jerkiewicz - Supervisors

Speaker: Abrar Al Rashed - PhD Student
Title: A study of the interaction of N-heterocyclic carbenes with polycrystalline copper surfaces
Host: H. Horton - Supervisor

Speaker: Aliyah Alshamrani - PhD Student
Title: Reaction of CS₂ and CO₂ with neutral organic bases in the absence and presence of water
Host: P. Jessop - Supervisor

December 7th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Alexander Gundlach-Graham
Title: Simultaneous and Comprehensive Elemental Analysis by Inductively Coupled Plasma Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (ICPTOFMS): Reformulating Old Problems with New Instrumentation and Measurement Strategies
Host: P. Loock

December 8th
Speaker: Libai Huang - Purdue University
Title: Ultrafast Microscopy of Energy and Charge Transport
Host: K. Stamplecoskie

December 15th
Speaker: Ryan Guterman - The Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Title: Ionic Liquids as Reagents and Polymers – Alkylating agents and poly-carbenes
Host: C. Crudden

January 12th
Green Chemistry Lecture
Speaker: Chao-Jun Li - McGill University
Title: Catalyst-free and redox-neutral innate trifluoromethylation and alkylation of aromatics enabled by light
Host: P. Jessop

January 19th
Speaker: Craig Williams - University of Queensland
Title: Aspects of Natural Products, Caged Hydrocarbon Bioisosteres, and Synthetic Methodology
Host: A. Evans

February 9th
Harrison-MacRae Lecture
Speaker: Victor S. Batista - Yale University
Title: Converting Water into Fuel: Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis
Host: T. Carrington

February 16th
Organic Reactions Inc. Lecture
Speaker: Michael J. Krische - The University of Texas at Austin
Title: Hydrogen-Mediated C-C Bond Formation: Green Chemistry
Host: A. Evans

February 23rd
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Prashant Agrawal - PhD Student
Title: Afraid of getting wet? Use of (Super)hydrophobic surfaces in Digital Microfluidics
Host: R. Oleschuk - Supervisor

Speaker: Kang Yuan - PhD Student
Title: New Borylation Strategy for Heterocycles
Host: S. Wang - Supervisor

March 2nd
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Ahmed Al Hejami - PhD Student
Title: Improving the analytical performance of inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry using infrared heating of the sample introduction system
Host: D. Beauchemin - Supervisor

March 9th
Speaker: Jérôme Claverie - University of Sherbrooke
Title: Supramolecular assembly of polymeric dispersants with carbon based materials for the fabrication of fast-drying conductive inks
Host: G. Liu

March 16th
Frost Lecture
Speaker: Gerhard Erker - Universität Münster
Title: Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry: Searching for New Reactions
Host: S. Wang

March 23rd
Speaker: Ignacio Vargas-Baca - McMaster University
Title: Supramolecular Main-Group Chemistry
Host: S. Wang

April 6th
Russell Lecture
Speaker: Timothy Lodge - University of Minnesota
Title: Ionic Liquid/Block Polymer Nanocomposites: Remarkably Versatile, Functional Materials
Host: G. Liu

April 13th
Inaugural Walter A. Szarek Lecture
Speaker: Sir Fraser Stoddart - Northwestern University
Title: Materials Beyond Cyclodextrins: Emergence Opens Up a Whole New World of Wonders
Hosts: W. A. Szarek & P. Loock

April 16th at 1:30 p.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Darius Rackus - University of Toronto
Title: Point-of-Care Digital Microfluidics
Host: P. Loock

April 17th at 1:30 p.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Zhe She - University of Toronto Scarborough
Title: Probing Molecular Interactions towards Biological Analysis on Surfaces
Host: P. Loock

April 19th at 1:30 p.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Philippe Dauphin Ducharme - University of California
Title: Electrochemistry of DNA Monolayers: from Biophysics to Biosensing
Host: P. Loock

April 20th
McRae Lecture
Speaker: Nathan Lewis - California Institute of Technology
Title: Materials by Design Principles in Artificial Photosynthesis: Discovery and Synergistic Integration of Light Absorbers, Electrocatalysts and Membranes for a Complete, Stable, Efficient, and Safe Solar Fuels Generator
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

April 20th at 1:30 p.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Yevgen Nazarenko - McGill University
Title: Nanomaterials and Nanoaerosols: Sources, Concerns and Analytical Approaches
Host: P. Loock

April 27th
Harrison-MacRae Lecture
Speaker: Burçin Bayram - Miami University
Title: Rovibrationally Resolved Lifetime Measurement of Molecular Sodium
Host: J. Stotz

May 4th
Speaker: Jean-Philip Lumb - McGill University
Title: Driving Synthesis by Oxidation
Host: A. Evans

May 7 at 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Albert Bowers - University of North Carolina
Title: Chemoenzymatic Platforms for the Discovery of New Peptide Therapeutics
Host: A. Ross

May 11th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Ramjee Kandel - PhD Student
Title: Basicity of Phosphaguanidine, and its Ru(II) Complex for CO2 Hydrogenation
Host: P. Jessop - Supervisor

May 23rd at 11:30 a.m. in CHE213
Speaker: Allan Watson - University of St Andrews
Title: Mechanism to application in Pd and Cu catalysis
Host: C. Crudden

May 24th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Yoshiyuki Kuroda - Yokohama National University
Title: Dynamic Nanostructural Transformation of Meso/Macroporous Materials for Flexible Templating
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

May 25th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Andrew Burnie - PhD Student
Title: New Rhodium-Catalyzed Pauson–Khand-Type Cyclocarbonylation Reactions for Target-Directed Synthesis
Host: A. Evans - Supervisor

Speaker: Yu Su - PhD Student
Title: Intramolecular Rhodium-Catalyzed Ene-Cycloisomerization Reactions of Thioether and Triorganosilane containing Alkenylidenecyclopropanes: Novel Metal-Mediated β-Sulfide and β-Silyl Elimination Reactions
Host: A. Evans - Supervisor

June 8th
Speaker: Datong Song - University of Toronto
Title: Reactivity Chemistry and Catalysis with Iron
Host: S. Wang

June 15th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Soren Mellerup - PhD Student
Title: Exploring Asymmetry in Photoresponsive Boron Systems: New Insights, Reactivity, and Potential
Host: S. Wang - Supervisor

Speaker: Caitlin Miron- PhD Student
Title: Targeting Guanine Quadruplexes with Self-Assembled and Expanded Coordination Complexes
Host: A. Petitjean - Supervisor

June 22nd
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Christene Smith - PhD Student
Title: Self-Assembled Monolayer of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Their Applications
Host: C. Crudden - Supervisor

July 6th
Speaker: Henning J. Jessen - Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Title: Chemistry & Biology of Inorganic Polyphosphate; the Forgotten Biopolymer
Host: D. Zechel

August 10th
Speaker: Caleb Martin - Baylor University
Title: Converting Anti-Aromatic to Aromatic: A Method to Access Boron-Containing Heteroarenes
Host: S. Wang

August 13th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Frieder Jaekle - Rutger's University
Title: Borane Lewis Acids: From Molecules to Materials
Host: S. Wang

August 13th at 2:00 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Yoshiaki Uchida - Osaka University
Title: Functionalization by Self-Assembly in Soft Matter
Host: G. Liu

August 14th at 2:00 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Christine Bottaro - Memorial University
Title: The Challenges and Rewards of Molecular Imprinting Smart Polymers for Environmental Analysis
Host: R. Oleschuk

August 24th
Speaker: R.J. (Cobus) Kriek - North West University
Title: Aspects of research conducted within the Electrochemistry for Energy & Environment Group
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

August 30th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE211
Speaker: Jim Green - University of Windsor
Title: Alkynedicobalt Complexes and Catalytic Strategies in Umpolung Cations and Medium Ring Synthesis
Host: A. Evans

August 31st
Speaker: Barbro Kollander - National Food Agency of Sweden
Title: Food safety in Sweden – a glimpse at the work of the National Food Agency with special focus on heavy metals and speciation of arsenic
Host: D. Beauchemin

September 9th, 11:10 a.m. in CHE117
9th Annual Queen's Chemistry Graduate Symposium
Speaker: Johanna Blacquiere - University of Western Ontario
Title: Every Ligand has a Silver Lining: Opportunities and Limitations in Cooperative Catalysis
Host: Queen's Graduate Chemistry Society

September 16th
Speaker: Jens Müller - University of Saskatchewan
Title: Strained Sandwich Compounds as Monomers for Metallopolymers: Syntheses, Structures, and Mechanisms
Host: S. Wang

September 16th, 2:30 p.m. in CHE415
Speaker: Randall Dumont - McMaster University
Title: Modelling molecular electronic devices using Hueckel theory
Host: T. Carrington

September 23rd
Jones Lecture
Speaker: Francoise Winnik - Université de Montréal
Title: Polymers and Biology: a constructive partnership
Host: A. Petitjean

September 30th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Nicholas Andrews - PhD Student
Title: A Multiplex Approach in Fluorescence Excitation Emission Matrix Spectrometry
Host: P. Loock - Supervisor

October 7th
Speaker: David Leahy - Bristol Myers Squibb
Title: Evolution and Development of a Commercial Route for CGRP Antagonist BMS-927711
Host: A. Evans

October 14th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Xiang Wang - PhD Student
Title: Achieving Efficient Deep-Blue Phosphorescent Pt(II) Compounds with Cyclometallating Phenyl-1,2,3-Triazole Ligands
Host: S. Wang - Supervisor

October 21st
Frost Lecture
Speaker: Gary Hieftje - Indiana University
Title: New Sources and Spectrometers for Analytical and Bioanalytical Measurement
Host: D. Beauchemin

October 28th
Speaker: John Montgomery - University of Michigan
Title: Regio- and Site-Selective Synthesis Using Small Molecule and Biological Catalysts
Host: A. Evans

November 4th
Harrison-MacRae Lecture
Speaker: Alán Aspuru-Guzik - Harvard University
Title: Billions and Billions of Molecules
Host: T. Carrington

November 18th
Speaker: Daniel Mindiola - University of Pennsylvania
Title: Titanium-Carbon Multiple Bonds. From Fundamental C-H Activation to Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Volatile Alkanes.
Host: G. Wu

December 2nd
Speaker: Germano Tremiliosi-Filho - The University of Sao Paulo
Title: Glycerol electro-oxidation on platinum and gold electrodes: structure sensitive reaction, adatom effect and reactivity in different environments
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

December 9th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Sadaf Tahmasebi - PhD Student
Title: Polarization Behavior And Stability of Platinum Electrocatalysts in Aqueous Acidic Media
Host: G. Jerkiewicz - Supervisor

January 6th
Speaker: King Kuok (Mimi) Hii - Imperial College London
Title: Catalysis across lengthscales
Host: A. Evans

January 12th, 2:00 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Shouquan Huo - East Carolina University
Title: Platinum-Catalyzed Direct C-H Acylation of 2-Aryloxypyridines: An Adventure from Phosphorescent Materials to Catalytic C-H Functionalization
Host: S. Wang

January 13th
Russell Lecture
Speaker: Steven Holdcroft - Simon Fraser University
Title: Molecular Design of Solid Polymer Electrolytes: Batteries not Included
Host: C. Crudden

January 27th
PhD Departmental Seminar, 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Zhijun Li - PhD Student
Title: Self-Assembled N-heterocyclic Carbene Monolayers on Gold as a Feasible and Tunable Platform for Designing Biosensor Surfaces
Host: H. Horton - Supervisor

Start time: Noon in CHE117
Speaker: Gonzalo Cosa - McGill University
Title: Visualising Chemistry at the Single Molecule Level
Host: P. Loock

February 2nd, 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Bernie Kraatz - University of Toronto
Title: Electrochemical Studies of Nucleic Acids on Surfaces: Towards the Identification of Species
Host: C. Crudden

February 3rd
McRae Lecture
Speaker: Don Tilley - University of California
Title: Highly Oxidized Metal Species in Water Splitting and Solar Fuels Production
Host: D. Zechel

February 10th
Synthesis-Synlett Lecture
Speaker: Alison Frontier - University of Rochester
Title: Stereocontrolled Reactions for Complex Molecule Synthesis
Host: A. Evans & V. Snieckus

February 17th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Mona Ashraf Khorasani - PhD Student
Title: Developing a metal-templated synthesis of macrocycles based on the self-assembly of pyridyl-1,2,3-triazole ligands
Host: P. Petitjean - Supervisor

February 24th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Kyle Bachus - PhD Student
Title: Wingin’ it: A biomimetic approach to patterned surfaces
Host: R. Oleschuk - Supervisor

Speaker: Kyle Boniface - PhD Student
Title: CO₂-switchable surfaces as novel smart materials
Host: P. Jessop - Supervisor

Speaker: Jeff Crouse- PhD Student
Title: Investigating Ice Photodynamics Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Host: P. Loock & N. Cann - Supervisors

March 3rd
Speaker: Hugh Helferty - Executive-in-Residence, Smith School of Business, Queen's University
Title: The Art of Science Research Leadership
Host: N. Mosey

March 10th
Speaker: Garnet Chan - Princeton University
Title: Quantum chemistry: where we are and where we are going
Host: T. Carrington

March 31st
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Md Affan - PhD Student
Title: Hydrogenation of CO₂ to Formamides from Amines using Complexes of Abundant Metals
Host: P. Jessop - Supervisor

Speaker: Jesse Vanderveen - PhD Student
Title: Improving Switchable-Hydrophilicity Solvents: An Exercise in Molecular Design
Host: P. Jessop - Supervisor

Speaker: Lily Huang - PhD Student
Title: Forensic applications of ETV-ICP-OES
Host: D. Beauchemin - Supervisor

April 7th
Speaker: Chris Rowley - Memorial University of Newfoundland
Title: The Right Method for the Right Problem: Modeling Ions, Membranes, and Covalent-Modifiers
Host: N. Mosey

April 18th, 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Marshall Brennan - Associate Editor of Nature Chemistry
Title: The nature of chemistry publishing
Host: C. Crudden

April 21st
Speaker: Maria DeRosa - Carleton University
Title: Insights into the selection, characterization, and applications of aptamers for small molecule targets
Host: A. Petitjean

April 26th, 10:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: David Sinton - University of Toronto
Title: Microfluidics for Energy and the Environment
Host: R. Oleschuk

April 28th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Dezhi Chen - PhD Student
Title: Total Synthesis of Thapsigargins
Host: A. Evans - Supervisor

May 12th
Green Chemistry Lecture
Speaker: Venkataraman Thangadurai - University of Calgary
Title: Advanced Ceramics for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion Devices
Host: P. Jessop

May 16th, 11:00 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Makoto Yamashita - Nagoya University
Title: Reactive boron compounds having low oxidation state: boryl anion and diborane(4)
Host: S. Wang

May 25th, 11:30 a.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Jean-Pierre Vors - Bayer SAS
Title: Mitochondrial respiration inhibitors, breaking the dogma for a success story in fungicides discovery
Host: V. Snieckus

June 9th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Tham Adhikari - PhD Student
Title: Band Tunable Mexylaminotriazine Functionalized Amorphous Colored Dyes for Photovoltaic Application
Host: J.M. Nunzi - Supervisor

Speaker: Dengtao Yang - PhD Student
Title: External Stimuli Driven Transformation of BN-Heterocycles
Host: S. Wang - Supervisor

June 21st, 1:00 p.m. in CHE211
Speaker: Sicen Wang - Xi'an Jiaotong University
Title: Cell membrane chromatography used to screen target components from complex samples
Host: R. Oleschuk

June 29th, 9:00 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Chihiro Urata - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Title: Eco-friendly Siloxane Based Inorganic-Organic Anti-Stick Surfaces
Host: G. Liu

Speaker: Stève Baranton - Université de Poitiers
Title: Electrocatalyst Design at the Nanoscale for Electrochemical Conversion of Bio-sourced Molecules and Energy
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

August 8th at 11:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Jean-Pierre van Helden - Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology
Title: Sensitive infrared laser spectroscopy: Applications to reactive plasmas and trace gas detection
Host: P. Loock

August 31st at 3:00 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Matthew Kitching - Durham University
Title: Supramolecular Entities for Synthesis and Asymmetric Catalysis
Host: V. Snieckus

September 11th
Harrison/MacRae Lecture
Speaker: Bernard Kippelen - Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: The Rise of Organic Photonics and Electronics
Host: J-M. Nunzi

September 21st, 1:30 - 2:30 pm, CHE202
Speaker: Casey Wade - Brandeis University
Title: Metal-Organic Framework Supported Pincer Complexes: At the Interface of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis
Host: S. Wang

September 25th
Speaker: Samuel Johnson - University of Windsor
Title: The Fast and the Furious: Tuning Nickel Complexes for C-H and C-F Bond Activation
Host: C. Crudden

October 9th
Speaker: Federico Rosei - Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre, INRS
Title: Multifunctional Materials for Electronics and Photonics
Host: D. Zechel

October 16th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Michael MacLean - PhD Student
Title: Chiral induction in Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicas: Towards controlling chirality transfer in the solid state
Host: C. Crudden - Supervisor

Speaker: Nausheen Sadiq - PhD Student
Title: Multi-elemental risk assessment in various rice samples using on-line continuous leaching and ion exchange chromatography coupled to ICP-MS for the speciation analysis of bio-accessible elements
Host: D. Beauchemin - Supervisor

Speaker: Rubaiyat Arjumand - PhD Student
Title: Insights into the Mechanism of Chiral Selectivity
Host: H. Horton - Supervisor

October 23rd
Jones Lecture
Speaker: Mario Pinto - Simon Fraser University and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Title: Serendipity and Nature's Guide to Therapeutic Interventions
Host: R. Whitney

November 2nd, 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Pierre Kennephol - University of British Columbia
Title: Why oxidation states matter: from electronic structure to reactivity
Host: C. Crudden

November 3rd, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Speaker: Martin Albrecht - University of Bern
Title: Donor-flexible ligands: new opportunities for oxidation catalysis
Host: C. Crudden

November 6th
Speaker: Scott Gilbertson - University of Houston
Title: Synthesis of CNS Active Molecules and New Work on Rhodium Catalyzed 4+2+2 Reactions
Host: P.A. Evans

November 11th, 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
CREATE Lecture
Speaker: Matthew Sigman - University of Utah
Title: Palladium-Catalyzed Alkene Functionalization Reactions for Synthesis
Host: C. Crudden

November 13th
Speaker: Eric Fillion - University of Waterloo
Title: Exploring and Exploiting New Reactivity of Benzyl Meldrum’s Acids and Alkyl-Tricarbastannatranes in Lewis Acid and Transition Metal Catalysis
Host: C. Crudden

November 20th
Speaker: Dr. Yves Le Blanc - AB SCIEX
Title: Differential Mobility – The 4th Dimension of LC-MSMS Analysis and Beyond
Host: D. Beauchemin

November 25th, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Jon Abbatt - University of Toronto
Title: Exploring the connections between the chemistry of carbonaceous aerosol and climate
Host: CHEM DSC

November 26th, 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. in CHE211
Speaker: Steven Bergens - University of Alberta
Title: Soluble- and Polymer-Bound Chiral Catalysts for Enantioselective Organic Transformations and High Activity Hydrous Oxide Nanoparticle Catalysts for the Water Oxidation Reaction
Host: P. Jessop

November 27th
Speaker: Christian Pellerin - Université de Montréal
Title: Shining Light on Materials: Spectroscopy of Nanofibers and Photoactive Materials
Host: J-M. Nunzi

December 4th
McRae Lecture
Speaker: David MacMillan - Princeton University
Title: The Development of New Photoredox Reactions
Host: C. Crudden

December 11th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Gurpaul Kochhar - PhD Student
Title: Differences in the Abilities to Mechanochemically Eliminate Reaction Barriers for Unimolecular and Bimolecular Reactions
Host: N. Mosey

January 7th, 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Dr. Guenther Scherer -Technische Universität München
Title: TUM CREATE – Electromobility in Tropical Megacities
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

January 8th, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Dr. Ted Sargent - University of Toronto
Title: Chemistry of materials applied to energy conversion and storage
Host: C. Crudden

January 11th, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Dr. Wai Kin Chan - The University of Hong Kong
Title: Design of Functional Molecules and Metal Containing Polymers For Optoelectronic Applications
Host: J-M. Nunzi

January 22nd
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Mark Raycroft - PhD Student
Title: Metal Ion-Promoted Leaving Group Assistance in the Alcoholysis of Tertiary Benzamides
Host: S. Brown - Supervisor

February 2nd, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in CHE415
Speaker: Daniel Pelaez - Université de Lille
Title: The Singular-Value Decomposition Multigrid POTFIT (SVD-MGPF) algorithm
Host: T. Carrington

February 8th, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Jason Benedict - University at Buffalo
Title: Watching crystals work: Structural dynamics of metal-organic frameworks
Host: K. Stamplecoskie

February 16th, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in CHE117
Speaker: Seán Barry - Carleton University
Title: Making Gold into...Gold: the New Alchemy
Host: C. Crudden

February 26th
Speaker: Dr. Henry Pauls - University Health Network
Title: The Discovery of Novel Kinase Inhibitors as Anti-Cancer Agents
Host: V. Snieckus

March 4th
Frost Lecture
Speaker: Lisa McElwee-White - University of Florida
Title: A Physical Organic Chemist's Approach to Precursors for the Deposition of Inorganic Nanostructures
Host: M. Baird

March 9th, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in CHE213
CREATE Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Sabeth Verpoorte - University of Groningen
Title: Organ-on-a-Chip: An Analytical Chemist's Perspective
Host: C. Crudden

March 11th
Speaker: Eva Zurek - University at Buffalo
Title: Chemistry Under Pressure
Host: D. Zechel

March 14th, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Stephen Holmes - University of Missouri-St. Louis
Title: Structure-Property Studies in Bistable Cyanometalates
Host: C. Crudden

March 18th
Speaker: Michael Serpe - University of Alberta
Title: Stimuli-Responsive Polymer-Based Sensors, Muscles, and Drug Delivery Platforms
Host: P. Loock

March 31st, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in CHE211
Speaker: Dr. Karen Waldron - Université de Montréal
Title: Detecting counterfeit and illegal drugs by rapid non-targeted LC-MS
Host: R. Oleschuk

April 1st
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Lacey Reid - PhD Student
Title: Axially chiral dopants and tropos ligands: Toward functional, chiral periodic mesoporous organosilicas
Host: C. Crudden - Supervisor

April 8th
Speaker: Dmitri Babikov - Marquette University
Title: Recent Advanced in Development and Applications of the Mixed Quantum/Classical Theory for Molecular Collisions
Host: T. Carrington

April 13th
CREATE Lecture
Speaker: Thomas Bürgi - University of Geneva
Title: Chirality of nanoscale gold particles and clusters
Host: C. Crudden

April 15th
Russell Lecture
Speaker: Krzysztof Matyjaszewski - Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Macromolecular Engineering by Taming Free Radicals
Host: G. Liu

April 22nd
Speaker: Zhifeng Ding - University of Western Ontario
Title: Insight into Electrochemiluminescence of Nanocrystals and Clusters
Host: S. Wang

April 29th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Nakkiran Arulmozhi - PhD Student
Title: Stability of Platinum Spherical Single Crystal Electrode: Electro-Oxidation and Potential Cycling Studies in Aqueous Acidic Media
Host: G. Jerkiewicz - Supervisor

Speaker: Jutae Kim - PhD Student
Title: Advances in the Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Nanobalance for Research in Pt Electrocatalysis
Host: G. Jerkiewicz - Supervisor

May 13th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Yu Wang - PhD Student
Title: Block Copolymers Containing A Low-Surface-Energy Block and Their Applications
Host: G. Liu - Supervisor

May 24th, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in CHE415
Speaker: Sergei Manzhos - National University of Singapore
Title: Ab initio modeling of organic and biomolecule - oxide surfaces: qualitative difference between small and big and the good and the bad of density functional tight binding
Host: T. Carrington

June 2nd
Speaker: Dr. Jasvinder S. Obhi - L-Spark, TiE Ottawa and TiECon Canada
Title: How science guided my journey to entrepreneurship
Host: J-M. Nunzi

June 3rd, 4:15 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Dr. Jin Zhu - Institute of Materials Technology in Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Title: Research Progress on Bio-based Polymers at NIMTE
Host: G. Liu

June 16th, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Andreas Stein - University of Minnesota
Title: Porous and Nanostructured Electrodes for Energy Storage Devices
Host: C. Crudden

June 17th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Ben Turnbull - PhD Student
Title: Rhodium-Catalyzed Allylic Substitution Reactions with Nitrile-Stabilized Carbanions: Construction of Acyclic Quaternary Stereocenters
Host: A. Evans - Supervisor

June 22nd, 10:00 a.m. in CHE415
Speaker: Daniel Shore & Steve McKerrall - Genentech
Title: Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry @ Genentech Small Molecule Drug Discovery
Host: A. Ross

June 27th
Speaker: Massimo Marcaccio - Universita' di Bologna
Title: Electrochemical Generation of Graphen-like Structures from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Host: J.M. Nunzi

August 8th, 9:00 a.m. in CHE202
Speaker: Hiroshi Nakazawa - Osaka City University
Title: Selective Strong Bond Cleavage Catalyzed by Transition Metal Complexes
Host: P. Jessop

August 8th, 2:00 p.m. in CHE202
Speaker: James Donaldson - University of Toronto
Title: Heterogeneous (photo)chemistry of nitrate anion
Host: P. Loock

August 9th, 11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Darren Derksen - University of Calgary
Title: Natural Products as Inspiration for Novel Therapeutics - Opportunities and Challenges
Host: D. Zechel

August 17th, 1:30 p.m. in CHE415
Speaker: Vasile Catrinel Gradinaru - Seminar fuer Angewandte Mathematik
Title: Long time integration of the Schrödinger equation via semiclassical propagations in the phase-space
Host: T. Carrington

September 5th - 11 AM in CHE117
Speaker: Françoise Sauriol - Queen's University
Title: Assigning molecules with 2D-NMR: Static and dynamic aspects
Host: D. Zechel

September 12th
Green Chemistry Lecture
Speaker: Robert Waymouth - Stanford University
Title: Challenges in the Selective Transformation of Biomass to Useful Chemical Intermediates and Materials
Host: P. Jessop

September 19th
Speaker: Dongling Ma - Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Title: Nanostructures: Rational Design for Energy-related Applications
Host: A. Petitjean

September 26th
Speaker: Chris Braddock - Imperial College, London
Title: Studies on Halogenated Marine Natural Products as inspired by their Probable Biogenesis
Host: A. Evans

October 2nd - 11:30 AM in CHE 211
Speaker: Ernst Peter Kündig - Université de Genève, Switzerland
Title: Asymmetric Pd-NHC* Catalyzed C(sp³)-H Activation
Host: C. Crudden / V. Snieckus

October 3rd
Create Lecture
Speaker: Chris Baddeley - University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Title: Constructing Chiral Architectures at Surfaces
Host: H. Horton

October 10th
Speaker: Holger Braunschweig - Institute of Inorganic Chemistry Würzburg, Germany
Title: Cyclic and Acyclic Boron-based Chromophores: Highly Unusual Donor-Acceptor Systems
Host: S. Wang

October 24th
Speaker: James Green - Windsor University
Title: Alkyne-CO₂(CO)₆ Complexes in Umpolung Synthesis and Medium Ring Synthesis
Host: V. Snieckus

October 31th
Speaker: Eric Rivard - University of Alberta
Title: Metallacycle Transfer as an Efficient Route to Light-emitting Materials
Host: S. Wang

November 7th
Speaker: Ewa Dabek-Zlotorzynska - Environment Canada
Title: Characterization of Particulate Matter in Support of Air Quality Programs: A Canadian Perspective
Host: D. Beauchemin

November 14th
Speaker: François Lagugné-Labarthet - Western University
Title: Plasmonics for high spatial resolution and high sensitivity optical measurements
Host: J-M. Nunzi

November 21st
Speaker: Bruce Arndtsen - McGill University
Title: Energy Efficient Catalysis: Developing New Classes of Palladium Catalyzed Coupling and Multicomponent Reactions
Host: M. Baird

December 5th
PhD Departmental Seminars
Speaker: Eric Keske - PhD Student
Title: Rhodium N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Boron
Host: C. Crudden - Supervisor

December 12th
Create Lecture
Speaker: Hannu Häkkinen - Nano Science Centre, Jyväskylä, Finland
Title: Chiroptical Properties of Thiolate-Protected Gold Nanoclusters
Host: C. Crudden

January 9th
Speaker: Toshiaki Murai - Gifu University
Title: Thioamides: A Platform for New Reactions and Functional Molecules
Host: C. Crudden

January 23rd
Speaker: David Perry - University of Akron, Ohio
Title: Molecular Spectroscopy: From Small Molecules to Conjugated Polymers to Archaeology
Host: T. Carrington

January 28th - 1:30 PM in CHE117
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Thomas Kraft - PhD Student
Title: Ternary Blends for Colour Tuned Organic Solar Cells
Host: J-M. Nunzi - Supervisor

January 30th
Jones Lecture
Speaker: Timothy Swager - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Molecular Electronics for Chemical Sensors
Host: V. Snieckus

February 6th
Speaker: Gilbert Walker - University of Toronto
Title: Creating Nanophotonic Materials and Devices: From Membranome Biosensors to 1D Infrared Energy Transport in Boron Nitride
Host: G. Liu

February 13th
Speaker: Carlos Escobedo - Queen's University, Department of Chemical Engineering
Title: Integrated Microsystems for Biological and Biomedical Applications
Host: J-M. Nunzi

February 20th
Speaker: Arturo Orellana - York University
Title: Palladium-Catalyzed Reactions Using Strained Tertiary Alcohols
Host: D. Zechel

March 6th
Synlett and Synthesis Lectureships
Speaker: Costa Metallinos - Brock University
Title: Unusual N-Heterocycles in Chiral Reagent Design
Host: V. Snieckus and A. Evans

Speaker: Thomas Hudlicky - Brock University
Title: Recent progress in chemoenzymatic synthesis of natural and unnatural products: Amaryllidaceae and morphine alkaloids, opiate-derived pharmaceutical agents, and other targets of interest
Host: V. Snieckus and A. Evans

March 10th - 10:30 AM in Chernoff Auditorium
Speaker: Niko Granqvist - BioNavis, Finland
Title: MP-SPR - new optical characterization method for molecular interaction and ultra thin films
Host: C. Crudden

March 13th
Speaker: Jay Switzer - Missouri University of Science and Technology
Title: Electrodeposition of Thin Films and Nanostructures for Energy Conversion and Storage
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

March 18th - 2 PM in CHE211
Speaker: Robert Cook - Louisiana State University
Title: Using Nanometer to Kilometer Scale Platforms as Stages to Understand "Real World" Natural Organic Material (NOM) Processes
Host: G. Liu

March 27th
PhD Departmental Seminars
Speaker: Lili Mats - PhD Student
Title: Fluorinated Superhydrophobic Surfaces for Digital Microfluidic Devices with Electrowetting on Dielectric and Magnetic Actuation
Host: R. Oleschuk - Supervisor

Speaker: Tamara de Winter - PhD Student
Title: Asymmetric Homogeneous Hydrogenation Mediated Through Carboxylic Acid and Carbamic Acid Metal-Binding Functional Groups
Host: P. Jessop - Supervisor

April 8th
Speaker: Aleksandra Djurisic - University of Hong Kong
Title: Defects in metal oxide nanostructures: effect on the properties and practical applications
Host: J-M. Nunzi

April 9th - 10:30 AM in CHE117
Speaker: Stefan Knoppe - KU Leuven, Belgium
Title: Stereochemistry of Ultrasmall Gold Nanoparticles
Host: R. Oleschuk

April 10th
Speaker: Edward Valeev - Virginia Tech
Title: Predictive Quantum Chemistry for Hundreds of Atoms: Why, How, and When
Host:T. Carrington

April 16th
Create Lecture
Speaker: Emmanuel Lacote - Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles
Title: Organic Chemistry of Inorganic Molecules: Organopolyoxometalates and NHC-boranes
Host:C. Crudden

April 17th
PhD Departmental Seminars
Speaker: Stephen Walker - PhD Student
Title: Condensed Phase Photodynamics of Nitrogen Dioxide Using Velocity Map Imaging
Host: H-P. Loock - Supervisor

Speaker: Gillian Mackey - PhD Student
Title: Waterborne Pathogen Detection:Using ELISA in Combination with Solid Phase Microextraction in Modified Polysiloxanes
Host: S. Brown - Supervisor

Speaker: John Saunders - PhD Student
Title: Measuring Chemical Uptake in Thin Films for the Development of Refractive Index Sensors
Host: H-P. Loock - Supervisor

April 20th - 10:30 AM in CHE117
Speaker: Stefania Impellizzeri - University of Ottawa
Title: Single-Molecule Switches for Fluorescence Microscopy
Host: R. Oleschuk

April 22nd - 10:30 AM in CHE117
Speaker: Kevin Stamplecoskie - University of Notre Dame
Title: Utilizing the Unique Optical Properties of Metal Nanomaterials
Host: R. Oleschuk

April 24th
Frost Lecture
Speaker: Graham Cooks - Purdue University
Title: Medical Diagnostics, Organic Synthesis and Materials Fabrication using Mass Spectrometry
Host: R. Oleschuk

April 29th - 10:30 AM in CHE117
Speaker: Yi Ren - Princeton University
Title: Molecular Engineering of Heteroatom-Containing π-Conjugated Materials
Host: R. Oleschuk

April 29th - 2 PM in CHE117
Speaker: Tom Rovis - Colorado State University
Title: From Conventional Ligands to Engineered Enzymes: Rh(III) Catalysis for C-H Activation
Host: C. Crudden

May 1st
Speaker: Jeffrey Giacomin - Queen's University
Title: Advances in Large-Amplitude Oscillatory Shear Flow of Polymeric Liquids
Host: J-M. Nunzi

May 15th
Speaker: Gary Molander - University of Pennsylvania
Title: A Novel Mechanistic Paradigm for Cross-Coupling
Host: A. Evans

May 28th - 10 AM in CHE211
Speaker: Peter Budzelaar - University of Manitoba
Title: Aspects of stereocontrol in α-olefin polymerization
Host: M. Baird

May 29th
PhD Departmental Seminars
Speaker: Daniela Negru - PhD Student
Title: Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed [(3+2)+1] and [(3+2)+2] Carbocyclization Reactions of Alkylidenecyclopropanes (APCs) with Carbon Monoxide and Allenes
Host: A. Evans - Supervisor

Speaker: Matthew Thompson - PhD Student
Title: Tuning the Mesogenic Properties of 5-Alkoxy-2-(4-alkoxyphenyl)pyrimidine Liquid Crystals: The Effect of Fluoro-Substituted Phenoxy End-Groups
Host: R. Lemieux - Supervisor

June 5th
Speaker: Jiaxi Wang - Queen's University
Title: Applications of Orbitrap Velos Pro in Proteins and Small Molecules
Host: R. Oleschuk

June 17th - 11 AM in CHE117
Speaker: Ben Zhong Tang - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Title: Aggregation-Induced Emission: Photophysical Processes, Working Mechanisms, and High-Tech Applications
Host: G. Liu

June 19th
Speaker: Germano Tremiliosi-Filho - University of Sao Paulo
Title: Glycerol Electrooxidation: A Way to Produce Value-added Chemicals
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

August 7th
PhD Departmental Seminars
Speaker: Yufei Li - PhD Student
Title: Synthesis, Characterization and Fluoride Binding Property Study of Phosphine-Containing Triarylborane Donor-Acceptor Compound
Host: S. Wang - Supervisor

September 3rd
Speaker: Bastien Castagner - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurck, Switzerland
Title: Inhibition of Bacterial Toxins - How to Trick a Toxin
Host: N. Cann

September 13th
Speaker: Stephan Eichhorn - University of Windsor
Title: Columnar Mesophases of Discotic Molescules as Organic Semiconductors - Progress, Limitations, and New Directions
Host: J-M. Nunzi

September 20th
Speaker:Andrew Weller - Oxford University
Title: Organometallic Reaction Chemistry (and Catalysis) in the Solid-State
Host: C. Crudden

October 4th
Speaker: Cassandra Fraser - University of Virginia
Title: Luminescent Boron Biomaterials for Oxygen Sensing and Imaging
Host: S. Wang

October 11th
Green Chemistry Lecture
Speaker: Curtis Paul Berlinguette - University of British Columbia
Title: Towards Green Solar Power: Converting Sunlight into Electricity and Fuels
Host: P. Jessop

October 25th
Speaker: Richard St. Louis - Université du Québec à Rimouski
Title: Of Sharks and Men: the Halogen Connection
Host: D. Beauchemin

November 1st
Speaker: David Sherman - Life Sciences Institute, Ann Arbor
Title: Targets, Pathways, and [Legos] in Antibiotic Discovery: the Structure and Rearrangements of a Complete Polyketide Synthase Module During its Catalytic Cycle
Host: D. Zechel

November 8th
Speaker: Janine Mauzeroll - McGill University
Title: Monitoring Magnesium Cation and Hydrogen Release Dynamics During Magnesium Alloy Corrosion Using Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

November 15th
Speaker: Adrien Coté - Research Centre of Canada
Title: Structured Organic Films (SOFs)
Host: N. Mosey

November 19th
Create Lecture
Speaker: Jeanne Crassous - Institute des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes at Unversité de Rennes
Title: Molecular Engineering of Helicenes Using Organometallic Chemistry
Host: J-M. Nunzi

November 22nd
Speaker: Germano Tremiliosi-Filho - Institute of Chemistry of São Carlos at University of São Paulo, Brazil
Title: Electrocatalysis of Biofuels: A Challenging Interfacial Phenomenon
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

November 29th
Speaker: Paul Ragogna - Western University
Title: Fun with Phosphorus: From Unusual Structures to the Reversible Activation of P4
Host: S. Wang

December 6th
Speaker: Andrew Woolley - University of Toronto
Title: Light-Switchable Small Molecules and Proteins for Manipulating Biological Systems
Host: D. Zechel

December 20th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Hanna Omrani - PhD Student
Title: Assessment of the Oxidative Stability of Lubricant Oil Using Fiber-Coupled Fluorescence Excitation-Emission Matrix Spectroscopy
Host: H-P. Loock - Supervisor

January 10th
Frost Lecture
Speaker: Guy Lloyd-Jones - University of Edinburgh
Title: Cats and Dogma
Host: Stan Brown

January 17th
Speaker: Darrin Pochan - University of Delaware
Title: Nanostructure and Material Construction through Peptide or Block Copolymer Solution Assembly
Host: G. Liu

January 23rd
Speaker: Marty Burke - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Title: Making Molecular Prosthetics with a Small Molecule Synthesizer
Host: C. Crudden

January 31th
Speaker: Mark Tuckerman - New York University
Title: Understanding the Mechanisms of Proton Transport in Hydrogen Bonded Media from First-Principle Molecular Dynamic
Host: N. Mosey

February 7th
Speaker: Zoltan Mester - National Research Council
Title: From Organo-Selenium to Selenium Nanoparticles: Mapping Se Metabolic Pathway in Yeast Using Mass and X-Ray Spectroscopy
Host: D. Beauchemin

February 14th
Speaker: Chris Wilds - Concordia University
Title: Investigation of the Substrate Range of O6-Alkylguanine-DNA Alkyltransferases Using Chemically Modified Oligonucleotides and the Properties of Parallel Stranded Adenosine Duplexes
Host: A. Petitjean

February 21st
Speaker: Bill Poirier - Tech University
Title: Quantum Dynamics of Hydrogen Interacting Exohedrally with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Host: T. Carrington

February 28th
Speaker: Dwight Seferos - University of Toronto
Title: Selenophenes and Tellurophenes: Molecules, Polymers, Nanostructures, and Energy Materials
Host: G. Liu

March 7th
Speaker: Scott Hartley - Miami University
Title: o-Phenylenes: Foldamers and Precursors to Board-Like Liquid Crystals
Host: B. Lemieux

March 14th
Jones Lecture
Speaker: Weitao Yang - Duke University
Title: The Wonders of Electron Density: From Half an Electron to Noncovalent Interactions of Biomolecular Complexes
Host: T. Carrington

March 21st
McRae Lecture
Speaker: Andrew Holmes - University of Melbourne
Title: Organic Electronic Materials: A License to Print Money
Host: A. Evans

March 28th
PhD Departmental Seminars
Speaker: Alexandre Dunlop-Briere - PhD Student
Title: Rare Intermediates of d0 Metallocene Catalyzed α-Olefin Polymerization and their Odd Properties.
Host: M. Baird - Supervisor

Speaker: Mohammad Hanif - PhD Student
Title: Hanif: XPS and Wagner Plot Analysis of Model Heterogeneous Pd-Catalysts and Pd-Nanoparticles
Host: H. Horton - Supervisor

April 4th
Speaker: Arindam Chakraborty - Syracuse University
Title: Investigation of Electron-Hole Interaction in Nanoparticles Using Explicitly Correlated Wavefunction Based Methods
Host: T. Carrington

April 8th
Speaker: Zhongxin Zhou - Gilead Pharmaceuticals
Title: A Race for Cure: Development of Medicines that Transform the Landscape of HCV Therapy
Host: C. Crudden

April 9th
Speaker: Céline Guéguen - Trent University
Title: Analysis of Natural Nanoparticles by Asymmetrical Flow Field-Flow Fractionation
Host: H-P. Loock

April 10th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Farhad Kaveh - PhD Student
Title: Solid Sampling ETV-ICP-OES to Study the Distribution of Elements in Soil Samples so as to Ultimately Locate Undercover Ore Deposits
Host: D. Beauchemin - Supervisor

April 11th
PhD Departmental Seminars
Speaker: Yueqiao Fu - PhD Student
Title: Fabrication of Polymer Micro-Nozzle Array on Mircostructured Fibers for Multiple Electrospray Ionization
Host: R. Oleschuk - Supervisor

Speaker: Yoseif Makonnen - PhD Student
Title: San Argon-Nitrogen-Hydrogen Mixed-Gas Plasma as a Robust Ionization Source for Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy (ICP-MS) and Investigation of a Measure of Robustness
Host: D. Beauchemin - Supervisor

Speaker: Yingli Rao - PhD Student
Title: The Hidden Chameleon: Photochemistry of Organoboron Compounds
Host: S. Wang - Supervisor

April 25th
Create Lecture
Speaker: Migel Garcia-Garibay - University of California at Los Angeles
Title: Engineering Reactions in Crystalline Solids: From Molecular Information to Solid State Reactivity
Host: C. Crudden

May 2nd
Speaker: Pawel Kulesza - Warsaw University
Title:Importance of Specific Interactions Between Noble Metal and Metal Oxide Nanostructures in Efficient Electro(photo) Catalysis
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

May 16th
Create Lecture
Speaker: Xunjie Xu - University of Alberta
Title: Rotational and Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy of Chirality, Chirality Recognition, and Chirality Transfer
Host: C. Crudden

June 20th
Speaker: Michael Ingleson - University of Manchester
Title: Cationic Main Group Lewis Acids in Synthesis: From the Formation of Fused Organic Materials to Catalytic Sigma Bond Activation and Back
Host: S. Wang

June 27th
Speaker: Harald G. L. Schwefel - Max-Plank Institute for the Science of Light/University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Title: Non-linear optics and sensing with Crystalline Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators
Host: H-P Loock

July 4th - 10 AM in CHE202
Speaker: Lionel Delaude - University of Liege
Title: Synthesis, Properties and Organocatalytic Applications of Stable Zwitterions Derived from H-Heterocyclic Carbenes
Host: C. Crudden

July 4th - 11:30 AM in CHE202
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Kourosh Purdaviae - PhD Student
Title: Synthesis of the Phosphonium-1-indenylide (PHIN) Ligands 1-C₉H₆PMePh₂, and 4,7-dimethly-1-C₉H₆PMePh₂ and of the Corresponding Iridium and Rhodium Complexes [Ir(η⁴-C₈H₁₂)(η⁵-PHIN)]BF₄ and [Rh(η⁴-C₈H₁₂)(η⁵-PHIN)]BF₄
Host: M. Baird - Supervisor

July 4th - 1:30 PM in CHE202
Speaker: Martin Prechtl - University of Cologne
Title: From salty predators and creators to surface modifiers: ionic liquids as reducing agents towards nanoparticle catalysts
Host: P. Jessop

July 14th
Speaker: Naoto Chatani - Osaka University
Title: Direct Functionalization of C-H Bonds Utilizing New Chelation System
Host: C. Crudden

August 8th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Sogol Borjian Borojeni - PhD Student
Title: Study on the Efficiency of Pd(η³-1-PhC₃H₄)(η⁵-C₅H₅) as a Precursor for Buchwald-Hartwig Amination Reactions
Host: M. Baird - Supervisor

August 14th - 3:30 PM in CHE202
Speaker: Hannu Hakkinen - Nano Science Centre, Jyvlskyla, Finland
Title: Gold and silver in nanoscale, dispersed by ligands to molecular precision
Host: C. Crudden

August 15th - 11:30 AM in CHE202
Speaker: Zachary Hudson - University of Bristol
Title: From Nanopixels to Nanospears: Living Self-Assembly of Tailored Micelle Architectures
Host: S. Wang

August 18th - 11:30 AM in CHE202
Speaker: Shigeru Yamago - Institute of Chemical Research, Kyoto University
Title: Organic Synthesis Leading to New Materials
Host: C. Crudden

August 21th - 3:00 PM in CHE202
Speaker: Al-Amin Dhirani - University of Toronto
Title: From pre-fabricated nano building blocks to macroscopic materials: designing exotic electronic phenomena from the bottom up
Host: G. Liu

August 22th - 11:30 AM in CHE202
Speaker: Vassili Karanassios - University of Waterloo
Title: Taking part of the lab to the sample for chemical analysis on-site
Host: D. Beauchemin

September 14th
PhD Departmental Seminars
Speaker: Klaus Bescherer - PhD Student
Title: Cavity ring-down spectroscopy using liquid core waveguides
Host: H-P. Loock - Supervisor

Speaker: Vanessa Little - PhD Student
Title: Towards a thermally regenerative fuel cell system for vehicular applications
Host: P. Jessop - Supervisor

Speaker: Alaina Boyd - PhD Student
Title: Switchable solvents for the extraction of bio-oils from microalgae
Host: P. Jessop - Supervisor

September 21st
Speaker: Peter Tieleman - University of Calgary
Title: Lipids on the move: computer simulations of pores, stalks, and curves
Host: N. Cann

September 25th
Create Lecture
Speaker: Mitsuo Sawamoto - Kyoto University
Title: Precision radical polymerization for precision functional polymers
Host: C. Crudden

September 28th
Speaker: Alex Adronov - McMaster University
Title: Complexes of single-walled carbon nanotubes with conjugated polymers: properties and applications
Host: J-M. Nunzi

October 5th
Speaker: Byron Gates - Simon Fraser University
Title: Inhibiting corrosion of functional nanostructured materials
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

October 26th
Speaker: Frank Raushel - Texas A&M University
Title: Prospecting for new enzymes: The C-P lyase complex
Host: D. Zechel

November 2nd
Speaker: Shih Yuan Liu - University of Oregon
Title: Recent advances in azaborine chemistry
Host: S. Wang

November 9th
PhD Departmental Seminars
Speaker: Nan Wang - PhD Student
Title: Impact of metal acetylides on photoisomerization of an N^C-chelate organoboron compound
Host: S. Wang - Supervisor

Speaker: Xiaoyu Li - PhD Student
Title: Morphological transitions of an ABC triblock copolymer containing a liquid crystalline block
Host: G. Liu - Supervisor

November 16th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Mohammad Ashtari - PhD Student
Title: Enantio-selective mechanism of the poly-proline chiral stationary phase: a molecular dynamics study
Host: N. Cann - Supervisor

Speaker: Parisa Akhshi - PhD Student
Title: Molecular dynamics simulation studies of ion transport in G-quadruplex DNA channels
Host: G. Wu - Supervisor

November 23rd
Speaker: Martin Albrecht - University College Dublin
Title: Variation on a theme: (catalytic) opportunities from less normal N-herterocyclic carbenes
Host: C. Crudden

November 30th
Speaker: Robert Schurko - University of Windsor
Title: NMR across the periodic table - seeing the "invisible" nucleus
Host: G. Wu

January 11th
PhD Departmental Seminars
Speaker: Muhammad Rabnawaz - PhD Student
Title: Design, synthesis and applications of multiple stimulable and multi-responsive block co-polymers by atom transfer radical polymerization
Host: G. Liu - Supervisor

Speaker: Kevin Fowler - PhD Student
Title: The synthesis of chiral ruthenium phosphonium indenylide complexes
Host: M. Baird - Supervisor

Speaker: Andrew W. Fraser - PhD Student
Title: Pd(η3-1-Ph-C3H4(η5-C5H5) as preferred precatalyst for cross-coupling reactions catalyzed by bis-phosphine pallasium (0) compounds
Host: M. Baird - Supervisor

January 25th
Speaker: Robert Morris - University of Toronto
Title: Designing efficient hydrogenation catalysts for greener chemical processes
Host: P. Jessop

January 30th
Speaker: Nicolai Cramer - New York University
Title: Teaching enantioselectivity to C-H bond functionalizations
Host: A. Evans

February 1st
Speaker: J. Scott McIndoe - University of Victoria
Title: Mass spectrometry-led catalyst discover
Host: M. Baird

February 8th
Speaker: Ken Maly - Wilfred Laurier University
Title: Synthesis and self-assembly of novel aromatic compounds: controlling molecular organization
Host: R. Lemieux

February 15th
Speaker: Pierre Kennepohl - University of British Columbia
Title: A new perspective on metal dioxygen chemistry: is O2 reduction required for metal-binding?
Host: C. Crudden

February 22nd
PhD Departmental Seminars
Speaker: Trisha Ang - PhD Student
Title: The reactivity of carbon dioxide and carbon disulfide with nitrogen compounds
Host: P. Jessop - Supervisor

Speaker: Fern McSorley - PhD Student
Title: New insights into enzyme mechanisms for cleaving carbon-phosphorus bonds
Host: D. Zechel - Supervisor

March 1st
Speaker: Shigenori Mitsushima - Yokohama National University
Title: Non-precious metal oxide electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

March 8th
PhD Departmental Seminars
Speaker: Jiasheng Lu - PhD Student
Title: N^N- and N^C-chalate four-coordinate organoboron compounds: synthesis, properties and applications
Host: S. Wang - Supervisors

Speaker: Heng Hu - PhD Student
Title: Nano-capsules with pH-gated channels from double-assemble strategy of μ-BCE miktoarm polymers
Host: G. Liu - Supervisor

March 15th
Speaker: David Emslie - McMaster University
Title: Extremely rigid pincer ligands in electropositive metal chemistry: from actinide organometallic and redox chemistry to alkali metal-alkane interactions
Host: S. Wang

March 22nd
Speaker: Don Forsyth - Bureau of Chemical Safety Health Canada
Title: Role and activities of the food research division
Host:D. Beauchemin

April 12th
Speaker: Matthais Wagner - Gothe Universitat
Title: Extended boron-doped π-systems: hard to get bet worth the effort
Host: S. Wang

April 19th
Speaker: Milton Lee - Brigham Young University
Title: Organic monolithic stationary phases for capillary liquid chromatography
Host: R. Oleschuk

April 26th
Jones Lecture
Speaker: David Milstein - Weizmann Institute of Science
Title: Design and application of metal-catalyzed reactions for sustainable chemistry
Host: M. Baird

May 2nd
Speaker: Daryl Allen - Materia Inc.
Title: Development of ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts for commercial applications: bridging the gap from academia to industry
Host: C. Crudden

May 16th
PhD Departmental Seminars
Speaker: Julia van Drunen - PhD Student
Title: Characterization and modification of Ni-based foam materials for applications in electrocatalysis
Host: G. Jerkiewicz - Supervisor

Speaker: Alyza Azmi - PhD Student
Title: Hydroxyphenol interactions with iron oxide colloids by chemical force spectrometry
Host: H. Horton - Supervisor

Speaker: Zhenpo Xu - PhD Student
Title: Development of fluorous solid-phase extraction (FSPE) on a microchip and it's application to proteomics
Host: R. Oleschuk - Supervisor

May 17th
Speaker: R.B. Gerber - University of California
Title: Unraveling properties of biological molecules by first-principles spectroscopic calculations
Host: T. Carringon

May 21th
Speaker: Jochen Friedl - TUM CREATE Centre for Electromobility/Technical University of Munich
Title: Advanced materials for redox flow bateries
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

May 24th
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Qingxiang Song - PhD Student
Title: Developing a design strategy for 'de Vries-like' liquid crystals: tuning the frustration between SmA- and SmC-promoting elements
Host: R. Lemieux - Supervisor

June 11th
Speaker: Jeff Debrabander - University of Texas, Southwestern
Title: Natural products: an opportunity for discovery
Host: V. Snieckus

June 21th
McRae Lecture
Speaker: Guy Bertrand - University of California San Diego
Title: Stable carbenes and related species: powerful tools in organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry
Host: Graduate Students

July 5th
Speaker: Steve Baranton - University of Poitiers
Title: Development of catalysts for the electrochemical valorisation of glycerol
Host: G. Jerkiewicz

July 22th
Speaker: Kock-Yee Law - Xerox
Title: Super-oleophobic surfaces
Host: G. Liu

August 14th
Speaker: Eugenio Vazquez - CIQUS, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Title: From luminescent molecular probes to cellular stains
Host: N. Cann

PhD Departmental Seminars
August 23th - in CHE202
Speaker: Mona Gamal El-din - Grad Student
Title: Host-guest complexes of Cucurbit[7]uril with catonic drugs and amino acid derivatives
Host: D. Macartney - Supervisor

August 27th - 1:30 PM
Speaker: Avena Ross - SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography, University of California in San Diego
Title: Bacterially-derived peptide natural products: synthetic and biosynthetic approaches to generating structural diversity
Host: N. Cann

August 29th - 10:30 AM
Speaker: John Pezacki - National Research Council of Canada
Title: From nitrone cyclooctyne cycloadditions to activity-based protein probes: chemical tools to study living systems
Host: N. Cann

September 1st
Speaker: Tom Autrey - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington
Title: H2 activation by Lewis acid Lewis base molecular complexes: from hydrogen storage to molecular catalysis
Host: C. Crudden

September 8th
Create Lecture
Speaker: Michinori Suginome - Kyoto University
Title: Catalytic asymmetric synthesis using chirality-switchable helical polymer as a chiral ligang
Host: C. Crudden

September 16th
Speaker: Xiaosong Wang - Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo
Title: Sequential self-assembly of block copolymers with small molecules, metal atoms or metal ions for functional hybrid nano-colloids
Host: G. Liu

September 16th
Speaker: Shigehiro Yamaguichi - Nagoya University
Title: Fused polycyclic π-conjugated skeletons with unusual electronic structures
Host: S. Wang

September 19th
Speaker: Paul Hayes - University of Lethbridge
Title: Toward rare earth imido complexes: a synthetic, kinetic, and mechanistic study
Host: S. Wang

September 22nd
Speaker: Derek Wilson - York University
Title: Protein folding intermediates: who are they? and what are they hiding?
Host: R.Oleschuk

September 23rd
PhD Departmental Seminar
Speaker: Jonathan Byer - PhD Student
Title: Are eels endangered because of chemical contamination?
Host: S. Brown - Supervisor

Speaker: Owen Clarkin - PhD Student
Title: Time-resolved imaging of purely valence electron dynamics during a chemical reaction
Host: D. Wardlaw - Supervisor

Speaker: Jason Hanthorn - PhD Student
Title: Synthesis, thermodynamic and kinetic studies of novel diarylamine antioxidants
Host: D. Pratt - Supervisor

September 30th
Speaker: Miguel Garcia-Garibay - University of California at Los Angeles
Title: Recent advances in the design and characterization of amphidynamic crystals and molecular machines
Host: R. Lemieux

October 7th
Frost Lecture
Speaker: John Brown - Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford
Title: Challenges in catalysis; integrating mechanism and synthesis
Host: M. Baird

October 13th
Speaker: David Heldebrant - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Title: Industrial gas purifications using binding organic liquids (BOLs)
Host: P. Jessop