Visiting Speakers Seminars

2011 - 2012 Schedule

All seminars are held in Chemistry room 226 unless otherwise indicated.

Date/time	Speaker/Institution	Title/Sponsorship	Host
Friday August 5 1:30 pm	Professor Younes Messaddeq Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Optics Universite Laval	Development of New Materials for Photonics	J.W. Zwanziger
Friday August 8 2:30 pm	Professor Deryn Fogg Department of Chemistry University of Ottawa	Unsuspected Pathways in Metathesis: Discovery and Implications for Use in Academia and Industry	L. Turculet
Friday September 9 1:30 pm	Professor David Jakeman Department of Chemistry Dalhousie University	Unnatural Born Killers: Natural Products, Carbohydrates and Enzymes	L. Turculet
Monday September 12 1:30 pm	Professor Christopher J. Cramer Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota	Modeling the Activation of Small Molecules at Supported Transition-metal Centers	R.J. Boyd
Friday September 23 1:30 pm	Professor Charles L. B. MacDonald Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Windsor	Low Valent Main Group Compounds: Versatile New Reagents and Unique Chemistry	L. Turculet
Friday September 30 1:30 pm	Professor Laurel L. Schafer Department of Chemistry University of British Columbia	Advances in Hydroaminoalkylation Catalysis	A. Thompson
Friday October 7 1:30 pm	Professor Frank van Veggel Department of Chemistry University of Victoria	co-sponsored by the IRM Ln3+ based Nanoparticles and Ph2+ based Quantum Dots: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications	P. Zhang
Wednesday October 12 1:30 pm	Dr. Pierre Beaumier CanAlt Health Laboratories	CIC sponsored event as part of the International Year of Chemistry. Research on health and your hair	A. Doucette
Friday October 21 1:30 pm	Carl C. Coffin Lecture Dr. John A. Hiltz Defence Research & Development Canada- Atlantic	Applied Materials Chemistry: A Thirty Year Retrospective	J.W. Zwanziger
Thursday November 3 8:00 pm Chemistry 125	Walter J. Chute Distinguished Lecture Series in Chemistry Professor Chad A. Mirkin Chemistry Department Northwestern University, Illinois	A Chemist's Approach to Nanofabrication: Towards a Desktop Fab	J.W. Zwanziger
Friday November 4 1:30 pm	Walter J. Chute Distinguished Lecture Series in Chemistry Professor Chad A. Mirkin Chemistry Department Northwestern University, Illinois	Spherical Nucleic Acid (SNA) Nanostructures	J.W. Zwanziger
Friday November 18 1:30 pm	Professor Clara Wren Department of Chemistry University of Western Ontario	co-sponsored by the IRM and DREAMS: Radiation Assisted Materials Performance Research: Applications to Corrosion, Colloid Formation and Biphasic Separation Science	M.A. White
Friday November 25 1:30 pm	Dr. Adrian Culf Atlantic Cancer Research Institute	Medicinal Chemistry at Atlantic Cancer Research Institute	A. Thompson
Friday December 2 1:30 pm	Professor Jan Rainey Department of Chemistry and Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Dalhousie University	Comparing and Contrasting Protein Structure and Dynamics in Membranous and Fibrillar Environments	F.L. Cozens
POSTPONED	Professor Mario Bieringer Department of Chemistry University of Manitoba	Structure Reactivity Dependence in Extended Solids: Metastable Materials via Topochemical Synthesis	M.A. White
Tuesday December 13 1:30 pm	Professor Karine Auclair Department of Chemistry McGill University	How to Block Resistance to Aminoglycoside Antibiotics	R.L. White
Friday January 13 1:30pm	Dr. Mark A. Reed Treventis Corp.	Discovery and Optimization of Disease-modifying Small Molecules to Treat Alzheimer's Disease	M.A. White
Friday January 20 1:30 pm	Professor Peter Tremaine Department of Chemistry University of Guelph	Acid Ionization Constants, Electrostriction and Ionic Transport in D2O at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures "How is heavy water solution chemistry different from light water?"	M.A. White
Friday February 10 1:30 pm	Professor Mark Nitz Department of Chemistry University of Toronto	Structural and Functional Characterization of PgaB a Carbohydrate Esterase Key to E. Coli Biofilm Matrix Formation	D. Jakeman
Friday February 17 1:30 pm	Professor Ian Pottie Department of Chemistry Mount Saint Vincent University	Developing a Diagnosis Test for Alzheimer?s Disease using Fundamental Organic Chemistry Concepts	J. Burnell
Wednesday February 29 1:30pm	Professor Paul Ayers Department of Chemistry McMaster University		R.J. Boyd
Friday March 2 1:30 pm	Professor Derek Pratt Department of Chemistry University of Ottawa	The Chemistry of Radical-Trapping Antioxidants: Are Phenols Really Best?	D. Jakeman
Friday March 9 1:30 pm	Dr. Devanand M. Pinto National Research Council Institute for Marine Biosciences	Bioanalytical methods for understanding glycolysis in breast cancer	A. Doucette
Monday March 12, 1:30 pm	Professor Lukas Swan Department of Mechanical Engineering Dalhousie University		M.A. White
Friday March 16 1:30 pm	Professor Claude Spino Department of Chemistry Université de Sherbrooke	sponsored by Sepracor Syntheses of natural products from a climber's point of view.	J. Burnell
Friday March 23 1:30 pm	Professor John Sorensen Department of Chemistry University of Manitoba	Natural Product Biosynthesis in Northern Manitoba Lichen and other Fungi	L. Turculet
Friday March 30 1:30 pm	Professor Stephen Bearne Department of Chemistry and Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Dalhousie University	Catalysis by Racemases: Motions Accompanying Stereoinversion at Carbon	L. Turculet
Friday April 13 1:30 pm	Professor Matthias Ernzerhof Department of Chemistry Unveristé de Montréal		J.W. Zwanziger
Friday April 20 1:30 pm	Professor André M. Beauchemin Department of Chemistry University of Ottawa	Recent Advances in Metal-Free Aminations: Cope-Type Hydroaminations, Approaches to beta-Aminocarbonyl Motifs and Tethering Organocatalysts	M. Stradiotto