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CenTACat Seminar Schedule 2012-2013

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DATE
Wednesday 24th April 2013
SPEAKER
Dr. Jonathan George, The University of Adelaide, Australia
SEMINAR TITLE
"Biomimetic Synthesis of Natural Products"
ROOM / TIME
Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00-5.00 pm
 

 

RSC Regional Organic Symposium 2013
Wednesday 27th March 2013
Queen’s University Belfast

Keynote Speaker: 
Professor Ben Davis, University of Oxford, 
RSC Bioorganic Prize Winner
Other Speakers:
Professor Declan Gilheany, University College Dublin
Professor Paul Murphy, NUI Galway
Dr Kirill Tchabanenko, Queen’s University Belfast
Dr Eoin Scanlan, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Eoghan McGarrigle, University College Dublin
Dr Trinidad Velasco-Torrijos, NUI Maynooth
Dr Gerard McGlacklen, University College Cork

Poster Competition with Prizes & Wine Reception

Registration is free but final numbers are required one week in advance for catering and room booking purposes. 
For Registration & Further Details contact Dr Matthew Cook m.cook@qub.ac.uk 

Sponsors: RSC, Almac, Mason Technologies

 

 

 
DATE
Wednesday 27th February 2013
SPEAKER
Dr Karen Faulds, University of Strathclyde
SEMINAR TITLE
Multiplexed and Sensitive Bioanalysis Using Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)
ROOM / TIME
Lecture theatre DKB OG.339, 12.00-1.00 pm
 
DATE
Wednesday 20th February 2013
SPEAKER
Professor Darren Dixon, University of Oxford
SEMINAR TITLE
'Enantioselective Cooperative Catalysis and Complexity Building Reaction Cascades in Complex Natural Product Synthesis'
ROOM / TIME
Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00-5.00 pm
 
DATE
Wednesday 6th February 2013
SPEAKER
Professor A. M. Stalcup, National Centre for Sensor Research, Dublin City University
SEMINAR TITLE
"What Surface-confined Ionic Liquids can tell us about Liquid Chromatography"
ROOM / TIME
Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00-5.00 pm
 

 

DATE
Wednesday 30th January 2013
SPEAKER
Professor Polly Arnold, University of Edinburgh
SEMINAR TITLE
Small Molecule Activation and Carbon-Element Bond Formation with Organo-f-Block Complexes
ROOM / TIME
Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00-5.00 pm
 
DATE
Thursday 6th December 2012
SPEAKER
Professor Adrian Mulholland, University of Bristol
SEMINAR TITLE
'Enzyme dynamics, conformations and catalysis'
ROOM / TIME
Lecture theatre DKB 01.028, 4.00 pm
 
DATE
Wednesday 5th December 2012
SPEAKER
Dr Malcolm Kadodwala, Glasgow University
SEMINAR TITLE
"Biosensing with a Twist: Using Chiral Nanomaterials for Ultrasensitive Biodetection"
ROOM / TIME
Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00-5.00 pm
 
DATE
Friday 30th November 2012
SPEAKER
Prof. Greg Scholes (RSC), University of Toronto, Ontario
SEMINAR TITLE
'Lessons from Nature about solar light harvesting: A little coherence?
ROOM / TIME
 Lecture theatre DKB 01.028, 2.00-4.30 pm (TBC)
 
DATE
Wednesday 21th November 2012
SPEAKER
     "THOMAS ANDREWS ANNUAL LECTURE"
Prof. Graham Hutchings FRS, Cardiff University
SEMINAR TITLE
"Catalysis by gold and gold palladium nanoparticles"
ROOM / TIME
Lecture theatre DKB LG.115 at 3.30 pm, refreshments from 3.00
 
DATE
Friday 16th November 2012
SPEAKER
Professor Paul Pringle, University of Bristol
SEMINAR TITLE
Why are phosphacycles such good ligands for catalysis?
ROOM / TIME
Lecture theatre DKB 02.525 (in the School of Psychology) at 11.00 am
 
DATE
Friday 9th November 2012
SPEAKER
Professor Mike Lyons, Trinity College Dublin
SEMINAR TITLE
‘Hydrous oxide modified electrodes : Versatile systems for electrochemical water splitting and pH sensing’
ROOM / TIME
Lecture Theatre DKB 01.028 at 3.00 pm
 
DATE
Monday 5th November 2012
SPEAKER
Dr Zoe Pikramenou, School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham
SEMINAR TITLE
"Luminescent nanoprobes for imaging applications"
ROOM / TIME
 Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 3.00 pm
 
DATE
Monday 5th November 2012
SPEAKER
Dr James Crawford, Genentech Inc., San Francisco
SEMINAR TITLE
"Cathepsin K Inhibitors for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis"
ROOM / TIME
 Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00 pm
 
DATE
Monday 22nd October 2012
SPEAKER
Ass. Prof. Stefan Bernhard, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh
SEMINAR TITLE

 

“Solar fuels: Thermodynamics, tactics, and recent results”
ROOM / TIME
Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 1.00 pm
 
DATE
Wednesday 17th October 2012
SPEAKER
Dr Grace Morgan, University College Dublin
SEMINAR TITLE

 

"Harnessing Spin: the Ups and Downs of Molecular Nanomagnetism"
ROOM / TIME
 Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00 pm
 
DATE
Wednesday 3rd October 2012
SPEAKER
Dr J.A. Thomas, University of Sheffiled
SEMINAR TITLE

 

“Luminescent transition metal complexes as tuneable optical bio-probes and therapeutics”
ROOM / TIME
 Lecture theatre DKB 01.028, 4.00 pm
 
DATE
Wednesday 26th September 2012
SPEAKER
Dr Paul Bagot, University of Oxford
SEMINAR TITLE

 

"Characterization of catalytically-active Pt-alloy surfaces and core-shell nanoparticles using atom probe tomography "
ROOM / TIME
 Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00 pm
 
DATE
Tuesday 25th September 2012
SPEAKER
Dr Daniel Marquess, Theravance Inc., San Francisco, USA
SEMINAR TITLE

 

'Integrating Multivalent Design with Biological Insight To Create Theravance's Pipeline of Differentiated Medicines'
ROOM / TIME
 Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00 pm