Talks and seminars

All talks and seminars will take place in person, unless otherwise stated. They are open to all.

 

Week 1 Tuesday
16 Jan
2:00pm
ICL
Prof. Bo Brummerstedt Iverson - University of Aarhus
"Structure of Materials in Real Time"
Inorganic Chemistry Seminars
(Prof. Ludmilla Steier)
Week 1 Thursday
18 Jan
2:00pm
ICL
Prof. Josep Cornella - Max-Planck-Institut fur Kohlenforschung, Mulheim
"Tales on Bismuth Redox Catalysis"   
https://www.cornellab.com
Organic Chemistry & Chemical Biology
(Prof. Harry Anderson & Prof. Yujia Qing)
Week 2 Monday
22 Jan
2:00pm
PTCL
Dr Raya Sorkin - University of Tel Aviv
"Membrane remodelling in life processes: Unravelling membrane interactions, one vesicle at a time"
Physical Chemistry Seminars
(Prof. Jonathan Doye)
Week 2 Tuesday
23 Jan
2:00pm
ICL

Prof. Andrew I Cooper - University of Liverpool
"Materials Discovery using Computers and Robots"

Inorganic Chemistry Seminars
(Prof. Ludmilla Steier)
Week 2 Thursday
25 Jan
2:00pm
ICL

Prof. Goncalo J. L. Bernardes - University of Cambridge
"Translational Chemical Biology"
https://gbernardeslab.com

Organic Chemistry & Chemical Biology
(Prof. Harry Anderson & Prof. Yujia Qing)
Week 3 Monday
29 Jan
2:00pm
PTCL
Prof. Marina Filip - University of Oxford
"Exciton in heterogeneous semiconductors from first principles computational modelling"
Theoretical Chemistry
(Prof. David Tew)
Week 3 Tuesday
30 Jan
2:00pm
ICL
Prof. Jan Rossmeisl - University of Copenhagen
"Electrocatalysis and high entropy alloys"
Inorganic Chemistry Seminars
(Prof. Ludmilla Steier)
Week 3 Tuesday
30 Jan
3:00pm
PTCL
Dr. Joanna Dziadkowiec - Dept. of Physics, University of Oslo
"Surface forces apparatus measurements of reactive mineral surfaces under confinement"
Soft Matter, Biomaterials and Interfaces Seminars
(Prof. Dirk Aarts, Prof. Susan Perkin, Prof. Alexander Mietke and Prof. Julia Yeomans)
Week 3 Thursday
1 Feb
2:00pm
ICL
Prof. Michelle C. Y. Chang - Princeton University, USA
"Synthetic Biology Approaches to New Chemistry"
http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/mccgrp/
Organic Chemistry & Chemical Biology
(Prof. Harry Anderson & Prof. Yujia Qing)
Week 4 Monday
5 Feb
2:00pm
PTCL
Dr Aakash Basu - Durham University
"The mechanical properties of DNA are genetically encoded"
Physical Chemistry Seminars
(Prof. Jonathan Doye)
Week 4 Tuesday
6 Feb
2:00pm
ICL
Prof. Magda Titirici - Imperial College, London
"Sustainable Batteries and Electrocatalytic Processes"
Inorganic Chemistry Seminars
(Prof. Ludmilla Steier)
Week 4

Thursday
8 Feb

ICL

Early Career Research Symposium

14:00 - Amanda G. Jarvis - Edinburgh - https://www.amandajarvis.co.uk
“Artificial Metalloproteins: expanding the chemical biology toolkit”

14:30 - Alastair J.J. Lennox - Bristol - https://www.lennoxlab.com/group
“Exploring electrochemical deep reduction for accessing new chemical space”
15:00 - Tea Break
 
15:30 - Pietro Sormanni - Cambridge - https://www-sormanni.ch.cam.ac.uk
“Third generation approaches of antibody discovery and optimisation”
16:00 - Claudia Bonfio - Strasbourg - https://bonfiolab.eu
“Shaping early life: primitive cells, primitive membranes”
 
16:30 - 2nd Year Organic and Biological Chemistry Poster Symposium
(CRL Atrium, with refreshments)
18:00 - Award of Poster Prizes (CRL Atrium)
Organic Chemistry & Chemical Biology
(Prof. Harry Anderson & Prof. Yujia Qing)
Week 5 Monday
12 Feb
2:00pm
PTCL
Dr. Felix Plasser - University of Loughborough
"Detailed understanding of molecular excited states: From wavefunctions to design rules"
Theoretical Chemistry
(Prof. David Tew)
Week 5 Tuesday
13 Feb
2:00pm
ICL
Prof. Andrew Goodwin - University of Oxford
"Complexity by design"
Inorganic Chemistry Seminars
(Prof. Ludmilla Steier)
Week 5 Tuesday
13 Feb
3:00pm
PTCL
Dr. Laura Rossi - Technical University of Delft
"Shape-dependent and magnetic self-assembly"
Soft Matter, Biomaterials and Interfaces Seminars
(Prof. Dirk Aarts, Prof. Susan Perkin, Prof. Alexander Mietke and Prof. Julia Yeomans)
Week 6 Monday
19 Feb
2:00pm
PTCL
Dr. Claudia Tait - University of Oxford
"Insights into Photophysical  Processes in Organic Photovoltaics by EPR Spectroscopy".
Physical Chemistry Seminars
(Prof. Jonathan Doye)
Week 6

Tuesday  20 Feb
2:00pm
ICL

Prof. Beatriz Roldan-Cuenya - Fritz Haber Institute
"Dynamic Electrocatalysts at Work"
Inorganic Chemistry Seminars
(Prof. Ludmilla Steier)
Week 6 Thursday
22 Feb
2:00pm
ICL
Prof. David A. Leigh - Manchester University
"Giving Chemistry Direction"
http://catenane.net
Organic Chemistry & Chemical Biology
(Prof. Harry Anderson & Prof. Yujia Qing)
Week 7 Monday
26 Feb
2:00pm
PTCL

Prof. Manos Mavrakis - University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Reaction-driven formulation of active sites on catalytic surfaces"

Theoretical Chemistry
(Prof. David Tew)
Week 7 Tuesday
27 Feb
2:00pm
ICL
RSC Prize Lecture: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize
Prof. Adrian Chaplin - University of Warwick
"Rhodium is still precious: new directions in organometallic chemistry enabled by pincer, macrocyclic and cavitand-based ligands"
Inorganic Chemistry Seminars
(Prof. Ludmilla Steier)
Week 7

Tuesday
27 Feb
3:00pm
PTCL

Dr. Jack Holland - University of Oxford
"Molecular principles governing the emergent phenomena of proteinaceous condensates"
Soft Matter, Biomaterials and Interfaces Seminars
(Prof. Dirk Aarts, Prof. Susan Perkin, Prof. Alexander Mietke and Prof. Julia Yeomans)
Week 7 Thursday
29 Feb
2:00pm
ICL
Prof. Jorn Piel - Institute of Microbiology, ETH, Zurich
"Natural Products from Unknown Life"
https://micro.biol.ethz.ch/research/piel.html
Organic Chemistry & Chemical Biology
(Prof. Harry Anderson & Prof. Yujia Qing)
Week 8 Monday
4 Mar
2:00pm
PTCL

Dr Ioanna Mela - University of Cambridge

"DNA nanotechnology and advanced microscopy for targeted antimicrobial delivery".

Physical Chemistry Seminars
(Prof. Jonathan Doye)
Week 8 Thursday
7 March
2:00pm
ICL
Prof. Edward A. Anderson - University of Oxford
"Driving Forces in Organic Synthesis"
https://www.edandersonchem.org
Organic Chemistry & Chemical Biology
(Prof. Harry Anderson & Prof. Yujia Qing)
Week 9 Thursday
14 March
2:00pm
ICL
Prof. Manuel Alcarazo - Georg-August University, Gottinen
"Synthetic Applications of Sulfonium Salts: An Alternative to Hypervalent (III) Reagents"
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/569043.html
Organic Chemistry & Chemical Biology
(Prof. Harry Anderson & Prof. Yujia Qing)