Seminar archive

Spring 2024

Date	Speaker
Monday January 15	Frank Leibfarth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Modern Approaches to Functional and Sustainable Thermoplastics Host: Jeremy Wulff
Monday January 22	Mike Jackson, Redlen Technologies Photon Counting Detectors for Next-Generation Computed Tomography Medical Imaging Host: Makhsud Saidaminov
Monday January 29	Helen Tran, University of Toronto Macromolecular Bioelectronics Host: Vishal Yeddu
Monday February 5	Donald Weaver, University of Toronto and Krembil Research Institute Alzheimer’s is an Autoimmune Disease: A Chemist’s Perspective Host: Irina Paci
Monday February 12	Viktoria Däschlein-Gessner, Ruhr University Bochum From Reactive Species to Rocket-Fast Catalysis Host: Scott McIndoe
Friday February 23	Graduate Student Research Day
Monday February 26	Jaclyn Stewart, University of British Columbia A data-driven approach to equitable course outcomes in Chemistry Host: Violeta Iosub
Monday March 4	LC Campeau, Merck Changing the World, One Reaction at a Time Host: Dave Leitch
Monday March 11	Frank Glorius, University of Münster On discovery and sensitivity in (photo)catalysis Host: Dave Leitch
Monday March 18	Donna Blackmond, Scripps Research Institute Models for the Origin of Biological Homochirality Host: Scott McIndoe 2023 – 2024 Dow Lecture
Wednesday March 27	Chelsea Rochman, University of Toronto The tale of plastic pollution - the state of the science and how it informs policy Host: Sean Farley 2023 - 2024 Lansdowne Lecture
Thursday March 28	Chelsea Rochman, University of Toronto The transport and effects of microplastics in aquatic ecosystems Host: Sean Farley 2023 - 2024 Lansdowne Lecture
Thursday April 4	Lingzi Sang, University of Alberta Thioantimonate Electrolytes for All-solid-state Sodium Batteries – the Evolving Structure, Interface and Electrochemical Performance Host: Chuck Lucy

Fall 2023

Date	Speaker
Monday September 11	Carlos Escobedo, Queen’s University On-demand assembled metallic nanostructures for the detection of hazardous chemicals and biological analytes Host: Alejandro Forigua
Monday September 25	Sharon Neufeldt, Montana State University Controlling Selectivity in Cross-Couplings of Dihalo(hetero)arenes Host: Dave Leitch 2023 – 2024 Merck Lecturer
Thursday October 5	Lars Yunker, Telescope Innovations Adventures in Lab Automation Host: Scott McIndoe
Thursday October 12	Jean-Philip Lumb, McGill University Studying Biosynthetic Aerobic Oxidations under Redox Nuetral Conditions: Recent Lessons from Lignan and Melanin Biosynthesis Host: Dave Leitch
Monday October 16	Dave Leitch, University of Victoria Chemical Cartography in Organic Chemistry: Mapping Chemical Structure and Reaction Space with High-Throughput Multivariate Experimentation Host: Kushal Dhake
Monday October 23	Jennifer Chen, York University Nanocrystals for plasmonic-based sensing and hot electron-enhanced photocatalysis Host: Alex Brolo
Monday October 30	Alannah Hallas, University of British Columbia Understanding the Role of Entropy in High Entropy Oxides Host: Makhsud Saidaminov 2023 - 2024 Xerox Lecturer
Monday November 6	Loren Kaake, Simon Fraser University Organic Electro-Ionic Materials and Devices Host: Dennis Hore
Tuesday November 14	Graduate Student Research Day
Monday November 20	Peter Willis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory – NASA The Search for Chemical Signs of Life Beyond Earth Host: Peter Loock
Thursday November 30	Mona Minkara, Northeastern University Computational Insights into Surfactant Protein Dynamics: Binding Mechanisms, Mutations, and Environmental Impact Host: Ayesha Nadeem
Monday December 4	Lisa Rosenberg, University of Victoria Bringing catalysis to the p-block: a mechanism-driven approach Host: Nick Dyck

Spring 2023

Date	Speaker
Monday January 9	Tehshik Yoon, University of Wisconsin-Madison Base Metals in Photoredox Oxidation Reactions Host: Dave Leitch
Monday January 16	Morris Bullock, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Stalking and Capturing Elusive Monomeric Copper Hydrides Host: Scott McIndoe
Monday January 23 Virtual seminar	Christine Luscombe, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Synergistic catalysis towards the development of efficient pathways to synthesize semiconducting polymers Host: Marcus Vespa 2022 – 2023 Xerox Lecturer
Monday January 30 Virtual seminar	Cameron Jones, Monash University Magnesium (I) Compounds: Humble Reagents with Noble Intentions in Synthesis and Small Molecule Activations Host: Neil Burford
Monday February 6	Irina Paci, University of Victoria Computational modelling of chemical reactions at surfaces Host: Archita Adluri
Wednesday February 22	Graduate Student Research Day
Monday February 27	Johanna Blacquiere, Western University Harnessing Ligand Dynamics for Productive Catalysis Host: Lisa Rosenberg
Thursday March 2	Georgii Nikonov, Brock University Ge(O) compound with ambiphilic reactivity Host: Scott McIndoe
Monday March 6	Christine Le, York University Synthetic Strategies Leveraging Fluoride-Enabled Reactivity Host: Peter Wan 2022 – 2023 Merck Lecture
Monday March 20	Tracy Lohr, Shell Shell’s Ethylene Oxide Story: History, Delplots, and the Future Host: Dave Leitch
Monday March 27 Virtual seminar	Xuanhe Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Soft Materials Innovation for Health and Sustainability Host: Liting Bi
Monday April 3 Virtual seminar	Melissa Gish, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Illuminating the Photophysics of Oxygen Atom Transfer in Rare Earth Metal-Organic Complexes Host: Matthew Wiebe
Thursday April 6	Deryn Fogg, Centre for Catalysis Research & Innovation and Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa and Department of Chemistry, University of Bergen Frontiers in Olefin Metathesis: Toward Realization of a Nobel Promise Host: Lisa Rosenberg

Fall 2022

Date	Speaker
Monday September 12 Virtual seminar	Erica Kiemele-Giss, UCLA Emergency Medicine Laying a Foundation Host: Lisa Rosenberg
Monday September 26	Karen Waldron, University of Montreal Crosslinked proteolytic enzymes for microscale proteomics applications Host: Alex Brolo
Monday October 3	Joanne Stewart, Hope College IONiC investigates the inorganic chemistry classroom: What do inorganic chemists teach and what are students learning? Host: Dave Berg
Thursday October 13	Oleksandr Voznyy, University of Toronto, Scarborough Applications of machine learning for studying phase stability in energy materials Host: Makhsud Saidaminov 2022 – 2023 Dow Lecture
Monday October 17	Juewen Liu, University of Waterloo DNA adsorption on gold nanoparticles, graphene oxide and metal oxides Host: Alex Brolo
Monday October 24	Rhonda Stoddard & Suma Thomas, SGS AXYS Analytical SGS AXYS Analytical Services Ltd. - Global Leaders in POPs & CEC Analysis & Method Development Host: Scott McIndoe
Thursday November 3	Lee Wilson, University of Saskatchewan Properties and Applications of Modified Biopolymer Adsorbents Host: Lisa Rosenberg
Thursday November 10	Graduate Student Research Day
Monday November 14	Erik Krogh, Vancouver Island University Direct Mass Spectrometry for In-situ Chemical Analysis and Environmental Forensics Host: Peter Wan
Monday November 21 Virtual seminar	Rasmus Bro, University of Copenhagen What can data science do for you? Host: Emma Abbey
Monday November 28	Trushar Patel, University of Lethbridge Identification and Characterisation of Viral G-quadruplexes Host: Lisa Rosenberg
Monday December 5	Anitha Thomas, Precision NanoSystems Lipid Nanoparticle (LNP) based Non-Viral Delivery towards Next Gen Genomic Medicines Host: Anup Khokhar

Spring 2022

Date	Speaker
Monday February 7	Alex Brolo, University of Victoria Single particle, single molecule and single photon spectroscopy using metallic nanostructures Host: Bruno Guilherme da Fonseca
Monday February 14 Virtual seminar	Jeff Dahn, Dalhousie University More than one million miles and possibly a century of life Host: David Harrington
Wednesday February 23	Graduate Student Research Day
Monday February 28	Sherry Yennello, Texas A&M University Diving deep on the periodic table to find a treatment for cancer Host: Cornelia Bohne
Thursday March 10 Virtual seminar	Alan Aspuru-Guzik, University of Toronto The Materials for Tomorrow, Today Host: Brett Henderson & Sofia Donnecke
Monday March 14	Stephen McNeil, UBC Okanagan Concepts, Content, Context: Assessing a Strategic Redesign of a First-year Chemistry Curriculum Host: Violeta Iosub
Monday March 28	Sabine Kuss, University of Manitoba Quantitative Bioelectrochemistry – Innovative Approaches to Investigate Drug Resistance and Cancer Development Host: Lisa Rosenberg
Wednesday April 4	Cory Widdifield, University of Regina NMR Crystallography: Structure Refinements, Verifications and Determinations Host: Jeremy Wulff
Thursday April 7	Maryam Ebrahimi, Lakehead University Rational design and characterization of molecular-based low-dimensional nanomaterials on surfaces Host: Alex Brolo

Fall 2021

Date	Speaker
Monday September 20	Dave Barnett, Atlantic Cancer Research Institute An online μLC-MS/MS method for optimization of enzymatic protein digestion and the development of a FAIMS based strategy for monitoring triglyceride oxidative degradation Host: Alex Brolo
Monday September 27	Jeremy Wulff, University of Victoria Teaching and Research Opportunities at UVic Host: Liting Bi
Monday October 4	Darren Brayton, Eagle Pharmaceuticals Making Medicine … A Pharmaceutical Career as a UVic Chemist Host: Peter Wan
Monday October 14 Virtual seminar	Guy Bertrand, University of California, San Diego Carbenes as Powerful Transition-Metal Surrogates Host: Ian Manners
Monday October 18	Lars Konermann, Western University Protein Structure, Function, and Dynamics Studied by Mass Spectrometry Host: Scott McIndoe
Monday October 25 Virtual seminar	Sijbren Otto, University of Groningen The Synthesis of Life: a Grand Challenge in Systems Chemistry Host: Shixing Lei 2021-2022 Xerox Lecturer
Monday November 8	Saurabh Chitnis, Dalhousie University A geometric approach to p-block catalysts and materials Host: Neil Burford
Wednesday November 10	Graduate Student Research Day
Monday November 22	Myrle Ballard, University of Manitoba Navigating the ecosystem with Anishinaabe Mowin and three-eyed seeing Host: Chem EDI committee
Monday November 29	Zachary Hudson, University of British Columbia Luminescent Polymer Nanoparticles for Diagnostics and Imaging Host: Nick Dyck 2021-2022 Dow Lecturer

Spring 2021

Date	Speaker
Monday January 11 Virtual seminar	Vy Dong, University of California, Irvine Choose Your Own Adventure in Metal Hydride Catalysis Host: Jon Sader *2020-2021 Merck Lecturer*
Monday January 18 Virtual seminar	Dennis Hore, University of Victoria Molecular structure at surfaces Host: Alex Brolo
Monday February 1 Virtual seminar	David Sinton, University of Toronto Electrocatalytic conversion of CO2 to renewable fuels and chemicals Host: Alex Brolo
Monday February 8 Virtual seminar	David Harrington, University of Victoria Electrooxidation and Dissolution of Pt Host: Dennis Hore
Wednesday February 17 Virtual event	Graduate Student Research Day
Monday February 22 Virtual seminar	Lisa Willis, University of Alberta Developing new biochemical tools to study cancer biology Host: Fraser Hof
Monday March 1 Virtual seminar	Eric Derrah, Dycar Pharmaceuticals ... And Now I Work in Cannabis Host: Lisa Rosenberg
Monday March 8 Virtual seminar	Alison Narayan, University of Michigan Biocatalysis and complex molecule synthesis Host: Jeremy Wulff
Monday March 15 Virtual seminar	Alison Flynn, University of Ottawa Studies on student learning in an organic chemistry curriculum designed to deepen understanding of reactivity and chemistry principles Host: Violeta Iosub
Monday March 22 Virtual seminar	Jean-Francois Morin, Université Laval Bottom-Up Synthesis of Well-Defined Graphene Nanoribbons and Nanographenes: From Unprecendented Molecules to Electronic Materials Host: Makhsud Saidaminov
Monday March 29 Virtual seminar	Russ Algar, UBC The Right Tool for the Job: Optimum Fluorescent Materials and Bioconjugates for Smartphone-based Bioanalysis Host: Alivia Wang
Thursday April 8 Virtual seminar	Yunjie Xu, University of Alberta Molecular spectroscopy of chirality recognition/transfer/amplification: fundamental and practical advances Host: Dave Leitch

Fall 2020

Date	Speaker
Monday September 14 Virtual seminar	Zhenan Bao, Stanford University Skin-inspired organic electronics Host: Liting Bi
Monday September 21 Virtual seminar	Sophie Rousseaux, University of Toronto New Strategies for the Synthesis and Functionalization of Cyclopropanols and Nitriles Host: Jeremy Wulff
Monday September 28 Virtual seminar	Erin Johnson, Dalhousie University Dispersion Interactions in DFT and Application to Molecular Crystal-Structure Prediction Host: Irina Paci *2020-2021 Xerox Lecturer*
Monday October 5 Virtual seminar	Stacey Wetmore, University of Lethbridge The Chemistry of Modified Nucleic Acids: A Computational Approach Host: Irina Paci
Monday October 19 Virtual seminar	Prashant Kamat, University of Notre Dame Revealing the Mystery of Halide Ion Mobility in Metal Halide Perovskites Host: Matt Moffitt
Monday October 26 Virtual seminar	Zohrab Ahmadi, Econotech Services From Oil Sands to Pulp, Paper and Biomass: Chemistry the Common Thread Host: Scott McIndoe
Monday November 2 Virtual seminar	Fred Menard, UBC Okanagan Chemical tools to study synaptic plasticity Host: Jeremy Wulff
Monday November 10 Virtual event	Graduate Student Research Day
Monday November 16 Virtual seminar	Jeffrey Moore, University of Illinois Polymeric Materials for Lifecycle Control Host: Tong Li
Monday November 23 Virtual seminar	Gilbert Walker, University of Toronto Chemical Imaging at Nanoscale Host: Dennis Hore
Monday November 30 Virtual seminar	Rachel O'Reilly, University of Birmingham Redesigning the world of polymers Host: Ian Manners *2020-2021 Dow Lecturer*

Spring 2020

Date	Speaker
Thursday January 9	Fraser Hof, University of Victoria Bio-supramolecular chemistry: recognition, assembly, disassembly, and sensing in warm salty water Host: Alok Shaurya
Monday January 13	Frederic Menard, UBC Okanagan - Cancelled
Monday January 20	Rebekka Klausen, Johns Hopkins University Functional Polymers from the Main Group Host: Ian Manners 2020 Xerox Lecturer
Monday January 27	Helen Mitchell, Merck Resource Sharing Approaches to Accelerate Drug Discovery at Merck Host: Jeremy Wulff
Monday February 3	Susanne Riegel, Nanalysis Scientific Commercialization of Benchtop NMR Spectroscopy: Method Development and Validation Host: Scott McIndoe
Monday February 10	Steen Schougaard, Université du Québec à Montréal Lithium-ion batteries - can we predict (long term) performance? Host: David Harrington
Tuesday February 18	Graduate Student Research Day
Monday February 24	Cornelia Bohne, University of Victoria Supramolecular Dynamics: Understanding Complexity using Cucurbit[n]uril Host-Guest Systems Host: Sree Talluri
Monday March 2	Jennifer Heemstra, Emory University Interrogating enzymatic reactions using nucleic acid molecular recognition and assembly Host: Cornelia Bohne
Monday March 9	Graham Dobereiner, Temple University Additive and Counterion Effects in Organotransition Metal Chemistry Host: Dave Leitch
Monday March 16	Stacey Wetmore, University of Lethbridge - Cancelled
Monday March 23	Sabine Kuss, University of Manitoba - Cancelled
Monday March 30	Vy Dong, University of California, Irvine - Cancelled

Fall 2019

Date	Speaker
Monday September 9	Ruth Signorell, ETH Zurich Spectroscopy of submicron-sized aerosol droplets Host: Katherine Elvira
Monday September 23	Mita Dasog, Dalhousie University Synthesis and Application of Plasmonic Metal Nitride Nanostructures Host: Alex Brolo
Monday September 30	Patrick Kolsch, Spectra-Physics Lasers Ultrafast Lasers and their Applications in Spectroscopy and Microscopy Host: Dennis Hore
Monday October 7	Paul Walton, University of York Spectroscopic characterisation of a long-lived copper(II)-tyrosyl in lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases Host: Lisa Rosenberg 2019 Dow Lecturer
Monday October 21	Francesco Paesani, University of California, San Diego Modeling Hydration, One Molecule at a Time: Towards Realistic Computer Simulations Through Many-Body Models and Data-Driven Algorithms Host: Dennis Hore Tuesday October 22 Lansdowne Lecture: Bridging the Gap with Reality: Molecular-Level Computer Simulations for Water Harvesting and Purification Technologies
Monday October 28	Sarah Styler, University of Alberta Photochemistry and optical properties of tomorrow's urban particulate matter: implications for air quality, health, and climate Host: Fraser Hof
Thursday November 7	Franz Geiger, Northwestern University Energy Conversion via Metal Nanolayers Host: Dennis Hore
Tuesday November 12	Graduate Student Research Day
Monday November 18	Dan Lehnherr, Merck Discoveries and Mechanistic Investigations of Photochemical and Electrochemical Reactions Host: Dave Leitch
Monday November 25	Rebecca Jockusch, University of Toronto New Tools and Techniques to Unravel Molecular Puzzles Host: Scott McIndoe
Monday December 2	Lars Konermann, Western University - Cancelled

Spring 2019

Date	Speaker
Monday January 7	Ian Tonks, University of Minnesota 2019 DOW Lecturer Ti-Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer Reactions: Harnessing the Ti^II/Ti^IV Redox Couple for New Transformations Host: Scott McIndoe
Monday January 14	Ian Burgess, University of Saskatchewan Attenuated Total Reflectance Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy Host: Dennis Hore
Thursday January 24	Alex Radosevich, MIT Geometric Deformation in the Design of Organophosphorus Catalysts Host: Lisa Rosenberg
Thursday January 31	Warren Chan, University of Toronto Complexities of delivering nanoparticles into solid tumors Host: Bruno Guilherme da Fonseca
Monday February 4	Jesse Greener, Laval University Microfluidic bioanalytical systems for spectroscopic and electrochemical studies of new "living" biomaterials Host: Dennis Hore
Thursday February 14	Gregory Adam, Merck Pharmacology at Merck and case studies in lead identification: PCSK9 and proteases Host: Fraser Hof
Wednesday February 20	Graduate Student Research Day BWC B150 and lobby
Monday February 25	Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto Bridging the gap between molecules and nanoparticles Host: Matt Moffitt
Monday March 4	Jan Weigand, Technical University of Dresden Phosphorus Chemistry 2.0 Host: Neil Burford NOT CHEM 509
Thursday March 7	Eric Price, University of Saskatchewan Synergistic Use of EXAFS Spectroscopy and DFT Computations to Optimize the Design and Evaluation of Radiometal Chelators Host: Matt Moffitt
Wednesday March 13 7:30 p.m.	Karen Wooley, Texas A&M University Lansdowne Lecture Functional Polymer Materials Designed for Advanced Applications and Sustainability Host: Robin Hicks
Thursday March 14	Karen Wooley, Texas A&M University The Development of Synthetic Methodologies for the Transformation of Regiochemically- and Stereochemically-diverse Natural Products into Functional Polymer Systems Host: Alex Brolo
Monday March 18	Mircea Dinca, MIT Teaching Sponges New Tricks: Catalysis and Charge Transport in Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks Host: Robin Hicks
Monday March 25	Jose Moran-Mirabal, McMaster University Micro- and nanostructured materials: from stretchable gold to “green materials” for tissue engineering Host: Dennis Hore

Fall 2018

Date	Speaker
Monday September 10	Joe Gilroy, Western University - Molecular and Macromolecular Materials Derived from Boron Difluoride Formazanates Host: Robin Hicks
Monday September 17	Michael Gerken, University of Lethbridge The Chemistry of SF4 and the Structure of Protonated Carbonyl Compounds Host: Lisa Rosenberg
Monday September 24	Jen Pape, SGS Axys SGS AXYS: Ensuring Excellence in Specialty Environmental Analysis Host: Scott McIndoe
Thursday September 17	Sam Dagorne, University of Strasbourg Combining N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) with oxophilic and earth-abundant metal centers: coordination chemistry, small moleculese activation and use in catalysis Host: Lisa Rosenberg NOT 509
Monday October 1	Kristen Burford, Xenon Pharmaceuticals Medicinal Chemistry at Xenon: A Selective Sodium 1.6 Channel Blocker Approach for the Potential Treatment of Epilepsy Host: Jeremy Wulff
Thursday October 4	Oliver Wenger, Basel University From Photoinduced Multi-Electron Transfer to New Photoactive Metal Complexes Host: Robin Hicks NOT 509
Thursday October 18	Pat Holland, Yale University Nitrogen Binding and Fixation using Iron Complexes Host: Robin Hicks
Monday October 22	Claudia Turro, Ohio State University 2018 Merck Lecturer Targeting Cancer with Transition Metal Complexes: From Basic Science Toward Therapy Host: Natia Frank
Monday October 29	Dwight Seferos, University of Toronto 2018 Xerox Lecturer Advances in Polymer Semiconductors and Energy Storage Devices Host: Robin Hicks
Monday November 5	Hanadi Sleiman, McGill University DNA Nanostructures for Cellular Delivery of Therapeutics Host: Fraser Hof
Thursday November 8	Ilya Zharov, University of Utah Functional nanoporous materials from "hairy" nanoparticle building blocks Host: Matt Moffitt NOT 509
Tuesday November 13	Graduate Student Research Day
Friday November 16	William Lubell, University of Montreal Synthesis of Heterocyclic Turn Mimics for Allosteric Receptor Modulation in Biomedical Applications Host: Jeremy Wulff NOT 509
Thursday November 29	Gino DiLabio, UBC Okanagan How do radical enzymes control their highly-reactive intermediates? Host: Jeremy Wulff NOT 509
Monday November 26	Chris Gill, Vancouver Island University Advances and Applications of Direct Mass Spectrometry Host: Scott McIndoe
Monday December 3	Scott McIndoe, University of Victoria Building and Designing in the World's Finest Workshop

Spring 2018

Thursday March 29	Scott Wolkenberg, Merck Two approaches to reverse HIV latency: histone deacetylase and farnesyltransferase inhibition Host: Fraser Hof
Thursday April 5	Janine Mauzeroll, McGill University The Wonderful World of Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM) Host: Alex Brolo
Monday April 16	Ingo Krossing, University of Freiburg - Elliott 228 Stabilization of Reactive Cations by Large and Weakly Coordinating Anions Host: Neil Burford NOT CHEM 509
Date	Speaker
Monday January 8	Thomas Hoye, University of Minnesota The (ongoing) evolution of the hexadehydro-Diels-Alder (HDDA) reaction Host: Andy Un
Monday January 15	Paul Ragogna, Western University An examination of phosphinidene chalcogenide chemistry: Versatile low coordinate P(III) units Host: Neil Burford
Monday January 22	Michael Campbell, Lakehead University Application of Solid Phase Synthesis to Radiochemistry and Other Tales of an Accidental Radiochemist Host: Peter Wan
Monday January 29	CHEM 509 Discussion for Grad Students (attendance mandatory)
Monday February 5	Shana Kelley, University of Toronto Profiling Cells Inside and Out Using Nanostructured Materials Host: Natia Frank
Thursday February 15	Graduate Student Research Day
Monday February 19	Tim Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dynamic Droplets Host: Robin Hicks
Monday February 26	Mario Bieringer, University of Manitoba Keeping Things Moving - From Bottleneck to Bottleneck! Oxide ion conductors for solid oxide fuel cell applications Host: Lisa Rosenberg
Monday March 5	John Murphy, University of Strathclyde Redox Processes with Organic Reagents Host: Nicholas Richard
Monday March 12	Alex Adronov, McMaster University Developing New Polymers for Selective Interactions with Carbon Nanotubes Host: Natia Frank
Monday March 26	Emily Weiss, Northwestern University Photocatalysis of Fuel-forming Reactions Enhanced by Energy and Charge Funneling within Colloidal Assemblies Host: Natia Frank

Fall 2017


Date	Speaker
Thursday September 7	Equity and Human Rights Presentation and Discussion for Grad Students (attendance mandatory) Location: Elliott 226
Monday September 11	CHEM 509 Introduction for Grad Students (attendance mandatory) Location: Elliott 062
Thursday September 14	Mark Taylor, University of Toronto Noncovalent and Reversible Covalent Interactions: Fundamental Studies and New Applications Host: Fraser Hof
Monday September 18	Allan East, University of Regina Modelling Solvated Systems Host: Irina Paci
Monday September 25	Allan Hendry, North Robotics Modular Robotics for Laboratory Automation Host: Scott McIndoe
Monday October 2	Charlie Campbell, University of Washington Transition metal catalysts for energy technologies: Pathways to catalyst design Host: David Harrington
Thursday October 12	Emma Guns, The Prostate Centre Natural Ligands: Ginseng and Vitamin D Working Together to Prevent and Treat Prostate Cancer Host: Jeremy Wulff
Monday October 16	Seth Brown, University of Notre Dame The Oxidation State and its Discontents Host: Robin Hicks
Thursday November 2	John Walmsley, Starfish Medical Scientist amongst Engineers: A Career in Product Development Host: Dennis Hore
Monday November 6	Laurel Schafer, UBC From Molecules to Materials - Sustainable Approaches for Amine Synthesis Featuring Early Transition Metal Catalysis Host: Robin Hicks
November 14	Graduate Student Research Day
Monday November 20	Christina Bottaro, Memorial University Enviroanalysis using Smart Polymers: Skipping Chromatography and the Complexities of Molecular Imprinting Host: Chris Gill
Thursday November 23	Sandy Briggs - NOT CHEM 509 Two Expeditions in One: Hiking and Rafting in the Northwest Territories; Skiing in Nunavut (Boothia Penninsula)
Monday November 27	Sara Eisler, University of New Brunswick Synthesis, Cyclizations and Switches: Controlling Regiochemistry and Molecular Motion in ∏-Extended Heterocycles Host: Fraser Hof

Spring 2017


Date	Speaker
Mon. Jan. 16	Thomas Baumgartner, University of Calgary Strongly Electron-Accepting, Phosphorus-bridged Viologens - From Synthesis to Applications Host: Neil Burford
Mon. Jan. 23	Cathleen Crudden, Queen's University Metal catalysts, clusters and surfaces: From the synthesis of chiral bio-molecules to carbon-based self assembled monolayers. Host: Robin Hicks
Mon. Jan. 30	David Stuart, Portland State University Exploring Divergent Reactivity of Diaryliodonium Salts for Metal-Free Arylation Reactions Host: Scott McIndoe
Fri. Feb. 3	Hicham Fenniri, Northeastern University Engineering Function in Supramolecular Nanomaterials Host: Tom Fyles Location: CLE D134
Mon. Feb. 6	Christopher Jones, Georgia Tech Title TBC Host: Scott McIndoe
Thur. Feb. 16	Graduate Student Research Day Details to be confirmed in January
Mon. Feb. 20	Ariel Louwrier, Stressmarq Biotech Startups - Life, Risk and Everything Host: Fraser Hof
Mon. Feb. 27	Paul Chirik, Princeton University Catalysis with Earth Abundant Metals Host: Robin Hicks
Mon. Mar. 6	Lüis Campos, Columbia University Thiophene Rust in Single-Molecule Electronics and Singlet Fission Host: Cornelia Bohne
Thurs. Mar. 16	Mario Leclerc, Université Laval Green Chemistry for Green Energy Host: Matt Moffitt
Mon. Mar. 20	Philip Power, University of California, Davis Interactions of Olefins, Alkynes and Related Molecules with Heavier Main Group Hydrides and Multiple Bonded Species Host: Paul Gray
Mon. Mar. 27	Rylan Lundgren, University of Alberta Copper-Mediated Oxidative Cross-Coupling Reactions of Carbon Nucleophiles Host: Neil Burford
Mon. Apr. 3	Christa Brosseau, Saint Mary's University Adventures in Plasmonics: Sensing to Sustainability Host: Alex Brolo
Thurs. Apr. 6	Charles Stone, Eon Consultants The Rise and Shutterings of Ballard Power Systems - A Business Odyssey Host: Lisa Rosenberg
Fri. Apr. 21	Graham Bodwell, Memorial University [n]Cyclophanes as Stepping Stones on the Way to Aromatic Belts and Warped Nanographenophanes Host: Tom Fyles Location: MAC D110
Wed. June 7	Adam Bergren and Andrew Myles, National Institute for Nanotechnology From Fundamental Science to Rock and Roll: The Heisenberg Molecular Overdrive Host: Fraser Hof Location: ELL 226
Mon. June 19	Carlos Romero-Nieto, University of Heidelberg Novel phosphaphenalene derivatives: en route towards a new generation of multifunctional organophosphorus materials Host: Neil Burford Location: ELL 226

Fall 2016


Date	Speaker
Thur. Sep. 8	Kirsten Wolthers, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Initiating and Controlling Radical Chemistry in Coenzyme B₁₂-dependent Mutases Host: Neil Burford
Mon. Sep. 12	Graduate student Chem 509 introduction
Thur. Sep. 15	Curtis Berlinguette, University of British Columbia Solar Chemistry at the Interface Host: Robin Hicks
Mon. Sep. 19	Jean-François Paquin, Université Laval Exploration and Some Discoveries in Organofluorine Chemistry Host: Jeremy Wulff
Thur. Sep. 22	Rhett Kempe, Universität Bayreuth Catalysts for a more sustainable chemistry Host: Neil Burford
Mon. Oct. 3	Edith (Phoebe) Glazer, University of Kentucky Developing a research platform for the discovery of cytotoxic metal complexes Host: Genevieve Boice
Thur. Oct. 13	Miguel Garcia-Garibay, University of California, Los Angeles Control of Chemical Reactivity and Rotational Dynamics: Applications in the Construction of Molecular Machines Host: Peter Wan
Mon. Oct. 17	Belinda Heyne, University of Calgary From tuning aggregation to amplifying singlet oxygen: a photochemist approach Host: Alex Brolo
Mon. Oct. 24	Ken Dill, Stony Brook University How cell behaviors are encoded in the physical chemistry of the proteome Host: Fraser Hof
Thurs. Oct. 27	Preston Chase, GreenCentre Canada Development and Commercial Application of Novel Catalyst and Green Solvent Technologies Host: Robin Hicks
Mon. Oct. 31	David Rabuka, Catalent Biologics Translating technology from the bench top to the clinic, the story of Redwood Bioscience Host: Tom Fyles
Mon. Nov. 7	Richard Layfield, University of Manchester From Molecular Magnets to Catalytic Transformations of Main Group Substrates Host: Neil Burford
Wed. Nov. 9	Graduate Student Research Day
Mon. Nov. 14	Elizabeth Gillies, University of Western Ontario Controlling end-to-end depolymerization: new polymer backbones, mechanisms and applications Host: Matt Moffitt
Mon. Nov. 21	Gonzalo Cosa, McGill University Visualising Chemistry at the Single Molecule Level Host: Cornelia Bohne
Mon. Nov. 28	Paul Wiseman, McGill University Mapping protein dynamics and interactions in podosomes in living cells with image correlation spectroscopy Host: Natia Frank
Mon. Dec. 5	Andreea Schmitzer, Université de Montréal Controlable transmembrane transport processes and their biological applications Host: Cornelia Bohne

Spring 2016


Date	Speaker
Thur. Jan. 7	Robert Gomez, Inception Sciences Canada Evolution of a Next Generation, Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor for the Treatment of HIV
Thur. Jan. 14	Françoise Winnik, Université de Montréal & National Institute for Materials Science, Japan Tailor-cut polymer colloids and interfaces: from design to applications
Mon. Jan. 18	David Palmer, University of Saskatchewan Hitting an antibacterial target where it hurts – design, synthesis, and enzymology
Mon. Jan. 25	Steven Boxer, Stanford University Vibrational Stark Spectroscopy Connects Electrostatics to Catalytic Rates at Enzyme Active Sites
Mon. Feb. 1	cancelled
Tues. Feb 9	Graduate Student Research Day -click here for schedule and other details-
Mon. Feb. 15	Robert Froese, The Dow Chemical Company Mechanistic Aspects of the Hydroformylation of Olefins
Thur. Feb. 18	Jennifer Dubois, Montana State University Tales of the tetrapyrrole: making, breaking, and using heme
Mon. Feb. 22	Felix Castellano, North Carolina State University Photochemical Upconversion: Molecules, Materials, and New Frontiers
Mon. Feb. 29	Joe Hupp, Northwestern University Metal-Organic Frameworks for Energy Applications
Thur. Mar. 3	René Boeré, University of Lethbridge Stable and Persistent Group 15 Element R3E+• Radical Cations: Electrochemistry and EPR Spectroscopy
Mon. Mar. 7	Philip Britz-McKibbin, McMaster University Chemical Separations for Metabolomics: New Advances in Biomarker Discovery for Population Health
Mon. Mar. 14	Björn Reinhard, Boston University Plasmonic Coupling in Sensing and Imaging: Fundamentals and Selected Case Studies
Mon. Mar. 21	Paul Cremer, Penn State University Metallomembranes: Exploring the Interactions of Copper Ions with Lipid Membranes
Thur. Mar. 31	Taekjip Ha, Johns Hopkins University Investigating how molecules come to life using advanced single molecule fluorescence techniques
Mon. Apr. 4	Guy Lloyd-Jones, University of Edinburgh 2B or not 2B, and other mix-ups

Fall 2015


Date	Speaker
Thur. Sep. 10	Mengxiu Zheng, University of Victoria Does microfluidic mixing produce vesicles from natural and synthetic lipids?
Mon. Sep. 14	Takuzo Aida, The Unviersity of Tokyo Stimuli-Responsive Soft Matters towards Artificial Intelligence
Mon. Sep. 21	Carlos Bustamante, University of California, Berkeley Division of Labor Among the Subunits of a Highly Coordinated Ring ATPase
Mon. Sep. 28	Christopher Yip, University of Toronto Re-Imagining Imaging: Doing More With Less
Mon. Oct. 5	Ratmir Derda, University of Alberta Discovery of Functional Ligands from Genetically-Encoded Libraries of Peptide Derivatives
Thur. Oct. 15	Jennifer Love, UBC Developing Catalytic Reactions One Step at a Time
Mon. Oct. 19	Stephen Craig, Duke University Covalent Mechanochemistry for New Reactions, Self-healing Materials, and Soft Devices
Thur. Oct. 22	Wei Li, University of Victoria Two supramolecular methods for detecting a cancer metabolite
Mon. Oct. 26	Holger Braunschweig, University of Würzburg Transfer, Metathesis and Catenation: Reactivity Patterns Emerging from Borylenecomplexes
Thur. Nov. 5	Karen Goldberg, University of Washington Catalysis, Mechanistic Understanding and Collaboration as Tools to Sustainable Production of Chemicals and Fuels
Tue. Nov. 10	Graduate Student Research Day -click here for schedule and other details-
Mon. Nov. 16	Mathieu Lessard-Viger, University of California San Diego Exploiting Nanomaterial Disassembly for Biomedical Applications
Thur. Nov. 19	Katherine Elvira, ETH Zürich Exploring the boundaries: hard science in simple structures
Mon. Nov. 23	Vlad Iluc, Notre Dame University Secondary Metal-Ligand Interactions: C-H Activation and Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonding in Palladium Carbene Complexes
Tue. Nov. 24	Jane Stockmann, Université Paris Diderot Interfacial Electrochemistry
Mon. Nov. 30	Aaron Wheeler, University of Toronto Digital Microfluidics for Chemistry, Biology, and Medicine
Thur. Dec. 3	Drew Marquardt, University of Graz Stress-Free Asymmetric Lipid Vesicles for Sub-nanometer Structural Investigation
Mon. Dec. 7	Alison Thompson, Dalhousie University Adventures with pyrroles: one, two, three!

Spring 2015

Date	Speaker
Thur. Jan. 8	Paul Covert, University of Victoria Gaining geochemical perspective through nonlinear optical methods
Mon. Jan. 12	John Yates, The Scripps Research Institute Understanding Disease using Mass Spectrometry
Mon. Jan. 19	Clark Landis, University of Wisconsin, Madison New Methods for Efficient Study of Catalytic Reactions
Thur. Jan. 22	Abby Xu, University of Victoria Block copolymer micellization on microfluidic reactors
Mon. Jan. 26	Geraldine Richmond, University of Oregon Calming the Seas but not the Science: Molecular Assembly at Oil-Water Interfaces
Mon. Feb. 2	Michael Freund, University of Manitoba Manipulating Conjugated Polymer Structure and Chemistry: Creating Active Materials for Applications in Electronics, Sensing and Energy Storage/Conversion
Thur. Feb. 5	Stephanie Bonvicini, University of Victoria Lanthanide-Based Nanoparticles for Use in Various Applications
Mon. Feb. 16	Robin Theron, University of Victoria Investigating Homogenous Catalysis by realtime Mass Spectrometry-Infrared Spectroscopy
Thur. Feb. 19	Chakri Simhadri,University of Victoria Antagonists and photoaffinity probes of epigenetic reader protein CBX7
Mon. Feb. 23	Kyoko Nozaki, University of Tokyo Development of new catalytic reactions toward utilization of renewable resources
Thur. Feb. 26	Brian Coleman, University of Victoria Block Co-Polymer Mimetic Self-Assembly of Inorganic Nanoparticles
Mon. Mar. 2	Mitchell Albert, Lakehead University Hyperpolarized Gas MRI and HP Xenon Biosensor MRI for the Study of Physiological and Molecular Function
Thur. Mar. 5	Mehraveh Seyedalikhani, University of Victoria Characterization of binding of a small guest molecule with a biocompatible gel system
Mon. Mar. 9	Theodore Betley, Harvard University Radical frontiers in catalysis
Thur. Mar. 12	Kyle Duncan, University of Victoria Development and application of condensed phase membrane introduction mass spectrometry
Mon. Mar. 16	Rob Corn, University of California Irvine Nanotextured Surfaces and On-Chip Biosynthesis: Smart Materials and Smart Chemistries for Advanced Optical Biosensors and Biomimetic Devices
Thur. Mar. 19	Suma Thomas, University of Victoria Dynamics of complexation for small guest molecules with cucurbiturils and octa acid capsules
Mon. Mar. 23	Arun Ghosh, Purdue University Natural Product-inspired Molecular Design Targeting HIV/AIDS and Alzheimer’s disease
Thur. Mar. 26	Chemistry Industrial Speaker Neal Anderson, Anderson's Process Solutions Looking Ahead from Academia to Pharma
Mon. Mar. 30	Chemistry Industrial Speaker Stephen Campbell, Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation Corp. A career in fuel cell research
Thur. Apr. 9	Hiroaki Suga, University of Tokyo A RaPID way to discover pseudo-natural products and peptides for therapeutic applications
Mon. Apr. 13	Mike Meanwell, University of Victoria Synthetic lipids for drug delivery applications
Thur. Apr. 16	Genevieve Boice, University of Victoria When Chemistry Gives You Lemons, Remember They Go Well with Vodka: Thioindigo Diimines and Related Compounds.
Mon. Apr. 20	Corey Sanz, University of Victoria A Radical Perspective on Palladium: Ligand-Centered Redox Chemistry
Thurs. May 21	Richard Schrock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology My Role in Elucidating the Catalytic Reaction that led to a Nobel Prize in 2005

Fall 2014


Date	Speaker
Mon. Sept. 8	David Ginger, University of Washington Probing and Pulling: From Polymer Solar Cells to Photoswitchable DNA Nanoparticles
Mon. Sept. 15	Marc Hillmyer, University of Minnesota Sustainable block polymers: sophisticated materials from natural feedstocks
Thur. Sept. 25	Chemistry Industrial Speaker Matthew Henderson, Fusion Technology Inc. Bridging the gap from grad school to industry: what I've learned along the way
Mon. Sept. 29	Ken Raymond, University of California Berkeley Confinement and Catalysis in Chiral, Self-Assembled, Nanoscale Flasks
Mon. Oct. 6	Chris Braddock, Imperial College Studies on Halogenated Marine Natural Products as inspired by their Probable Biogenesis
Thur. Oct. 16	Tomislav Friscic, McGill University Cleaner and Greener Synthesis of Molecules and Materials Inspired by Concepts of Mechanochemistry & Biogeochemistry
Mon. Oct. 20	Chang-Chun Ling, University of Calgary Cyclodextrin-based polyvalent systems for studying biological interactions
Thur. Oct. 23	Paria Parvizi, University of Victoria Structure-based prediction of gene transfection by pyridinium lipids
Mon. Oct. 27	Chemistry Industrial Speaker David Powell, Inception Sciences Canada Challenges in Pharmaceutical Research: The Development of Liver-Targeted Molecules for the Treatment of Diabetes
Thur. Oct. 30	Drew Bennett, University of Waterloo Thermodynamics of saturated to unsaturated phospholipid exchange in membranes with cholesterol
Mon. Nov. 3	Vladimir Michaelis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology High Field Dynamic Nuclear Polarization: Design, Innovation and Chemical Applications
Thur. Nov. 6	Jake Pushie, University of Saskatchewan Illuminating Health Research using Chemical Insight
Thur. Nov. 13	Keith Pardee, Harvard University Paper-based Synthetic Gene Networks
Mon. Nov. 17	Theo Agapie, Caltech Synthetic Cluster Models of Biological and Heterogeneous Oxygen Evolving Catalysts
Thur. Nov. 20	Paul Wender, Stanford University Toward the Ideal Synthesis and Transformative Therapies for Aids, Alzheimer’s and Cancer
Mon. Nov. 24	Aman Bains, University of Victoria Microfluidic Self-assembly of Biodegradable Block Copolymers for Drug Delivery
Thur. Nov. 27	Jieming Cao, University of Victoria Lead-based core-shell-shell quantum dots: synthesis and characterization
Mon. Dec. 1	Nick Davy, University of Victoria/Vancouver Island University Mobile Mass Spectrometer Development for Real-Time Quantification of Atmospheric VOCs
Thur. Dec. 4	Doug Stephan, University of Toronto Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry: New Avenues in Synthesis and Metal-free Catalysis

Spring 2014

Date	Speaker
Mon. Jan. 13	Jeffrey Long, UC Berkeley Carbon Dioxide Capture and Hydrocarbon Separations in Metal-Organic Frameworks
Thur. Jan. 16	John Vederas, University of Alberta Structures & Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Peptides from Bacillus and Related Species
Mon. Jan. 20	Christy Landes, Rice University In Search of Concurrence between Biological and Synthetic Single Molecule Structure/Function
Thur. Jan. 23	Rhonda Stoddard, University of Victoria Mechanistic comparisons in catalysis using PSI-ESI-MS, NMR and PowerSim
Mon. Jan. 27	Milton Wang, University of Victoria Surface plasmon enhanced energy conversion
Thur. Feb. 6	Gavin Mitchell, University of Victoria Stabilizing Lipids
Thur. Feb. 13	Donald Eadie , LB Foster Friction Management Wheel / Rail Interaction and Friction Control: Technology Development for the Global Railway Industry
Mon. Feb. 17	David Masiello , University of Washington Elucidating the Signatures of Electromagnetic Hot Spots and Fano Interferences in EELS and CL via Multiscale Electrodynamics Simulations
Thur. Feb. 27	Saurabh Chitnis, University of Victoria Novel coordination chemistry of Antimony Cations
Mon. Mar. 3	Heather Allen, Ohio State University Ions, lipids, and water at the air-aqueous interface: Organization and electric fields
Thur. Mar. 6	Andrew Grosvenor, University of Saskatchewan Understanding nuclear materials using X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Wed. Mar. 12	Lansdowne Speaker Public Lecture Cynthia Friend, Harvard University Science as a Vehicle for Improving Quality of Life: Examples from Catalysis
Thur. Mar. 13	Lansdowne Speaker Cynthia Friend, Harvard University Surface Science and Catalysis for Sustainable Chemical Synthesis: The Power of Fundamental Understanding
Mon. Mar. 17	Tom Pinter, University of Victoria Tetrazoles are potent ion recognition elements on a wide variety of structural scaffolds
Thur. Mar. 20	Andre Beauchemin, University of Ottawa Synthesis of Nitrogen-Containing Molecules from Alkenes Using Metal-Free Approaches
Mon. Mar. 24	Daniel Stack, Stanford University Advances in Our Understanding of Cu-Dioxygen Species in Biological Systems: Synthetic Complexes with Stoichiometric and Catalytic Activity
Thur. Apr. 3	Mike Brant, University of Victoria Development of Bicyclic Neuraminidase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Influenza
Thur. Apr. 10	Peter Lee, University of Victoria Borane-mediated Post-polymerization Modification of Poly(phenylsilane)
Thur. Apr. 17	Emma Nicholls-Allison, University of Victoria To "Nindigo" and Beyond: The Synthesis and Characterization of New Organic Dyes
Mon. Apr. 28	Tim Kelly, University of Saskatchewan Turning Lead Into Gold: Perovskite Solar Cells
Fri. May 30 ELL 162	Gino Lavoie, York University TBA

Fall 2013

Date	Speaker
Thur. Sept. 5	Rainer Streubel, University of Bonn Phosphinidenoid complexes: opening new avenues for P1 building blocks
Mon. Sept. 9	Andrei Yudin, University of Toronto Forced orthogonality in chemical synthesis
Mon. Sept. 16	Richard Zare, Stanford University Desorption Electrospray Mass Spectrometry
Mon. Sept. 23	Peng Wu, Yeshiva University Imaging glycans in living organisms
Thur. Sept. 26	Chemistry Industrial Speaker Daryll Harrison, Nova Chemicals TBA
Mon. Sept. 30	Jason Hein, University of California Merced Applications of reaction progress analysis: Mechanistic insight from continuous in situ measurements
Mon. Oct. 7	Odile Eisenstein, University of Montpellier Computational studies and chemical complexity: The example of olefin metathesis catalysis with the Schrock alkylidene complexes
Thur. Oct. 10	Chemistry Industrial Speaker Bryce McGarvey, Imperial Oil Research and Technology in an Industrial Petroleum Laboratory
Thur. Oct. 17	John Klassen, University of Alberta New MS Tools for the Discovery and Characterization of Protein-Ligand Interactions
Mon. Oct. 21	Scott Kroeker, University of Manitoba NMR Studies of Nuclear Waste Materials: Cutting Through Compositional and Morphological Complexity
Thur. Oct. 24	Kevin Daze, University of Victoria Chemical tools that probe protein-protein interactions important in epigenetic pathways
Mon. Oct. 28	Kim Baines, Western University Positively Fun: The Chemistry of Germanium Cations and Multiple Bonds
Mon. Nov. 4	Chemistry Industrial Speaker Scott Tanner, DVS Sciences Cytometry and Atomic Mass Spectrometry Converge in Single Cell Deep Profiling of the Human Immune System
Thur. Nov. 7	Tahei Tahara, Riken Japan Seeing the unseen with ultrashort optical pulses
Wed. Nov. 13	George Whitesides, Harvard University Soft robotics
Thur. Nov. 14	Aicheng Chen, Lakehead University Electrocatalysis and Photoelectrochemistry Based on Functional Nanomaterials
Mon. Nov. 18	Franc Meyer, University of Goettingen Metal Centers Acting in Concert: Biomimetic Metallosites, Bioinspired Catalysts, and Beyond
Thur. Nov. 21	Graham Garnett, University of Victoria Self-association phenomena of sulfonato calix[4]arenes
Thur. Nov. 28	Sara Tabet, University of Victoria Supramolecular hosts that bind methylated lysines: new assays and structure-function relationships
Mon. Dec. 2	Ye Zong, University of Victoria Voltage-dependent ion channels
Thur. Dec. 5	Nick Mosey, Queen's University First-Principles Simulations of Tribological Processes
Mon. Dec. 9	Paul Vu, University of Victoria Dissipative Assembly of an Ion Transport System
Thur. Dec. 12	Jingwei Luo, University of Victoria Mechanism investigations of organometallic catalytic reactions by ESI-MS
Mon. Dec. 16	Chemistry Industrial Speaker Pete Craig, Stantec (un)Sustainable remediation

Fall 2012

Date	Speaker
Mon. Sept. 10	Hermann Gaub, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich Force and Function: Probing and Controlling the Interactions of Individual Bio-Molecules
Thur. Sept. 20	Robert Scott, University of Saskatchewan Designing Nanoparticles for Catalysis
Mon. Sept. 24	Rich Eisenberg, University of Rochester Solar energy conversion and the light driven generation of hydrogen from water: New developments, strategies and results
Mon. Oct. 1	Eli Zysman-Colman, University of Sherbrooke Illuminating Iridium : From Visual Displays to Solar Cells
Thur. Oct. 11	Tom Woo, University of Ottawa Which MOF Is Best? New Computational Tools to Screen Metal Organic Framework Materials for Clean Energy Applications
Mon. Oct. 15	Gregory Voth, University of Chicago cancelled Theory and Simulation of Biomolecular Systems: Surmounting the Challenge of Bridging the Scales
Mon. Oct. 22	Paul Weiss, University of California Los Angeles Designing, Measuring, and Controlling Molecular and Supramolecular Devices
Mon. Oct. 29	Tomas Hudlicky, Brock University Chemoenzymatic synthesis of morphine and Amaryllidaceae alkaloids and other natural products
Thur. Nov. 1	Stephen Loeb, University of Windsor Building Dynamics into Metal-Organic Framework Materials
Mon. Nov. 5	Mark Stradiotto, Dalhousie University Catalyst Design as a Route to More Sustainable Chemical Synthesis
Thur. Nov. 8	Sandra Roy, University of Victoria Water and peptide structure at hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces
Thur. Nov. 15	Ben Liu, University of Texas at Austin Search for a Naturally Selected Diels-Alderase
Mon. Nov. 19	Helene Lebel, University of Montreal Stereoselective Amination Reactions
Mon. Dec. 3	Mark MacLachlan, University of British Columbia For Richer Pore: Porous Molecules and Materials Through Supramolecular Chemistry
Thur. Dec. 6	Tatiana Popa, University of Victoria Theoretical studies of chiral self-assembly
Mon. Dec. 10 Wright A104	Cooper Johnston, University of Victoria Verdazyl Radicals, Metals, and their Electrochemistry
Thur. Dec. 13 Wright A104	Cameron Newhook, University of Victoria Development and application of membrane introduction mass spectrometry as an in-situ reaction monitoring platform for the chlorination of model compounds, humic substances, and natural waters.

Spring 2013

Date	Speaker
Thur. Jan. 10	Morgan Millard, University of Victoria Applications of Electroless deposition of gold nanoparticles onto Si
Mon. Jan. 14	Jason Davy, University of Victoria Synthesizing Didemnaketal A
Mon. Jan. 21	Christy Haynes, University of Minnesota Measuring Immune Cell Response to Inflammatory Cytokines
Mon. Jan. 28	Chris Murray, University of Pennsylvania Muti-component nanocrystal self assembly as a route to mutifunctional materials and devices
Mon. Feb. 4	Daniel Mindiola, Indiana University Bloomington Titanium Alkylidynes. C-H Bond Activation and Beyond
Thur. Feb. 14	Chemistry Industrial Speaker Havind Sehmi, Mitacs Vancouver Island Connecting Industry with University Expertise
Mon. Feb. 18	Christy Landes, Rice University CANCELLED
Thur. Feb. 21	Chemistry Industrial Speaker Darryl Morrison, NOVA Chemicals Corporation High Performance Polyethylene Resins through Catalyst and Process Design
Mon. Feb. 25	Kevin Allen, University of Victoria Lanthanide binding ligands for use as MRI contrast agents
Thur. Feb. 28	Chemistry Industrial Speaker Ryan Dercho, Centre for Drug Research and Development Transforming Discovery into Opportunity - CDRD Resources to Advance Academic Discoveries Toward Commercialization
Mon. Mar. 4	John Sorensen, University of Manitoba Biologically active natural products from Northern Manitoba lichen and other fungi
Thur. Mar. 7	Chiara Valsecchi, University of Victoria Development and Characterization of a Plasmonic Sensor for Leukemia Diagnosis
Mon. Mar. 11	Chris Cairo, University of Alberta Chemical tools to probe the role of human neuraminidase enzymes in cell adhesion
Mon. Mar. 18	Don Hilvert, ETH Zurich Designer enzymes
Thur. Mar. 21	Graeme Nawn, University of Victoria Nindigo: a new multifunctional ligand family
Mon. Mar. 25	Chemistry Industrial Speaker Paul Smith, Xerox Research Centre of Canada CANCELLED
Thur. Mar. 28	Jonathan Sweedler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign New approaches for measuring the brain’s chemistry a cell at a time
Thur. Apr. 4	Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley Strategies and Tactics Inspired by Complex Alkaloids
Mon. Apr. 8	Zohrab Ahmadi, University of Victoria Mechanistic insight into homogeneous catalytic reactions by ESI-MS
Thur. Apr. 11	Jonathan Strobl, University of Victoria The Role of Supporting Electrolyte in the Electroxidation of Formic Acid on Au
Mon. Apr. 15	Natasha O'Rourke, University of Victoria Mechanistic Investigation of Orthogonal Transformations of Bis-Vinyl Ether Substrates
Thur. Apr. 18	Chemistry Industrial Speaker James Wilkin, Industrial Research Assistance Program, NRC Chemistry - for careers and innovation
Mon. Apr. 22	Robert Mawhinney, Lakehead University A Quantum Based Parameter for Describing the Inductive Effect

Fall 2011

Date	Speaker
Thur Sept 8	Matthew Cook, Queens' University, Belfast Sigmatropic Rearrangements to Build Molecular Complexity
Mon Sept 12	Allan East, University of Regina Two Recent Theoretical Chemistry Projects: Molten BiCl³ and Carbocations
Thurs Sept 15	Travis Williams, University of Southern California Toward a Bifunctional Catalyst for Hydride Manipulation
Mon Sept 19	Colin Nuckolls, Columbia University Reaction Chemistry, Self-Assembly and Properties of Nano-structured Forms of Carbon
Mon Sept 26	Brian Wilson, University Health Network, Toronto Advances in the Applications of Optical Sciences and Technologies to Biomedical and Clinical Medicine, with Focus on Cancer
Mon Oct 3	Jan Weigand, University of Muenster, Germany Phosphorus Cations as Synthetic Targets - From Fundamentals to Application
Thur Oct 6	Makoto Fujita, The University of Tokyo The Structure and Function of Self-assembled Coordination Architectures: Lessons from Nature
Mon Oct 17	Jothir Pichaandi, UVic student Synthesis and Surface Modification of Luminescent Nanocrystals: Their Performance and Potential as Prospective Biolabels
Mon Oct 24	Kevin Smith, UBC Okanagan Exploring Reversible Chromium-Alkyl Bond Homolysis with Well-Defined CpCr(Nacnac)(R) Complexes
Mon Oct 31	Katherine Davies, UVic student Iterative Synthesis of Oligo-Vinyl Ethers
Mon Nov 7	Richard J. Saykally, UC Berkeley cancelled
Thur Nov 10	Joe Wang, UVic student Flow-directed self-assembly of block copolymer micelles in microfluidic devices
Mon Nov 14	Derek Pratt, Univeristy of Ottawa The Chemistry of Radical-Trapping Antioxidants: Are Phenols Really Best?
Tues Nov 15 10:30am CLE C115	Mark Taylor, University of Toronto Noncovalent and Reversible Covalent Interactions: Fundamental Studies and Applications in Catalysis
Mon Nov 21	David Milstein, Weizmann Institute, Israel Design of Metal-catalyzed Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry
Mon Nov 28	Sam Minaker, UVic student cancelled
Tues Dec 13 11am COR B112	Benoît Moreau, Boehringer-Ingelheim Asymmetric Snthesis of Cyclopropane Amino Acids (with application to the synthesis of corontine) and Discovery of New Iron-Catalyzed Reactions

Spring 2012

Date	Speaker
Thurs Jan 12	Charles Walsby, SFU The Role of Biomolecule Interactions in the Prodrug Behaviour of Ru(III) Anticancer Complexes
Mon Jan 16	Gren Patey, UBC rescheduled
Mon Jan 23	Paul Weiss, UCLA cancelled
Thurs Feb 2	Rajesh Odedra, Seastar Chemicals Inc. TBA
Mon Feb 6	Norbert Braun, Symrise Singapore Fragrances and Flavours - Chemistry Touching Your Senses
Thurs Feb 9	Ting Yu, UVic student Detection of EGFR Biomarkers for Lung Cancers using SPR Nanohole Arrays
Mon Feb 13	Andrew Dambenieks, UVic student Self-assembly in Ion Channel Design
Thurs Feb 16	Sam Minaker, UVic student Development of Tools for Reading the Histone Code
Mon Feb 20	Julianne Gibbs-Davis, University of Alberta The Noncovalent Chemistry of Confinement: From DNA Recognition to Buried Interfaces
Thurs Feb 23	Gren Patey, University of British Columbia Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation: Insights from Computer Simulation
Mon Feb 27	Joelle Pelletier, Université de Montréal Harnessing enzymes for biocatalysis, antibiotic discovery and understanding drug resistance
Thurs Mar 1	Daniel Collins, UVic student A versatile platform for the exploration of new electrodes and electronic materials
Wed Mar 7 7:30 pm ELL 167	Lansdowne Public Seminar Paul McEuen, Cornell University The Future of Small
Thurs Mar 8	Lansdowne Chemistry Seminar Paul McEuen, Cornell University Nanotubes and Graphene: Blurring the Boundaries of Hard and Soft Matter
Mon Mar 12	Mohammad Movassaghi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Complex Alkaloid Total Synthesis
Thurs Mar 15	Caleb Bromba, UVic student Synthetic Investigation of Pharmacore-Protein Interactions Leading to Potential Therapeutics
Mon Mar 19	Stephen Leone, UC Berkeley and LBNL Attosecond Electron Dynamics in Atoms and Molecules
Thurs Mar 22	Amanda Whiting, UVic student Synthesis and study of protein structure mimics for binding biologically relevant cations
Mon Mar 26	Abdel Hidalgo, UVic/TRU student Theoretical Determination of Physico-Chemical Properties of Perfluorinated Compounds
Thurs Mar 29	Krista Morrow, UVic student [2+2]-Cycloadditions of Unsaturated Substrates at a Ruthenium-Phosphorus Pi-Bond
Mon Apr 2	Ben Feringa, University of Groningen From Molecules to Dynamic Molecular Systems
Thurs Apr 5	Julia Bobak, UVic student Non-covalent chemical modification of graphene
Thurs Apr 19	Jillian Buriak, University of Alberta and NINT The self-assembly of block copolymer templates for nanolithography of inorganic materials
Mon Apr 23	Andrew Bennet, Simon Fraser University Influenza Neuraminidases—the 'N' in H5N1—Are Current Therapeutics Really Transition State Analogues
Mon May 14 3 pm ELL 062	Robert Hilts, Grant MacEwan University Soluble Organic Compounds in the Tagish Lake Meteorite

Fall 2010

Date	Speaker
Thurs Sept 9	Christopher Rowan, UVic student DFT interband optical properties of Ag/PVDF nanocomposites
Mon Sept 13	Michael Marletta, University of California, Berkeley Building Selective Diatomic Gas Sensors: Nature’s Way
Mon Sept 20	Jennifer Pape, UVic student From Super-hydrated Ions to Emerging Contaminants
Mon Sept 27	Lloyd Smith , University of Wisconsin-Madison New Technologies for the Genome Age
Mon Oct 4	Robert Sacci, UVic student Electrooxidation of Carbon Monoxide and Formic acid on Palladium
Thur Oct 7	Aaron Massari, University of Minnesota Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Organic Electronic Materials
Mon Oct 18	Stan Brown, Queen's University, ON Development of metal ion-catalyzed alcoholysis as a rapid methodology for the destruction of organophosphorus chemical weapons, their simulants and pesticides.
Mon Oct 25	Dan Gamelin, University of Washington Unusual Photoluminescence Phenomena in Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Mon Nov 1	Shih-Yuan Liu, University of Oregon Developing the basic science and applications of boron(B)-nitrogen(N)-containing heterocycles
Mon Nov 8	Floyd Romesberg, Scripps Expansion of the Genetic Alphabet
Mon Nov 15	Mitchell Winnik, University of Toronto Novel Nanostructures via BlockCopolymer Self Assembly
Mon Nov 22	Phillip Jessop, Queen's University Fizzy Liquids and Dispersible Powders: Unexpected Consequences of Simple CO2 Chemistry

Spring 2011

Date	Speaker
Mon Jan 10	Trevor Hayton, University of California, Santa Barbara Oxo ligand functionalization in the uranyl ion
Thurs Jan 13	Robert J. McMahon, University of Wisconsin, Madison Synthesis and Characterization of Organic Glassy Materials with Exceptional Stability
Mon Jan 17	Shaun Hall, UVic student Orientation of molecules at surfaces from nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy and molecular simulations
Mon Jan 24	Joanne Moszynski, UVic student The synthesis and characterization of diphenylacetylene containing ion channels
Mon Feb 7	Raymond Kapral, University of Toronto Chemically-Powered Synthetic Self-Propelled Nanomotors
Wed Feb 9 ECS 125	Robert Young, Simon Fraser University - Disinguished Alumni A Good Drug is Hard To Find: A Perfect One is Even Harder - The Discovery of Singulair
Mon Feb 14	Xiaoqiang Zhang, UVic student Surface enhanced Raman scattering from bow tie and cross bow tie apertures
Thurs Feb 17	James McCusker, Michigan State University Zero-field Spin Polarization Effects on the Physical and Photophysical Properties of Molecules
Mon Feb 21	Teri Odom, Northwestern University All Things Pyramids: New Platforms for Imaging and Sensing
Mon Feb 28	Gerhard Erker, University of Münster Frustrated Lewis Pairs: Metal-free Hydrogen Activation and More
Mon Mar 7	Jun Ye, University of Colorado Polar molecules in the quantum regime
Mon Mar 14	Keith Abel, UVic student Colloidal lead chalcogenide quantum dots: efforts towards developing a single photon source
Thurs Mar 17	Saman Harirchian Saei, UVic student Surface-Directed Patterning of Polymer-Nanoparticle Assemblies on Microcontact-Printed Substrates
Mon Mar 21	Christopher Cummins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Phosphorus: From the Element to Compounds Containing it
Thur Mar 24	Benoît Moreau, Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Discovery of BI 201335: A Potent and Specific Inhibitor of the Hepatitis C Virus NS3/4A Protease with Proven Antiviral Effect in Humans
Mon Mar 28	Todd Martinez, Stanford University Controlling Chemistry with Light and Force
Thurs Mar 31	Krista Vikse, UVic student ESI-MS as a Mechanistic Probe of Catalytic Organometallic Reactions
Mon Apr 4	Louis Barriault, University of Ottawa New Directions in Catalysis by Gold (I) and Synthesis of Natural Products
Thurs Apr 7	Noah Johnson, UVic student TBA
Thurs Apr 14	Jean-François Masson, University of Montreal SPR and SERS Sensors Based on Hole Arrays
Mon Apr 18	Cerize Santos, UVic student Photochromism in Bile Salts
Thurs Apr 21	Mark Zsombor, UVic student An Investigation of the Effect of Structure on Magnetoconducting Properties of Stable Radicals
Thurs Apr 28	Tim McCinnis, UVic student TBA
Mon May 2	Cindy Wang, UVic student TBA

Fall 2009

Date	Speaker
Thurs Sept 10	Nikola Basaric, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia Photoinitiated Domino Reactions of Adamantyl-phthalimides
Mon Sept 14	Jean-François Carpentier, Université de Rennes, France Discrete Complexes of Oxophilic Metals for Catalytic Polymerization Processes
Thurs Sept 17	Niloufar Behin Aein, UVic student Photochemical and Photophysical Studies of Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT) in Biphenyl Compounds
Mon Sept 21	Ekkehardt Hahn, Universität Münster, Germany Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry with Poly-NHC Ligands
Mon Sept 28	Kirk Schanze, University of Florida, Gainesville FL Photophysics of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes: Fundamental Studies and Biosensor Applications
Thurs Oct 8 4pm SCI A104	Hansjörg Grützmacher, ETH Zürich Straight Forward Routes to "Exotic" Phosphorus Compounds
Thurs Oct 15	Yunjie Xu, University of Alberta Spectroscopy of chiral molecules: from the gas phase to solution
Mon Oct 19	Kathryn Uhrich, Rutgers University, NJ Polymer Therapeutics: from PolymerDrugs to Polymeric Micelles
Mon Oct 26	Tim Giesbrecht, UVic student Determination of Aluminum in the Arctic Ocean and its use as a geochemical tracer
Mon Nov 2	Robert Cava, Princeton University, NJ Solid State Chemistry of the new Chalcogenide and Pnictide Superconductors
Mon Nov 9	Travis Trudeau, UVic student Molecular Simulation of Adsorption at Solid-Aqueous Interfaces
Thurs Nov 12	Tom Livinghouse, Montana State University, MT New Cationic and Metal Mediated Cyclization Reactions for the Synthesis of Naturally Occurring Ring Systems
Mon Nov 16	David Schriemer, University of Calgary Structural Biology with a Mass Spectrometer
Thurs Nov 19	Hao Tang, UVic student Host-Guest Dynamics for Three Different Host Systems: beta-Cyclodextrin, Cucurbit[7]uril and an Octa Acid Capsule
Mon Nov 23	Didier Bourissou, Université Paul Sabatier, France Transition Metals and Lewis Acids: A Multi-facet Association
Mon Nov 30	Thomas Huser, University of California, Davis CA Ultra-Sensitive Imaging of Cells and Cellular Organelles by Doubly-Resonant Four-Wave Mixing Microscopy
Mon Dec 7 SCI A104	Alan Heyduk, University of California, Irvine CA Bond-Activation Reactivity of Tantalum (V) Complexes with Redox-Active Ligands
Thurs Dec 10 1 pm ELL 167	Nick Oakley, UVic student Synthesis and Properties of Triazinyl Radical Systems for Multifunctional Materials Applications
Mon Dec 14 SCI A104	Gregory Scholes, University of Toronto Feynman's space-time quantum mechanics in photosynthesis

Spring 2010

Date	Speaker
Mon Jan 4	Danielle Chisholm, UVic student Charged ligands for direct ESI-MS analysis of catalytic reactions
Mon Jan 11 cancelled	Olga Sarycheva
Thurs Jan 14	Paul Ortiz de Montellano, UCSF, CA Mycobacterium tuberculosis hemoproteins and therapeutic approaches
Mon Jan 18	Michel Gravel, University of Saskatchewan Discovery of New Reactions Catalyzed by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
Thurs Jan 21	Hui Ting Zhang, UVic student Study of asphaltene aggregation by fluorescence technique
Mon Jan 25	Dmitrii Makarov, UT Austin, TX Dynamics of biomolecules at the single-molecule level: lessons from theory and computer simulations
Thurs Jan 28	Mark Lautens, University of Toronto The Synthesis of Heterocycles via Ring Forming and Ring Cleaving Reactions
Mon Feb 1 2:30pm SCI A104	Jonathan Chui, UVic student Structure-Activity Relationships of Cyclodextrin Ion Channels
Mon Feb 15	Brynn Dooley, UVic student The Incorporation of Benzonitronyl Nitroxide Radicals into Organic Open-Shell Donor-Acceptor Systems
Mon Feb 22	Dean Amantea, UVic student Synthesis and Characterization of Ion Channels: Green Metrics Analysis
Mon Mar 1	Ulrich Krull, UofT Mississauga Optical biosensing at the nanoscale - polymer brushes on planar surfaces and quantum dots for control of nucleic acid hybridization
Mon Mar 8	Peter Caravan, Harvard Medical School, MA Coordination Chemistry, Dynamics, and Biomedical MRI
Mon Mar 15	Bart Nowak, UVic student Synthesis, Redox Activity, and Chemical Utility of Second-Generation Metal-Verdazyl Complexes
Thurs Mar 18	David Vocadlo, Simon Fraser University Chemical biology tools to study protein O-glycosylation in cells and tissues
Thurs Mar 25 11:30am SSM A110	Lansdowne Chemistry Lecture: Jonathan Sessler, UT Austin, TX Synthesis and applications of expanded porphyrins
Thurs Mar 25 7:30pm SCI A104	Lansdowne Public Lecture: Jonathan Sessler, UT Austin, TX Receptors for potentially hazardous materials
Mon Mar 29	Brad Moore, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD Genomics-inspired discovery and engineering of natural products
Thurs Apr 8	Olga Sarycheva, UVic student Investigation of phenanthroline linked dihydropyrenes as photochromes
Mon Apr 12 SCI A104	Michelle Paquette, UVic student Designing Optically Switchable Multifunctional Materials Based on Photochromic Spirooxazine Ligands
Thurs Apr 15 SCI A104	Andrew Chou, UVic student Development of nanoholes-based sensors for early detection of ovarian cancer
Mon Apr 19 SCI A104	Liang Li, University of Alberta Development and Applications of Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry for Comprehensive Proteome and Metabolome Profiling of Biological Systems
Thurs Apr 22 SCI A104	Chris Chapman, UVic student Mean Field and Quantum Studies of Mixed Azobenzene-Alkylthiol Monolayers
Mon Apr 26 SCI A104	Jin Zou, UVic student The synthesis, characterization and reactivity of Lanthanide complexes with Carbazole bisoxazoline ligands
Thurs Apr 29 SCI A104	Dirk Guldi, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Nanotubes See the Light
Mon May 3 cancelled	Chris Rowan
Thurs May 6	Steve Hansen, UVic student Electrodialysis using supported liquid membranes
Mon May 10 SCI A104	Paul Chirik, Cornell University, NY Modern Alchemy: Catalysis with Iron and Cobalt

Fall 2008

15 Sep	Khurshid Ayub, University of Victoria "The Metacyclophanediene to Dihydropyrene Rearrangement - The Nature of the Transition State"
29 Sep	Professor Scott Prosser, University of Toronto "Approaches to the Study of Protein Action by 19F NMR - Mutagenesis Free Approaches to Assignment and 19F-Edited Schemes for Structure Studies"
06 Oct	Simon Birnie-Lefcovitch, University of Victoria "In Situ Spectroscopic Studies of Cysteine Adsorbed on Silver Electrodes"
THURS 16 Oct	Professor Steven Holdcroft, Simon Fraser University "Model Polymers for Morphological Studies of Fuel Cell Membranes"
20 Oct	Professor Stephen Withers, UBC Merck-Frosst Lecture "Engineering and evolution of old enzymes for new tasks: glycoside assembly"
27 Oct	Professor Paula Diaconescu, University of California, Los Angeles "Reactivity of inert bonds with electrophilic ferrocene diamide complexes"
03 Nov	Jason Anema,University of Victoria "Enhanced Raman Scattering from Nanostructured Surfaces"
10 Nov	Marie-Pascale Manseau, University of Victoria "Upconverting Biolabels for the Near-Infrared"
20 Nov	Professor Tom Ziegler, University of Calgary "Approaching Chemistry from First Principles with the Help of Density Functional Theory"
24 Nov	Professor Michael Sailor, University of California, San Diego "Chemistry and Materials Science of Porous Silicon Applied to Sensing, Microfluidics, and Medicine"
01 Dec	Dr. Deepak Shukla, Kodak Research Laboratories, N.Y. "Structural Effects in Naphthalene Diimide Based Organic Thin Film Transistors: Effect of Configurational control on Charge Mobility"
08 Dec	Jakub Drnec, University of Victoria "Ionic layers on Platinum Surfaces: How tasty can platinum be?"

Spring 2009

05 Jan	Professor Nancy Levinger, Colorado State University "Exploring the impact of confinement on chemistry: a multifaceted approach"
12 Jan	Professor Heather Maynard, UCLA "Synthesis of Well-Defined Polymers by Controlled Radical Polymerizations for Site-Specific Conjugation to Proteins"
19 Jan	Professor Karine Auclair, McGill University "Our Fight Against Aminoglycoside Antibiotic Resistance"
26 Jan	Dr. Richard Tillyer, Merck Research Laboratories, NY "Platform Technologies in Process Research and Development"
02 Feb	Yunyong Guo, University of Victoria "Synthesis, Characterization and Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Quantum Dots with Mixed Polymer Brush Layers"
05 Feb	Dr. Byron Gates, Simon Fraser University "Investigations into the Surface Chemistry of Nanoscale Materials"
09 Feb	Meikun Fan, University of Victoria "Metallic nanoparticles as SERS substrates"
Thurs 12 Feb	Dr. Rich Carter, Oregon State University "Development of Novel Approaches to the Synthesis of Structurally Complex Natural Products and Non-natural Compounds"
16 Feb	Tyler Trefz, University of Victoria "Redox and Coordination Chemistry of disubstituted 1, 4-Quinones"
23 Feb	Kevin Anderson, University of Victoria "Electronic communication in verdazyl-based metal-radical complexes"
Thurs 26 Feb	Dr. Dustin Maly, University of Washington, Seattle "Affinity- and Activity-Based Probes for Analyzing Protein Kinase Function"
02 Mar	Professor William Evans, UC Irvine "The Importance of Questioning Scientific Assumptions: Lessons from Lanthanide and Actinide Chemistry"
09 Mar	Professor Laren Tolbert, Georgia Institute of Technology "The green fluorescent protein: Taking it apart and putting it back together"
16 Mar	Professor Barney Ellison, University of Colorado at Boulder "Marine Aerosols, Organic Radicals, and a Molecular View of Cloud Formation"
Thurs 19 Mar	Matt Henderson, University of Victoria "Method development and catalyst discovery by ESI-MS"
26 Mar	Professor Andre Charette, University of Montreal "Recent Advances in Stereoselective Synthesis and Catalysis"
30 Mar	Professor Barry Trost, Stanford University "On Inventing Reactions for Atom Economy"
06 Apr	Professor Brian Stoltz, California Institute of Technology CANCELLED
Thurs 09 Apr	Yunyan Hou, University of Victoria "New Photochemistry with Anthraquinones"
Thurs 16 Apr	Pengrong Zhang, University of Victoria "Photochromic and aromatic properties of selected dimethyldihydropyrene derivatives"
20 Apr	Steve McKinnon, University of Victoria title TBA
23 Apr	Professor Edward Solomon, Stanford University "Spectroscopic Methods in Bioinorganic Chemistry: Blue to Green to Red Copper Sites"
27 Apr	Cunhai Dong, University of Victoria "Synthesis and Reactivity of Lanthanide Fluoride Nanoparticles and their Application as MRI Contrast Agents"
30 Apr	Bin Yan, University of Victoria "Magnetic conducting polymers: synthesis and properties of triazinyl open-shell polymers"

Fall 2007

17 Sep	Dr. Madeleine Jouillé, University of Pennsylvania "Synthetic Studies of Heterocyclic Natural Products"
27 Sep Thurs ECS 116	Dr. Ulrich Fekl, University of Toronto - Mississauga "Intriguing reactivity at co-ordinated ligands: Facile formation of carbon-sulfur bonds during alkene reactions of nickel and molybdenum dithiolenes"
04 Oct Thurs ECS 116	Dr. Heiko Ihmels, Universitat Siegen "Variations on aromatic azonia- and diazoniapolycyclic derivatives: From intercalation into duplex DNA to selective association with triplex- and quadruplex-DNA and topoisomerase inhibition"
11 Oct Thurs ECS 116	Dr. William Lubell, University of Montreal "Pyrroles, peptide mimics and the teaching of under-represented populations: New challenges in chemistry and education:
18 Oct Thurs ECS 116	Dr. Aurora Clark, Washington State University "The Unique Photophysical Properties of Organic Aggregates"
22 Oct	Dr. Julius Rebek Jr., Scripps Research Institute "The Inner Space of Molecules"
05 Nov	Dr. Richard McCreery, University of Alberta "Building Functional Electronic Devices from Molecular Components"
15 Nov Thurs ECS 116	Horace Luong,University of Victoria "Solid-Phase Synthesis of Ion Channels"
19 Nov	Dr. Mary-Anne White, Dalhousie University "Thermoelectrics: New Materials by Design?"
29 Nov Thurs ECS 116	Dr. Deryn Fogg, University of Ottawa "Shining Light into a Black Box: Perspectives on Transfomations in Catalysis"
03 Dec	Dr. Gary Drobny, University of Washington "Solid State NMR Studies of Proteins at Biomaterial Interfaces"
13 Dec Thurs CLE A - 311	Dr. Colin Nuckolls, Columbia University "Reaction Chemistry meets Lithography"

Spring 2008

07 Jan	Joe Gilroy, University of Victoria "The Chemistry of Formazans"
14 Jan	Dr. Michael Blades, University of British Columbia "Applications of Raman Spectroscopy in the Life Sciences"
21 Jan	Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz, Queen's University "Interfacial Electrochemistry of Platinum: Something Old, Something New, and Something Unexpected"
28 Jan	Timothy Connolly, Bristol-Myers Squibb "Water Soluble Prodrugs of Ravuconazole"
04 Feb	Dr. Graham George, University of Saskatchewan "From Functional to Fatal - Probing the Chemistry of Metals in Biology using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy"
11 Feb	Dr. Robert Waymouth, Stanford University "Organocatalysis: Strategies for Controlled Polymerization Reactions"
18 Feb	Dr. Mark Andrews, McGill University " Guided Wave Self-Inscription in Photosensitive Network Glasses"
28 Feb Thurs 11am MEDS 160	Dr. Edward Yeung, Ames National Laboratory "Detection and Characterization of Single Biomolecules"
03 Mar	Eric Derrah, University of Victoria "A Ruthenium Phosphido Complex and Advances Toward Hydrophosphination"
10 Mar	Tamara Pace, University of Victoria "Dynamics of Guests Bound to Biomolecules"
13 Mar Thurs MEDS 160	Dr. Darren Johnson, University of Oregon "Main Group Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry"
17 Mar	Dr. Klaus Muellen, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research "Structural Hierarchies in Materials Chemistry"
27 Mar Thurs MEDS 160	Dr. Robert Britton, Simon Fraser University "Old Reactions, New Applications"
31 Mar	Dr. Shana Kelly, University of Toronto "Nanostructured Materials as Ultrasensitive Cellular and Molecular Sensors"
07 Apr COR A-229	Dr. Andrew Hamilton, Yale University Merck-Frosst Lecture "Synthetic approaches to the disruption of protein-protein interactions"
14 Apr COR A-229	Dr. Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology Lansdowne Lecturer "The Currents of Life: Electron Flow through Proteins"
15 Apr TUES 7:30 pm DSB - C-103	Dr. Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology LANSDOWNE PUBLIC LECTURE "Powering the Planet with Solar Energy"
17 Apr Thurs CLE A-311	Dr. William Tolman, University of Minnesota "Using synthetic chemistry to understand copper and iron protein active sites"

24 Apr Thurs ELL 061	Keri McQuinn, University of Victoria "Water Clusters - ESI-MS Investigation of Nanodroplets in the Gas Phase"
28 Apr Mon ELL 061	Simon Oakley, University of Victoria "Novel Derivatives of Indigo as a Bridging Ligand"

Fall 2006

18 Sep	Dr. Hugh Cartwright, University of Oxford TBA
25 Sep	Dr. Dan Wayner, National Research Council Canada TBA
02 Oct	Dr. Ann English, Concordia University TBA
12 Oct Thurs	Dr. James Boncella, Los Alamos National Laboratory TBA
16 Oct	Dr. Michel Gagné, University of N. Carolina Chapel Hill TBA
19 Oct Thurs	Dr. David Tierney, University of New Mexico TBA
23 Oct	Dr. Patrick Holland, University of Rochester TBA
30 Oct	Dr. David Walba, University of Colorado, Boulder TBA
06 Nov	Dr. Clifford Leznoff, York University "Strategies for the Synthesis of Phthalocyanines: Past, Present and Future"
20 Nov	Dr. Garry Hanan, University of Montreal TBA
04 Dec	Dr. Paul Corkum, National Research Council Canada TBA
14 Dec	Dr. Michael Gelb, University of Washington TBA

Spring 2007

22 Jan	Dr. Molly Shoichet, University of Toronto TBA
05 Feb	Dr. Anna Ritcey, Université Laval TBA
12 Feb	Dr. M.G. Finn, Scripps Research Institute TBA
26 Feb	Dr. Sunney Xie, Harvard University TBA
12 Mar	Dr. Thomas Moore, Arizona State University TBA
26 Mar	Dr.Michael Georges, University of Toronto TBA
10 Apr	Dr. Michael Haley, University of Oregon TBA
23 Apr	Dr. John Simon, Duke University TBA

Spring 2006

09 Jan	Dr. Nongjian Tao, Arizona State University "Controlling electron transport in single molecules"
16 Jan	Dr. Derek Gates, University of British Columbia "Putting P into Polymers: Synthetic Approaches to Functional Phosphorus Macromolecules"
23 Jan	Dr. Teri Odom, Northwestern University "Manipulating light in nanohole arrays and nanoparticles"
30 Jan	Dr. Robert Schurko, University of Windsor "Observing the "Invisible" Nucleus: NMR of unreceptive nuclei in inorganic, organometallic and other solid materials"
06 Feb	Dr.Bruce Arndtsen, McGill University "Palladium catalyzed multicomponent reactions: New routes to heterocycle and amino acid synthesis"
13 Feb	Dr. Vicki Colvin, Rice University "Safe Nanotechnology: Implications and Applications of Nanomaterials"
27 Feb	Dr. Francois Gabbai, Texas A&M University "Fluoride complexation by polydentate Lewis acids"
06 Mar	Dr. Andrew Gewirth, University of Illinois "Studies of Metal Surface-Molecular Interactions Relevant to Fuel Cell Catalysis"
13 Mar	Dr.Maurice Brookhart, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Catalytic Transformations based on Transition Metal Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Activation Reactions"
20 Mar	Dr. Richard Crooks, University of Texas at Austin "Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Applications of 1-3 nm-Diameter Dendrimer-Encapsulated Nanoparticles"
27 Mar	Dr. Robert Lipson, University of Western Ontario "Fabricating Photonic Crystals with Light, for Light Applications"
30 Mar Thurs ELL 162	Sri Sivakumar, University of Victoria "Lanthanide-Based Nanophotonic Materials"
03 Apr	Dr. Wilson Ho, University of California, Irvine "The Interior of Single Molecules"
10 Apr CLE. A-201	Dr. Royce Murray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Size-Dependent Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Monolayer Protected Gold Clusters"
13 Apr Thurs. ELL 162	Dr. Nelaine Mora-Diez, Thompson Rivers University "Computational calculations of equilibrium constants of organic compounds"
18 Apr Tues. ELL 062	Dr.Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto "Microfluidic reactors for polymer particles"
24 Apr ELL 062	Sharon Caldwell, University of Victoria "Synthesis and Characterization of Bis-bidentate para-Dioxolenes Towards Molecular Magnets"
04 May Thurs. HSD A-240	Dr. Victor Snieckus, Queen's University Merck-Frosst Lecturer "Lithium as a Conduit to Synthetic Aromatic Chemistry"
08 May DSB C-112	Tao Wang, University of Victoria "Mechanism Elucidation using the Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance (EQCM)"

Spring 2005

10 Jan	Dr. Sylvie Morin, York University "Study of Low-Dimensional, Electrodeposited Metal Nanostructures and Thin Films"
17 Jan	Bryan Koivisto, University of Victoria "Metal-Verdazyl Radical Interactions: Towards Molecular-Based Magnets"
24 Jan	Dan Myles, University of Victoria "Synthesis and Electronic Properties of Sulfur-Bridged Thiophene Oligomers"
31 Jan	Dr. Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz, University of Saskatchewan "Bio-organometallic Peptide Conjugates: Adventures in Electron Transfer"
07 Feb	Dr. Neil Branda, Simon Fraser University "Molecular switching to control structure and function"
14 Feb	Dr. George Christou, University of Florida "Single-molecule magnets: A molecular approach to nanoscale magnetic materials"
21 Feb	Dr. Robert E. Campbell, University of Alberta "Expanding the fluorescent protein tool kit: new colors, sensors, and FRET pairs"
28 Feb	Dr. Harald Stöver, McMaster University "Study of structured microspheres: Towards tiny onions"
07 Mar	Professor Dr. Joel C. Rubim, Universidade de Brasília "Analysis of Biodiesel and Diesel by Fourier Transform Infrared, Near Infrared, and Raman Spectroscopy"
14 Mar	Dr. Seth Marder, Georgia Institute of Technology "Recent advances in two-photon absorbing materials"
21 Mar	Dr. Younan Xia, University of Washington "Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials"
31 Mar THUR ELL 168	Dr. Vincent Rotello, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Nanoparticles: scaffolds and building blocks"
04 Apr	Dr. John Hartwig, Yale University MERCK FROSST LECTURE "A synergy between synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry"
11 Apr CUNN 146	Christine Tong, University of Victoria "A model for the self-assembly of palladium bipyridine complexes"
18 Apr	Dr. Christopher Chidsey, Stanford University "Interfacial assembly and control of electron transfer using the 'click' reaction"
22 Apr FRI ELL 160	Dr. Andrew Weller, University of Bath "The transition metal chemistry of "greasy ball anions": from pseudo alkane complexes to high-hydride content clusters"
25 Apr	Wei Fan, University of Victoria "The syntheses and photochromism of cyclopent[e]dimethyldihydropyrene anion and its metal complexes"
26 Apr TUES 10:30 AM ELL 060	Dr. Heiko Ihmels, University of Siegen "Can old dogs learn new tricks? - Fluorescence detection of cations, anions and biomacromolecules with anthracene and quinolizinium derivatives"
28 Apr THUR	Rob Cheyne, University of Victoria "Hierarchical block co-polymer/quantum dot surface features via self-assembly at the air-water interface"
02 May	Dr. Michael Rubner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Bio-inspired polyelectrolyte multilayers: From pH-gated Bragg reflectors to patterned superhydrophobic surfaces"
09 May Clearihue C-110	Karen Button, University of Victoria "Divalent and trivalent lanthanide amido-oxazoline complexes"

Fall 2004

20 Sep	Dr. Hogan Yu, Simon Fraser University "New chemistry on old CD's"
30 Sep THURS Cornett B-145	Dr. Paul S. Pregosin, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland "PGSE (Diffusion) and 1H,19F HOESY NMR studies on homogeneous catalysts: Ion pairing and learning about anions"
18 Oct	Dr. Ernest McEachern, AnorMed "AMD3100: The evolution of AnorMed's first clinical CXCR4 receptor antagonist"
20 Oct WED MacLaurin D-111	Jo Wang, University of Victoria
25 Oct	Sierra Rayne, University of Victoria "Solution-phase photochemistry of dibenzo[1,4]dioxins"
01 Nov	Dr. Hélène Perreault, University of Manitoba "Glycoproteins in virology, immunology, etc., and mass spectrometry"
08 Nov	Dr. Masad J. Damha, McGill University "Development of oligonucleotide-based probes and therapeutics"
15 Nov	Dr. G. Andrew Woolley, University of Toronto "Designing photo-controlled peptides and proteins"
22 Nov	Catrin Hughes, University of Victoria
29 Nov	Dr. Douglas W. Stephan, University of Windsor "Highly active homogeneous catalysts for olefin polymerization: Molecular design, optimization and utilization"
06 Dec	Peter Diamente, University of Victoria
13 Dec	Dan Harrison, University of Victoria