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School Seminars for this year

Date Speaker Title
Fri, 30 Jan Prof. Kohei Uosaki Construction, Structure, and Functionalities of Organic Monolayers on Metal and Semiconductor Surfaces
Tue, 17 Feb Prof. David W. Knight Frisky protons with a silver lining
Tue, 24 Feb Prof. Stephen Hashmi Enantiomerically Pure Palladium and Platinum Heterocycles
Thu, 5 Mar Ibrahim Sengul New Heterocyclic Systems as Potential Drug Leads
Thu, 5 Mar Murat Bingul Synthesis of new indole structures related to indole alkaloids
Thu, 12 Mar Hakan Kandemir New Bi-indolyl Systems
Thu, 12 Mar Santosh Rajput Synthesis of novel heterocyclic analogues of isoflavones
Fri, 13 Mar Prof. Venceslav Kaucic Modified microporous and mesoporous materials and their composites
Tue, 17 Mar Prof. Michael D. Fryzuk The 33rd Dwyer Memorial Lecture - The Activation and Functionalization of Molecular Nitrogen by Transition Metal Complexes
Thu, 19 Mar Samuel Kutty Novel Nitric Oxide Donors
Thu, 19 Mar Ruonan Zhang Synthesis of novel antimicrobial agents
Thu, 26 Mar Tom Ellis Novel Discotic Liquid Crystal structures for semiconductor applications
Thu, 26 Mar Danmar Gloria SERS Imaging of Modified Gold Substrates for Arsenic Speciation
Tue, 31 Mar Prof. Istvan Toth Liposaccharide based peptide, gene and vaccine delivery systems
Thu, 2 Apr Guillaume Le Saux Modified silicon surfaces for controlled cell interactions
Thu, 2 Apr Simone Ciampi switchable Si(100) SAMs
Tue, 7 Apr Dr Tim Schmidt Time-resolved spectroscopy for third generation photovoltaics
Wed, 15 Apr Chemistry Honours 1st Session of Introductory Seminars for 2009 (10-12pm)
Wed, 15 Apr Chemistry Honours 2nd Session of Introductory Seminars for 2009 (1-3pm)
Wed, 15 Apr Chemistry Honours 3rd Session of Introductory Seminars for 2009 (3.30-5pm)
Tue, 21 Apr Dr Tamim Darwish Chemical Deuteration at the Australian National Deuteration Facility
Thu, 23 Apr Nadim Darwish Norbornylogous Bridges for Surface Electron Transfer Measurements
Thu, 23 Apr Frank Qu New Indole Cyclization Reactions
Tue, 28 Apr Dr Chiara Neto Nanoscale Studies of the Flow and Stability of Liquid Films
Thu, 7 May Hong Qiao Novel Photonic Crystal Biosensors based on Porous silicon
Thu, 14 May Bradley Man N-X (X=O, N) Donor Ligands for Catalysis and Protein Structure Determination
Thu, 14 May Ruth Devakaram Synthesis of New Heterocylic Compounds derived from Flavones and Isoflavones
Tue, 19 May Dr Nilay Hazari C-H Bond Activation and Functionalization using Palladium Complexes and Molecular Oxygen
Thu, 21 May Katie Tong Anion Responsive Self-assembled Gels From pyromellitiamide Gelators
Thu, 21 May Daniel Goldstein The Development of Light Activated Enzyme Electrodes for Bioelectronic Applications
Thu, 28 May Alicia Gui A comparison of Aryl diazonium salts reductively adsorbed onto gold and carbon surfaces
Thu, 28 May Joanne Ho Bimetallic Catalyst System for Tandem Reactions
Fri, 29 May Prof. Anthony Forster Protein synthesis chemistry, synthetic biology and drug discovery
Thu, 4 Jun Alex Wu An In-Situ Study on Superhydrophobic Thin Films: Air Inclusion
Thu, 4 Jun Kasey Wood Reactions of 3-substituted Indoles: Synthesis of New Heterocylic Systems
Thu, 11 Jun Albert Ng Switchable surfaces for cell biology
Thu, 11 Jun Sara Bernard (Honours Final Seminar) Sigma alkane complexes
Thu, 11 Jun Erika Davies (Honours Final Seminar) Developing Methods for Understanding Water Status: From Food to Ionic Liquids
Thu, 18 Jun Hon Man Yau Rationalising Reaction Outcomes in Ionic Liquids Through Investigation of Substitution Processes
Thu, 18 Jun Pauline Michaels Towards the application of a DNA Biosensor
Tue, 23 Jun Dr Donal Leech Mediated Biocatalysis: From Biosensors to Biopower (via BioBleaching)
Thu, 25 Jun Renxun Chen Novel antimicrobial biomaterials based on cationic peptides
Thu, 25 Jun Joshua Ginges Blocking Electrochemical Sensor Technology
Thu, 23 Jul Till Gruendling Accurate Individual Molecular Weight Distributions from Mixtures of Polymers via SEC/ESI-MS
Thu, 23 Jul William Rouesnel How I learned to stop worrying and love the nanocube
Thu, 30 Jul Maggie Ng Highly Porous Metal-organic and Covalent Frameworks
Thu, 30 Jul Nam Trung Tuong Solvothermal Synthesis of Photocatalytic Nanostructures
Tue, 4 Aug Dr Richard Payne New Strategies for the Synthesis of Glycopeptides and Glycoproteins
Thu, 6 Aug Mohammad Choucair Novel Routes to Carbon Nanostructures
Thu, 6 Aug Adeline Lukmantara Synthesis and Structure-Activity Relationship Studies of Thiosemicarbazone Iron Chelators Series
Thu, 13 Aug Samantha Furfari Adventures with Heavy Group 13 Hydrides
Thu, 13 Aug David Hvasanov Membrane-bound Light Harvesting Bioconjugates as Chloroplast Mimics
Thu, 20 Aug Ellaine Munton Improved calibration and measurement uncertainty estimation for routine GC-C-IRMS measurements for the detection of steroid abuse
Thu, 20 Aug Kitty Ho Novel Antimicrobial Biomaterials Based on Dihydropyrrol-2-ones
Tue, 25 Aug Prof. Samuel Stupp Crafting Organic Molecules for Self-Assembly The 2009 Andrews Lectures - Lecture 1
Wed, 26 Aug Prof. Samuel Stupp Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Soft and Hybrid Materials The 2009 Andrews Lectures - Lecture 2
Thu, 27 Aug Rima Khoury Multi-way models of multi-way interactions between metal ions and oligopeptides
Thu, 27 Aug Prof. Samuel Stupp Supramolecular Structures for Regenerative Medicine The 2009 Andrews Lectures - Lecture 3
Wed, 2 Sep Prof. Sally Brooker Heterocycle-based ligands and complexes: design, self-assembly and spin crossover
Thu, 3 Sep Rui Chen Novel diindolyl macrocyclic structures derived from indole imines
Tue, 8 Sep Dr Matthew Hill Porous Inorganic Materials for Renewable Energy Storage Applications
Tue, 15 Sep Dr Kathleen Mullen Anion Templated Assembly of Interlocked Host Structures in Solution and on Solid Supports
Wed, 16 Sep Mid-Year Chemistry Honours Introductory Seminars Speakers: Ethan How (Thordarson Group) Natalie Tew (Hibbert Group)
Thu, 17 Sep Ryan Gilbert-Wilson The use of steric factors in the quest for nitrogen fixation by group 8 metals with phosphine ligands
Fri, 18 Sep Dr Kulwinder Saini RNA interference (RNAi) as an emerging technology in New Drug Discovery Research
Thu, 24 Sep Chockalingam Muthukamar The development of cell-based biosensors with dual optical and electrochemical readout
Thu, 24 Sep Taj Khan Synthesis of new fused heterocyclic systems
Tue, 29 Sep Dr Martin C. Feiters Bioinspired Biomimetic Supramolecular Chemistry
Thu, 1 Oct Thi Oanh Nguyen Catalysed amine synthesis
Thu, 1 Oct Eleanor Eiffe The synthesis of novel, biologically active isoflavone analogues
Thu, 8 Oct Abdel Khazaly Novel Antitumor Chemotherapy: Bisintercalating DNA Threading Agents as Transcription Inhibitors
Thu, 8 Oct Marina Timerbulatova Bimetallic Catalyst Systems for C-C and N-C Bond Formation
Thu, 15 Oct Naomi Khor Label-Free Electrochemical Immuno-Biosensor for Drug Detection
Thu, 15 Oct Bin Guan Porous Silicon Microparticle Biosensors: Towards Single Cell Sensing
Tue, 20 Oct Dr Michael Kelso Two for the Price of One − Dual Action Hybrid Drugs and Prodrugs
Wed, 21 Oct CHEM3101 Project Lab Students CHEM3101 Project Lab Poster Presentations
Thu, 22 Oct CHEM3101 Project Lab Students CHEM3101 Project Lab Oral Presentations
Thu, 22 Oct Chandramathi ShermanDurai Design & Synthesis of DNA Binding Agents Using Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry
Thu, 22 Oct Arif Nadeem Highly porous metal-organic frameworks:functional materials by form and design
Fri, 23 Oct 2nd & 3rd Year U/G Various Speakers Special Project in Chemistry Seminars 10-2pm
Mon, 26 Oct Chemistry Honours Final Seminars Final Seminars - Various Speakers
Tue, 27 Oct Dr Christopher Sumby Incorporating Additional Functionality into Metallo-supramolecular Assemblies and Metal-Organic Frameworks
Thu, 29 Oct Camille Rosella Towards stable alkane sigma complexes
Thu, 29 Oct Leo Lai Electrodes Without Wires
Thu, 5 Nov Ivan Taylor Mass Spectrometric and Density Functional Study of Gas-Phase Models of the 2-His-1-Carboxylate Motif
Thu, 5 Nov Fehmida Kanodarwala Synthesis of Quantum Dots & Metal Phosphides
Thu, 12 Nov Prof. Peter Junk Some Recent Highlights in Rare Earth Chemistry
Tue, 17 Nov Prof. Sandro Gambarotta Reducing the irreducible: using ligands with electron storage capability
Thu, 26 Nov Dr. Paul Donnelly RACI Alan Sargeson Lecture Coordination Chemistry in Biology: Metal Complexes in Diagnosis and Therapy

Note: "TBA" = To be announced.