Chemistry Seminars - 2019
- Date: Tue, 1 Jan - Tue, 31 Dec 2019
- Location: MacBeth Lecture Theatre - Badger building
- Cost: FREE
- Contact: Dr Christopher Newton 08 8313 5308
- Email: christopher.newton@adelaide.edu.au
Researchers from the Department of Chemistry host regular seminars to showcase their work across applied projects in health, environment, energy technology and defence.
Academics and students from collaborative institutions are also invited to share their research and knowledge when visiting our department and school.
The seminars are open to the public, industry, researchers from other departments, schools and universities, and to current and past students.
Seminar schedule - Department of Chemistry
- Location: MacBeth Lecture Theatre - Badger building | Map
- Time: 1:00 - 2:00pm (unless otherwise stated)
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| Friday August 30 |
Jun Lee PhD student - University of Adelaide |
Development of new antibiotics based on biotin biology |
| Thursday (12pm) September 5 |
Professor Michelle Coote Australia National University |
Catalyzing and controlling chemical reactions with electric fields |
| Friday September 6 |
Rouven Becker PhD student - University of Adelaide |
Design and synthesis of cadherin antagonists for the inhibition of cell adhesion |
| Friday September 13 |
Associate Professor Simon Humphrey The University of Texas at Austin |
Phosphine-arsine and chalcogenide-based MOFs and unusual noble metal alloy nanocatalysts |
| Friday September 20 |
Dr Christopher Hyland University of Wollongong |
Synthesis and transition metal-catalysed reactivity of allenyloxazolidinones |
| Friday September 27 |
Professor Michael Yu The University of Queensland |
Nanoparticles designed for delivery and therapeutic applications: from transporters to transformers |
| Monday September 30 |
Professor Susumu Kitagawa |
Fourth generation (4G) porous coordination polymers/metal-organic frameworks |
| Thursday (4pm) October 3 |
Ruth Wang PhD student - University of Adelaide |
Proteomic and structural characterisation of snake venom proteins using mass spectrometry |
| Friday October 4 |
Dr Joel Hooper |
Reaction discovery via novel intermediates: Embracing the unusual in search of the useful |
| Thursday October 10 |
Rohan Hudson |
Influencing exciton migration dynamics in acene nanoparticles by tuning crystallinity |
| Friday October 11 |
Professor Min Chen University of Sydney |
How to improve photosynthesis efficiency by using modified chlorophylls |
| Monday October 14 (11am) |
Associate Professor Lisa Martin Monash University |
Uperin 3.x: A kinetically diverse family of antimicrobial & amyloidogenic peptides |
| Friday October 18 |
Associate Professor Reto Dorta |
Exploring iridium complexes; from bond activations to their use as catalysts in asymmetric hydroamination reactions |
| Friday October 25 | Hanieh Mousavi MPhil student - University of Adelaide |
Size selected gold clusters stabilised on reduced graphene oxide for electro-catalytic water splitting |
| Thursday October 31 | Dion Turner MPhil student - University of Adelaide |
Probing the β5 primed site binding channel of the proteasome with P2 extended boronate inhibitors |
| Thursday November 7 | Tania Pullin MPhil student - University of Adelaide |
Biomimetic Mineralisation of Biocompatible Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs) |
| Monday 11 November |
Professor Keith Gordon |
From ultrafast processes in solar cells to prediction of meat quality: using spectroscopy and computational methods to understand complex systems |
|
Friday |
Professor John Sader The University of Melbourne |
Interatomic force laws that evade dynamic measurement |
|
Friday |
Dr Anthony Phillips |
Structure, dynamics, and phase transformations in conventional and hybrid perovskites |
| Monday (12pm) November 25 |
Harley Betts |
Investigating the chemistry of silver in biological systems & the development of silver-containing materials for use as antibacterial agents |
| Friday (12pm) November 29 |
Dr Mark Hackett Curtin University |
To be confirmed |
| Thursday (4pm) November 28 |
Matthew Podgorski |
Understanding the coordination chemistry and mechanism of haem-monooxygenase enzymes |
| Friday (12pm) December 6 |
Dr Marcus Baumann University College Dublin |
Continuous flow chemistry - from methodology development to target molecule applications |