Seminar Program 2009

Date	Speaker	Title

24 November	Dr Phil Barker Bluescope Steel/School of Chemistry University of Wollongong	Stay Sunsafe this Summer : A Primer in Sunscreen Selection and Functionality
7 November	Dr Fei Liu Department of Chemistry Macquarie University	Multidentate Organocatalysis in Asymmetric Synthesis
27 October	Stephen Wales School of Chemistry University of Wollongong	The Synthesis of Chiral Diamine Ligands for Stereoselective Metal Catalyses Reactions
13 October	Jane Deeley School of Chemistry University of Wollongong	Investigations into Human Lens Lipids Using Tandem Mass Spectrometric Techniques
6 October	Professor Kate Jolliffe School of Chemistry University of Sydney	Synthesis and Supramolecular Chemistry of Backbone Modified Cyclic Peptides
22 September	Professor Carl Schiesser School of Chemistry & Bio21 Molecular Science & Biotechnology Institute University of Melbourne	Marco Polo, Selenium, Drugs and Vampires
8 September	Dr Marcus Cole School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales	Hydrides, Low Valent Compounds and Carbenes - Taming High Reactivity
2 September	Professor Tzi Sum Andy Hor Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore	From Authentic Carbenes to their Mimics
18 August	Professor Chris Easton Research School of Chemistry, ANU	Cyclodextrin Nanoscale Devices
11 August	Dr Edouard Kraffe Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France	Specificity of membrane lipid compositions and their influence on the molecular activity of membrane proteins
20 July	Dr Tim Johnson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory WA, USA	Sporulated and Vegetative Bacillus Bacteria Infrared Signatures: Chemical Assignments
7 July	Dr Brandon Ruotolo Cambridge University, UK (NB: Venue 35.G20 at 11.00 a.m.)	Determining Protein Quaternary Structures using Constraints from Gas-phase Measurements
16 June	Dr Michelle Coote Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University	Computational Radical Polymerization
9 June	Dr. Craig Williams School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland	Success and Failure (or Success?): Short Stories in Natural Product Total Synthesis
19 May	Dr. Tim Schmidt, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney	Time-Resolved Spectroscopy for Third Generation Photovoltaics
5 May	Dr. Richard Payne, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney	New Strategies for the Synthesis of Post-Translationally Modified Peptides and Proteins
21 April	Dr Evan Bieske, School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne	Cold Complexes and Hot Particles - Mixing Laser Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry
31 March	Dr. Tak Kee , School of Chemistry & Physics, University of Adelaide	Elucidating Medicinal Effects of Curcumin through Understanding of Excited State Photophysics
12 March	Professor R F W Jackson, The University of Sheffield, UK	Amino Acid-Derived Organometallics: Applications and Solution Structure
26 February	Professor Stephen Hashmi, University of Heidelberg	Enantiomerically Pure Palladium and Platinum Heterocycles
20 February	Professor David Knight School of Chemistry Cardiff University, UK	Frisky protons with a silver lining: New methods in heterocyclic synthesis
5 February	Jacqui Levy, PhD Candidate, UOW	Metal-cell interactions: Investigation of the mode of toxicity of copper to microalgae, in plankton and biofilms

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Last reviewed: 18 November, 2009