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20 Feb 2012 1700 Dr. Susan E Matthews School of Pharmacy, Univeristy of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Developing calixarenes as antimicrobial and drug delivery platforms
17 Feb 2012 1700 Prof. Samir Z. Zard Ecole Polytechnique , Palaiseau, France Explorations in Radical Chemistry: Some New Reactions for Organic Synthesis
16 Feb 2012 1700 Prof. Haiyan Liu School of Life Sciences,University of Science & Technology of China,Anhui, China Protein simulation: improving force field and accelerating sampling based on conformational free energies
09 Feb 2012 1700 Prof. Xin Xu Dept. of Chemistry, Fudan University A new generation density functional theory towards chemical accuracy
06 Feb 2012 1600 Prof. Anthony Davis School of Chemistry, Univeristy of Bristol, UK Biosupramolecular Chemistry: Towards Anion and Carbohydrate Receptors with Biomedical Applications
17 Jan 2012 1700 Dr. Lifeng Chi Physikalisches Institut and Center for Nanotechnology, Universitat Munster,Germany From Self-Assembly to On-Surface Reactions
16 Jan 2012 1700 Dr. Xin Tong Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbeergstrasse, Basel,Switzerland Quantum-state controlled ultracold molecular ions and their applications
11 Jan 2012 1700 Prof. WOJCIECH Bal Department of Biophysics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, PolishAcademy of Sciences,Poland. Metal dependent peptide bond hydrolysis chemical mechanisms, biological significance and biotechnological applications
09 Jan 2012 1700 Prof. Jiaxing Huang Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA Soft Carbon Sheets at Interfaces
28 Dec 2011 1600 Prof. Jennifer Lu School of Engineering, University of California, Merced, USA 1D Nanomaterials Synthesis and Applications
09 Dec 2011 1700 Prof. Weitao Yang Philip Handler Professor of Chemistry,Duke University, United States of America The Wonder of Electron Density: from Half an Electron, Half a Spin to Non-covalent Interactions of Macromolecules and Reaction Mechanisms of Enzymes
08 Dec 2011 1700 Prof. Charles W. Carter, Jr. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics ,School of Medicine, The Univeristy of North Caolina,Chapel Hill, USA Experimental Studies of modular evolution: catalysis, specificity, and intramolecular communication in Class I and Class II aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase
07 Dec 2011 1700 Prof. Eberhard K. U. Gross Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics,Halle, Germany Exact factorization of the electron nuclear wave function: A fresh look at potential energy surface
06 Dec 2011 1700 Prof. Jianbo WANG Physical Organic and Synthetic Organic Chemistry ,Peking University Cross-Coupling Reactions involving Metal Carbenes
02 Dec 2011 1700 Prof. Frederic Paul Laboratoire "Sciences Chimiques de Rennes" Universite de Rennes 1, CNRS ,France Recent Results Regarding Molecular Wires Made From Fe(Cp*)(dppe) Endgroups
01 Dec 2011 1730 Prof. Shuiming Hu Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Micro-scale,Department of Chemical Physics,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei, Determining the Boltzmann constant using a sensitive absorption spectrometer
01 Dec 2011 1700 Prof. Alain Campargue Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Micro-scale,Department of Chemical Physics,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei, Ultra -high sensitivity absorption spectroscopy of CH4, O2 and H2 in the near infrared for atmospheric and planetary science
25 Nov 2011 1700 Prof. Ivan Huc Institut Europeen de Chimie Biologie, CNRS - Universite de Bordeaux UMR5248 ,2 rue Robert Escarpit 33607, Pessac, France. Foldamers: Expanding the Chemical Space
15 Nov 2011 1700 Prof. Huchen Zhou School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Progress in the Application of Small Molecules as Anticancer Mechanistic Probes
09 Nov 2011 1700 Dr. Patrick Y.S. Lam Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery Consultant , Formerly director at Bristol Myers Squibb co. Discovery of Factor Xa Inhibitor, Eliquisr/Apixaban, as Novel Anticoagulant and Discovery of Chan-Lam Oxidative Coupling Reaction
04 Nov 2011 1600 Prof. Ivano Bertini Magnetic Resonance Centre & Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Via L. Sacconi, Fiorentino, Italy. NMR- a Flagship for the Biological Science
04 Nov 2011 1700 Prof. Takanori Fukushima Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan Nanostructured Soft Material Based on Molecular Engineering of Functional Psi- systems
01 Nov 2011 1700 Prof. Philip A. Gale Department of Chemistry, Univeristy of Southampton, United Kingdom From Anion Receptors to Transporters
21 Oct 2011 1700 Prof. Masahiro Terada Dept of Chemistry, Tohoku University, Japan Chiral Phosphoric Acids as Versatile Catalysts for Enantioselective Transformations
11 Oct 2011 1700 Prof. John R. YATES III Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute,California, U.S.A. Identifying Large Cellular Structures Using Shotgun Proteomics
29 Sep 2011 1700 Prof. Simon Silver Department of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine,University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Arsenate Replcaing Phosphate in DNA ? Shadow Life or Pathological Science ?
15 Sep 2011 1700 Prof. Peter Sadler Department of Chemistry, The University of Warwick, Conventry, UK Photoactivated and Organometallic Anticancer complexes
09 Sep 2011 1700 Prof. Nathan Gianneschi Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, USA Biochemically Programming Polymers in the Development of Dynamic, Morphology Switchable Nanomaterials
26 Aug 2011 1700 Prof. ZHENG Xiao- feng Department of Pharmacology , Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Univerisity of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jeersey Target of Rapamycin (TOR): Past, Present and Future
25 Aug 2011 1700 Prof. Weidong Chen Laboratorire de Physicohimie de l' Atmosphere, Universite du Littoral Cote d' Opale Dunkerque, France Modern Photonic Technology for Atmospheeric Spectroscopic Applications
23 Aug 2011 1330 Prof. Paul R. Hanson Department of Chemistry, Kansas University Methods for Bioactive Compound Synthesis: Phosphate Tethers, Sultam DOS Libraries and Immobilized ROMP Reagents
22 Aug 2011 1700 Prof. Michael Rubin Department of Chemistry, Kansas University Diastereoconvergent Formal Nucleophilic Substitution of Bromocyclopropanes en-route to Cyclopropanol and Cyclopropylamine Derivatives
22 Aug 2011 1500 Prof. Yujiro Hayashi Department of Industrial Chemistry.Faculty of Enginerring, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan Organocatalyst in Total Synthesis
19 Aug 2011 1100 Prof. Marek Samoc Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland Controlling optical nonlinearity in  organometallics: nonlinear chromism
05 Aug 2011 1700 Dr. Stefan A. F. Bon Unilever Lecturer in Polymer Chemistry, University of Warwick, UK Supracolloidal Polymer Chemistry: From colloidal building blocks to ssemabled structures
03 Aug 2011 1700 Prof. Yunqi Liu Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,China Design and synthesis of pi-conjugated materials and their application in electronics
22 July 2011 1600 Prof. Keith E. GUBBINS Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering North Carolina State University, U.S.A The Monte Carlo (MC) method
22 July 2011 1700 Prof. Philip MARRIOTT Australian Centre for Research in Separation Science & Green Chemistry Centre, Monash Unversity,Victoria 3800, Australia Advanced methods for sampling and analysis of herb, wine and related aromas.
21 July 2011 1700 Dr. TSE Ying Lung Steve Stanford University, California, U.S.A. The Computational Studies of a Lattice Model of Nonrotating Rigid Rods
21 July 2011 1600 Prof. Keith E. GUBBINS Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering North Carolina State University, U.S.A Method of Molecular Dynamics (MD)
20 July 2011 1700 Prof. John DYKE School of Chemistry University of Southampton, United Kingdom Photoionization of Reactive Intermediates of Importance in the Atmosphere
19 July 2011 1600 Prof. Keith E. GUBBINS Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering North Carolina State University, U.S.A Review of Semi-classical Statistical Mechanics and Introduction to Molecular Modeling
08 July 2011 1700 Prof. David CLEMMER Robert & Marjorie Mann Chair, Department of Chemistry Indiana University. U.S.A Developing Next Generation Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry Techniques for Analyzing Complex Biological Mixtures
14 June 2011 1700 Mr. Boris SCHLENSKY CEO EDAQ Pty Characterization of Thin Films, Solar Cells and Semiconductors Using High-Resolution Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS)
13 June 2011 1700 Prof. Trung Van NGUYEN Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, U.S.A. Department of Chemistry and Initiative on Clean Energy and Environment (ICEE) Joint Seminar Water Management In a Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel Cell
09 June 2011 1700 Prof. Cassandra L. FRASER Department of Chemistry & Biomedical Engineering University of Virginia, U.S.A. Luminescent Boron Materials for Hypoxia Imaging and Mechanosensing
03 June 2011 1500 Prof. Rigoberto ADVINCULA Department of Chemistry, University of Houston Texas, U.S.A. Electropatterning and Nanopatterning of Conjugated Polymer Precursors and Dendrimers
02 June 2011 1700 Prof. Peter J. STANG Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, U. S. A. Abiological Self-Assembly: Predesigned Metallacycles and Metallacages via Coordination
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