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Past seminars

Below is the list of research seminars that were held by the school (follow this link to see current seminars). Use the following links to browse research colloquia in other schools:

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Date	Time	Venue	Speaker / Institute / Title
09-05-2012	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Patricia Hunt, Imperial, "Ionic Liquids: From the Electronic Structure Up"
26-04-2012	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	RSC Bader Award Lecture - Professor Karl Hale, Queen's Univeristy, Belfast, "A New and Completely Stereocontrolled Synthetic Route to the Antitumor Lactone, (-)-Echinosporin: Lessons Learned, New Methodologies Uncovered "
18-04-2012	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Chris Abell, University of Cambridge, "Fragment-based approaches in chemical biology and drug discovery"
29-03-2012	13:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Research Symposium - Prof Annie Powell, Dr Andrew Gaunt, Dr Leigh Jones, Dr Jon McMaster, Dr Mark Murrie, University of Karlsruhe, Los Alamos, University of Galway, University of Nottingham, University of Glasgow, "Half day symposium in honour of Professor David Collison"
28-03-2012	14:00	Schuster Building - G62, Blackett Theatre	Research Symposium - Dr Carmen Galen, Professor George Fleet, University of Bristol, University of Oxford, "Carbohydrate Symposium"
21-03-2012	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Dr Paul Hodgkinson, Durham University, "Using NMR and Computational Chemistry to Study Structure and Dynamics in Molecular and Framework Solids"
14-03-2012	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Hubert Girault, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, "Electrochemistry at soft interfaces and artificial photosynthesis"
09-03-2012	14:30	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Edwin C Constable , University of Basel, "Light-in, Light-out: The yin and yan of sustainable materials chemistry"
09-03-2012	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	RSC Award talk - Professor Mike Klein, Temple University, "RSC S F Boys-A Rahman Award"
07-03-2012	15:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Public Lecture - Prof Saiful Islam, University of Bath and Royal Society of Chemistry, "Watts New with Clean Energy? Batteries Included"
29-02-2012	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Phil Bartlett, University of Southampton, "Electrodeposition from supercritical fluids of nanomaterials, structures and devices"
23-02-2012	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Research Seminar - Professor Muralee Murugesu, University of Ottawa, Canada, "New Avenues in Lanthanide Nano-Magnets: From Coordination to Organometallic Chemistry"
22-02-2012	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Rene Jannssen, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, "Polymer solar cells "
15-02-2012	12:00	MIB - MIB Lecture Theatre	International Seminar Series - Prof. Peter Seeberger, Max-Planck Institute for Colloids and Surfaces, Germany, "Preventing and Curing Infectious Diseases: Carbohydrate Vaccines and Continuous Flow Synthesis "
15-02-2012	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Dr Elena Bichoutskaia, The University of Nottingham, "New Theoretical Approach to Studying the Interaction between Charged Dielectric Particles and its Applications"
08-02-2012	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Sally Price, University College London , "Progress and Problems in the Computational Prediction of Organic Crystal Structures and Polymorphism"
01-02-2012	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Clare Grey, University of Cambridge, "Following Function in Real Time: Towards the Next Generation of Batteries and Supercapacitors for Transport and Grid Storage"
31-01-2012	16:15	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Dr Allan Jordan, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, "What do (Medicinal) Chemists Do All Day? (And What does it mean for our molecules?)"
26-01-2012	15:00	School of Physics and Astronomy - Neil Bohr	Research Seminar - Dr Vincenzo Palermo, CNR Bologna, Italy, "Self-assembly of organic molecules into nanostructured materials for opto-electronics"
14-12-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Bart Jan Ravoo, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, "Stimulus responsive interactions of vesicles"
12-12-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - GE.005	RSC Bourke Award Seminar - Professor Mark Ratner, Northwestern University, "Electron Transport and Pulling Molecules "
07-12-2011	13:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	AZ Visit Seminar - Dr Sam Butterworth , AstraZeneca, "Discovery of AZD1152, a selective Aurora B Kinase Inhibitor with potent anti-tumour activity"
07-12-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Paul Raithby, University of Bath, "Photocrystallography: Investigations of Irreversible and Reversible Photoactivated Solid State Processes"
30-11-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Symposium - Professor Antonio Echavarren, The Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Spain, "Molecular Complexity through Gold Catalysis"
16-11-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Dr Mario Ruben, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany, "Supramolecular Spintronic Devices"
10-11-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - 7.27/7.28	Research Seminar - Professor Lukas Goosen, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, "New concepts of catalytic C-C bond formation "
09-11-2011	13:00	M I B - Atrium	PhD Studentship OPEN DAY - r.a.le-feuvre@manchester.ac.uk, University of Manchester, "Cutting edge research at the interfaces between Engineering, the Physical Sciences and Bioscience"
27-10-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - 7.27/28	Organic Research Seminar - Professor Derek Pratt, University of Ottawa, "'Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Radical-Trapping Antioxidants: Preserving Petroleum-Derived Products and Us, Too!'"
26-10-2011	13:30	Chemistry Building - G.53	Postgraduate OPEN DAY event - Dr. Robin Pritchard, University of Manchester, "Poster Presentation in GE.005. Posters will be presented by members of academic staff and you will have the opportunity to talk to current postgraduates Refreshments will be available "
26-10-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Frantisek Hartl, University of Reading, "Photonic behaviour of transition metal complexes with multiple redox centres"
21-10-2011	11:00	Chemistry - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Pavel Jungwirth, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic , "Interaction of Ions with Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins"
21-10-2011	12:00	Chemistry Building - GE005	Additional Seminar - Dr Matt Fuchter, Imperial College London, "“Harnessing the potential of helicenes”"
19-10-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Barry Potter, University of Bath, "Academic Drug Discovery: Sulfatase Inhibitors from Concept to Clinical Trial"
12-10-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Steve Homans, University of Leeds, "What Drives Ligand-Protein Interactions?"
28-09-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Steve Meech, University of East Anglia, "Ultrafast Dynamics of Aqueous Solutions: Ions to Peptides"
23-09-2011	10:30	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Professor Kim Dunbar, Texas A & M University, "Rich Opportunities for Coordination Chemistry in Conducting and Magnetic Materials"
08-09-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Professor Ulrich Siemeling, University of Kassel, Germany, "Going for Gold with Ferrocene"
19-08-2011	11:00	Chemistry Building - 4.20	Research Seminar - Professor James F Wishart, Chemistry Division of Brookhaven National Laboratory, "Ionic liquid radiation chemistry and its implications for use in nuclear fuel processing"
10-08-2011	19:30	University Place - Lecture theatre B	Rutherford Public Lecture Series - Dr John Roberts, University of Manchester, "Is there a safe future for nuclear energy?"
09-08-2011	19:30	University Place - Lecture theatre B	Rutherford Public Lecture Series - Professor Alan Perkins, University of Nottingham, "Nuclear medicine: atoms and antimatter in medicine"
08-08-2011	19:30	University Place - Lecture theatre B	Rutherford Public Lecture Series - Dr David Jenkins, University of York, "From Rutherford to the Large Hadron Collider"
19-07-2011	11:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Research Seminar - Professor Kostya Novoselov, University of Manchester, "Graphene: Materials in the Flatland"
15-07-2011	12:15	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Markus Niederberger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, "Inorganic materials synthesis in organic solvents"
15-07-2011	12:15	Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre - MIB lecture theatre	Research Seminar - Professor Jean-Louis Reymond, University of Berne, Switzerland, "Antimicrobial and Biofilm Inhibitor Petide Dendrimers from Combinatorial Libraries"
14-07-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Professor Shinichi Itsuno, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, "Molecular design of polymer-immobilized chiral catalysts for asymmetric catalysis application"
08-07-2011	14:00	Chemistry Building - GE.005	Research Seminar - Professor Mark M Green, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, "How a helix chooses left from right"
08-07-2011	15:00	Chemistry Building - GE.005	Research Seminar - Professor Tadashi Mori, Osaka University, "Chiroptical Properties of Some Unique Molecules with Intramolecular Interactions"
16-05-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - GE.005	Research Seminar - Professor Andreas Kirschning , University of Hannover , "Total- semi- and mutasynthesis – three faces of one medal"
11-05-2011	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Malcolm Heggie, Sussex, "Carbon in Moderation"
11-05-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Dr Christophe Aissa, Liverpool, "Rhodium-catalysed Intramolecular Hydroacylation of Alkylidenecycloalkanes: Synthesis and Mechanistic Aspects"
04-05-2011	15:30	Chemistry Building - G.54	Staff Symposium - Dr Neil Burton, Dr Cinzia Casiraghi, Professor David Procter, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, "Underpinning Experimental Observation: Modelling Binding and Ligand Exchange in Aqueous Media, Raman Spectroscopy of Graphene, Developing Tools for Efficient Synthesis"
19-04-2011	14:00	Chemistry Building - 7.27/7.28	Research Seminar - Professor Rafael Brüschweiler, Florida State University, "Covariance NMR and Web-Based Analysis of Molecules and Chemical Mixtures "
06-04-2011	14:00	Chemistry Building - Chem G.54	Research Seminar - Dr John Slattery, The University of York, "Synthetic and computational approaches to understanding and designing ionic liquids and organometallic catalysts"
30-03-2011	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Research Seminar - Dr Simon Aldridge, Oxford, "RSC Main Group Award Lecture - Group 13 analogues of alkenes and carbenes"
23-03-2011	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Professor Sven Schneider, Erlangen, "Cooperative pincer complexes for small molecule activation"
22-03-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Professor Alexei Demchenko, University of Missouri–St. Louis, "From Chemical Glycosylation to Expeditious Oligosaccharide Synthesis"
17-03-2011	12:00	Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre - MIB Lecture Theatre	Research Seminar - Professor Herbert Waldmann, Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, "Chemical Biology of the Dynamic Ras Cycle"
16-03-2011	14:30	Chemistry Building - Chem G.51	Research Seminar - Professor Mark Koper, Leiden, "Fundamental Studies of Electrocatalytic Reactions for Energy Conversion and Sustainable Chemistry"
16-03-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - Chem G.51	Research Seminar - Professor Fraser Armstrong, Oxford, "Electrocatalysts for Efficient Fuel Conversions. Enzymes as Examples"
10-03-2011	12:30	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Professor Louis Fensterbank, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, "New Radical and Organometallic Methodologies for Organic Synthesis"
09-03-2011	13:00	The Photon Science Institute - The Lovell Room	Research Seminar - Professor Dr Alec Wodtke, Max-Planck Institute in Biophysical Chemistry, "Joint Chemistry/PSI Seminar - Electronically Nonadiabatic Chemical Dynamics at Metal Surfaces"
02-03-2011	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Katherine Morris, Research Centre for Radwaste and Decommissioning , "Factors Controlling the Redox Chemistry of Long Lived Actinides: Biology, Geology and Chemistry."
02-03-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Professor Guy Lloyd-Jones, Bristol University, "Catalytic Reactions and Spectator Sports"
23-02-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Soo-Y. Lee , Nanyang Technological University - Singapore, "From Spontaneous to Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy: A Wavepacket Analysis"
23-02-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Professor Pak-Hing Leung , Nanyang Technological University - Singapore, "Chiral Aryl-M Complexes Mediated Asymmetric Synthesis of Functionalized Chiral Phosphines"
16-02-2011	13:00	The Photon Science Institute - The Lovell Room	Research Seminar - Dr Claire Vallance, Oxford University, "Joint Chemistry-PSI Seminar Imaging Atomic Orbital Polarisation in Photomolecular Dissociation "
16-02-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Dr Magnus Walter, Eli Lilly-Windlesham, "The Development of Monoamine Reuptake Inhibitors"
10-02-2011	12:00	Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre - MIB Lecture Theatre	Research Seminar - Professor Andrew Ewing, Gothenburg, "MIB International Seminar Series "
09-02-2011	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Research Seminar - Professor Phil Blower, Kings College London, "Novel inorganic fluorine chemistry for F-18 bioconjugation"
09-02-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Research Seminar - Dr Mike Greaney, Edinburgh, "New C-H Activation Chemistry for Heterocycle Synthesis"
02-02-2011	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Professor Michael Buehl, St Andrews, "First Principles Modeling: a Powerful Tool in Transition Metal Chemistry"
02-02-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Professor Judith Howard, Durham, "Structure-Property Relationship from Diffraction Data "
24-01-2011	16:00	Chemistry Building - 7.27/7.28	Research Seminar - Professor Steven Holdcroft , Simon Fraser University-Canada , "Strategies for controlling nano-phase segregation in polythiophene-acceptor blends."
19-01-2011	14:00	Chemistry Building - GE005	Research Seminar - Professor Seong Keun Kim, Seoul National University, "Single Molecule Biospectroscopy: Deoxyribozyme Folding, Genetic Assay, and Observing Enzymatic Reactions"
13-01-2011	12:00	Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre - MIB Lecture Theatre	Research Seminar - Professor Duncan Graham, Strathclyde, "To be confirmed"
15-12-2010	15:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Research Seminar - Professor Nick Turner, MIB - University of Manchester, "Industrial Biotechnology: From Darwin to Designer Genes"
15-12-2010	15:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Research Seminar - Professor James Clark, The University of York, "Using Green Chemistry to make Christmas Greener but not Meaner!"
08-12-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Dr Niek Buurma, Cardiff, "Physical organic fun in water: reactivity, catalysis and talkative DNA binders"
01-12-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Dr Gordon Florence, St Andrews, "Recent Studies in Total Synthesis"
24-11-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Staff Symposium - Dr Martin Attfield, Dr Claire Eyers, Professor Gareth Morris, SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY, "The Growth of Metal Organic Frameworks, Designer Proteins for Evaluation and Optimisation of MS Performance, New DOSY and Pure Shift Tools for the Chemist"
17-11-2010	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Research Seminar - Dr Lorna Dougan, Leeds, "Exploring the physical mechanisms of protecting osmolytes"
17-11-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Todd Marder, Durham, "The Application of Organometallic Chemistry: Solving Problems in Homogeneous Catalysis and Materials"
10-11-2010	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Phil Day Memorial Symposium - Bob Denning, Paul O'Brien, Peter Ackrill, Deborah Oughton, University of Oxford, University of Manchester, Withington Hospital, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, "Philip Day - an appreciation of his career in teaching and research"
02-11-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Margaret Brimble, Auckland, "RSC Natural Product Award Lecture"
27-10-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor David Knight, Cardiff , "Applications Of Old Jewellery And Battery Acid In Organic Synthesis"
14-10-2010	12:00	Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB) - MIB Lecture Theatre	Research Seminar - Professor Carol Robinson, Oxford, "MIB International Seminar Series Dehydrated but Unharmed? Protein Complexes in the Gas Phase"
13-10-2010	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Research Seminar - Professor Loic Charbonniere, Strasbourg, "Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes and Labels: From synthesis to biological applicationsTo be confirmed"
13-10-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Guy Lloyd-Jones , Bristol, "Pd-catalysis: Mechanism and Methodology"
06-10-2010	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Professor Klaus Wynne, Strathclyde, "Terahertz to Kilohertz Spectroscopy of Dynamics in Liquids: Structure from Angstroms to Millimetres"
06-10-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Dr Armido Studer, Universität Münster, "Novel Applications of Nitroso Compounds and Nitroxides in Synthesis"
13-08-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - 7.27/7.28	Research Seminar - Professor Chris O'Brien, University of Texas at Arlington, "Catalytic Wittig Reactions (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 46, 6836-6839)."
22-07-2010	14:00	Chemistry Building - 7.27/7.28	Research Seminar - Dr Marianne Wilkerson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Near infra-red Photoluminescence and Ligand K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopies of AnO2Cl42- (An: U, Np, Pu)"
16-07-2010	10:00	Chemistry Building - GE.005	Seminar - Guest Speaker: Ian Gould , Imperial College London, "NVIDIA Bio Workbench"
08-07-2010	14:30	Chemistry Building - G.08	Research Seminar - John H Enemark, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, "Changing SOX with a flash: Chemistry of a vital molybdenum enzyme"
06-07-2010	09:30	Roscoe Building - Roscoe B	Research Seminar - A one day symposium bringing together speakers from Asia, Europe and North America with researchers in the North West, Multiple speakers, "North West Organic Chemistry Symposium"
28-05-2010	14:00	Chemistry Building - GE.005	Research Seminar - Dr Richard Mabbs, Washington University in St Louis, "Cluster Anions as Molecular Scale Electron Beam Instruments: Photodetachment Angular Distributions as Indicators of Electron-Molecule Interactions"
20-05-2010	09:00	Chemistry Building - GE. 005	Research Symposium - Final Year Postgrads, Physical/ Theoretical/ Materials Post Graduate Symposium, "Various"
20-05-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - GE. 005	Research Seminar: CANCELLED - RSC Easterfield Award Winner, Dr. Jadranka Travas- Sejdic, University of Auckland, "'Miniaturized Gene Sensors Based On Conducting Polymers'"
19-05-2010	09:00	Chemistry Building - GE.05	Research Seminar - Organic/ Biological PG Research Symposium, Sponsored by Pfizer, part 2, "To be confirmed"
18-05-2010	14:00	Chemistry Building - GE 05	Research Seminar - Organic/ Biological PG Research Symposium, Sponsored by Pfizer, Part 1, "To Be Confirmed"
12-05-2010	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Research Seminar - Professor Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow, "Non Equilibrium Structured Polynuclear-metal-oxide Assemblies"
12-05-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Steve Marsden, University of Leeds, "'Metal-mediated and Metal-free Catalytic Approaches to Heterocycles' "
10-05-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Research Seminar - Professor Michael Che, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, "RSC Centenary Lectureship"
07-05-2010	14:00	Chemistry Building - GE.005	RSC Event: Research Seminars - Dr. Fred Manby (2pm); Dr. Joe McDouall (2.45pm); Prof Rodney Bartlett (4pm), University of Bristol, University of Manchester & University of Florida, "Symposium on Electronic Structure, Liquids & Spectroscopy."
07-05-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - GE.005	RSC SF Boys- Rahman Award Lecture - Professor Rodney Bartlett, University of Florida, ""NMR Coupling Constants: The Role for Predictive Theory?" "
05-05-2010	15:30	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Dr. Michael Ingleson, Dr. Richard Layfield & Prof Jim Thomas, University of Manchester, "Staff School Symposium- Synthesis. Presentations begin at 4pm. "
23-04-2010	14:00	Chemistry Building - 7.27/7.28	Research Seminar - Professor Shinichi Itsuno, Toyohashi University, Japan, "“Polymer-immobilized Chiral Catalysts for Asymmetric Reactions” "
21-04-2010	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Prof. Colin Bain, Durham University, "Adsorption Kinetics under Hydrodynamic Control."
21-04-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Prof. Douglas Philp, St. Andrew's University, "Joint School Seminar, RSC Bader Award Lecture Systems Chemistry- Teaching Simple Molecules To Operate in Complex Ways."
09-04-2010	11:00	Chemistry Building - GE.005	Research Seminar - Professor Akira Mizuno, Toyohashi University of Technology, "Environmental Application of Non-thermal Plasma"
24-03-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Dr. Paul Davies, University of Birmingham, "Reaction Development with Acid Catalyst"
17-03-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor AP de Silva, Queens University, Belfast, "2010: A Small Space Odyssey with Luminescent Molecules."
09-03-2010	14:30	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Professor Robert Flowers, Lehigh University, PA, "Wet Chemistry: The Mechanistic Role of Water (and other additives) on Lanthanide-Based Oxidation and Reductions"
09-03-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Professor John Arnold, Berkeley; University of California, "'A Structural & Thermodynamic Comparison of Bonds Between f-Elements & Group 13 Metals.'"
04-03-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Research Seminar - Professor Paul Burn, The University of Queensland, "Developing dyes for dye-sensitised solar cells"
03-03-2010	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Peter Hore, Oxford, "ChemNav: do birds have a chemical magnetic compass?"
03-03-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Thomas Wirth, Cardiff University, "New Concepts for Catalysis in Modern Synthesis."
24-02-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Graham Hutchings, Cardiff University, "Heterogeneous Enantioselective Catalysis"
17-02-2010	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Research Seminar - Nick Long, Imperial College of London, "'Organometallic Chemistry for Biomedical Imaging: The Role of Metal-Scorpionates in [11C]-Labelling for PET' "
17-02-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Dr. Edward Anderson, Oxford, "Studies in Total Synthesis"
10-02-2010	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	Research Seminar - Mike Hill, University of Bath, "'Putting The Unemployed To Work: Bond Activation & Catalysis With Heavier Alkaline Earth Complexes.'"
10-02-2010	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Herman Overkleeft, Leiden, "Enzyme Inhibitors & Activity- Based Probes To Study Glycoconjugate Metabolism."
03-02-2010	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Prof. Gernot Frenking, University of Marburg, Germany, "Molecules with Unusual Bonding Situations- A Challenge For Theory & Experiment"
03-02-2010	14:45	Chemistry Building - G.51	Research Seminar - Professor Andrew Briggs, Oxford, "Molecular Spin States For Quantum Technologies."
27-01-2010	14:00	Chemistry Building - 7.27 & 7.28	Research Seminar - Prof. Ken McKendrick, Heriot- Watt University Edinburgh, "Collision of Atoms & Radicals With Liquids & Other 'Soft' Organic Surfaces."
16-12-2009	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Dr Alex Breeze, AstraZeneca, "Less is More: Inhibitors of DNA Gyrase B and Beta-secretase from NMR Screening and Fragment-based Design"
16-12-2009	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.51	RSC Organometallic Chemistry Award Lecture - Professor Steve Nolan , University of St Andrews, "NHC-Metal Complexes of Groups 10 and 11. Recent Developments in Synthesis and Catalysis"
11-12-2009	11:30	Chemistry Building - GE.005	Research Seminar - Dr Doroteya Staykova, Goteborg University, Biophysics Group, "'Fast' NMR: Protein Characterisation Using Projection Spectroscopy"
10-12-2009	12:00	Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre - MIB Lecture Theatre	Research Seminar - Professor Tom Simpson , University of Bristol, "MIB International Symposium Series"
09-12-2009	15:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Dr Rodolphe Clérac, CNRS/University of Bordeaux, "Single-Molecule Magnets: new building-blocks for magnetic materials"
09-12-2009	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Professor Colin J Suckling, University of Strathclyde, "Manipulating Biological Processes with Heterocycles: Studies in Synthesis, Mechanism, and Drug Discovery "
02-12-2009	14:00	Chemistry Building - G.54	Research Seminar - Professor David Klenerman, University of Cambridge, "New Biological Insights from Single Molecule Studies"
02-12-2009	16:00	Chemistry Building - G.53	Research Seminar - Dr Mike Porter, University College London, "Roadblocks and Detours en route to Sarain A"