School of Chemical Sciences
Seminar Series
School of Chemical Seminar Series
The School of Chemical Sciences seminar series for 2023/24 is provided below. Contact Dr Ruairí Brannigan for the Zoom link for virtual seminars.
| Date/Time: | Speaker: | Seminar title: | Location: |
| 27th October 2023 | Dr Seán Jordan | Life in our Solar System: Origin, evolution, and existence | XG22 |
| 4th December 2023 | Prof. Tim Storr | Designing Multifunctional Molecules to Control Protein Misfolding | Seminar Room, Life Sciences Research Facility (LSRF) |
| 26th March 2024 | Prof Eli Zysman-Colman | New Frontiers in Phoscatalyst Design and Photocatalysis | XG14 |
| 11th May 2024 | Prof. Todd Marder | Metal-Catalyzed C-H and C-X Borylation – Synthesis of Boronate Esters Including Pyrenes and Perylenes | XG14 |
The School of Chemical Sciences seminar series for 2022/23 is provided below.
| Date: | Speaker: | Seminar title: | Location: |
| 22nd September 2022 | Prof. George Christou | Single-Molecule Magnets and other Magnetic Molecules on ‘Molecular Nanoparticles’: A Molecular Model Approach to SMMs on Supports | XG14 |
| 13th October 2022 | Dr Ruchi Gupta | Novel Optical Biosensors with Integrated Sample Manipulation | XG14 |
| 10th November 2022 | Prof. Rick Relyea | Fresh Water Salinization; From Ecology & Evolution to Real-World Solutions | HG17 |
| 24th November 2022 | Dr Peter Byrne | Activation of alcohols and CO2 toward reactions with nucleophiles for organic synthetic applications | XG14 |
| 10th March 2023 | Prof. Sally Price | Can we predict how pharmaceuticals will crystallize? | XG14 |
| 31st March 2023 | Dr Mikhail Filatov | Photosensitizers with Charge Transfer-Mediated Intersystem Crossing: Design and Application | XG14 |
| 19th May 2023 | Dr Loanda Cumba | From electrochemical detection of psychoactive substances to (bio)ink formulation | SA101 |
The School of Chemical Sciences seminar series for 2021/22 is provided below.
| Date: | Speaker: | Seminar title: | Location: |
| 21st October 2021 | Dr David O'Connor | Monitoring and Modelling of Primary Biological Aerosol Particles | Zoom |
| 28th October 2021 | Dr Ruairí Brannigan | Pragmatic Monomer Design and Synthesis of Advanced Materials | Zoom |
| 4th November 2021 | Dr Joaquin Klug | Using Computational Chemistry to Study the Interaction Between Lipid Membranes and Nanomaterials | Zoom |
| 11th November 2021 | Dr Loanda Cumba | 2D and 3D (bio)sensor platforms for emerging applications from on- and in-body sensing to energy storage and conversion | Zoom |
| 18th November 2021 | Dr Hasim Ibrahim | New Ways of Making Bonds with the Main Group | Zoom |
| 24th November 2021 | Dr Susan Kelleher | The Fabrication of Naturally-Inspired Polymeric Nanostructured Biomaterials | Zoom |
| 17th February 2022 | Prof. Robert Forster | Wireless Electrochemistry: From Disease Biomarkers to Waste Water | Zoom |
| 3rd March 2022 | Dr Kieran Nolan | Teaching old molecules new tricks | Zoom |
| 31st March 2022 | Dr Nessan Kerrigan | Asymmetric Catalysis as a New Route to Therapeutic Prostaglandins and Nucleosides | Zoom |
| 14th April 2022 | Dr Aoife Morrin | Harnessing the Scent Disease for Wearable Biodiagnostics | Zoom |
| 28th April 2022 | Prof. Fiona Regan | The chemical cocktail in water – analytical challenges and environmental data | Zoom |
| 26th May 2022 | Prof. Silvia Giordani | How does a nano-onion become a sniper? | Zoom |