Department of Chemistry
C2 280
200 University Ave. W
Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada N2L 3G1
Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext 32129
"The Total Synthesis of CDA (Calcium Dependent Antibiotic)
Supervisor: S. Taylor
Location: C2-361
"Bioconjugation of poly(ethylene terephthalate)-degrading enzymes to a supramolecular scaffold: Potential strategies to address plastic degradation"
Supervisor: J. Honek
Location: C2-361
Advanced Molecularly Imprinted Materials for Affinity Separation, Disease Diagnosis, Single-Cell Analysis, Bioimaging and Cancer Therapy
Zhen Liu
Professor
State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Nanjing University, China
Thursday, July 25, 2019
10:00 a.m.
C2-361 (Reading Room)
"Photodissociation and electronic spectroscopy of differential mobility spectrometry-selected amino acids"
Supervisor: S. Hopkins
Location: C2-361
Cationic and Charge-Shifting Copolymers for Biomaterials Applications
Harald Stöver
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
McMaster University
Monday, July 22, 2019
1:30 p.m.
C2-361 (Reading Room)
"Hydrophobic Modification of Starch"
Supervisor: Prof. Mario Gauthier
Location: C2-361
"An Expeditious Photochemical Synthesis of Trifluoromethylated Furans"
Supervisor: G. Murphy
Location: C2-361
"Portable Dialysis: Microfluidics and Membrane Surface Chemistry"
Supervisor: S.Tang
Location: C2-361
"3D Heterogeneous Printing of Biomimetic Tissue Constructs Incorporating a Hydrogel Bio-ink"
Supervisor: S. Tang
Location: C2-278
"Optical properties of high quality perovskite NCs for optoelectronic devices"
Supervisor: P. Radovanovic
Location: EIT 2053
"The Synthesis of Zigzag Type Carbon Nanotube Precursors Utilizing a Pyrene Backbone"
Supervisor: D. Schipper
Location: C2-278
"Probing the interior of complex macromolecules by pyrene excimer formation:
Supervisor: J. Duhamel
Location: C2-278
"Polydopamine (PDA)-mediated DNA functionalization of nanomaterials"
Supervisor: J. Liu
Location: C2-278
Noncovalent Interactions Studied by Temperature-Programmed Native ESI-MS
Renato Zenobi
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Applied Sciences
ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Friday, June 21, 2019
11:00 a.m.
C2-361 (Reading Room)
"Electrochemical tuning of plasmonic properties of metal oxide nanocrystals"
Supervisor: P. Radovanovic
Location: EIT 2053
"Characterization of Ruddlesden Popper Oxide for Cathodic Electrocatalysis"
Supervisor: R. Smith
Location: C2-278
Electronics for Organic Displays and Ultralow Power Sensor Interfaces
Arokia Nathan
Chief Technical Officer, Cambridge Touch Technologies
Cambridge, UK
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
2:00 p.m.
C2-361 (Reading Room)
From Hydrogenation to Alkylation: A Journey with Iron Complexes
Jean-Luc Renaud
Professor
Université de Caen Normandie
Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire et Thioorganique
Caen, France
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
2:30 p.m.
C2-361 (Reading Room)
"Determining the lipid stereochemistry specificities of calcium dependent lipopeptide antibiotics"
Supervisor: S. Taylor/S. Hopkins
Location: C2-278
"Stability and Strain in Hisactophilin and Mechanism of the Myristoyl Switch"
Supervisor: Prof. Elizabeth Meiering
Location: C2-361
Adventures in protein engineering - some interesting oddities
Drew Woolley
Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Toronto
Friday, May 17, 2019
11:00 a.m.
C2-361 (Reading Room)
Beyond biochemistry: combining analytical chemistry and microfluidics to study “living catalytic materials"
Jesse Greener
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Université Laval
Friday, May 17, 2019
10:00 a.m.
B1-266 (Dean's Conference Room)
"Utilization of Differential Mobility Spectrometry for Drug Development"
Supervisor: S. Hopkins
Location: C2-361
The Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry and Biochemistry presents
Determining Molecular Properties with DMS-MS and Machine Learning
Prof. Scott Hopkins
Professor, Dept. of Chemistry
University of Waterloo
Friday, May 10, 2019
3:00 pm
Guleph Campus, Summerlee Science Complex
Coffee will be served at 2:30 pm prior to the seminar. All interested persons are welcome to attend.

Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry and Biochemistry would like to invite (GWC)2faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students to our 2019 Annual Meeting featuring a seminar, awards presentation, and poster sesssion. Please come out and join us for some or all of these events.
Friday, May 10, 2019
Guelph Campus
Summerlee Science Complex Atrium