Chemistry Seminar Series

September 2026 to August 2027 seminars

Date Presenter Title Host
10/05/2026

Robert Britton
Simon Fraser University

New methods and strategies for the synthesis of nucleoside analogues and natural products

 D. Schipper
9/24/2026

Ghotas Evindar
DEL Source

DNA-Encoded Libraries (DELs): Accelerating the Discovery of Next-Generation Medicines

 S. Kalyannamoorthy and A. Wasay
9/15/2026

Pat Kambhampati
McGill University

When Incoherence Creates Coherence: Quantum Coherence in a Hot, Strongly Coupled Environment

 C. Tetsassi

September 2025 to August 2026 seminars

Date Presenter Title Host
8/11/2026

Jan K. Rainey 
Dalhousie University 

Relating molecular behaviour to fibre properties of understudied spider silks

 E. Meiering
6/27/2026 Marek B. Majewski
Concordia University		 Capturing and converting photons at molecular photoelectrode and perovskite nanocrystal interfaces V. Maheshwari
6/29/2026 Ketan C. Kuperkar
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT)		 Tuning nanoscale self-assembly and morphological transition in amphiphilic blends J. Duhamel
4/23/2026 Matthew T. McDowell
Georgia Institute of Technology		 Interfaces and Chemo-Mechanics in Solid-State Batteries L. Nazar
4/21/2026

Graeme Howe
Queen’s University

 Genome mining for NylB-type amidases to facilitate closed-loop nylon recycling S. Kalyaanamoorthy
3/25/2026 Prof. Imogen Coe
Toronto Metropolitan University

Gatekeepers and Bypasses: From Nucleoside Transporter Biology to Novel Approaches in Drug Delivery

 CGSS and Noah King
3/10/2026 Fraser Hof
University of Victoria

From accidental to intelligent: easy-to-build complex chemical systems that sense proteins, tissue samples, and illicit drugs

 Y. Lin
01/27/2026

Dr. Cullen Myers
University of Guelph

The Bacterial Cell Wall: New Biological Insights, Probes, and Targeting Strategies

 S. Kalyaanamoorthy and J. Honek
01/15/2026 Mohamed Oudah
University of British Columbia		 Charge-Entropy-Stabilized Superconductor (Ag,Sn)Se H. Kleinke and J.-H. Yu
12/08/2025 Kirill Kovnir
Iowa State University

Synthesis of metal pnictides and exploration of their thermoelectric and catalytic potential

 H. Kleinke and J.-H. Yu
12/02/2025 David Da Yong Chen
University of British Columbia

Mass spectrometry based faster and more accurate analytical platform for biomolecules characterization

 J.-H. Yu
11/18/2025 Elizabeth R. Gillies
University of Western Ontario		 Self-immolative polymers: Designing, synthesizing, and applying polymers that fall apart Y. Lin
11/11/2025 Dr. Marissa Clapson
University of Prince Edward Island

Green Chemistry Approaches to Base Metal Catalyst Design: Leveraging a Lewis Acidic
Secondary Coordination Sphere for Small Molecule Activation

 S. Kalyaanamoorthy
11/4/2025 Adam Shuhendler
University of Ottawa Heart Institute		 Nanoscale Sentinels and Molecular Beacons: Illuminating Disease from the Inside Out J.-H. Yu
10/27/2025 Sergey N. Krylov
York University		 The Accuracy Crisis in Binding and Potency Studies: Hidden Causes, Heavy Costs, and a Call to Act J. Pawliszyn
10/21/2025 Penghao Xiao
Dalhousie University		 Kinetic Simulation of Electrochemical Degradation -- battery fade and alloy corrosion C. G. T. Feugmo
10/07/2025 Jung Kwon (John) Oh
Concordia University		 Degradable covalent chemistry to develop smart delivery polymeric nanomaterials Y. Lin
9/26/2025 Adam Damry
University of Ottawa		 Proteins on the edge: Harnessing biochemistry at heterogeneous interfaces S. Kalyaanamoorthy
09/23/2025 Boniface Fokwa
University of California, Riverside		 Designing Earth-Abundant Bulk and Nano-Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Production J.-H. Yu and H. Klein
09/09/2025 Vikram Agarwal
Sanofi		 Predicting the translation efficiency of messenger RNA in mammalian cells S. Kalyaanamoorthy

Past seminars

Date Presenter Title Host
08/05/2025 Raynald Gauvin
McGill University		 Chemical Analysis of Lithium in Battery Materials with high spatial resolution using EDS and EELS in the Electron Microscope Department of Chemistry
07/23/2025 Cameron D. Mackereth
University of Bordeaux		 Structure and dynamics of the dopamine and ochratoxin A aptamer complexes J. Liu
06/26/2025 Samuel Johnson
University of Windsor		 Carbide as an Ancillary Ligand for Multielectron Reactivity in a Pentanuclear Nickel Complex S. Lee
05/29/2025 Adam Middleton
University of Otago		 Decoding Protein Degradation with Structural Biology and Machine Learning Department of BioChemistry
05/26/2025 Duong Bui
University of Alberta		 Sweet Talk: Cracking Glycan Codes with Native Mass Spectrometry Department of BioChemistry
05/20/2025 Mike Strauss
McGill University		 Enterovirus infection and inhibition - a detailed look by cryoEM Department of BioChemistry
05/07/2025 Kirsten Meyer
University of Toronto		 Learning from the experts – strategies from microbial competition to treat antimicrobial resistance Department of BioChemistry
05/13/2025 Jean-Philippe Julien
University of Toronto

Antibody-Epitope Descriptions Guide the Design of Next-Generation Biomedical Interventions against Malaria

 CGSS
05/01/2025 Fabien Gatti
University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté		 Precise Description of Quantum Phenomena in Chemistry: Applications of the Multi-Configuration Time-Dependent Hartree (MCTDH) Method P.N. Roy
04/08/2025 Joelle N. Pelletier
Université de Montréal		 Accelerating Discovery of Substrate Promiscuity in Biocatalyzed Oxidations S. Kalyaanamoorthy

03/25/2025

 François Lagugné-Labarthet
Western University		 Probing Materials at the Nanoscale: a Journey in Tip-Enhanced Spectroscopy. J. Yu

03/13/2025

 Daniel B. Leznoff
Simon Frazer University		 Harnessing Metallophilicity in Cyanometallate Coordination Polymers for Advanced Functional Materials J. Yu

03/07/2025

 André Isaacs
College of the Holy Cross		 Making it Click: An Approach to N-Heterocycles and Inclusive Excellence CGSS

02/18/2025

Event Canceled

 Adam Shuhendler
University of Ottawa Heart Institute		 Nanoscale Sentinels and Molecular Beacons: Illuminating Disease from the Inside Out J. Yu
02/11/2025 Dennis Hore
University of Victoria		 The Substance Project: Leveraging Analytics to Provide Rapid, Accurate, and Detailed Results for People Who Use Drugs J. Yu
01/09/2025 Ryan Moreira
University of Illinois		 The enterococcal cytolysin: Action mechanism and anti-virulence strategies S. Taylor
12/04/2024 Remi Casier
Weizmann Institute of Science		 Untangling the translocation mechanism of the protein machine ClpB J. Duhamel
11/29/2024 Rodrigo Alejandro Vargas Hernandez
McMaster University		 Probabilistic models meet computational chemistry C. Tetsassi Feugmo
11/19/2024 X. Chris Le
University of Alberta		 CRISPR technology advancing bioanalytical chemistry S. Kalyaanamoorthy
11/06/2024 Jaclyn Brusso
University of Ottawa		 Cluster-based redox responsive super-atomic MRI contrast agents D. Schipper
11/05/2024 Robert Hovden
University of Michigan		 Measuring 3D chemistry at 1 nm and below A.W. Tsen
10/30/2024 Aurélien de la Torre
Paris-Saclay University		 Designing cycloadditions to enable total synthesis G. Murphy
10/08/2024 Christine Le
York University		 Synthetic strategies leveraging fluoride-enabled reactivity D. Schipper
09/27/2024 Lingzi Sang
University of Alberta		 The Evolving Structure, Interface, and Performance in Metal Ion Batteries – Through the Eyes of Operando Spectroscopy L. Nazar
09/24/2024 Anton Oliynyk
Hunter College, City University of New York		 Materials informatics tools for supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods to predict crystal structures H. Kleinke
09/18/2024 Takamasa Momose
The University of British Columbia		 Asymmetric Photolysis of Amino Acids and Its Relation to the Origin of Homochirality P.N. Roy
09/10/2024 T. Don Tilley
University of California, Berkeley		 Oxo metal clusters in water splitting and bond activations D. Schipper