Chemistry Seminar Series

September 2025 to August 2026 seminars

Date Presenter Title Host
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

September 2024 to August 2025 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

Past seminars

Date Presenter Title Host
07/30/2024 Héloïse Thérien-Aubin
Memorial University of Newfoundland		 Polymer under confinement A. Klinkova
07/26/2024 Wenjian Sun
Shimadzu Research Laboratory		 Recent development and applications in U-shaped mobility analyzer - Mass spectrometry J. Pawliszyn
07/12/2024 Jason L. Dutton
La Trobe University		 How electron poor can we make gold(III)? G. Murphy
05/30/2024 Samira Siahrostami
Simon Fraser University		 Advanced catalyst discovery for clean energy transformation using computational material design S. Kalyaanamoorthy
05/02/2024 Udo Schwingenschlögl
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)		 Exciton dissociation by topological edge states A. Klinkova
04/09/2024 Cora Young
York University		 PFAS and policy: Linking the chemistry of fluorinated gases with chemical regulations R. Smith
04/02/2024 Erin Johnson
Dalhousie University		 London dispersion in density-functional theory and application to molecular crystal structure prediction Chemistry Graduate Student Society (CGSS)
02/13/2024 Lea Harrington
University of Toronto		 Where there's a will, there's a way: How cells cope with eroding telomeres S. Kalyaanamoorthy
02/07/2024 Corey Stephenson
University of Michigan		 Redox catalysis strategies for complex molecules G. Murphy
01/30/2024 Gillian R. Goward
McMaster University		 Electrochemical Evolution and Ion Dynamics in Energy Storage Devices Revealed by 7Li and 1H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy R. Smith
12/12/2023 Eva Hemmer
University of Ottawa		 Exploring new synthesis pathways to optical and magnetic lanthanide-based nanoparticles R. Smith
12/1/2023 Audrey Laventure
University of Montreal		 Additive manufacturing of functional polymer materials A. Klinkova
11/14/2023 Jean-François Masson
University of Montreal		 Nanoplasmonic sensing: From maple syrup analysis to neurochemistry S. Kalyaanamoorthy
11/6/23 Andrew Grosvenor
University of Saskatchewan		 Glass-ceramic composites: The next generation nuclear waste form material? H. Kleinke
10/17/2023 Stephen Newman
University of Ottawa		 Engaging esters, aldehydes, and alcohols in cross-coupling reactions: A high throughput approach to discovery Chemistry Graduate Student Society (CGSS)
10/17/2023 Man-Sau Wong
Hong Kong Polytechnic University		 Chinese herbs-derived phytochemicals and musculoskeletal health J. Liu
10/10/2023 Daniel Rhodes
University of Wisconsin-Madison		 Ultraclean 2D Materials for Ferroelectricity, Superconductivity, and Topological Phenomena A.W. Tsen
9/12/2023 Marcus W. Drover
Western University		 Exterior Decorating: Harnessing Non-Covalent Interactions for Cooperative Chemistry R. Smith
8/23/2023 Michel Gravel
University of Saskatchewan		 Synthesis of [10]- and [12] Annulenes G. Murphy
8/3/2023 Elena Baranova
University of Ottawa		 Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis: Challenges and Opportunities A. Klinkova
5/24/2023 Nathaniel I. Martin
Leiden University		 Improving Nature’s antibiotics through (semi)synthesis S. Taylor
5/12/2023 Jeff Van Humbeck
University of Calgary		 Strategies and Methods for Site-Selective C-H Functionalization in Heterocycles G. Murphy
2/9/2023 Anna Fomitcheva Khartchenko
University of California Berkeley		 Microfluidics-based immunoassays for enhancing diagnostic workflows J. Corrigan
2/2/2023 Jung-Ho Yu
Stanford University		 Color In Vivo: Multiplexed Nanotechnology for Measuring Biological Heterogeneity J. Corrigan
1/26/2023 Gregory Wallace
University of Strathclyde		 Surface-Enhanced Spectroscopies for Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry: Transitioning to Chiral Biosensin J. Corrigan
1/23/2023 Malama Chisanga
Universite de Montreal		 Development of Nanomaterials and Machine Learning for Antimicrobial Resistance Spectroscopy J. Corrigan
12/14/2022 Steve Winter
Wake Forest University		 Complexity and Clarity for Kitaev Candidate Materials A.W. Tsen
12/5/2022 Hua-Zhong "Hogan" Yu
Simon Fraser University		 Designed DNA Nano-switches as Sensitive Electrochemical Biosensors J. Liu
11/17/2022 Huck Grover
Memorial University		 C–H Functionalization and Catalytic Cascade Reactions in the Synthesis of Heterocycles D. Schipper
8/4/2022 Jan K. Rainey
Dalhousie University		 Applying structure and dynamics to modulate spider silk behaviour E. Meiering
3/9/2022 Roxanne Kieltyka
Leiden University		 Squaramide-based supramolecular biomaterials G. Sciaini
2/23/2022 John F. Corrigan
Western University		 A Molecular Precursor Approach to Cluster Synthesis: from Luminescent Molecular Assemblies to Functional Nanomaterials W. Power