Events

The Fall 2022 GWC² Seminar Series continues with our next presentation Wednesday, November 2nd. These seminars will be held in person in the Main Link room at the home University of the presenter, and via Teams for the opposite campus.

Ligand recognition in RNA and DNA aptamers - the same but different?

Professor Thorsten Dieckmann
Department of Chemistry
University of Waterloo

Wednesday, November 2, 2022
3 p.m.
C2-361 at the University of Waterloo - Coffee and snacks served.
Online via Microsoft Teams for the University of Guelph.

"Highly Selective Lactate Sensing Using Electrochemical Nano-biosensors with Non-biological Receptors"

Supervisor:  S. Tang
Location:      Teams

"Development of PROTACS ternary complex modelling platform with a multi-protocol combination approach"

Supervisor:  S. Kalyaanamoorthy
Location:      C2-278/Teams

"Improving Biomolecule Imaging in Liquid Phase Electron Microscopy"

Supervisor:  G. Sciaini
Location:      C2-278/Teams

The Fall 2022 GWC² Seminar Series continues Wednesday, November 16th with two presentations by PhD candidates from the University of Guelph.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022
3 p.m.
MacN 101 at the University of Guelph - Coffee and snacks served.
Online via Microsoft Teams for the University of Waterloo.

Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Iridium-Catalyzed Reactions Involving Heterobicyclic Alkenes

Austin Pounder, PhD candidate
Department of Chemistry
University of Guelph

Modular Approaches for the Generation of Fluorescent Nucleobase Surrogates and their use in Biosensing Applications

Ryan Johnson, PhD candidate
Department of Chemistry
University of Guelph

C–H Functionalization and Catalytic Cascade Reactions in the Synthesis of Heterocycles

Dr. Huck Grover
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Memorial University

Thursday, November 17, 2022
2:30 p.m.

Hybrid: C2-361 (Reading Room) and MS Teams

"Inhibition of Aggrecanase-2 Employing a Novel Dual-Binding Inhibitor"

Supervisor:  J. Honek
Location:     Teams

The Fall 2022 GWC² Seminar Series continues with our last presentation on Wednesday, November 30th.

Preparing Group 11 Metal and Metal-Chalcogen Nanocluster Surfaces for "Click" Chemistry

Professor and Chair John Corrigan
Department of Chemistry
University of Waterloo

Wednesday, November 30, 2022
3 p.m.
C2-361 at the University of Waterloo - Coffee and snacks served.
Online via Microsoft Teams for the University of Guelph.

Designed DNA Nano-switches as Sensitive Electrochemical Biosensors

Dr. Hua-Zhong "Hogan" Yu
Department of Chemistry
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia

Monday, December 5, 2022
11 a.m.

Hybrid: C2-361 (Reading Room) and Online via MS Teams

"Metal-Mediated Adsorption of DNA Oligonucleotides onto Polymeric Materials"

Supervisor:  J. Liu
Location:     C2-361