Seminars
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:00:00 NZST | Sivasinthujah Paramasivam, PhD Chemistry Candidate |
SYNTHESIS OF N-GLYCANS FOR IMMUNOLOGICAL STUDIES | Room 701, Level 7, WEST |
| Fri, 07 Jun 2019 11:00:00 NZST | Sarah Masters and Konstantin Pavlov |
This is the seventh in a series of joint school seminars showcasing SPCS research ….. | West Room 701, Level 7 |
| Fri, 31 May 2019 11:00:00 NZST | Chris Fitchett and Steve Marsh |
This is the sixth in a series of joint school seminars showcasing SPCS research ….. | 11:00 am - West Room 701, Level 7 |
| Fri, 31 May 2019 11:00:00 NZST | Chris Fitchett and Steve Marsh |
This is the sixth in a series of joint school seminars showcasing SPCS research ….. | West Room 701, Level 7 |
| Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:00:00 NZST | Ivanhoe K. H. Leung |
Combating infectious diseases through structural and mechanistic studies | Room 701, West |
| Wed, 29 May 2019 12:00:00 NZST | Associate Professor James Bolender
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Water Quality, Public Health, and the Developing World: A Chemists View of Water Issues in Uganda | Room 701, Level 7 West Building |
| Wed, 22 May 2019 12:00:00 NZST | Christian G. Hartinger |
Novel Structural Motifs and Biophysical Investigations to Delineate Biomolecule Interactions in the Quest for Organometallic Anticancer Agents | Room 701, West Building |
| Wed, 15 May 2019 12:00:00 NZST | Bill Hawkins |
One Ring To Rule Them All: The synthesis of biologically relevant compounds from cyclopropanes | Room 701, Level 7, West Building |
| Wed, 08 May 2019 12:00:00 NZST | Ghader Bashiri |
Mass spectrometry and X-ray crystallography reveal new insights into the biosynthesis of cofactor F420 and folic acid | Room 701, Level 7, West Building |
| Wed, 01 May 2019 12:00:00 NZST | Prof Nigel Perry |
Colour, Lasers and Light: Student “Studies of some New Zealand Natural Products” | Room 701, West Building |
| Tue, 30 Apr 2019 11:00:00 NZST | Ben Wilson (PhD Oral candidate) |
Supramolecular Assemblies Based on Pyridylhydrazone and Imidazolylimine Schiff base ligands | Room 701, Level 7 |
| Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:00:00 NZST | Dr Jack Chen, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry |
Applying Concepts from Nature for the design of Catalysts and Smart Chemical Networks | Room 701, West Building |
| Fri, 05 Apr 2019 11:00:00 NZDT | Dr Mark Aartsen and Assoc Prof Greg Russell |
The ninth talk in a series of Joint seminars showcasing SPCS research | Room 701, West Building |
| Wed, 03 Apr 2019 12:00:00 NZDT | Thomas D. Bennett, Cambridge Visiting Fellow |
Combining Teaching, Tramping and Research into Hybrid Glasses | Room 701, West Building |
| Wed, 27 Mar 2019 12:00:00 NZDT | Prof Thisbe K. Lindhorst |
The UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the Role of Chemistry | Room 701, West |
| Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:00:00 NZDT | Dr Jeanette Wood |
Drug discovery and development, how can academia contribute? | Room 701, Level 7, West |
| Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:00:00 NZDT | Professor Mark Distefano, Erskine Visitor |
Studying the Anchor of Life: the Chemical Biology of Protein Prenylation | Room 701, West Building |
| Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:00:00 NZDT | Dr Owen J Curnow and Laura Revell |
The eighth in a series of joint school seminars showcasing SPCS research ….. | Room 701, Level 7, West Building |
| Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:00:00 NZDT | Jane E. Wissinger |
Green Chemistry Curriculum and the Snowball Effect | Room 701, West Building |
| Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:00:00 NZDT | Prof Thisbe K. Lindhorst |
Synthetic glycomimetics to explore carbohydrate-specific adhesion of bacteria to surfaces | Room 701, Level 7, West |
| Fri, 01 Mar 2019 11:00:00 NZDT | Nadine van der Heijden |
Exploring the Limits of Ultra-High Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy | West 701, Level 7 |
| Fri, 22 Feb 2019 11:00:00 NZDT | Paula C. Angelomé |
Nanomaterials obtained by chemical synthesis: design, characterization and applications | West 701, Level 7 |
| Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:00:00 NZDT | Professor Thomas Meyer |
Making Solar Fuels | Room 701, West Buidling |
| Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:00:00 NZDT | Dr Kim McKelvey |
Mapping Electrocatalytic Activity at the Nanoscale | Room 701, Level 7, WEST Building |
| Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:00:00 NZDT | Rhett Kempe |
Catalysis for a more sustainable chemistry | 701, Level 7, West Building |
| Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:00:00 NZDT | Dinga Wonanke, Final PhD Seminar, Supervisor: Dr Deborah Crittenden |
Control and Prediction of Eliminative Cyclization | Room 701, Level 7, West |
| Thu, 13 Dec 2018 11:00:00 NZDT | Fiona Given - PhD Oral |
Retracing the evolution of enzyme regulation | Room 446, Jack Erskine Buidling |
| Fri, 07 Dec 2018 11:00:00 NZDT | Professor Christopher Sumby, Deputy Dean of Research and Professor of Chemistry |
MOFs as synthetic tools and for catalysis | Room 701, Level 7, West Building |
| Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:00:00 NZDT | Peter Behrens |
Metal-organic frameworks and electrical conductivity: Three cases | Room 701, Level 7, WEST |
| Wed, 05 Dec 2018 12:00:00 NZDT | Marcus Rose, Professor of Chemical Technology
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Catalysis Engineering – From Materials to Process Design for the Utilization of Bio-based Feedstock | Room 701, Level 7 |
| Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:00:00 NZDT | Samantha Dudley - Supervised by Professor Ian Shaw (SPCS) and Professor Ann Richardson (School of Health Sciences) |
Estrogen Receptors and Xenoestrogen Exposure Cocktails – A New Approach to Breast Cancer Risk | Room 701, Level 7, WEST Building |
| Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:30:00 NZDT | Professor Paul Lickiss |
Silicon-Containing Linkers for Metal-Organic Framework Synthesis | Room 701, Level 7, West |
| Wed, 21 Nov 2018 12:00:00 NZDT | Joint SPCS lecture series - Large Ring Laser Gyroscopes and Adventures in Natural Product-like Chemical Space |
This is the fifth in a series of joint school seminars showcasing SPCS research | West Room 701, Level 7 |
| Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:00:00 NZDT | Alexandra McNeil, Supervised by Professor Alison Downard (SPCS) and Associate Professor Martin Allen (Department of Electrical Engineering) |
Covalently-Bound Organic Modifiers on ZnO: Effects on the Electronic and Chemical Surface Properties | Jack Erskine Lecture Theatre 031 |
| Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:00:00 NZDT | Antony Fairbanks and Chris Gordon |
Joint SPCS lecture series - Sugars - sweet as and What is Dark Matter? | West Room 701, Level 7 |
| Wed, 07 Nov 2018 12:00:00 NZDT | John Clements |
Guest-Adaptable Spin Crossover Properties Underpinned by Supramolecular Interactions | Room 701, Level 7, West Building |
| Wed, 24 Oct 2018 12:00:00 NZDT | Dr Jonathan Kitchen |
Supramolecular materials: using 1,8-naphthalimides and Langmuir-Blodgett deposition to generate novel materials | Room 701, Level 7, WEST |
| Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:00:00 NZDT | Christopher Larsen |
Rational Design of Photoactive Molecules: From Molecular Electronics to Photoredox Catalysis | Room 701, Level 7, WEST |
| Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:00:00 NZDT | Oliver Sterritt |
PhD Oral:- The long and short of DAH7PS: distinct quaternary structures of two type II isozymes from Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Room 443, Level 4 |
| Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:00:00 NZDT | Shane G. Telfer |
Multicomponent Metal-Organic Frameworks | Room 701, Level 7, WEST |
| Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:00:00 NZDT | Bryce Williamson and Michael Albrow |
Joint Seminar - Magnetic Circular Dichroism and Gravitational Microlensing | Room 701, Level 7, WEST Building |
| Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:00:00 NZST | Professor Mary J Garson |
GAME OF TERPENES: STRUCTURES, STEREOCHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ECOLOGY OF NUDIBRANCH METABOLITES | Room 701, Level 7, WEST Building |
| Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:00:00 NZST | Profs' Mike Reid and Rudi Marquez |
SPCS Joint Research Awareness Seminars | Room 701, Level 7 |
| Wed, 19 Sep 2018 12:00:00 NZST | Jonathan C Morris |
Taking the Lead from Nature: Designing small molecules to investigate biological problems | Room 701, Level 7, WEST |
| Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:00:00 NZST | Michael Müller |
Chemical diversity through biotransformations | Jack Erskine Building Room 441 |
| Tue, 05 Jun 2018 11:00:00 NZST | Prof. Nicola L. B. Pohl |
Automating Oligosaccharide Synthesis and Analysis | West 351 |
| Wed, 02 May 2018 12:00:00 NZST | Dan Preston |
Tuning the Complexity of Palladium(II) Cages | Room 531, level 5, West Building |
| Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:00:00 NZST | Michael K.C. Tam |
Cellulose Nanocrystal-a promising sustainable nanomaterial for advanced engineering applications | West 531 |
| Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:00:00 NZDT | Professor Scott McIndoe |
Mass spectrometry of pyrophoric compounds: solving a flaming difficult problem in catalyst activation | West Room 531 |
| Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:00:00 NZDT | Lars Goerigk |
An Excursion to the Density Functional Theory Zoo: Insights for Electronic Ground and Excited States | Room 531, Level 5, |
| Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:00:00 NZDT | Jean-Baptiste Lena |
PhD Oral: Investigations into Branching in Acrylate Polymerization: Advanced Characterization and Kinetics | Room 531, Level 5, West Building (formerly Rutherford Building) |
| Wed, 13 Dec 2017 12:00:00 NZDT | Philip G. Jessop |
CO¬2-Switchable Solvents for Facilitated Separations | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Mon, 11 Dec 2017 11:00:00 NZDT | Benjamin G. Davis (Ferrier Lecture) |
Sugars & proteins: towards a synthetic biology | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 22 Nov 2017 12:00:00 NZDT | Philip A. Gale |
Selective anion transporters | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Fri, 10 Nov 2017 10:00:00 NZDT | Stewart R. Alexander, PhD Oral, Supervisor: Professor Antony J. Fairbanks
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The use of sulfur in aqueous carbohydrate chemistry | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:00:00 NZDT | Neil W. Barnett |
The 2017 Royal Society of Chemistry Australasian Lectureship | Rutherford Level 5, Room 531 |
| Wed, 04 Oct 2017 12:00:00 NZDT | Dr Milton Kiefel, Senior Lecturer and Visiting Erskine Fellow |
Synthesis of Bacterial Carbohydrates as Biological Probes | Room 531, Level 5, Rutherford Building |
| Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:00:00 NZST | Prof. Eric V. Anslyn |
Supramolecular Methods for the Rapid Determination of Enantiomeric Excess in Reaction Screening | Rutherford Room 532 |
| Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:00:00 NZST | Anna Farquhar |
Designing Graphene Supercapacitor Electrodes - Chemistry PhD Oral | Room 531, level 5, Rutherford Building |
| Wed, 09 Aug 2017 12:00:00 NZST | Brett Robinson, Professor of Environmental Science |
Biological wastes and the potential to improve NZ's environment | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 02 Aug 2017 12:00:00 NZST | Tatsuya Tsukuda |
Gold Superatoms and Superatomic Molecules Protected by Ligands | Rutherford Building, Level 5, Room 531 |
| Wed, 10 May 2017 12:00:00 NZST | Mark M. Turnbull |
Synthesis and properties of Cu(II)-based low-dimensional molecular magnetic materials | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 03 May 2017 12:00:00 NZST | Erin Leitao and Ian Manners
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A Mechanistic Tour of Inorganic Synthesis | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Tue, 02 May 2017 11:00:00 NZST | Will Kerr |
Novel N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands for Use in Asymmetric Catalysis | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 12 Apr 2017 12:00:00 NZST | Kajitha Suthagar
Final Ph.D. Seminar |
Investigations into Sulfamides as Phosphate Isosteres in Anti-TB Drug Development | Rutherford |
| Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:00:00 NZST | Professor J Scott McIndoe |
Catalytic Reaction Mechanism Elucidation via Real Time Analysis | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:00:00 NZDT | Prof Takumi Konno |
Can We Create a Variety of Heterometallic Coordination Compounds from a Single Kind of Amino Acid? | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:00:00 NZDT | Dr Maxine Bryant & Dr Karen Carthew
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PBRF Research Contributions | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 08 Mar 2017 12:00:00 NZDT | Associate Professor Jon Howse
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Polymers in a Spin: in situ studies of polymers and colloids during spin coating | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 01 Mar 2017 12:00:00 NZDT | Professor Peter Weber |
Watching Chemistry in Action: Molecular Motions in Space and Time | |
| Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:00:00 NZDT | Chris Metcalfe (Visiting Erskine Fellow)
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Sewage Epidemiology: Estimating Community Use of Illicit Drugs by Analyzing Domestic Wastewater | |
| Wed, 08 Feb 2017 12:00:00 NZDT | Professor Rudi Marquez |
Development of Novel Delivery Vehicles for Anti-Parasitic Drug Delivery and Transfection | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Fri, 16 Dec 2016 11:00:00 NZDT | Chris McEntyre
Final Ph.D. Seminar |
Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry Methods for Investigating Osmolytes and Related One-Carbon Metabolites in Health ad Disease | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:00:00 NZDT | Professor Cameron Jones |
Stabilisation and "Transition Metal-Like" Reactivity of Low Oxidation State/Low Coordination Number Main Group Complexes | Undercroft 101 (under Library) |
| Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:00:00 NZDT | Dave Young
Final Ph.D. Seminar |
The Modulation of Structural Components in Metallosupramolecular Assemblies and Metal-Organic Frameworks | |
| Wed, 23 Nov 2016 12:00:00 NZDT | J. Stephen Clark |
New Approaches to the Synthesis of the Manzamine Alkaloids: Total Synthesis of (-)-Nakadomarin A | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:00:00 NZDT | Assoc Prof Ethan Minot
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Nanoelectronics Meets Biology | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 02 Nov 2016 12:00:00 NZDT | Imre Toth
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NMR Study of Selected Metal Ion-Ligand Systems: Equilibrium, Structure and Dynamics | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:00:00 NZDT | M.Sc. Part II Research Presentations Presentation Abstract Booklet | Rutherford 531
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| Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:00:00 NZDT | David Palmer |
The c-Subunit of Mitochondrial ATP Synthase. From Storage in Batten Disease to Why Animalia make more ATP from Food than do Other Life Forms | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Thu, 25 Aug 2016 13:00:00 NZST | Nathaniel Gunby
Final Ph.D. Seminar |
UCONGA: University Conformer Generation and Analysis | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Fri, 19 Aug 2016 14:00:00 NZST | Dr Geoff Waterhouse
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Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production from Water and Biofuels: Current Status and Future Directions | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:00:00 NZST | Kalib Bell
Final Ph.D. Seminar |
Chemical Modification of Metal Oxide Materials | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 03 Aug 2016 12:00:00 NZST | Dave Petrie
UC Careers |
How to Maximise your Opportunities Post-UC | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:00:00 NZST | Professor Gill Reid |
Main group coordination chemistry - tailored reagents for the deposition of functional electronic materials | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:00:00 NZST | Vivek Poonthiyil
Final Ph.D. Seminar |
Synthesis and Application of Gold and Glycogold Nanoparticles | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Fri, 01 Jul 2016 11:00:00 NZST | Eric Lang
Final Ph.D. Seminar |
Insights into Enzyme Allosteric Inhibition Mechanisms using Computational Studies | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Tue, 28 Jun 2016 11:00:00 NZST | Fatemeh Tavakolinia
Final Ph.D. Seminar |
Synthesis and Study of Dinuclear Cobalt(III)-platinum(II) Complexes as Potential Anti-Cancer Pro-Drugs | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 01 Jun 2016 12:00:00 NZST | Maria Plunkett, University of Sheffield:
Quinoxaline Based Ligands: Synthesis and Complexation
Andrew Kannan, University of Bath:
Investigating the Efficiency of Nylon and Polyethylene as Sorbents for Sample Extraction of Selected Emerging Contaminants |
Students Abroad Seminars | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Fri, 20 May 2016 14:00:00 NZST | Janadari Kariyawasam
Final Ph.D. Seminar |
Synthesis of Nitrogen Mustards on Co(III), and Related Reaction Chemistry | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Fri, 20 May 2016 12:00:00 NZST | Andrew Wallace
Final Ph.D. Seminar |
Molecular Orbitals - Their Uses and Their Limitations | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 18 May 2016 12:00:00 NZST | Professor Stephen Leob
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MIMs in MOFs: Organizing Mechanically Interlocked Molecules to Function Inside Metal-Organic Frameworks | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 11 May 2016 11:00:00 NZST | Gert-Jan Moggre
Final Ph.D. Seminar |
The Reaction Mechanism and Inhibition of ATP-PRTase Enzymes | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 04 May 2016 12:00:00 NZST | Professor Amanda Ellis |
Structural and Dynamic DNA Origami: Design and Applications | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:00:00 NZST | Professor Thomas Nann |
Nanomaterials for Health and Renewable Energy Applications | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 13 Apr 2016 12:00:00 NZST | Professor Javed Iqbal |
Natural Product-Inspired Toolbox for Protein-Protein Interactions: synthesis of new natural product like chemical species as probe for new therapeutics targets | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Thu, 07 Apr 2016 12:00:00 NZST | Michael Rychlik |
Stable Isotopes in Food Science - Tools for Tracing, Quantitation - but how do you get them? | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Thu, 31 Mar 2016 15:00:00 NZDT | Professor William Tong |
Ultrasensitive Multi-Photon Nonlinear Laser Methods for Biomedical and Environmental Applications | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:00:00 NZDT | Laura Lopez-Comi
Final Ph.D. Seminar |
Single-Column Model Analysis of Available NIWA Observations to Determine the Self-Cleaning Capacity of the Atmosphere | Rutherford Room 531 |
| Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:00:00 NZDT | Professor Richard F W Jackson |
Recent Advances in the Synthesis and Applications of Non-Natural Amino Acids | Room 531 |
| Wed, 09 Mar 2016 12:00:00 NZDT | David Lim
Final Ph.D. Seminar |
Synthesis of O-Linked Glycopeptides Using Enzymatic Catalysis | Room 531 |
| Wed, 02 Mar 2016 12:00:00 NZDT | Associate Professor Arindam Bhattacharyya |
Metastatis of Breast Cancer: TGF-beta Perspective | Room 531 |
| Fri, 19 Feb 2016 12:00:00 NZDT | Tim Allison |
Keeping Things Intact: Adventures in Mass Spectrometry | Room 531 |
| Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:00:00 NZDT | Gemma Wadworth:
Impacts of Antimicrobial Compounds in Urban Waterways Receiving Sewer Overflows
Nicholas McKitterick:
Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) Regulates Key Genes in Testosterone Biosynthesis |
Postgraduate Talks: | Room 531 |
| Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:00:00 NZDT | Anne Thompson
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Adventures in the Atmosphere |