Seminar Series

The School of Chemical Sciences seminar series for 2023/24 is provided below. Contact Dr Ruairí Brannigan for the Zoom link for virtual seminars.

Date/Time:	Speaker:	Seminar title:	Location:
27th October 2023	Dr Seán Jordan	Life in our Solar System: Origin, evolution, and existence	XG22
4th December 2023	Prof. Tim Storr	Designing Multifunctional Molecules to Control Protein Misfolding	Seminar Room, Life Sciences Research Facility (LSRF)
26th March 2024	Prof Eli Zysman-Colman	New Frontiers in Phoscatalyst Design and Photocatalysis	XG14
11th May 2024	Prof. Todd Marder	Metal-Catalyzed C-H and C-X Borylation – Synthesis of Boronate Esters Including Pyrenes and Perylenes	XG14

The School of Chemical Sciences seminar series for 2022/23 is provided below.

Date:	Speaker:	Seminar title:	Location:
22nd September 2022	Prof. George Christou	Single-Molecule Magnets and other Magnetic Molecules on ‘Molecular Nanoparticles’: A Molecular Model Approach to SMMs on Supports	XG14
13th October 2022	Dr Ruchi Gupta	Novel Optical Biosensors with Integrated Sample Manipulation	XG14
10th November 2022	Prof. Rick Relyea	Fresh Water Salinization; From Ecology & Evolution to Real-World Solutions	HG17
24th November 2022	Dr Peter Byrne	Activation of alcohols and CO2 toward reactions with nucleophiles for organic synthetic applications	XG14
10th March 2023	Prof. Sally Price	Can we predict how pharmaceuticals will crystallize?	XG14
31st March 2023	Dr Mikhail Filatov	Photosensitizers with Charge Transfer-Mediated Intersystem Crossing: Design and Application	XG14
19th May 2023	Dr Loanda Cumba	From electrochemical detection of psychoactive substances to (bio)ink formulation	SA101

The School of Chemical Sciences seminar series for 2021/22 is provided below.

Date:	Speaker:	Seminar title:	Location:
21st October 2021	Dr David O'Connor	Monitoring and Modelling of Primary Biological Aerosol Particles	Zoom
28th October 2021	Dr Ruairí Brannigan	Pragmatic Monomer Design and Synthesis of Advanced Materials	Zoom
4th November 2021	Dr Joaquin Klug	Using Computational Chemistry to Study the Interaction Between Lipid Membranes and Nanomaterials	Zoom
11th November 2021	Dr Loanda Cumba	2D and 3D (bio)sensor platforms for emerging applications from on- and in-body sensing to energy storage and conversion	Zoom
18th November 2021	Dr Hasim Ibrahim	New Ways of Making Bonds with the Main Group	Zoom
24th November 2021	Dr Susan Kelleher	The Fabrication of Naturally-Inspired Polymeric Nanostructured Biomaterials	Zoom
17th February 2022	Prof. Robert Forster	Wireless Electrochemistry: From Disease Biomarkers to Waste Water	Zoom
3rd March 2022	Dr Kieran Nolan	Teaching old molecules new tricks	Zoom
31st March 2022	Dr Nessan Kerrigan	Asymmetric Catalysis as a New Route to Therapeutic Prostaglandins and Nucleosides	Zoom
14th April 2022	Dr Aoife Morrin	Harnessing the Scent Disease for Wearable Biodiagnostics	Zoom
28th April 2022	Prof. Fiona Regan	The chemical cocktail in water – analytical challenges and environmental data	Zoom
26th May 2022	Prof. Silvia Giordani	How does a nano-onion become a sniper?	Zoom