2007 Events and Seminars
January February March April May June July September October November December
January 2007
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January 11 - Professor Jonathan Clayden, University of Manchester
Flat-packed stereochemistry - January 18 - Professor Dermot O’Hare, University of Oxford
Studying reactions in real time using time-resolved diffraction
- January 25 - Dan Richardson & Paul McEvoy
Proof of concept development of new technology based ideas
- January 26 - Dr Ian Fairlamb, University of York, UK
Palladium Catalysis: From Synthesis to Mechanism and Serendipity to
Rational Design
February 2007
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February 1 - Professor Raymond C. F. Jone, Loughborough University
Dipolar cycloadditions: making pyrrolidines, peptide mimics, and polycarbonyl metabolites
February 8 - Dr J. J. Keatin, University College Cork
Synthesis and impurity profiling of amphetamine-type drugs of abuse
- February 9 - AccesScience CSCB Internal Heat
- February 9 - Professor Jim Howell, Keele University, UK
1+2 Equals 2+2: Metal-Catalysed Cyclopropanation
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February 15 - Dr Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge
Molecular Informatics -
February 22 - Professor Tim Donohoe, University of Oxford
New catalytic reactions designed for the efficient synthesis of natural products - February 23 - Dirk Blunk, Universität zu Köln, Germany
Syntheses and Supramolecular Organisation of Amphiphiles Made of Natural
Building Blocks
- February 27 - AccesScience 2007
All are welcome to a gala evening to celebrate AccesScience '07 to hear research explained without the use of scientific jargon on Tuesday 27 February at 7pm.
March 2007
- March 1 - Professor Richard Cogdell, Glasgow University
How purple bacteria harvest solar energy
- March 2 - Dr Rafe Darcy, University College Dublin
Gene therapy, a challenge to chemists
- March 8 - Dr Luis “Koldo” Callado, Univeristy of the Basque Country
Involvement of the α-2-adrenoceptors in the pathophysiology and treatment of depression
- March 23 - Professor Phil Kocienski, University of Leeds, UK
Synthetic Applications of 1,2-Metallate Rearrangements
- March 27- Professor Sheena Radford, University of Leeds, UK
As part of the British Biophysical Society Irish Lecture Tour, Professor Radford will deliver a talk entitled "Life on a knife edge: tipping the balance between protein folding and misfolding disease".
- March 30 - 8th Annual Symposium on Supramolecular Chemistry at TCD
The Symposium is free of charge and open to everyone, but registration is essential. Interested parties should contact Professor Thorri Gunnlaugsson by email at gunnlaut@tcd.ie before Wednesday March 28.
April 2007
- April 2 - Professor Richard Schmidt, University of Konstanz, Germany
Solid Phase Synthesis of Complex Oligosaccharides
- April 3 - NovaUCD's "Entrepeneurs Live" Seminar Series
Four leading Irish entrepreneurs will share the secrets of their success at the NovaUCD “Entrepreneurs Live!” seminar series which commences on 3 April and runs each Tuesday until 24 April.
- April 12- Professor Bertrand Castro, Scientific Director Industrial Affairs at Sanofi-Aventis
The Chemistry within the Pharmaceutical Industry. This lecture will be in the RCSI and is part of the DMMC course on drug design. Attendance is free.
May 2007
- May 11 - RSC Symposium on Anion Recognition and Polymer Chemistry
To be held in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- May 21 - Professor Richard Schmidt - Universität
Konstanz, Germany
Professor Schmidt, CSCB visiting professor, will give a talk in the UCD School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology entitled "Lipoteichoic Acids of Gram-positive Bacteria: Synthesis and Biological Properties’".
- May 21-22 - COST D40 Workshop on Innovative Catalysis
This worshop will be held in UCD on May 21-22 in the CSCB Seminar Room. Please register with Tracy O'Flaherty (cscb.reception@ucd.ie) by end of work on Wednesday May 16. Registration fee is 10 euro.
- May 29 - Professor Richard Schmidt - Universität
Konstanz, Germany
Professor Schmidt, CSCB visiting professor, will give a talk in the CSCB entitled "Glycosyltransferase Inhibitors’".
June 2007
- June 1 - Prof. Richard Schmidt, CSCB Visiting Professor 2007 - Universität
Konstanz, Germany
Progress in Carbohydrate Chemistry
- June 21-22 - Professor Eric Anslyn - CSCB Postgraduate Lectures
Six lectures in Physical Organic Chemistry will be given by Professor Eric Anslyn who is currently visiting CSB and TCD from University of Texas at Austin.
- June 22 - "Fun Day for Eric" at TCD
A half-day symposium will be held in the School of Chemistry, TCD in honour of Professor Eric Anslyn.
July 2007
- July 8 -13 ESOC 2007
The 15th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry to be held in UCD
- July 20 CLASS (Conway Lecture & Seminar Series) - Dr Kevin O'Connor
"Converting petrochemical plastics into biodegradable plastics: A Chemo-biotechnological approach"
September 2007
- September 3-4 British Association for Crystal Growth / Irish Association for Crystal Growth Conference 2007 & Bernal Symposium on Protein Crystallization
This meeting will be held in UCD.
- September 20 - 7th Annual UCD Conway Festival of Research
The festival will showcase the research within the Conway Institute through oral and poster presentations by UCD Conway postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers and will feature keynote lectures from guest speakers of international repute.
- September 20 - 1st Meeting of the Irish Institute for Metal-Based Drugs (IIMBD)
The IIMBD was recently formed by researchers working in the area of metal-based drugs. This half-day meeting will be held in the RCSI.
- September 28 - Dr David Weatherburn, University of Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand
"Measuring Oxygen in the Atmosphere - If CO2 goes up does O2 go down?"
October 2007
- October 19 - Dr Steven Bell, Queen's University Belfast
"From Foodstuffs to Forensic Samples: Moving Raman Spectroscopy into the Real World"
- October 21-23 - 8th Jenner Glycobiology and Medicine Symposium
This symposium is organised by The Royal Society of Medicine, UK, in association with UCD and will be held in the O'Reilly Hall, UCD.
- October 2-November 20 - NovaUCD "Entrepreneurs Live"
Eight leading Irish entrepreneurs will reveal their secrets of entrepreneurial success at the NovaUCD seminar series which runs each Tuesday lunch time from October 2 until November 20.
- October 30-31 - DMMC/Wyeth course - Molecules to Medicine
This course will take place at Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James's Hospital.
November 2007
- November 8 - Professor Gil Lee, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
"Emerging applications of magnetic tweezers: From single molecules to high throughput screening "
- November 9 - Dr Patrick McGowan, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
"DyeCat: A new catalytic approach to the coloration of polymers"
- November 20 - Professor Nick Turner, University of Manchester, UK
“Direct Evolution of Enzymes for Organic Synthesis”
- November 23 - Professor Adam Nelson, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
“The synthesis of natural and unnatural products”
- November 30 - Dr Thierry Durand, CNRS, University Montpellier 1, France
"Neuroprostanes: Potential biomarkers in Alzheimer diseases"
December 2007
- December 14 - Recent Advances in Synthesis and Chemical Biology VI
This year's CSCB symposium will be held in Trinity College Dublin.
- December 18 - Dr Patrick Steel, University of Durham, UK
"Silenes: Just heavy alkenes or new opportunities for organic synthesis?
- December 19 - Dr Marc Hillmyer, University of Minnesota, USA
"Functional Self-Assembled Block Copolymers Through Precision Polymer Synthesis"
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