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Durham Chemistry Seminar Schedule Epiphany Term 2025
Seminars Take Place in CG85 at 2pm (unless otherwise informed)
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15th January 2025
Miriam O'Duill (Nottingham University)
Find out more: https://oduillgroup.com/miriam/
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22nd January 2025
Allegra Franchino (Durham University)
Find out more: https://www.franchinolab.com/af
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29th January 2025
Scott Cockroft (University of Edinburgh)
Find out more: https://www.cockroft.chem.ed.ac.uk/
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5th February 2025
Karen Johnston (Strathclyde University)
Find out more: https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/johnstonkarendr/
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12th February 2025
Liz Rowsell FRSC (CTO, Johnson Matthey)
Find out more: https://matthey.com/about-us/leadership/group-leadership-team/liz-rowsell-obe-cchem-frsc
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26th February 2025
Yi Jin (Manchester Institute of Biotechnology)
Find out more: https://www.yijin-lab.org/
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5th March 2025
C. Daniel Frisbie (University of Minnesota) Leverhulme Lecture: "Electrochemical Tranistors: A Platform for Exploring Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors at High Carrier Densities"
Find out more: http://research.cems.umn.edu/frisbie/
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12th March 2025
Susan Perkins (Oxford University)
Find out more: https://perkin.web.ox.ac.uk/
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19th March 2025
Stephen Goldup FRSC (University of Birmingham - rescheduled)
Find out more: https://golduplab.org/
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Durham Chemistry Seminar Schedule Michaelmas Term 2024
Seminars Take Place in CG85 at 2pm (unless otherwise informed)
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11th September 2024
Elizabeth New (Sydney University)
Find out more: https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/chemistry/~enew/liz.html
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9th October 2024
Paul Hodgkinson (Durham University)
Find out more: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/paul-hodgkinson/
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16th October
Stephen Goldup FRSC (University of Birmingham)
Find out more: https://golduplab.org/
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23rd October 2024 – This will begin at 1300 in room CG85 (Chemistry Department)
Matt Fuchter (University of Oxford)
Find out more: https://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/people/matthew-fuchter
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24th October 2024 – Please note this will be held in CG91 (Chemistry Department)
Musgrave Lecture: Programme as follows
- 14:00 - 14:10 - Welcome and introduction
- 14:10 - 14:45 – Keith Andrews (Durham University)
- 14:45 - 15:30 – John Murphy (Strathclyde)
- 15:30 - 16:00 - Break (Coffee and Tea in the Musgrave room)
- 16:00 - 17:00 – Franziska Schoenebeck (RWTH Aachen) - Musgrave Lecture
- 17:00 - 18:30 – Wine reception in the Musgrave Room open to all
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30th October 2024
Black history month seminars
12.00 Lunch Musgrave Room (CG141) Chemistry Building
13.00 pm Welcome – CG91
13.10 pm Daniel Similaki - Key Account Manager at Avantor (Pharma) “Science Beyond Barriers: My Story of Empowering Minority Voices in Science".
13.40 pm Benjamin Ajibade - Professor in Mental Health and Lead for the ProNE project, Northumbria University “The Intersection of Race and Identity: Navigating Blackness in the 21st Century”.
14.10 pm break 15 min Tea/coffee – Musgrave Room (CG141)
14.25 pm Dorothy Monekosso - Professor of Computer Science and CTO at More Life UK Ltd, Durham University "My journey as an engineer, academic & researcher".
14.55 pm Discussion
15.30 pm end of the event/networking opportunities
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6th November 2024
Martin Fascione (University of York)
Find out more: https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/people/mfascione/
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13th November
Diversity in Science Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 - Lunch
- 12:50 - 13:00 - Welcome and Introduction
- 13:00 - 13:30 - Sannia Farooque (University of Bradford)
- 13:30 - 14:00 - Ben Arenas (The University of Edinburgh) https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-ben-arenas
- 14:00 - 14:30 - Break
- 14:30 - 15:00 - Syed Zaheer Abbas (University of Southampton) https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/62bw6h/doctor-syed-zaheer-abbas
- 15:00 - 15:30 - Ashok Keerthi (The University of Manchester) https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/ashok.keerthi
- 15:30 - 16:00 - Question and Answer session
- 16:00 - 16:10 - Concluding remarks
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20th November 2024
Stephen Wallace (University of Edinburgh - Norman Heatley RSC Award Lecture)
Find out more: https://wallacelab.bio.ed.ac.uk/
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25th November 2024 – This will be held at 13:00 in Room CG60 (Chemistry Department)
David E. Herbert (Manitoba Institute for Materials, Canada)
Find out more: https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~dherbert/
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27th November
Paul Walton (University of York)
Schedule:
12.00 – 1.00 Lunch, Musgrave Room
1.00-2.00 Research talk: Spectroscopy and structures of biomass-degrading metalloenzymes-a way to cleaner fuels? (CG85)
2.00-2.30 Tea/coffee/biscuits, Musgrave Room
2.30-3.30 EDI talk: Gender equality in academia: when? (CG85)
Paul has long been a champion of gender equality in the sciences. He has given over 200 international lectures on the topic and received a number of international awards.
https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/people/pwalton/equality/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyFo4aNqqHA
https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/people/pwalton/
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4th December 2024
Anders Madsen (University of Copenhagen)
Find out more: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rQQuoAkAAAAJ&hl=en
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11th December 2024 - This will be held at 13:00 in Room CG85 (Chemistry Department)
Sabine Flitsch (Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester)
Find out more: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/sabine.flitsch
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Durham Chemistry Seminar Schedule Easter Term 2023
Seminars Take Place in CG85 at 2pm (unless otherwise informed)
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Date |
Speaker |
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27/03/24 |
Prof Matt Unthank Northumbria University |
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17/04/24 |
RSC Prize Lecture - Corday-Morgan Prize
Prof Tomislav Friščić University of Birmingham |
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30/04/24 |
RSC Prize Lecture - Centenary Prize
Prof Mark Grinstaff Boston University |
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01/05/24 |
Dr Joe Beckwith University of Cambridge |
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03/06/24- 05/06/24 |
Durham Lecture Series
Prof Kelly Chibale University of Cape Town |
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05/06/24 |
Dr Patrick Stewart DSTL, Porton Down |
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19/06/24-20/06/24 |
Postgraduate Symposium |
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24/06/24 |
RSC Prize Lecture - Centenary Prize
Prof Christopher Barner-Kowollik Queensland University of Technology |
Durham Chemistry Seminar Schedule Epiphany Term 2024
Seminars Take Place in CG85 at 2pm (unless otherwise informed)
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Date |
Speaker |
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10/01/24 |
Prof Gavin Miller Keele University |
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17/01/24 |
Prof. Eli Zysman-Coleman |
| 24/01/24 |
Dr Alison Stuart https://le.ac.uk/people/alison-stuart
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| 30/01/24 (Tuesday) |
Tilden Prize Seminar by David Smith |
| 31/01/24 | Prof. Anju Massey-Brooker (ex-P&G; RSC) |
| 07/02/24 |
Dr. Jessica Wade |
| 14/02/24 |
Prof. Matthew Unthank Please note this is to be rearranged |
| 28/02/24 | Amy Robertson |
| 06/03/24 | Joanna McGouran |
| 13/03/24 | Frances Docherty |
Durham Chemistry Seminar Schedule Michaelmas Term 2023
Seminars Take Place in CG85 at 2pm (unless otherwise informed)
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Date |
Speaker |
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11/10/23 |
Prof Bruno Linclau Ghent University |
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18/10/23 |
Black History Month Event Details to follow |
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01/11/23 |
Dr Patrick Stewart DSTL, Porton Down Website |
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15/11/23 |
Dr. Mike Hall University of Newcastle
'Developing synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry' |
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22/11/23 |
Dr Tim Miles GSK |
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29/11/23 |
Dr Maria Paz Munoz-Herranz Lancaster University |
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06/12/23 |
Careers Event More details to follow |