Seminar Archive 2008


14/01/08

Transition metal catalysed borylation of C-H bonds - Professor Todd B. Marder, CChem, FRSC, Department of Chemistry, Durham University, England Professor of Chemistry, Durham University and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

4/02/08

Altered proteolytic homeostasis leads to anxiety-like behavior and impaired fear extinction - Professor Denis Monard is President of the Swiss Academy of Sciences and the Deputy Director of the Friedrick Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel Switzerland.

25/02/08

Organic Materials I - Prof Peter Bäuerle presently holds a Chair for Organic Chemistry at the University of Ulm (Germany). 

3/03/08

Organic Materials II - Prof Peter Bäuerle presently holds a Chair for Organic Chemistry at the University of Ulm (Germany). 

14/03/08

Functional pi-Electron Materials for Solar Energy Conversion - Prof Peter Bäuerle presently holds a Chair for Organic Chemistry at the University of Ulm (Germany).   

18/03/08

Strategies for the Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products - Professor Margaret Brimble from the University of Auckland

1/04/08

Overview of Organic Electronic Devices - Dr Zoran Popovic is a Xerox Research Fellow who has played an important role in the development of the science and technology of organic electronic materials.

2/04/08

Charge carrier mobility in organic semiconductors - experiments and theory - Dr Zoran Popovic is a Xerox Research Fellow who has played an important role in the development of the science and technology of organic electronic materials. 

3/04/08

Organic photoconductors - experiments and theory - Dr Zoran Popovic is a Xerox Research Fellow who has played an important role in the development of the science and technology of organic electronic materials.

9/04/08

Suppressors of cytokine signalling - flexible therapeutic targets - Professor Ray Norton, WEHI

16/04/08

The molecular regulation of platelet life span - Dr Ben Kile, WEHI

18/04/08

Finally, a total synthesis of a vibsane Diterpene! - Dr Craig Williams, University of Queensland

23/04/08

Regulation of inhibitor of apoptosis proteins to induce tumor cell death - Dr James Vince, Department of Biochemistry, Latrobe University 

30/04/08

Molecular machines of protein destruction and their partners in crime - Dr Kaye Truscott, Department of Biochemistry, Latrobe University 

1/05/08

AJC - It's Your Journal Now! - Andrew Stammer, Publishing Director, CSIRO Publishing and Alison Green, Senior Physical Sciences Editor, Australian Journal of Chemistry, and Environmental Chemistry.

2/05/08

Sweet synthesis - sugar-assisted ligation for the construction of glycopeptides and glycoproteinsDr Richard Payne, University of Sydney

7/05/08

Legionella pneumophila: a prokaryotic identity crisis - Dr Liz Hartland, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne

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9/05/08

Regio- and Stereoselective Functionalisation of Fullerenes - Dr Wallace Wong, ETH Zurich

14/05/08

New clinical applications for engineered antibodies including neuro-imaging and Alzheimer diagnosis - Prof Peter Hudson, CSIRO 

21/05/08

Membrane nanotechnology from drug targets to drugs - Assoc Prof Mibel Aguilar, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University

11/06/08

Applications of DualBeam instruments in materials and life sciences - Dr Oliver Wilhelmi, Application Specialist, FEI Company, The Netherlands

11/06/08

The Human Protein Atlas and HAI antibody catalogue - Fredrik Ponten and Caroline Kampf of HUPO (Human Proteomics) human antibody initiative will be presenting at the Bio21 Institute

22/07/08

Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Charge Photogeneration in Polymer/Fullerene Blend Films - Dr Tracey Clarke, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London

25/07/08

Novel Methods and Strategies in Natural Product Synthesis - Dr Johnathon Morris, University of Adelaide

28/07/08

Functionalised Cyclohexadienes as Reagents and Building Blocks in Synthesis - Prof Armido Studer, Universität Münster

30/07/08

Towards an Understanding of Chemokine-Receptor Recognition: A Protein Engineering Approach - Assoc. Professor Martin Stone, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University

1/08/08

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Biology: Mechanisms and Reactivity of Biomimetic Radicals and Intermediates - Prof Marc Robert, Université Paris 7 - Diderot

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4/08/08

Organic semiconductor Chemistry and Hybrid, Multifunctional Devices - Prof Howard Katz, John Hopkins University

7/08/08

Transmission electron microscopy tools in structural biology for 3D tomography - Dr Felix de Haas, Senior Application Specialist , FEI Company, The Netherlands

13/08/08

Regulating the Activity and Signalling Outcomes of the Raf-Mek-Erk Pathway - Dr Armadeep Dhillion, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne

13/08/08

Oxidative Protein Modifications in Aging and Disease... - Professor Christian Schoeneich, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas

15/08/08

New Oxidative Tandem Methodologies in Organic Synthesis - Prof Ullrich Jahn, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

18/08/08

Platinum and Gold Catalyzed Cycloisomerization of Enynes, Allenynes and Allenedienes - Prof Max Malacria, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris VI

20/08/08

New Therapeutic Antibodies for Inflammation and Cancer - Dr Andrew Nash, Director of Research, CSL Ltd

27/08/08

The Assembly of Cell Specific Transcription Factor Complexes - Dr Jacquie Matthews, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney

3/09/08

Identification of Novel Kinase Substrates and their Role in Alzheimer's Disease - Dr Adam Cole, Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne

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5/09/08

Adventures in Asymmetric Synthesis - Prof Dieter Enders, RWTH Aachen

17/09/08

The Identification and Structural Characterisation of C7orf24 Gamma-Glutamyl Cyclotransferase - Aaron Oakley, CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies

22/09/08

Organocatalysis - from revelation to revolution - Prof Peter Schreiner, Justus Liebig University, Giessen 

30/09/08

Heme-Copper Respiratory Oxidases; Energy-Generating Molecular Machines - Professor Robert B. Gennis,  Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana

8/10/08

ADME Lead Optimisation: Application to a Novel Antimalarial Drug Discovery Program - Assoc Professor Susan Charman, Victorian College of Pharmacy

9/10/08

Molecular Machines for Protein Targeting and Membrane Assembly - Professor Trevor Lithgow, ARC Federation Fellow, Monash University

14/10/08

Sugars and Proteins - Prof Benjamin G. Davis, Professor of Chemistry, Fellow and Tutor in Organic Chemistry, Pembroke College

15/10/08

Protein Scaffold Engineering: from Bugs to Brains - Dr Stewart Nuttall, CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies

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7/11/08

Mass Spectrometry - From Fundamental Studies to Bioanalytical Applications - Professor Victor Ryzhov, Northern Illinois University

13/11/08

Modeling Nanodiamond for Bio-applications - Dr Amanda S Barnard, University of Melbourne, 2008 recipient of the L'oreal Australia Women in Science Fellowship

14/11/08

Medicinal Chemistry, Chemical Biology and SynthesisDr Matthew Piggot, University of Western Australia 

19/11/08

Genomic Dark Matter: The Emergence of Small RNAs - Eric Devor, Integrated DNA Technologies Inc.

26/11/08

Functional Characterisation of Mitochondrial Biogenesis in Plants - Jim Whelan, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia

27/11/08

Molecules to Man: Targeting fibrosis and diabetic complications - Assoc Prof Darren Kelly, University of Melbourne 

15/12/08

Glycosyl Iodides: A Powerful Tool for Efficient Synthesis of Glyconjugates - Professor Jacquelyn Gervay Hague, UC Davis 

23/12/08

2008 - A Small Space Odyssey with Luminescent Molecules - Professor A P De Silva, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

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