Events Archive
Seminar
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 - 10:45am
"Quantum materials through the nano-lens: surprises beyond the diffraction limit"
Toolsets wielded by condensed matter researchers in the past century have expanded enormously into frontiers of the ultra-small and ultra-fast, today leveraging...
Seminar
Monday, December 11, 2023 - 10:45am
Most fluorochemicals originate from hydrogen fluoride (HF), a highly toxic gas produced under harsh conditions through the acid digestion of fluorspar (CaF2), a naturally occurring mineral.1 However, CaF2's inherent insolubility in both water and...
Seminar
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 10:45am
"Exploring Enzyme Dynamics: From Catalysis and Conformational Changes to Ligand Binding"
The central theme of our research is to advance multiscale simulation techniques for in-depth studies of enzyme mechanisms, including their catalytic...
Seminar
Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - 10:45am
"Microscale tools for improving chemical and biological analyses"
Obtaining qualitative and quantitative information from target samples is essential to a wide range of applications including environmental monitoring, medical diagnosis, food...
Seminar
Thursday, November 16, 2023 - 10:45am
"Titanocene Redox Catalysis- A Sustainable System for Organic Radical Transformations"
Titanium (Ti) is non-toxic and is the second most abundant transition metal in the earth’s crust making it an attractive metal for the synthesis of...
Seminar
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 - 10:45am
"Strategies to study, manipulate, and decorate cell surface localized biomolecules"
The biomolecules present on a cell’s plasma membrane dictate cell-microenvironment and cell-cell interactions. In certain diseases the prevalence of biomolecules...
Seminar
Thursday, November 2, 2023 - 10:45am
"The Chemistry of Fluorinated Ferrocenes"
Fluorine and ferrocene are two of the sought-after research interests for organometallic chemists today. Ferrocene, after being discovered, made organometallic chemists excited to explore organometallic...
Seminar
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 - 10:45am
"Cholesterol, PTP1B and insulin resistance: is electron tunneling involved?"
Much remains unknown about the underlying molecular mechanisms that cause insulin resistance at the center of the current pandemic of obesity, metabolic syndrome and...
Seminar
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 10:45am
"Skeletal Editing: Moving atoms in and out of a molecule’s core"
Methods for peripheral modification of a lead compound in drug delivery and other applications have already been well established[1]. However, the methods to edit the core...
Seminar
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 - 10:45am
"The active sites of copper oxygenases and their reactivity with H2O2"
Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are relatively recently discovered enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polysaccharides, leading to chain cleavage. LPMOs has...