Events Archive
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...
Seminar
Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 10:45am
"Successes Toward the Advancement of Bridged BODIPY Compounds and Discoveries Aiding Super Resolution Microscopy"
Super-resolution microscopy functions based on the ability of a chromophore to be photoactivatable. Thus, the engineering of...
Seminar
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 - 10:45am
"Artificial Mini-Metalloenzymes for Hydrolytic Cleavage"
Metallohydrolases are metal-dependent enzymes that catalyze the hydrolytic cleavage of a range of biologically relevant substrates, including esters, organophosphates, polynucleotides,...
Seminar
Thursday, October 12, 2023 - 10:45am
"Capturing experimental properties of metal oxides in efficient computational models"
Metal oxides will be critical to the function of a new generation of catalysts, electronics, and photochemical devices to help solve pressing global problems...
Seminar
Thursday, October 5, 2023 - 10:45am
"Two-Photon Excitable Fluorophores for Photodynamic Therapy"
Cancer is a leading cause of death around the world each year, and typical treatments can be highly invasive with numerous side effects. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) relies on...
Seminar
Tuesday, October 3, 2023 - 10:45am
"CSRP2 a novel copper binding protein that regulates myoblast proliferation"
Copper (Cu) is a vital micronutrient that is imperative for the proliferation and development of mammalian cells. Surplus of Cu is toxic to cells, so a broad network of...
Seminar
Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 10:45am
"Electrochemical Carbon Capture and Concentration by Advanced Electrodes Design"
The need to achieve net-zero emissions of anthropogenic CO2 by the end of the twenty-first century has recently raised interest among researchers to develop...