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Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences

Seminar Schedules


SCHEDULE Semester 1, 2009

All seminars are from 12:00 Thursdays in Rm F7B322 (unless otherwise stated); all welcome.

This semester we highlight local talent in the Sydney region relevant to the depth of research in the new Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences as well as some distinguished overseas visitors.

Time & Date

Speaker

Seminar title

26 Feb

Dieter Britz,
Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark

"Interesting moments in the life of an electrochemist"

19 Mar

Dr. Pall Thordarson
School of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney

"Light-activated bioconjugates and self-assembled gels"

26 Mar

Paul A. Haynes
Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University

"Label-free quantitative shotgun proteomics as applied to bacteria, rats and plants"

2 Apr

Dr Andrew Holmes
School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney

"You're only young once - microbial colonization of the mammalian gut"

30 Apr

Klaas Nauta
School of Chemistry, University of Sydney

"Laser Spectroscopy at Sydney Uni: radicals and superfluid helium droplets"

21 May

Peter Lewis
Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle

"The structure of bacterial RNA polymerase in complex with the essential transcription elongation factor NusA "

28 May

Dónal Leech
School of Chemistry, National University of Ireland, Galway.

"Mediated Biocatalysis: From Biosensors to Biopower (via BioBleaching)"

4 June

Nick Coleman
School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney

"Mycobacteria as tools for bioremediation and biocatalysis"

Fri, 10 am
19 June

Will Hughes
The Garvan Institute of Medical Research

"How the cytoskeleton can control vesicle trafficking - studies using TIRFM"

Please e-mail Ian Paulsen (ian.paulsen@mq.edu.au) for the 2009 seminar schedule or to make enquiries about presenting a seminar.

Directions for getting to the Department can be found here.