Durham Chemistry Seminar Schedule Easter Term 2025

Seminars Take Place in CG85 at 2pm (unless otherwise informed)

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2^nd of April 2025

Amy Hall (Durham University)

Find out more: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/amy-v-hall/

And

Thomas Fellowes (University of Liverpool)

Find out more: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/thomas-fellowes

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9^th of April 2025

Anna Barnard (Imperial College London)

This seminar will be given virtually from the Musgrave room (CG141) 

Find out more: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/a.barnard

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15^th of April to the 16^th of April - MosMed Conference

Lecture one on the 15^th of April:

Prof Kelly Chibale -  'Medicinal chemistry of spirocyclic antimalarial chemotypes'

45 mins, plus 15 mins Q&A 

Please note that this will be taking place at 3.45-4.45pm in TLC 033 (Teaching & Learning Centre) 

 

Lecture two on the 16^th of April:

Prof Kelly Chibale - 'How to build a drug discovery centre at a university: the H3D story'

Please note that this will be taking place at 9.40-10.10am TLC 033 (Teaching & Learning Centre)

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30^th of April 2025

Emanuele Penocchio (Northwestern University)

Find out more: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=w0buCtcAAAAJ&hl=it

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5^th of May to the 9^th of May 2025

Durham Lectures 

Eric Anslyn (Texas at Austin) 

(schedule to be circulated closer to the date)

Find out more: https://anslyn.cm.utexas.edu/AnslynWebsite/index.html

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14^th of May 2025

RSC Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize

Matthew Gibson (Manchester)

Find out more: https://gibsongroupresearch.com/about-prof-gibson/

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4^th of June 2025

RSC Hickinbottom Prize

Liam Ball (Nottingham)

Find out more: https://www.theballgroup.co.uk/

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9^th of June 2025

Chemistry Post Graduate Symposium

Taking place in CLC-406/407 (CLC = Calman Learning Centre)

Time: 9:00-17:00

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11^th of June 2025

RSC Pedler Prize

Harry L. Anderson, FRS (Oxford)

Find out more: https://hla.chem.ox.ac.uk/

And

Igor Rončević (Manchester)

Find out more: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/igor-roncevic

Time: 13:00-15:00

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25^th of June 2025

2025 Cell Press ECR Symposium

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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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15^th of January 2025

Miriam O'Duill (Nottingham University)

Find out more: https://oduillgroup.com/miriam/ 

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22^{nd of} January 2025

Allegra Franchino (Durham University)

Find out more: https://www.franchinolab.com/af 

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29^th of January 2025

Scott Cockroft (University of Edinburgh)

Find out more: https://www.cockroft.chem.ed.ac.uk/ 

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5^th of February 2025

Karen Johnston (Strathclyde University)

Find out more: https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/johnstonkarendr/ 

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12^th of 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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26^th of February 2025

Yi Jin (Manchester Institute of Biotechnology)

Find out more: https://www.yijin-lab.org/ 

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5^th of 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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12^th of March 2025

Susan Perkin (Oxford University)

Find out more: https://perkin.web.ox.ac.uk/ 

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19^th of 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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11^th of September 2024

Elizabeth New (Sydney University)

Find out more: https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/chemistry/~enew/liz.html

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9^th of October 2024

Paul Hodgkinson (Durham University)

Find out more: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/paul-hodgkinson/

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16^th of October 2024

Stephen Goldup FRSC (University of Birmingham)

Find out more: https://golduplab.org/

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23^rd of 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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24^th of October 2024 – Please note this will be held in CG91 (Chemistry Department)

Musgrave Lecture

Schedule:

• 14:00 - 14:10 - Welcome and introduction
• 14:10 - 14:45 - Keith Andrews (Durham University) https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/keith-g-andrews/
• 14:45 - 15:30 – John Murphy (Strathclyde) https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/murphyjohnprof/
• 15:30 - 16:00 - Break (Coffee and Tea in the Musgrave room)
• 16:00 - 17:00 – Franziska Schoenebeck (RWTH Aachen) - Musgrave Lecture https://www.schoenebeck.oc.rwth-aachen.de/fs
• 17:00 - 18:30 – Wine reception in the Musgrave Room open to all

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30^th of October 2024

Black history month seminars

Schedule:

• 12.00 - 13:00 - Lunch Musgrave Room (CG141) Chemistry Building
• 13.00 - 13:10 - Welcome – CG91
• 13.10 - 13:40 - Daniel Similaki - Key Account Manager at Avantor (Pharma) “Science Beyond Barriers: My Story of Empowering Minority Voices in Science".
• 13.40 - 14:10 - 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 - 14:25 - Break 15 min Tea/coffee – Musgrave Room (CG141)
• 14.25 - 14:55 - Dorothy Monekosso - Professor of Computer Science and CTO at More Life UK Ltd, Durham University "My journey as an engineer, academic & researcher".
• 14.55 - 15:30 - Discussion
• 15.30 - End of the event/networking opportunities

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6th of November 2024

Martin Fascione (University of York)

Find out more: https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/people/mfascione/

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13^th of November 2024

Diversity in Science Symposium

Schedule:

• 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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20^th of 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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25^th of 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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27^th of November 2024

Paul Walton (University of York)

Schedule:

• 12:00 – 13:00 - Lunch, Musgrave Room
• 13:00 14:00 - Research talk: Spectroscopy and structures of biomass-degrading metalloenzymes-a way to cleaner fuels? (CG85)
• 14:00 - 14:30 - Tea/coffee/biscuits, Musgrave Room
• 14:30 - 15:30 - 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. 

Find out more here:

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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4^th of December 2024

Anders Madsen (University of Copenhagen)

Find out more: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rQQuoAkAAAAJ&hl=en

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11^th of 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 2024

Seminars Take Place in CG85 at 2pm (unless otherwise informed)

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27^th of March 2024

Prof Matt Unthank (Northumbria University)

Find out more: Website

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17^th of April 2024

RSC Prize Lecture - Corday-Morgan Prize

Prof Tomislav Friščić (University of Birmingham)

Find out more: Website

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30^th of April 2024

RSC Prize Lecture - Centenary Prize

Prof Mark Grinstaff (Boston University)

Find out more: Website

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1^st of May 2024

Dr Joe Beckwith (University of Cambridge)

Find out more: Website

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3^rd of June to the 5^th of June 2024

Durham Lecture Series

Prof Kelly Chibale (University of Cape Town)

Find out more: Website

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5^th of June 2024

Dr Patrick Stewart (DSTL, Porton Down)

Find out more: Website

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19^th of June to the 20^th of June 2024

Postgraduate Symposium

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24^th of June 2024

RSC Prize Lecture - Centenary Prize

Prof Christopher Barner-Kowollik (Queensland University of Technology)

Find out more: Website

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Durham Chemistry Seminar Schedule Epiphany Term 2024

Seminars Take Place in CG85 at 2pm (unless otherwise informed)

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10^th of January 2024

Prof Gavin Miller (Keele University)

Find out more: Website

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17^th of January 2024

Prof. Eli Zysman-Coleman

Find out more: http://www.zysman-colman.com/home

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24^th of January 2024

Dr Alison Stuart

Find out more: https://le.ac.uk/people/alison-stuart

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30^th of January 2024

Tilden Prize Seminar by David Smith

Find out more: https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/o-s/dsmith/

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31^st of January 2024

Prof. Anju Massey-Brooker (ex-P&G; RSC)

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7^th of February 2024

Dr. Jessica Wade 

Find out more: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/jessica.wade

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28^th of February 2024

Amy Robertson

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6^th of March 2024

Joanna McGouran

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13^th of March 2024

Frances Docherty

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Durham Chemistry Seminar Schedule Michaelmas Term 2023

Seminars Take Place in CG85 at 2pm (unless otherwise informed)

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11^th of October 2023

Prof Bruno Linclau (Ghent University)

Find out more: Website

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18^th of October 2023

Black History Month Event

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15^th of November 2023

Dr. Mike Hall (University of Newcastle)

Developing synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry

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22^nd of November 2023

Dr Tim Miles (GSK)

Find out more: Website

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29^th of November 2023

Dr Maria Paz Munoz-Herranz (Lancaster University)

Find out more: Website

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6^th of December 2023

Careers Event

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