
Previous Seminar
2019
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Clive Yik Sham Chung Department of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley | Frontier Technologies in Chemical Biology: Activity-Based Imaging (ABI) and Activity-Based Protein Profiling (ABPP) | December 16, 2019 (Monday) | 10:00 a.m. | Room L3 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. CHEN Ye Research Fellow Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | Metal Nanomaterials with Novel Crystal Phases: Synthesis and Catalytic Applications ** Cancelled ** | November 27, 2019 (Tuesday) | 9:00 a.m. | Room L4 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Mark E. Davis Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor in Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology USA | Fighting Cancer with Nanoparticle Medicines: How Size Can Matter ** Cancelled ** | October 8, 2019 (Tuesday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room LT2 | 
| Professor Yoshiaki Nakao Department of Material Chemistry Kyoto University | Cooperative Metal Catalysis for Efficient Organic Synthesis | October 11, 2019 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | Room L1 | 
| (1) Professor Nicolas Blanchard (2) Professor Gilles Hanquet Université de Strasbourg, CNRS France | (1) Total Synthesis of Mycolactone A/B, Toxin of Buruli Ulcer (2) Development of new synthetic platforms for terpenoids preparation around the total synthesis of salvinorin A | October 29, 2019 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | LT2 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Axel H.E. Müller Institute of Organic Chemistry Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz Germany | Multicompartment Nanostructures of ABC Triblock Terpolymers Inspired by the Cell | September 2, 2019 (Monday) | 10:00 a.m. | Room L5 | 
| Dr. Haymo Ross Publisher ChemPubSoc Europe Journals Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. | A look behind the scenes – an editor’s day-today work | September 19, 2019 (Thursday) | 3:00 p.m. | Room 104 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Yoshitaka Hamashima School of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Shizuoka | Organofluorine chemistry: Synthetic methods and applications from a personal perspective | August 6, 2019 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | G18 | 
| Professor Yoshitaka Hamashima School of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Shizuoka | Halo-functionalizations of organic molecules enabled by unique oraganocatalysts | August 9, 2019 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room 158 | 
| Professor Hiroyuki Furuta Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduate School of Engineering Kyushu University | N-Confused Hexaphyrins: Versatile NIR Ligands for Bis-Metal Coordination | August 15, 2019 (Thursday) | 10:00 a.m. | Room G04 | 
| Professor Hiroyuki Furuta Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduate School of Engineering Kyushu University | Creation from Confusion: A Journey of Porphyrin Mutant | August 16, 2019 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | LT2 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Jason England School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Nanyang Technological University | A talk of two halves: ligand redox noninnocence in highly oxidized carbodicarbene complexes, and exploring the oxidative reactivity of superoxocopper(II) | July 10, 2019 (Wednesday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room 106 | 
| Professor Lei Zhou School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Sun Yat-Sen University | Picking two out of three: visible light promoted dual C-F bond cleavage in a CF3 group | July 11, 2019 (Thursday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room 106 | 
| Professor Jian Zhou School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering East China Normal University | Enantioselective Functionalization of Fully Substituted C=N Double Bond | July 12, 2019 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room 103 | 
| Professor Kazuo Takimiya Department of Chemistry Tohoku University | Design of Thienoacene Based Organic Semiconductors: from Molecules to Molecular Solids | July 15, 2019 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room G04 | 
| Professor Daniel Tomasz Gryko Institute of Organic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences | Pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrroles - Electron-rich Functional Heterocycles | July 17, 2019 (Wednesday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room 103 | 
| Professor Qingxia Liu Faculty of Engineering University of Alberta | Coalescence or Bounce? How Surfactant Adsorption in Milliseconds Affects Bubble Collision | July 19, 2019 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room 103 | 
| Professor Leaf Huang Eshelman School of Pharmacy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Targeting Tumor Microenvironment for Immunotherap | July 24, 2019 (Wednesday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room L1 | 
| Professor Peter Metz Fakultät Chemie und Lebensmittelchemie Organische Chemie I Technische Universität Dresden Germany | Total Synthesis of Terpenoid Natural Products | July 24, 2019 (Wednesday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room G03 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Thomas Wirth School of Chemistry Cardiff University | Iodine Reagents in Synthesis and Flow Chemistry | June 14, 2019 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room 104 | 
| Professor Rebecca R. Pompano Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering University of Virginia | Bioanalytical chemistry in living tissue | June 19, 2019 (Wednesday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room 106 | 
| Professor Xiaoling Wei State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences | Decoding Brain Signals Based on Ultra-Flexible Bioelectronics | June 20, 2019 (Thursday) | 4:30 p.m. | Room G03 | 
| Professor Lei Zhu Department of Macromolecular and Chemical Science and Engineering Case Western Reserve University | Polymer Brush-Grafted Silica Nanoparticles | June 21, 2019 (Friday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room 106 | 
| Professor Zhaohui Wang Department of Chemistry Tsinghua University | Nano-Carbon Imides: Precise Synthesis and Applications | June 21, 2019 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room 104 | 
| Professor Chris Le Director, Analytical and Environmental Toxicology Division University of Alberta, Canada | Bioanalytical development enabling studies of arsenic health effects | June 26, 2019 (Wednesday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room 104 | 
| Professor Xianjin Xiao Institute of Reproductive Health, Tongji Medical College Huazhong University of Science and Technology | Thermodynamics and kinetics guided DNA probe design for uniformly sensitive and specific DNA hybridization without optimization | June 27, 2019 (Thursday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room G06 | 
| Professor Zhixiang Yu College of Chemistry Peking University | Proton Transfer Mechanisms and Developing Ring Formation Reactions | June 28, 2019 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room 104 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor William D. Jones Department of Chemistry University of Rochester U.S.A. | Cleavage and Formation of Carbon-Carbon Bonds at Transition Metal Centers: Elucidating Factors that Control Selectivity | May 3, 2019 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Xuhui Huang Department of Chemistry The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Constructing Markov State Models to Elucidate the Functional Conformational Changes of Complex Biomolecules | May 10, 2019 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | LT1 | 
| Professor Yoshiji Takemoto Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Kyoto University | Organocatalyzed Reactions Directed Toward Natural Product Synthesis | May 15, 2019 (Wednesday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room 104 | 
| Professor Hidemitsu Uno Executive Director and Vice President Ehime University Japan | Preparation and properties of large oligopyrrolic pi-systems | May 16, 2019 (Thursday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room 106 | 
| Professor Yoshiji Takemoto Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Kyoto University | Design of Bifunctional Thiourea Catalysts for Asymmetric Reactions | May 17, 2019 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | G18 | 
| Professor Hua Zhang Department of Chemistry City University of Hong Kong | Phase Engineering of Novel Nanomaterials | May 24, 2019 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room 103 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor S. Ramakrishnan Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | Immiscibility-driven Folding of Synthetic Polymers – Accessing sub-10 nm scale microphase separation | April 11, 2019 (Thursday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room C5 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Liang Gaolin Department of Chemistry University of Science and Technology of China | Employing Self-Assembly For Biomedical Imaging Applications | March 7, 2019 (Thursday) | 11:00 a.m. | R158 | 
| (1) Professor Redouane Borsali (2) Professor Serge Cosnier University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS France | (1) Carbohydrate Block Copolymer Self-Assemblies: Nanoparticles and Highly Nanostructured Thin Films (2) Biomaterials based on carbon nanotubes and polymers for the design of electrochemical biosensors and enzymatic fuel cells | March 8, 2019 (Friday) | 2:00 p.m. | LT2 | 
| Professor Burkhard König Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy University of Regensburg Germany | Visible Light Photocatalysis: Basic concepts,recent advances and future perspectives | March 15, 2019 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Junji Ichikawa Department of Chemistry University of Tsukuba Japan | Metal-Catalyzed C–F Bond Activation via Fluorine Elimination | March 22, 2019 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Gregory C. Fu Norman Chandler Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology | Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: A Radical Alternative to SN1 and SN2 Reactions | March 25, 2019 (Monday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Chien-Hong Cheng Department of Chemistry National Tsing Hua University Taiwan | Metal-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization for the Direct Synthesis of Pyridinium-Type Compounds and Their Application | March 27, 2019 (Wednesday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Prof. Tiger H. Tao State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology CAS | The perfect marriage of bioelectronics and biomaterials via advanced manufacturing | March 28, 2019 (Thursday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room C4 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Anant Ramakant Kapdi Department of Chemistry Institute of Chemical Technology India | Phosphatriazenes: Versatile Ligands for Bio-active Molecules Modification via Sustainable Palladium Catalysis | January 8, 2019 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 | 
| Professor Minh Le Department of Biomedical Sciences City University of Hong Kong | Hanessing extracellular vesicles from red blood cells for a novel RNA drug delivery platform | January 9, 2019 (Wednesday) | 10:30 a.m. | L5 | 
| Professor Tobin J. Marks Department of Chemistry Northwestern University | Surface Science Meets Homogeneous Catalysis. Surfaces as Activators and Ligands | January 21, 2019 (Monday)) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Peng Yang School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shaanxi Normal University | Amyloid-Inspired Protein Assembly and Interfacial Materials | January 22, 2019 (Tuesday) | 3:00 p.m. | L3 | 
| (1) Professor Tan Weihong      譚蔚泓 院士 (2) Professor Guo Zijian      郭子建 院士 | (1) The Foundation of Molecular Medicine: A Chemical Biology Approach (2) Chemical Biology of Metals and Metallodrugs | January 23, 2019 (Wednesday) | 4:30 p.m. | TY Wong Hall  | 
| Professor Bradley D. Olsen Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Quantifying Molecular Defects and Relaxations in Polymeric Networks | January 24, 2019 (Thursday) | 10:30 a.m. | LT2 | 
| Professor Masaya Sawamura Department of Chemistry Hokkaido University Japan | Non-covalent Interactions in Enantioselectve C–H Transformations | January 24, 2019 (Thursday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room C2 | 
| Professor Bradley D. Olsen Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Where Do Our Materials Come From, and Where Do They Go? | January 25, 2019 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Duo Wu College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Soochow University | Uniform Functional Microparticles Tailored by Micro-Fluidic Spray Granulation Technology | January 30, 2019 (Wednesday)) | 2:30 p.m. | Room 158, | 
2018
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Hongbin Li Department of Chemistry University of British Columbia | Mechanical Engineering of Protein-based Biomaterials: from single molecule features to macroscopic traits | December 5, 2018 (Wednesday) | 3:30 p.m. | L5 | 
| Professor Hwan-Ching Tai Department of Chemistry National Taiwan University | The Analytical Chemistry of Stradivarius violins: solving a 300-year-old mystery | December 7, 2018 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L4 | 
| Professor Linhong Deng Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Health Sciences Changzhou University | Cell dynamics as key determinants of health and disease | December 11, 2018 (Tuesday) | 10:30 a.m. | L3 | 
| Professor Zhang-Jie Shi Department of Chemistry Fudan University | Upgrading Cross Coupling for Biaryl Syntheses | December 11, 2018 (Tuesday) | 3:30 p.m. | L3 | 
| Professor Xuefeng Jiang School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering East China Normal University | Greenization for Organic Synthesis | December 12, 2018 (Wednesday) | 4:30 p.m. | L3 | 
| Professor Huimin Zhao Departments of Chemical and BiomolecularEngineering, Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Bioengineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Synthetic Biology: Putting Synthesis into Biology | December 13, 2018 (Thursday)) | 10:30 a.m. | L3 | 
| Professor Qilong Shen Key Laboratory of Organofluorine Chemistry Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences | >New of Fluoroalkylating Reagents: Design,
Preparation and Reactivity | December 13, 2018 (Thursday)) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 | 
| Professor Pierre Braunstein University of Strasbourg – CNRS France | Selective Metalation of N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Based Pincer Ligands and Catalytic Applications | December 14, 2018 (Friday)) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Xiang Zhou College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Wuhan University | Chemical Biology of Nucleic Acids | November 9, 2018 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Xin Xu Department of Chemistry Fudan University | Towards the Accurate Yet Efficient Molecular Modelling of Large Systems from First Principles | November 23, 2018 (Friday) | 3:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Rui Wang Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of California, Berkeley U.S.A. | Classical Challenges in the Physical Chemistry of Polymer Networks: Topology, Elasticity and Percolation | November 26, 2018 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room G03 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Xueming Yang Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics The Chinese Academy of Sciences and Southern University of Science and Technology | Photocatalysis of Methanol and Water on TiO2 at Single Molecule Level | October 5, 2018 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Sven H. Behrens School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology | New Materials and Separation Processes Involving Particles in Fluid Interfaces | October 8, 2018 (Monday) | 10:30 a.m. | L4 | 
| Professor Yun Chi Department of Materials Science and Engineering City University of Hong Kong | NIR and Blue Emitters for Organic Light Emitting Diodes | October 12, 2018 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Pierre H. Dixneuf UMR 6226 CNRS-Université de Rennes France | Catalytic cross-couplings from C-H bonds and Fast Modifications of P & N ligands | October 22, 2018 (Monday) | 4:30 pm | LT4 | 
| Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Department of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University U.S.A. | External Control in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization | October 26, 2018 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Jye-Shane Yang Department of Chemistry National Taiwan University | Pentiptycene-Incorporated pi-Conjugated
Oligomer and Polymers | September 10, 2018 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room G34 | 
| Professor Becki Y Kuang Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Synthetic RNA gene circuit for in situ cell sorting | September 13, 2018 (Thursday) | 3:30 p.m. | Room 404 | 
| Professor Siddhartha Roy Department of Biophysics Bose Institute India | Peptide-based Protein-Protein and Protein-
DNA interaction inhibitors: Could they
become Drugs? | September 21, 2018 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Feihe Huang Department of Chemistry Zhejiang University | Nonporous Adaptive Crystals (NACs) for Separation and Adsorption | September 24, 2018 (Monday) | 10:30 am | L4 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Yujiro Hayashi Department of Chemistry Tohoku University | Organocatalyst in the Total Synthesis | June 4, 2018 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Yujiro Hayashi Department of Chemistry Tohoku University | Pot Economy in the Synthesis of Prostaglandin and Estradiol Methyl
Ether | June 7, 2018 (Thursday) | 10:30 a.m. | L5 | 
| Professor Shigehiro Yamaguchi Research Center of Materials Science and Department of Chemistry Nagoya University | Main-Group Strategy toward NIR and Photostable Fluorescent Dyes | June 15, 2018 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| (1) Professor Xiangliang Yang (2) Professor Zifu Li College of Life Science and Technology Huazhong University of Science and Technology | (1) Advances in Translation Cancer Nanomedicine (2) Smart Nanomedicine based on Hydroxyethyl Starch | June 27, 2018 (Wednesday) | 10:00 a.m. | L3 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor George A. O’Doherty Department of Chemistry Northeastern University | De Novo Asymmetric Synthesis of Natural
Products for Stereochemical Structure
Activity Relationship (S-SAR) Studies | May 9, 2018 (Wednesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 | 
| Professor Tiow-Gan Ong Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei | Carbone and Catalysis | May 10, 2018 (Thursday) | 10:30 a.m. | L3 | 
| Professor Jia Xie Department of Chemistry Northeastern UniversitySchool of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology | Natural polymer based energy storage materials and devices | May 11, 2018 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Hyunwoo Kim Department of Chemistry Northeastern UniversityDepartment of Chemistry Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | Geometrical Constraints in Design of Metal Ligands and Chiral Sensors | May 18, 2018 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Jianji Wang School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Henan Normal University | CO2 响應離子液體的設計及應用 | May 21, 2018 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 | 
| Professor Kazuaki Ishihara Graduate School of Engineering Nagoya University | Rational Design of High Performance Catalysts Based on Acid–Base Combination Chemistry | May 28, 2018 (Monday) | 10:30 a.m. | L3 | 
| Professor Kazuaki Ishihara Graduate School of Engineering Nagoya University | Rational Design of Amidation and Esterification Catalysts Based on Acid–Base Combindation Chemistry | May 29, 2018 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Leyong Wang School of Chemistry and Chemcial Engineering Nanjing University | School of Chemistry and Chemcial Engineering
Nanjing University | April 6, 2018 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Zhiping Zheng Southern University of Science and Technology | Chemistry and Materials Supported by Transition Metal Clusters | April 27, 2018 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Shern-Long Lee Institute for Advanced Study Shenzhen University | Directed supramolecular self-assembly at the liquid-solid interface | March 6, 2018 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room 704 | 
| Professor Zongwei Cai Department of Chemistry Hong Kong Baptist University | MALDI-MS Imaging Method Development and Application in Research of Environmental Toxicology | March 23, 2018 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Jonathan Burton Department of Chemistry University of Oxford | Oxonium ions, rearrangements and natural products | March 27, 2018 (Tuesday) | 4:30 p.m. | L3 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Hiroshi Watanabe Division of Multidisciplinary Chemistry Institute for Chemical Research Kyoto University | Viscoelastic and Dielectric Investigation of Entanglement Dynamics of Flexible Polymers | February 6, 2018 (Tuesday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room 707 | 
| Professor Jer-Lai Kuo Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science Academia Sinica | Vibrational Anharmonicity and IR Spectra of Hydrogen Bonded Clusters | February 8, 2018 (Thursday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room G06,  | 
| Professor Shengming Ma (Academician) State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS | Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Allenes | February 9, 2018 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Prof. LI YA DONG Division of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences | Metallic Nano, Cluster, and Single Atom Catalysis | February 28, 2018 (Wednesday) | 4:30 p.m. | LT1 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Lok Kumar Shrestha International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics National Institute for Materials Science Japan | Self-Assembled Fullerene Nanostructures at Liquid-Liquid Interface: From Zero-to-Higher Dimensions | January 4, 2017 (Thursday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 | 
| Prof. F. Ekkehardt Hahn Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Germany | Substrate activation with complexes bearing protic N-heterocyclic or mesoionic carbenes | January 9, 2017 (Tuesday) | 11:00 a.m. | Room 707 | 
| Professor Yi-Chou Tsai Department of Chemistry National Tsing Hua University | [2+2+2] Cycloaddition Reactions Involving Alkynes, Nitriles, and Mo-Mo Multiple Bonds | January 10, 2018 (Wednesday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room 158 | 
| Professor Bo Zhang Institute of Food Science and Technology Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | 植物蛋白擠壓組織化技術研究進展 | January 16, 2018 (Tuesday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room 707 | 
| Prof. Rodney S. Ruoff Department of Chemistry and School of Materials Science Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology | New carbon materials | January 19, 2017 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Sungwoo Hong Department of Chemistry Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | Investigation of Innovative Synthetic
		    Approach for Successful Implementation of
		    Fragment-Based Design | January 26, 2017 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room 158 | 
| Professor Lifeng Chi Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials Soochow University | From Self-Assembly to On-Surface Reaction | January 26, 2017 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Day-Shin Hsu Department of Chemistry National Chung Cheng University | Recent Developments in Spiranes Synthesis | January 29, 2018 (Monday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room C3 | 
| Professor Tao Tu Department of Chemistry Fudan University | NHC-Based Coordination Assemblies as Solid Molecular Catalysts toward Biomass Transformations | January 31, 2018 (Wednesday) | 4:30 p.m. | Room G36 | 
2017
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Jeremy K.M. Sanders Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge | Thermodynamics and Molecular Recognition: From dynamic combinatorial chemistry to crystal polymorphism | December 1, 2017 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Prof. Timothy P. Lodge Chief Editor, Macromolecules Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota | Interplay of Fibril Formation, Gelation, and Phase Separation in Aqueous Cellulose Ether Solutions | December 4, 2017 (Monday) | 10:00 a.m. | L3 | 
| Prof. Juewen Liu Department of Chemistry University of Waterloo Canada | Interfacing DNA with metal ions, metal oxides, and metal nanoparticles | December 5, 2017 (Tuesday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room 101 | 
| Prof. Timothy P. Lodge Chief Editor, Macromolecules Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota | 50 years of Macromolecules; the Promise of Polymers | December 6, 2017 (Wednesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L4 | 
| Mr. Hiu-Chun Lam Department of Chemistry University of Adelaide | Biomimetic Total Synthesis of Natural Products | December 8, 2017 (Friday) | 11:00 a.m. | Room 158 | 
| Prof. Jenn-Kang Hwang Warshel Institute for Computational Biology The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen | Protein structure, dynamics and evolution: you see one, you see the other two – sort of | December 8, 2017 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Prof. Yan Xia Department of Chemistry Stanford University | Building and Breaking Molecular Ladders to Develop Conjugated Functional Materials | December 18, 2017 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 常俊標教授 河南師範大學 | 核苷類創新药物的研發策略 (普通話主講 ) | November 3, 2017 (Friday) | 4:00 p.m. | Room 128 | 
| Prof. Paolo Melchiorre Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia Spain | The Bright Side of Enantioselective Organocatalysis | November 14, 2017 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 | 
| Prof. Amir H. Hoveyda College of Food Science (食品學院) Northeast Agricultural University (東北農業大學) | 植物蛋白高值化加工技術及新產品創制 (普通話主講 ) | November 17, 2017 (Friday) | 2:00 p.m. | Room C2 | 
| Professor Lianzhou Jiang Department of Chemistry Boston College | New Concepts, Catalysts and Metho | November 17, 2017 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | Room 702 | 
| Dr. John Sui-Man Wai Vice President of Medicinal Chemistry WuXi App Tec, Shanghai | Discovery of HIV Integrase Inhibitors: From diketoacid hit to Raltegravir and beyond | November 20, 2017 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room G34 | 
| Prof. Shuanhu Gao School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering East China Normal University | Natural Products Total Synthesis Using Photoreactions | November 28, 2017 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 | 
| Professor Yong Tang Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences | Sidearm Approach to Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization: Controllable Synthesis of Polyethylenes | November 30, 2017 (Thursday) | 4:30 p.m. | L3 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Dennis Wolan The Scripps Research Institute | Interrogation of Gut Microbiomes with Chemical Probes and MS Proteomics | October 4, 2017 (Wednesday) | 11:15 a.m. | Room 706 | 
| Prof. Yi Lu Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Design and Selection of Metalloenzymes and their Applications as
		    Biocatalysts in Alternative Energies and as Biosensors in Environmental
		    Monitoring, Medical Diagnostics and Imaging | October 17, 2017 (Tuesday) | 4:30 p.m. | Room 103 | 
| Professor Hans-Joachim Knölker Department of Chemie Technische Universität Dresden | Transition Metal Catalysis in Heterocyclic Synthesis | October 18, 2017 (Wednesday) | 4:30 p.m. | LT5 | 
| Prof. Junqiu Liu State Key Lab of Supramolecular Structure and Materials Jilin University | Protein Self-Assembly: A New Platform to Develop Biomimetic System | October 20, 2017 (Friday) | 1:00 p.m. | L3 | 
| Prof. Leiv K. Sydnes Department of Chemistry University of Bergen, Norway | 1,1,2,2-Tetraethoxybutyne - Easy to Make and Exciting to Apply | October 20, 2017 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Dr. Ernst Wagner Department of Pharmacy Ladwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany | Chemical evolution of macromolecular sequences: for intracellular DNA, siRNA, protein and drug delivery | September 8, 2017 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Jye-Shane Yang Department of Chemistry National Taiwan University | Mechanochromic Luminescent Materials for Multicolor Fluorescence Drawing and Sensing | September 12, 2017 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room 101  | 
| Prof. Yufen Zhao Department of Chemical Biology Xiamen University | Phosphorous Chemistry and Evolution of Biological Molecules | September 22, 2017 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Prof. Stefan A. F. Bon Department of Chemistry The University of Warwick | Dynamic Supracolloidal Engineered Materials | September 29, 2017 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Dawei Ma Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry Chinese Academy of Science | Exploring New Methodologies to Enhance
		    Synthetic Efficiency | August 23, 2017 (Wednesday) | 4:30 p.m. | LT4  | 
| Prof. Chin-Fa Lee Department of Chemistry National Chung Hsing University | Syntheses of thioethers, thiophosphates and thioesters | August 24, 2017 (Thursday) | 2:30 p.m. | L5 | 
| Professor Wolfgang H. Binder Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Germany | Self-healing polymers : introducing stress sensitivity and sensing in polymeric materials | August 25, 2017 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m.. | L5 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Tetsuro Majima The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN) Osaka University | Development of TiO2 Photocatalysts | July 12, 2017 (Wednesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 | 
| Prof. Wenping Hu Department of Chemistry Tianjin University | Small Crystal World of Organic Semiconductors | July 13, 2017 (Thursday) | 10:30 a.m. | L3 | 
| Prof. Gerard C.L. Wong Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry California NanoSystems Institute UCLA | Chemistry and machine learning meet innate immunity and autoimmunity | July 21, 2017 (Friday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room C1 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Jaesook Yun Department of Chemistry Sungkyunkwan University | Development of Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric Additions: Asymmetric Hydroboration and its Application | June 2, 2017 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Professor Uwe H.F. Bunz Lehrstuhl I, Institut für Organische Chemie Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Germany | A Universal Sensor? The Optoelectronic Polymer Tongue | June 5, 2017 (Monday) | 10:30 a.m. | L3 | 
| Professor Á ngela Sastre Santos Instituto de Bioingeniería Universidad Miguel Hernández Spain | Molecular materials for artificial photosynthesis and as components in solar cells devices | June 5, 2017 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 | 
| Prof. Ulrich Hennecke Organisch-Chemisches Institut Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster | Asymmetric Halogenation of Alkenes, Alkynes and Allenes – from mechanistic concepts to new catalysts | June 7, 2017 (Wednesday) | 10:30 a.m. | L3 | 
| Prof. Seung Hwan Cho Department of Chemistry POSTECH, Korea | 1,1-Bisborylalkanes: New Types of Organoboron Compounds for Chemo, Regio and Stereoselective Organic Transformations | June 9, 2017 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Prof. Gerhard Erker Organisch-Chemisches Institut Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Germany | Organometallic Frustrated Lewis Pairs | June 12, 2017 (Monday) | 10:30 a.m. | LT3 | 
| Prof. Gerhard Erker Organisch-Chemisches Institut Westfälische | Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry: Principle and Some Recent Developments | June 12, 2017 (Monday) | 3:30 a.m. | L1 | 
| Prof. Yufeng Wang Department of Chemistry The University of Hong Kong | Colloids with valence: Fabrication and Directed Self-Assembly | June 16, 2017 (Friday) | 10:30 a.m. | L3 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Tristan H. Lambert Department of Chemistry Columbia University | Aromatic Ions for Catalyst Design | May 9, 2017 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 | 
| Prof. Yi Tang Department of Chemical and Biomoleular Engineering University of California, Los Angeles | Genomic Based Discovery of Natural Bioactive Compounds and Powerful Enzymes | May 17, 2017 (Wednesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L1  | 
| Prof. Claude Gros Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de l'Université de Bourgogne, France | Recent developments in the chemistry of corrole macrocycles | May 23, 2017 (Tuesday) | 10:30 a.m. | L3 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Wei Zhuang State Key Lab of Structural Chemistry Fujian Institute of Research on Structure of Matters | Ion Effect on Hydrogen Bonding Network in Water | April 5, 2017 (Wednesday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room C1 | 
| Prof. Yongsheng Chen Institute of Functional Polymer Materials Center for Nanoscale Science & Technology Nankai University | Nano Carbon and Polymeric Materials: Design, Synthesis and Applications in Green Energy | April 18, 2017 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room C2 | 
| Prof. Mou Chung-Yuan Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University | Nano-Confined Water | April 19, 2017 (Wednesday) | 3:30 p.m. | LT7  | 
| Mr. Martin Tsz-Kin Tsui Institute of Molecular Biophysics Florida State University U.S.A. | The Impact of DNA Topology and Guide Length on Target Selection by a Cytosine-Specific Cas9 | April 25, 2017 (Tuesday) | 11:30 a.m. | Room G06 | 
| Prof. Chien-Tien Chen Department of Chemistry National Tsing Hua University | Optically Switchable Helicenes in Supramolecular Self-assembly and asymmetric catalysis | April 26, 2017 (Wednesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 | 
| Prof. Takahiro Suzuki Department of Chemistry Hokkaido University | Synthetic Studies of Structurally Unique Terpenoids Based on Cycloaddition Reaction | April 27, 2017 (Thursday) | 2:30 p.m. | L5 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. John C.K. Chu Colorado State University U.S.A. | Synthesis of Nitrogen-Containing Molecules by Zinc-Catalyzed [4+2] Cycloaddition and Photoredox-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization | March 1, 2017 (Wednesday) | 2:00 p.m. | Room G04 | 
| Prof. Wei Han School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School | In silico Insights into Protein Aggregation | March 21, 2017 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room G35 | 
| Prof. Heikki Tenhu Department of Chemistry University of Helsinki Finland | Polymers and particles from N-vinylcaprolactam | March 22, 2017 (Wednesday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room C1 | 
| Prof. Heikki Tenhu Department of Chemistry University of Helsinki Finland | Polymeric hybrid nanomaterials | March 24, 2017 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Prof. Kuo-Wei Huang KAUST Catalysis Center and Division of Physical Science and Engineering King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia | A Novel Class of PN3-Pincer Complexes: Cooperative Catalysis and Beyond | March 29, 2017 (Wednesday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room 158 | 
| Prof. Hue Sun Chan Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics University of Toronto | Biophysics of Protein Evolutionary Switches and Phase Separation in Membraneless Organelles | March 29, 2017 (Wednesday) | 4:30 p.m. | L5 | 
| Prof. Young-Tae Chang National University of Singapore | Fluorescent Sensor Development for Almost Everything | March 31, 2017 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Claudio J. Margulis Department of Chemistry The University of Iowa | Using Computer Simulations to Unravel the Structure and Dynamics of Room-Temperature Ionic-Liquids | February 9, 2017 (Thursday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room G35 | 
| Prof. Ram I. Mahato Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA | Precision Medicines of Small Noncoding RNA and Small Molecules for Treating Liver Fibrosis | February 17, 2017 (Friday) | 2:00 p.m. | L2 | 
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 劉雲圻教授 中國科學院化學研究所 | 分子材料与器件(普通話主講 ) | January 3, 2017 (Tuesday) | 10:30 a.m. | L3 Science Centre | 
| Prof. Jinming Gao Professor of Oncology, Pharmacology, and Otolaryngology UT Southwestern Medical Center U.S.A. | pH Transistor Nanomedicine | January 4, 2017 (Wednesday) | 10:30 a.m. | L3 Science Centre | 
| Prof. Lizhu Wu Director of the Lab of Supramolecular Photochemistry Technicial Institute of Physics and Chemistry Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) | Artificial Photosynthetic Systems for
              Chemical Transformation | January 6, 2017 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Prof. Shou-Fei Zhu Professor of Chemistry Nankai University | Catalytic Hydrogen Transfer Reactions | January 13, 2017 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | LT2 | 
| Professor Alex Edwin Bunker Faculty of Pharmacy University of Helsinki | Computationally assisted design (CAD) for drug delivery;
            Molecular dynamics modelling as a tool in nanomedicine:
            Liposome based drug delivery systems as a case study | January 13, 2017 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 
| Prof. Gregory A. Voth Department of Chemistry The University of Chicago | Proton Transport in Aqueous and Biomolecular Systems: A Remarkably Complex and Collective Phenomenon | January 20, 2017 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 | 

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