Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Antibodies by design: from drug development to brain drug delivery

Prof Peter M. Tessier, University of Michigan.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Monday 08 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Designing enzymes from scratch

Professor Donald Hilvert, (ETH) Zürich.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Tools and Tactics for Targeting RNA with Small Molecules

John 'Jay' Schneekloth, Jr., Ph.D. from NIH/NCI.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 05 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Sugars & proteins

Benjamin G. Davis The Rosalind Franklin Institute and University of Oxford.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

New Technologies for the Synthesis, Semi-Synthesis and Biosynthesis of Modified Peptides and Proteins

Professor Richard J. Payne, University of Sydney.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 23 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Lessons from Collagen

Professor Ronald T. Raines, MIT.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthetic biology approaches to new chemistry

Michelle C. Chang, University of California, Berkeley.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Discovery of cyclotides and their applications in peptide-based drug design

Professor David Craik (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Peptide Assemblies For Functional Systems

Javier Montenegro, Santiago de Compostela University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

NAD as a building block in natural product biosynthesis

Dr Takayoshi Awakawa, University of Tokyo.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Metal Complexes as Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Prof. Gilles Gasser, Chimie ParisTech.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Matthew Powner, University College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Fluorescent Nucleoside Analogues with New Properties for Biophysics

Byron W Purse San Diego State University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Rapid discovery and chemical synthesis of proteins

Professor Bradley Pentelute, MIT Department of Chemistry.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 14:30-15:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

NEW drugs from OLD pathways - Teaching Nature New Tricks

Professor Tom Simpson, University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 10 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Coordination-Assisted Bioorthogonal Chemistry: Bringing Orthogonality in the Tetrazine Ligation with (strained) alkenes

Kimberly M. Bonger.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 23 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Diversity Oriented Biosynthesis: Making Complex Cyclic Peptides Using a Combination of Synthesis and Enzymes

Prof. Marcel Jaspars (Marine Biodiscovery Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 05 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modified nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids for medicinal chemistry and chemical biology

Prof Michal Hocek - IOCB Prague - Czech Republic.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

The nature of chemistry publishing

Dr Stuart Cantrill, Chief Editor Nature Chemistry.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Establishing meso-methyl BODIPYs as viable visible-light excitable photocages

Roy Weinstain - Tel-Aviv University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

A chemical biology approach to the modulation of cell fate and cell state

Dr Luke Lairson, Scripps.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multicomponent Reactions in Peptide and Protein Chemistry

Prof Daniel García Rivera from the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Havana (Cuba).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Improving the Prediction of In vivo Drug Activity

Peter Tonge, Institute for Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery, Stony Brook University USA.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 16 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Learning and Applying Nature's Biosynthetic Logic

Prof. Bradley S. Moore, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 14 September 2017, 14:00-16:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium

Registration essential: £110 (3-5 Sept) http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/pfei/registration

Keynote Speakers: Professor Sir Alan Fersht and Professor Dame Carol Robinson.

McGrath Centre.

Tuesday 05 September 2017, 09:00-18:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium

Registration essential: £110 (3-5 Sept) http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/pfei/registration

Keynote Speakers: Professor Sir Alan Fersht and Professor Dame Carol Robinson.

McGrath Centre.

Monday 04 September 2017, 09:00-18:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium

Registration essential: £110 (3-5 Sept) http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/pfei/registration

Keynote Speakers: Professor Sir Alan Fersht and Professor Dame Carol Robinson.

McGrath Centre.

Sunday 03 September 2017, 16:00-18:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Rational Metallodrug Development: Novel Pharmacophores and Mode of Action Investigations

Christian G Hartinger, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 14 July 2017, 14:00-16:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Sulfur Chemistry for Biology and the Environment

Dr Justin Chalker.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 13 July 2017, 12:00-13:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Enzyme Catalysis, Inhibition & Resistance: A Design Perspective

Professor Bruce Tidor, MIT.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 21 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Design and use of chemical tools to modulate gene expression in cancer cells based on the targeting of DNA methyltransferase

Paola B. Arimondo, CNRS Pierre Fabre Laboratories, Toulouse France Overseas Fellow Churchill College, Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Studies on the Molecular Recognition of aminoglycoside antibiotics by nucleic acids and proteins

Juan Luis Asensio, Instituto de Química Orgánica General, Madrid.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Computers helping chemists: a toolkit for a ChemBio lab

Gonzalo JIMÉNEZ-OSÉS, University of La Rioja.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Reprogramming the Genetic Code

Dr Jason Chin, Centre for Chemical & Synthetic Biology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

This talk has been postponed

Marc Robillard, CEO of TagWorks.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

The nature of chemistry publishing

Dr Stuart Cantrill, Chief Editor of Nature Chemistry.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 09 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Uncovering the mechanisms of Protein O-Glycosylation

Dr Ramon Hurtado-Guerrero, University of Zaragoza.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Sugars and Proteins

Professor Ben Davis ( University of Oxford).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Rapid Identification of cyclic peptide inhibitors of protein-protein interactions

Prof. Ali Tavassoli, University of Southampton.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mass Spectrometry in Structural Biology

Dr Dijana Matak-Vinkovic, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 16 September 2015, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanisms of microbial elemental sulfur reduction at the community, cellular and enzymatic levels

Informal Chemical Biology Lecture

Professor E J Crane (III), Pomona College, Claremont, California.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Exploitation of fundamental and biomedical functions of clathrin-independent endocytosis

Prof. Ludger Johannes, Institute Curie.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

TBC

Prof. Edward Tate, Imperial College.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Boron based dynamic bonding: an emerging construction tool for Chemical Biology

Professor Pedro Gois, Lisbon University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mitochondria-targeted Delivery Systems

Dr Shanta Dhar, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 06 January 2014, 14:00-15:00

Organic Chemistry

"Porous Organic Cages - A Serious Alternative to Extended Framework Materials"

Professor Michael Mastalerz, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 August 2013, 14:00-15:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Selective targeting of epigenetic effector domains of the bromodomain family

Professor Stefan Knapp, Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Allostery and Conformational Control in Signaling: The Ubiquitin E3 Ligases

Dr Ruth Nussinov. Professor, Department of Human Genetics, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Senior Principal Scientist and Principal Investigator at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Frederick, MD.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

"Py-Im Polyamides – from DNA Recognition to In Vivo Experiments"

Dr Jevgenij A. Raskatov, California Institute of Technology.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 16 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Department of Chemistry

"Molecular Behaviour in Small Spaces"

Professor Julius Rebek, Jr., Ph.D - Director, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 June 2012, 17:00-18:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

"Molecular mechanisms of O-GlcNAc signalling"

Professor Daan van Aalten, FRSE, Associate Dean, Division of Molecular Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 18 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

New Insights into Proteasome Function: From Protein Degradation to Cancer Therapy

Alfred Lewis Goldberg, Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 10:30-12:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

New Protein Structures and Assemblies by Rational Design

Dek Woolfson, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 11 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanistic and structural studies on thiamin biosynthetic enzymes

Professor Tadgh P. Begley, D. H. R. Barton and Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry, Texas A&M University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 April 2012, 17:00-18:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Catalytic MetalloDrugs – New Therapies for Old Problems

Professor James Cowan, Ohio State University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 30 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

'Chemistry of Oxygen Sensing in Animals'

Prof. Christopher Schofield, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Predicting protein-peptide and protein-chemical interactions using biological networks

Biological RIG seminar

Robert B. Russell, Professor Protein Evolution, CellNetworks, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 09 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Future perspectives of metal compounds in cancer therapy

Professor Bernhard Keppler, University of Vienna.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 02 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

RSC Prize Lecture

Dr G Marius Clore, National Institutes of Health, USA.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

From Fragments and Hot-Spots to Novel Lead Structures

Professor Dr Gerhard Klebe, Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Philipps-University Marburg.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 03 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Exploiting Cryptic Biosynthetic Pathways in Microorganisms

Joint Biological and Synthesis Seminar

Prof. Dr. Christian Hertweck, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, HKI, Jena, Germany.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 27 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Small Molecule Control of Intracellular Protein Levels

Joint Synthesis/Biological RIG Colloquium

Prof. Craig M. Crews, Dept. of Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology, Dept. of Pharmacology & Dept. of Chemistry, Yale University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 17:00-18:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanisms matter: understanding and optimizing drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis

Joint Biological/Synthetic RIG Seminar

Dr Clifton E. Barry III, Tuberculosis Research Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 January 2012, 17:00-18:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Expanding the central dogma

Professor Philipp Holliger, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 25 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

'The Chemistry of Genome Maintenance'

Professor Thomas Carell -Chemical Science Lecturer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 16:50-17:35

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Sialidases in respiratory disease

Prof Garry Taylor FRSE, Head of the School of Biology, BSRC, University of St Andrews.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 18 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Linnett Lecture: "The Theory of the Structural Glass Transition"

Joint Theory/Biological Seminar

Prof. Peter Wolynes, Rice University.

Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Joint Materials/Biological Colloquia

Professor Bill Rutherford, CEA, France.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 21 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Conformational dynamics of single protein molecules under load

Joint Theory/Biological Seminar

Prof. Matthias Rief, Technische Universität München.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 12 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Molecular Simulations in Structure-Based Drug Design

Dr Julien Michel, Royal Society University Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.

Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 07 July 2011, 15:30-16:30

Biophysical Colloquia

Key macromolecules in bacterial infections: a structural perspective

Dr. Rita Berisio, Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging, Italian National Research Council..

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 June 2011, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Colloquia

Manipulating protein aggregation in the nervous system

Prof Michael Cheetham, Division of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, UCL.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 01 June 2011, 10:30-11:30

Organic Chemistry

RSC Organic Symposium at the University of Cambridge

Professor Kevin Booker-Milburn University of Bristol - Dr Matthew Clarke University of St Andrews - Professor Dieter Enders RWTH-Aachen.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 May 2011, 14:00-18:00

Biophysical Colloquia

Allostery and intrinsic disorder mediate transcription regulation by conditional cooperativity

Abel Garcia-Pino,University of Brussels, Belgium.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 08 April 2011, 01:00-02:00

Biophysical Colloquia

Creating novel proteins by selection and design

Lynne Regan, Yale University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 22 March 2011, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Colloquia

Modular protein-nucleic acid interactions in the FBP family

Andres Ramos, NIMR MRC.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 16 March 2011, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Colloquia

TBC

Nobu Tokuriki, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge..

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Colloquia

Quality control in the IgM factory: the many roles of ERp44

Roberto Sitia, San Raffaele Hospital, MILAN.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 02 March 2011, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Fabio Falsone, University of Graz, Austria.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 23 February 2011, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Colloquia

Applications of single molecule fluorescence to biology

Prof. David Klenerman, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Andreas Ramos, NIMR, London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 February 2011, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Colloquia

Structural insights into the initiation of DNA synthesis in eukaryotic replication

Dr. Luca Pellegrini, Department of BIochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Andras Malnasi-Csizmadia, Department of Biochemistry Eötvös University, Budapest.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Robert Best, University of Cambridge..

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 10:30-11:30

Organic Chemistry

CANCELLED

Professor Mike Krische, University of Texas.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 17:00-18:00

Biophysical Colloquia

Structural Ensembles of Small Peptides - An NMR Perspective

Dr. Stephan Schwarzinger Institute of Biopolymers, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 10:30-11:30

Organic Chemistry

Metallopolyynes and Metallophosphors: Multifunctional Materials with Emerging Applications in Optical Devices RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award Lecture 2010

RSC award lecture - joint with Inorganic Chemistry

Professor Raymond Wong, RSC award lecture.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Biophysical Colloquia

Designing protein polymerases for unnatural nucleic acids

Vitor Pinheiro MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Colloquia

From coarse-grained models of fibril formation to atomistic details of potential inhibitors

Prof. Amedeo Caflisch Department of Biochemistry, the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 10:30-11:30

Organic Chemistry

The Discovery of Orally Bioavailable CGRP Receptor Antagonists: From Concept to Clinical Efficacy

Dr Ian Bell, Merck, USA.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 15 November 2010, 17:00-18:00

Biophysical Colloquia

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases: Possible Origins and Molecular Mechanisms Leading to the Evolution of Enhanced Catalytic Activity, Specificity, and Allostery

Dr. Charles Carter University of North Carolina, NC, USA.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 10:30-11:30

Organic Chemistry

No Strain, No Gain?: Lessons in Catalysis

Professor Mark Lautens, University of Toronto.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Biophysical Colloquia

Host matrix-pathogen interactions and redox sensing; tandem beta-zippers and "inside-out" protein-protein recognition.

Dr. Jennifer Potts University of York.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 03 November 2010, 10:30-11:30

Organic Chemistry

Pfizer Graduate Symposium and talk

Graduate speakers: Mr Pawel Sledz (Abell Group), Mr Mike Housden (Paterson Group), Mr Michael Cooke (Gaunt group)

Dr Daffydd Owen, Pfizer Global Research & Development,.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 01 November 2010, 13:00-18:00

Biophysical Colloquia

Skeletal diversity in sesquiterpenes from the perspective of a cyclizing carbocation

Dr. Paul O'maille John Innes centre, Norwich, UK.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 27 October 2010, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Colloquia

Molecular Biological and Molecular Genetic studies of the Mechanisms Underlying Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease

Prof. Peter Hyslop Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 20 October 2010, 10:30-11:30

Biophysical Colloquia

From conformational chaos to robust regulation: the structure and function of a multi-enzyme machine from RNA metabolism

Prof. Ben Luisi Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 13 October 2010, 10:30-11:30

Organic Chemistry

New Supramolecular Strategies in Transition Metal Catalysis

Joint with Inorganic Chemistry

Professor Joost Reek, Van t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Amsterdam..

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 07 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

Biophysical Colloquia

Membrane activation of the adaptor complex AP2 in clathrin-mediated endocytosis

Dr. Phil Evans MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 October 2010, 10:30-11:30

Organic Chemistry

Small Molecules and Light as Tools for the Regulation of Biological Processes

Professor Alex Dieter North Carolina State University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 01 October 2010, 16:15-17:15

Organic Chemistry

Exploring the evolutionary relationships and the reaction chemistry in a family of crucial biosynthetic aldolases

Professor Emily J Parker, University of Canterbury - Christchurch, New Zealand.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Multicomponent approaches to organic synthesis and chemical biology

Jared Shaw.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

CANCELLED

Juan Granja.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Shedding Light on the Biosynthesis of Cyanobacterial Sunscreens

Dr Emily Balskus, Harvard Medical School.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 30 April 2010, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Joe Spencer Memorial Lectures

11.00 Prof Peter Leadley (Cambridge), 11.45 Dr Joseph Wright (UEA), 12.15 Dr Dieter Spiteller (MPI Jena), 1.45 Prof Timor Baasov (Technion, Isreal), 2.30 Dr Andrew Truman (Cambridge), 3.00 Prof David O'Hagan (St Andrews), 4.15 Prof Jin-Quan Yu (Scripps).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 23 April 2010, 11:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

CANCELLED DUE TO AIR TRAVEL PROBLEMS

Emily Parker.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 April 2010, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Structural biology of small RNA-mediated gene regulation and methylation-mark mediated epigenetic regulation

Dr, Dinshaw J. Patel, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 25 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Chiral Carbenoids for Asymmetric Synthesis

Professor Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 01 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Sequencing genomes and sequences in the genome: from chemistry to medicine

Inaugural Professorial Lecture: in the presence of Marcus and Jennifer Smith

Professor Shankar Balasubramanian, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Development of New Methods for Catalytic C–H Functionalization: Critical Interplay between Catalyst Design and Mechanistic Analysis

Eli Lilley Lecture

Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Mighigan, USA.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

New Catalysis Concepts

Professor David W. C. MacMillan, Princeton University, USA.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 13 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

New Strategies for the Synthesis of Glycopeptides and Glycoproteins

Dr Richard Payne, University of Sydney.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

New Genetic Codes

Dr Jason Chin, University of Cambridge, MRC-LMB.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Metallonitrene/Alkyne Metathesis and Beyond: Transition Metal Catalyzed Oxidative Amination for Organic Synthesis

Professor Simon Blakey, Emory University, USA.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Adventures in conjugate addition chemistry: from alkene hydroacylation to protein bioconjugation

Professor Steve Caddick, UCL.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Design of chiral ligands for asymmetric copper-catalyzed reactions

Professor Alex Alexakis, University of Geneva.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Graduate Symposium plus Successful Drug Discovery and Development at Pfizer: Thanks to Organic Synthesis

Dr Dafydd Owen from Pfizer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 October 2009, 13:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff - Route Selection using Kepner-Tregoe Decision Analysis

Dr Jeremy Parker from Astra Zeneca.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Atom Economic Transformations Catalysed by Low-Valent Cobalt Complexes

All Welcome

Professor Gerhard Hilt (Marburg University).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 24 September 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Opportunities and Lessons in Chemistry and Biology Stemming from an Investment in Total Synthesis

Professor Andrew Phillips, University of Colorado.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 13 August 2009, 17:00-18:30

Organic Chemistry

Recent advances in the area of asymmetric hydrogenation

Professor Xumu Zhang, Rutgers University, USA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 August 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Synthetic Peptides for DNA and Protein recognition

Professor Jose-Luis Mascarenas, University of Santiago de Compostela.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 22 July 2009, 11:00-12:00

Organic Chemistry

Chiral Proton Catalysis: The Development of New Reactions and Reagents for Alkaloid Synthesis

Professor Jeff Johnston, Vanderbilt University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 03 July 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

"Mechanisms, Structures and Chemical Informatics"

Dr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 June 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Synthesis of Bridged Natural Products

Speaker to be confirmed.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 01 June 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Merck Lectureship Talk 3 - Probing Intracellular Signalling Processes with Phosphatidyl Inositol Polyphosphates .

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 15 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Merck Lectureship Talk 2 - Pericyclic Reactions in the Synthesis of Medium Ring Ether and Piperidine Alkaloids of Biological Importance

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Merck Lectureship Talk 1 - Seeing the Light With Polymers

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Sustainability Through the Confluence of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis

Talk of interest to all branches of chemistry

Sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 28 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

Organic Chemistry

Sugars and Enzymes

Professor Ben Davis, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 April 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

SCI Graduate Symposium

More details to be confirmed nearer the time

SCI Graduate Symposium speakers to be confirmed.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 April 2009, 13:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Asymmetric Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles using Sulfinimines

Professor Franklin Davis, Temple University, Philadelphia USA.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 15 April 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Amino Acid Promoted Ullman Reactions and their Applications in Organic Synthesis

Professor Dawei Ma, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 03 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

Organic Chemistry

Finding the Needle in a Haystack and From Bathtubs to Pipes

Dr David Ager (DSM, Raleigh-Durham, USA).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 15 December 2008, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Designing screens and screening designs: from catalytic antibodies to peptide dendrimer enzyme models

Jean-Louis Reymond (University of Berne).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 December 2008, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Biomimetic Organocatalysis: From Concepts to Applications

Professor Magnus Rueping (University of Frankfurt, Germany).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Epoxide-Opening Cascades

ELI LILLY LECTURE

Professor Tim Jamison (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Progress Toward a Synthesis of Phomactin A

Professor Richard Hsung (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Search for New Antibacterials Using Diversity-Oriented Synthesis

Dr David Spring (University of Cambridge).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Modern Medicinal Chemistry in the Hit to Lead Arena

PFIZER GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

Dr Dafydd Owen (Pfizer Global Research & Development, Sandwich, UK).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 17 October 2008, 17:00-18:00