Seminars in the Chemistry Department
The National University of Ireland, Galway

Organised and run by the student society, An Cumann Ceimice

2005-2006: Invariably in the Dillon Lecture Theatre at 4.30 pm

Speaker	Topic	Date
Prof. Brian Mann [Sheffield]	Carbon Monoxide: Essential For Life	May 4th
Dr. Maria Victoria Navarro [Edinburgh]	Modelling the Adsorption of Complex Molecules in Activated Carbons	April 27th
Dr. Stephen Bell [QUB]	Raman Spectroscopy: Shedding new light on Forensic and Pharmaceutical Analysis	April 20th
Prof. John Simmie [NUIG]	It's a Gas Life!	March 28th
Prof. Amilra de Silva [QUB]	2006: A Small Space Odyssey with Luminescent Molecular Devices	March 7th
Prof. Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson [TCD]	Lanthanide Luminescent Supramolecular Architectures	January 28th
Prof. Tadhg Begley [Cornell]	Mechanistic and Structural Studies on the Thiamin Biosynthetic Pathway	December 7th
Prof. Robert Woods [Georgia]	Computational Simulations in Glycobiology: Linking Structure and Function	November 30th
Dr. Niclas Karlsson [Sydney]	Glycomic Analysis - When Structure Defines the Biological Questions	November 29th
Prof. Joseph Bozzelli [NJIT]	Octane Ratings: Dimethyl Ether 100, Propane 0; Why the Difference?	November 15th
Dr. Andrew McCarthy [EMBL]	Crystal Structure of MshB from Mycobacterium Tuberculosis	November 9th
Prof. Tony Barrett [Imperial]	Synthesis of Antibiotic Natural Products	October 27th
Prof. Desmond Cunningham [NUIG]	How Would You Like Your Oxide?	October 13th

The seminar programme organisers: An Cumann Ceimice committee 2005-2006 Email.

Auditor	Treasurer	Corresponding Secretary	PRO	Recording Secretary
Stephen Dooley	Laverne Mullen	Neil Maguire	Orla Gibbons / Wayne Metcalfe	Ciara McDonagh

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2004-2005: Invariably in the Dillon Lecture Theatre at 4.30 pm

Speaker	Topic	Date
Dr. William J. Pitz [Lawrence Livermore]	The Development of Surrogate Chemical Kinetic Mechanisms for Gasoline	July 12th
Dr. Dominic Wright [Cambridge]	Torocyclic Ligands- New Dimensions in the Chemistry of Phosphazanes	April 28th
Prof. Michael Hynes [NUIG]	Crisis in Drug Development; Turmoil in the Pharmaceutical Industry	April 13th
Prof. David Leigh [Edinburgh]	Tooling Up for Nanoworld: The 'Magic' of Molecular Machines	April 7th
Prof. Martin Wills [Warwick]	New Methodology for the Asymmetric Reduction of Ketones	February 15th
Prof. Han Vos [DCU]	Love and Attraction in Inorganic Chemistry	January 20th
Prof. Lokesh Joshi [Arizona State]	Glycobiology and the Biopharmaceutical Industry	October 21st
Prof. Robert F. Sawyer [Berkeley]	Diesel Particulate: Characterization, Health Effects, Regulation, and Control Technology	October 19th
Dr Neil R. Cameron [Durham]	Nitroxide-mediated Radical Polymerisations: Importance of Nitroxide and Alkoxyamine Structure	September 28th

The seminar programme organisers: An Cumann Ceimice committee 2004-2005 Email.

Auditor	Treasurer	Corresponding Secretary	PRO	Recording Secretary
Cheryl McCaw	Mark Hanniffy	Jason Reynolds	Hilary Gallagher / Cormac O’Keefe	Elaine Hernon

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2003-2004: Invariably in the Dillon Lecture Theatre at 4.00 pm

Speaker	Topic	Date
Prof. Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson [Trinity]		April 29th
Prof. Manfred Bochmann [UEA]	A catalyst under the microscope	April 22nd
Dr Paul Stevenson [Queens]	Synthesis of pumiliotoxin and martinelline alkaloids	April 1st
Prof. Dick Butler Public lecture at 8pm	The Enigma of the Origin of Life on Earth	March 29th
Prof. Tom Millar [UMIST]	Applications of Astrochemistry	February 19th
Dr. Jaroslaw Polanski [Katowice]	Comparative molecular surface analysis	December 11th
Prof. Alan Bond [Monash]	Redox Active Microcrystals on Electrode Surfaces	October 16th
Prof. Richard R. Schmidt [Konstanz]	New Aspects of Glycoside Bond Formation	September 16th
Prof. Forman A. Williams [Univ. California San Diego]	An Approach to Detonation Chemistry	September 5th

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2002-2003: Invariably in the Dillon Lecture Theatre

Speaker	Topic	Date
Prof. Michael J. Hynes RSC lecture	The crisis in research and development for drugs for neglected diseases	April 2nd
Prof. Jane Thomas-Oates [York]	Mass Spectrometry: the Post Genomic Era	March 27th
Prof. Ray Jones [Loughborough]	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cycloadduct	March 25th
Prof. John P. Richard [Buffalo]	Formation and Stability of Carbanions in Water	March 13th
Prof. John Walton [St. Andrews]	New Radical Reagents in the Synthesis Action Zone	March 4th
Prof. Mike Page [Huddersfield]	Mechanisms and Reactions of beta-Sultams	February 27th
Dr. Nigel Westwood [Cancer Research UK]	Finding a Needle in a Chemical Haystack	February 25th
Prof. Peter Day [Univ. College London]	Making Magnets and Superconductors from Molecules	February 11th
Prof. Michael McGlinchey [UCD]	Adventures in Organometallic Chemistry	January 21st
Prof. Donald Fitzmaurice [UCD]	Small Insights and Large Opportunities	December 16th
Prof. Anthony Davis [Bristol]	Rational and Semi-rational Approaches to Synthetic Receptors and Biomimetic Catalysts	November 29th
Emer Wall [Swords]	Bristol-Myers Squibb: Chemical Development Presentation	November 25th
Prof. Howard Levinsky [Groningen]	NO Formation in [partially] Premixed Methane Flames: How Low Can You Go?	November 19th
Dr. Aidan Doherty [Cambridge]	Making Ends Meet: Novel DNA Double-strand Break Repair Complexes in Bacteria and Humans	November 7th

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2001-2002: Invariably in the Dillon Lecture Theatre at 3.30 pm

Speaker	Topic	Date
Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn [Strasbourg]	Supramolecular Chemistry; From Molecular Recognition to ...	May 20th [10 am]
Dr. Reginald Shaw [Wyeth Medica]	New developments in the Irish pharmaceutical industry	April 19th
Prof. Jonathan Clayden [Manchester]	Carbanions, kainoids, conformers and cogs	April 4th
Prof. Michael Hynes [NUIG]	Bad stories make good news [Evening lecture]	March 20th
Prof. Peter McBreen [Université Laval, Québec]	Chemistry in Single Molecular Layers on Metal and Metal Carbide Surfaces	February 21st
Prof. Jon McCleverty [Bristol]	Innocence and Guilt, Light and Spin, Convictions and Consequences	February 7th
Martyn Marshall [Society of Glass Technology]	Glass, Science, Technology and Trickery!	December 4th
Dr. Damien Arrigan [NMRC, Cork]	Chemical Sensors	November 29th
Prof. Paul Walton RSC lecture [York]	Practical Demonstrations in Chemistry Lectures	November 27th
Prof. Gérard Jaouen [Paris]	Antagonistic and Cytotoxic Organometallic Hormones	November 22nd
Dr. Jennifer Mordue [Aberdeen]	Sea Lice and Farmed Salmon - a Fragrant Approach to Pest Management	November 21st
Prof. David Cardin [Reading]	Threading the Zeolite Needle	November 15th
Dr. Darren Egan [Kinerton Ltd.]	Solid Phase Peptide Chemistry from an Industrial View	November 13th
Prof. Lyn Williams [Durham]	The NO Story; the Good, the Bad, Viagra & All That	November 8th
Prof. John Murphy [Strathclyde]	Free Radicals in the Synthesis of Alkaloids	October 25th
Dr. Per Zetterlund [Osaka City]	The Kinetics of the Radical Polymerisation of Styrene	August 31st

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2000-2001: Invariably in the Dillon Lecture Theatre at 4.00 pm

Speaker	Topic	Date
Dr. Malcolm Lawes [Leeds]	Laser diagnostic studies of combustion in engines	April 5th
Prof. Michael Hynes [NUIG]	Living and Risk in the 21st Century	March 14th
Prof. Barry Potter [Bath]	Sulfamate-Based Anticancer Drug Design	March 8th
Prof. Wolfdieter Schenk [Würzburg]	Stereoselective Reactions of Coordinated Sulphur Ligands	March 8th
Dr. Peter O'Brien [York]	Basic Instinct	March 2nd
Dr. Robert Deeth [Warwick]	Computational Methods and their Application to Transition Metal Systems	February 14th
Dr. Fawaz Aldabbagh [NUIG]	Living Polymers	February 13th
Prof. Ann English [Concordia]	S-Nitrosohemoglobin; a Blood Flow Regulator	December 12th
Prof. John Sodeau [UC Cork]	The Iceman Cometh; Atmospheric Reactions on Ice Crystals	November 30th
Bristol-Myers Squibb	Careers & Employment	November 16th
Dr. John Lally [CIBA Vision, USA]	Contact Lens Chemistry and Biocompatability	October 24th
Prof. Ken Busfield [Brisbane]	Applications of Nitroxides in Free Radical Polymerisations	August 29th

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1999-2000: Invariably in the Dillon Lecture Theatre at 3.30 pm

Speaker	Topic	Date
Prof. Lucjan Strekowski [Georgia State]	Chemistry of the Anionically Activated Prefluoroalkyl Group	June 8th
Dr. Padraig Burke	Food Testing in the Public Analyst's Lab	April 13th
Prof. Michael Hynes [NUI, Galway]	Evening lecture: Cyanide, Science and Society	March 2nd
Dr. Sean McDermott [Garda HQ, Dublin]	Forensic Science --- the Invisible Witness	February 15th
Dr. Tim Smyth [Limerick]	Beta-Lactamase Dependent Prodrugs; Molecular Technology in Action	February 3rd
Dr. Michael Lancaster [York]	Chemistry --- A Walk on the Green Side	December 9th
Prof. Huangxian Ju [Nanjing, PRC]	Chemical Sensors based on Self-Assembly Monolayer Modified Gold Disk Electrodes	December 9th
Dr. Edmond Magner [Limerick]	A Glucose Biosensor from Laboratory to Marketplace	November 11th
Dr. G.A. Lawless [Sussex]	Multinuclear NMR Spectroscopy in Supercritical Fluids	October 21st
Dr. G. John Langley [Southampton]	Lasers, Sprays and Ion Beams: Spectrometry for the Masses	October 12th

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1998-1999: Invariably in the Dillon Lecture Theatre at 3.30 pm

Speaker	Topic	Date
Dr. Henry Curran [Lawrence Livermore]	Modeling Hydrocarbon Oxidation	April 27th
Dr. Ronald Hage RSC lecture [Unilever Research, Netherlands]	Oxidation Catalysts with Biomimetic Manganese Complexes	March 26th
Dr. David Grant [Nottingham]	NiTi Bulk & Surface Characteristics and Biocompatability	March 23rd
Prof. Dick Butler [NUIG] Boyle-Higgins Lecture	Some Adventures in Organic Synthesis & Mechanisms, with Reflections	March 11th
Prof. Michael Hynes [NUIG]	Evening lecture: Science under Siege	March 10th
Prof. Kevin Nolan [RCSI]	The Race for Superaspirin	March 2nd
Prof. Christopher Moody [Exeter]	Synthesis of Biologically Active Molecules	February 25th
Prof. Joseph Cunningham [UCC]	Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysed Depollution of Water	February 4th
Dr. Tina Overton [Hull]	Creating Critical Chemists	January 25th
Dr. Brian Murray [Tallaght]	Molecular Clips for the Recognition of Dihydroxyaromatics	January 19th
Prof. David Fenton [Sheffield]	Metallobiotics & their Synthetic Analogues; A Belief in Synergism	November 24th
Gordon Ward & Alan Pettman [Pfizer]	Careers Presentation	November 18th
Dr. Robert Forster [DCU]	Ultrafast Electrochemistry: From the Detection of Fleeting Intermediates to Electroanalysis	October 15th
Dr. Ian Fleming [Cambridge]	Remarkable Reactions of the Phenyldimethylsilyllithium Reagent	October 8th
Dr. Paul Murphy [UCD]	Carbohydrates & Medicinal Chemistry	October 1st

1997-1998: Invariably in the Dillon Lecture Theatre at 3.30 pm

Speaker	Topic	Date
Prof. Martyn Poliakoff [Nottingham]	Supercritical Fluids, Clean Solvents for Clean Chemistry	April 21st
Dr. James Barry [Roche]	Waste Reduction & Recycling in the Chemical Industry	March 26th
Prof. Lovat Rees [Edinburgh]	Frequency-Response Studies of Diffusion and Chemisorption in Zeolites	March 19th
Prof. Philip Page [Loughborough]	Asymmetric Oxidation	March 9th
Prof. Steve Homans [St. Andrews]	Carbohydrates, Recognition & Infectious Disease	February 24th
Prof. Martin Schroder [Nottingham]	Synthesis of Inorganic Networks: Cages, Liquid Crystals and Catenates	February 3rd
Dr. Mariel Brooks [Quest]	Specific Hydrocolloids from an Industrial Viewpoint	January 27th
Dr. Patrick Guiry [NUID]	New Phosphinamine Ligands for Asymmetric Catalysis	January 20th
Dr. Danuta Mostowicz [Polish Acad. Sci.]	Synthesis and transformations of glycosides	December 2nd
Mr. Alan Pettman [Pfizer]	A Careers Opportunity	November 13th
Dr. Matthias Tacke [UCD]	Unusual Ways to M-C Bonds	November 6th
Prof. Michael Hynes [NUIG]	Chemicals can be Good for You	October 22nd
Dr. François Gabbaï [Technical U. Munich]	Indium & Mercury-based Polyfunctional Lewis Acids	October 15th

1996-1997: Invariably in the Dillon Lecture Theatre at 3.30 pm

Speaker	Topic	Date
Dr. Diane Coe [Glaxo-Wellcome]	An Introduction to Combinatorial Chemistry	May 8th
Prof. Charles Rees [Imperial]	Some very Heterocyclic Chemistry	April 25th
Prof. Leslie Crombie [Nottingham]	The Biosynthesis of Rotenoids	April 18th
Dr. Joshua Howarth [Dublin City]	Asymmetric Catalysis & the Power of Induction	April 10th
Dr. Varinder Aggarwal [Sheffield]	Catalytic Combustion of Aldehydes to Epoxides	March 4th
followed by: Greg Davies [RSC]	What's in It for Me?	March 4th
Prof. W. S. Murphy [Cork]	Meeting the Unexpected on the Way to Angucyclinones	February 25th
Dr. Phil Cadman [Univ. of Wales]	The Study of Two Phase Systems at High Temperatures	February 13th
Prof. Albert Pratt [Dublin City]	Photochemistry: making Light Work for Chemists	January 30th
Prof. Alexander Shashkov [Moscow]	NMR Investigations of Saccharide Structures	December 13th
Dr. Michael Hynes [UCG]	Lead: History, Uses & Abuses	November 21st
Prof. Julian Ross [Limerick]	Environmental Aspects of Environmental Catalysis	November 14th
Dr. Carmel Breslin [Maynooth]	Photoelectrochemistry of Passive Films on Metals & Alloys	October 29th

1995-1996: Dillon Lecture Theatre at 3.30 pm

Speaker	Topic	Date
Prof. Luigi Marzilli [Emory]	NMR Studies of Platinum Anti-cancer Drug--DNA Interactions	May 7th
Dr. Michael Scrowston [Hull]	Interesting Heterocycles from an Uninteresting Quinazoline	April 22nd
Prof. John Osborne [Strasbourg]	Adventures in Transition Metal Catalysis	April 18th
Prof. R. Liddington [Leicester]	Structural Determinants of Integrin Adhesiveness	March 19th
Dr. John Griffiths [Leeds]	Chemistry in an Engine Environment	March 12th