Chemistry and Biochemistry seminars

Our seminars are an integral part of the Chemistry and Biochemistry program.

We aim to bring in exciting guest speakers that will expose students to the diversity of chemistry and biochemical research.

Our seminars are 45 minutes long with 5 minutes for questions. Seminars are held on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays (11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.) between September and early April, except for the fall and winter term reading weeks.

If you are interested in presenting your research in chemistry and/or biochemistry, please contact Dr. Vicki Meli (vmeli@mta.ca) for available dates. Professors who wish to hold a recruiting session can make arrangements with Dr. Meli as well.

2021-22 seminars

Please contact Dr. Megan Roberts (meroberts@mta.ca) if you would like to receive an MS Teams invitation to attend any of the following seminars.

Date	Seminar
Wednesday, Sept. 22	Dr. Yang Qu Chemistry Department, University of New Brunswick
Wednesday, Sept. 29	Dr. Saurabh Chitnis Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University
Monday, Oct. 4	Dr. Lindsay Cahill Department of Chemistry, Memorial University
Friday, Oct. 15	Dr. Alli Murugesan University of New Brunswick
Friday, Oct. 22	Prof. Francesca Kerton Department of Chemistry, Memorial University
Monday, Oct. 25	Dr. Bo Durbeej Professor of Computational Physics, IFM - Theoretical Chemistry, Linkoping University, Sweden
Monday, Nov. 1	Johnny Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate The Integrated Nanotechnology & Biomedical Sciences Laboratory, University of Toronto
Friday, Nov. 19	Dr. Arthur Chan Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto
Wednesday, Nov. 24	Dr. Kimberly Ong Vireo Advisors
Monday, Nov. 29	Prof. Allan Bertram Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia
Monday, Jan. 17	Prof. Cherif Matta Department of Chemistry & Physics, Mount Saint Vincent University
Wednesday, Feb. 16	Madeline Elizabeth Power Mount Allison University

2020-21 seminars

Please contact Dr. Vicki Meli (vmeli@mta.ca) if you would like to receive an MS Teams invitation to attend any of the following seminars.

Date	Seminar
Friday, Sept. 18	Dr. Caleb Martin Department of Chemistry, Baylor University Reactivity and Properties of Unsaturated Boron Heterocycles Our group has been investigating the chemistry of boroles, unsaturated BC4 heterocycles, to access larger unsatured boracycles. [1]
Wednesday, Sept. 23	Dr. Erin Stewart Pentavere Research Group Inc., Biochemistry/Chemistry Improving lung cancer outcomes — research efforts covering the span of the patient journey Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Canada and the world.
Monday, Sept. 28	Dr. Paul Hayes Chemistry Department, University of Lethbridge *Metal-ligand Cooperative Small Molecule Activation by NNN-Rhodium Pincer Complexes* A series of rhodium complexes stabilized by NNN-pincer ligands have been prepared. These species have been targeted as potential sources of highly reactive 14-electron, T-shaped intermediates, from which a wide range of bond activation processes and catalytic pathways can be envisioned.
Friday, Nov. 6	Dr. Simon Trudel Chemistry Department, University of Calgary Magnetic nanomaterials: From magnetic resonance imaging to unconventional magnetism Magnetic materials find use in a variety of applications, and still offer new surprises in terms of unexpected physical behaviours.
Monday, Nov. 9	Dr. Jantina Toxopeus Biochemistry Department, St. Francis Xavier University How to freeze solid and live to tell the tale: Advice from the insect world Many terrestrial insects encounter temperatures low and sustained enough to freeze their body fluids.
Wednesday, Nov. 18	Dr. Clarissa Sit Biochemistry/Chemistry Department, Saint Mary's University Discovery of fungus-derived antimicrobial compounds with activity against Pseudogymnoascus destructans Bat White-Nose Syndrome (WNS) is a highly infectious disease that has killed 99 per cent of the affected little brown bat populations since its introduction to North America in 2006.
Monday, Nov. 30	Dr. Ruby Sullan Chemistry/Biochemistry Department, University of Toronto — Scarborough Breaking through the barriers: a multi-pronged strategy towards targeting bacterial pathogens Research in our group is geared towards understanding the molecular forces that confer stability to bacterial biofilms — and finding novel strategies to disrupt them.
Friday, Jan. 22	Naaman Omar MSc candidate, Campbell Lab, Mount Allison University Reactive Oxygen Species: Production and Scavenging in Marine Phytoplankton The Black Queen Hypothesis states that over time loss of function mutations accumulate in non-essential genes more frequently than essential ones.
Monday, Jan. 25	Maryam Abbasi MSc candidate, Bruening Lab, Mount Allison University Crystallite Orientations of Combined Electroless and Galvanic Copper Deposits on Cu-Single Crystals and Roll-Annealed Foils Vias connect current paths in different layers of printed circuit boards.
Wednesday, Jan. 27	Dr. Todd Marder Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Wednesday, Feb. 10	Dr. Thomas Berkemeier Chemistry/Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute Cycling, buffering and reservoirs of reactive oxygen species (ROS): A physical chemist's view on the health effects of air pollution The Multiphase Chemical Kinetics & Reaction Mechanisms Group uses the synergy of laboratory experiments and elaborate computer models to understand and predict key processes in Atmospheric and Physiological Chemistry.
Friday, March 5	Dr. David Chiasson Biochemistry Department, Saint Mary's University
Friday, March 19	Dr. Stacey Wetmore Chemistry/Biochemistry Department, University of Lethbridge The Chemistry of Modified Nucleic Acids: Messages from a Computational Approach Abstract: The overall objective of research performed in the Wetmore laboratory is to use computer simulations to understand the chemistry of nucleic acids.