2012-2013 Series

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The Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences features a number of colloquium talk series for faculty and students throughout the academic school year.

 


2012-2013 Colloquium Series

March 2013

No more ‘weird wonders’ from the Burgess Shale?

Speaker:  Jean-Bernard Caron (Royal Ontario Museum)
Host: Marc Laflamme
When: April 9, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB270

Palladium-Catalyzed Reactions Using Tertiary Alcohols

Speaker: Arturo (Art) Orellana (York University)
Host: Patrick Gunning
When: April 2, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB270

 

The "Vertical Tectonics" of Western Anatolia

Speaker: Russ Pysklywec (University of Toronto)
Host: Lindsay Schoenbohm
When: March 26, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB270

 

Nanorecords of Megatime from Outer and Inner Space

Speaker: Desmond Moser (Western University)
Host: Dan Schulze
When: March 19, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB270

 

Ink-Jet Printing of Sol-Gel Derived Bioinks to Produce Bioactive Paper Sensors for Environmental and Biomedical Analysis

Speaker: John D. Brennan (McMaster University)
Host: Ulrich Krull
When: March 12, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB270

 

Reconstructing the Cell

Speaker: Jennifer Ross (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Host: Josh Milstein
When: March 5, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB270

 

 

February 2013

Consider the Icicle

Speaker: Stephen W. Morris (University of Toronto)
Host: Josh Milstein
When: February 26, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB270

Probing structure-function relations of potassium channels and pore-forming toxins using fluorescence spectroscopy

Speaker: Rikard Blunck (Université de Montréal)
Host: Josh Milstein
When: February 19, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB270

Probing sequence-dependent mechanics of collagen

Speaker: Nancy R. Forde (Simon Fraser University)
Host: Josh Milstein
When: February 12, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB270

Gd-Free MRI Contrast Agents

Speaker: Xiao-an Zhang (University of Toronto Scarborough)
Host: Scott Prosser
When: February 5, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB270

 

January 2013

Synergies and snags in balancing folding and function of natural and designed beta-trefoil proteins

Speaker: Elizabeth Meiering (University of Waterloo)
Host: Voula Kanelis
When: January 22, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB270

The End of the Ediacara Biota: Extinction, biotic replacement, or Cheshire Cat?

Speaker: Marc Laflamme (University of Toronto Mississauga)
Host: Lindsay Schoenbohm
When: January 15, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB270

 


2011-2012 Colloquium Series

October 2011

Selective transport through nano-channels: biology, physics and nanotechnology

Speaker: Anton Zilman (Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto)
Host: Claudiu Gradinaru
When: October 4, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB240
 

Lessons Learned Towards The Synthesis of Diazonamide A

Speaker: Tarek Sammakia(University of Colorado)
Host: Patrick Gunning
When: October 11, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB240

Fast protein folding: finally feedback between computation and experiment

Speaker: Martin Gruebele (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Host: Anthony Tavares
When: October 18, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: DV3130 (Council Chambers)
 

The Magnetism of Cave Environments

Speaker: Joshua Feinberg
Host: Lindsay Schoenbohm
When: October 25, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB240
 

November 2011

How Did Continents Begin?

Speaker: Richard Bailey
Host: Lindsay Schoenbohm
When: November 1, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB240
 

Supramolecular Chemistry with DNA

Speaker: Hanadi Sleiman
Host: Patrick Gunning
When: November 8, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB240 
 

New Methods and Strategies for the Enantioselective Synthesis of Polycyclic Natural Products

Speaker: Sarah E. Reisman
Host: Patrick Gunning
When: November 15, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB380
 

Observing the folding and misfolding of single protein molecules with force spectroscopy

Speaker: Michael T. Woodside
Host: Claudiu Gradinaru
When: November 22, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: IB240
 

January 2012


New Nanoparticles for Optical and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Speaker: Frank C.J.M. van Veggel
Host: Scott Prosser
When: January 10, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CCT2150
 

Interfacing Surface Chemistry with Cell Biology: from Membrane Biophysics to Tissue Engineering

Speaker: Dr. Muhammad N. Yousaf
Host: Ulli Krull
When: January 17, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CCT2150
 

Significance of Fault-Slip Analyses in Active and Fossil Orogens

Speaker: Ulrich Riller
Host: Lindsay Schoenbohm
When: January 24, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CCT2150
 

Effect of Antimicrobial Agents on Mind Protein Oscillations in E. Coli Bacterial Cells

Speaker: Dr. John Dutcher
Host: Claudiu Gradinaru
When: January 31, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CCT2150

 

February 2012


Hydrologic Gradients, Climatic Extremes, and Surface Erosion in the Himalaya

Speaker: Bodo Bookhagen
Host: Lindsay Schoenbohm
When: February 7, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CCT2150


Co-opting Conformational Diversity to Evolve New Protein Functions

Speaker: C.S. Raman
Host: Patrick Gunning
When: February 14, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CCT2150
 


Tilting of the Ladakh Range: erosion, topography, &  morphology

Speaker: Jason M. Dortch
Host: Lindsay Schoenbohm
When: February 21, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CCT2150
 


Biosensors for biomarkers: measuring kinase activity in live cells

Speaker: Laurie Parker
Host: Patrick Gunning
When: February 28, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CCT2150
 

March 2012


The cytoplasmic domain of the rhomboid intramembrane serine protease: What the crystal structures don’t tell you

Speaker: Natalie Goto
Host: Scott Prosser
When: March 6, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CCT2150


The transport and deformations of cargo tracks in cells

Speaker: Erkan Tuzel
Host: Joshua Milstein
When: March 13, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CCT2150

Snapshots of biology with a femtosecond camera

Speaker: Jennifer Ogilvie
Host: Joshua Milstein
When: March 20, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CCT2150

A Himalayan top-down perspective into mid-crustal flow processes

Speaker: Laurent Godin
Host: Lindsay Schoenbohm
When: March 27, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CCT2150

April 2012

Nanoscale hydrogels and carrier design

Speaker: Andrew Lyon
Host: CPS Graduate Student Association
When: April 24th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Where: CCT2150