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2019

December
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
Science Centre

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November
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
Science Centre

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October
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
Yasumoto International Academic Park

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
Science Centre

(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
Lady Shaw Building

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September
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
Science Centre

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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August
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
Basic Medical Science Building

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
Science Centre

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Mong Man Wai Building

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July
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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Institute of Chin Studies

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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June
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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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May
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
Institute of Chinese Studies

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
Lady Shaw Building

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Basic Medical Science Building

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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April
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
Lady Shaw Building

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March
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
Science Centre

(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
Lady Shaw Building

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Institute of Chinese Studies

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
Science Centre

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
Lady Shaw Building

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January
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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Institute of Chinese Studies

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
Science Centre

(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
5/F, Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building

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
Lady Shaw Building

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
Lady Shaw Building

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
Science Centre

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,
Science Centre

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2018

December
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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

Professor Zhang-Jie Shi
Department of Chemistry
Fudan University
Upgrading Cross Coupling for Biaryl Syntheses
December 11, 2018
(Tuesday)
3:30 p.m.

L3
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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November
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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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October
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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Lady Shaw Building

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
Science Centre

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September
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
Lady Shaw Building

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
William M W Mong Eng Bldg

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
Science Centre

Professor Feihe Huang
Department of Chemistry
Zhejiang University
Nonporous Adaptive Crystals (NACs) for Separation and Adsorption
September 24, 2018
(Monday)
10:30 am

L4
Science Centre

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June
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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

(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
Science Centre

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May
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
Science Centre

Professor Tiow-Gan Ong
Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei
Carbone and Catalysis
May 10, 2018
(Thursday)
10:30 a.m.

L3
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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April
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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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March
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
Mong Man Wai Building

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
Science Centre

Professor Jonathan Burton Department of Chemistry
University of Oxford
Oxonium ions, rearrangements and natural
products
March 27, 2018 
(Tuesday)
4:30 p.m.

L3
Science Centre

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February
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
Man Mong Wai Building

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, 
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Science Centre

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
Institute of Chinese Studies

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January
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
Science Centre

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
Man Mong Wai Building

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
Science Centre

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
Man Mong Wai Building

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Lady Shaw Building

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
Lady Shaw Building

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2017

December
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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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November
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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Lady Shaw Building

Professor Lianzhou Jiang
Department of Chemistry
Boston College
New Concepts, Catalysts and Metho
November 17, 2017
(Friday)
4:30 p.m.

Room 702
Mong Man Wai Building

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
Lady Shaw Building

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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October
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
Mong Man Wai Building

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Lady Shaw Building

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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September
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
Science Centre

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
Liang Y. C. Hall

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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August
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
Lady Shaw Building

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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July
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
Science Centre

Prof. Wenping Hu
Department of Chemistry
Tianjin University
Small Crystal World of Organic Semiconductors
July 13, 2017
(Thursday)
10:30 a.m.

L3
Science Centre

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
Lady Shaw Building

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June
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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

Prof. Gerhard Erker
Organisch-Chemisches Institut
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Germany
Organometallic Frustrated Lewis Pairs
June 12, 2017
(Monday)
10:30 a.m.

LT3
Lady Shaw Building

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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May
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
Science Centre

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
Institute of Chinese Studies

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
Science Centre

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April
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
Lady Shaw Building

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
Lady Shaw Building

Prof. Mou Chung-Yuan
Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University
Nano-Confined Water
April 19, 2017
(Wednesday)
3:30 p.m.

LT7
Lee Shau Kee Building

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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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March
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
Y.C. Liang Hall

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
Lady Shaw Building

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
Lady Shaw Building

Prof. Heikki Tenhu
Department of Chemistry
University of Helsinki
Finland
Polymeric hybrid nanomaterials
March 24, 2017
(Friday)
4:30 p.m.

L1
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

Prof. Young-Tae Chang
National University of Singapore
Fluorescent Sensor Development for Almost Everything
March 31, 2017
(Friday)
4:30 p.m.

L1
Science Centre

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February
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
Lady Shaw Building

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
Science Centre

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January
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
Science Centre

Prof. Shou-Fei Zhu
Professor of Chemistry
Nankai University
Catalytic Hydrogen Transfer Reactions
January 13, 2017
(Friday)
2:30 p.m.

LT2
Lady Shaw Building

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
Science Centre

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
Science Centre

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