Event Information / Schedule
Event Details
The 9th Chemical Nanoscience Symposium in Newcastle will be held on:
4th April 2019
Lecture Theatre 1.46, First Floor, Bedson Building, Chemistry, Newcastle University
Program
From 9:30 Coffee & Pastries / Symposium Registration / Posters put on display
Session 1
Session Chair: Professor Andrew Houlton
11:00–11:40 Dr Matteo Palma (Associate Professor), Queen Mary University of London, UK
Title: Carbon and DNA Nanostructures: from Controlled Assembly to Functional Devices
11:40–12:10 Dr Christopher Serpell (Senior Lecturer in Chemistry), University of Kent, UK
Title: Self-Assembling Polyphosphoesters: Beyond Nucleic Acids
12:10–12:50 Prof. Alexander Kotlyar, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Title: Synthesis of Long Multiply Modified Double Stranded DNA by Self-Association of Short Single Stranded DNA Sequences
12:50–1:45 Lunch and Poster Session
Session 2
Session Chair: Dr David Fulton
1:45–2:00 Dr Yoshi Arita (Research Fellow), University of St Andrews, UK
Title: Structured light-matter interactions in photopolymerisation
2:00–2:15 Dr Gema Dura (Research Fellow), Newcastle University, UK
Title: Exploiting the reversible thermal denaturation of proteins in next generation biomaterials
2:15-2.35 Dr Marc Little (Research Fellow), Liverpool University, UK
Title: Using computation and automation to accelerate the discovery of functional crystalline solids.
2:35-2.55 Dr Clare Mahon (Marie Curie Fellowship), UK
Title: Responsive polymeric receptors for carbohydrate-binding proteins
2:55-3:15 Coffee Break
Session 3
Session Chair: Dr Ben Horrocks
3:15–3:55 Prof. Graham J. Leggett, The University of Sheffield
Title: Tools for Low-Dimensional Chemistry
3:55-4:05 Poster prizes
4:05-Close Wine Reception