Each year, invited speakers are welcomed to our Department to present their research to our community. Please join us in these engaging research talks on an exciting array of topics.
Campus maps are available, and for visitors driving to campus we suggest using the University Hospital visitor parking garage.
Invited Speakers 2026/2027
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | Time | Location | Host(s) |
| 2026-09-15 | Jean Duhamel | University of Waterloo | "Pyrene Excimer Formation to Characterize the Conformation of Macromolecules Confined in the Microdomains Encountered in Soft Matter" | 10:30am | CHB115 | Prof. Elizabeth Gillies |
| 2026-09-16 | Benjamin Rotstein | University of Ottawa | "Chemical Labeling with Carbon-11 Carbon Dioxide: Strategies for Tracer Discover" | 12:30pm | CHB115 | Prof. Justin Hicks |
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2026-09-23 |
Ingo Krossing | University of Freiburg | "Ionic Systems with Weakly Coordinating Anions" | 1:30pm | CHB115 | Prof. Joe Gilroy |
| 2026-09-23 | Giuseppe Melacini | McMaster University | "A Cryptic Switch Allosterically Controls How a Self-Protein Turns into a Pathogenic Antigen" | 10:30am | CHB115 | Prof. Lars Konermann |
| 2026-09-30 | Ian Tonks | University of Minnesota | "Strategies in Sustainable Catalysis: Making and Breaking N-N Bonds with Titanium and Synthesizing Polyesters from Carbon Dioxide" | 1:30pm | CHB115 | Prof. Marcus Drover |
| 2026-10-07 | Eva Hemmer | Universitry of Ottawa | CHB9 | Prof. James Noel | ||
| 2026-10-08 | Robert Kretschmer | CHB9 | Prof. Marcus Drover | |||
| 2026-10-14 | Andre Schafer | Saarland University | "Bridging Ferrocene with a Single Carbon Atom" | 1:30pm | CHB115 | Prof. Joe Gilroy |
| October 10th-18th - Fall Reading Week | ||||||
| 2026-10-21 | Daniel Ess | Prof. Johanna Blacquiere | ||||
| 2026-10-28 | Zhang Wanli | De Mayo Award Winner | Prof. Yining Huang | |||
| 2026-11-04 | Karthik Hariharan | Prof. Yolanda Hedberg | ||||
| 2026-11-09 | Andrew Grosvenor | 10:30am | CHB9 | Prof. James Noel | ||
| 2026-11-09 | Memorial University | Recruitment Talk | 12:30pm | CHB9 | Prof. Lars Konermann | |
| 2026-11-09 | Travis Fridgen | Memorial University | 1:30pm | CHB9 | Prof. Lars Konermann | |
| 2026-11-11 | Ibrahim Ogunsanya | 1:00pm | Prof. Yolanda Hedberg | |||
| 2026-11-11 | Conor Pranckevicius | 10:30am | Prof. Johanna Blacquiere | |||
| 2026-11-12 | Audrey Laventure | University of Montreal | 10:30am | CHB9 | Prof. Elizabeth Gillies | |
| 2026-11-12 | Brendy Rincon Troconis | KB106 | Prof. James Noel | |||
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| 2026-12-02 | Dina Dilinaer | Bancroft Award Talk | ||||
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Previous Speakers
2025-2026
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | Time | Location | Host(s) |
| 2025-09-15 | Peyman Taheri | TU Delft | Electrochemistry and Materials Degradation | 10:30am | DSB 1002 | Prof. Robert Hudson |
| 2025-09-24 | Jeffrey Henderson | Surface Science Western | Bridging Academia and Industry: Electrochemistry, Corrosion Science, and Surface Analysis | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Robert Hudson |
| 2025-10-02 | Jung-Ho Yu | University of Waterloo | Color In Vivo: Multiplexed Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy to Encode Live Tumor Heterogeneity | 3:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. François Lagugné-Labarthet |
| 2025-10-07 | Guillaume Goubert | Université du Québec à Montréal | In situ spectroscopy and Electrochemical Scanning Microscopy for the Study of MXene nanomaterials | 2:00pm | ChB 115 | Prof. François Lagugné-Labarthet |
| 2025-10-08 | Mathew Willans | Western NMR Facility | Fundamental NMR Acquisition Parameters in 1D NMR Spectroscopy | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Department |
| 2025-10-15 | Adyn Melenbacher | Western University | De Mayo Award Winner | 1:00pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Martin Stillman |
| 2025-10-22 | Maythem Ali | Waters Corporation | Unlocking Molecular Insights: Advanced Characterization with Waters Biologics Solutions | 12:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Megan Roberts |
| 2025-10-29 | Scott Harroun | University of Windsor | Fluorescent Nanoantennas: Oligonucleotide Probes for the Study of Protein Function | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Yolanda Hedberg |
| 2025-11-05 | Adam Shuhendler | University of Ottawa | Nanoscale Sentinels and Molecular Beacons: Illuminating Disease from the Inside Out | 2:30pm | BGSB 1056 | Prof. Len Luyt |
| 2025-12-09 | Barry Blight | University of New Brunswick | MOFs and Anions; Anions and MOFs | 2:00pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Yining Huang |
| 2025-12-17 | David Emslie | McMaster University | Late Transition Metal Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD): Reactor Design, Precursor Development, and Thin Film Deposition | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Paul Ragogna |
| 2026-01-21 | Marc-André Légaré | McGill University | Cross-Coupling Catalysis and New Bonding Motifs in Main Group Metallomimetics | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Marcus Drover |
| 2026-01-28 | Yihong Liu | Western University | Bancroft Award Winner | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Lijia Liu |
| 2026-02-04 | Katherine Marczenko | Carleton University | Light Driven Motion and Recovery in Molecular Crystals | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Paul Ragogna |
| 2026-02-11 | Laurel Schafer | The University of British Columbia | Hydroaminoalkylation Not Hydroamination: The Catalytic Addition of Amines to Alkenes | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Marcus Drover |
| 2026-02-25 | Carlie Charron | Dalhousie University | Reshaping Peptides with Thioamides: New Routes to Heterocyclic Scaffolds | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Len Luyt |
| 2026-03-04 | Wai-Tung (Ellie) Shiu | Western University | Peter Norton Award Lecture | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Lijia Liu and Paul Ragogna |
| 2026-03-11 | Alex Spokyny | University of California, Los Angeles | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Joe Gilroy | |
| 2026-03-18 | Katie Mitchell-Koch | University of Manitoba | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Stella Constas | |
| 2026-03-25 | Marcus Drover | Western University | Chemistry Research Excellence Award | |||
| 2026-04-08 | Jing Li | Rutgers University | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Yining Huang |
Previous talks, by academic year, can be found here.
