Graduate Program of Transformative Chem-Bio Research

Date: June 24 (Tue.) 2025,14:00-15:30
Venue: Room8 at Lecture building in Agricultural department
Speaker: Prof. Fumiaki Katagiri（Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota）
Title:How can plants stay in this world while their pathogens can evolve much faster? - the properties, dynamics, and evolution of the plant immune signaling network

Date: June 19 (Tue.) 2025,15:00-17:00
Venue: Lecture Hall, 2F, Noyori Materials Science Laboratory
Speaker: Dr. Ruyi Zhu (Department of Chemistry / NUS, Singapore)
Title:New Advances in DNA Catalysis and RNA Modification

Date: June 16 (Mon.) 2025,13:00-14:30
Venue: ITbM Lecture room
Speaker: Prof. Arturo Espinosa Ferao （University of Murcia, Spain）
Title: Three-Membered Rings with p-Block Elements: Scope, Ring Strain and Aromaticity

Date: June 13 (Fri.) 2025,16:30-18:00
Venue: 143 Lecture Room, Eng. Building No. 1
Speaker: Prof.Billy Wai-Lung Ng（School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong）
Title: Targeted Protein O-GlcNAcylation in Living Cells

Date:June 10(Tue),2025,16:30-18:00
Venue:Fuji Hall
Speaker: Prof.Eun Joo Kang (Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea)
Title: Iron Photoredox Catalysis in Radical Cationic Cycloaddition Reactions

Date:May 30 (Fri.)  2025,15:30-17:00
Venue:Lecture Hall, Noyori Materials Science Laboratory Bldg. 2F
Speaker: Dr.Marek Grzybowski (Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Title: Fluorene and Heteroacene-Based NIR Dyes: (Anti)Aromaticity and Photophysics

Date:April 25(Fri), 2025, 15:00-16:30
Venue:ITbM Lecture Room (1F)
Speaker:Prof. Jonathan T. Sczepanski（Texas A&M University）
Title:Mirror Image Oligonucleotides: New Opportunities in Biotechnology

Date:April 24(Thu), 2025, 15:00-16:30
Venue:Lecture room 205,2F,Pharmaceutical Science Bldg
Speaker:Prof. Verena Schroeder（Department for BioMedical Research, University of Bern, Switzerland）
Title:Determinants of blood clot structure/function with potential therapeutic implications for bleeding and thrombosis

Date:April 23(Wed),2025,10:00-11:30
Venue:Seminar Room, 3rd floor, ITbM
Speaker: Toshiya Senda, PhD (Professor/Director of SBRC Structural Biology Research Center,
Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)
Title: GTP Metabolism: A Multifaceted Approach Featuring Structural Biology at Our Center

Date: April 17(Thu), 2025,16:00-17:30
Venue: Lecture Hall, NoyoriMaterials Science Laboratory Bldg. 2F
Speaker: Prof. Jun Okuda (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Title: Artificial metalloenzymes for olefin metathesis

Date: April 8(Tue), 2025,16:00-17:30
Venue: 132 Lecture Room, 3F, Eng. Building No. 1
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Stefan Mecking (Universität Kontanz, German)
Title: Closed Loop Recyclable and Degradable Polyethylene-Like Materials Enabled by Catalysis

Date:March 21 (Fri), 2025,16:00-17:30
Venue:1101 Lecture Room, 10F, Eng. Building No. 1
Speaker:Prof. Henri Cramail (University of Bordeaux, France)
Title: Non-Isocyanate Routes to Polyurethanes: Some Recent Investigations

Date:Mar.19(wed),2025,16:30-18:00
Venue:Fuji hall, EI Bldg.2F
Speaker:Prof. Jishan Wu（National University of Singapore）
Title:Diradicaloids, Aromaticity, and Topological Molecular Carbons

Speaker:Prof. Marc Hillmyer (University of Minnesota, USA)
Date:March 4 (Tue), 2025,16:30-18:00
Venue:132 Lecture Room, 3F, Eng. Building No. 1
Title:Renewable, Recyclable, and Remarkable Aliphatic Polyester Block Polymers as Sustainable Plastics and Elastomers
Date:March 5 (Wed), 2025,16:00-17:30
Venue:1B011 Lecture Room, 10F, IB Building
Title:Tandem Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization and Post- Polymerization Saturation Using a Single Catalytic System

Date: Mar.3(mon),2025,15:00-17:30
Venue: Noyori Materials Science Laboratory Bldg. 2F Lecture Hall
Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey I. Seeman (Department of Chemistry, University of Richmond, US)

Date: Jan.28(Tue),2025,13:30−15:00
Venue: Lecture Room, ITbM 1F
Speaker: Prof. Davide Bonifazi （University of Vienna, Austria）
Title: Aromatic Hydrocarbons Engaging with Light: Synthetic Strategies for Tailoring Properties

Date: Jan.16(Thu)13:00-15:00, Jan.20(Mon)13:00-15:00,
Jan.24(Fri)13:00-15:00, Jan.30(Thu)13:00-15:00,
Jan.31(Fri)13:00-15:00,2025
Instructor: Maybelline Yeo(Trainer & Editorial Development Advisor)
Title: Academic Paper Writing Seminar（論文執筆セミナー）
※Using Online

Date: Jan.10(Fri)10:00-16:00
Venue: Ace Lab S, Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences Main Building, 2F
Instructor: ZENG Wei (Lecturer, Graduate School of Humanities at Nagoya University)
Title: Presentation Skill : Professional Development Workshop

Date: Dec.13(Fri),2024,15:00−16:30
Venue: Science building E131
Speaker: Dr. Suhong Xu (Zhejiang University)
Title: Strategies for plasma membrane repair

Date: Dec.12(Thu),2024,10:00-17:10
Venue: Lecture Room, Noyori Materials Science Laboratory
Title: ISTbM-10 / 8th Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award

Date: Nov.11(Mon),2024,15:00−16:30
Venue: Lecture Hall, Noyori Materials Science Laboratory Bldg. 2F
Speaker: Prof. Eli Zysman-Colman (Organic Semiconductor Centre,EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, UK)
Title: Design of multiresonancethermally activated delayed fluorescence materials for organic light-emitting diodes and light-emitting electrochemical cells

Date: Nov.7(Thu),2024,16:00-17:30
Venue: Lecture room 205,2F, Pharmaceutical Science Bldg
Speaker: Professor Sing Yian CHEW, PhD (The Sch. of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Lee Kong Chian Sch. of Medicine/Sch. of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological Univ.,Singapore)
Title: Guiding Cell Fate and Tissue Regeneration Using Biomimetic Scaffolds

Date:Nov.5(Tue),2024,15:30-17:00
Venue:Sakata and Hirata Hall (Science South Building)
Speaker:Prof. Dr. Thomas R. Ward (Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland, the director of the NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering)
Title: Artificial metalloenzymes for new-to-nature whole-cell biocatalysis: challenges and opportunities

Date: Nov.1(Fri),2024, 9:30-11:00（Cancel）
Venue: Meeting Room 713, 7F, Eng. Build. No. 1
Speaker: Professor Junfeng ZHAO (Guangzhou Medical University (広州医科大学),China)
Title: The Journey to Greening Peptide Synthesis Recent publications

Date:Oct.28(Mon),2024,16:00-17:30
Venue:1101 Lecture Room, 10F, Eng. Building No. 1
Speaker:Prof. Christophe Sinturel (University of Orléans, France)
Title:Polymers for Surface Nanopatterning: from Block Polymer Self-Assembly to Colloidal Lithography

Date: Oct.22(Tue),2024, 16:30-18:00
Venue: Lecture Room, 1F ITbM
Speaker: Professor Wolf B. Frommer (Heinrich-Heine University / ITbM, Nagoya University)
Title: Is symplasmic transport through plasmodesmata mediated by liquid phase separated condensates at the two orifices?

Date:Oct.17(Thu),2024,15:30-17:30
Venue:1101 Lecture Room, 10F, Eng. Building No. 1
Speaker1:Dr. Sylvain Caillol, Research Director (University of Montpellier, France)
Title:A Journey around Circularity in Polymers, from Renewable Resources to Recycling
Speaker2:Dr. Vincent Ladmiral, Research Director (University of Montpellier, France)
Title: Fluorine-Activated Vitrimers

Date: Oct.4(Fri),2024,16:30-18:00
Venue: Fuji hall, EI Bldg.2F
Speaker: Professor Dr. Lei Gong (College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Xiamen University, China)
Title: Asymmetric Transformations of Unsaturated Compounds via Light-Driven 3d Metal Catalysis

Date:Sep. 25(Wed),2024,16:00-17:30
Venue:Lecture room 205,2F,Pharmaceutical Science Bldg
Speaker:Prof.Dr. Jun Wang（Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)）
Title:Facile Access to Chiral Phosphorus Compounds via Transition Metal-catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrophosphination

Date: Sep.12(Thu), 2024,13:00-14:30
Venue: Fuji hall, EI Bldg.2F
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Chi Zhang(State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of
Chemistry, Nankai University,China)
Title: A Powerful Way to Make Fluorinated Organic Compounds-Hypervalent Iodine Reagents Can