Graduate Program of Transformative Chem-Bio Research

Date: May 15(Fri.),2026,16:00-17:30
Venue: Lecture room 205,2F, Pharmaceutical Science Bldg
Speaker: Prof. Jieping Zhu（École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne）
Title: Total Synthesis of Natural Products: Strategies and Tactics

Date: May 14(Thu),2026,15:30-17:00
Venue: NEOREX PLACE Seminar Room, Science South Bldg.
Speaker: Associate Prof. Arnab Dutta （Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay）
Title: Toward Artificial Photosynthesis: Photosensitizer-Free Molecular CO2 Reduction

Date: May 11(Mon),2026,15:30-17:00
Venue: NEOREX PLACE Seminar Room, Science South Bldg.
Speaker: Prof. Wei-chen Chang（NC State University, College of Sciences）
Title: Biocatalytic Applications and Mechanistic Insights Deoxypodophyllotoxin Synthase in the Preparation of Podophyllotoxin and its Analogs

Date: Apr.30 (Thu), 2026,15:00-16:00
Venue: ITbM 1F Lecture Room
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer (Instiute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University / Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany)
Title: Increasing yield potential and yield by genome editing in rice

Date:Apr.23(Thu.), 2026,13:00-14:30
Venue: Lecture Room, 2F, Noyori Materials Science Laboratory
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Frank Würthner（Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg, Germany）
Title: Supramolecular Engineering of Functional Nanosystems

Date: Apr.13 (Mon),2026,14:00-17:00
Venue: Science and Agricultural Building SA329

Date: Apr.9(Thu.), 2026,10:30-12:00
Venue: Science Building G101
Speaker: Prof. Baris Tursun (University of Hamburg)
Title: Metabolism and small RNA pathways are linked to cellular reprogramming in C. elegans

Date: Apr.6th(Mon),2026,16:30-18:00
Venue: The Venture Hall, 3F, VBL
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jochen Niemeyer（University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany）
Title:Rotaxanes, catenanes and macrocycles: Using the supramolecular toolbox for the design of novel catalysts

Date: Apr.3 (Fri.),2026,11:00-
Venue: Room5 at Lecture building in Agricultural department
Speaker: Dr. Rubén Rellán Álvarez(Associate Professor, North Carolina State University)
Title: Blast from the past: understanding the impact of maize wild relatives in modern maize and leveraging lost traits to improve fertilizer use efficiency

Date:Mar.30(Mon.), 2026,13:00-14:30
Venue: ITbM1F Lecture Room
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Frieder Jäkle (Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University)
Title: B-N Lewis Pairs as Versatile Motifs in the Design of Innovative Conjugated Materials