Graduate Program of Transformative Chem-Bio Research

Date: Jan.26(Mon), 2025,13:00-14:30
Venue: Lecture Hall, Noyori Materials Science Laboratory Bldg. 2F
Speaker: Prof. François P. Gabbaï （Texas A&M University, USA）
Title: Carbenium-containing platforms in organoelement chemistry

Date: Jan. 7(Wed),2026,16:30-18:00
Venue: ITbM Lecture Hall
Speaker: Prof.Nadav Ahituv, PhD (Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences Director, Institute for Human Genetics UCSF)
Title: Functional characterization and therapeutic targeting of gene regulatory elements

Date: Dec.18(Thu), 2025,16:30-
Venue: Agriculture Building, Lecture room No. 6
Speaker: Prof. Magne Olav Sydne (Department of Chemistry,University of Bergen, Norway)
Title: Benign by Design - Developing Photodegradable Pharmaceuticals

Date: Dec.2(Tue), 2025,16:00-17:30
Venue: Lecture room 205,2F,Pharmaceutical Science Bldg.
Speaker: Prof. Krishna P. Kaliappan (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
Title: Sugar Derived Cyclic Nitrones in Synthesis of Natural Products and Pseudo Natural Products

Date: Nov.28 (Fri.),2025,16:30 ~ 18:00
Venue: Chemistry Gallery, Noyori Materials Science Laboratory Bldg. 2F
Speaker: Assistant Prof. Young Hyun Hong (Department of Chemistry, Sogang University, Seoul (Republic of Korea))
Title: Development of Sustainable Catalytic System for Generation of Value-added Products from Natural Abundant Resources

Date: Nov.27(Thu), Dec.1(Mon), Dec.4(Thu), Dec.11(Thu), Dec.18(Thu), each day 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:Nov.26 (Wed.),2025,16:30-
Venue:1101 Lecture Room, 10F, Eng. Building No. 1
Speaker: Dr. Ming-Chia Li (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Titke: Chirality and Colors: A Molecular Probe for Chiral Self-Assembly Investigation

Date: Nov.20(Thu), 2025,15:30-17:00
Venue: Lecture Hall, NoyoriMaterials Science Laboratory Bldg. 2F
Speaker: Prof. Henrik Rudolph (Editor-in-Chief Applied Surface Science, Elsevier/Professor Emeritus, Ministerie van Defensie)
Title: Behind the scenes of a large scientific journal - the downside of "Publish or Perish"

Date:Nov.18(Tue),2025,16:00-17:20
Venue:NoyoriMaterials Science Laboratory 2F Lecture Room
Speaker:Prof. Dr. Wonwoo Nam (Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University,Korea)
Title: Biomimetic Metal-Oxygen Intermediates in Dioxygen Activation and Formation Reactions

Date: Nov.18(Tue),2025,14:30-15:50
Venue: Noyori Materials Science Laboratory 2F Lecture Room
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Kallol Ray (Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Title: SMALL MOLECULE ACTIVATION AT TRANSITION METAL CENTERS: STRUCTURE-FUNCTION CORRELATIONS

Date: Nov.17 (Mon.),2025,16:30-18:00
Venue: Fuji Hall
Speaker: Prof. Zhi-Xiang YU (College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, China)
Title: Transition Metal Catalyzed Ring Formation Reactions and a Mild Arene Hydrogenation Method

Date: Nov.17 (Mon.),2025,15:00-16:30
Venue: Fuji Hall
Speaker: Prof. Jun (Joelle) WANG (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China)
Title: Transition Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrophosphination

Date: Nov.4 (Tue.),2025,16:00-17:30
Venue: G101 (Science Building G)
Speaker: Professor Sharad Kumar, Ph.D. (Chair of Cancer Biology & Research Professor of Cell Biology, and NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Cancer Biology, University of South Australia)
Title: Role of ubiquitination in organismal physiology and pathology

Date:Nov.4 (Tue),2025,13:00-14:30
Venue:ITbM Lecture Hall
Speaker:Samuel Refetoff, MD(Frederick H. Rawson Professor Emeritus of Medicine Director,Endocrinology Laboratory,The University of Chicago Medicine)
Title: Resistance to thyrotropin caused by non-coding primate specific mutations

Date: Oct.27 (Mon.),2025,16:00-17:30
Venue: Lecture room 205,2F, Pharmaceutical Science Bldg.
Speaker: Dr. Camille Lescot (Collège de France, Molecular Activation Laboratory, Researcher)
Title: Continuous Flow Serving Heterogeneous Chemistry

Date:Oct.15(Wed.),2025,16:30-18:00
Venue:Fuji Hall
Speaker: Dr. Sukalyan Bhadra（Inorganic Materials and Catalysis Division CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute
Gijubhai Badheka Marg, Bhavnagar 364002, Gujrat, INDIA Associate Professor, AcSIR - New Delhi）
Title: Transition Metal Catalyzed Ring Formation Reactions and a Mild Arene Hydrogenation Method

Date:Oct.14(Tue.),2025,13:00-14:30
Venue:Noyori Materials Science Laboratory 2F Conference Room
Speaker: Prof.Thomas Baumgartner (York University, Canada）
Title: Value-Added Functional Organic Materials with Six-Membered Phosphorus Heterocycles

Date:Oct.10(Fri.),2025,13:30-15:00
Venue:Chemistry Gallery, Noyori Materials Science Laboratory Bldg. 2F
Speaker:Prof. Michael Chetcuti (Université de Strasbourg /Visiting Professor of RCMS 2025)
Title: N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Nickel: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Catalysis

Date:Oct.3(Fri.),2025,16:00-17:30
Venue:Room8 at Lecture building in Agricultural department
Speaker:Dr.Julia Bailey-Serres (Distinguished Professor of Genetics
Director, Center for Plant Cell Biology Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside)
Title:Root-symbiont interaction dynamics in alternating wet and dry soil

Date: Oct.2(Thu),2025,15:00-16:30
Venue:1F Lecture Room, ITbM
Speaker: Prof.Satchidananda Panda (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA)
Title: Optimizing Circadian Rhythm for Healthy Lifespan

Date: Sep 25(Thu),2025,10:50-12:00
Venue: Toyoda Auditorium
Speaker: Dr. Manfred Wuhrer (Leiden Univ. Medical Center, The Netherlands)
Title: Insights from High-throughput Glycomics

Date: Sep.24(Wed),25(Thu)
Venue: Toyoda Auditorium
Title: Glyco-Core Symposium 2025（GCS2025）

Date: Aug.29 (Fri), 2025,11:00-12:00
Venue: ITbM Lecture Room
Speaker: Christopher Surridge, PhD（Chief Editor, Nature Plants）
Title: Why publish? ... and how to worry less when we do!

Date:Aug.27(Wed.),2025,16:30-18:00
Venue:Venture Hall, 3F, Venture Business Laboratory
Speaker: Prof.Yiyun CHEN (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences）
Title: Biocompatible Photochemistry: Hypervalent Iodine and Beyond

Date: July 30（Wed) 10:00-16:00
Venue: Active Learning Studio, 5th Floor, Integrated Research Building for Humanities and Social Sciences
Instructor: ZENG Wei (Lecturer, Graduate School of Humanities at Nagoya University)
Title: Presentation Skills: Professional Development Workshop

Date:July 29(Tue),2025,16:30-18:00
Venue:Fuji Hall
Speaker: Prof.Alastair J. J. Lennox (School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TS, UK)
Title: Exploring the Combination of Electrochemistry, Fluorination and Hypervalent Iodine for the Development of Novel Organic Methodology

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