University of Zurich

Protein Aggregation in Biology and Biotechnology

Long-Range and Ultra-Long-Range Rydberg Molecules

Attosecond photoionization spectroscopy

Chemical Intervention in Cellular Stress Pathways

Lessons from Complex Natural Product Synthesis: Polyphenol Monomers, Oligomers and Hybrids

13:00–14:00: Emily Balskus (Harvard U) “Chemical Discovery in the Microbial World”
14:00–15:00: Susan Kauzlarich (U California, Davis) “New Materials for Energy Conversion: Zintl Phases and Ge Nanocrystals”
15:30–16:30: Helma Wennemers (ETH Zürich) “Bioinspired Chemistry with Proline-Rich Peptides”
16:30–17:30: Janine Cossy (ESPCI ParisTech) “Synthesis of Heterocycles. Cyclizations, Rearrangements and Functionalizations”

Nanosized Transition Metal Clusters with Main Group Elements as Ligands; Synthesis, Structures and Properties

The chemistry of nucleation

Human and Environmental Exposure to Flame Retardants

Synthesis and Photophysics of Light Harvesting Nanorings: Flow of Energy & Charge in Porphyrin Arrays

Tissue-typing: Imaging the Molecular Complexity of Health and Disease

Beyond plasmonics: perovskite nanomaterials for enhancing nonlinear optical signals

Electrochemistry – the flexible tool box for the construction of hyphenated instrumental analytical systems