Armstrong Beattie Memorial Symposium
The Armstrong Beattie Memorial Symposium will be held on Monday September 26, 2022, in Chemistry Lecture Theatre 3. It is proposed as an in-person event, subject to any local COVID restrictions.
The scientific presentations of the Symposium will run from 9am to 5.15pm and be followed by a dinner in the Refectory, Holme Building (Science Road) from 6 to 9pm.
We would be delighted if you are able to join us for either or both the lectures and dinner. Participants can register via Eventbrite.
Program:
| Time | Activity | Venue/Speaker | Session Chair |
| 9:30-10:00 | Morning Tea | Lecture Theatre Foyer School of Chemistry | |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Welcome | Lecture Theatre 3, School of Chemistry | Prof Liz New |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | Plenary Lecture “Mapping protein folding landscapes by NMR” | Professor Peter Wright, Cecil and Ida M Green Professor, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California | Prof Liz New |
| 11:15-11:20 | Break | ||
| 11:20 – 11:50 | Lecture 1 “On-Water Catalysis: The Beattie Mechanism” | Associate Professor Chris McErlean (U Syd) | Prof Paul Wormell |
| 11:50 – 12:20 | Lecture 2 “Platinum Anticancer Agents: The Past, Present, & Future ” | Emeritus Professor Trevor Hambley (U Syd) | |
| 12:20 – 12:50 | Lecture 3 “Platinum(IV) Anticancer Prodrugs” | Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (WSU) | |
| 12:50 – 1:15 | Lunch | Participant to make own arrangements (see below) | |
| 1:15 – 1:45 | Lecture 4 “Destroying Dicarbon” | Professor Timothy Schmidt, (UNSW) | Prof Chiara Neto |
| 1:45 – 2:15 | Lecture 5 “Measuring Anion Binding at Biomembrane Interfaces” | Professor Philip Gale, Interim Dean of Science (U Syd) | |
| 2:15 – 2:45 | Lecture 6 “The Brawl about Bonding – Did Feynman get it right the second Time?” | Professor Sture Nordholm; (U Gothenburg) | |
| 2:45 – 3:15 | Lecture 7 “Multifunctional Photo-mechano-electrochemical Properties in Metal-Organic Framework Materials” | Professor Deanna D’Alessandro (U Syd) | |
| 3:15 – 3:25 | Afternoon tea | Lecture Theatre Foyer School of Chemistry | |
| 3:25 – 3:55 | Lecture 8 “Reaction Mechanisms and Spectroscopy: The Keys to Understand Biological Activities” | Emeritus Professor Peter Lay (U Syd) | Prof Scott Kable |
| 3:55 – 4:25 | Lecture 9 “A Fullerene Adventure” | Dr Sean Gallagher (Swinburne U) | |
| 4:25 – 4:55 | Lecture 10 “Order and Disorder in Oxides” | Professor Brendan Kennedy (U Syd) | |
| 4:55 – 5:25 | Lecture 11 “Disorder and Partial Order in the NF-κB Signaling Pathway” | Prof Jane Dyson (Scripps Research Institute) | |
| 5:25 – 5:55 | Lecture 12 “Electroacoustics, Nano-particles, Hydrophobic Interfaces and Safer Emulsion Explosives” | Dr Alexander Djerdjev (U Syd) | |
| 6:00 – 9:00 | Dinner/reception including Armstrong/Beattie retrospective by Prof Peter Wright | Refectory, Holme Building | |
| 9:00 | Close |
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