The University of Melbourne Chemical Society

1999

MUCS Committee for 1999

President Dr P. Mulvaney

Secretary Dr J. Lambert

Treasurer Dr M. Ashokkumar

Immediate Past President Dr R. Robson

Student Members Stacey Borg, Caitlin Gladman, Matthew Grigg, Duncan Wild, Melanie Bradley, Michelle Laws

Program of Events in 1999

March 3

Professor Harry Morrison (Wilsmore Fellow)

Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, USA

"Development of Photo Cisplatin Reagents for the Photosensitized Inactivation of DNA"

April 14

Professor Michael Paddon-Row

School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales,

"An Overview Of Recent Insights Gained Into The Most Fundamental And Ubiquitous Of All Chemical Reactions -Electron Transfer"

April 21

Professor William A .Denny (combined RSC and MUCS seminar)

Please note: this lecture will be held at 5:15 pm

Director,Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, The University of Auckland

"Towards Less Toxic Cancer Treatment: Drug Design Chemistry that Exploits Tumour Biology"

June 16

Dr Sandra Hart

Australian Government Analyst/General Manager Australian Government Analytical Laboratories, Canberra

"Drugs in Sport"

July 7

Professor Royce Murray

Kenan Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina and Editor of Analytical Chemistry.

"Chemical Objects with Hard Cores and Soft Boundaries"

August 25

Dr Peter D. Nichols

CSIRO Marine Research, Hobart

"The Good Oil-Recent Developments with Australian Marine Oils"

September 15

Dr George C. Stirling

Director Corporate Affairs, Central Laboratories of the Research Councils, UK

"Small Science, Big Science, Australian Science"

October 27

Professor Thomas W. Healy

Professor Emeritus, The University of Melbourne

"Reinventing Chemistry as a More-or-less Central Science"

November 17

Dr Richard Pau

Biochemistry School, University of Melbourne

"Molybdenum-The Early Metabolic Events of an Essential Trace Element"

December 15

Dr Paul Mulvaney

School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne

"Nanotechnology-A Chemist's Approach"

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