Scientific Program

Time Table

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Plenary Speakers

• Scott Denmark (University of Illinois, USA)
• Enantioselective Lewis Base Catalysis with Organoselenium Compounds


• Vadim Gladyshev (Harvard Medical School, USA)
• Selenium, Selenoproteins and Selenoproteomes


• Kaixun Huang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, R. P. China)
• Selenium and Diabetes -- the Dual Function of Selenoprotein


• Ick Young Kim (Korea University, Korea)
• Selenoprotein W as a putative cellular regulator


• Vito Lippolis (University of Cagliari, Italy)
• Peculiarities and Recurrencies in the Reactivity of Heterocyclic Pentaatomic Selenoamides towards Halogens and Inter-halogens


• Dwight S. Seferos (University of Toronto, Canada)　
• Tellurium and Selenium Based π-Conjugated Materials


• Yohsuke Yamamoto (Hiroshima University, Jpn)
• Preparation of Hypervalent Group-16 Radicals and Their Application in Organic-Radical Batteries

Invited Speakers

• Alexander Breder (Georg-August-University, Germany)
• Carbophilic Activation and Oxidative Functionalization of Carbon–Carbon Multiple Bonds by means of Selenium-Catalysis


• David Churchill (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
• Reversible Organoselenium-based ROS Fluorescent Probes and Related Chemistry


• Davide Cozzoli (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)
• Plasmonic-Semiconductor Nanocrystals of Copper and Tungsten Chalcogenides: Colloidal Synthesis, Optical Properties and Their Conversion to Nanostructures of Other Functional Metal Dichalcogenides


• Michael J. Davies (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Organic Selenium Compounds and Related Species are Potent Catalytic Oxidant Scavengers


• Celso de Mello Donega (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
• Metal Chalcogenide Nanocrystals: New Materials with Tailored Optoelectronic Properties


• Hirotaka Imai (Kitasato University, Jpn)
• GPx4 Depletion Induced Novel Lipid Peroxidation Dependent Cell Death and Disease


• Vimal K. Jain (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India)
• Cyclometalation of Heavier Chalcogen Ligands


• Sohee Jeong (Nanomechanical Systems Research Division, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, Korea)
• TBA


• Hisaaki Mihara (College of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Jpn)
• Reduction of Selenium/Tellurium in Bacteria


• Tsutomu Minegishi (University of Tokyo, Jpn)
• Solar Hydrogen Production from Water on Chalcogenide Photocathodes


• Eric Rivard (Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Canada)
• Recent Discoveries in the Field of Phosphorescent Tellurophenes


• João Batista Teixeira da Rocha (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil)
• Synthetic Organoseleno Compounds as Mimetics of Selenoproteins


• Claudio Santi (University of Perugia, Italy)
• Water as a convenient medium for Organoselenium Chemistry


• Ajai K. Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
• Chalcogen and Organochalcogen Based Metal Catalysts for Organic Reactions


• Naoto Tamai (Kwansei Gaukin University, Jpn)
• Multi-exciton Dynamics and Carrier Transfer in CdTe and CdSe Nanocrystals


• Jan K. Weigand (TU Dresden, Germany)
• Synthesis of Cationic Phosphorus-selenium Cage Compounds


• Wolfgung Weigand (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Germany)
• [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Subunit Mimics Containing Selenium


• Ludger A. Wessjohann (Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie, Germany)
• Selenium and Peptides - Synthetic, Medicinal and Analytic Encounters


• Thomas Wirth (Cardiff University, UK)
• Selenium- and Sulfur–containing Molecules: Safe Synthesis and Selective Reactions


• Ping Yang (University of Jinan, R. P. China)
• Synthesis, Surface Modification and Applications of Highly Luminescent II-VI QDs


• Xiaodan Zhao (Sun Yat-Sen University, R. P. China)
• Organoselenium-Catalyzed Functionalizations of Alkenes
  

Last update: May 2nd, 2016