Name: Where addiction meets molecules and lasers track transformations
Start: 2025-05-19T18:30:00
End: 2025-05-19T20:30:00
Location: Smith's Alternative

Hear how medicinal chemists are developing new molecules to treat substance abuse and other neurological and psychiatric disorders. Plus, learn how laser-based technologies could track molecular transformations and chase subatomic particles, giving us insights into the processes that shape all existence.

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Dr Tristan Reekie (Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales)

Substance use disorder, or drug addiction, is a worldwide problem. But what if the solution lay in new pharmaceutical treatments? This presentation will cover how chemistry is being used to help substance use disorders.

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Pratima Sharma (PhD candidate, Australian National University)

The universe is driven by processes which are amazingly different in timescale and despite this huge disparity they are unified. Let’s talk about how chasing the electrons with "light" give an ultimate pass to witness the fleeting moments that shape everything that exists.

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