- Keynote speaker, European Symposium on BioOrganic Chemistry, Gregynog May, 2018
- Invited Speaker, Natural Product Discovery and Development, Florida, USA, January 2017
- Plenary Lecturer, Mona Congress, Jamaica, January 2018
- Invited Speaker, Basel, December 2017
- Invited Speaker Natural Product Networks, Manchester 2017
- Invited Speaker, Dial a Molecule, Liverpool, May 2017
- Invited Speaker, Halogenation, Glasgow, June 2017
- Invited Speaker, ISBA, Korea, May 2017
- Invited Speaker, Tubingen Natural Products Meeting May 2017
- Seminar Speaker, Servier, France, May 2017
- Seminar Speaker, Edinburgh, March, 2017
- Invited Speaker, Synthetic Biology of Natural Products, Mexico, March 2017
- Seminar Speaker, Muenster, March, 2017
- Plenary lecture Norwegian Chemical Society annual meeting January 2017
- Invited Speaker, Polyomics, Glasgow, February, 2017
- Invited Speaker, Scottish Metabolomics Network, November 2016
- Invited Speaker, Turkey BNP, September 2016
- Invited Speaker, EUCHEM, Seville, September 2016
- Keynote Speaker invitation Canberra declined due to teaching commitments
- Invited Speaker, Cambridge postgraduate symposium March 2016- declined due to teaching commitments
- IBIOIC speaker January 2016
- Invited Speaker Oxford postgraduate symposium November 2015- declined due to teaching commitments
- Keynote Speaker, 3rd India/UK Med Chem Congress, Hyderabad, November 2015–Declined invitation
- Invited Speaker, Leipzig, December 2015
- Invited Speaker, Bonn declined due to teaching commitments
- Invited Speaker, NPronet, Manchester, September 2015 Declined
- Invited Speaker, Oxford Chemistry, Pfizer Symposium, October 2015 Declined
- Invited Speaker, NOST, India, October 2015 Declined
- Invited Speaker, RSC Oxford/Cambridge Synthesis meeting Cambridge July 2015
- Keynote Speaker, Biotrans, Vienna, July 2015
- Keynote Speaker, Dial a Molecule, Warwick, June 2015
- Invited Speaker, Max Plank, Chemical Ecology, Jena, January 2015
- Invited Speaker, Newcastle, January 2015
- Invited Speaker, Dublin Symposium, Dublin December 2014
- Invited Speaker, Chemical Ecology, Jena December 2014
- Invited speaker, Natural Products Capetown, September 2014
- Invited Seminar Speaker , UCT Capetown, September 2014
- Invited Speaker, ERAIB, Dresden, September 2014
- Invited Speaker, Bluegenics, Rekjavic, September 2014
- Invited speaker, GRC Biocatalysis, Bryant University, Smithfield USA July 2014
- Invited speaker, International ELRIG, Telford, March 2014
- Speaker, Perkin Meeting, Heriot Watt, Edinburgh, December 2013
- Keynote speaker, and RSC NPR award lecture, CIFARP, Ribiero de Preto, Brazil, November 2013
- Invited speaker, (declined) International Symposium on antibacterial research of the DFG, Bonn, November 2013
- Invited speaker, Biofilm Workshop, Dublin, November 2013
- Speaker, VAAM Workshop, Biology of Bacteria Producing Natural Products, Frankfurt, September 2013
- Invited speaker, Yale, September 2013
- Plenary speaker invitation (declined) Hetrocyclic and Astex, Cambridge, September 2013
- Invited speaker, Transatlantic Frontiers of Organic Chemistry, Kloster, Seeon, Germany, August 2013
- Invited speaker, Joint JCS and RSC Symposium on Chemical Biology, Kyoto, Japan, March, 2013
- Invited speaker, SGM Annual meeting, Manchester, March 2013 – (requested representation by senior PDRA)
- Invited speaker, GSK Stevenage, November, 2012
- Invited speaker, New Frontiers in Natural Product Chemistry, Nottingham, September, 2012
- Invited speaker, CHINA, September, 2012 (withdrawn, due to moving to St Andrews)
- Invited speaker, Bacterial natural products workshop Novartis, Basel, September 2012 – (requested representation by senior PDRA)
- Keynote speaker, the 2012 International Congress on Natural Products Research, New York, August, 2012
- Invited speaker, Gordon Research Conference on Natural Products, New Hampshire, July, 2012
- Invited speaker, ETH Zurich, July, 2012
- Invited speaker, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, ICIQ, June, 2012
- Keynote speaker, Synthetic Biology to Dial-a-Molecule, GSK, Stevenage, May, 2012
- Keynote speaker, European Symposium on BioOrganic Chemistry, Gregynog May, 2012
- Invited speaker, Dresden, May 2012
- Invited speaker, David O’Hagan’s Fluorine award symposium, ACS, San Diego, March, 2012
- Invited speaker, Minnesota Centre for Drug Design, March 2012
- Invited speaker, Nebraska Medical Centre, March 2012
- Invited speaker, Michigan, March 2012
- Invited speaker, Leeds, February 2012
- Speaker, Zing Natural Products, Lanzarote, February 2012
- Invited speaker, Gröningen, January 2012
- Invited speaker, St Andrews, Scotland, November, 2011
- Invited lecture, Institute for Technical Biochemistry, Stuttgart, October, 2011
- Invited speaker, Munster, October 2011
- Speaker, Gregynog Young Organic Chemists meeting, Gregynog, October 2011
- Speaker, ESF/EMBO Synthetic Biology, St Felieu, Spain, October 2011
- Invited speaker, Syngenta, Jealotts Hill, UK, September 2011
- Invited speaker, Texas South Western, Dallas, September 2011
- Invited speaker, ACS Fall Meeting, BIOL: Pfizer symposium, Denver, August 2011
- Invited speaker, Synthetic Biology Symposium, Imperial, London July 2011
- Selected as UK <40year old Organic Chemistry representative, EUCHEMS, Crete, July 2011
- Invited speaker, Department of Chemistry, University of Geneva, July 2011
- Short Talk, NADD 2011, Naples, June 2011
- Invited Lecture, Novartis, Basel, May 2011
- Short talk Bürgenstock, May 2011
- Invited speaker, Department of Chemistry, University of Cardiff, April 2011
- Invited speaker, Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan, Chemical Biology Symposium, March 2011, cancelled
- Invited speaker, RSC Heterocyclic Symposium, Imperial, London, January 2011
- Invited speaker, Department of Chemistry, EPFL, December 2010
- ESF, Industrial Microbiology, Bielefield, Germany, November 2010
- Invited speaker, Department of Chemistry, University College London, October 2010
- Selected speaker, Natural Products, Italy, September 2010
- Nominated for ACS Fall Meeting-Pre tenure Organic symposium, Boston, August 2010 (16/64 nominees invited)
- Invited speaker, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, June 2010
- Invited speaker, Department of Chemistry, University of Bristol, June 2010
- Invited speaker, Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences Seminar, QMUL, March 2010
- Invited speaker, International Natural products Meeting, Brazil, November 2009
- Invited speaker, Young Organic Chemists Symposium, Imperial, London, April 2009
- Invited speaker, Zing Natural Products, Antigua, March 2009
- Invited speaker, York Mini Symposium on Natural Products, York, December 2008
- Invited speaker/consultant, GSK Young Academics Symposium, GSK, Stevenage, October 2008
- Invited speaker, Department of Chemistry, Oxford, June 2008
- Selected speaker, Natural Products Italy, May 2008
- Bürgenstock, International Stereochemical Meeting, April 2008 (poster)
- Invited speaker, Zing Natural Products Antigua, February 2008
- Keynote speaker, RSC Natural Product Symposium, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, October 2007
- Invited speaker, Department of Chemistry, Edinburgh, May 2007
- Young Organic Chemists Workshop, Gregynog, October 2007
- RSC, Biosynthesis, Firbush, September, 2007
- RSC “Directing Biosynthesis” International Meeting, Robinson College, Cambridge, September 2006
- Plenary Lecture, Society of General Microbiology, National Meeting Dublin, August 2006
- IUPAC “Biodiversity and Natural Products” International Meeting, Kyoto, August 2006
- Invited speaker, Department of Chemistry University of Cape town, February 2006
- Invited speaker, Department of Chemical Engineering, Bath, November 2005
- Invited speaker, Microbes in Norwich National Meeting, 2005
- Invited speaker, Department of Chemistry Liverpool, 2005
- RSC, Nucleic Acids Firbush, 2005
- Invited speaker, SouthWest Regional Organic Meeting Bristol, 2005
- IUPAC “Biodiversity and Natural Products” International Meeting, New Delhi, February 2004
- Invited speaker, Department of Chemistry University of Leeds, 2004
- Invited speaker, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2004