Detailed brain cell analysis has helped researchers uncover new mechanisms thought to underlie Parkinson’s disease.
The study, published in Nature Communications, adds to our growing understanding of the causes of Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases, and could influence drug design in the future. The work was carried out by a team of scientists, including Dr Mathew Horrocks.
Dr Craig Johnston, from the Lloyd-Jones group, has been awarded a five year Royal Society University Research Fellowship which he will start at St Andrews later this year.
Royal Society University Research Fellowships are awarded to outstanding scientists who are in the early stages of their research career and have the potential to become leaders in their field.
The School of Chemistry has been awarded a £722,150 grant by the BBSRC under the 17ALERT equipment call.
Lead by Prof. Dušan Uhrín, Scottish NMR spectroscopists have been awarded £ 1.4 mil for a major upgrade of the 800 MHz NMR spectrometer housed in the School of Chemistry of the University of Edinburgh.
Congratulations to Annabel Serpico, from Prof. Dominic Campopiano's group, who has been awarded the runner-up prize for best talk at the RSC CBBG group post-graduate meeting in Leeds.
Professor Polly Arnold has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.
Prof. Arnold has been recognised for her research focused on the design and synthesis of highly reactive f-block complexes that can activate inert small molecules such as carbon oxides, dinitrogen, and hydrocarbons, and that can provide fundamental information on structure and bonding at the bottom of the periodic table.
Congratulations to five members of staff from EaStCHEM who have recently been awarded prizes by the RSC. The winners and their prizes are:
Professor Dominc Campopiano recently delivered his inaugural lecture. The lecture was entitled "Biocatalysis: exploiting evolution to deliver green industrial chemistry."
You can watch it below.
Congratulations to Ellie Tanaka who won a poster prize at the recent Japan-UK symposium on Coordination Chemistry held in St Andrews. Ellie is a postgraduate student in Professor Neil Robertson's group.
Qingshu Zheng from Dr Scott Cockroft's group was also awarded a poster prize.
Good luck to School of Chemsitry student Tianyue Li who will take part in today's 3 Minute Thesis Science and Engineering Heat. Her presentation is titled "A Song of Light and Electricity".
