As in previous years, the School of Chemistry organised an image competition as part of their drop-in activities “Computer-powered Chemistry” at the Edinburgh International Science Festival from 11th-15th April 2019.
Research by Dr Stephen Thomas and his group has recently been published in the journal Chemical Science.
The paper demonstrates a reaction protocol for Earth-abundant metal catalysis.
An interview with Professor Colin Pulham has been featured on the Scotsman website.
Professor Pulham discusses the benefits of industrial collaborations for both parties. In a wide-ranging article he talks about how collaborating with partners in industry accelerates research and development of new products as well as what excites and drives him as a researcher.
The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT KGP) is one of the oldest and most prestigious scientific and technological institutes in India and, with a combined student and staff population of around 30,000, it is effectively its own self-contained town. For three weeks over March and April 2019, I was fortunate enough to be able to visit the campus of IIT KGP to conduct research at the School of Chemical Engineering and the Rural Development Centre.
Research involving Dr Adam Kirrander that produces visualisations of molecular reactions, carried out at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, has been published in Nature Chemistry.
Research at the University of Edinburgh has developed new chemical probes which allow them to track the activity in cells as they interact with molecules such as glucose.
The technique allows the researchers to track behaviour in live cells using microscopes. The team hope to be able to expand their technique to look for activity related to other molecules to help improve diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
The University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry is leading the way on a paradigm changing, multilateral €4.5M project funded by the EU Research and Innovation programme, Horizon 2020, the Indian Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
ARREST-TB (Accurate, Rapid, Robust and Economical diagnoStic Technologies for Tuberculosis) is co-ordinated and led by the University of Edinburgh, School of Chemistry and will focus on the development of affordable diagnostic technologies for Tuberculosis (TB).
Hannah Walker, a second-year PhD student from the Heal group, has won second prize for her poster in the environmental section of the 2019 RSC Poster Twitter Conference.
The Horrocks group are extremely grateful for the kind donation from Dr. Jim Love to the Edinburgh Single-Molecule Biophysics Group. The donation will partly be used to upgrade one of their microscopes to enable the group to do live cell imaging of cultured neuronal cells. This added capability will greatly enhance the work they can do in the group.
Congratulations to Harvey Dale, a PhD student in the Lloyd-Jones group, who was awarded first prize by Prof Ben List for his poster presentation “Taming Ambident Triazole Nucleophiles: Molecular Recognition and Organocatalysis“. The prize was awarded at the SCI Advances in Organocatalysis Conference, which was recently held in London.
