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This poster symposium for final year organic chemistry PhD students will take place at The Royal Society of Chemistry at Burlington House, in London, Monday 5 December 2016.

Abstract submission is now open!

The closing date for abstract submissions is Monday 3 October 2016. Get more information or submit an abstract now.

This symposium offers final year PhD students a chance to showcase their research to their peers, leading academics and industrial chemists. It is open to all branches of organic chemistry – in its broadest interpretation – and has a tradition of being the most competitive and highly-regarded organic chemistry symposium for PhD students in the UK and Ireland.

There will be a first prize of £500, two runner-up prizes, and a ‘selected by Industry’ prize. Industrial delegates will select this winner based on the potential for application in an industrial context.

We would like to thank F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd. and our industry sponsors for their generous support of this event.

Microbial protein targets: towards understanding and intervention

14–16 September 2016, Durham, UK

This symposium will bring together leading expertise in protein structure determination, biochemical characterization and chemical biology to explore the most recent advances in the understanding of protein function and inhibition in microbial pathogens – both bacteria and parasites.

An exciting line-up of speakers will present their recent work in the area. Some of the confirmed speakers are:

• Chris Abell University of Cambridge, UK
• Gerald Spaeth Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
• Ed Tate Imperial College London, UK
• Maria Marco-Martin GSK Tres Contos, Spain

Take advantage of this opportunity to showcase your work alongside leaders in the field and submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation today. Through generous sponsorship from the RSC Chemical Biology Interface Division and the BSP there are bursaries available for early career researchers to support their participation at this meeting.

The oral abstract deadline has just been extended until 15 July 2016, and poster abstracts are welcome until 5 August 2016. For more information and to register please visit the conference webpage.

Congratulations to the Poster Prize winners at the 6th EuCheMS Conference on Nitrogen Ligands!

The winners are:

Sophie Laine (MedChemComm) – “Potential MRI Contrast Agent for Enzymatic Detection”

Neeladri Das (Chemical Science) – “Pyrazinc Based Tectons in the Self-Assembly of Finite Two­ Dimensional Supramolecular  Ensembles”

Nicole Kindermann (Dalton Transactions) – “A dicopper pyrazole/tacn system and its diOX) gcn chemistry”

Florian Schendzielorz (Dalton Transactions) – “A Well Characterized Osmium(IV)-Nitrido  Complex in a Square­ Planar  Coordination Geometry”

Charles Lochenie (Dalton Transactions) – “Synergetic effects between spin state change and fluorescent properties of Schiff base-like 3d metal complexes”

Amandine Conte-Daban (Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers) – “A new probe to determine the affini ty constant of Cu 2+ for A”

Yasin Kuzu (Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers) – “Planar ChiraJ 2-(N ,N-Dimethylaminomethyl)-1-(trimethyl­silyl)ferrocenyl Substitu ted Silanols,Silanolates and Siloxanes”

Maxim A Faraonov (Materials Horizons) – “Crystalline Salts with Radical Anions of Metal-containing and Metal­ free Pbthalocya nincs:Synthesis, Crystal Structures, Optical and Magnetic Properties”

The conference was held from 13th – 17th September in Beaune, France.  The conference aims to attract scientists with an interest in the field of metal-nitrogen ligand chemistry.  This year it also included these topics: the recent advances in the fields of coordination chemistry, metal-organic chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, and materials & catalysis.