Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Blog

European-Winter School on Physical Organic Chemistry (E-WiSPOC)

31^st January – 5^th February 2016, Bressanone, Italy

OBC is pleased to support the European-Winter School on Physical Organic Chemistry (E-WiSPOC) 2016.

The topic for 2016 is – Functional Surfaces in Chemistry and Biology.

Lectures will be speaking on a variety of subjects, including:

• Francesco Zerbetto – Theoretical and computational chemistry (University of Bologna)
• Maria Ramos – Computational biochemistry (University of Porto)
• Maria Minunni – Surface plasmon resonance (University of Firenze)
• Chris Hunter – Physical organic chemistry and biomolecular interactions (University of Cambridge)
• Bart Ravoo – Biological and supramolecular system (University of Muenster )
• Jurrian Huskens – Biomolecular adhesion and tissue engineering (University of Twente)
• Alessandro Casnati – Bioorganic and supramolecular chemistry (University of Parma)
• Zoltan Takats – Ambient mass spectrometry (Imperial College London)

The school,which is part of the cultural initiatives of the Organic Division of the Italian Chemical Society, is open to PhD students and post-docs.

For information visit the e-wispoc website: www.chimica.unipd.it/wispoc or write to: wispoc.chimica@unipd.it

Congratulations to all the  prize winners at the Heterocyclic and Synthesis Group Postgraduate Meeting.

The symposium took place on the 10th September 2015. It provides an opportunity for final year PhD students to present talks and posters.

The winners were:

Patrick Brown (Best talk prize) – Biomimetic Synthesis of Dimeric Phenylethanoids

Lee Eccleshare (Best flash presentation prize) – A Novel, One-Pot, Multi-Component Synthesis of Fused 8-Membered Carbocycles

Catherine Holden (Best poster prize) – TheBenzyne Smiles Reaction: A Transition Metal Free Biaryl Synthesis

Patrick Brown

Lee Eccleshare

Catherine Holden

The prizes were presented by Dr Andrew Williams of Eli Lilly.

Congratulations to all the Poster Prize winners at the RSC Organic Division Poster Symposium 2015.

©Royal Society of Chemistry / MPP Image Creation

We are pleased to present the prize to these winners:

First Prize – Hiroki Wada
(University of Nottingham)

Second Prize – Keith Andrews & Giacomo Crisenza
(University of Nottingham & University of Bristol)

Industry Prize – Joanna Sadler
(University of Strathclyde)

Participants Prize – Jorge Gonzalez
(University of Edinburgh)

Organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the symposium took place in London on the 30th November 2015.

The symposium provides a fantastic opportunity for final year organic chemistry PhD students to showcase their research and network with their peers, leading academics, and industrial chemists.

In the words of the winner:  “This event provided me a great opportunity not only to learn cutting edge organic chemistry and biochemistry, but also to network with academics and industrial researchers. I feel that the event showcases the shift from traditional small molecule medicinal chemistry to biologically and nature orientated chemistry, and it was really interesting to observe this and also to contribute to it.  It was an invaluable experience meeting and discussing my work and theirs with many world leading scientists.”  (Hiroki Wada)

Congratulations to the Poster Prize winners at the 9th Symposium on Biorelevant Chemistry.

We were please to present the prize to these winners:

• Ayaka Nakashima (Nagoya University)
• Kotaro Nishiyama　(University of Tokyo)
• Hayato Kawai (Nagoya University)
• Takeya Shou (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Takayuki Miki（Kyoto University）

Organized by the Chemical Society of Japan, the Biorelevant Chemistry Symposium took place from 10-12^th Sept in Kumamoto, Japan.

From left to right: Professor Rie Wakabayashi (Poster award committee co-chair), Professor Hiroyuki Asanuma (Poster award committee chair), Ayaka Nakashima, Kotaro Nishiyama , Hayato Kawai , Takeya Shou , Takayuki Miki, Professor Masahiro Takagi (Chair of the Division of Biotechnology, Chemical Society of Japan), Professor Itaru Hamachi (Vice-Chair of the Division of Biofunctional Chemistry, Chemical Society of Japan).