The 14th Annual Tri-Institutional Chemical Biology Symposium took place on 11th September at The Rockefeller University in New York. The Symposium was a great success and we look forward to supporting it again next year.
The winner of the Chemical Science poster prize was Chen Chen, pictured below. Congratulations to Chen!
You can keep up to date with the plans for 2019 by following the TPCB website here.
The RSC Chemical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Group Annual Symposium 2018 was held at Burlington House, London on 6th-7th September. The Royal Society of Chemistry were delighted to support this event, which featured an excellent line up of speakers.
Congratulations to:
Qian Guo (Queen Mary University of London) on winning the Chemical Science poster prize
Amira Alazmi (KAUST) on winning the Nanoscale poster prize
Christopher Windle (University College London) on winning the Nanoscale Horizons poster prize
The Chemical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Group also offered an award for the best early career researcher talk. Congratulations to Jijia Xie (University College London) on winning this prize.
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| Qian Guo receiving the Chemical Science poster prize | Amira Alazmi receiving the Nanoscale poster prize |
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| Christopher Windle receiving the Nanoscale Horizons poster prize | Jijia Xie receiving the CNN group talk prize |
Well done to all of the prize winners from everyone at Chemical Science!
This August saw the occasion of the 14th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (EuroBIC), held at the University of Birmingham in the UK. With an excellent line up of internationally renowned plenary and keynote speakers the event was a huge success, attracting around 400 attendees.
The Royal Society of Chemistry was pleased to support the event, offering poster prizes of books and book vouchers. The winners of RSC vouchers were:
The following presenters also won the RSC Highly Commended Poster Awards:
Dalton Transactions associate editor Nils Metzler-Nolte (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) and Chemical Science assistant editor William King were on hand to award the prizes.
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| Raul Berrocal-Martin (left) receiving the Dalton Transactions prize from Nils Metzler-Nolte (right) | Ying Zhou (left) receiving the ChemComm prize from Nils Metzler-Nolte (right) |
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| Leon Jenner (left) receiving the Chemical Science prize from William King (right) | Gloria Vigueras Bautista (left) receiving a Highly Commended Poster Prize from William King (right) |
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| Riccardo Bonsignore (left) receiving a Highly Commended Poster Prize from William King (right) | Philip Ash (left) receiving a Highly Commended Poster Prize from William King (right) |
The RSC offers a hearty congratulations to all poster prize winners!
Next year the 19th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC 19) will be held in Interlaken, Switzerland – August 11th to 16th. The next European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (EuroBIC 15) will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in August 2020.
We are happy to present a selection of our HOT articles over the past month. To see all of our HOT referee-recommended articles from 2018, please find the collection here.
As always, Chemical Science articles are free to access.
Conformational selectivity and high-affinity binding in the complexation of N-phenyl amides in water by a phenyl extended calix[4]pyrrole
L. Escobar, A. Díaz-Moscoso and P. Ballester
Chem. Sci., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC03034K, Edge Article
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ZrMOF nanoparticles as quenchers to conjugate DNA aptamers for target-induced bioimaging and photodynamic therapy
Yuan Liu, Weijia Hou, Lian Xia, Cheng Cui, Shuo Wan, Ying Jiang, Yu Yang, Qiong Wu, Liping Qiu and Weihong Tan
Chem. Sci., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC02210K, Edge Article
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Oxidative dehalogenation and denitration by a flavin-dependent monooxygenase is controlled by substrate deprotonation
Panu Pimviriyakul, Panida Surawatanawong and Pimchai Chaiyen
Chem. Sci., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC01482E, Edge Article
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Biocatalyst–artificial metalloenzyme cascade based on alcohol dehydrogenase
Simone Morra and Anca Pordea
Chem. Sci., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC02371A, Edge Article
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Design and synthesis of a 4-aminoquinoline-based molecular tweezer that recognizes protoporphyrin IX and iron(III) protoporphyrin IX and its application as a supramolecular photosensitizer
Yosuke Hisamatsu, Naoki Umezawa, Hirokazu Yagi, Koichi Kato and Tsunehiko Higuchi
Chem. Sci., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC02133C, Edge Article
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Genome Mining, Isolation, Chemical Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of a Novel Lanthipeptide, Tikitericin and N-Truncated Analogues, from the Extremophilic Microorganism Thermogemmatispora Strain T81
Margaret A Brimble, Buzhe Xi, Emma Aitken, Benjamin Baker, Claire Turner, Joanne Harvey, Matthew Stott, Jean Power, Paul Harrs and Rob Keyzers
Chem. Sci., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC02170H, Edge Article
