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Chemical Science Lectureship 2015 – Yamuna Krishnan

21 Mar 2016

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2015 Chemical Science Lectureship – Professor Yamuna Krishnan, University of Chicago.

Yamuna is a Professor and Brain Research Foundation Fellow of Chemistry and the Grossman Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Chicago. She received her PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and pursued her postdoctoral studies as an 1851 Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, with Shankar Balasubramanian. She set up her group at the NCBS, Bangalore, in 2005 focusing on intelligent DNA-based molecular devices to interrogate cellular processes.

Selected honors include the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Sciences, the Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship, the AVRA Young Scientist Award, Associateship of the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award, the INSA Young Scientist Medal, the YIM Boston Young Scientist Award and she recently featured on Cell’s 40 under 40.

The Chemical Science Lectureship recognises sustained excellence in research by a mid-career scientist within the chemical sciences.
Previous recipients of this lectureship include Kevan Shokat (UC San Francisco; 2013) and Gregory Fu (Caltech; 2014).

Yamuna will give her first Chemical Science Lectureship talk on “Synthetic DNA devices quantitate protein activity in living organisms” at this weeks’ ISACS19: Challenges in Organic Chemistry conference at University of California, Irvine.

Her second talk will be on “DNA-based Fluorescent Reporters for Live Imaging”. We hope you can join her:

Monday 18 April 2016, 4:00 pm
Materials Research Laboratory, Room 2053
University of California, Santa Barbara

Check out Yamuna’s recent article in Chemical Science which is available Open Access:

Rational design of a quantitative, pH-insensitive, nucleic acid based fluorescent chloride reporter
Ved Prakash, Sonali Saha, Kasturi Chakraborty and Yamuna Krishnan
Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 1946-1953
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC04002G

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Join us in Brazil for Challenges in Chemical Renewable Energy

03 Aug 2015

It is just a few weeks until the International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences (ISACS) symposia take the series to Brazil for the first time.

Register by 1 September, 2015 to secure your place

We will have a lively programme discussing the current Challenges in Chemical Renewable Energy with researchers from across the globe, incuding:

James Durrant (Imperial College London, UK)

Eduardo Falabella (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and PETROBRAS, Brazil)

Marc Fontecave (Collège de France, France)

Hubert Girault (Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Ernesto R. Gonzalez (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Daniel Nocera (Harvard University, USA)

Erwin Reisner (University of Cambridge, UK)

Keith Waldron (Institute of Food Research, UK)

Karen Wilson (Aston University, UK)

Check out the full provisional programme on our website.

*Students, take advantage of a generous discount: $80 for Royal Society of Chemistry/Brazilian Chemical Society members and $90 for non-members!*

Our hope is that delegates will be exposed to new areas of research, encouraging the cross fertilization of ideas. We look forward to seeing you in Brazil!

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ISACS16: Challenges in Chemical Biology in Zurich

30 Jun 2015

Professor Shankar Balasubramanian gives the opening talk at ISACS 16

From 15-18th June, the lecture theatre at ETH Zurich was almost full as delegates from 26 different countries gathered to hear the latest research in the field of Chemical Biology as we continued our series of International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences.

Across the 4 days of the conference we were treated to a diverse range of topics, from the very beginnings of life as we know it with John Sutherland to the latest diagnostic markers in various stages of clinical trials with Annette Beck-Sickinger, Yasuteru Urano and others. We also enjoyed various contributions on the latest synthetic developments to smooth the process of discoveries and heard about the latest natural product being identified and their potential applications.

Presentation of the Chemistry World poster prize at ISACS 16

Helma Wennemers (Scientific Committee Chair) and Heather Montgomery (Deputy Editor) present the Chemistry World poster prize to Oliver ThornSeshold

Eugenio Indrigo with his Chemical Science poster prize certificate

We were delighted to have an enthusiatic participation in our “flash” poster presentations (just three minutes each) and overall around 80 posters were displayed and discussed during the event.

The Chemical Science sponsored poster prize was won by Eugenio Indrigo (University of Edinburgh) for his poster on “Palladium mediated chemistry in living cells, while the Chemistry World poster prize (and associated mug!) was won by Oliver ThornSeshold (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich). Congratulations to them both!

Peng Chen is presented with the 2014 Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator lectureship

The final talk of the meeting was the 2014 Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator lecture, given by Prof. Peng Chen (Peking University) entitled “Exogenous chemistry for intracellular protein manipulations” and was an impressive overview of the exciting work being done in his lab.

We look forward to announcing the next installment of the ISACS conference series on the theme of Challenges in Chemical Biology in the near future…

Can’t wait to get involved? Find out about the ISACS symposia still to come this year:

ISACS 17: Challenges in Chemical Renewable Energy
8-11 September 2015, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Early bird registration deadline: 20 July 2015

ISACS 18: Challenges in Organic Materials and Supramolecular Chemistry
19-21 November 2015, Bangalore, India
Poster abstract deadline: 7 September 2015

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Challenges in Chemical Renewable Energy: poster deadline 29 June

24 Jun 2015

Poster abstract deadline 29 June 2015

The poster abstract deadline for Challenges in Chemical Renewable Energy (ISACS17) is fast approaching. This meeting will cover a broad range of topics from solar fuels and molecular catalysis to biofuels and much more besides.

Don’t miss your chance to present your own research alongside some of the world’s leading experts in this important research area, including Daniel Nocera (Harvard University), Marc Fontecave (Collège de France), Karen Wilson (Aston University), Ernesto R. Gonzalez (University of São Paulo) and many more.

Submit your poster abstract today!

A provisional programme is now available on our website.Take advantage of our early bird discount and register now to secure your place at this exciting event. We look forward to welcoming you to Brazil.

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Prize awarded at Postgraduate Solar Fuels Symposium

27 Feb 2015

Chemical Science and Energy & Environmental Science were delighted to sponsor the Postgraduate Solar Fuels Symposium which took place in Edinburgh last month.

The winner of the prize for best oral presentation was Jan Rongé, University of Cambridge for his talk “Solar fuel from air and sunlight”.

Emily Glover of University College London and Wei Li of the University of Liverpool both received honourable mentions for their talks.

The best poster prize was awarded to Mark Forster from the University of Liverpool, for his poster titled “Elucidating charge carrier dynamics on advanced hematite (Fe₂O₃) photoelectrodes”.

Congratulations to the winners!

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Challenges in Chemical Renewable Energy – join us in Rio!

26 Feb 2015

Call for oral abstracts – deadline 27 April 2015

We invite you to join us at Challenges in Chemical Renewable Energy (ISACS17), which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 8-11 September 2015.

This conference will bring together leading scientists from across the world to share scientific developments in renewable energy generation and storage. The broad subject scope will provide an excellent overview of some of the key challenges within cutting edge aspects of this important, fast-moving research field, with plenty of opportunities for networking.

Themes include:

Solar Fuels and molecular catalysis
Photovoltaics
Biofuels
Battery technology and energy storage
Fuel cells

Submit your abstract today via our submission system.

You can find more details about submitting your abstract here.

Invited speakers:

James Durrant, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Eduardo Falabella, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and PETROBRAS, Brazil

Marc Fontecave, Collège de France, France

Ernesto R. Gonzalez, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Can Li, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China

Daniel Nocera, Harvard University, United States

Erwin Reisner, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Keith Waldron, Institute of Food Research, United Kingdom

Karen Wilson, Aston University, United Kingdom

The ISACS symposia are organised in partnership with Chemical Science. From 2015 all our content is Open Access so you can check out some of the latest freely accessible research in the broad field of Chemical Renewable Energy today:

Reversible photo-induced trap formation in mixed-halide hybrid perovskites for photovoltaics
Eric T. Hoke, Daniel J. Slotcavage, Emma R. Dohner, Andrea R. Bowring, Hemamala I. Karunadasa and Michael D. McGehee
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC03141E

Long-lived charge carrier generation in ordered films of a covalent perylenediimide–diketopyrrolopyrrole–perylenediimide molecule
Patrick E. Hartnett, Scott M. Dyar, Eric A. Margulies, Leah E. Shoer, Andrew W. Cook, Samuel W. Eaton, Tobin J. Marks and Michael R. Wasielewski
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC02551B

Ultrafast delocalization of excitation in synthetic light-harvesting nanorings
Chaw-Keong Yong, Patrick Parkinson, Dmitry V. Kondratuk, Wei-Hsin Chen, Andrew Stannard, Alex Summerfield, Johannes K. Sprafke, Melanie C. O’Sullivan, Peter H. Beton, Harry L. Anderson and Laura M. Herz
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC02424A

Oxygen evolution on well-characterized mass-selected Ru and RuO₂ nanoparticles
Elisa A. Paoli, Federico Masini, Rasmus Frydendal, Davide Deiana, Christian Schlaup, Mauro Malizia, Thomas W. Hansen, Sebastian Horch, Ifan E. L. Stephens and Ib Chorkendorff
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC02685C

Metal oxidation states in biological water splitting
Vera Krewald, Marius Retegan, Nicholas Cox, Johannes Messinger, Wolfgang Lubitz, Serena DeBeer, Frank Neese and Dimitrios A. Pantazis
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC03720K

Computational design of molecules for an all-quinone redox flow battery
Süleyman Er, Changwon Suh, Michael P. Marshak and Alán Aspuru-Guzik
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC03030C

A noble metal-free proton-exchange membrane fuel cell based on bio-inspired molecular catalysts
P. D. Tran, A. Morozan, S. Archambault, J. Heidkamp, P. Chenevier, H. Dau, M. Fontecave, A. Martinent, B. Jousselme and V. Artero
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC03774J

A facile route to electronically conductive polyelectrolyte brushes as platforms of molecular wires
Karol Wolski, Michał Szuwarzyński and Szczepan Zapotoczny
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC04048A

Catalysis of water oxidation in acetonitrile by iridium oxide nanoparticles
Jonnathan C. Hidalgo-Acosta, Manuel A. Méndez, Micheál D. Scanlon, Heron Vrubel, Véronique Amstutz, Wojciech Adamiak, Marcin Opallo and Hubert H. Girault
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC02196G

Tandem redox mediator/Ni(II) trihalide complex photocycle for hydrogen evolution from HCl
Seung Jun Hwang, David C. Powers, Andrew G. Maher and Daniel G. Nocera
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC02357A

Durable hydrogen evolution from water driven by sunlight using (Ag,Cu)GaSe₂ photocathodes modified with CdS and CuGa₃Se₅
Li Zhang, Tsutomu Minegishi, Mamiko Nakabayashi, Yohichi Suzuki, Kazuhiko Seki, Naoya Shibata, Jun Kubota and Kazunari Domen
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC02346C

Magnetic MOF microreactors for recyclable size-selective biocatalysis
Jia Huo, Jordi Aguilera-Sigalat, Samir El-Hankari and Darren Bradshaw
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC03367A

We hope you can join us for Challenges in Chemical Renewable Energy (ISAC17). Claudio Mota, Roberto Torresi and the rest of the Scientific Committee look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues to Rio de Janeiro!

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Challenges in Chemical Biology – oral abstract deadline: 23 February

22 Jan 2015

Oral abstract submission – deadline extended to 23 February 2015

We invite you to join us at Challenges in Chemical Biology (ISACS16), the 16th conference in the highly successful International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences (ISACS) series.

The conference will be held at the ETH, Zurich, Switzerland from 15-18 June 2015.

Take advantage of this excellent opportunity to showcase your latest research alongside the following leading scientists from across the globe – submit your abstract today.

Confirmed invited speakers:

Shankar Balasubramanian, University of Cambridge, UK
Annette Beck-Sickinger, Leipzig University, Germany
Peng Chen, Peking University, China
Dorothea Fiedler, Princeton University, USA
Kai Johnsson, EPFL Switzerland, Switzerland
Carsten Schultz, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
Scott Sternson, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
John Sutherland, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
David Tirrell, California Institute of Technology, USA
Yasuteru Urano, University of Tokyo, Japan
Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois, USA

We look forward to welcoming you to Zurich in June 2015.

Professor Hema Wennemers
Conference Chair

Dr Heather Montgomery
Deputy Editor, Chemical Science

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