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Protein-Protein Interactions 2019 was held at the University of Leeds from 4-5 April. The event was organised by SCI’s Fine Chemicals Group and the RSC Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector in association with PPI-Net, and is aimed at all scientists with an interest in the understanding or manipulation of protein-protein interactions. Chemical Science was pleased to support the conference along with MedChemComm, another Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

The Chemical Science poster prize was won by Lydia Dewis from the University of Bristol for her poster on ‘The Synthesis, Computation and NMR Spectroscopy to Design Conformationally Controlled α-Helix Mimetics to Inhibit Protein-Protein Interactions’.

The MedChemComm poster prize was won by Devon Legge from the University of Leeds for her poster on ‘A Chemical Approach the Interaction of Host and Microbe via Formylpeptide Signals’.

Congratulations to Lydia and Devon!

Chemical Science poster prize winner Lydia Dewis

MedChemComm poster prize winner Devon Legge

The 7^th UK Solar Fuels Network Symposium was held at the University of Cambridge, UK on 28^th – 29^th February 2019. The meeting was chaired by Professor Erwin Reisner, director of the Solar Fuels Network. Chemical Science were proud to sponsor the meeting, alongside Energy & Environmental Science and Sustainable Energy & Fuels, which are other Royal Society of Chemistry journals.

The meeting was an opportunity to bring together members of the Solar Fuels Network to meet up and discuss the latest advances in the field of solar-driven fuels research and provided an excellent opportunity for interaction with the rapidly expanding network of Solar Fuels researchers in the UK and beyond. The main meeting was followed by a half day post-graduate symposium at which PhD students and early career researchers had the opportunity to present their work. This meeting made up part of a larger ‘Solar Fuels Week’, taking place after the Artificial Photosynthesis Faraday Discussion and the Doppler Symposium.

Chemical Science Assistant Editor Carri Cotton was in attendance to meet with the delegates and represent the Royal Society of Chemistry. She also helped present a talk prize on behalf of Chemical Science and some poster prizes on behalf of Energy & Environmental Science and Sustainable Energy & Fuels:

• Chemical Science talk prize winner: Katarzyna Sokol
• Energy & Environmental Science poster prize winner: Hui Luo
• Sustainable Energy & Fuels poster prize winner: Alexander Kibler

Chemical Science talk prize winner, Katarzyna Sokol (left) awarded by Carri Cotton

Energy & Environmental Science and Sustainable Energy & Fuels poster prize winners Hui Luo (left) and Alexander Kibler (right)

Congratulations to all of the prize winners from everyone at Chemical Science!

The 19th Annual R. Bryan Miller Symposium was held at UC Davis, California on 28th February – 1st March 2019. The meeting was led by Professor Sheila David, Chair of the Miller Symposium Committee. Chemical Science was happy to support and sponsor the meeting, alongside Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, another Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

The Miller Symposium celebrates Professor Bryan Miller’s pioneering research, which laid the groundwork for the current thriving research programs in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the Department of Chemistry at UC Davis. Top speakers from the world of chemical biology shared cutting edge research results and perspectives on the future of biologically relevant chemistry research.

• Chemical Science poster prize winner: Jayashri Viswanathan (Olson Laboratory, UC Davis) for “Potential of Psychedelic Analogs for Treating Neuropsychiatric Disorders”
• Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry poster prize winner: Lee Dunlap (Olson Laboratory, UC Davis) for “Structure Activity Relationship Studies of Tryptamine and Phenethylamine Based Psychoplastogens”

Jayashri Viswanathan

Lee Dunlap

Congratulations to both prize winners from everyone at Chemical Science!

SupraChem 2019 was recently held at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, Germany and organised by Florian Beuerle and Organic Chemistry Frontiers Associate Editor Frank Würthner. Chemical Science was proud to support and sponsor the meeting, alongside other Royal Society of Chemistry journals Organic Chemistry Frontiers and Materials Chemistry Frontiers.

This free-to-attend meeting brought together supramolecular chemists from Germany and neighbouring countries and covered a range of topics from supramolecular machinery to materials and analytical techniques to host-guest chemistry and sensing. Keynote lectures were given by world-renowned supramolecular chemists Vivian W. W. Yang, J. Fraser Stoddart and, new Chemical Science Editor-in-Chief, Andrew I. Cooper. These speakers helped generate some great discussion alongside the additional 27 presentations and led to a very successful meeting.

Chemical Science Deputy Editor Jeremy Allen was in attendance to meet with the delegates and represent the Royal Society of Chemistry. He also helped present some poster prizes on behalf of Chemical Science and Organic Chemistry Frontiers:

• Chemical Science poster prize winner: Jonas Matern (Universität Münster) for “Insights into the complex self-assembly pathways of a chiral, oligophenyleneethynylene (OPE) based Pd(II) complex”
• Organic Chemistry Frontiers poster prize winner: Julia Bartl (TU Kaiserslautern) for “A cyclopeptide-derived molecular cage for anion encapsulation”

Jeremy Allen presenting poster prizes to Jonas Matern (Left) and Julia Bartl (Right)

There were a further 5 poster prizes awarded from other journals and publishing houses, these went to:

• Meike Sapotta (Universität Würzburg) for “A water-soluble perylene bisimide cyclophane as a molecular probe for the recognition of aromatic alkaloids”
• Irene Regeni (TU Dortmund) for “Self-assembled [Pd₂L₄] coordination cages based on well-known organic dyes”
• Oleksandr Shyshov (Universität Ulm) for “Supramolecular chemistry of all-cis hexafluorocyclohexane and its derivatives”
• Hendrik V. Schröder (FU Berlin) for “Accordion-like motion in electrochemically switchable crown ether/ammonium oligorotaxanes”
• Sebastian M. Kopp (Universität Würzburg) for “Toward singlet fission: chromophore multiplication in pentacene derivatives with adamantyl bridges”

(Left to right) Markus Albrecht, Jeremy Allen, Irene Regeni, Oleksandr Shyshov, Julia Bartl, Meike Sapotta, Jonas Matern, Diane Smith, Sebastian Kopp, Hendrik Schröder, Frank Würthner, Florian Beuerle

Congratulations to all the poster prize winners!

SupraChem 2019 delegates

The next SupraChem meeting will be held in 2021 in Mainz, Germany