News in 2017
- Bacteria development marks new era in cellular design 11 December 2017 Scientists at the universities of Kent and Bristol have built a miniature scaffold inside bacteria that can be used to bolster cellular productivity, with implications for the next generation of biofuel production.
- Bristol Chemists turn Beer into Fuel 7 December 2017 Chemists at the University of Bristol have made the first steps towards making sustainable petrol using beer as a key ingredient.
- Researchers from the School of Chemistry win Vice-Chancellor's Impact Award 1 December 2017 Congratulations to Wuge Briscoe and former MSc student Lizzie Mould who have won the Vice-Chancellor’s Impact Award for Business & Economy this year.
- Biology and chemistry combine to generate new antibiotics 29 November 2017 Combining the innovations of synthetic biology with biology and chemistry, a team of scientists from Chemistry and Biological Sciences have generated a brand-new platform that will allow the production of desperately needed brand-new antibiotics.
- Opportunities for tomorrow’s leaders in earth and environmental sciences 27 November 2017 Applications are now open for funded places on an exciting range of projects offered to PhD students at the University of Bristol on the themes of solid earth, living world and changing planet under the NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Programme.
- Let's Get Pyrotechnical - Matthew Tosh invited to host Guest Lecture 24 November 2017 The Pyrotechnics guest lecture, given by Matthew Tosh on 16th November, was an EXPLOSIVE success! With approximately 250 keen attendees in the audience, Matthew impressed with a variety of different firework techniques, showcasing a range of different colours, sounds and effects.
- Controlling growth of organic crystals with high-powered magnets could have major benefits for pharmaceutical development 17 November 2017 A Bristol-led, international project investigating a new method of controlling the growth of organic crystals, with potential benefits for pharmaceutical development, has taken a step forward with the opening of a new £1 million laboratory.
- Kieran Hudson Awarded Springer Thesis Prize 14 November 2017 Kieran Hudson has recently been awarded a Prestigious Springer Thesis Prize for his PhD thesis entitled ‘Carbohydrate-Based Interactions at the Molecular and the Cellular Level’.
- Bryan Bzdek awarded Friedlander award by the American Association of Aerosol Research 26 October 2017 Dr Bryan Bzdek, NERC Independent Research Fellow, has been awarded the Friedlander award by the American Association of Aerosol Research. The award was presented at their Annual Conference in North Carolina, which was held last week.
- Now a research associate in the School of Chemistry, Dr Julie Dunne started her career in a completely different field. 20 October 2017 Now a research associate in the School of Chemistry, Dr Julie Dunne started her career in a completely different field.
- Electroplating: the birth of a single nucleus caught ‘in camera’ 18 October 2017 Electroplating, or electrodeposition, is one of the most important processes in chemistry, in which a metal cation in solution can be reduced to its elemental form by applying an electrical potential to an electrode.
- Chemistry to go boldly into virtual world 16 October 2017 In David Glowacki’s lab at the university of Bristol, UK, molecules appear right in front of you in all their moving, three-dimensional glory.
- Diamond thin films: giving biomedical applications a new shine 11 October 2017 A recent paper by Professor Paul May and reviews a large body of data regarding the use of diamond substrates for in vitro cell culture as well as detailing more recent work exploring diamond-coated implants with the main targets being bone and neural tissue
- Success for the School of Chemistry at this year's Green Impact Labs Awards 29 September 2017 Teams from the School of Chemistry were awarded five out of twelve Green Impact Labs Awards, including the Organic Geochemistry Unit which won the Special Award for Innovation for Engagement
- Latest Issue of Chemistry Explored now available 15 September 2017 The latest issue of the Chemistry Explored is now available
- Poster Success for School of Chemistry Students at this year's ECIS Conference 14 September 2017 Two PhD students from the School of Chemistry have been awarded poster prizes at the 31st Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS).
- Nanostructural origin of blue fluorescence in the mineral karpatite 31 August 2017 Research from the School of Chemistry solves a decades-old mystery as to why a naturally-occurring organic crystal known as karpatite fluoresces blue under ultra-violet light, yet when grown under laboratory conditions fluoresces with an intense green colour.
- Bioinspired Artificial Phagocytosis 16 August 2017 Research led by Professor Steve Mann's group, featured on the front cover of Nature Materials.
- Study of protein cages strengthens Bristol’s position at forefront of synthetic biology 8 August 2017 Professor Dek Woolfson and colleagues from the Bristol BioDesign Institute have come together to study the self-assembly of protein building into protein cages, leading to new research which has potential applications in nanotechnology and synthetic biology.
- Structure of newly discovered antibiotics finally pinned down 31 July 2017 Scientists from the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol have revised the structure of baulamycins A and B by combining chemical synthesis, computational modelling and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
- Enantioselective Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Markovnikov Hydroboration of Unactivated Terminal Alkenes 7 July 2017
- Chemistry admin team win Green Impact Award 28 June 2017 Congratulations to Chemistry's admin team who have received their first Green Impact Award
- Scientists develop phagocytic protocells capable of the targeted delivery of enzymes 12 June 2017 Researchers from the School of Chemistry have designed a community of artificial cell-like droplets that collectively displays a simple form of phagocytosis behavior. The work provides a new approach to designing complex life-like properties in non-living materials.
- University of Bristol start-ups become first tenants at new Scientific Incubation Centre 25 May 2017 Two companies founded at the University of Bristol have become the first tenants to move into new scientific innovation centre, Unit DX.
- School of Chemistry Student awarded first prize at the RSC Nanoscience Conference 23 May 2017 Congratulations to Miss Sadiya Sheikh who has been awarded first prize for her poster at the RSC Nanoscience Conference
- Interrogating proteins 22 May 2017 Bristol scientists have designed a new protein structure, and are using it to understand how protein structures are stabilised. This research may help to design small proteins and small molecules that could be the basis for future biotechnologies and medicines.
- Carmen Galan awarded the 2017 RSC Carbohydrate Chemistry Award 17 May 2017 Congratulations to Dr Carmen Galan who has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Dextra Carbohydrate Chemistry Award for 2017
- Science festival sparking a love of chemistry in local school children 10 May 2017 Sparks are set to fly this Thursday and Friday at the University of Bristol’s Salters' Festival of Science. Over 100 students from 27 local schools will join for two days jam-packed with chemistry workshops and activities.
- RSC awards announced 8 May 2017 Many congratulations to Professor Varinder Aggarwal, Professor Ian Manners and Professor Dudley Shallcross who have all been awarded RSC prizes
- Aggarwal group publish in JACS 8 May 2017 Congratulations to Varinder Aggarwal, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Associate Mattia Silvi and PhD student Christopher Sandford for their recent paper in Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) entitled ‘Merging Photoredox with 1,2-Metallate Rearrangements: The Photochemical Alkylation of Vinyl Boronate Complexes’
- Catherine McIntyre through to the final of the 3MT Competition 8 May 2017 Well done to PhD student Catherine McIntyre (working with Richard Evershed) who took part in the semi-final of the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on Friday 28 April 2017
- Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing elected as Fellow of the Royal Society 5 May 2017 The School of Chemistry is delighted to announce that Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing has been elected as Fellow of the Royal Society for his outstanding contribution to science
- Chemistry student selected to present at British Conference for Undergraduates 2 May 2017 Congratulations to 3rd year undergraduate student Candice Ford who was selected to present the research she conducted during her summer 2016 Amgen Scholars internship at the British Conference for Undergraduate Research
- Organic & Biological Section Syngenta Poster Competition 2017 prize winners 27 April 2017 Congratulations to Siying Zhong, who won 1st prize, Romain Costil and Kate Porter Goff, who won the runner-up prizes, and Victoria Levario Diaz, who won the participant prize
- Woolfson group paper featured on the cover of Nature Chemistry 24 April 2017 Congratulations to Dek Woolfson's Group for their research entitled "A monodisperse transmembrane α-helical peptide barrel" which was featured on the cover of Nature Chemistry
- Enantioselective carbohydrate receptors published in Chemical Science 21 April 2017 Receptors showing chiral selectivity have been designed and synthesised by the Tony Davis group
- Banned industrial solvent sheds new light on methane mystery 19 April 2017 Congratulations to Dr Matt Rigby and colleagues for their paper entitled "The role of atmospheric oxidation in recent methane growth" which was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
- Krishna Mistry wins best talk at European Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry 13 April 2017 Well done to Chemical Synthesis CDT PhD student Krishna Mistry (working with Paul Pringle and Duncan Wass) who won a prize for the best talk at the 14th European Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry held recently at Cluj in Romania.
- Postrgrads attend University of Bristol's 3rd graduation ceremony in Beijing 13 April 2017 Congratulations to our Chemistry MSc by Research and PhD graduates who attended the University of Bristol’s 3rd Graduation in Beijing.
- Iterative assembly line synthesis of polypropionates with full stereocontrol 12 April 2017 Congratulations to Teerawut Bootwicha, Julian Feilner, Eddie Myers and Varinder Aggarwal who have published a paper in Nature Chemistry