- PhD student Romain Costil wins award for best research talk 12 April 2017 Congratulations to PhD student Romain Costil who won an award for best research talk at the RSC Physical Organic Chemistry Postgraduate Meeting
- Jessica Hall wins award for best research talk at Annual PhD Review Day 12 April 2017 Congratulations to Chemical Synthesis CDT PhD student Jessica Hall who won an award for best research talk at the AstraZeneca Annual PhD Review Day
- Galan group publish in Chemistry: A European Journal 6 April 2017 Well done to Chemical synthesis CDT student Steven Street, Monica Berry (Physics), Novartis collaborators Donovan Chin and Greg Hollingworth and supervisors Juan Carlos Morales (Granada) and M. Carmen Galan on their recent publication in Chemistry: A European Journal.
- Research published in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 4 April 2017 Well done to Professor Tony Davis, Professor Matt Crump and former Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr Tiddo Mooibroek for their recent paper in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
- Michaela Reay wins runner up prize for her poster presentation at the NSPPS 4 April 2017 Congratulations to PhD student Michaela Reay working in the Organic Geochemistry Unit who won the runner up prize in the Staff Vote category for her poster presented at the 9th annual Natural Systems and Processes Poster Session (NSPPS)
- Rosie Falconer wins first prize at the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Poster Symposium 29 March 2017 Congratulations to Rosie Falconer (3rd year PhD student in the Russell group from the Synthesis CDT) won 1st prize in the PhD student category at the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Poster Symposium for the Dalton Division of the RSC
- Creation of highly magnetic material could improve computer technologies 14 March 2017 Scientists, led by Professor Ian Manners from the University of Bristol's School of Chemistry, have developed a facile route to a highly magnetic material that could provide fundamental improvements to the performance of current computer technologies
- PhD Students Phillippa Cooper and Jon Davies awarded JSPS Summer Fellowships 9 March 2017 Congratulations to 2nd year PhD student Phillippa Cooper and 2nd year Chemical Synthesis CDT student Jon Davies who have both been awarded JSPS Summer Fellowships
- Breakthrough research published in Nature Chemistry 8 March 2017 Congratulations to Professor Jonathan Clayden, with former PhD student Francis Lister and postdoc Dr Bryden Le Bailly (both of whom were Bristol undergraduates), plus collaborators in Manchester, who have found a way to mimic the way cells in living organisms ‘talk’ to the world around them by creating a world-first synthetic receptor which can respond to chemical signals just like its natural equivalent.
- Chemistry undergraduates win Colloid Group Presentation prizes 2 March 2017 Congratulations to our final year undergraduate prize winners
- Chemistry postdocs selected to attend the 67th Lindau Meeting 2 March 2017 Congratulations to Rebecca Musgrave, Saurabh Chitnis and Lipeng Wu who have been selected to attend the 67th Lindau Meeting
- Chemistry's Dr Bryan Bzdek and Katy Pellow to take their research to Parliament 2 March 2017 Congratulations to postdoctoral research associate Dr Bryan Bzdek and Chemical Synthesis CDT student Katy Pellow who have both been selected to present their work to a range of politicians and a panel of judges as part of the national competition, STEM for BRITAIN
- Galan group publish in The Journal of Organic Chemistry 27 February 2017 Congratulations to Dr Abhijit Sau, PhD student Ryan Williams, Dr Carlos Palo-Nieto and Dr Carmen Galan who have published a paper on "Cooperative Brønsted Acid-Type Organocatalysis for the Stereoselective Synthesis of Deoxyglycosides in The Journal of Organic Chemistry"
- Galan group catalysis team publish in Angewandte Chemie 27 February 2017 Congratulations to Carmen Galan, Postdoctoral Research Associates Abhijit Sau and Sandra Medina, Research Fellow Carlos Palo-Nieto and PhD student Ryan Williams for their paper published in Angewandte Chemie
- Dr Neil Fox featured on BBC’s The One Show 27 February 2017 Dr Neil Fox, from the School of Chemistry, featured on BBC’s The One Show demonstrating how diamonds can be grown in a lab
- Manners group publish in Nature Chemistry 24 February 2017 Congratulations to Professor Ian Manners, PhD student Charlotte Boott (Synthesis CDT), Research Associate Dr Jess Gwyther, Rob Harniman (Electron Microscopy Unit) and PhD student Dominic Hayward (BCFN) who have published a paper in Nature Chemistry
- Bristol chemists publish 'Very Important' paper in Angewandte Chemie 24 February 2017 Congratulations to Chris Willis, Tom Simpson, Matt Crump, former colleague Russell Cox, Postdoctoral Research Associates Shu-Shan Gao (former), Luoyi Wang and Zhongshu Song, Paul Race (Biochemistry) and collaborators at the University of Birmingham for their recent paper published in Angewandte Chemie
- Bristol chemists publish in Chemical Science 22 February 2017 Congratulations to Prof Jonathan Clayden, Dr Craig Butts, PhD student Michael Tomsett, former Postdoctoral Research Associate Bryden Le Bailly together with collaborators in Manchester and in Milan for their paper entitled ‘A Tendril Perversion in a Helical Oligomer: Trapping and Characterizing a Mobile Screw-Sense Reversal’
- New insight into enzyme evolution 10 February 2017 Congratulations to Professor Adrian Mulholland, Dr Marc Van de Camp who along with colleagues from the University of Waikato who have published a paper in Biochemistry
- Professor Odile Eisenstein gives 2017 Gordon Stone Lecture 7 February 2017 This year’s Gordon Stone lecturer, Professor Odile Eisenstein from the University of Montpelier, gave a lecture entitled "From Reactivity to NMR Physical Properties: The Example of d0 Olefin Metathesis" and held a Q&A session on Wednesday 18th January 2017
- Manners group publish Nature Materials 1 February 2017 Congratulations to Xiaoming He, former postdoc Ming-Siao Hsiao, PhD student Charlotte Boott (Synthesis CDT) and postdocs Ali Nazemi and Xiaoyu Li together with collaborators Rob Harniman (Electron Microscopy Unit, SoC) and Mitch Winnik (Toronto) for their recent paper published in Nature Materials
- Bristol chemists publish in Angewandte Chemie 1 February 2017 Congratulations to Postdoctoral Research Associates Yahui Wang and Adam Noble and PhD student Christopher Sandford working with Varinder Aggarwal for their recent paper in Angewandte Chemie
- Stereocontrolled Total Synthesis of (−)-Stemaphylline 1 February 2017 Congratulations to PhD student Ana Varela, Erasmus student Lennart Garve and former Research Officer Daniele Leonori working with Varinder Aggarwal for their recent paper in Angewandte Chemie
- Bristol chemists publish in Nature Geoscience 1 February 2017 Congratulations to Prof Rich Pancost, Research Fellow Dr David Naafs and collaborators at the Universities of Oxford, Exeter, Durham and also at Shell and the British Geological Survey for their recent paper in Nature Geoscience
- Predatory behaviour in synthetic protocell communities 25 January 2017 Congratulations to Dr Yan Qiao, Dr Mei Li, PhD student Richard Booth and Professor Stephen Mann for their paper "Predatory behaviour in synthetic protocell communities" which has been published in Nature Chemistry
- New research describes how bacteria resists ‘last-resort’ antibiotic 13 January 2017 An international research team, led by the University of Bristol, has provided the first clues to understand how the mcr-1 gene protects bacteria from colistin – a ‘last resort’ antibiotic used to treat life-threatening bacterial infections that do not respond to other treatment options.
- Bristol team through to the quarter finals of University Challenge 5 January 2017 Congratulations to Chemistry PhD student Micheal Tomsett and his Bristol teammates who have made it through to the quarter finals of University Challenge
- Earliest direct evidence of plant processing in prehistoric Saharan pottery 5 January 2017 Well done to Postdoctoral Research Associate Julie Dunne, Richard Evershed and collaborators in Italy and South Africa for their just published paper in Nature Plants
