News in 2024
- UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) Applications Open 12 February 2024 If you're an early career researcher, looking to establish yourself as an academic leader, the School of Chemistry is currently welcoming applications for the UKRI Future Leader Fellowships scheme.
- Dr Suresh Moorthy wins MRC Impact Acceleration Award 5 February 2024 Dr Suresh Moorthy, a postdoctoral research associate working in Professor Anthony Davis' group at the School of Chemistry, has obtained an MRC-funded Impact Acceleration Award worth £100,000 to progress transmembrane anion transporters as treatments for cystic fibrosis (CF).
- FMM Seminar: 'AI supported synthesis of 3D tissue models with cell fate inducing glycans' - 20th March 5 February 2024 Join us for a seminar from the Functional Molecules & Materials research theme, with Dr Laura Russo (University of Milano-Bicocca).
- David Naafs wins Stanford Science Fellow Visiting Professor award 1 February 2024 Dr David Naafs has won a Stanford Science Fellow Visiting Professor award to fund three months of research at Stanford University over the Summer of 2024.
- Students enjoy ‘mind-blowing’ trip to National Quantum Computing Centre 26 January 2024 School of Chemistry students Almudena Ravelo Guedez and Tom Braithwaite, who took part in the Aegis Professor undergraduate competition in 2023, were recently given the opportunity to visit the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) at Harwell.
- Bristol PhD graduate Maryam Bashir wins 2023 CSC Research Output award 19 January 2024 School of Chemistry PhD graduate Maryam Bashir has been selected as the winner of the 2023 Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) Research Output Award stream for her article examining the successful completion of a nine-step synthesis of the potent anti-Tuberculosis (TB) drug, Bedaquiline.
- Atmospheric Chemistry group funding for long-term UK greenhouse gas and ozone depleting substance measurements 15 January 2024 The School of Chemistry's Atmospheric Chemistry Research Group (ARCG) has secured funding for the continuation of long-term greenhouse gas and ozone depleting substance measurements in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of the UK Deriving Emissions linked to Climate Change network.
Melanie Roffet-Salque awarded £1m NERC grant for studying ancient milk consumption
Dr Melanie Roffet-Salque has been awarded a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Pushing the Frontiers grant worth £1m on milk consumption.
The project is entitled "NeoCalcium - Investigating milk consumption by Neolithic farmers using a novel Calcium isotope proxy".
This project will calibrate a novel and quantitative calcium (Ca) isotope proxy for individual milk consumption using Ca isotope composition of skeletal remains.
For the first time, this will permit direct assessment of the extent to which lactase persistence (LP) influences milk-drinking behaviour in a prehistoric context.
The NeoCalcium project is in collaboration with Professor Tim Elliott and Dr Jamie Lewis (School of Earth Sciences), Professor George Davey-Smith (Bristol Medical School) and Professor Mark Thomas (University College London).
The project is expected to start in August 2025 and run for three years.
Wuge Briscoe awarded funding to lead project on molecular interactions initiating dengue viral replication
Professor Wuge Briscoe has been awarded a three-year responsive mode EPSRC-SFI grant to lead a project titled “Understanding Molecular Interactions Initiating Adsorption of Viral Capsid Proteins on Lipid Droplets (MIrACLe)” alongside Professor Jian Lu (University of Manchester) and Dr David Cheung (University of Galway).
The grant (with an Full Economic Costing value of £1.33m including £266K contribution from Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI)) will aim to probe molecular interactions underpinning the initial step in dengue viral replication, bringing to bear quantitative experimental and computational methods in biophysics, soft matter, and colloid science to directly access molecular structures and interactions at complex interfaces.
The work in Bristol will focus on direct measurements using the surface force apparatus, complemented by X-ray and neutron scattering at UK and EU central facilities, to study the molecular mechanisms underpinning adsorption of the dengue viral capsid protein on the lipid droplet membrane.