News
2025
June: It's conference season!
To kick off this year’s conference season, Bela attends the 58th Annual International Meeting of the ESR Spectroscopy group of the RSC in London and gives a talk on the investigation of protein structure and function through paramagnetic substitution of native metal ions.
We have our annual CMR conference – Aisika presents a poster and Yannik and Katrin give talks.
Bela succeeds Sharon Ashbrook as Director of the CMR.
The next day, St Andrews Chemistry hosts the EaStCHEM Early Career Researchers Conference (ECECR), and Katrin is one of the local organisers.
May:
A busy May Exam period.
April:
Our project students are wrapping up their work and finish their undergraduate projects - Well done and many thanks for all your hard work.
March:
Katrin’s paper on native Cu(II) ion binding sites in human serum albumin contributes to the Dalton Transactions International Women’s Day 2025 collection to celebrate the contributions of women to inorganic chemistry.
Katrin spends almost three weeks at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Goettingen (Germany) as part of her Royal Society of Edinburgh International Joint Project with Andreas Meyer to learn more about fluorine ENDOR. During her research stay, she also gives a presentation in the Bennati group seminar.
Kaitlyn, Liza and Jemima present their research projects performed in the group as part of the Honours Project Oral Presentations in Chemistry.
February:
A busy month teaching and upgrading the chilled water supply for our EPR instruments.
Ellie joins us for another research visit from the RFI – welcome back, Ellie!
January: We wish everyone a Happy and Healthy 2025!
A good start to the New Year: Research on C-C oxidation in cyclodipeptides by the Melo Czekster group featuring some of our EPR has been accepted for publication by Nature Communications.
Research on the enantioselective organocatalytic rearrangement of allylic ammonium ylides from Andy Smith’s lab at St Andrews with some of Bela’s EPR measurements is now out in JACS.