News
2024
December:
While the students are finishing their exams, the Bode group is busy wrapping up work and getting ready for the festive season.
We wish everyone a good break, a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2025!
November:
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 has been accepted for publication by JACS.
Andreas Meyer from the Max Planck Research Group Electron-Spin Resonance Spectroscopy in Goettingen spends some research time at St Andrews with Katrin within the frame of their RSE International Joint Project – nice to have you here, Andreas!
October:
Bela spends a few days in Manchester with Christos Pliotas and his group, who have just had their brand-new Q-band installed - ready to measure!
September: We are at the very start of the new Academic Year – busy times ahead!
Bela and Katrin attend the EFEPR conference in Marseille – Bela gives a Keynote Lecture on the validation of AI-predicted structures using EPR, Katrin a contributed lecture on Cu(II) ions for PDS applications.
Yannik joins the group for the second half of his PhD – welcome at St Andrews, Yannik!
Kaitlyn Gillies joins the group for her final year project on structural modelling – welcome, Kaitlyn!
Jemima Price starts her project with Bela and Jason McNulty developing educational resources for Bela's inorganic spectroscopy lectures – welcome, Jemima!
Liza Liashchenko starts her computational project with Bela and Michael Buehl on organometallic catalysis – welcome, Liza!
August:
It’s conference season – Bela presents a talk at the 2024 Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Colorado, USA.
Bela also visits Sunil Saxena in Pittsburgh and delivers a seminar talk in the Chemistry Department.
Laura’s paper on the conformational flexibility of a fluoride riboswitch has been accepted for publication by Angewandte Chemie – well done and great collaboration with the Bennati lab in Goettingen.
Ellie comes over from Oxford for her second research visit – welcome back again!
A new PhD student joins the Bode group – welcome, Yichen!
Katrin gets promoted and is now "senior".
July:
Our EPR study on copper ion binding sites in human serum albumin has just been published by Dalton Trans. Great collaborative effort with Alan Stewart (School of Medicine, St Andrews).
June:
Sunil Saxena from the University of Pittsburgh visits the department and gives an exciting talk in the Chemistry School Colloquium.
It’s that time of year again – June means graduation time!
Hannah graduates with a BSc Biology and Chemistry, and is awarded the Astra-Zeneca Prize for her honours project with us (best Biological Chemistry project); she also wins a Medal in BSc Biology and Chemistry, and the Forrester Prize for the best graduating student of her class – many congratulations, well done!
May:
We have our annual CMR conference – Katrin presents a poster.
April:
Katrin and Bela spend a week in Thomas Prisner's lab in Frankfurt to do multi-quantum counting.
Hannah finishes her undergraduate project and passes her viva. Many thanks for the amazing progress made since September.
March:
Hannah presents her undergraduate research project performed in the group.
February:
Happy to report that we can finally get back to measuring at the Q-band spectrometer in Physics, which is back to work and humming along after several months of downtime for essential repairs.
A collaborative study from the White lab, the Gloster lab, and our lab at St Andrews on a protein involved in CRISPR antiphage defence has been accepted for publication as a “Breakthrough” paper by Nucleic Acids Research.
Another collaborative study, this time with the Pliotas group, on a mechanosensitive channel under cyclodextrin-induced membrane tension, has just been accepted for publication in Structure.
Ellie Tardo from the group of Lucile Moynie at the Rosalind Franklin Institute joins us for a research visit – welcome, Ellie!
Katrin has won an RSE International Joint Project Research Award together with Andreas Meyer (MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany) for their project on Cu(II)-19F distance measurements using ENDOR spectroscopy for structural biology.
January: We wish everyone a Happy and Healthy 2024!
A good start to the New Year: A collaborative research project on nanomolar distance measurements between Olav Schiemann and our group is accepted for publication in JPCL.
Aisika joins the group as first year PhD student - Welcome, Aisika!