Brasch Group News 2019
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December 2019: Dominique and Vinay present posters at the NZIC conference in Christchurch.
December 2019: Nicola attends the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery Symposium in Wellington.
November 2019: Jess is rewarded an A+ grade for her 3rd year research project. Well done, Jess!
October 2019: Fouad Ismael joins the group from Kurdistan, Syria, for his PhD studies. Welcome, Fouad! Fouad has been awarded a PhD stipend from the Dodd-Walls Centre.
October 2019: Vinay’s paper on 2-nitrobenzyl photocaged N-hydroxysulfonamides is published in the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A. DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2019.112033
September 2019: Dominique and Vinay are awarded Dodd-Walls travel grants to attend the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry conference in November.
September 2019: Jess is awarded a Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences Summer Studentship Award, to carry out a collaborative research project with Dr Brent Seale and Nicola this summer.
August 2019: Ruth Cink graduates with her PhD! Well done, Ruth!
August 2019: Anthony Giovengo passes his PhD oral defense! Well done, Anthony!
August 2019: Nicola presents an invited lecture at ICBIC-19 in Interlaken, Switzerland
July 2019: Nicola gives invited seminars at The University of Akron, Case Western Reserve University, and her former university, Kent State University, in the US.
July 2019: Nicola presents our photoactive HNO donors research at the Gordon Research conference in Photochemistry in Boston, USA
May 2019: Ruth successfully defends her PhD thesis, and receives the highest grade possible! Congratulations, Ruth!
April 2019: Our collaborator Professor Paul Sampson visits us from Kent State University, USA, and gives a seminar.
April 2019: Nicola is awarded a Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust travel grant.
April 2019: Dr Brent Seale and Nicola are awarded a Faculty of Health & Environmental Sciences seed grant to develop novel vitamin B12 analogues.
March 2019: Nicola is appointed an Associate Investigator at the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery.
March 2019: Our research on photoactive molecules that release HNO is highlighted in the Dodd-Walls Centre 2018 annual report.
March 2019: Photochemist Dr Arthur Winter from Iowa State University, USA, visits us and gives a seminar.
February 2019: Professor John Goodwin from Coastal Carolina University, USA, joins us for his sabbatical! Welcome, John!
February 2019: Nicola gives a research seminar at the University of Otago.
January 2019: Ruth, Vinay, Dominique and Nicola attend the Dodd-Walls Centre Symposium in Dunedin. Ruth and Dominique receive awards for their poster presentations!
January 2019: Ruth and Joe’s paper entitled “Stoichiometric Nitroxyl Photorelease Using the (6-Hydroxy-2-naphthalenyl)methyl Phototrigger” is published in Organic Letters. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b04099