Brasch Group News 2015
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December 2015: Harish’s paper on the reactions of reduced vitamin B12 derivatives with the HNO donor Piloty’s acid is published.
December 2015: Nicola is invited to give an oral presentation at the Australasian and Japanese Joint Meeting of the Societies for Free Radical Research (SFRR A+J) in Christchurch.
November 2015: Ruth attends the International Optical Society Network of Students’ Conference on Optics, Atoms and Laser Applications (IONS KOALA) at the University of Auckland.
November 2015: Nicola visits everyone at Kent State University! Overall a productive and very enjoyable trip!
November 2015: Joe, Saif and Anthony present posters on their research at the Ohio Inorganic Weekend, Bowling Green University.
November 2015: Nicola gives an invited seminar at Florida International University, Miami.
October 2015: Lynn Lisboa is awarded an AUT Summer Research Award from the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences to work with Nicola and Ruth on vitamin B12/HNO chemistry this summer.
October 2015: Anthony is awarded a KSU Graduate Student Senate (GSS) Research Award of $1,000.
September 2015: The newly renovated Chemistry lab is officially opened in the School of Applied Sciences at AUT. We’re finally in business! (Photo by Ruth Cink)
August 2015: Ruth is appointed as one of two co-organizers for AUT Applied Science’s Brown Bag Seminars.
August 2015: Our state-of-the-art laser flash photolysis LKS80 instrument is installed in the lab at AUT. This instrument is capable of collecting kinetic data of photoactive reactions in the nanosecond to second timescale.
July 2015: Professor Paul Sampson’s NSF Supplemental Funding Request is funded! This will allow both Paul and Joe to visit NZ in 2016 as part of our ongoing collaboration on photoactivated HNO donor molecules.
July 2015: Harishchandra’s paper entitled “Studies on the Reaction of Reduced Vitamin B12 Derivatives with the Nitrosyl Hydride (HNO) Donor Angeli’s Salt: HNO Oxidizes the Transition-Metal Center of Cob(I)alamin“ is published (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 3825).
July 2015: Joe is awarded a Schroer Travel Award from Kent State University to attend the Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Photochemistry at Stonehill College, MA.
July 2015: Harish accepts a position as Assistant Professor at Western Nebraska Community College in Scottsbluff, Nebraska! We wish you all the best, Harish!
June 2015: Ruth successfully defended her PhD research proposal (PGR9).
May 2015 Nicola gives a Colloquium at the University of Auckland.
April 2015: Sonya is awarded a Student Service Award from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Kent State University in recognition of her mentorship of undergraduate student leaders of the KSU Student Affiliates of the ACS Chapter.
April 2015: Anthony receives an Honorable Mention for the KSU Departmental Bush Teaching Award.
April 2015: Nicola gives an oral presentation at the Auckland Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry Symposium.
April 2015: Nicola visits and gives a seminar at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.
April 2015: Anthony and Joe present posters at the KSU Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society (ACS) poster session.
April 2015: Joe and Sonya give oral presentations at the Graduate Research Symposium at Kent State University. Sonya is awarded the Best Oral Presentation Award for the Physical Sciences Section at the 2015 Kent State Graduate Student Senate Research Symposium.
March 2015: Rohan’s article on the reactions of reduced vitamin B12 complexes with the carbonate radical is selected for the inside journal cover of Chemistry – A European Journal, and classified as a “Hot Paper”! (Chem – Eur. J. 2015, 21, 6409)
March 2015: Sonya is awarded a KSU Graduate Student Senate (GSS) Research Award of $1,250 and a KSU Graduate Student Senate (GSS) travel grant to attend the ACS National conference.
March 2015: Joe and Sonya travel to the 249th National ACS Meeting in Denver, CO. Joe presents a poster entitled “Synthesis and Photolysis of a Novel Family of Photoactivatable HNO Donors Using the (3-Hydroxy-2-naphthalenyl)methyl Photolabile Protecting Group,” and Sonya presents a poster titled “N-Hydroxysulfonamides RSO2NHOH as nitroxyl (HNO) donors.”
February 2015: Rohan accepts a postdoctoral position in the Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute, Department of Plant and Soil Science, at Texas Tech University. Congratulations, Rohan!
January 2015: Sonya is awarded a Younger Chemist Committee Leadership Development Workshop Award to attend the ACS Leadership Institute in Dallas, TX.