The 67th Irish Universities Chemistry Research Colloquium took place at Maynooth University on the 25-26th of June. As always the colloquium highlighted the outstanding research being conducted by the best and brightest of Ireland’s young chemists at third level institutions across Ireland. A brilliant time was had by all students from the group who attended. Well done to Catherine Tighe for her poster presentation and to Chris Nottingham for his excellent oral presentation.

Well done the third year PhD students Chris Nottingham, Denise Moran, Catherine Tighe and Mark Jackson who all presented their research at the Dublin Chemistry Third Year Talks Day on the 3rd of June. Congratulations to Catherine and Denise who were both awarded prizes for their presentations.

The 40th Annual Congress of the Institute of Chemistry Ireland- ‘Modern Approaches to Asymmetric Synthesis’ took place on the 30th of April here in UCD. Well done to Chris Nottingham, Denise Moran, Catherine Tighe and Mark Jackson who presented  posters. Particular congratulations to Pat for delivering a great presentation on the day and to Catherine Tighe who received a prize for her poster

 

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Goodbye to Dr. Jesus Iglesias from Gadea Pharmaceutical Group (Valladolid, Spain) who spent three months working here as part of the Marie-Curie Industry-Academia Pathways and Partnerships grant award. Catherine Tighe spent the summer working on this project out in Spain, and Denise Moran looks forward to her placement next summer. We hope you enjoyed your time with us, come back and visit anytime!

 

  

The CSCB Symposium- ‘Recent Advances in Synthesis and Chemical Biology XIII’ took place on Friday 12th of December here in UCD. Brilliant talks were delivered by Professor Steve Buchwald (MIT), Professor Rebecca Goss (St. Andrews), Professor Guy Lloyd-Jones (Edinburgh),  Professor Joost Reek (Amsterdam) and Professor Dirk Trauner (LMU Munich). Well done to Joseph Breheny, Tina McSweeney, Mark Jackson, Cian Kingston, Dr. Ramu Akula and Chris Nottingham who presented posters. Thanks to all involved in the organisation of the day.

 

 

Well done to the group on a very successful midterm review of the SFI funded Lipoxin project. Keep up the good work!

Congrats to Cian Kingston and Dr. Ramulu Akula on winning the poster prize for strand 1 at the SSPC (Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Center) September technical meeting hosted by UCD.

Congratulations to Dr. Steven O’Reilly who has just passed his Viva!

Steven worked on a variety of catalysis projects throughout his PhD and has submitted his thesis entitled “New Oxazoline-Containing Ligands for Asymmetric Catalysis”.

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Doran on passing his Viva!

Robert developed new methodology for asymmetric transformations and applied this methodology in the synthesis of natural products. He has submitted his thesis entitled “The synthesis of lactone-containing natural product analogues and the catalytic asymmetric synthesis of sterically hindered alpha-aryl ketones”.