Goodbye Jenni!
All good things must come to an end at some point and Jenni’s time in the Paradisi’s group has sadly finished! Jenni will join Science Foundation Ireland to take up the position of Education and Public Engagement Fellow. Jennifer joined the group in September 2011 to start her PhD on an SFI funded project focussing […]
ChemCatChem Cover and Cover Profiles are out!
We are very happy with the front cover of our article which comes out in the October issue, have a look also at the “Cover Profile” which tells you a bit about how the collaboration with Prof. Molinari started and we loved about this project (click on the red text!) 2017 ChemCatChem profiles Related Posts
SIMB 2017, Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado
Fran was an invited speaker at the Annual Meeting organised by the (American) Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology. She delivered a lecture titled “High versatility of extremozymes in continuous flow biocatalysis” Abstract: We have investigated a variety of halophilic enzymes from halophilic organisms to date (the archaeon Haloferax volcanii and the halo-tolerant bacterium Halomonas elongata) […]
Biotrans 2017
Larah, Jenni, Martina and Benni with Fran at Biotrans 2017. We participated with 4 posters and one pitch talk. Great fun was had by all and the company was probably the best aspect of the Budapest experience. Related Posts
June 2017: Corbella Summer School Keynote Lecture
Keynote lecture at the Corbella Summer School on Organic Chemistry by the Boss was a success! Biocatalysis rarely makes an appearance at the more synthetic conferences, and it was great to get the invitation. Food, company, and weather of course make this one of the great events of the summer. Fun fact: the Boss attended […]
May 2017: Well done Larah!
Larah Bruen recently received a prize for “Best Talk” at the Third Year Talks Programme in University College Dublin. This annual event brings together third year PhD students from UCD, Trinity College and Dublin Institute of Technology to present their research to their peers, with prizes sponsored by Eli-Lilly. Larah’s presentation, entitled “Broadening the Scope […]
March 2017: Lab B11 road trip
A 600 miles route from Nottingham to Warwick let us enjoy the most famous UK places. After a 3 days tour across the prestigious colleges of Cambridge and Oxford, the prehistoric Stonehenge, the ancient Roman thermal baths in Bath, the fairy Warwick Castle we came back more tired but happier. Related Posts
June 2016: The Tromsø Experience
The Boss is just back from a trip to Finland and Norway. She met with Dr. Williamson in Tromsø to set up crystallisation trials for the transaminase from H. elongata and for the azurin with the carbene ligand. Hard to tell if we will be successful and we are in the hands of the Phoenix […]
August 2016: Big changes ahead!
The group will shortly officially move to Nottingham, and we will have a number of new researchers joining us, so we are growing. It will soon be time to update the “Who we are” page. Stay tuned! Related Posts
October 2016: Well done Anita!
Massive congratulations to Anita who successfully defended her thesis on the 4th of October 2016. Wishing you all the very best for your future, we will miss you! Related Posts