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We are an EPR spectroscopy group based at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, UK. We specialise in measuring nanometre distances between pairs of paramagnetic centres and relating these back to the structure of biological systems. We are keen to develop the methodology too. Please have a browse, and e-mail if you want to know more.
What have we been up to?
Janet and also Siri Berge, Thomas Sayner and Sarah-Jane Twigg went to North Berwick High School to meet High School girls from across the East Lothian and chat to to them about Physics, careers and atoms!
Mind and Matter Science Discovery Day in St Andrews Today. Janet, Elena and also Thomas Sayner helped with the Size Matters exhibit. Lots of interest!
Mateusz Sowinski visited us this week from the University of the Arctic. Busy week of experiments! Here he is at the EMX desk and showing his nitroxide EPR signal tattoo.
Janet was internal examiner with Dr Paloma Dos Santos from U. Sheffield as external examiner for (Dr) Mina Riahi from Prof Ifor Samuel's group. Congratulations Mina!
Mina Rami from Prof Brian Smith's group visited today to explore the synergy between NMR and EPR for studying proteins.
Euromar 2024 in Bilbao, Spain. Janet gave an invited talk. Collaborator Shiny Maity one won of the IES poster prizes, congratulations!
Graduation Day! Congratulations to Hannah, Mike and Yujie for their PhDs. Congratulations to project student Olivia for her degree. What a great day for Electron Magnetic Resonance! Thanks to Dr Bruce Sinclair for the photos.
Janet and Rob Hunter visited our Padua colleagues Professor Marilena di Valentine and Dr Antonio Barbon this week to discuss our research plans and run some experiments.
Janet was the internal PhD examiner for Louise Finlayson today with Prof Lothar Lilge as external. Congratulations to Dr Finlayson!
Olivia King has her BSc viva today. Please see the Public Engagement tab for her storyboard explaining the physics behind MRI to the general public.
Janet is at the RSC ESR meeting in Warwick this week and is giving an Invited Lecture.
Mateusz Sowinski from the University of the Arctic Norway is visiting us this week to carry out some experiments.
The Burn weekend with our Junior Honours Year students.
Congratulations to Dr Taylor on passing his viva! Thank you to her examiners Dr Maxie Roessler and Professor Andrea Di Falco.
Congratulations to Dr Russell on passing her viva! Thank you to her examiners Dr Emma Richards and Dr Juan Varela.
Happy 2024! We welcome Olivia King into the group as our project student this semester. Janet was elected as the new Secretary of the International EPR Society (IEPRS or IES) over the holidays and will be taking over from the outgoing Secretary Prof Aharon Blank over the start of the year. Janet is also taking on the Atomic Physics lectures in PH4042.
Christmas lunch with the group (+ Maria) today. Pizza of course!
Outreach at Dunfermline's Woodmill High School for an IoP organised Girls into Physics event with multiple high schools in attendance. Took the Size Matters exhibit. Went really well and what a fantastic team of volunteers we had from St Andrews! Here's a picture of the team taken by Janet, and some interaction (with the children not pictured of course).
A busy semester has finished. One in which both Hannah and Mike handed in their theses and Janet examined another PhD thesis in Manchester. Elena went to Bonn to work with Prof Olav Schiemann last week, and Janet went out for a shorter visit, see the photo. Also last week Ronan Graduated! (See the other photo).
Paper out today in Organic Letters with Manos Broumidis who visited the lab to make EPR experiments with his compounds under different illumination conditions. Manos's supervisor is Professor Filipe Vilela at Heriot-Watt University and there are many other contributing authors. Title: The Photochemical Mediated Ring Contraction of 4H-1,2,6-Thiadiazines To Afford 1,2,5-Thiadiazol-3(2H)-one 1-Oxides.
Elena is at the European Federation of EPR groups summer school this week in Geneva. Well done to her for winning a travel grant from the RSC to cover the costs as well as being successful in her application to the School. Janet went out to Geneva for a St Andrews-Bonn collaborative meeting during the week too.
Ann-Kathrin Hoffmann has been here this week for her funded summer placement where she also went to Dr Marius Haugland in Norway. This marks a few days of Janet coming back into the lab.
Janet was promoted to Senior Lecturer today. Sadly her celebration on the actual day mainly consisted of going to the hospital for a check up on her broken ankle (broken on 20th July) and being very happy to hear that it is mending well.
This week we have had Professor Marilena Di Valentin and Dr Antonio Barbon visiting us from the University of Padova. We have been talking science and they both gave a much appreciated talk.
Multidisciplinary paper published in PNAS today with Anna Peacock, Melanie Britton and a team from St Andrews of Anokhi, Mike, Graham Smith and Hassane.
Our summer student Hannah Ruskin-Dodd is finishing today. To thank her for her time, and also celebrate Hannah Russell's last experiments and Elena's return from holiday we went for lunch earlier this week.
Mid summer solstice was celebrated by a morning of activities for members of the School, and a barbecue. We also had benches dedicated to the memory of Professor John Cornwell, Dr Kong Wan and Professor Malcolm Dunn.
Maria, Harry and Ayman Graduated today. Congratulations to them all.
Well done to Elena who has been awarded a grant from the RSC to attend the EFEPR Summer School in Geneva in September. Thank you to the RSC.
Paper with Marius and Mateusz (and others!) out in Communications Chemistry.
Janet is in Paris for EPR 2023 - International Conference on EPR Spectroscopy and Imaging of Biological Systems. She will be giving an Educational Lecture on Pulsed dipolar spectroscopy in biological systems.
What a week! Hannah Ruskin-Dodd joined the group for a 6 week summer project with us. Also papers accepted by Comm Chem on Monday morning, and another by PNAS on Friday afternoon. More info to follow on both at a later date since they are under embargo.
Well done to Ayman and Harry for finishing their projects and giving their viva presentations and "defences".
Congratulations to Dr Ronan Fisher on the successful completion of his viva. Thank you to Dr Paolo Annibale and Dr Christos Pliotas for examining him.
Elena gave the BSRC seminar today talking about new types of spin labels.
Congratulations to Hannah who was placed as Runner Up in the Jeol Student Talk Prize with her talk on the effects of pressure on Calmodulin-M13 as detected by DEER.
Elena, Hannah and Janet are in Leeds this week at the RSC ESR conference. Elena is giving a poster and Hannah is presenting in the JEOL Student Prize talk session.
Science Discovery Day in the School of Physics and Astronomy. We took over a whole room to deliver our Size Matters demonstrations and had a lot of great engagement from the public. Thank you to all the team which included Hannah and Elena.
Dr Alexey Bogdanov from the Weizmann Institute of Science is visiting us this week. On Thursday he gave a talk about their recent Fluorine to Gadolinium ENDOR in cell work.
The Burn Spring Conference for undergraduates is happening this weekend.
Ronan handed in his thesis, well done Ronan!
We took ``Size Matters'' to the IOP Girls in Physics Outreach event at Monifieth High School today. It was great fun talking about atomic and particle physics with the students from 10 different High Schools. Thank you to the team: Yoshiko, Chris, Hannah, Anish, Shyam and Simon.
Welcome to our Undergraduate project students Ayman Qureshi, Harry Alderman and Mengxuan Huang.
Maria successfully defended her thesis: Congratulations Dr Papa! Thank you to David Norman and Graham Smith for examining.
Paper on TiGGER with Songi Han and Mark Sherwin accepted by Angew Chemie. Really beautiful work and a great use for our gadolinium spin label made by Matthieu Starck and David Parker.
Maria handed in her thesis, congratulations!
Elena Mocanu and Janet go to visit Professor Daniella Goldfarb at the Weizmann Institute, Israel for a week. Janet gave a talk.
Maria Papa and Janet go to Padua, Italy to visit the lab of Professor Marilena Di Valentin for a few days. Janet gave a talk.
We welcome Matuesz Sowinski who is visiting from Dr Marius Haugland's lab for a fortnight's experiments.
We move back into the BMS which has reopened finally following the Feb 2019 fire!
Not work as such but Janet's 2 night Cub camp is this weekend - makes organising a conference seem easy!
School BBQ!
Active Bystander Training for staff. Organised by Janet, Vivienne Wild and Ian Bonnell. A successful session.
Richard Mills and Rachel Smyth graduated. Richard was presented with the prize for best BSc Project. Well done both!
The end of a great week. Thanks to all those that came and well done to all who presented and won prizes! In the group Ronan, Mike, Elena and Hannah presented posters and Maria gave her first international conference talk, great!
This week is the RSC ESR 2022 conference in St Andrews! This week Graham Smith will be presented with The 2022 Bruker Prize!
CMR conference. Hannah, Mike, Elena and Maria presented posters (in person). Janet gave an invited talk.
Hannah and Robyn's paper on comparing software methods for analysis DEER data is published today. Well done!
Janet is in Cardiff for the Cardiff Chemistry Conference on Monday and Tuesday. Great to be out and about again! And thanks to them for the invite to give a presentation.
Goodbye to Rachel, Richard and Ellie. Au revoir!
In person UG Spring Conference at The Burn house this weekend attended by JEL. Great talks, great atmosphere.
Janet gave an invited talk at the Undergraduate interdisciplinary science meeting which was held over the weekend. Thanks SISCO organisers for a great meeting and for inviting me to be part of it.
Elena gave her 4-month PhD talk today - well done.
Massolit lectures went live today. Available on this page. You can find the intro to mine (the lectures go more smoothly than the intro thankfully!) under Nobel Prize Winner Prof David Wineland ;)
Welcome to our UG project students: Ellie, Richard and Rachel. Here's Rachel and Richard in the lab with Ronan, Maria and Elena.
These last two days have seen Michael, Hannah (CDT conference) and Ronan (BSRC seminar series) give talks.
Paper with David Parker (Durham) and including Janet, Michael and Maria was accepted for publication in Chemistry: A European Journal today.
Today JACS accepted the Community (including Janet) White Paper: Benchmark test and guidelines for DEER/PELDOR experiments on nitroxide-labeled biomolecules.
Welcome to Elena Mocanu who is starting her PhD with us today.
Congratulations to Professor Graham Smith who has won the 2022 Bruker Prize!
This week is ISMAR in Osaka (virtual). Janet has an invited talk.
Congratulations to Ronan and Jo on the birth of their Son!
This week is EUROMAR (virtual). Hannah and Michael presented posters.
Today was the annual CMR meeting (virtual) which the group attended while Janet spent the day recording outreach lectures!
RSC ESR Conference in Virtual Cardiff. Hannah and Michael contributed talks and Maria and Ronan gave posters and flash presentations. Really well organised and great contributions. Next year St Andrews. For real we hope!
Congratulations to former group member Anokhi Shah who's son was born today!
The Bruker upgrade is taking place. Giving us a fully modern high power Q/X-band spectrometer, arbitrary waveform generation and ENDOR. Thanks to the BBSRC 19ALERT fund :)
Paper accepted by Applied Magnetic Resonance (Special Edition to mark the 80th Birthday of Professor Gareth Eaton) on comparing DEER and RIDME for measuring copper - nitroxide distances. Well done to Hannah (first author), Rachel Stewart (former project student) and our collaborators Vas and Chris, at UEA, and Thembi at Leeds.
Science Discovery Day. Social Media only this year. Janet used toys and mousetraps to describe nuclear fission in under two minutes.
Spring Conference weekend for our Junior Honours Years. Excellent contributions all over teams and a social on GatherTown.
Welcome to BSc Project Students Robyn Cura and Jasper Bailey.
Took delivery of the Bruker X/Q band upgrade hardware. Unfortunately no fitting as yet due to lockdown.
I am taking over as lead of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee in the School of Physics and Astronomy.
End of another busy semester! Not an easy one with restrictions in place but successful teaching, learning and research taken place nonetheless.
Paper accepted by Magnetic Resonance on measuring Gd - Gd distances more comprehensively with HiPER. Work led by Hassane, Rob and Graham but with Mike and I as some of the co-authors. Well done!
Janet presented ``EPR is a complementary technique in structural biology'' at the Congress on Structural Biology in virtual Toluca, Mexico.
BBSRC 19ALERT grant starts today. A collaboration over St Andrews and Dundee, led by Janet. We will get our Q/X-band Bruker spectrometer upgraded including an arbitrary waveform generator.
Two weeks into the teaching term, in-room teaching is commencing today.
Janet took part in the White Paper Workshop on DEER/PELDOR in virtual Bonn, Germany.
Yay, research commences in the labs. Yes it's weird and yes there's lots of new necessary rules, but also yes, research can begin again!
The research labs are starting to open back up. Janet went in to move a few things around and check out the situation. Research Ready!
Virtual Centre for Magnetic Resonance (CMR) meeting. Janet gave an introductory talk on EPR and the rest of the group gave flash presentations on their research. Nice to see what the NMR and Computational Mag Res people in St Andrews are doing.
Post-graduate presentation day lockdown style. Still a wonderful occasion with Maria and Mike giving talks and Ronan presenting a (virtual) poster.
Nathan and Peter both had their BSc project viva's today and both did very well. Best wishes for the future - May the Fourth Be With You.
Paper published with Dr Damon Huber and others in The Journal of Biological Chemistry discussing the role that iron may have in SecA and proteins who seem related but with as yet unknown function.
The group are working exclusively at their homes due to Coronavirus. Stay safe and well.
Science Discovery Day! Yes, that time of year again. Thank you to Ronan, Maria, Hannah and Nathan. Over 3000 people came!
Janet spent the week in London on the Royal Society Westminster Pairing Scheme. She learned about how science informs policy makers and had the opportunity to shadow Wendy Chamberlain MP.
Welcome to Dr Angeliki Giannoulis who is visiting us for the week from Prof Daniella Goldfarb's group at the Weizmann.
Janet hosted Wendy Chamberlain MP in the morning. She was shown the new, temporary biology labs (WRL) which are now fully functional after the BMS fire and given a tour of some of the exciting experimental physics here.
Janet visited Prof Ed Anderson and his group in Oxford. Best wishes to Dr Marius Haugland who is about to embark on his independent research career in Norway.
Web publication of a joint research paper with Prof Ed Anderson and many others published in Nucleic Acids Research today. We show that 2'alkynl positions in duplex DNA can be spin labelled with minimum structural perturbation.
After a very busy term for the group Hannah, Michael, Maria and Ronan are about to go to Brno for the EFEPR winter school on EPR. Professor Sabine Van Doorslaer is visiting and giving the colloquium in Physics tomorrow. Last week Dr Anna Peacock visited and gave the Chemistry colloquium. Aimee has made a short film presentation of her summer research project and this can be found here: Research.
Good bye and best wishes for your future to Elena who has been here for her Erasmus+ project.
Today we have a Structural Biology Meeting in St Andrews. Janet is giving a talk on the ability to use EPR in structural biology and the facilities here in St Andrews.
We welcome Hannah Russell to the group for her PhD.
Janet is attending the CCPN conference in Leicester this week and is giving a talk titled EPR as a Complement to NMR.
We welcome Yujie Zhao into the St Andrews Physics EPR grouping as Graham’s new PhD student.
Congratulations to Mike and Fiona on your marriage!
Janet is in Denver at the 60th Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance this week. She will be giving a talk titled New spin labels and spin labeling methods.
Welcome to Elena-Mihaela Mocanu who is visiting our lab from Romania on the Erasmus+ programme.
Welcome to Dr Akiva Feintuch who is visiting this week from the Weizmann Institute as part of our Royal Society International Exchanges Grant. Below is a photo of Akiva, Prof Graham Smith and Dr Rob Hunter during a beautiful evening in St Andrews.
Today we say good bye to Aimee for the summer, have a good break and see you in the Fall!
Ronan got a bit star struck meeting Professor Jim Al-Khalili who was also receiving an Honourary Degree from St Andrews.
JEL is visiting Professor Daniella Goldfarb and her group at the Weizmann Institute in Israel this week as the first leg of a Royal Society International Exchanges Grant. Lots of EPR fun and good food, and even a bit of Tel Aviv tourism as well as giving a talk.
Bidding farewell to Anokhi who is leaving now for an Internship a BASF in Germany and Yogini who finished her Batchelor’s project today. What better way to wish them well than a picnic on the beach?
Well done to Ronan won the second place prize in the 2nd year post graduate talks.
Welcome to Aimee Bebbington who is working with us as part of her Laidlaw Scholars Programme.
Congratulations to Dr Anokhi Shah who passed her PhD viva today with Dr Alistair Fielding (Liverpool John Moores University) and Dr Carlos Penedo examining.
We welcome Anokhi back to the lab for a short post-doc today!
This week Ronan, Maria, Michael and Janet are attending the 52nd RSC ESR conference in Glasgow. Dr Claire Motion was awarded the highly prestigious Bruker Thesis Prize and gave an excellent presentation about her PhD work.
We went to Kirkcaldy West Primary School today and had a lot of fun with the P5 to P7 classes learning about electrons.
Science Discovery Day Shenanigans in St Andrews. Over 1300 people thought the doors so a super busy day. Thanks to all the team on Atomic Colour.
Anokhi’s paper with our collaborators in Durham and Dundee on a new Gadolinium spin label has been published in Inorganic Chemistry today. Well done!
Congratulations to Ronan and his new wife Jo on their wedding today!
Sadly last night the building which we had biology and chemistry laboratories in was on fire. Our labs seem to be very badly water damaged. Thankfully no-one was hurt. At the risk of sounding cheesy: We shall rise like a Pheonix. (yes that is a Eurovision reference)
Welcome to Yogini Vassaramo who will be undertaking her Undergraduate Project with us.
Kick-off meeting of the Scottish High Field NMR facility in Edinburgh. Also a chance to catch up with Dr Marius Haugland before he heads back to work with Prof Ed Anderson in Oxford.
Visit Prof David Parker and Dr Matthieu Starck in Durham.
Happy New Year! Great start: our work with Prof Ian Collinson has been accepted for publication in eLife.
Group Christmas Lunch!
Janet was the external examiner for a PhD in Manchester.
Maria and Janet visited Prof Ed Anderson in Oxford.
Today we say goodbye to Kathrin Rieken and wish her the best for her Masters. Keep in touch!
We start a collaborative grant from the BBSRC, led by Prof Ed Anderson (Oxford).
Janet is attending the APES-IES conference in Brisbane this week and will talk about Using the Rare Earth Elements Yttrium and Gadolinium as Spin Labels.
Welcome to Michael Taylor who starts his PhD on the CM-CDT with us today.
Welcome to Kathrin Rieken who is visiting us from the University of Augsburg with the DAAD-RISE scheme.
Anokhi is spending the week at the Diamond Light Source with our collaborator Dr Anna Peacock.
Anokhi is attending and giving an oral presentation at the Rocky Mountain Conference on EPR at Snowbird in Utah this week.
Congratulations to Anokhi and her partner Vishal who were married today!
Paper on using EPR to measure distances between two non-covalently bound endohedral fullerenes containing Yttrium atoms accepted by JACS. A collaborative effort between St Andrews, Oxford, London and Lincoln Universities that has been 8 years in the making, but what a beautiful result!
Welcome to Maria Papa who starts her PhD with us today.
Ronan is visiting the University of Manchester for their excellent residential EPR course.
Good bye and best wishes for your future to Elise, Rachel and James: It’s been a a pleasure to have you working with us.
We start a Carnegie Trust Research Incentives Grant today.
Anokhi, Ronan and Janet attended the 51st RSC ESR meeting at Queen Mary’s University London.
Janet, Anokhi, Ronan and Rachel spent the day at Sinclairtown Primary School with P4-7 with the Atomic Colour demonstrations.
Janet, Ronan, James, Elise and Rachel and Connor Grose (from Brendon Lovett’s group) demonstrated Atomic Colour, an introduction to quantisation, at the Physics and Astronomy Science Discovery Day (photos can be found in the Public Engagement section).
Janet braved the snow and attended a very enjoyable Junior Honours Year Conference at The Burn in Angus.
Janet helped out over three days at a hands-on physics roadshow for S1 pupils (organised by Prof Ian Bonnell) at Madras College in St Andrews.
Welcome to our project students Rachel Stewart, James Adams and Elise Jacobs who are joining us for the semester.
Janet took part in a STEM Careers Event at Auchmuty High School in Glenrothes.
Welcome to new PhD student Ronan Fisher.
Paper with Alice Bowen, Jeff Harmer, Chris Timmel and others has been accepted by JACS, title: A Structural Model of a P450-Ferredoxin Complex from Orientation-Selective Double Electron-Electron Resonance Spectroscopy. Janet also acted as an external examiner for PhD Defence at the University of Iceland today.
Well done to Claire (henceforth, Dr Motion) who passed her Viva with Dr Maxie Roessler as external examiner. Meanwhile, Janet participated in the BISON H2020 Workshop at UEA in Norwich.
Chemical Society Review Tutorial Review article out today, co-authored with Dr Marius Haugland and Professor Ed Anderson. Highlighted as a HOT article and therefore free to access until 5th January 2018. Also, Dr Graham’s Smith EPSRC funded research grant, with Janet as a Co-I, starts today. Title: Meeting the Sensitivity Grand Challenges in Pulsed Electron Magnetic Resonance.
Janet is attending Spin2017 in Padua and will be presenting the base-independent click labelling of nucleic acids.
Anokhi is in Manchester this week attending an EPR workshop and a mini-symposium.
We welcome Andrew Stewart for a visit from Manchester this week. He is finishing his PhD now and heading off to Emory in the US for a PostDoc with Prof Kurt Warncke. Best wishes!
Janet is in Quebec City for the ISMAR and Rocky Mountain EPR meeting.
Anokhi attending the IUPAB and EBSA biophysical meeting.
Prof Ian Collinson and Dr Robin Corey from the University of Bristol visited.
Paper with Tilo Kunath and Nicola Drummond (Edinburgh, Centre for Regenerative Medicine) has been accepted by Scientific Reports.
Well done and best wishes for the future to Ed Stirrup and Lauren Macleod who handed in their BSc projects today. Keep in touch!
Congratulations again to Claire Motion who won (again!) a poster prize at the RSC ESR conference.
The 50th RSC ESR conference in Oxford this week.
Congratulations to Claire Motion who has had her paper describing the application and use of composite pulses in high field DEER published online by Journal of Magnetic Resonance today.
We made Atomic Explorers of the P5/6/7 classes at Parkhill Primary School in Leven with a new hands on exhibition including kinder eggs, flame tests, spectroscopes, circuits and a game called Escape the Atom! PhD students Anokhi Shah and Connor Grose (from the BWL group) provided invaluable support and the children and teachers were great!
JEL went to The Burn Conference at the weekend with the Junior Honours Year. Lots of great talks and socials and beautiful landscape on the Aberdeenshire/Angus border.
Paper with Tilo Kunath and Nicola Drummond has gone on the BioRxiv. EPR is used to show the relative ability of antioxidants compared to the novel Proxison for radical scavenging. Proxison is then shown to have significant potency at protecting and rescuing damaged neural cells. Available here.
The RSC’s SPR series Electron Paramagnetic Resonance: Volume 25 has been published. This includes a review of the nitroxyl spin label by Marius Haugland, Ed Anderson and JEL.
Congratulations to (Dr) Marius Haugland from Prof Ed Anderson’s group (Oxford) who passed his DPhil viva today.
JEL is a co-organiser, with Prof Takafumi Ueno (Tokyo Institute of Technology), of the 2nd UK-Japan Frontiers of Science Meeting. Exploring cutting edge research across STEM and seeing the common problems and aims. As well as making great friends. The Chemistry/Materials section featured Drs Hiroshi Ishikita (Univ Tokyo), Mio Kondo (IMS, Okazaki) and Libby Gibson (Univ. Newcastle).
Welcome to Ed Stirrup and Lauren Macleod who join the group as project students.
Anokhi and Claire are taking part in the XX-factor at Explorathon at the Byre Theatre tonight!
The Lovett Lab joined twitter: @SpinLovett. Brendon Lovett’s new look website was launched, which may look familiar.
Work with Tom Brown and Ed Anderson’s groups in Oxford which demonstrates new ways to click a wide variety of spin labels onto DNA has been published as a JACS Communication.
Well done to Dr Stacey Bell who graduated today!
Paper on the synthesis of next generation maleimide spin labels has been accepted by SynLett. Big congratulations to Bouchra for this and thanks also to the co-authors: Anokhi, Stacey, Sally Shirran, Catherine Botting, Alex Slawin and Alison Hulme (all authors are women).
On the day that Anokhi handed in her first year report - very well done - JEL visited Queen Anne’s High School, Dunfermline to Speed Network with year S2. Enjoyable and exhausting!
JEL visited Professors Kálai and Sár in Pécs, Hungary. A talk was given, a grand tour of the city was undertaken and JEL got a peek at a few of the 4850 different nitroxides they have made! Thank you to Tamás and Cecilia for hosting so well and to Professor Kálmán Hideg for the invitation.
Claire and JEL took part in the Symmetries in Light exhibition at the Byre Theatre to celebrate the great David Brewster and enjoy hundreds of kaleidoscopes brought over from Japan. A fascinating exhibit which included a kaleidoscope inside a model of a Tapir!
RSC EPR conference in Colchester. Very enjoyable week. JEL gave an invited talk about new methods of spin labelling and Anokhi and Claire presented posters. Claire won a poster prize, well done!
Claire’s paper is out. (not an April Fool)
Claire’s paper, with Stacey and JEL, which discusses the application of composite pulses on HiPER to increase the viability of measuring nitroxide to heme distances, has been accepted by the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Much deserved Claire!
Anokhi presented her research to 100 11 year olds at the Byre Theatre as part of the XXFactor.
JEL gave a talk to the Chemistry Department at the University of Birmingham and enjoyed meeting and discussing science with Dr Anna Peacock and her student.
JEL attended Parent Carer Scientist event at the Royal Society in London. Many inspirational people there! #AndAScientist
Alice’s paper is out: DOI 10.1039/C5CP06096F
Welcoming Erin Austin into the group for her undergraduate project. She will be using HiPER for orientation selection studies.
MAGIC meeting in Manchester. Good to see such great progress from all the students.
JEL visited Marius Haugland, Edward Anderson and Tom Brown in Oxford. A very productive day!
Happy New Year! Congratulations to the wonderful Alice Bowen who had a paper accepted by PCCP just before Christmas (title: Exploiting orientation-selective DEER: determining molecular structure in systems containing Cu(II) centres; authors: Alice Bowen, Michael Jones, JEL, Thembi Gaule, Mike McPherson, Jon Dilworth, Chris Timmel and Jeff Harmer).
We welcome Andrew Stewart for a visit from Manchester this week.
Congratulations to Stacey Bell for passing her PhD viva today. Examined by Dr Andrea Di Falco and Professor Robert Sim.
Beginning to build the group website now we are in St Andrews.