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CSCB student wins at 61st Chemistry Colloquium
Anja Glinschert, a PhD student with Professor Stefan Oscarson of the CSCB, won best oral presentation at the 61st Annual Chemistry Colloquium, held at DIT on June 17-19, for her talk entitled 'Synthesis and Interaction Studies of Mannose Gold Nanoparticles with the E. coli Lectin FimH ’.

Inaugural NMR Meeting
The inaugural Irish NMR Meeting, organised by CSCB and UCD Conway fellow Dr Chandralal Hewage, took place on 7th May 2009 at the UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science. The aim of this meeting was to provide an opportunity for scientists working with NMR in Ireland to get together to discuss recent advances in the field of NMR technology. Biological NMR has played a major role at UCD for more than two decades and Structural Biology is now one of the main thematic research areas of the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science at UCD.

AccesScience '09 Final
Sabrina Devereux, a 3rd year PhD student with Dr Francesca Paradisi of the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, UCD Conway Institute and UCD School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, came 2nd overall in this year's AccesScience final with her talk entitled “What a Waste???”. Sabrina’s work centres on finding ways to deal with the 91,000 tonnes of solid waste generated from prepared potatoes in Ireland each year; enough to fill 1,200 Boeing 737 airplanes. The audience vote judged Sabrina best out of the 7 speakers.

AccesScience ’09 – CSCB Internal Heat
The CSCB internal heat for AccesScience ’09 was held on 20th February 2009 in the CSCB Seminar Room. The winner of the heat was Sabrina Devereux, a PhD researcher with Dr Francesca Paradisi, CSCB and UCD School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, with her talk entitled "What a waste???" Sabrina will go on to represent the CSCB at the AccesScience ’09 final in O’Reilly Hall on 26th March.

CSCB Symposium
The 7th annual Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology symposium, ‘Recent Advances in Synthesis and Chemical Biology VII’ was held in the Health Sciences Centre, University College Dublin on Friday 12th December 2008. The meeting was opened by Dr Philip Nolan, Registrar, University College Dublin and the speakers were Professor Frank Schroeder, Cornell University, USA; Dr John Brown, University of Oxford, UK; Professors Bernard Meunier, PALUMED, France; Sabine Flitsch, University of Manchester, UK; John Wood, Colorado State University, USA and Matthew Shair, Harvard University, USA. The scientific programme was organised by Professor Pat Guiry, CSCB.

Gymnasium Kreuzgasse visit
Seven students of Intensive Chemistry from year 12 (16 to 18-year olds), Gymnasium Kreuzgasse, Cologne, Germany and their teacher, Birgit Feldman visited the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology and UCD School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology on Thursday, September 11 as part of their 3-day cultural and educational visit to Dublin

Launch of the Dublin Chemistry programme
The Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Prof. Patrick Cunningham launched the Dublin Chemistry Graduate Programme on Thursday the 11th of September at Trinity College Dublin.

December 18 - Recent Advances in Synthesis and Chemical Biology VIII
The CSCB will hold its eighth annual symposium on December 18, 2009 at The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2. Further information from cscb@ucd.ie

October 14 "Frontiers in Organic Chemistry"
The School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Queen's University, Belfast is pleased to host a ½ day RSC award symposium entitled "Frontiers in Organic Chemistry" on Wednesday 14th Oct 2009.

September 3-4, XVIIIth European Conference of GP2A
“Groupement des Pharmacochimistes de l’Arc Atlantique” (GP2A) Group of Medicinal Chemists of the Atlantic Arc 18th Conference
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