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For Ben Clifton, who recently finished his PhD at the Research School of Chemistry, solute-binding proteins has always been an area of interest. The latest student to finish a PhD on the Rod Rickards scholarship, Ben has a long history of researching these proteins at RSC.
“My honours and PhD research focussed on a family of proteins called solute-binding proteins (SBPs),” Ben explains. “We initially became interested in SBPs because they can be used to engineer fluorescent sensors for detecting specific molecules.”
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Developing a new medical drug often requires a detailed understanding of how and where the drug compound binds to the target protein. However, for large protein-ligand complexes, it is often difficult to find the ‘binding mode’ of the ligand on the protein.
As part of a new Australian Research Council (ARC) Grant, Professor Gottfried Otting and his team will use Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to enhance our understanding of such complexes, with a view on the creation of high-value drugs for diseases such as Dengue fever and the Zika virus.
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Materials with nonlinear optical (NLO) properties are becoming increasingly important in an age of photonics. With the capacity to modify the phase, frequency, amplitude, polarisation, intensity, and/or path of incident light, NLO materials have huge potential in technologies that involve the manipulation of light — whether it be optical signal processing, data storage, communication or image processing.
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Saltman Lecture 2017: Nick Cox
"High-Field Pulse EPR - A Biophysical Toolbox for the Study of the Oxygen Evolving Complex"
The 2017 Saltman Lecturer at the Gordon Research Conference on Metals in Biology (MIB) was Dr Nicholas Cox, who gave an exciting talk on new technology for studying one of nature’s key enzymes. The lecture is in honor of Paul Saltman who was one of the founders of the metals in biology Gordon conference. Each year the conference chair selects a promising young scientist for this honor, and the Saltman lecture is a highlight of the conference.
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Research to help fight multi-resistant bacteria | University News : The University of Western Australia
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Congratulations to Stuart Ferrie on receiving the 2016 CRC Polymers Prize for the best honours thesis (‘The road to stereocontrol is not paved with zinc‘) in polymer science in Australia.
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Congratulations to Dr Andrew Gilbert on receiving the 2017 Wormit Award. The Wormit Award was established to recognize excellence in the development of new methods and algorithms in the area of electronic structure and for implementing these methods in state-of-the art computer codes within the Q-Chem open teamware community project. One award is given each year and includes a certificate and prize of US$500. It commemorates contributions of Dr.