Transition Metals in Biology
Saumya Udagedara (Bsc (Hons), University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka) has commenced a PhD degree with the group.
Professor Wedd has received the Burrows Award for Inorganic Chemistry from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. He will receive the Award at the 39th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry in Adelaide in November and deliver a plenary lecture.
Lee Xin Chong received the award for Best Oral Presentation at the meeting of the Melbourne Protein Group at La Trobe University. Her talk was entitled “Reaction Mechanisms of the Multicopper Oxidase CueO from Escherichia coli Support a Functional Role as a Cuprous Oxidase”
Jens Brose (Diplom, University of Bielefeld, Germany) has commenced a PhD degree with the group. Together with Dr. Zhiguang Xiao, he attended a workshop on cell-free expression of membrane proteins at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, in January.
Dr Jingli Ji has received a Monash Research Fellowship to continue his independent research in the School of Chemistry, Monash University.
Karrera Djoko will receive her PhD degree at the March graduation ceremony. She has been appointed to a research fellowship in the group of Professor Alistair McEwan at the University of Queensland.
The PhD thesis of Matthias Zimmermann has been accepted: Molecular Characterisation of Novel Copper and Zinc Transporters. He will receive his degree at the November graduation ceremony. He has joined the Commonwealth Serum Laboratory (CSL) as a research scientist.
Congratulation to Ryan Gilbret-Wilson who received the Deans Award for the top honours student in Chemistry in 2008.
Karrera Djoko Phd Thesis has been accepted. The Examiners recommended that she be nominated for the Chancellors Prize for Excellence.
Matthias Zimmermann has presented his phd defence seminar entitled “Copper and Zinc: How Nature Sort Them Out”.
Jens Brose (University of Bielefeld, Germany) and Sonja Schimo (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany) has joined us for research work associated with their Diploma Degrees.
Congratulations to Matthias Zimmermann, who received a Stranks Oral Presentation Award at the 9th RACI Inorganic Chemistry Conference in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Karrera Djoko has submitted her PhD thesis. She will be starting her post-doctoral research project with Prof. Alastair McEwan at the University of Queensland in the new year. We wish her all the best.
Ryan Gilbert-Wilson and Luke Morran have completed their Honours degrees. We congratulate them and wish them all the very best in their future endeavours.
Congratulations to Karrera Djoko, who received a Young Scientist Oral Presentation Award at the 4th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry in Jeju Island, South Korea.
Emma Stevens has joined us as a Chemistry 399 research student. She will be working with Lee Xin Chong to study several CopK mutants from C. metallidurans.
We welcome Jiaxi Song, who has joined us for 4 weeks as a winter vacation research experience student. She will be working with Lee Xin Chong to study the copper binding protein CopK from C. metallidurans.
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