Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Spring Alumni reunion! We were pleased to welcome alumni back to campus along with current members of the Chemistry department to hear engaging presentations from Drs. Namchuck, Eva Nichols, & Chile.

Next reunion TBA, stay tuned!

🚨📅📢 1 week left to submit to our Accelerate Conference call for #abstracts !

We’re looking for exciting talks across #ai and #automation ! We strongly encourage diverse candidates to feel empowered to submit.

Deadline: April 15, 2024

Learn more: accelerate24.ca/abstracts

We had so much fun welcoming Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair students to our department last week!

Students learned how ice cream can be made from scratch using liquid nitrogen, how a 3D printer works (and watched it print!), and so much more.

Two Iron(II), α-Ketoglutarate-Dependent #Enzymes Encoded by the PPZ Gene Cluster of Metarhizium majus Enable Production of 8-Hydroxyperamine by Kristina W. Rothchild, Mostafa Hagar, Daniel Berry, and Katherine S. Ryan at UBC Chemistry in J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Great new work by Yun-Wen Mao and Roman Krems UBC Chemistry Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute - 'Efficient interpolation of molecular properties across #chemical compound space with low-dimensional descriptors' - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108… #machinelearning #ChemicalSpace #compchem #quantum #AI #molecules

3DPTM Program Invites Applications for our 3rd Cohort!
We encourage applications from all individuals regardless of their race, religion, gender identity, national origin, socioeconomic, or disability status.
Learn more here: 3dptm.chem.ubc.ca/apply/

CITF Program Invites Applications for our 2nd Cohort!
We encourage applications from all individuals regardless of their race, religion, gender identity, national origin, socioeconomic, or disability status.
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Only 4 days until our Spring Alumni Reunion!
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Join us to hear exciting talks from our featured speakers, followed by a reception with light snacks and appetizers. We look forward to welcoming you back to campus!

RSVP for the Spring Chemistry Alumni Reunion to hear exciting talks from our featured speakers & have a chance at winning a prize from our prize draw. A reception will follow!

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Happy #InternationalPiDay ! Today we celebrate the mathematical constant π, which is approximately equal to 3.14, corresponding to the 3rd month and 14th day of the year. Did you know that π has been calculated to over 62.8 trillion digits? That's a lot of pie! 🥧

#PiDay2024

Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Ryan for being appointed the new Canadian Research Chair in biosynthetic enzymes!

🔗chem.ubc.ca/dr-katherine-r…

A note for International Women's Day:
67% of the student and postdoctoral authors of papers published by our award-winning research group are women.

♀️ + (🧪🔬) =🏆🎉

.UBC Chemistry's Dr. Nadine Borduas-Dedekind (@nadineborduas) sheds light on the eerie science of bogs. What's lurking in the mist?

National Geographic Magazine email registration required

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.The Berlinguette Group Group report the 1st platform for 3D/real-time visualization of #electrolyzer reactions, building on their work pioneering electrolyzers to convert #CO2capture solutions→valuable products.

@UBCchem Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute
via Nature Chemistry
nature.com/articles/s4155…

Join us for the Spring Chemistry Alumni Reunion! Meet & mingle with fellow alumni, friends, & your favorite professors.
Hear inspirational lectures with a reception to follow. Advanced registration required: event.fourwaves.com/chemalumnireun…

Dr. Amani Hariri (Amani Hariri) of UBC Chemistry aims to find solutions to the most pressing problems in healthcare today — ranging from Alzheimer’s disease, cancer & diabetes — through novel methods to measure biological systems at the molecular level.

UBC School of Biomedical Engineering Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health

We polled: is a sulfilimine bio-isosteric for a sulfoxide? To test, we needed a late-stage S-imination method, now at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…. Answer: S=NH is bio-isosteric, but depends. UBC Chemistry, #sulfur , #phosphorus , #Synthetic , #MedicinalChemistry , #methods , #peptides

Diphenylphosphinylhydroxylamine (DPPH) Affords Late-Stage S-imination to access free-NH Sulfilimines and Sulfoximines (David M. Perrin and co-workers) @PerrinLab UBC Chemistry #sulfur #phosphorus #MedicinalChemistry #peptides #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Assistant Professor Tao Huan has been appointed as an Editorial Early Career Advisory Board Member for Analytical Chemistry - the top journal in the analytical chemistry field. Congratulations Tao!

Read more here: chem.ubc.ca/dr-tao-huan-ap…

Dopants Induce Persistent Room Temperature Phosphorescence in Triarylamine Boronate Esters (Zachary M. Hudson and co-workers) UBC Chemistry #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…