Helma Wennemers held the EurJOC Lecture at ORCHEM 2014
Professor Helma Wennemers, ETH Zürich, is the recipient of the 2014 EurJOC lecture award. The lecture titled "Bioinspired Chemistry with Peptides" was held at the ORCHEM meeting in Weimar on Monday, 15 September, 2014. The SCS congratulates Helma for this great honor.
The EurJOC lecture was first awarded in 2012 at the ORCHEM meeting of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) and will continue to be awarded every two years. The recipient is selected by the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Organic Chemistry (EurJOC) in conjunction with the Editor.
The previous winner of the award in its inaugural year in 2012 was Professor Véronique Gouverneur, University of Oxford, UK.
Text from the Article on ChemistryViews
Helma Wennemers received her PhD degree in 1996 from Columbia University, New York, USA, where she worked with Prof. W. Clark Still. She then carried out postdoctoral studies with Prof. Hisashi Yamamoto at Nagoya University, Japan. In 1999, she became assistant professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and was promoted to associate professor in 2003. Since 2011, she has been Professor of Organic Chemistry at the ETH Zürich.
Her research focuses on the development of small molecules for functions that are fulfilled by large macromolecules in nature. This includes bioinspired asymmetric catalysis, peptide-based materials, and the use of peptides as additives for the generation of silver nanoparticles.
Link to the Wennemers Research Group at ETH
David Spichiger, SCS
18.09.2014
SCS Fall Meeting Dinner and Award Ceremonies 2014
On the occasion of the SCS Fall Meeting Dinner Prof. E. Peter Kündig awarded the SCS Prize Winners 2014. More than 70 guests from academia and industry joined the dinner at the "Zunfthaus zum Rüden" in Zurich on September 10, 2014, and paid homage to the prize winners.
Award winners 2014, that were honored at the dinner:
Paracelsus Prize
Prof. Richard R. Schrock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Grammaticakis-Neumann Award
Dr. Erwin Reisner, University of Cambridge
Sandmeyer Award
Dr. Harald Walter, Dr. Hans Tobler, Dr. Camilla Corsi, Dr. Denis V. Gribkov, from Syngenta Crop Protection Münchwilen AG
KGF-SCS Distinguished Industrial Investigator Award
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Blaser
KGF-SCS Senior Industrial Investigator Award
Dr. Werner Neidhart, F. Hoffmann La Roche
KGF-SCS Industrial Investigator Award
Dr. Andreas Natsch, Givaudan Schweiz AG,
Dr. Wolfgang Jahnke, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel
Photos by: Simeon Lüthi
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David Spichiger, SCS
12.09.2014
Review and Photos Fall Meeting 2014
More than 800 participants from academia and industry joined the SCS Fall Meeting at University of Zurich on September 11, 2014, to see a total of 15 award or invited lectures, 76 oral presentations and almost 500 posters.
In the name of the SCS I like to congratulate again all prize and award winners 2014 and thank them for their contribution to the success of the SCS Fall Meeting 2014. The plenary lectures, the parallel sessions as well as the poster sessions were very well visited and confirmed that the SCS Fall Meeting is one of the major platforms of the chemical community to exchange know-how and to enlarge the personal network.
A special thank goes to our sponsors, exhibitors and the host Universities of UZH and ETHZ. Without their financial and logistical support it would not be possible to organize such a meeting.
Link to the winners of the Best Oral Presentation Award, sponsored by Metrohm
Link to the winners of the Best Poster Presentation Award, sponsored by DSM
Photos by: Simeon Lüthi
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David Spichiger, SCS
12.09.2014
Chemical Landmark 2014: the laboratory in Reichenau Castle
Text: http://www.chemistry.scnat.ch
In 1852 Adolf von Planta (1820 - 1895) had a laboratory in one aisle of Reichenau Castle built. On site von Planta performed research in natural sciences such as water and soil analysis, physiological processes, and botany. Between 1852 and 1853, he was assisted by August Kekulé (1829 - 1896), who had just completed doctoral studies under the supervision of Justus von Liebig. They worked together on alkaloid analysis e.g. nicotine. Later in his career, Kekulé made important discoveries in organic and structural chemistry which include the tetravalency of the carbon atom and was the first to propose a cyclic structure for benzene. The laboratory has been maintained in its original setting and is therefore a testimony of research from the mid-19th century.
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August Kekulé and Adolf von Planta (Copyright: Gian-Battista von Tscharner)
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The award ceremony was held on 12 September 2014 in Reichenau, during which a commemorative plate was revealed and affixed at the entrance of the castle.
Website
http://www.chemicallandmarks.ch
Kontakt
Mira Portmann
SCNAT, Platform Chemistry
+41 31 310 40 96
More information:
http://www.chemicallandmarks.ch
David Spichiger, SCS
15.09.2014
Call for nominations: Lab Science Award 2015 für FH-Bachelorarbeiten
Der Lab Sciences Award zeichnet gute bis sehr gute Bachelorarbeiten aus, deren Ergebnisse relevant für die Lab Sciences sind. Für die Entwicklung neuer Geräte für die Analytik und Prozessentwicklung im Labor ist eine interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit aus Naturwissenschaftlern, Ingenieuren und Informatikern unumgänglich. Die Geräte werden u.a. in der pharmazeutischen Industrie, der Lebensmittel- und kosmetischen Industrie, Chemie und in der Medizin in der in vitro Diagnostik eingesetzt.
Um Ihren Erfolgskurs fortzusetzen, benötigt die Lab Science Branche kluge Köpfe aus unterschiedlichsten ingenieurtechnischen Disziplinen (z.B. Systemtechnik, Elektrotechnik, Mechatronik, Oberflächentechnik, Nanotechnik,) den Life Sciences (Biochemie, Lebensmittelchemie, Molekularbiologie, Medizin) und natürlich der IKT, denn das Zeitalter mobiler Anwendungen im Labor beginnt gerade erst. Die Anforderungen an Datensicherheit werden weiter steigen.
Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung. Die nächste Preisverleihung findet am Symposium on Lab Automation in Rapperswil im März 2015 im Beisein von Vertretern der Lab Science Branche statt. Der ideale Anlass, um Ihr Netzwerk zu erweitern.
Abgabetermin: 15. Dezember 2014. Es können Arbeiten eingereicht werden, die in den letzten 18 Monaten vor dem Abgabetermin an der Fachhochschule eingereicht und bewertet wurden.
Es locken attraktive Preissummen und der Zugang zu einem interessanten Netzwerk!
Preisgeld:
1. Platz CHF 8'000.00
2. Platz CHF 4‘000.00
3. Platz CHF 2‘000.00
Links:
Wer ist die Veronika und Hugo Bohny Stiftung?
Teilnahme
Bisherige Gewinner
Lab Sciences Community
David Spichiger, SCS
15.09.2014
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