Our postdoc @francdefel.bsky.social just gave a fantastic talk on gold-based artificial metalloenzymes for asymmetric catalysis. #Biotrans2025 @stratinghinst.bsky.social @rug.nl

Can a strange state of matter explain what life is – and how it began? 🌎 Great article in @newscientist.com about Sijbren Otto's research on life-emulating molecules 👇 www.newscientist.com/article/mg26... #Chemistry #SciComm #Science 🧪 @stratinghinst.bsky.social/@sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social

Check out this week’s #ChemSciPicks from Gerard Roelfes (@roelfesgroup.bsky.social, @stratinghinst.bsky.social) et al.! ‘Genetically Encoded 3-Aminotyrosine as Catalytic Residue in a Designer Friedel-Crafts Alkylase’ Read it here for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...#ChemSciPicks #ChemSky 🧪

Great news!🥳Prof. Nathalie Katsonis will receive the Ammodo Science Award for fundamental research 2025 for her pioneering research on molecular systems👏 Read more about Katsonis research and her goals: www.rug.nl/research/str...

Bravo Adri Minnaard! He received an NWO (Dutch Research Council) M1 grant for his project on "New Light on Carbohydrate Modifications". He will to prepare complex carbohydrates in a novel way and trace them in cells and tissue, with the aim of using them for novel drugs and vaccines.

A free student-created escape room with chemistry puzzles, in our building – how awesome is that? It happened yesterday, thanks to @lerchlab.bsky.social. Students and staff certainly enjoyed it, though no one would say it was easy! 🙂 @unigroningen.bsky.social @sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social

Our group members Tanja and Franco @francdefel.bsky.social presented their exciting research at NCCC this week. Franco talked about his work on asymmetric catalysis in gold-based artificial metalloenzymes.

Huge congratulations to our former PhD student Reuben @reubenlg.bsky.social on winning the KNCV-DCS Thesis Award from the Dutch Catalysis Society for his outstanding PhD research in our group! A well-deserved recognition of his hard work and dedication. 🎉

Tanja presented her work on metallaphotoredox catalysis in designer photoenzymes. Congrats to both of you! @stratinghinst.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social

In our recent publication, we describe a systematic framework leveraging the documentation of the quantum chemistry suite ORCA for developing large language models that are capable of providing input files based on user prompts with the help of prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation […]

Grateful to be part of this awesome project lead by @brouwerb.bsky.social. Take a look to our preprint about unlocking iminium ion catalysis when using amino-tyrosine as a genetically encoded amino acid! 🤓 #MSCA @roelfesgroup.bsky.social

Happy #SustainabilityTipTuesday ! Today we want to highlight an amazing resource from @thomasfreese.bsky.social and colleagues: an all-encompassing guidebook for #sustainablelabs! Check it out here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Check out our latest publication where we elicit a light-triggered ⚡️ cascade response in a synthetic cell 🔬using polymersomes and molecular motors👩🏻‍🔬! Thanks always to the @feringalab.bsky.social and our amazing collaborators from @unibas.ch advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

‘Innocent’ Hexafluorophosphate Salts Induce Capacity Fade in Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries Authors: Wenlong Tang, Jelte Steen, Jurjen Hettinga, Johan Hjelm, Edwin Otten DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-cgp0s

Syuzanna Harutyunyan has been awarded an @ercresearch.bsky.social (ERC) PoC Grant to develop innovative chiral ligands for more efficient and sustainable production of chiral molecules, which are vital for effective drugs and chemicals. Congratulations Syuzi 👏🥂 www.rug.nl/research/str...

News in supramolecular chemistry in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! Kinetically controlled self-assembly meets dynamic covalent exchange! 🌊 Polymer growth, dual dynamic bonds (disulfide + boroxine/borate), & reconfigurable materials unlock repairability & recyclability. ♻️ doi.org/10.1002/anie...

Discover how light can fine-tune our internal clocks! 🌞⏰ Our latest publication dives into chrono-photopharmacology, where light-responsive molecules are revolutionizing the modulation of circadian rhythms. doi.org/10.1002/med....

A good news to start the year: Lars Longwitz, post-doc in the @roelfesgroup.bsky.social, was awarded today the 2024 FSE Post-doc Prize @unigroningen.bsky.social Earlier this year, Lars and colleagues published the first enzyme that uses boron for catalysis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fantastic start of 2025 for the group. Our own Lars Longwitz won the @unigroningen.bsky.social FSE Postdoc prize for 2024. This prize celebrates his excellence in research and great potential of becoming a scientific leader. Well well deserved Lars! 👏 @stratinghinst.bsky.social

Christmas music in the last week of the year @unigroningen.bsky.social in the brand new Feringa building. All students and staff

Urban planners at BlueSky, take notes! 🦋 🏙️ Ben explains why cells are the OG city builders, with more complexity than any metro ever could achieve. Find out about nanomachines, photopharma, the Simpsons and more in the interview made by @elpais.com english.elpais.com/science-tech...

And now with a free read-only link, courtesy of Nat Chem: rdcu.be/d1S5C Check out how we got a beginning of Darwinian evolution with purely synthetic chemical systems!

We are excited to announce that the Health Technology Research and Innovation Cluster (HTRIC) and the Ubbo Emmius Foundation (UEF) are partnering up to bring groundbreaking research from bench to bedside. This initiative will strengthen the North as innovation hub. htric.com/en/news/ubbo...

I am excited to share our latest work on multistep movements in microscale actuators just published in Science. Thanks to everyone on the team to bring this multiyear effort to fruition! DOI: 10.1126/science.adq6434

Can you explain your doctoral research through interpretive dance? The 17th annual #DanceYourPhD competition is open! Submit by 28 March for a chance to win $2000: scim.ag/3BcKi0e

What came first, #life or #evolution?🌱 New research by Prof. Sijbren Otto and his team @unigroningen.bsky.social reveals that Darwinian rules can act on non-living material too. Curious how that works? Read more via👇 eurekalert.org/news-release... Published in @naturechemistry.bsky.social

What came first, life or evolution? In a recently published paper, Sijbren Otto and his group demonstrate that key principles of Darwinian evolution also manifest themselves in simple non-living systems. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Marthe Walvoort was te gast bij @hetklokhuis.bsky.social! Als suikerprof vertelde ze over wat suiker precies is, hoeveel ervan in ons voedsel zit, en wat je lichaam met suiker doet. Uitzending gemist? Kijk de aflevering dan hier terug. hetklokhuis.nl/tv-uitzendin... @unigroningen.bsky.social

Kijk-tip voor vanavond: Het Klokhuis aflevering over suiker! 🍰 🍬 🍭 Want wat is suiker nou eigenlijk, en waarom houden wij mensen toch zo van zoet?! Vanavond te zien om 18.45u bij NPO3, en daarna online terug te kijken.