Month: October 2021

PhD defense Margarida Borrell

Next Friday (5th of November 11.00h, Aula Magna – Facultat de Ciències) will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Margarida Borrell Recasens, titled “Small-molecule mimics of Rieske oxygenases.Application to selective aliphatic C-H hydroxylation and olefin syn-dihydroxylation”, supervised by Miquel Costas from IQCC. We wish her good luck and all the best! Girona, October

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Former IQCC member Oriol Planas appointed as Lecturer in Organic Chemistry by Queen Mary University of London

Last week, Oriol Planas, a former member of the IQCC, was appointed as a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry by Queen Mary University of London, where he will start his own research group at the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences. Oriol did his PhD thesis with success on “Cobalt-catalyzed C-H Activation” supervised by Xavi Ribas

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IQCC Forum: Autumn edition 2021

Yesterday took place the Autumn edition of the IQCC Forum, a quarterly meeting-place where high-quality science is discussed. The IQCC Forum gives the opportunity for PhD and postdoc members of the IQCC to present their work to a select group of critical researchers, enhancing intra-IQCC collaborations and promoting knowledge exchange within the institute. This will

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A shared mechanistic pathway for pyridoxal phosphate–dependent arginine oxidases

Dr. Marc Garcia-Borràs (IQCC) is part of an international multidisciplinary research team led by Prof. Katherine Ryan (University of British Columbia, Canada) that has recently published a new study in PNAS entitled “A shared mechanistic pathway for pyridoxal phosphate–dependent arginine oxidases”. Pyridoxal phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzymes rarely react with oxygen, but an emerging group of PLP-

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