Terpene cyclases offer enormous synthetic potential, given their unique ability to forge complex hydrocarbon scaffolds from achiral precursors within a single cationic rearrangement cascade. Harnessing their synthetic power, however, proved to be challenging due to their generally low catalytic performance. In this study, we unveil the catalytic potential of the squalene-hopene cyclase (SHC) by harnessing
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Next Monday will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Christian Curado Carballada, titled “Elucidating the role of conformational dynamics of Aspergillus niger monoamine oxidase towards enzymatic chiral amines synthesis”, supervised by Prof. Sílvia Osuna and Dr. Ferran Feixas from IQCC. Place: Aula Magna – Facultat de Ciències Date: March 13, 2023 Time: 10.30h We
Last month (Jan. 30-31, 2023) took place the 1st Reunió de Química Teòrica i Computacional (RQTC) 2023 Conference from Societat Catalana de Química (SCQ) in Barcelona, which included a poster session. Janet Sánchez, master student under the supervision of Prof. Sílvia Osuna, presented a poster titled “Computational design of new kinases for suicide cancer gene
A research project led by Sílvia Osuna, ICREA Professor at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) of the University of Girona (UdG), has been funded with 2 million euros within the Consolidator Grant call of European Research Council (ERC). Research projects funded by the ERC have as main objective to provide the best
One of the priorities of the IQCC is to strengthen the connections with industry, both nationally and internationally. Continuation of ongoing collaborative research efforts and initiating new joint projects are a high priority for the institute. Actually, there are several collaborations established with the private sector, some of them with the Osuna lab. In the last two
Next Wednesday will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Eila Serrano-Hervás, titled “Computational studies of epoxide hydrolase-catalyzed ring-opening reactions”, supervised by Sílvia Osuna and Marc Garcia-Borras from IQCC. Place: Sala de Graus – Facultat de Dret Date: July 20, 2022 Time: 16.30h We wish her good luck and all the best! Girona, July 13, 2022 For
Today the European Chemical Society announced that Prof. Sílvia Osuna has been granted the EuChemS Lecture Award 2021. This honour is awarded annually to a junior scientist working in chemistry in one of the countries with a EuChemS member organization (in Spain: the Royal Spanish Chemical Society and the Catalan Chemical Society). Candidates are scientists
Dr. Silvia Osuna (Castelló d’Empúries, 1983) will be part of Horizon group, being one of the principal researchers from the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) of the University of Girona (UdG). She is the winner of different important awards like the Catalonian National Research Award for Young Talent awarded by the Fundació Catalana
Since 2015 the IQCC is organizing a Science Slam. Next week on Thursday May 12th the IQCC organizes the sixth edition to show the most representative research projects of the Institute to a wide audience. The research carried out within each of the research teams of the IQCC will be briefly summarized by the PIs
Proteins reshape their function in response to environmental changes through allosteric regulation. Allostery is the process in which two distinct sites within a protein or protein complex are functionally coupled. In allosterically regulated enzymes, the binding of a molecule (allosteric effector) at a distal site alters the thermodynamic and/or kinetic parameters of the catalytic reaction