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Joe interviewed on Galway Bay FM about SugarCoat

Joe and his colleagues in Queens University Belfast and CÚRAM were recently awarded a North South Research Programme grant to carry out the SugarCoat project, developing smart coatings for medical devices to protect from bacterial infections. Joe was interviewed by Keith Finnegan on Galway Bay FM this morning about the promise of this project in the context of antimicrobial resistance. Listen at the links below.

Press release: NUI Galway (“Researchers aim to give new layer of protection to medical devices”).
Radio Interview on Galway Bay FM: podcast (0:29:00-0:38:50); article summary; [audio file]
Coverage in Connacht Tribune, Daily Mail (UK), Irish Medical Times, and Galway Daily; SFI Research News

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Karolina wins prize for talk at ICI Colloquium

Karol delivered an oral presentation at the Irish Universities Chemistry Research Colloquium in UCD on 15 June 2022 entitled “Shining a Light on Bacteria : Lanthanide- based Glycoconjugate Molecular Sensors for Lectins”. The talk was very well received, with lots of discussion arising afterwards. The judges at the Colloquium, the highlight of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland’s scientific calendar, awarded her a prize for her talk.

Prof. Declan Gilheany (UCD) awarding Karolina a prize for her presentation at the Colloquium
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Joe speaks at festive RSC Coordination and Organometallic Discussion Group Christmas Meeting

At the annual RSC Coordination and Organometallic Discussion Group Christmas meeting (UCD Dublin), everyone was asked to select an element as the focus of their talk, to celebrate the end of the International Year of the Periodic Table. Joe gave a talk celebrating the versatility of ruthenium complexes. The talk brought together two different project, linked by this transition metal.

  • Joe with his PhD supervisor Thorri and Dawn Barry
  • IYPT presents for attendees

He spoke about the carbohydrate-functionalised Ru-NHC catalysts which were published recently in Dalton Transactions, as well as some Ru(II) coordination complexes (also featuring carbohydrates) which have shown antimicrobial activity (unpublished results, collaboration with Prof Thorri Gunnlaugsson and Dr Ciaran O’Reilly).

It was a very festive meeting, with inorganic chemists from all over Ireland and the UK in attendance – a great chance to catch up with old friends and new.