In February Adri took our groups, as a cultural treat, on a fun evening outing away from the labs. We spend the evening listening to the wonderful Noord Nederlands orkest (North Netherlands Orchestra) futuring Alma Mahler, a talented Austrian composer, conductor: Eivind Gullberg Jensen, soprano: Karin Strobos.
Every year, the Stratingh institute organizes an institute day where the entire institute gathers for a enjoyable day of activities and the opportunity to interact with colleagues from all corners of the institute. The Stratingh institute day of 2023 was held at the Biotoop in Haren, commencing in the morning with lectures and poster presentations [...]
Excited to announce that our team is one of the finalists in the challenge INNOVATE2030-SDG13 Innovation Challenge “More sustainable surfactants for home & personal cleaning products". Henkel has now selected the finalists for the Elaboration Phase, out of more than 152 program submissions. Replacing fossil based surfactants is not as easy as we think. Bio [...]
Our group members Michiel Uiterweerd , Zonghao Lin and Daan Bunt gave lectures during the yearly Lunteren (Wageningen) Symposium. The topics included: ‘Total synthesis of lugdunomycin by a biomimetic reaction cascade’ (Michiel Uiterweerd), ‘Divergent Total Synthesis Of Meroterpenoids From Ganoderma Mushrooms’ (Daan Bunt) and ‘Asymmetric Total Synthesis and Structure Revision of Di-O-acyl Trehalose DAT2, an [...]
Picnic 2021 Adri with our secretary Janka organized a lovely picnic at the Dorkwerdsluis with some nice homemade snacks. We were very fortunate with the weather and had a great time with all of the Stratingh members in Linnaeusborg.
On 5-6 July 2021 there will be an European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC) . Have a look at our postdoc dr. Niels Reintjens talking about 'Protection Group-Free Reductive Chlorination and Thiolation of Glycosides via Trityl Hydrazones'.
Mira will defend her thesis titled: “On the Total Synthesis of Archaeal and Mycobacterial Natural Products” on the 5th of February at 12:45pm. The ceremony can be followed online via this link: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/latest-news/events/promoties/digital-phd-ceremony
Every year we have SinterKerst, with lots of games, gifts and pepernoten. This year we could not end the year without it and some great group members recreated our labs and offices in online platform GatherTown. We had a lot of fun with the creative online pubquiz (Team Minnaard won!) , and enjoyed our snackbag [...]
Steven will defend his thesis titled: "Novel methods towards rare sugars based on site-selective chemistry" on the 5th of January at 11:00. The ceremony can be followed online via this link: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/latest-news/events/promoties/digital-phd-ceremony
Our group member Ruben Andringa presented his poster "Total synthesis of macrocyclic archaeal lipids and mycoketide" this year online at the annual Dutch Conference CHemistry as INnovative Science (CHAINS) We also cheered on members from our ChemBioII-group ; Isabel Sieders "Tuning bi-electrophilic probes to generate protein selectivity"(Witte group) and Liubov Yakovlieva "Pd-catalyzed C3-selective oxidation of [...]
