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Research group of Prof. Dr. A. J. Minnaard

The mission of our research programme is the further development of the field of organic chemistry, in particular organic synthesis and catalysis, and its application in the study of biological phenomena.

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295. Verschut, TA, Ng, R, Doubovetzky, NP, Le Calvez, G, Sneep, JL, Minnaard, AJ, Su, C-Y, Carlsson, MA, Wertheim, B & Billeter, J-C 2023, ‘Aggregation pheromones have a non-linear effect on oviposition behavior in Drosophila melanogaster’, Nature Communications, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 1544. Web

294. Marinus, N, Eisink, NNHM, Reintjens, NRM, Dijkstra, RS, Havenith, RWA, Minnaard, AJ & Witte, MD 2023, ‘A Predictive Model for the Pd-Catalyzed Site-Selective Oxidation of Diols’, Chemistry – A European Journal, vol. 29, no. 44, e202300318. Web

293. Bedard, M, van der Niet, S, Bernard, EM, Babunovic, G, Cheng, TY, Aylan, B, Grootemaat, AE, Raman, S, Botella, L, Ishikawa, E, O’Sullivan, MP, O’Leary, S, Mayfield, JA, Buter, J, Minnaard, AJ, Fortune, SM, Murphy, LO, Ory, DS, Keane, J, Yamasaki, S, Gutierrez, MG, van der Wel, N & Moody, DB 2023, ‘A terpene nucleoside from M. tuberculosis induces lysosomal lipid storage in foamy macrophages’, Journal of Clinical Investigation, vol. 133, no. 6, e161944. Web

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News from our lab

Mira Holzheimer wins the KNCV-Backer prize 2021

  The KNCV-Backer Prize is awarded annually to the best PhD thesis in the field of organic chemistry that was…

Symposium Wageningen 2022

Our group members Niels Reintjens , Prathap Kaniraj and Ruben Andringa  gave lectures during the yearly Wageningen Symposium. The topics included:…

We have expanded our labs!

This year we expanded with a beautiful new lab on our floor in Linnaeusborg, and extra shared labs and equipment…

Front page C2W

Check out the article published in C2W Vakblad voor chemie en life sciences, 10/2021, p.18-21. about our journey synthesizing crenarchaeol.…

Borrel september 2021

    In September we usually have a fun group outing every year to welcome new members and students. Since…

‘Building molecules can be art’

'Building molecules can be art' Synthesis of one of the most abundant organic lipids elucidates its structure Published by RUG…

Picnic 2021

  Picnic 2021 Adri with our secretary Janka organized a lovely picnic at the Dorkwerdsluis with some nice homemade snacks.…

ESOC 2021 Virtual Mini Symposium

On 5-6 July 2021 there will be an European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC) .  Have a look at our…

PhD ceremony Mira Holzheimer

Mira will defend her thesis titled: “On the Total Synthesis of Archaeal and Mycobacterial Natural Products” on the 5th of February…

SinterKerst 2020

Every year we have SinterKerst, with lots of games, gifts and pepernoten. This year we could not end the year…