Talks

Our group has been invited to participate on a workshop in “Observable Solvent Effects” held at Georg-August universität in Göttingen. Dr. Emilio J. Cocinero gave a talk on “Microwave and laser spectroscopies for structural elucidation and as chemical tools”. Otger Crehuet gave a talk on “Large homo and heteroclusters of …

Maider Parra gave a talk at the 26th International Conference on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy entittled “Challenging the limits of rotational spectroscopy: gas phase structural elucidation of multiconformational macrolactones”

Otger Crehuet gave a talk at the the 26th International Conference on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy entittled “Conformational study of the synthetic repellents DEET and Picaridin to improve structure-based design of novel mosquito repellents”

Maider Parra gave a talk at the XIII Conference of Young Researchers in Atomic and Molecular Physics (J2IFAM 2022) entitled “Challenging the limits of rotational spectroscopy: gas phase structural elucidation of multiconformational macrolactones”. For this talk has been awarded the prize for the best talk of J2IFAM 2022..

Otger Crehuet gave a talk at the XIII Conference of Young Researchers in Atomic and Molecular Physics (J2IFAM 2022) entitled “Astrochemistry, search in the interstellar medium and laboratory detection of bioligically relevant molecules”.

Emilio J. Cocinero gave a talk in the 4th Glycobasque meeting entitled “Fluorination and deoxygenation as chemical tools to study the conformational preferences of hexopyranoses: a journey from gas phase to solution”

Maider Parra presented a poster entitled “Gas phase structural elucidation of multiconformational macrolactones by means of high-resolution rotational spectroscopy. Otger Crehuet gave a talk entitled “Laboratory observation of 4-Oxobutanitrile structure for search in the interstellar medium” In the picture below Maider Parra and Otger Crehuet with the collaborations presented

Emilio J. cocinero gave a talk entitled “Unbiased Carbohydrates with atomic resolution: High-resolution spectroscopy” at the 3rd Glycobasque Meeting.

Maider Parra gave a talk at the XII Conference of Young Researchers in Atomic and Molecular Physics (J2IFAM 2020) entitled “Conformational analysis of D-Lyxose: from gas to condensed phase studies“.

Dr. José Elguero and Dr. Ibon Alkorta visited our group a week ago. They gave two amazing talks at the University of the Basque Country entitled “El futuro de la ciencia” (by Dr. Elguero) and “Anion-anion and cation-cation complexes” (by Dr. Alkorta). In the picture bellow, Dr. Alkorta giving his …

The next 4th of October, Emilio J. Cocinero will give a talk called “Unravelling bio-structures and applications by high resolution spectroscopies: Microwave and Laser spectroscopies” at “Centro de Astrobiología”, in Madrid. You can watch the talk live clicking on the following link: Click bellow for more information: http://www.cab.inta.es/es/agenda/289/seminario-4-10-2019-unravelling-bio-structures-and-applications-by-high-resolution-spectroscopies-microwave-and-laser-spectrocopies

Briones gave an amazing informational talk about the History of the Universe, from its formation to today’s world, using a chemical point of view expressed in art works. You can click on the link bellow if you want to watch it: https://www.eitb.eus/es/divulgacion/videos/detalle/5854860/naukas-bilbao-2018-charla-carlos-briones/

  Emilio J. Cocinero and Aran Insausti gave a talk at the XXXVII Biennial Meeting of the RSEQ that took place in Donostia.

Emilio J. Cocinero gave some talks at the University of Newcastle (plenary-talk) and Bologna.

Emilio J. Cocinero and Aran Insausti gave very interesting talks at CIC bioGUNE because of the 2nd Glycobasque Meeting. In the pictures bellow Emilio (up) and Aran (down) at the conference:

CIC bioGUNE celebrated the second Glycobasque meeting on March 22nd with a successful participation. In the picture bellow, all the participants at the congress:

Ben Davis, Pierre Çarçabal and Francisco Corzana visit the University of the Basque Country where they had an interesting meeting with the group leader Emilio J. Cocinero. After that, we could enjoy the amazing talk given by Professor Davis. In the picture bellow, from left to right, Ben Davis, Pierre …

Camilla Calabrese gave a talk at the “Biofisika” Institue Open Day. She spoke about what we do at our laboratory, what kind of research lines we carry out and the instrumental facilities we have at hand. In the photo, the poster used at the conference.

Emilio J. Cocinero and Jorge Casanova (in the picture bellow) met at Ulm University, Germany. They had interesting discussions about new research lines.

Iciar Uriarte gave a talk about the conformational landscape of the sugar present in DNA in its biologically relevant form that has been studied combining chemical synthesis, supersonic expansions, quantum chemical calculations, microwave spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics.

Aran Insausti presented the experimental and theoretical study of the Tn antigens in the gas, solution and solid phases that has been applied to deduce the key role of water in the modulation of the conformational preferences of these molecules and therefore in their presentations for interacting with protein receptors. …

Camilla Calabrese presented the study of the structure of large clusters of difluoromethane (CH2F2) combining state-of-the-art rotational spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations, as well as the results obtained afterwards, highlighting the high sensitivity of the technique used.

The 2018 Edition of the Prague Series of International Conferences on High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy was held in Bilbao (Spain) this September 3-7. We presented recent results focused on solving various structural problems of Chemistry at the molecular level. In particular, the conformational landscape of large clusters and biomolecules, including sugars, …

Emilio J. Cocinero was invited by Markus Gerhards to Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he presented several studies on biomolecules (carbohydrates and glycopeptides) and several applications, exploiting an experimental strategy which combines microwave and laser spectroscopies in high resolution, computation and synthesis. In addition, other applications of high resolution spectroscopies were presented.

Emilio J. Cocinero attended to the Biophysics Seminar in The Biofisika Institute in Bilbao. He presented several results on the conformational landscape of several carbohydrates, peptides and glycopeptides with different biological roles, which have been obtained due to the combination of Laser and Microwave spectroscopy and theoretical calculations.

Emilio J. Cocinero gave a talk at the Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMol) in Valencia about several studies on carbohydrates exploiting an experimental strategy which combines microwave and laser spectroscopies in high resolution, computation and synthesis. Carlos Martí-Gastaldo was the host.

Emilio J. Cocinero was invited to the 10th edition of the Isolated Biomolecules Biomolecular Interactions “IBBI 2018”. He presents several studies about the elucidation of biomolecule structures (carbohydrates and glycopeptides) through high resolution spectroscopies. In the photo, IRID spectra of Tn-Thr* and Tn-Ser* Antigens presented at the talk.

Emilio J. Cocinero was invited to give two talks in the XXXVI Biennial Meeting of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry in Sitges. He particped in two different Symposiums (Structural determinants of the molecular recognition processes in biological molecules and Prebiotic chemistry in space and earth). In the Photo, Emilio …

Carlos Martí-Gastaldo gave a great talk about MOFs titled: “Charge transport and photo-activity in Metal-Organic Frameworks: Ultrathin Films and Porous Crystals” and David González about Supramolecular Chemistry: “Hierarchical Supramolecular Construction of Self-assembled Nanotubes by Coupling Cooperative Effects”. In the photo from left to right, Carlos Martí-Gastaldo, Aurelio Mateo-Alonso, David González …

Prof. José Cernicharo at Instituto de Ciencias de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC) gave a wonderful talk titled “Las moléculas y el polvo a través del ciclo de vida de las estrellas”. He talked about his new European Project. We could also discuss about future collaborations.

Iciar Uriarte and Emilio J. Cocinero gave two talk in International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy in Illinois. An extraordinary conference one more year. In the left photo, Iciar giving her talk and right photo, Weixing, Donatella, Iciar and Emilio having a coffee during the meeting.

Emilio J. Cocinero gave a seminar in the University of Rioja titled: “Elucidando la estructura de biomoléculas por espectroscopías de alta resolución”. Francisco Corzana and Gonzalo Giménez-Osses hosted him.

Prof. at Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC) from Madrid gave a nice seminar about Computational Chemistry titled: “Computational Chemistry tools to address biological questions. Toll-like receptor 4 and galectins”. She is head of Biological Chemisry Group of RSEQ.

 Prof. Jesús Jiménez-Barbero (CIC Biogune) and Dr. Pierre Çarçabal (Orsay) gave two talks in our Department. Jesús titled his talk “Sugars and glycomimetics: From conformation to recognition…” and Pierre “Sifting through sugars: carbohydrate interactions with water, protons and peptides“. We enjoyed with both talks and worlds (solution and gas phase) …

From 3 to 6 November 2015, Barcelona hosted the 12th edition of the Symposium of Young Researchers of Sigma-Aldrich RSEQ (XII-SIJ). As every year, the conference is aimed at researchers in all areas of chemistry under 40 years, it aims to encourage the dissemination of research by young chemists, encourage …

The XIII Iberian Joint Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics (IBER2015) meeting was organized by the Atomic and Molecular Physics Division of the Portuguese Physics Society (Sociedade Portuguesa de Física), in collaboration with the Atomic and Molecular Physics Group of the Spanish Societies of Physics and Chemistry (Real Sociedad Española de …

The XXIV Colloquium on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy (HRMS 2015) was organized in Dijon last August 23-28, 2015. Emilio J. Cocinero gave a plenary talk at the meeting and Patricia Écija and Iciar Uriarte presented two poster on the conformational map of methyl-ribofuranose and cotinine. Next meeting in the HRMS …

The International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy (ISMS-2015, June 20 – 24) was organized by second time  in Champaign-Urbana (Illinois). The meeting brought together about 500 researchers. Emilio gave a Flygare Award Lecture (which recognizes outstanding contributions on the molecular spectroscopy) at a Plenary Session on “What can we expect of high-resolution spectroscopies on carbohydrates?“ and …

Rolando Lozada and Pierre Çarçabal came to our laboratory to do some measurements. The visit was a success and we could characterize a new system. Picure: Iciar, Rolando and Emilio in Bilbao

Prof. Jon T. Hougen (NIST, USA) is one the most recognized researchers in the molecular spectroscopy field. His interests are Quantum mechanical and group theoretical calculations of quantities of molecular spectroscopic interest for various cases of interaction between rotational, vibrational and electronic motion, with particular emphasis on rotational energy levels and rotational …

The scientist at the University of Oxford Prof. Ben Davis, an expert in the study of the effects of carbohydrates and proteins in disease development, gave a presentation entitled “The World is made of sugar and dirt”. Professor Davis has focused his career on the border between chemistry, biology and biomedicine …

Pierre Çarçabal and Rolando Lozada from CNRS (France) visited our laboratory after sereval attemps. Its flight was cancelled by a strike. They spent three days in Bilbao where we were able to discuss future projects and programming the next visits.In the picutre: Pierre Çarçabal (right), Rolando Lozana (center) and Emilio …

Iciar Uriarte, Marta Fernández, Virginia Ovejas, Jorge González, Jone Garate, Pedro Arnaiz and Monste Vallejo presented six oral communications and a posterat the VII Meeting of Young Researchers in Atomic & Molecular in Physics. The event was organized by the University of Jaen (March 18-20) and is a great opportunity for young …

The XI Symposium of Young Researchers of the Spanish Society of Chemistry and Sigma Aldrich was organized by our group in Bilbao on November 4-7, 2014. Iciar Uriarte, Patricia Écija and Emilio J. Cocinero were members of the organizing committee. The meeting brings together young Chemistry researchers. The participation of 152 people was …

Prof. Jens-Uwe Grabow  (University of Hannover) and Sonia Melandri (University of Bologne) gave two great talks at the Physichal Chemistry Department. We could enjoy of their visits for one week.

The High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy (HRMS2014) meeting in Bologna was a success, with more attendants than ever. Congratulations to Prof. Walther Caminati and his team for the organization of this event. Alberto Lesarri and gave a plenary talk. Montse Vallejo, Iciar Uriarte and Emilio J. Cocinero also gave talks. Iciar got …

Grupo Especializado de carbohidratos of Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry organized XI Symposium on Rioja during May 28-30 and invited to E. J. Cocinero to give a talk entitled “Elucidating the structure of sugars in the gas phase“.    

Marie-Pierre Gaigeot’s Group invited to Dr. Cocinero for four days to her laboratory. He gave a seminar at the Deparment at the Evry University, Paris, France. Emilio was able to meet with his friend Álvaro Cimas who works there now.

Patricia Écija and Virginia Ovejas gave talks in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the UPV / EHU, “IV Jornadas de Investigación de la Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología”