Emilio J. Cocinero joined a new Biofisika Institute (CSIC – UPV/EHU) and it has been awarded with 3.572.296 € by 3 years by Basque Government as part of Basic Research and Excellence Centers (BERC program).

We have been awarded a 3 years project financed by MINECO that also includes a Ph. D. Scholarship to develop our research.

Emilio J. Cocinero finished his term (2014-2017) and Gonzalo Giménez Osses was elected new president of Young Chemists Division (JIQ) of the Spanish Society of Chemistry.

The meeting of Young Chemists Division was a success. In addition, Emilio gave a talk during the conference.

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.

This work shows the potential of semiempirical structures and how its use can be extended for the determination of accurate equilibrium structures of moderate-sized molecules. This work was a collaboration with the groups of Natalja Vogt at the University of Ulm, Alberto Lesarri at the University of Valladolid.

The cover depicts the family tree of tropane alkaloids, to which pseudopelletierine belongs, and their occurrence in nature.

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.

Camilla Calabrese has recently been awarded a Juan de La Cierva Formación Fellowship.

This is quite competitive call funded by the Spanish MINECO that highlight their excellent scientific and academic performance.

Congratulations!

A collaboration with researchers from POLYMAT, the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU), the University of Barcelona, the Bioengineering Institute of Barcelona (IBEC) and the University of Aveiro, have developed a new family of molecular or nanowire cables that open new horizons in molecular electronics.

The research has been published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.

In the figure Single-foldamer junction by π-interactions.

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.

This work addresses the structural properties of the nicotinoid cotinine and offers the chance to compare the results to nicotine, the prototype of the nicotinoid family. Cotinine was probed in a supersonic jet expansion using the-state-of-the-art time-domain microwave spectroscopy.

A new set up is also described in the manuscript.

Our publication was highlight as cover by journal

The investigation is being published in Chem. Eur. J.

The prototropic tautomerism in 2-hydroxypridine represents a model for the study of conformational and tautomeric equilibria. The stability of the different species is governed by the balance between electronic and resonance effects and can be greatly influenced by ring substitutions and the presence of solvents.

In particular, chlorination in different ring positions and changes in solvent polarity cause a shift of the equilibrium, therefore changing the relative abundances between isomers.

This work was a collaboration with the group of Sonia Melandri at the University of Bologna.

The investigation is being published in Chem. Eur. J

Prof. Isabelle Kleiner (LISA, France) and Atef Jabri (LISA, France) visited our laboratory the first weeks of December.

Prof. Kleiner is a world expert in rotational spectroscopy.  Some of her interest include the large-amplitude motions.

Atef is doing the Ph. D with Isabelle. The visit opens a new collaboration with the French group. In the photograph below, Isabelle Kleiner.

Raphaela Kannengießer at Aachen University (Germany) visited our lab the last weeks of November, she did some measurements in our laboratory.

Raphaela is a Ph. D. Student supervised by Prof. Wolfgang Stahl. The visit could open a collaboration with Aachen group.

In the photo, some members of Spectroscopy Group and Raphaela at Bilbao.

 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) and had the opportunity to change some ideas.

In the photographs above Prof. Jesús Jiménez-Barbero (left) and Pierre Çarçabal (right)