TG Group travel to Southampton for Supramolecular Symposium

It was nice to catch up with some old colleagues in Southampton and chat molecular logic with my “academic grandfather” AP de Silva, as well as why he enjoyed being educated by Buddhist monks and Catholic nuns at the same time in Sri Lanka!

Gunnlaugsson Group, Trinity College Dublin

Anna Aletti, Samuel Bradberry and Dr. Oxana Kotova of the TG group attended Southampton Supramolecular Chemistry Symposium on the 24th of June 2016.

delegates Southamption Supramolecular Symposium 2016 Delegates

All of them presented posters and, in addition, Samuel gave an excellent talk on “Lanthanide Luminescent Logic – functional organic scaffolds and soft polymers gels as logic gate mimics”.

DSC_0048 Sam giving his talk

DSC_0036 Sam and A P at the poster session

DSC_0043 Oxana with her poster

DSC_0035 Anna presenting her poster

2016-06-24 18.02.36 A P de Silva, Oxana, Anna, Joe and Sam at the drinks reception

Our former group member Dr. Joseph Byrne who is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Bern attended the conference as well and presented a poster on his recent work published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. on self-templated btp [2]Catenane.

The meeting included speakers and posters from UK Universities and beyond, including an outstanding lecture from the…

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