Secret Sock Santa once again visited POC department! Our annual tradition means we became Secret Santa and gifted beautiful socks and created poems for each other! There were no limits in creativity and everyone was happy to receive warm words and guess who was their Secret Santa!
Last Friday we had Physical Organic Chemistry (POC) department outing! We started off in the morning with a Lab Safety and Organisational meeting, which was followed up by lunch and a graffiti workshop! Everyone was very enthusiastic as it was the first time holding a spray paint can for most of us. We created some amazing lab-life and nature inspired art that you can see on our X (Twitter) and Instagram profiles (@Huckgroup)! ✨
On 30 October 2025 the 6th CORENET general Assembly took place. This time kindly hosted in Copenhagen by our partners from the University of Southern Denmark. It was a great opportunity to catch up with all our collaborators and see everyone’s progress towards creating chemical reservoir computers. After a day filled with science, we enjoyed a boat tour through the canals of Copenhagen, followed by wonderful dinner at Paté Paté.
On October 14-15, we attended a symposium dedicated to the memory of the late Prof. Roeland Nolte, organized by Wilhelm Huck, Hans Elemans, Bert Meijer, and Ben Feringa. Many professors, former PhD students, and family members gathered to share heartfelt memories, along with engaging research talks.
Photo credit: Nikita Ivanov
The Memorial Symposium dedicated to Professor Roeland Nolte will take place on October 14-15 in Nijmegen.
Please register if you plan to attend here.
Venue: Aula Radboud University, Comeniuslaan 2, 6525 HP Nijmegen
Organisers: Wilhelm Huck, Hans Elemans, Bert Meijer & Ben Feringa
From June 15-16, the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Systems Chemistry took place, followed by the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) from June 16-21 at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine, United States. Our PhD students Anna, Souvik, and Thijs and Mathijs, a junior group leader in Robot Lab participated in this conference. Thijs presented his research on the Formose reservoir computer (recently accepted in Nature!) and all of them showcased their research posters throughout the event. Wilhelm also participated as a discussion leader for the conference theme ‘Prebiotic Chemistry.’ Overall, the conference featured a diverse range of speakers presenting exciting and novel research topics, including chemical reaction networks, nucleic acid chemistry, and systems exhibiting emergent functions.
On 30 November 2023, the 4th General Assembly hybrid meeting of the CORENET consortium took place at the CIAL institute in Madrid, Spain, hosted by partners from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and National Research Council of Spain (CSIC). During the meeting all partners presented their research updates, after which fruitful discussions gave new ideas for further scientific investigations and collaborations. Our group was represented by PhD students Mathieu Baltussen and Thijs de Jong, who presented the latest research about reservoir computation in chemical reaction networks.
Please click here to read more about the meeting.
Last Friday, December 1, the last FMS Annual Meeting 2023 took place in Zwolle, the Netherlands. During this one-day meeting various scientists from FMS Research Center shared the latest updates on their research. Rianne Haije, a PhD student from our group, gave a presentation entitled “Neuromorphic Sensing with a Retrainable Enzymatic Reaction Network” on which she is working together with Souvik Ghosh. Besides that, four members presented a poster presentation: Nikita Ivanov, Miglė Jakštaitė, Rianne Haije and Dr. Will Robinson.
Last Friday our PhD student Souvik Ghosh gave a pitch talk entitled “Neuromorphic Sensing using Retrainable Enzymatic Reaction Network” during annual symposium of the Institute for Molecules and Materials of Radboud University called sIMMposium 😎👨🔬 During one day symposium various researchers from institute as well as invited speakers presented their research topics.
The CLASSY Industry Workshop was held online on the 16th October, 2023. The workshop, entitled “Bioreactions in flow reactors: bringing out the potential applications for cell-free synthetic biology” in total gathered 10 speakers, both from CLASSY consortium and industry. Speakers, including Prof. Wilhelm Huck, were discussing latest updates on the CLASSY project as well as industrial enzyme immobilisation and biocatalysis in flow reactions.
If you have missed the chance to participate in the LIVE event, you can rewatch it on CLASSY YouTube channel.
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