Archived news

• Oscar succesfully defended his PhD thesis. Congrats Dr. Oscar Urquidi! (posted May. 2, 2024)

• We welcome new members, Dr. Konrad Hedderick, Dr. Zihan Li! (posted April. 2, 2024)

• We welcome new members, Mr. Xicheng Yuan, Ms. Tetiana Khakhula, Mr. Vincent Chinarro! (posted Feb. 28, 2024)

• Ms. Elisa Megroz joined us for her master project! Welcome Elisa! (posted Dec. 13, 2023)

• Mr. Gabriel Cotting successfully defended his master thesis! (posted May. 5, 2023)

• Dr. Edoardo Domenichini joined us as a postdoctoral researcher! Welcome Edoado!! (posted Jan. 16, 2023)

• Ms. Cara Doumbe Kingue joined us for her master internship. She is currently a master student at ENS Lyon and will be with us for next 4 months! Welcome Cara!!! (posted Oct. 5, 2022)

• Oscar and Natercia presented at Annual Meeting of Swiss Society for Crystallography 2022! The photo on the right shows the Team Unige (with Ariel, Khadi and Céline) at the meeting! (posted Sep. 19, 2022)

 

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• Sara presented the collaborative work between our group, Thomas Bürgi group and Roza Szweda group, titled "Control of oligocarbamate shapes through stereochemistry" at the Symposium on Advanced technologies and materials (ATAM 2022) and won the poster prize! Congrats Sara!!!! (posted Sep. 12, 2022)

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• Our work got picked by the editor Dr. Rebecca Ragaz from the journal "Innovation CHEMIE PHARMA" and the art prepared by Oscar was used for the cover of the issue! Full story can be found here (written in German)! (posted Aug. 30, 2022)

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• Mr. Gabriel Cotting starts his master project in our group! Welcome Gabriel! (posted Aug. 15, 2022)
• Natercia's first manuscript "Combined in vitro and in vivo investigation of barite microcrystals in Spirogyra (Zygnematophyceae, Charophyta)" is now accepted!!! Congrats Natercia!!!! (posted July 11, 2022)

• We had so much fun participating in "La Nuit de la Science" at le parc de la Perle du Lac on July 9-10, 2022. The weather was so good and we even got a nice group picture in the same T-shirts with the Mont Blanc :) (posted July 11, 2022)

• Commentary article "Crystal nucleation: Rare made common and captured by Raman" by Prof. Baron Peters about our PNAS article appeared online!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a must-read!!! (posted June 8, 2022)

• We are happy to share that our paper "In situ optical spectroscopy of crystallization: One crystal nucleation at a time" is highlighed by PNAS in "This week in PNAS" section. (posted Apr. 25, 2022)

• Unige press release by M. Antoine Guenot, "Revolutionary images of the birth of crystals" is published. Please check out! (posted Apri. 25, 2022)​​​​

• The first paper from the group appeared online in PNAS. "In situ optical spectroscopy of crystallization: One crystal nucleation at a time". Please check out the paper! (posted Apr. 9, 2022)

• Taki is invited to give a talk at the 15th Young Faculty Meeting 2022 in Bern on June 7, 2022 (posted Apr. 6, 2022) 

   

• Taki is invited to give a talk at the McGill Molecular Science Mini-Meeting (M&MS) in Montreal, Canada on June 1-3, 2022. (posted Apr. 6, 2022)

• Taki is invited to give a plenary talk at the Virtual Symposium on Solid-State Organic Chemistry (VS3OC) (May 24, 25, 2022) organized by New York University and Merck&Co Inc. Free registration to attend, so please join if you like! (posted May 20, 2022)

• Taki and Oscar will be presenting a virtual poster at Faraday Discussions (Understanding Crystallisation), Mar 28-30, 2022. (posted Mar.8, 2022)

• Taki is invited to give a talk at PORT Polish Center for Technology Development on Mar. 11, 2022. (posted Mar. 8, 2022)

• Natercia's manuscript "Combined in vitro and in vivo investigation of barite microcrystals in Spirogyra (Zygnematophyceae, Charophyta)" is submitted and under review! (posted Jan. 19, 2022) 

• Taki is invited to give a talk at Center for Emergent Functional Matter Science (CEFMS) seminar series: "Protein dynamics", National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, on Nov. 30. (posted Nov. 29, 2021)

• Natercia is going to present at 19th Swiss Geoscience Meeting (Nov. 19-20). Her talk is titled "Understanding BaSO4 microcrystal formation in the freshwater algae Spirogyra with laser tweezer Raman microspectroscopy and SEM observations". (posted Nov. 19, 2021) 

• Taki is invited to give a talk at UniDays 2021, the event organized by young Swiss Chemical Society. The event is from Nov. 15-19, and he will give a talk on Nov. 16 at 17:15. If you are interested, please register from the link above! (posted: Oct. 26, 2021)

• Ms. Natercia Barbosa joined our group as a PhD student! She has finished her master internship with us and we are very happy that she decided to stay with us for her doctoral study!!! (posted: Oct. 10, 2021)

• Taki is invited to give a talk at the Japan conference on Crystal Growth (JCCG-50, Oct. 27-29) on Oct. 27. His invited contribution will be a part of the special symposium "Non-invasive measurement of crystallization dynamics" (posted: Sep 29, 2021)

• Taki is invited to give a talk at the department seminar at The University of Southern Mississippi (USA) on Sep. 24. (posted: July 14, 2021)

• Oscar will be presenting at SCS fall meeting 2021 on Sep. 10. His oral presentation is titled "Optical spectroscopy on crystal nucleation one nucleus at a time". (posted: July 8, 2021)

• Taki and Oscar will be presenting at ICP 2021 Virtual (July 19-23). Oral presentation by Taki on July 19 at 16:10, "Optical spectroscopy on crystal nucleation one nucleus at a time" in the session S12 Emerging techniques. Poster presentation by Oscar on July 20, "

  Single nucleus spectroscopy on crystal nucleation of amino acids with hydrophobic side chains". (posted: June 16, 2021)

• Natercia will be presenting at GoldSchmidt virtual conference 2021 on July 8. Title of the flash talk is "New insights about barium biomineralization in Spirogyra" (Abstract: https://2021.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/8132) Link to the program: https://2021.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Session/2493) (posted: May 20, 2021)

• Our first manuscript is out the door. Preprint is available on ChemRxiv. (posted: March. 29, 2021)

• Ewa successfully defended her Ph.D. on Dec 10. Congrats Dr. Ewa Drab! Her thesis title is "Cooperative Interaction of Antimicrobial Peptides as an Emerging Nobel Mechanism of Host Defense." (Dec. 10, 2020)

• Mr. Mawolo Dodji Landoukpo joined our group for his 9-months master internship. (Sep. 1., 2020)

• Upon departure of Prof. Sugihara, Ms. Ewa Drab joined our group to complete her graduate study. Welcome! (Apr. 1, 2020)