Two weeks ago, Alexandre Bringuet β a Master student @chimieparistechpsl.bsky.social β joined our team for a five-month internship. He will study CO2 capture reactions for the construction of new azaheterocycles, supervised by our PhD student Fien Vanhecke. Welcome Alexandre! @synbioc.bsky.social
Last week, our PhD student Maya Boone presented her work on the preparation of curcuminoid-lanthanide complexes at the 15th Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry Conference in Lisbon π, @synbioc.bsky.social, @fbwugent.bsky.social
Need Pemafibrate? Check out our new route to this PPARΞ± agonist, allowing for the efficient and low-cost preparation of enantiopure Pema at the multigram scale β developed by our PhD student Felien Morlion: dx.doi.org/10.1002/open.... @synbioc.bsky.social @fbwugent.bsky.social
Our biology paper on curcumin-based benzothiazepane analogs with selective anticancer activity (Prof. Van Camp lab) is now published in Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @synbioc.bsky.social @fbwugent.bsky.social @crighent.bsky.social @sciencedirect.bsky.social
Our SynBioC PhD student Ulrike Ronse presenting our work related to HDAC6 inhibitor development at the MedChem 2025 meeting in Ghent (Dec. 15th) π @synbioc.bsky.social @fbwugent.bsky.social @crighent.bsky.social
Innovating today for a sustainable tomorrow RRB2026 Conference from 1-3 June 2026 in Leuven, Belgium Quotes from Prof Chris Stevens and Prof Pedro Fardim.
#RRB2026 1-3 June in Leuven
Innovating Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow!
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New paper alert π’ Our review article on lanthanide nucleotide coordination polymers for sensing applications is published in Coordination Chemistry Reviews: doi.org/10.1016/j.cc... @synbioc.bsky.social @fbwugent.bsky.social @elsevierconnect.bsky.social
Our former @synbioc.bsky.social postdoc Goran Poje presenting his research on harmine-curcuminoid hybrids at the EFMC-ASMC 2025 conference in Porto π @fbwugent.bsky.social @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social @euromedchem.bsky.social
Our @synbioc.bsky.social PhD student Kato Bredael presenting her research on monocyclic Ξ²-lactam antibacterials at the EFMC-ASMC 2025 conference in Porto π @fbwugent.bsky.social @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social @euromedchem.bsky.social
Our review paper on the synthesis and antibacterial properties of C4-functionalized Ξ²-lactams is published in @wiley.com: doi.org/10.1002/cmdc... @synbioc.bsky.social @fbwugent.bsky.social @chsteven.bsky.social
Our PhD student Ulrike Ronse presenting a decade of work on HDAC6 in our group at the Medicinal Chemistry Frontiers conference 2025 in Chicago π @synbioc.bsky.social @fbwugent.bsky.social
Check out our new paper on 3-imino-Ξ²-lactam chemistry, published in J. Org. Chem.: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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#SynBioC Proud about our SynBioC team who participated at the Sofico Ghent Half Marathon last Sunday! We love: "Work hard, play hard" @chsteven.bsky.social @dhooghe-group.bsky.social @smangelinckx.bsky.social @thegreenchemlab.bsky.social
Get to know our enthousiastic SynBioC research group @chsteven.bsky.social @dhooghe-group.bsky.social @smangelinckx.bsky.social @thegreenchemlab.bsky.social
New post: I wrote about a recent PROTAC linker design study that drives home the thoroughness with which you have to experimentally and computationally investigate linker flexibility and properties. It's a great role model for practitioners in the field. medchemash.substack.com/p/the-variet...
Significant progress in sustainable chemistry: researchers from the #unibern and the RIKEN Institute have been able to produce organic #molecules using a chemical reaction based on the sustainable metals #sodium and #iron: mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releas... @evaheviagroup.bsky.social
New paper! Our work on cancer cell cytotoxic benzothiazepanes (part 3), in collaboration with the Rega Institute @kuleuven.bsky.social, is published in J. Heterocyclic Chem.: dx.doi.org/10.1002/jhet... @fbwugent.bsky.social @wiley.com #curcumin
New Paper Alert! See our joint SynBioC β VIB-CMB work on #HDAC6 ubiquitin-binding domain inhibitors published in Eur. J. Med. Chem. doi.org/10.1016/j.ej... @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, with @rjharding.bsky.social, KU Leuven, @csbugent.bsky.social, K. Van Hecke. @fbwugent.bsky.social
This #OrgLett cover by Guillermo Correa Otero demonstrates human error in mass spec report checking. Instead use CheckAMM!
Editorial by EIC Marisa Kozlowski introducing CheckAMM:
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What @christmann.bsky.social found checking AMM reports:
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Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Teambuilding activity at the Christmas market in Ghent π
Congratulations to our new SynBioC doctor Katarina Magdalenic for the excellent work on curcuminoids, and many thanks to Prof. Zrinka Rajic from the University of Zagreb for acting as an external jury member!
It was a pleasure to host Prof. Annette Bayer from the Artic University of Norway today, who gave a very inspiring lecture about stereoselective CO2 fixation and beta-lactamase inhibitor design