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ACROSS Mini-symposium on Aspects of Multidimensional Separations
On 30 November 2009 ACROSS wil host a mini-symposium on Aspects of Multidimensional Separations.
We are delighted to welcome Prof. Georges Guiochon from the University of Tennessee as one of the speakers in this symposium. Other speakers are A/Prof. Andrew Shalliker (University of Westeren Sydney), David Shock (Phenomenex Australia) and Dr. Robert Shellie (University of Tasmania). This event is kindly sponsored by Phenomenex Australia and the University of Tasmania and is free to attend for everyone.
Please, download the brochure here.
Posted: 20 November 2009
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Welcome to ACROSS: Will Percey
We would like to welcome Will Percey to ACROSS.
Will began his PhD in April with Dr. Rosanne Guijt and A/Prof. Sergey Shabala (Agricultural Sciences). Will's project aims to develop new approaches to measure sodium flux from plant roots.
The plan is that Will spends his first year in ACROSS to develop a chip for these measurements and then moves on to performing the actual measurements in the Agricultural Sciences department.
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Welcome to ACROSS: Tim Causon and Esmé Candish
We would like to welcome Tim Causon and Esmé Candish to ACROSS.
Tim began his PhD in February with Dr. Robert Shellie and Dr. Emily Hilder. His project aims to develop new approaches for multidimensional liquid chromatography.
Esmé began Honours in February and will do a project within the Parc centre.
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Welcome to ACROSS: Olga Fedyanina and Stella Brudin
We would like to welcome Olga Fedyanina and Stella Brudin to ACROSS.
Olga comes from Lomonosov Moscow State University. Olga is here
for three months as part of her PhD studies in the area of HPLC
and IC with the objective of doing separations using new stationary
phases, based on microdispersed sintered nanodiamonds. Stella comes
from the University of Amsterdam, also to do part of her PhD studies
with us. In the six months that she will be here she will be focusing
on developing two-dimensional IC separations. We wish both Olga
and Stella all the best in their studies.
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Welcome to ACROSS: Tom Remenyi
We would like to welcome Tom Remenyi to ACROSS.
Tom began his PhD in July in collaboration with IMAS, CMS, QMS and the ACE-CRC. His project aims to quantify dust deposition into the Southern Ocean using a HPCIC system.
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New ACROSS node: University of Western Sydney
We are very pleased and excited to announce the newest ACROSS node at the University of Western Sydney.
The separations group at UWS has two academics (Dr Andrew Shalliker and Dr Gary Dennis) and six PhD students (Coleen Milroy, Paul Stevenson, Arianne Soliven, Kirsty Mayfield, Mariam Mnatsakanyan and David Shock) and two associate research students (Danijela Kocic and Marina Ieracitano (who is visiting from France)).
The UWS node also works in close collaboration with the Nano++ group and the Centre for Complementary Medicine, both at UWS. The focus of research in separations at the UWS node is on liquid phase chromatographic separations. Our primary interest is in the design of separation solutions for complex samples. This involves a multifaceted approach with understandings in theory, column and stationary phase design, multidimensional HPLC and issues that relate to fluid transport phenomena.
Projects of interest include:
- Purification Protocols in Multidimensional RPHPLC
- Design and Behaviour of Phenyl-Type Stationary Phases in RPHPLC
- Metabolomics by 2DHPLC
- Design and Characterisation of Monoliths
- Selectivity Strategies for 2DHPLC
- Antioxidant Activity of Foods Derived from Australian Natives
- Viscous Fingering in Fluidised Porous Beds
- Ultrahigh Resolution Diastereomer separations of Low Molecular Weight Polymers
For more information contact: Associate Professor Andrew Shalliker (02) 9685 9951 or email: r.shalliker@uws.edu.au
Pictured on photo: Upper left to right - Danijela Kocic, Arianne Soliven, Kirsty Mayfield, Lower Left to right - Mariam Mnatsakanyan, David Shock, Marina Ieracitano and Andrew Shalliker.
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Welcome to ACROSS: Lea Mauko
We would like to welcome Lea Mauko to ACROSS.
Lea comes from the National Institute of Chemistry in Slovenia.
Lea is here for PhD studies in the area of.pharmaceutical analysis.
We wish her all the best in her studies.
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Welcome to this world: Bart Guijt
We are delighted to announce the birth of Bart Noah Nicolaas Guijt,
son of Rosanne and Marc.
As you can see Stef is very happy with his little brother.
At birth Bart weighed a healthy 11lbs 4oz (=5106 gr.) and measured
52 cm.
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Welcome to ACROSS: Massoud Kaykhaii
We would like to welcome A/Prof Massoud Kaykhaii to ACROSS.
Massoud comes from Sistan and Balouchistan University in Zahedan, Iran. Massoud earned himself an Endeavour Fellowship from the Australian Government and chose to spend half a year in ACROSS. Massoud will stay in Hobart until January 2009. Massoud's research during this time will be focused on coupling of SPME with IC in order to measure environmentally important anions in water samples.
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Welcome to ACROSS: Clodagh Moy
We would like to welcome Clodagh Moy to ACROSS.
Clodagh joined ACROSS to fulfill the role of Laboratory Technical Officer.
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Welcome to ACROSS: Mylou Evans
We would like to welcome Mylou Evans to ACROSS.
Mylou will take up the role of Administrative Officer to complement Marc one day a week.
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Welcome to ACROSS: Anna Nordborg
We would like to welcome Dr. Anna Nordborg to ACROSS.
Anna joins ACROSS as a postdoctoral fellow working within the Pfizer Analytical Research Centre (PARC). Anna received her PhD in chemistry earlier this year from Umeå University, Sweden, where she
worked within the area of separation materials for chromatographic applications.
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Congratulations to Paul Haddad, Greg Dicinoski, Joe Hutchinson and Pfizer Australia for ARC Linkage success.
Non-discriminatory, universal and sensitive detection technologies
for fluid based separation techniques in the pharmaceutical industry
The proposed research is focused on the specific needs of Australian
and global pharmaceutical industries, and addresses a problem which
is becoming increasingly significant with new classes of pharmaceuticals.
Successful achievement of the goals of the project will result in
major savings of cost and time during drug development and will
lead to the production of safer drugs. The project will expand collaboration
between Australia researchers and the world's largest pharmaceutical
company. Specialised training will be provided to both postdoctoral
and postgraduate researchers, positioning them to make strong contributions
to Australia's growing pharmaceutical industry.
Especially worth mentioning is that Joe earned an APDI with this grant.
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Welcome to ACROSS: Claire Justin
Claire is a third year chemistry student from University of
Warwick (UK) who will spend 3 months in ACROSS to gain research experience as a
part of her undergraduate degree. Claire is working with Ion Chromatography under supervision of Dr Cameron Johns on the
counterterrorism project. Claire
will stay until mid July 2008.
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Farewell to John Keske and welcome to Yi Heng (Ryan) Nai
We would like to farewell John Keske. John worked with us for
three months on the counter-terrorism project, but decided to further
his career in the IT sector. We would like to wish John all the
best for the future.
At the same time we would like to welcome Ryan (photo), who will
progress what John started.
Ryan received his undergraduate degree in Biotechnology (2005)
from UTAS and he completed his Honours with ACROSS in 2006. He
was then employed by the Centre for Marine Biofouling and Bio-Innovation
(CMBB) at the University of New South Wales (Sydney) in 2007-2008
for conducting research in the field of evolutionary ecology.
This research was funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC)
and is in collaboration with the University of Tasmania (UTas)
and the University of Queensland (UQ).
We would like to wish Ryan success in his new role in ACROSS.
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50 Years Journal of Chromatography
We would like to congratulate Journal of Chromatography with their 50 th birthday.
The enormous growth in the number
of articles published on chromatography, and in particular in the
area of bioanalysis, led in 1977 to a separate section on biomedical
applications. The sections were later split further into two
separate journals: Journal of Chromatography A (the “black”
later “blue” section) and Journal of Chromatography B (the
“red” section). Both sections still exist and both do extremely
well.
On the occasion of its birthday a special 'Editor's Choice' issue was published, volume 1184, in Journal of Chromatography A.
From the editorial of this issue we would like to direct your attention to the following;
"The most frequent authors in Journal of Chromatography A
are:
(1) G.A. Guiochon (226 articles)
(2) P.R. Haddad (116 articles)
(3) U.A.Th. Brinkman (107 articles)"
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Welcome to this world: Hannah Eileen Breadmore
We would like to congratulate Michael Breadmore and Anne Palmer with the birth of their beautiful little daughter Hannah.
Hannah was born on Sunday 24th February. She weighed in at 7.1 pounds, measured 50 cm tall and most importantly she is healthy.
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Welcome to Anthony Malone
We would like to welcome Anthony Malone to ACROSS.
Anthony will take up the role of Computing Technical Officer in ACROSS. Rapid expansion of ACROSS over the recent years and the technological needs of modern day science lead to a genuine need of someone like Anthony. We wish Anthony all the best in this new and challenging role.
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Welcome to Dr. John Keske
We would like to welcome Dr. John Keske to ACROSS.
John earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry (1997) from
University of Wisconsin-River Falls (USA) and a PhD in physical chemistry (2001)
from the University of Virginia (USA). He then undertook a NRC postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
working in Boulder, Colorado and Gaithersburg, Maryland. For the Past 5 years
he has been working for the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria,
Virginia where he supported the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department
of Homeland Security by evaluating emerging military and counter-terrorism technologies.
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Robert Shellie wins HTC Award
Congratulations to Robert Shellie on winning the HTC Award.
The HTC Award is awarded for most outstanding and innovative work in the field of hyphenated chromatographic techniques, presented at HTC-10.
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Renewed welcome to Carrie Bloomfield
We would like to welcome Carrie Bloomfield to ACROSS.
Carrie has finished Honours in ACROSS last year, followed by
a summer project with us. After a short break she will take up
an exciting project concerning rock lobsters.
If you would be interested to join her on this project as a PhD
student, then we have a position available for you.
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Welcome to Naama Karu
We would like to welcome Naama Karu to ACROSS.
Naama starts a PhD in ACROSS on ion chromatography. Naama completed
her B.Sc and M.Sc in Biochemistry and Food science at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her M.Sc research focused on
analytical chemistry of secondary metabolites derived from edible
plants.
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Welcome to Dr. Ashraf Ghanem
We would like to welcome Dr. Ashraf Ghanem to ACROSS.
Ashraf Ghanem was born in 1974 in Cairo, Egypt. He studied chemistry at the
University of Stuttgart, Germany where he conducted his master degree research work on the synthesis of optically active cyanohydrins at the Institute of Organic Chemistry under the supervision of Professor Franz Effenberger and in collaboration with Prof. G. H. El-Gemeie, University of Helwan, Egypt. In 1999, he received his master degree and joined the group of Professor Rolf D Schmid at the Institute for Technical Biochemistry, University of Stuttgart and Professor Uwe Bornscheuer currently at the University of Greifswald, Germany, where he worked on the lipase-catalyzed kinetic resolution of dl-menthol. In 2000, he received a scholarship from the graduate college of the German Research Council (DFG) to conduct his PhD at the University of Tuebingen, Germany under the supervision of Prof. Volker Schurig working on the lipase-catalyzed kinetic resolution of racemates. In 2002, he received his PhD and joined the group of Prof. Paul Muller as a postdoctoral fellow at the institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland, where he worked on the asymmetric cyclopropanation of olefins using rhodium catalysts. In 2004, he got a scientist position at the Biomedicinal Chemistry Unit, Biological and Medical Research Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In 2005, he was selected among the hundreds promising scientist from all over the world to participate in the 2005 class fellow at the Biovision NXT 2005, Lyon, France. In 2006, He received a grant award from the King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) for his project " From enzymes to chiral metal catalysts: asymmetric access to enantiomerically pure pharmaceuticals and related compounds"
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Welcome to Wei Boon (Jason) Hon
We would like to welcome Jason to ACROSS. Jason commenced a PhD in ACROSS in November 2007. Jason graduated from UTAS with a Bachelor of Biotechnology in 2006 followed by honours in microbiology in 2007.
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University of Tasmania announces opening of Pfizer Analytical Research Centre at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
The University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia is pleased to announce the establishment of a new research centre targeting innovation and productivity in Pharmaceutical Analytical Sciences. The centre is the result of a collaboration between Pfizer, the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company, and the University of Tasmania.
The collaboration creates a centre of excellence for the development of novel pharmaceutical analytical methods by combining the expertise of the Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science (ACROSS) at the School of Chemistry, University of Tasmania (UTas) with that of Pfizer scientists. The centre, which has been named the University of Tasmania Pfizer Analytical Research Centre (PARC), will be based at the University of Tasmania's Hobart Campus.
PARC is a multidisciplinary collaboration which aims to generate high-throughput, faster, and smarter analytical systems for pharmaceutical analysis and drug discovery, to introduce novel approaches to pharmaceutical analysis, such as green chromatography, and to advance innovative ideas and concepts for analytical work into the 21st century. The UTas PARC centre complements a separate PARC collaboration set up at the Ghent University, Belgium, established in 2003 under the direction of Professor Pat Sandra.
Commenting on the collaboration, Professor Paul Haddad, the University of Tasmania PARC Director, said:
"The establishment of PARC within ACROSS at UTas is a significant initiative for us. This centre provides exciting opportunities to perform cutting-edge research into pharmaceutical separation science with input from one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical companies. The collaboration will provide a direct link between experts in analytical chemistry and the pharmaceutical industry. This will encourage innovative work in this field through the development of faster, smarter and smaller analytical tools."
Under the terms of the 4 year agreement, Pfizer will support post-doctoral staff who will work together with Ph.D. and undergraduate students on jointly agreed research projects.
Pfizer is a participant in the Australian Government's Pharmaceuticals Partnership Program (P3). Under P3, Pfizer is committed to increasing its Research and Development activities in Australia.
For more information, contact:
- Professor Paul Haddad, Director, Australian Centre for Research On Separation Science (ACROSS), School of Chemistry, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia, Email: Paul.Haddad@utas.edu.au, Web: http://www.across.utas.edu.au
- Dr Greg Dicinoski, Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Research On Separation Science (ACROSS), School of Chemistry, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia, Email: Greg.Dicinoski@utas.edu.au, Web: http://www.across.utas.edu.au
- Adrian Dolahenty, Media Communications Manager, Public Affairs and Policy, Pfizer Australia, Phone: 61 2 9850 3488
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Welcome to Prof. David Chen
We would like to welcome Professor David Chen, from the University of British Columbia, Canada, to ACROSS.
David is visiting us for two months and we hope he will have a great and also productive time with us.
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Welcome to ACROSS, Dr. Joselito Quirino
We would like to welcome Dr. Joselito Quirino to ACROSS. Lito took a senior lecturer position in ACROSS for a period of 5 years.
Lito worked in the pharmaceutical industry in California, USA
for the last six years after being a postdoc at Stanford with
Prof. Richard Zare. Before that Lito did his PhD with Prof. Shigeru
Terabe in Hyogo, Japan.
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Prof. Lin from DICP, China visits ACROSS
On 3-4 December 2007, Professor Bingcheng Lin from the Dalian
Institute for Chemical Physics (DICP) in China visited ACROSS.
This visit was part of our collaboration with DICP and was a follow-up from an ACROSS visit to Dalian earlier in the year.
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Farewell to Mr. Joe Towns
We regret to see Joe leave. In the short time he has worked with
us he has proven to be very knowledgable and very efficient in his
work. We would like to wish Joe all the best for the future. We
hope he will be as outstanding in his new role with the Tasmanian
Government as he was with us.
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Robert Shellie wins a 2007 Science and Innovation Awards for Young People in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Since the Science and Innovation Awards began in 2001, they have
directly supported the careers and innovative ideas of one hundred
and seventeen young people throughout Australia.
The future competitiveness of Australian agriculture depends
on the ability of our rural industries to adapt and innovate.
The Awards encourage young scientists and innovators to generate
the ideas that keep Australia at the forefront of scientific and
technological excellence.
The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, the Hon
Peter McGauran, the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation,
Senator the Hon Eric Abetz, and the Parliamentary Secretary to
the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Sussan Ley
presented the winners of the 2007 Science and Innovation Awards
for Young People in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry at a function
at Parliament House on Tuesday 18 September 2007.
Read more...
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Welcome to ACROSS, A/Prof. Chris Palmer
Chris is currently on sabbatical from the University of Montana, where he holds a position of Associate Professor of chemistry. Chris earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry (1985) from Juniata College in Pennsylvania and a PhD in analytical chemistry (1991) from the University of Arizona. He then did a series of three postdocs; at Virginia Tech with Harold McNair, at Unilever Research Laboratory in the Netherlands, and finally at Himeji Institute of Technology with Shigeru Terabe. Chris taught chemistry at New Mexico Tech for 6 years before moving to his current position at the University of Montana.
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Welcome back to ACROSS, Dr. Phil Zakaria
We would like to welcome back Phil Zakaria to ACROSS.
Phil completed a Science degree at UTAS, majoring in Chemistry (1999).
He followed his degree with a PhD in Chemistry (2003). After this
Phil couldn't get enough of UTAS and stayed here to do a postdoc.
In 2004 Phil wanted to see some more of the world and went to work
in a winery in Pipers River. In 2006 Phil moved to Melbourne for
a year. Phil still couldn't get enough of us and now he is back
here with us.
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Welcome to ACROSS, Mr. Joe Towns
We would like to welcome Joe Towns to ACROSS. Joe will strengthen
our team in his position as Technical Officer.
Joe completed a Science degree at UTAS, majoring in Chemistry and
Physics (2000). He followed his degree with a Diploma of Education
(UNE, 2001) and began his career teaching HSC Chemistry and Physics
in Sydney. Since this time he has worked as a Health Physicist (DHHS,
2006) and as a Scientist (Norske Skog Technical Support & Development,
2007).
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Welcome to ACROSS, Professor Milko Novic
Milko is visiting ACROSS from the National Institute of Chemistry
of Slovenia for a period of five weeks. We are happy to welcome
him back after very succesful previous visits.
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ACROSS visit to DICP, Dalian, China
On Monday 4th June, a delegation of researchers from ACROSS visited Prof. Bingcheng Lin's group at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), in Dalian, China, for the inaugural meeting on the joint Australia-China grant for revolutionising lab-on-a-chip technology. After fruitful scientific discussion and a delicious lunch, ACROSS researchers were given a laboratory tour of the impressive facilities and innovative research being conducted in microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip technology by Prof. Lin's group. Michael and Rowan spent a further 2 weeks with the group making microfluidic devices and performing experiments, and the time was both enjoyable and productive. ACROSS looks forward to hosting a return visit from DICP delegates later this year and to also return to Dalian in China in 2008 and 2009.
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Early tests for devil disease
Congratulations to Michael Breadmore, Emily Hilder and Robert Shellie for securing yet another research grant. ARC has provided them with $85,000 through a Linkage Grant to do research over the period of one year on developing a way to test Tasmanian devils for the deadly facial tumour disease before the tumours appear.
Read more...
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Welcome to ACROSS: Amy Hewison and Sebastian Rochefort
Amy and Sebastian are third year chemistry students from University of
Warwick (UK) who spend 3 months in ACROSS to gain research experience as a
part of their undergraduate degree. Amy is working with Capillary
Electrophoresis under supervision of Dr Joe Hutchinson on the
counterterrorism project. Sebastian is developing a system for open tubular
ion chromatography under supervision of Dr Rosanne Guijt. Amy and Sebastian
will stay until late June 2007.
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Fullbright Postgraduate Scholarship for Oscar Potter
Oscar Potter, a second year PhD student in ACROSS under the supervision of Drs Emily Hilder and Michael Breadmore, has been awarded a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship is one of just seven general postgraduate scholarships awarded to Australian postgraduate students this year by the Australian-American Fulbright Commission. Oscar will travel to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California to undertake an eight month internship at their new Molecular Foundry, a nanoscience user facility charged with providing support to research in nanoscience underway in academic, government and industrial laboratories around the world. There, he will continue work on his doctoral research on "materials and techniques for integrated microscale bioanalytical devices" under the direction of Professors Frantisek Svec and Jean Fréchet. In addition to the opportunity to work with such world-renowned scientists, Oscar is also hoping that the advanced equipment and expertise at the Molecular Foundry will allow him to accelerate his project.
Oscar's internship represents an important development in the existing collaborative agreement between ACROSS and the Organic Nanostructures Facility at the Molecular Foundry with both groups conducting complimentary research projects involving microfluidic chip fabrication and polymer monoliths as functional materials.
Photo: Oscar Potter (right), US Ambassador Richard McCallum (centre) and Ben Mooney (left)
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Welcome to ACROSS: Professor Pavel Nesterenko
Professor Pavel N. Nesterenko has taken up a position to strengthen
research in ACROSS for the next five years.
He obtained a PhD (1982) and DSc (1999) in analytical chemistry
from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. His research interests
are in separation sciences, including high-performance liquid chromatography,
ion chromatography, size-exclusion chromatography, chiral chromatography
capillary zone electrophoresis and chromatofocusing. Non traditional
separation modes based on novel adsorption materials and with novel
approaches to separation including multidimensional separations.
Design of new adsorption materials for specific purposes including
biochemistry and biotechnology.
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Welcome to ACROSS: Professor Wolfgang Buchberger
Professor Wolfgang Buchberger is spending a six months sabbatical in ACROSS.
He studied chemistry in Vienna and obtained a PhD (1978) in Linz, Austria. After several years and different research positions Wolfgang returned to Linz to take up a position of full professor in 1996.
Prof. Buchberger has spent research time Australia on several occasions and in different places around the country.
His research interests include organic trace analysis and separation science, focusing on hyphenation of chromatography and electrophoresis with mass spectrometry.
Except basic research Prof Buchberger's group in Linz, Austria maintains many cooperations with the chemical industry in Europe.
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Welcome to ACROSS: Dr Chris Evenhuis
Chris Evenhuis completed his PhD in 2006. In 2007, he is employed as a post-doctoral fellow with some teaching responsibilities in 1st Year Chemistry. His research involves the characterization of monoliths in capillaries used for ion chromatography. These materials offer the potential advantage of using much higher flow rates than those used for traditional packed particle columns without very high back-pressures or a loss of performance. His goal is to see if capacitively coupled contactless conductivity measurements can be used to characterize the monolith at each stage of its production, from the initial formation of the polymer scaffold, to its functionalisation and eventual coating with nanoparticles.
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Overseas visitors: Luigi Mondello and Paola Dugo
Professor Luigi Mondello and Professor Paola Dugo from the Mediterranean
Separation Science Foundation Research and Training Centre at the
University of Messina, Italy, were in Hobart from 4-7 August as
guests of ACROSS. Luigi and Paola presented a seminar in the School
of Chemistry on Friday 4 August. We thank Luigi and Paola for their
visit. With scientific interests and geographical features in common,
we look forward to fruitful collaboration between Tasmania and Sicily.
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Welcome to this world: Stef Guijt
We are pleased to announce the birth of Stef Pieter Guijt, son of Marc and Rosanne Guijt. Stef is a healthy baby boy born on 23 June 2006 at 11.00AM in the Hobart Private Hospital. At birth Stef weighed 3896 grams and measured 53 cm.
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Federation Fellowship for Paul Haddad
On Thursday 11 May 2006 the Minister for Education, Science and
Training the Hon Julie Bishop MP awarded Australian Research Council
(ARC) Federation Fellowships to 25 world-class researchers in Canberra.
Professor Paul Haddad was named one of the Federation Fellows.
The ARC's Federation Fellowships are highly prestigious awards designed to develop and retain Australian skills; assist with the development of stronger links between researchers, industry and the international research community and provide opportunities for outstanding Australian researchers to return to, or remain in, key positions in Australia.
To read more about Federation Fellowships have a look at the ARC Website |
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NSSTU visit to ACROSS
On Friday 21 April 2006 three visitors associated with the National
Security Science and Technology Unit of Prime Minister and Cabinet
came to Hobart for a progress meeting on "Development of Enhanced
Chromatographic and Electrophoretic Explosive Trace Detection Systems".
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Overseas visitor: Frantisek Svec
We were pleased to welcome Professor Frantisek Svec (LBNL Molecular
Foundry, Berkeley, USA) to Hobart for a short visit from 12-18 April
2006. Professor Svec gave a tremendous amount of useful input to
projects running within ACROSS. We look forward to extension of
our collaboration in the future.
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Welcome to Joe Hutchinson, Farewell to Mirek Macka
After a year as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University
of Waterloo, Canada, we would like to welcome back Joe Hutchinson
(picture) to our research team. Joe is a UTAS graduate and will
be working on "Development of portable CE instrumentation for
post-blast identification of explosive residues using contactless
conductivity and LED detection" under Program 8 as mentioned
in our research pages.
After many years Mirek Macka, also a UTAS graduate, moved to Dublin
City University to progress his career. Mirek took up a Marie Curie
Fellowship for a period of five years. We wish him all the best
in Ireland.
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Dean's Awards for Research Excellence 2006
The ACROSS New Generation Research Group consisting of Dr. Andrew Bowie, Dr. Michael Breadmore, Dr. Rosanne Guijt, Dr. Emily Hilder, Dr. Cameron Johns, Dr. Anne Palmer and Dr. Robert Shellie were awarded with a Dean's Award for Research Excellence 2006.
The prize was presented on Wednesday 29 March 2006 at Government
House in Hobart by the governor of Tasmania, the Hon. William J.E.
Cox.
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ARC visit to UTAS
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 ACROSS hosted a visit from the Australian
Research Council consisting of ARC CEO Professor Peter Høj
and Executive Directors Dr Mandy Thomas and Professor Erich Weigold.
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ACROSS Annual Report 2008
To view the ACROSS Annual Report 2008, please click here
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