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Issue # 145
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| Dr Anita R Maguire, Chemistry, has been made a core researcher of The Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, UCD. Dr Maguire, the only researcher outside of UCD to be involved in the Institute, has been awarded a budget of £30,000 per annum for two years for the purposes of hiring a postdoctoral scientist. The research project supported by the Conway Institute will be conducted in the Department of Chemistry at UCC by Dr Sophie Kalsey and involves collaboration with Professor Paul Engel's research group in the Department of Biochemistry at UCD. The research is in the area of biotransformations and involves investigation of a novel biocatalysts at a molecular level to explore their reactivity and determine their application in the asymmetric synthesis of bioactive compounds. |  |
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| The practical use of these compounds is their potential as pharmaceutical agents. This new avenue of research is complementary to work on biotransformations already underway in the research group in Cork. The Conway Institute has been established through the recent HEA Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions initiative. | |
Cultural Visit of Acclaimed Writer
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| The French Department invited Annie Ernaux, the controversial French writer whose works are featured on French degree programmes in Ireland, to visit UCC to meet students and to give a public lecture. Her visit coincided with the publication of two of her most recent works, L'Envénment and La Vie Quotidienne. Also invited to speak was Lyn Thomas, Senior Lecturer in French at University of North London and author of Annie Ernaux: An Introduction to the Writer and her Audience. The visit was organised by Mary Noonan of the French Department as part of the French Embassy's projects de coopération programme, which facilitates cultural exchanges between France and Ireland. | |
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