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UQ Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences

Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 7 3365 3925

Address: Chemistry Bld 68, Cooper Rd, St Lucia 4072 Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.scmb.uq.edu.au

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24.01.2022 Congratulations to the winners of the SCMB Student Awards for academic achievement in 2019 who were recognised at a virtual ceremony conducted via Zoom this afternoon. Following the announcement of the awards, our winners, their friends and families, our generous sponsors and our staff heard from Head of School Professor Paul Young on the journey his research team has made in their efforts to develop a vaccine for COVID-19.

24.01.2022 Staff and students from UQ's School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences were tasked with transforming their science into artwork for the #SciArt competition.... Click through the images to discover where each piece of art comes from. Made some #SciArt of your own? Post a pic in the comments or use the hashtag #SciArt to share! UQ Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences

24.01.2022 SCMB's COVID-19 research response involves a number of groups in the school. Here's a look at one of them.

24.01.2022 The most prominent voices of the COVID-19 pandemic have been revealed on the Australian Science Media Centre, including SCMB's Professor Paul Young. The University of Queensland was also listed as the second most prominent university of the pandemic regarding mentions in coronavirus stories in leading newspapers and news websites. Read the full story: https://bit.ly/3dDgw2Y

23.01.2022 Congratulations to Dr Kirsty Short on being part of the team to receive funding to look at COVID immunity.

23.01.2022 Congratulations to Kusumitha Shrinivasan, recipient of the SCMB India Scholarship, commencing her Master of Biotechnology program this semester. The SCMB India and Latin America scholarships pay some of a student's tuition fees and the Student Services & Amenities Fee for the duration of the program. More information at https://bit.ly/2Dg79d7.

22.01.2022 Watch a quantum physicist, a postdoc, a teacher, a PhD student and an honours student talk job interviews, emails, making the most of undergrad, and how to talk... to people at networking events, as well as discussing role models, great educators, and the value of encouraging and supporting diversity in the science field! See more

22.01.2022 UQs potential COVID-19 vaccine is entering an important new phase of testing.

21.01.2022 First Nations Biotechnology student Keely Perry talks about her journey so far.

21.01.2022 Another significant milestone in UQ's development of a COVID-19 vaccine. Congratulations to Paul Young, Keith Chappell, Trent Munro and the whole team. tinyurl.com/y9vgfrvv

21.01.2022 COVID-19 Update

20.01.2022 Congratulations to the winners of SCMB's annual staff awards, including tutors from second and summer semesters 2019.

20.01.2022 Behind the News caught up with some Aussie kids whose parents are part of the race to find a vaccine for COVID-19.

19.01.2022 Are you a student seeking a research opportunity within our centre? It's not too late to apply for the UQ Summer Research Program! Undergraduate and postg...raduate coursework students who are interested in the opportunity to complete an exciting research project during the summer should apply! Scholarships (up to $3600) are available for selected students! The 2020/2021 Summer Research Program will run for 6-10 weeks between November and February. We have FOUR exciting Summer Research Projects to apply for: New Late-stage Aromatic 18F-Fluorinations for PET imaging Development of polymer theranostics for targeted therapeutic delivery for cancer research Developing customised 3D coil liners for MRI subjects Determining targeting ligand nanomedicine association using biophysical characterisation techniques for cancer research Be quick - applications close THIS SUNDAY, 27 September! To find out more, visit: bit.ly/2DLkZE8

19.01.2022 The UQ Women in Science podcast series features SCMB's Dr Kirsty Short as the interviewer.

19.01.2022 Want to know more about Biophysics? This UQ Chemistry (Student) Club video could help you.

18.01.2022 Ben Schulz and his PhD student Edward Kerr, along with a campus Jacaranda tree, are behind a new beer, all thanks to biochemistry.

18.01.2022 UQ's COVID-19 effort recognised with AusBiotech Industry Excellence Award.

16.01.2022 Australia's coronavirus vaccine is one step closer to becoming a reality, with pre-clinical trials taking place in the Netherlands. The University of Queensland is playing a major role in it as part of an international collaboration and human trials could even start within a few months.

15.01.2022 Featuring our own Kirsty Short and Paul Young as part of National Science Week. #nationalscienceweek

13.01.2022 Congratulations to David De Oliviera of the Mark Walker lab and colleagues on a discovery that aids the fight against superbug infection.

13.01.2022 Students interested in the Chemistry Club might like to join this chat community.

13.01.2022 After much planning and preparation, students able to attend prac classes are back in the labs. We've also worked hard to develop online alternatives designed to deliver on the learning objectives of our courses. Let's hope this semester is a little easier than the last for everybody.

13.01.2022 Chemistry Building reflected in the new Liveris Building.

10.01.2022 COVID-19 vaccine research announcement.

10.01.2022 How to donate to the COVID-19 research fund.

10.01.2022 This discovery by the Mark Schembri lab and partners, published in Nature, takes an important step towards dealing with the worrying problem of antibiotic resistance.

08.01.2022 Lights, camera, action! Our staff in the teaching laboratories have become actors, directors and video editors as they prepare practical class content for online second semester courses. We look forward to welcoming those students able to join us this coming semester, be it in person or online.

07.01.2022 Another milestone in the development of a UQ vaccine for SARS-CoV-2.

06.01.2022 Our Research Students Advisory Group and volunteers have been working to hold the annual symposium - let's get behind it.

06.01.2022 The Australian Centre for Ecogenomics within SCMB provides the specialist sequencing services to enable this important research.

05.01.2022 Congratulations to the Luke Guddat lab on this breakthrough, published in Nature, and with significant implications to agriculture and health.

05.01.2022 Head of School and COVID-19 vaccine research group leader Professor Paul Young features in ABC-TVs Four Corners investigation.

04.01.2022 SCMB's Dr Kirsty Short in conversation with Prof Mary Garson on Mary's 30 years as a woman scientist at UQ - the latest in the UQ Women in Science podcast series. https://soundcloud.com/womeninscience/professor-mary-garson

03.01.2022 Mark Schembri discusses his team's findings about gene-sharing by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

03.01.2022 Luke Guddats lab part of international team to identify drug candidates for COVID-19 treatment.

02.01.2022 Another great milestone for the SCMB COVID-19 vaccine research group. #covid19research

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