January 2012
An International Training Network grant on Systems Chemistry has started during which the Ulijn laboratory will be working with collaborators across Europe.
Read more at the new website just launched here.
December 2011
The Ulijn group has been awarded a Bridging The Gaps (BTG) grant awarded for pilot study on the construction of reconfigurable soft matter for selective ion binding in collaboration with Neil Hunt, Maxim Federov and Charles Knapp.
December 2011
The Ulijn group has been awarded a £28K feasibility grant from the Korean Institute for Advancement of Technology award to facilitate new collaboration with Korean companies.
November 2011
Strathclyde University has approved the formation of BioGells, a start-up company which will aim to commercialise peptide gels for in vitro cell culture applications.
October 2011
Rein was awarded a $452k grant from US Air Force from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research to investigate the electronic properties of self assembling peptide nanostructures.
September 2011
Meghan’s paper on two-dimensional peptide nanostructures published in Soft Matter!
For more information about these nano-sheets access the full paper here.
March 2011
Congratulations to Lynsey who recently won two poster prizes at the 12th annual meeting of the Surface Science and Biologically Important Interfaces (SSBII) meeting held in Belfast and at the 6th annual meeting of the RSC Biomaterials Chemistry group held at Warwick University in January.
You can see Lynsey in front of her poster here.
February 2011
Polymer Chemistry have identified a new paper from the Ulijn group as a Hot Article. The article describe a collaboration with the Univesity of Montreal to create polymer bioconjugates that are both thermally and enzymatically responsive. This article will feature in a forthcoming Emerging Investigators themed issue of Polymer Chemistry and is mentioned on their blog here.
October 2010
In a new Nature Chemistry paper, we show how we have been able to control the structural organization of self-assembling building blocks by enzymatic catalysis. A range of structures, representing local minima in the free energy landscape, could be accessed from a single precursor building block. Although it seems counter-intuitive, gels that assembled faster showed fewer defects.
September 2010
Rein has been awarded, with Brian Saunders from the University of Manchester, a £250K research grant from the EPSRC. The grant will fund two PhD students and will focus on the development of phosphatase responsive microgel systems for biomedical applications.
August 2010
Rein and Dek Woolfson are the co-editors of a new themed issue of Chemical Society Reviews: Peptide and protein based materials in 2010: from design and structure to function and application. This issue is packed with contributions from the leading laboratories in this exciting field.
August 2010
Rein Ulijn has been awarded a 1.5M Euro starting grant from the European Research Council. The grant will fund three postdoctoral researchers and will investigate "biocatalytic self-assembly" and its applications in biomedical and energy technologies.
July 2010
Lynsey's poster presentation was picked out as a highlight of the Challenges in Physical Chemistry and Nanoscience conference in Hungary by RSC blogger Philip Broadwith. He was impressed with her colorimetric elastase assay. Read more here.
March 2010
A new paper by Jan and Rein shows an enzyme-driven dynamic supramolecular peptide system which displays multiple reversible pathways. This system gives rise to emergent properties that are dictated by environmental conditions and that can be locked in a gel-state. Read more here.
March 2009
A new Ulijn group paper has been published in Small describing a method for controlling the solubility of carbon nanotubes by enzymes. Read more about this new use for Fmoc dipeptides here. The account is illustrated by an inside cover as seen here.
March 2009
A new Soft Matter paper has been published reporting on improved protease sensitive beads for enchanced response under physiological conditions. You can read the paper itself here, and Chemical Biology's comment here.
January 2009
Nature Nanotechnology paper published. You can find our paper on enzyme-catalysed reactions driving self-assembly here and a News & Views article by Sijbren Otto discussing the work here.
[Paper] [News & Views]
September 2008
Rein Ulijn appointed to new WestCHEM chair based at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
July 2008
PSV Reindhoven triumph again in the MIB Football tournament! A reinforced Team Ulijn triumphed again despite Rein being sidelined by injury.
January 2008
Rein Ulijn wins Macro Group UK Young Researchers Medal, to be presented at the Frontiers of Research and Young Researchers Meeting at Warwick University
in April 2008.
[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/cim/research/dove/conferences/frontiers-yrm_flier.pdf]
September 2007
Read Rein Ulijn's Blog interview at Nature.com
[http://blogs.nature.com/thescepticalchymist/2007/09/reactions_rein_ulijn_1.html]
August 2007
Team Ulijn Triumph in inaugural MIB football tournament!
April 2007
Rein Ulijn receives Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award.
[http://www.mib.ac.uk/news.aspx]
February 2007
Rein Ulijn talks to Soft Matter about his latest paper "Enzyme-triggered cell
attachment to hydrogel surfaces":
[http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/sm/News/hot_ulijn.asp]
June 2006
Hydrogels research highlighted in Chemistry & Industry:
[http://www.chemind.org/CI/articles.jsp]
May 2006
Dr Ulijn’s research highlighted in Materials Today:
[http://www.materialstoday.com/pdfs/may_2006/research_news.pdf]
Enzyme-Responsive Materials research highlighted in Chemical Science:
[http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemScience/Volume/2006/06/smart_materials.asp]
March 2006
Dr Ulijn interviewed by regenerationnet.com, the network for regenerative biology:
[http://www.regenerationnet.com/files/Rein.pdf]