Hello All,
We have received (indirectly) some emails asking for help. They were
posted to rec-submission(a)ynic.york.ac
This is the address to send ethics applications, not a email queue that we
monitor for general issues. To avoid undue delays please send requests for
help etc to support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Many thanks
Tony
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Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
The second talk described below may be of interest
*JEOL Postdoc Competition Winners’ Seminar *
*Thursday 20th September *
*13.00-15.00*
*C/A101*
*13.00 Dr. Aggie Lawer*
*"Synthesis of functionalised peptides/macrocycles and medium-size **rings
via stereoselective fluorination and SuRE/NICE chemistry"*
Insertion of fluorine into organic molecules is well-known to affect the
molecules’ electronic distribution and conformation in ways that can be
beneficial in drug development. However, the effects of fluorination have
not been widely investigated in the context of peptides, which limits the
development of peptide-based drugs. In the first part of the talk, I will
discuss how stereoselective fluorination was used to control the conformations
of peptides and enhance the potency of a peptide-based enzyme inhibitor. While
peptides/macrocycles and medium-size rings have recently gained
noteworthy interest
in the area of medicinal chemistry, their synthesis is mostly limited to
the traditional end-to-end macrocyclisations which suffer from unfavourable
thermodynamic factors, and oftentimes require the use of high dilution
conditions. In the second part of my talk, I’ll describe how Successive
Ring Expansion (SuRE) and N-acyl Iminium ion mediated Cyclisation/Expansion
(NICE) reactions developed in Unsworth group could be employed to overcome
these limitations, providing an efficient, scalable and practical route to
make diverse macrocycles and medium-size rings.
*13.45 Dr. Peter Rayner *
*"Tunable Hyperpolarisation by Synthetic Design"*
NMR and MRI are two of the most popular techniques to study molecules and
materials. However, both of these approaches are insensitive and
hyperpolarization methods to increase signal size are needed in order to
access new applications. This talk will describe how rational synthetic
design of both the contrast agents and N-heterocyclic carbene catalysts
utilized in the Signal Amplification by Reversible Exchange process, have
led to signals that are up to 120,000 times larger than those achieved on a
typical hospital scanner and can be observed many minutes after their
creation. These improvements have allowed the observation of hyperpolarized
molecules by in vivo MRI techniques.
*The seminar will be followed at 14.30 by refreshments*
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hello All,
The Remote Desktop is now up and running. We are still closed for
maintenance and upgrades so while we hope the service will run
uninterrupted, there may be unplanned outages.
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Apologies, All, the GE scanner is down until further notice. The water
chiller that we have been having difficulties with has finally given up the
ghost. Plans for replacement are underway.
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hello All,
1. A day for your diaries: 14th September 'YNiC Science Day' will be held
in B020. More details to follow from Jonny nearer the time.
2. YNiC will be close 11th September to reopen 24th September. This will
allow for our annual maintenance and upgrades to the centre.
3. As many of you may know, we had a significant period of unscheduled down
time on the GE scanner. The problem has now been fixed.
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Dear All,
*The Science Day 2018*, held in our department, is slowly approaching us.
During that day, Jonny and I would like to display posters that YNiC users,
especially ECRs, have presented at conferences over the last year. If any
of you have posters buried in dust in the dark corners of your offices and
would like them to see a daylight again, please let us know.
NOTE: It is not required to stand next to the poster, so even if you are
away on that day, we can still present your awesome work to the department.
I will arrange collection of your posters from you, so to make it happen
just drop me an email.
Many thanks,
Magda
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*Magdalena W. Sliwinska, PhD*
Research Associate
Department of Psychology
University of York
Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
tel: 01904323177
Hi all,
I am afraid that the GE scanner is in need of repair that means it may
be out of service for at least a week. In light of the recent UK weather
patterns, you will probably not be surprised to hear that this is due to
the failure of one of the water chillers.
We will keep you updated with the status of the scanner.
Best wishes,
--
André
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André Gouws PhD
Manager of Imaging Services
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5NY
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 435327
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Hi All,
Our talk on Thursday at 4pm will be....
*Andrew Logan, Bradford University*
*Title:* Quantifying impairments of face perception in age-related macular
degeneration
*This project aimed to develop a new method of testing face perception
ability which is suitable for use in a clinical environment. Our data
quantify the impact of age-related macular degeneration- the leading cause
of irreversible visual impairment in the UK- on face perception; an
everyday visual function with links to quality of life.*
Refreshments available afterwards
Best wishes
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hi all,
We will be hosting a project presentation by Sara Stampacchia at YNiC
tomorrow (Thurs 19th) at 4pm: “Exploring the neural substrate of control
over memory representations”.
Please join us for the presentation and discussion to be followed by
light refreshments.
Best wishes,
André
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André Gouws PhD
Manager of Imaging Services
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5NY
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 435327
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Hello All,
Come to the air-conditioned cool at YNiC on Thursday at 4pm to hear David
Pitcher talk about:
1. Mapping the functional connections of V5/MT: A combined TMS/fMRI study
2. Measuring the time line of face recognition using TMS and ERP
These will be project presentations that offer everyone the chance to learn
about approaches investigators using the centre employ to do their
research.
All welcome and refreshments will be provided.
Tony
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Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.