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Welcome to Alice and Prabhakar

Posted on 12 March 2018 by Robert Mart

Welcome to Alice and Prabhakar, who have just joined us as PDRAs working on exciting new terpene projects.

Hello/Goodbye!

Posted on 11 January 2018 by Robert Mart

Welcome to Huw Pople, who joins us as a PhD student and congratulations to Marianna who passed her viva today!

Congratulations Antonio!

Congratulations Antonio!

Posted on 24 October 2017 by Robert Mart

Slightly belated congratulations to Antonio, who passed his viva last week and will remain in the Allemann group to continue his work on cofactor chemistry.

Welcome Jennifer and Gwawr!

Welcome Jennifer and Gwawr!

Posted on 24 October 2017 by Robert Mart

Welcome to Jennifer and Gwawr who joined us at the beginning of October. Both will work on terpene cyclase projects.

Presentation Prize for Rob Hughes

Presentation Prize for Rob Hughes

Posted on 19 May 2017 by Robert Mart

Congratulations to Rob Hughes, who won the Glib Meleshko Memorial Prize for Best Research Lecture by a postgraduate student at the recent Cardiff Chemistry Conference. Rob impressed the audience by […]

BBC News Highlights Flow Chemistry

Posted on 17 February 2017 by Robert Mart

Our recent work on enzymatic transformations in flow has been publicised on the BBC News website, with Dr Xiaoping Tang appearing in the accompanying video with Professors Wirth and Allemann. […]

Not Your Grandfather’s Chemistry

Posted on 5 February 2017 by Robert Mart

A robust response to a frequent complaint: In recent years, the awards of Nobel Prize in Chemistry has generated discontent among some chemists who complain that more and more the […]

Watch Our New Flow Video

Posted on 31 January 2017 by Robert Mart

This video abstract accompanies Xiaoping's new paper in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry and visually describes how the yield of terpene cyclase reactions can be dramatically improved using a […]

Flow Enzymology

Posted on 20 January 2017 by Robert Mart

In a new paper in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Xiaoping shows how the yield of terpene cyclase reactions can be dramatically improved using a flow reactor. In cases […]

New BBRSC Grant Awarded

Posted on 15 January 2017 by Robert Mart

The BBSRC has recently awarded a grant to a collaborative proposal between the Allemann, Luk and Tsai groups from the Cardiff University School of Chemistry and Prof. Arwyn Jones from […]