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Keith talks at Dodd Walls Symposium

Keith talked at the Dodd Walls Symposium, describing the activities of the Science Team (which he heads up as the Deputy Director of Science) Topics discussed were funding for travel – the output awards for finishing students the development of an Early Career Group and how the Science Team could help them.  

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Group at Dodd Walls Symposium

A lot of us are at the Dodd Walls Symposium this week.  Some interesting talks including those by Peter Remoto, ElKhansa ElBashier and Jervee Punzalan. Khansa talked about her work on solar cells Jervee talked about using vibrational spectroscopy and chemometrics for analysis of protein meal from flaxseed. Both great talks Peter is on tomorrrow […]

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Keith comments on new Science article about: Why are parrots so colorful? Study points to simple chemical tweak

Keith recently contributed to a discussion about a paper in Science about parrot feather colors.  The Gordon group did some work in this area.  We used resonance Raman spectroscopy to establish the frequency dispersion of the dyes, called psittacofulvins (R.Soc.Open Sci. 5  (2018) 172010 and  Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 262 (2021) […]

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