School of Chemistry

Poster prize win.

In December Kathryn Evans, a PhD student in Dr. Julie Fisher’s group, was awarded the Bruker BioSpin Student Poster Prize ($250) for the work she presented at the ANZMAG 2011 meeting held in Victoria, Australia.

Kathryn collected her prize from Dr. Peter Barron of Bruker Spectrospin (pictured). The winning poster described Kathryn’s UV thermal melting and NMR studies (including structure generation) on a DNA hairpin interacting with a single strand to form triple helical DNA. Kathryn’s work is aimed at establishing factors which stabilise triplex formation, the complex formed in the antigene therapeutic strategy.