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The JEOL Student Lecture Competition was started at the Meeting at Lancaster University in 1997, through the years the lectures have gained in popularity and in prestige. There are three 20 minute lecture slots allocated for these lectures

The competition is open to second and third year posgraduate students, also to Postdoctoral Fellows in their first year of a postdoctoral appointment after gaining their PhD. To enter for the JEOL competition the students must indicate their wish to enter on the conference registration form, and also submit an abstract of their proposed talk, preferably along with their registration, certainly within the deadline shown on the registration form. Since students are also eligible for a discount, they also need a letter from their supervisor stating that they are bone fides students.

 

Note that the discounts for the meeting only apply to postgraduates, and to postdoctorates in their first year. Second and further year Postdoctoral Fellows are not eligible. The applications to lecture are then considered by the ESR Group Committee, who choose three participants, using the lecture abstracts as a guide.

 

The abstracts of the three lectures, apart from being used to select who enters the competition, will also appear in the conference proceedings, so should be prepared carefully, and should describe the proposed lecture clearly and concisely. Diagrams and formulae etc, can be used, and we encourage the use of these to explain the work. If you have more questions, please email Chris Kay, the Group Secretary.

 

The lectures are judged by the ESR Group Committee on the basis of both the scientific content of each lecture and the manner in which it is delivered. The winner of the competition is presented with a monetary prize together with an engraved medal from JEOL. All of the participants have their names recorded on the ESR Group website.

An EPR Spin Trapping Study of Free Radical Intermediates Formed during the Heterogeneous Photocatalytic Mineralisation of Aldehydes.C. A. Jenkins, University of Wales, Cardiff

An EPR Investigation into Living Free radical Polymerization.K. Fraser, University of York

Potential Role of Ethanol generated Hydroxyethyl radicals in the heptatotoxicity of Ethanol. P. Navasumrit, Peterson Institute for Cancer Research, Manchester.

 

1998

Study of strongly overlapping Rh2+ EPR spectra by high resolution magnetic resonance techniques. K. Sabbe, University of Ghent, Belgium

Study of structure and kinetics of pyramidine radicals in aqueous solution by fourier transform electron spin resonance.J. Geimer, University of Leipzig

A 9.5 GHz and 95 GHz ESR study of a Rh2+ dimer center in NaCl single crystals: discriminating between g-anisotropy and fine structure terms.H. Vercammen, University of Antwerp, Netherlands.

 

Characterisation of the radical product formed from the reaction of Nitric Oxide with DBNBS. Ms. C. Boam, St. Bartholomews & Roy. Lon. Sch. of Med. & Den., UK

Magnetic and electrochemical communication through ligands in oligonuclear metal complexes. Mr. N. Harden, University of Bristol, UK

The interplay of electronic, steric and stereoelectronic effects in hydrogen atom abstraction of SO4•, revealed by EPR spectroscopy. Mr. Steve Ward, University of York, UK

Design and use of new nitrones for spin trapping in free radical biology Dr. P. Tordo, Fac. de St. Jerome, France

 

Dafna Arieli Rehovot, ISRAEL	New Opportunities Offered by High-Field EPR/ENDOR in the Structural Characterization of Mn(II) Sites in Zeolites
R.A Eichel Zurich, SWITZERLAND	Magnetic Field Orientation Wiggling EPR
Leon V. Jackson, St. Andrews, UK	Generation of C-Centred Radicals from Cyclohexadiene Derivatives: Determination of Key Rate Parameters by EPR Spectroscopy

 

Three and four step oxidation of mixed-valence Mn-dimers; mimicking the oxygen evolving complex in photosystem II. Ms Ping Huang Kenéz, Lund University, Sweden Surface Point defects on ionic oxides; structure, location and reactivity monitored by EPR. Mr Mario Chiesa, Cardiff University, UK.

 

EPR study of iron-doped MFI zeolite and silicalite catalysts: effect of treatments after synthesis. Ms Anna Ferretti, University of Milano, Italy

Fe3+ in near-stoichiometric LiNbO3 and LiTaO3. Ms Monica Loyo, University of Dundee, U.K.

Investigation of the origins of the DMPO-OH radical adduct in the reaction between alkaline hydrogen peroxide and iminium compounds.Mr Sam Smith, Cardiff University, U.K.

 

"A robust and fast algorithm for the computation of cw EPR resonance fields", Mr Stefan Stoll, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

"Kinetic EPR studies on 1-methyl-2,5-cyclohexadiene-1 -carboxamides: release of amino-acyl radicals and their cyclisation",Mr Franco Bella, University of St Andrews, U.K.

"EPR studies on an organic molecular magnet: p-NCC6 F(sub>4CNSSN",Mr Antonio Alberola Catalan, Cambridge University, U.K.

 

"Polyelectrolytes and their Counterions Studied by EPR Spectroscopy", Dariush Hinderberger, Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung.

"Towards the Use of Nanoporous Solids as Catalytic Supports", Robert Hodgkins, University of St. Andrews

"The Electronic Structure of the Type 2 Copper Site of a Dioxygenase Protein by Single Crystal EPR at 95 GHz ", Maria Fittipaldi, Leiden University

 

Ms Janet E. Banham, Testing the Limits of the DEER Method for Distance Measurements in Proteins.
Mr Riccardo Garzelli, Bifunctional spin labels in probing reactions in vesicles.
Mr Alexey E. Silakov, Investigation of the active site of the Fe-only hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio Desulfuricans, using pulse EPR techniques.

 

Pulsed ESR study of relaxation times in molecular magnets: Enough time for quantum information processing?, Olivier Rival, Oxford University.
Advances in optically-detected low-field EPR, Christopher T. Rodgers, Oxford University.
Characterization of nanostructures at equilibrium and during the synthesis of mesoporous materials by Double Electron-Electron Resonance (DEER), Sharon Ruthstein, Weizmann Institute of Science.

 

Characterisation of cobalt(II)porphyrin / carbon nanotube nanohybrids by electron paramagnetic resonance and optical spectroscopy, Sofie Cambré, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Simulation of the experimental EPR spectra and application of GHOST condensation method in investigation of membrane localization of isoflavone genistein, Michał Kuzdzał, Wrocław Medical University, Poland.
Pulse EPR studies of membrane protein structure and folding on example of LHCIIb, Aleksei Volkov, Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany.

 

Angelika Boeer: Anisotropy in Molecular Magnetism; Magnetic Exchange Coupling of Octahedral Cobalt(II) Ions.
Susanna Pudollek: EPR and 55Mn-ENDOR Spectroscopy of the S2-state Multiline Signal of Photosystem II.
Bela Bode: Exotica in pulsed dipolar spectroscopy; cobalt(II)-nitroxide distances and spatial distribution of nitroxides in membranes and detergent.

 

Lisa Castelli: Coexistence of quantum and classic behaviour in EMR spectra of magnetic nanoparticles and molecular nanomagnets.
Hans Moons: CW and pulsed EPR characterization of soluble metal phthalocyanines lacking C-H bonds.

Richard M. Brown: Electron spin coherence times of metallofullerenes.

 

 

Since we also have a poster session - and a competition for the best poster (prize: usually a bottle of whisky!), students may also put their work forward as a poster, but this is not used by the JEOL Prize judges.