James Birrell

@jamesbirrell.bsky.social

Lecturer at University of Essex. Interested in metalloenzyme structure and spectroscopy.

Day 2, over and out! ๐Ÿฅณ Our final session of the day featured talks from Stephen Ragsdale, Noรฉmie Lalaoui, Christine Cavazza, Laura Opdam, Henrick Land and Manon Lachmann! What better way to round off the day than with a poster session? โ˜บ๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ #ICH2026 #leicester

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Another day filled with brilliant talks and great discussions! ๐Ÿคฉ Thank you to Serena DeBeer for delivering a fantastic plenary to kick off! Thank you as well to all of our speakers, poster presenters and sponsors for making Day 3 such a success! ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ”ฌ #ICH2026 #leicester

That's a wrap on ICH2026 in Leicester! ๐ŸŽฌ What an incredible few days it's been! A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for making this a memorable one! We hope you've enjoyed ICH Leicester as much as we have! Until next time, Hydrogenators! ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿงช #ICH2026 #leicester

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Session 1 has wrapped! ๐Ÿฅณ What a great morning of science we've had! We heard from two invited speakers and also heard two oral presentations! We also enjoyed some exciting flash poster presentations and heard from our sponsors!โœจ๐Ÿงช Time to refuel over lunch! ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ #ICH2026 #leicester

Session 2 is all done! โœ… We've just enjoyed five amazing talks from Kirstin Gutekunst, Holly Reeve, Filipe Pinto, Aniket Banerjee and Karen Trchounian! Let's keep the flow of electrons going... right into Session 3!โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ˜Š #ICH2026 #leicester

Day 2 is off to a great start! ๐ŸŽ‰ Weโ€™ve already enjoyed a very interesting opening plenary from Chris Greening, followed by a great keynote lecture from Thomas Happe, and thereโ€™s still plenty more to come! We canโ€™t wait to see what the rest of the day brings! Stay tuned! ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜Š #ICH2026 #leicester

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1 more day until #ICH2026! Weโ€™re so excited to welcome everyone and hear about all the amazing research underway! In true Leicester fashion, expect a little rain tomorrow๐ŸŒฆ๏ธ so a bring a light jacket or an umbrella! The rest of the week is looking sunny! โ˜€๏ธ See you tomorrow! #ICH2026 #leicester

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๐Ÿšจ๐ŸšจExtension Alert!๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ There is still time to catch early-bird registration for ICH2026 - deadline extended until 17 May. We have been working hard to prove that the sun does shine in the UK, and look forward to welcoming you to Leicester this Summer! le.ac.uk/chemistry/re...

A diverse array of students walking along a paved path between a grass lawn and a traditional British university brick building. There are red and white standing banners with the text 'welcome'.A photograph of Simone, James, Philip, and Patricia, standing in the sunshine in front of a traditional red brick building at the University of Leicester.

An elegant engineering strategy to perform step-wise truncations of the iron-sulfur cluster domains in semi-synthetic [FeFe] hydrogenases to investigate in detail the influence on the catalytic properties of the enzyme and the inhibitors binding!

1๏ธโƒฃ ๐— ๐—œ๐—•๐—ง๐—ฃ-๐—•๐—•๐—ฆ๐—ฅ๐—– - ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿณ๐˜๐—ต ๐—ก๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... 2๏ธโƒฃ ๐—–๐—˜๐—ก๐—ง๐—”-๐—ก๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—– - ๐Ÿณ๐˜๐—ต ๐—๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ: centa.ac.uk/studentship/... Any questions or more information? Please email me, happy to help! #metalloenzymes #biohybridcatalysts #sustainablechemistry #greenchemistry

We have a ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—”๐˜€๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ (๐—ฃ๐——๐—ฅ๐—”) position for a project in collaboration with my colleagues Phil Ash & James Pickering, via the AMBER Postdoctoral Programme funded by MSCActions. Come and join us at @uniofleicester! ๐Ÿ‘‡+info๐Ÿ‘‡