Graduation 2019
On 26 June, the group’s third Ph.D. candidate officially became Dr Nicolas Marro! It was a pleasure to be there to see Nicolas receive his degree and to meet the Marro family. Despite Euan’s Italian skills being…
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Merry Christmas 2018!
Merry Christmas to all from the Kay group, and very best wishes for 2019!
Congratulations Dr Marro!
Very well done to our newest Ph.D. – Dr Nicolas Marro, who passed his viva on Friday 16 November. Thanks to David Fulton (Newcastle) for giving his time and expertise as external examiner. Hopefully Nicolas is not…
Prize-winning talk #2!
Well done for the second time in as many weeks to Nicolas for winning the Best Oral Presentation Prize at the RSC Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group Early Career Meeting today. Very well deserved!
Postgraduate Symposium 2017
Edward, Guillaume (posters) and Nicolas (talk) all gave great presentations at the annual St Andrews Postgraduate symposium on 5–6 December. Particular congratulations to Nicolas on winning one of the runners-up prizes…
Christmas Lunch
A very enjoyable and relaxing afternoon last Thursday at the Kay & Philp groups’ Christmas lunch. Good to get into the festive spirit early! Thanks to Lina for organising everything!
MASC 2016
The whole group made the short journey down to Edinburgh to attend the annual meeting of the RSC Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry interest group on 15-16 December 2016. Guillaume presented a poster…
Kay group putting championships
We took a Friday afternoon trip to play the famous ‘Himalayas’ putting course in St Andrews. Amazingly none of the group apart from Euan had experienced this St Andrews institution before. Prior experience, however,…
MASC 2015
At the end of December, Euan, Nicolas and Will enjoyed two days of great science at the annual RSC Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry conference, expertly hosted by colleagues in Durham. Will presented a poster…