Morrill Research Group

Congratulations to James, Salma and Debarshi whose work on the Genetic Encoding of 3-Cyano-Tyrosine and Its Use in Controlling the Chromophore Isomeric State of the Fluorescent Protein mKate has been published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences! This was a collaborative research effort led by the Jones research group at Cardiff University! [link]

Thanks to Emina (pictured) and Abboy who have completed their tenures in our group as a research intern and CDT sabbatical researcher, respectively. Thanks for all of your hard work and we wish you both all the best for the future!

Congratulations to Abboy for winning the Abel + Imray prize for the highest marked MRes project and a poster prize for his work on realizing the electrosynthetic potential of arylcyclopropanes at the 2026 CSCT Summer Showcase held at the University of Bath!

Congratulations to Ben for winning a poster prize for his work on electrochemical deconstructive functionalization at the 2026 Bolland Symposium held at the University of Bath!

Congratulations to Michael for winning a poster prize for his work on electrocatalytic hydrogenation at the RSC Organic Chemistry Community South-West Regional Meeting 2026 held at the University of Bristol!

Welcome to Emina and ‘Ammar (pictured), who have both joined the group as undergraduate researchers!

Congratulations to Asma, whose work on the Mechanochemical One-Pot Barbier/Simmons-Smith Reaction via Sequential Zinc Activation has been accepted for publication in Chemical Communications! This was a collaborative research effort with the Browne research group at UCL! [link]

Welcome to Diksha, who has started her PhD as part of the Monash-Bath joint PhD program!

Welcome to Abboy, who joins the group to start his 1st MRes project as part of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Chemical Technologies : A Systems Approach!

Welcome to Ajit, who joins the group to start his PhD!

Congratulations to Hussain for passing his PhD viva today! Thanks to Prof. Kevin Lam and Dr Guto Rhys for examining! Hussain will be returning to the University of Bisha as a Chemistry Lecturer! We wish you all the best for the future! :)

Congratulations to Salma, Tahir, Abdulbari and Eman, whose highlight entitled "Shining a Light on Fe-Catalyzed Borrowing Hydrogen Alkylation" has been published in Trends in Chemistry! [link]