Outstanding tannin chemist and the founding father of the Tannin Conferences, Richard (Dick) William Hemingway has passed away After a long and rich life as a phytochemist, mentor, and loving husband and father, Dick Hemingway passed away in Pineville, Louisiana where he had lived and worked for many years. He will be missed by his family, […]
Group-specific UPLC-MS/MS analyses of eight groups of polyphenols of 628 eucalypts from the genera Eucalyptus, Angophora and Corymbia revealed wide presence of high concentrations of polyphenols, particularly ellagitannins Marsh et al. (2017) was the first paper resulting of our collaborative efforts with Bill Foley’s group to better understand the role of eucalypt polyphenol chemistry in […]
Recent multidisciplinary project combined evolutionary history and plant chemistry to understand and predict the occurrence of herbivorous insects across rainforest plants. This study was published in the prestigious journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Papua New Guinea is one of the few places on earth where one can find large areas of still untouched […]
MSc Nicolas Baert from the Natural Chemistry Research Group (https://naturalchemistry.utu.fi) defended his doctoral thesis on August 18. The excellent doctoral training Nicolas enjoyed during the LegumePlus project has already paid off, since Nico travelled to Turku from the Cornell University, New York, where he holds his new post-doc position. It is perhaps a matter of […]
There are more than 600 species of Eucalyptus in Australia and only little is known of their exact composition and content of ellagitannins, galloyl glucoses, gallotannins, procyanidins and prodelphinidins. Such knowledge would be crucial to understand and make improvements to Eucalyptus-herbivore interactions. Eucalyptus–koala interactions Koalas are unique to Australia and perhaps the best known and […]
Erasmus+ programme offers great opportunities to go abroad. Dr. Emilija Svirčev from University of Novi Sad, Serbia, visited our lab in April 2017 and now it was the time for a return visit. Maarit visited the LAFIB lab this November.Erasmus+ programme is the EU programme for education, training, youth and sport. It aims to boost […]
Natural Chemistry Research Group spent a really nice and eventful evening by shooting each other as accurately and as painfully as possible for two hours. Fourteen group members were divided between two teams: the blues and the reds. With these color codes it was obvious at least for the group leader that the reds will […]
MSc Marica Engström from the Natural Chemistry Research Group (https://naturalchemistry.utu.fi) defended her doctoral thesis on June 17. The method developments and findings included in the thesis will have a significant impact on all fields of science dealing with tannin chemical analysis. New tools for rapid tannin fingerprinting by UPLC-MS/MS The most significant results of the […]
A profile of professor Juha-Pekka Salminen published in Pan European Networks: Science & Technology 13.