Congratulations to Jamie and Rebecca on their first publication! 🎉 Their work introduces a membrane-targeted europium(III) probe for the selective detection of peroxynitrite, providing a new tool to study this short-lived species at membrane interfaces.

Congratulations to Caty on her second publication from her PhD thesis! 🎉 This work presents a bimodal MRI–luminescence nanoparticle platform, which display both high relaxivity and long-lived luminescence, offering a promising approach toward more effective dual-modal imaging agents.

A review in Chem. Sci. highlights advances over the past five years in lanthanide host design, showing how these developments have improved mechanistic understanding of binding and enabled new anion sensors and imaging probes that function in aqueous and biological media. Congratulations Christy!

The group enjoyed a day out of the lab, with competitive games of foot-golf and mini-golf.

Our latest paper in ChemistryEurope introduces a series of lanthanide tags that label cysteine, each showing high chemoselectivity for cysteine and enabling labeling in aqueous solution under mild conditions. The findings highlight the critical role of linker design in lanthanide-based probes for EPR spectroscopy and biological imaging. Congratulations Lydia!