Why do people with depression have increased permeability of the gut? Why is altered gut motility an early sign of Parkinson's Disease? Another fantastic Plenary - from Prof Roisin Owens from @cambridgeuni.bsky.social on using #conducting #polymers to understand the gut-brain-microbiome axis
#AMN11

'Wind and sun alone won't do the job'. The incredible Beatriz Roldan Cuenya Director of @fhi-mpg.bsky.social delivering her #AMN11 Plenary on why understanding how the active sites of an #catalyst change is critical to green #energy generation and storage technologies #H2 #CO2 #materials #science

Celebrating women and those of marginalised gender identities for IUPAC #GWB2025 here at #AMN11, together with our friends from NZIC and Canterbury Uni Profs Sarah Masters and Richard Hartshorn, plus @aucklanduni.bsky.social Prof @fredvh.bsky.social
'Accelerating #Equity in #Science'.

'Tackle something big. Don't let anyone (not even your professor) tell you what can be done. Our naive-ness keeps us alive.'
Great advice from Plenary speaker Jackie Y. Ying, from King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre in Riyadh.
#AMN11 #antimicrobial #nanoparticles #CO2 to #methanol

Welcoming Professor Kitagawa and our other friends from Kyoto University iCeMS to our two day workshop here in Te Whanganui a Tara talking #materialsscience and soft #porous #crystals #Science #chemistry #mofs and more

Remembering today our namesake Professor Alan MacDiarmid (14/4/27-7/2/07) who won a
Nobel Prize in #Chemistry in 2000 for his research into conducting #polymers, a research area still key to the work of the Institute macdiarmid.ac.nz/news-and-eve...

Nau mai whakatau mai to ten rangatahi from around the motu here for our 15th annual week-long #discoverycamp kicking off at our VUW #nanotechnology and #materialsscience labs, making #solarcells using organic pigments from fresh berries #Science #STEM

Meri Kirihimete from all of us here at the MacDiarmid Institute. Posting some more photos here from our Annual Symposium.
We wish you all a safe and healthy holiday season.

Ending the year with highlights from last week's Annual Symposium - celebrating the amazing research of our independent postdocs Canterbury's Dr Amy Yewdall, VUW-based Dr Caitlin Casey-Stevens + @aucklanduni.bsky.social's Dr Bicheng (Amy) Zhu #carboncapture #science #catalysts #ammonia #materials

Awesome to kickoff our Dec CRISP training for our PhD students with 'Landing your first high impact job' today with interview practice, CV writing, handling difficult questions, 'speed-dating' and more. Thanks to Hays Recruitment, Technical Recruitment Solutions Ltd & MfE and all.

AI comes with huge #data (and therefore #CO2) cost. This
successful Marsden Fund project from @aucklanduni.bsky.social's Dr Charlie Ruffman and VUW's Dr Krista Steenbergen will use computers to better understand liquid metals so we can make better #electronics macdiarmid.ac.nz/news-and-eve...

Meet the World’s Smallest Kiwi. To help raise funds for Save the Kiwi, our PI Assoc Prof Volker Nock at UoC used one of the world’s highest resolution 3D printers to print a micrometre-sized kiwi only visible through a superpowered scanning-electron microscope. savethekiwi.nz/worlds-small...

Great to see acknowledgement of the ambition of liquium and also the role of fundamental research in university labs in addressing the physical science challenges behind decarbonisation technologies — highly commended in the Tech for Good category 🎉

Very cool to see two of our affiliated start ups, Liquium and bspkl highlighted this week as award nominees at the LaFrenchTech awards at GridAKL. A fantastic event and perspectives on international connectivity 🙌