BioActinideChemistry

1/2 It is not too early to start thinking about the #RadRes2025 Meeting in beautiful #PuertoRico Sept 21-24, 2025 🌞🌴🍹🏖️ Abstract & Submission opens in 2⃣ weeks‼️ The Program is shaping up to be FANTASTIC (prelim program link below ⬇️)🔥🔥🔥

Happy Holidays from the Abergel group!

Our researchers have grown crystals of actinium and illuminated them with X-rays to learn how the radioactive metal binds with other elements. This information could help design better #CancerTreatments. @advlightsource @fredhutch newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/07/15/cau…

And after so many years trying, we finally present you the first actinium single crystal structure! nature.com/articles/s4146… @NatureComms @BerkeleyLab @Cal_Engineer @UCB_Chemistry

Six degrees of actinide separation nature.com/articles/s4157… A Year in Review article by Appie Peterson & Jennifer Wacker featuring efforts to separate actinides. The latest article to result from our collaboration with early career researchers @LBNLresearch

Harnessing the power of f-block elements in radiopharmaceuticals nature.com/articles/s4157… A look back on 2023 from our Heavy-element chemistry journal club, Alex Rigby & Trevor Arino highlight their top f-block element research picks from last year. @BerkeleyLab @UCBerkeley

Congrats to @JiaAhnPan @a_skripka & our collaborators @molecularfndry @bioactinide @ColumbiaQuantum for this hot-off-the-press paper in @J_A_C_S showing how the direct NIR, UV & e-beam lithography of upconverting nanoparticles is the cat's meow! 😺

Catch Alex, Trevor, and Jennifer at #EMIM2024 in Porto🇵🇹 this week! Alex will be giving a talk (Thurs AM) and Jennifer and Trevor will be presenting posters (Wed PM)! @ESMI_society

We had lots of fun at a very exciting San Jose Sharks game last night! Final score was 3-2 in OT for the Sharks 🦈

Enjoying our holiday lab get together to celebrate another productive, lovely year as a team! Happy Holidays from the Abergel group to you and yours!

Had a great time presenting at UC Berkeley NE colloquium today! I always love sharing the design principles behind theranostsics, especially when radiometals are involved ☢️ thanks to all who showed up and asked great questions ❤️

@EmoryChanNano @CaptainFRET @washingtonpost @BerkeleyLab I just came back from Strasbourg… awfully close to Germany… delicious food 😅

@CaptainFRET @washingtonpost @BerkeleyLab @bioactinide I think both were wild and German. And Austrian too.

TIL wild pigs & german truffles are still radioactive from nuclear testing 60 years later washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro… ...And that @washingtonpost counts on the expert opinions of @BerkeleyLab scientist Rebecca Abergel @bioactinide on such matters...

This week, Alexia, Trevor, and Jennifer presented exciting new lung decorporation results at #ICRR2023 in Montreal! @RRS_RadRes

It's been a busy conference season! At @ICFE11 in Strasbourg, Rebecca gave an awesome plenary talk. We had beautiful presentations from Josh and Jen and posters from Appie and Megan! Megan brought home a Best Poster Award from @inorganics_MDPI 🏆

The 3rd day of ICFE11 is starting with a plenary lecture by Rebecca Abergel followed by coffee and french pastry. #ICFE11

We had tons of fun at #ACSFall2023, including lots of great poster presentations and two beautiful talks from Jennifer Wacker and Appie Peterson!

Excited to share our new publication out in @InorgChem! Work led by Josh Woods is focused on the evaluation of two macrocyclic chelators for the chelation of Zr-89 and Th-227! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

The Abergel Lab takes over #ACSFall2023 with many many cool posters and talks from Jennifer Wacker and Rebecca herself! Come hear about all of our new #actinides work!

10 Questions with Alexia Cosby - @alexia_cosby from the US is a postdoc at @BioActinide @BerkeleyLab, USA & #LINO23 participant. Enjoy @Ulrike_Boehm's interview with her & get inspired @lindaunobel #womeninscience 🥳👉 womeninresearchblog.wordpress.com/2023/07/16/ale…

Are you an actinide early-career scientist interested in NNSA mission? You have only a few more days to apply to the new LBNL Postdoctoral Fellowship named after Dr. Darleane Hoffman! Reach out if you have any questions. nextgen.lbl.gov