Water journal club
A virtual meet-up throughout the summer to discuss water-focused research including; liquid water structure and dynamics, hydrogen bonding, water’s role in biology, water in extreme conditions & more. Every Tuesday at 10am. Get in touch if you'd like to join in! A project initiated by Lorna Dougan and Harrison Laurent, motivated by a shared love of science and discussion. We grateful acknowledge the EPSRC and ISIS neutron & muon facility for funding our research.
Next meeting: Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Presenter: Marjorie Ladd Parada, Stockholm University
Topic: Supercooled water
Paper: Experimental observation of the liquid-liquid transition in bulk supercooled water under pressure, Kyung Hwan Kin et al, Science, PAPER HERE
Full Water Journal Club schedule:
Tuesday 30th June 2020
Presenter: Harrison Laurent, University of Leeds
Topic: Chaotropes and kosmotropes
Paper: Water structure and chaotropicity: their uses, abuses and biological implications, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, P. Ball & J.E.Hallsworth. Paper here!
Tuesday 7th July 2020
Presenter: Lorna Dougan, University of Leeds
Topic: Anomalous properties of water
Paper: How water's properties are encoded in its molecular structure and energies, K.A. Dill et al, Chemical Reviews, Paper here!
Tuesday 14th July 2020
Presenter: Mazin Nasralla, University of Manchester
Topic: Water in extreme conditions
Paper: Salt deliquescence can support extraterrestrial life, Nature Astronomy, J.E.Hallsworth Paper here
Tuesday 21st July 2020
Presenter: Chalmers Chau, University of Leeds
Topic: Macromolecular crowding
Paper: Macromolecular crowding enhances the detection of DNA and proteins by a solid-state nanopore, by C.Chau, S. Radford, E.Hewitt, P.Actis, NanoLetters Paper here
Tuesday 28th July 2020
Presenter: Alan Soper, ISIS neutron and muon facility, UK
Topic: Water structure
Paper: Structure refinement for disordered matter: what we can do now and we hope to be able to do soon.
Tuesday 4th August 2020
Presenter: Lorna Dougan, University of Leeds
Topic: Public engagement
Paper: Developing creative STEM public engagement resources, with a focus on water
Tuesday 11th August 2020
Presenter: Adam Sweetman, University of Leeds
Topic: Hexagonal ice
Paper: Atomic imaging of the edge structure and growth of a two-dimensional hexagonal ice, by Y. Jiang et al, Nature Paper here
Tuesday 18th August 2020
Presenter: Natasha Rhys, Kings College London
Topic: The role of water in biology
Paper: Biological Water or Rather Water in Biology, by P. Jungwirth, J.Phys.Chem. Letters PAPER HERE
Tuesday 25th August 2020
Presenter: Marjorie Parada, Stockholm University
Topic: Liquid-liquid critical point
Paper: Diffusive dynamics during the high-to-low density transition in amorphous ice, Perakis, F, et al. PNAS. 2017 PAPER HERE
Tuesday 8th September 2020
Presenter: Christoph Salzmann, University College London
Topic: Water's phase diagram
Paper: Doping-induced disappearance of ice II from water's phase diagram, by J. J. Shephard. B. Slater, P.Harvey, M.Hart, C.L. Bull, S.T.Bramwell, Jacob J. Shephard, C.G. Salzmann, Nature Physics Paper here
Tuesday 6th October 2020
Presenter: Adam Stevens, University of Edinburgh
Topic: Life in Extreme Environments
Paper: A systematic study of the limits of life in mixed ion solutions: physiochemical parameters do not predict habitability, by A. H. Stevens and C. S. Cockell, Frontiers Microbiology Paper here
Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Presenter: Holly Linford, University of Leeds
Topic: Water at high temperatures
Paper: Supercritical water is not hydrogen bonded, by Philipp Schienbein & Dominik Marx, Angewandte Chemie, PAPER HERE
Tuesday 1st December 2020
Presenter: Katharina Edkins, University of Manchester
Topic: Aqueous solutions
Paper: Pre-nucleation aggregation based on solvent microheterogeneity, Chemical Communications 2019 PAPER HERE