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Bioinorganic Chemistry of Aluminium & Silicon
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Welcome
The Birchall Centre
Welcome to the Bioinorganic Chemistry of Aluminium and Silicon research group website.
Our group is situated in the Lennard-Jones Laboratories in the Birchall Centre which started back in 1992 as the Unit for Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Science. It was the idea of the late Professor JD Birchall FRS OBE who along with Dr (now Professor) Chris Exley and Professor K Kendall FRS came to Keele University following the re-organisation of what was then the United Kingdom's largest chemical company, Imperial Chemical Industries, ICI.
Our Research
The Unit started off with three general themes, of which our group focus is Aluminium and Silicon in Biology. The group is lead by Professor Chris Exley and the current research themes within the group are varied, including metals and amyloids; biosilicification in plant species; human exposure to Aluminium, whether intentional (e.g. in antiperspirants or adjuvants) or unintentional; and hydroxyaluminosilicates.
Keele Meetings on Aluminium
For the 10th Anniversary Keele Meeting on Aluminium, the conference is to return to England, and will be held in the historic and quintessentially English city of Winchester on Saturday 23rd - Wednesday 27th February 2013.
The Final Scientific Programme (also available as a PDF file ) for the Meeting is now Online!
The 10th Keele Meeting Abstracts Book (PDF file) can now be downloaded!
Postgraduate bursaries are available for attendance at the conference.
Please see the Keele meeting pages for details.
Novel research presented at the Keele meetings is submitted to a Keele Issue of the Journal for Inorganic Biochemistry. This is not simply a conference proceedings; it is a regular issue in which all submissions are rigorously peer reviewed and edited. Please check our Keele Meetings web pages to check for updates, and for the latest Keele JIB issue coming soon!
