Johnston Lab

Niacin in your bread, NAD in your lab - Nature Chemistry Wylan Wong and Craig P. Johnston explore the enduring legacy of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and its analogues, from their early biochemical discovery to their resurgence in anti-ageing research ...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nice to see our In Your Element article published in Nature Chemistry (@natchem.nature.com). Congratulations to Wylan (@chaoticmetazoan.bsky.social)!

Really pleased to share an EaStCHEM PhD studentship opportunity based in Edinburgh as part of a new collaboration with the Bhawal group (chem.ed.ac.uk/bhawal-group) at the @edinburghchem.bsky.social

For more details, check out: tinyurl.com/5328yyj5

Deadline to apply: 16 Jan 2026

📢 Register now! bit.ly/31st_Annual_...

An exciting line-up of leading early career academics will deliver a series of review lectures covering a range of topics, including main group catalysis, organofluorine chemistry, asymmetric catalysis, and DNA/RNA technology.

📢 Register now: EB offer ends 28 October! bit.ly/31st_Annual_...

An exciting line-up of leading early career academics will deliver a series of review lectures covering a range of topics, including main group catalysis, organofluorine chemistry, asymmetric catalysis, and DNA/RNA technology.

📢 Register now: EB offer ends 28 October! bit.ly/31st_Annual_...
An exciting line-up of leading early career academics will deliver a series of review lectures covering a range of topics, including main group catalysis, organofluorine chemistry, asymmetric catalysis, and DNA/RNA technology.

📢 Call for posters! bit.ly/31st_Annual_...
If you would like to present a poster, please send an abstract of maximum one A4 page or 300 words to conferences@soci.org by Friday 24 October 2025 with the subject line “31st Annual review meeting – poster submission”.

Great news – this paper has now been published in ACS Catalysis! Huge congratulations again to Wylan (@chaoticmetazoan.bsky.social), and thanks to our collaborators in the Wallace Lab (@swallacelab.bsky.social)
Check it out here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

📢 Register now: Early bird offer ends 28 October! bit.ly/31st_Annual_...
An exciting line-up of leading early career academics will deliver a series of review lectures covering a range of topics, including main group catalysis, organofluorine chemistry, asymmetric catalysis, and DNA/RNA technology.

📢 Register your interest! bit.ly/31st_Annual_...

An exciting line-up of leading early career academics will deliver a series of review lectures covering a range of topics, including main group catalysis, organofluorine chemistry, asymmetric catalysis, and DNA/RNA technology.

Congratulations to Wylan! Our collaboration with the Wallace Lab at the University of Edinburgh has borne fruit as a preprint of Wylan's work combining photocatalysis and whole-cell biocatalysis for deracemizing secondary alcohols is now online: doi.org/10.26434/che...

Our new preprint is now online @chemrxiv.bsky.social revealing that Cobalt can hydrate at least 100 alkenes using water: doi.org/10.26434/che.... Congratulations to David, Reece, and @balakumaremaya.bsky.social