Submitted by James R Earnshaw Jr
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Congratulations to Julian Rees, who defended his Ph.D. work “Insight into Biological Small-Molecule Activation from Enzymes, Model Complexes, and X-ray Spectroscopy” on June 1st, 2016. Julian was a graduate student with Professor Julie Kovacs for the past five years, and he spent the 2014-2015 academic year at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion as a DAAD graduate scholar with Prof. Dr. Serena DeBeer. Julian is starting a postdoctoral fellowship with Rebecca Abergel, in the BioActinide chemistry group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He will be developing new antibody-actinide conjugates for radioimmunotherapy and imaging applications.