Teaching
Teaching Areas
Deliver lectures, tutorials, workshops and laboratory demonstrations in: Molecular Modelling Chemical Databases Organic Chemistry Medicinal Chemistry Research Projects
Innovation in Teaching to Improve Student Learning
Audio feedback - Specific, personalised feedback made available for each student via virtual learning environment. Indicates areas of specific strengths and weaknesses and makes suggestions for possible improvements. ChemPreLab - Pre-lab interactive tutoring system with simulation of lab experiments and online assessments. Gita Sedghi, Neil Berry, Nick Greeves, N. (2011). ChemPreLab. Wavelength, 7(1), 42-43. Clickers in Lectures - Multiple choice questions answered interactively in the lecture using wireless keypads. Facilitates active learning, student engagement and self-assessment of understanding Lecture Recording - Recording of all lectures (audio and “on screen” activity, e.g. PowerPoint, Animations, Video etc.). Recordings mounted on virtual learning environment (VITAL). Supported by the Higher Education Academy. Neil Berry, Nick Greeves, Helen Aspinall, Nick Bunyan, Kirsty Barnes, and Michael Bradford. Providing Recordings of Chemistry Teaching. Wavelength, 7(1), 6-9. Chemtube3d.com - Organic reactions and physical chemistry concepts displayed interactively in 3D on web pages. Supported by eLearning Steering Group, Higher Education Academy Physical Sciences Centre, Science Faculty, JISC. Neil Berry, Nick Greeves, Web-based Interactive 3D Simulations. Wavelength, Volume 7, Issue 1, 34-35 [Kirsty Barnes, Nick Greeves, Neil Berry, Nick Bunyan and Janet Strivens. iChem3d. Supporting lifelong learning: enhancing the value of interactive 3D chemistry
Modules for 2024-25
Final Year Research Projects
Module code: CHEM370
Role: Teaching
Further Organic Chemistry
Module code: CHEM333
Role: Teaching
Key Skills and Research Project Preparation
Module code: CHEM479
Role: Module Co-ordinator
Key Skills for Digital Chemistry
Module code: CHEM503
Role: Module Co-ordinator
Medicinal Chemistry of Anti-Infectives
Module code: CHEM335
Role: Teaching
Year 3 Research Projects
Module code: CHEM380
Role: Teaching
Supervised Theses
- Antimalarial Drug Discovery: Exploring the MEP Pathway
- Cheminfomatics: Quantitative Structure-Property Relationship Studies on Ames Mutagenicity and Surfactants’ Properties, and Small Molecule Library Visualisation
- Computational Prediction of Gel Properties
- Design and Synthesis of Cyclophilin D Inhibitors for Treatment of Acute Pancreatitis
- Development of Novel Thiazolides and Pyridyl Thiazolides with Improved Pharmacokinetic Properties for the Treatment of Severe Acute Respiratory Viruses and Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
- Development of Small-Molecule Anti-Wolbachia Agents for the Treatment of Filariasis
- Development of novel cyclophilin D inhibitors
- Hit to Lead Optimisation of Antimalarial Thiadiazoles and Peptidomimetic Beta-Hydroxyethylamines
- Identification and optimisation of ligands to target protein-protein interactions : EB1-SxIP proteins
- Old and new targets in antimalarial drug discovery
- On the Design, Synthesis, and Modification of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Toxic Industrial Chemical Capture
- Selective inhibitors of Cyclophilin D to treat Pancreatitis
- Synthesis, computational and biological evaluation of novel compounds for the treatment of Cryptococcus neoformans
- Target Deconvolution in Anti-Wolbachia and Antimalarial Drug Development
- Thiazolides as Antiviral Agents