Today in Västerbottens Kuriren:
https://www.vk.se/2019-06-11/min-vagkarta-till-att-forsta-varlden
Author: Jean-Francois Boily
NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship to Merve Yesilbas!
Congratulations Merve Yesilbas for receiving the prestigious NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellowship. Merve will use this fellowship, alongside a postdoctoral grant from the Swedish Research Council, to join the NASA Astrobiology Program
The lab welcomes Tan Luong
Tan is beginning his Ph.D. studies with Jean-François Boily. He will be working on (photo)catalytic reactions at Mn-bearing mineral surfaces.
PDF/XRD/EXAFS/NMR/FTIR paper on phosphate binding on aluminum hydroxide
A multi-institution collaboration involving University of Wyoming, Argonne National Laboratory, Canadian Light Source, Stony Brook University and Huazhong Agricultural University.
“Phosphate Sorption Speciation and Precipitation Mechanisms on
Amorphous Aluminum Hydroxide” will soon be coming out in the Open Access Journal Soil Systems
Authors: Xiaoming Wang, Brian L. Phillips, Jean-François Boily, Yongfeng Hu, Zhen Hu, Peng Yang, Xionghan Feng, Wenqian Xu, Mengqiang Zhu *
Water vapour condensation paper out now in ES&T
A paper (link here) by Wei Cheng & Khalil Hanna (École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, Rennes, France) and J.-F. Boily. We show that low loadings of organic matter on minerals make surfaces more hydrophobic while high loading make surfaces more
hydrophilic. This work is one of the several to be published from Wei’s 6-month visit in Umeå in March-September 2018.
Collaborative paper on cellular respiration with SLU researchers now in Physiologia Plantarum
A recent collaborative venture by the Boily group in the study of pine root respiration with the Näsholm group at SLU. The paper “Improved in vivo measurement of alternative oxidase respiration in Field‐Collected pine roots” is now available in Physiologia Plantarum
Swedish Research Council Postdoc Funds Granted to Merve Yesilbas
Congratulations Merve Yesilbas for a 3 MSEK Postdoctoral Research Grant from the Swedish Research Council! Merve will be using these funds to pursue her research career with Dr. Janice Bishop of the SETI institute in San Francisco to work on the mineralogy of planet Mars.
Kempe Foundation Funds IRMS Laboratory
The Boily group thanks the Kempe foundation for a 2-year extension to our Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry work, with group member Dmitry Shevela, on carbon isotopic signatures in minerals.
Clay-Bound CO2 Residence Lifetimes Paper Accepted in RSC Environmental Science: Nano!
By M. Yesilbas, M. 
The fifth paper of Merve Yesilbas‘ 2018 Ph.D. thesis online here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8EN01156G
Cryogenic XPS paper on Cryosalts makes the Cover of Langmuir!
A paper by Marie Lucas, Merve Yesilbas, Andrey Shchukarev and Jean-François Boily