On July 4th, the group had a party dinner together farewelling Jabir Hussain Syed. Jabir completed his PIFI fellowship as a visiting scientist and is going back to Pakistan. Before that, Jabir delivered a talk introducing the brick kilns emission in South Asia as a component for finishing his PIFI study, and he received the PIFI certificate form CAS, which was presented by Gan. Attended in the gathering was also Liu Boyu from University of Malaya who visited us for a month analyzing FFAS in samples collected from major rivers and the western coast of Malaysian peninsula, and is leaving. In the meantime, Yago Guida from Brazil joined the group also as a PIFI fellow. We had Sichaun food for the dinner. It has been a pleasure for us to have Jabir and Boyu with us, and Yago to join us!
ON October 31 to December 8, several of us (Shizhen, Jun, Gan, Jabir, Habib) attended the 45th International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants, also known as Dioxin2025, in Atalaya, Turkey. Shizhen, Gan and Jabir gave oral presentations and each chaired a session; Professor Habib gave an oral presentation and raised lots of questions in different sessions; Jun manned a nice poster designed by 子洋. We met many friends and former group members, including Paramita Chakraborty, Tom Harner, Perihan, Roland Weber, 刘国瑞, 袁博, 肖航 etc. Similar to Shizhen, Perihan and Tom Harner did their PhD in Lancaster with Kevin Jones; therefore they are 师姐/师兄. Paromita did her PhD in our group from 2006-2009. This time she came with two PhD students of her. Akriti Ashesh is a PhD student from Bihar University of India, and her supervisor is Linthoi(centred in the picture) who worked in our lab for her PhD in around 2009. Amandeep works with Tom Harner in Environment Canada responsible for the GAPS network; and she is originally from Punjab of India, sharing the same language and culture with Jabir who is also from Punjab but on the Pakistan side. We stayed in a nice hotel and enjoyed the 7-days symposium. We also took opportunity to visit Istanbul . Strong exotic experience and nice science and social events!
An ‘official’ debut of the GIG team.
Professor Habib is always a question asker.
Roland is always catching us.
Meet with Amandeep (left 3), Paromita (centre) and her PhD students.Tom and Shizhen both did their PhDs with Kevin Jones in Lancaster University.Second time meeting Yuan Bo in Dioxin conference.Perihan and Shizhen both did their PhDs in Lancaster with Kevin Jones.Akriti is a PhD student of Ningombam Linthoingambi Devi, who visited in our group for her PhD, of the Central Bihar University, Bihar, IndiaNice to see Roland and 刘国瑞 at Antalya.
Paromita did her PhD in our group in 2006-2009。Gan and Paromita co-chaired a session.Excursion time with Tom Harner and Amandeep from Environment Canada.Kei Ohno is the UNEP secretary of Basel-Rotterdam-Stockholm Conventions.Gan and HabibExcursion time with the ancient waterducts.Selfie with Professor Takeshi Nakano who attended all the 25 DIOXIN Symposiums and enjoyed to be a famous paparazzi on the meetings.
University of Istanbul.SEMA dance (托钵僧旋转) is an World Intangible Cultural Heritage in Turkey.
On May 23rd morning, the group held a farewell gathering for Dr. Jabir Syed, who has amazingly been with/around us from 2011 to 2017! Jabir will join Hong Kong Polytechnic University to work with Professor Guo Hai as a PDRF. We wish him a happy life and good luck!
