Ms. Premie Fernandes, PhD scholar under the guidance of Dr. Lakshmi Vellanki, Department of Chemistry, secured the best poster award from Chemical Science journal and was invited to deliver a short talk about her poster titled "ortho-Halogen functionalized N-squaraines: structure-property relationship and dual mode colorimetric and fluorometric sulfide ion detection" in ChemSci 2025: Leaders in the field symposium organized by the Royal Society of Chemistry and IISER Pune from 11th to 13th December, 2025.

