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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 1d

2026 PhD recruitment is now open.

As well as our main PhD recruitment, which is open to all, we are pleased to be offering scholarships for candidates of Black or mixed Black heritage. Learn more and apply on our website:

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

PhD student recruitment

PhD recruitment information.

www.crick.ac.uk

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RSC MASC @rsc-masc.bsky.social · 26d

Join us at The Open University, Milton Keynes on the 15th and 16th of December 2025 for this year’s RSC Macrocylic and Supramolecular Chemistry meeting!

Registration and abstract submission are now open (key deadlines below)

More on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ho...

#RSC_MASC
#RSC_MASC_2025

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Enxu LIU @enxuliu.bsky.social · 26d

Happy to share this cover finally online in the September issue of chem. Thank you @vivesgui.bsky.social and @msollogoub.bsky.social for the design and drawing of such nice cover👏👏👏

Guillaume Vives @vivesgui.bsky.social · 26d

Our work on the unidirectional motion of a CD is now in the September issue of Chem and on the cover!
Many thanks to the whole team and @cp-chem.bsky.social for the highlight!
@ipcm-sorbonne.bsky.social @msollogoub.bsky.social @enxuliu.bsky.social

www.cell.com/chem/fulltex...

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 29d

Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer

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Becky Greenaway @beckylgreenaway.bsky.social · Sep 8

Massive congratulations to @zarikyusaf.bsky.social who passed his PhD viva today 🎉🎉 Big thanks to examiners @charliemcternan.bsky.social and Ramon Vilar, and to co-supervisor @lewischemistry.bsky.social who made the trek down for the big event!

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RSC MASC @rsc-masc.bsky.social · Aug 3

📣 Call for Abstracts - vMASC 📣

We are currently inviting abstracts from all early-career researchers (Master’s, PhD, PDRA) for oral presentations in 2025/2026 as part of our monthly vMASC seminar series.

Submission deadline 📆 18th Aug 2025

Find out more on mascgroup.co.uk/vmasc-4/vmas...

vMASC Call For Abstracts (for 2025/26)

vMASC Early-Career Seminars: Call for Abstracts The organising committee of the virtual Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (vMASC) seminar series are inviting abstracts from all early-career …

mascgroup.co.uk

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Alexandre Hofer @hofalex.bsky.social · Jul 24

Imagine a small molecule that degrades a target protein like PROTACs, but does so independently of any of the host cell's degradation machinery, so you can go and do targeted protein degradation in gram-negative bacteria: doi.org/10.26434/che...

Light-Activated Metal-Dependent Protein Degradation (LAMP-D)

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Montenegro Lab @montenegrolabo.bsky.social · Jul 16

🔊 We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate to work @ciqus.bsky.social in drug delivery by superchaotropic boron clusters.

We offer a great working environment, in an excellent center and an exciting research field, www.nature.com/articles/s41...

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/360505
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PhD Position Offer

We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate to join the Montenegro Lab and carry out a doctoral thesis focused on the synthesis, functionalization, and evaluation of boron clusters and chaotro...

euraxess.ec.europa.eu

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · Jul 9

Great to see our Review on using Peptides to build Discrete Supramolecular Architectures online at Angewandte @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... with a great Frontispiece from Ben! Congratulations Ben Ellen and Leah!

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Simon Bayly @simonbayly.bsky.social · Jun 19

Come and join our team at @crick.ac.uk
Help commercialise phenomenal science!
#biotech #techtransfer

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · Jun 19

Correct link - www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Postdoctoral Project Research Scientist

www.crick.ac.uk

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · Jun 17

tinyurl.com/3kmmfwws to apply

Senior/ Principal Laboratory Research Scientist

tinyurl.com

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · Jun 17

Second role live in our Group - a PDRA
@crick.ac.uk and KCL to lead a project on using supramolecular chemistry to target lipid nanoparticles, #chemsky #chembio, driving forward basic+translational science closes 8/7! Strong synthetic skills, or experience of lipid nanoparticles best,18mo, pos exten

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · Jun 17

Two roles live in our Group - a S/PLRS
@crick.ac.uk and KCL to help lead projects, build teams write grants, and manage+train the group and collabs., Synthetic Chemist/Chemical Biologist #chemsky #chembio, driving forward basic+translational science tinyurl.com/3kmmfwws closes 25/6! 24mo, pos extn

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · Jun 3

Join our lab, as a S/PLRS @crick.ac.uk
/KCL -Synthetic Chemist/Chemical Biologist #chemsky #chembio, to lead projects, build teams, support and train, collaborating across my group and more widely, driving forward basic+translational science tinyurl.com/5n8ek33x closes 25/6! 24month, possible exten

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · Jun 3

Had a great time at #ISMSC2025 last week; it was great to talk about the group's work, and to see all the posters up on new projects!

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · Jun 2

Important changes on @erc.europa.eu grants‼️Grant structure & most importantly eligibility timeframes (10 years for starting, 15 years for consolidator post PhD-but you can have them only once) changes: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes

With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...

erc.europa.eu

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ISMSC2026 conference @ismsc2026.bsky.social · May 18

Welcome & please follow to get updates on International Symposium on Macrocyclic & Supramolecular Chemistry 2026 at Bordeaux 🇨🇵 and don't hesitate to reach out...

...but first lets enjoy the excellent programme at ISMSC2025 in Kyoto 🇯🇵

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · May 12

Our first photoswitchable channel, controlled by three separate stimuli, is now up on ChemRxiv! tinyurl.com/3m4umy3d - we use fluorinated azobenzenes and a pillar[5]arene core to modulate ion transport using light, pH, and guest, modulating initial rates 170-fold. Collaboration with Wallace Lab@KCL!

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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · May 8

We're excited to share our latest paper, just accepted in ACS Catalysis! 🎉 in which we describe how positionally addressable peptide libraries (SPOT libraries) can be used to discover artificial metallopeptide catalysts that work inside living cells. 👇 #ChemSky

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Streamlined Identification of Metallopeptides for Intracellular Catalysis Using Positionally Addressable Combinatorial Libraries

The discovery and development of artificial catalysts to carry out bioorthogonal reactions in living cells is a primary goal at the interface of Chemistry and Biology. Current approaches rely on time-...

pubs.acs.org

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Jake Greenfield @jakeylg.bsky.social · May 5

🚨📢Out now in #Chem, @jiarongwu.bsky.social and I figure out how to perturb a non-photoresponsive reaction(🌚) out of equilibrium using our imine-based photoswitches🔦💡This is achieved using a light-responsive transimination!(🌝)
#AIPs #imine #OpenAccess #ChemSky
doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

TOC of the paper showing a light responsive transimination influencing a non-photoresponsive transimination (at least at 405 nm irradiation).

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Tom Ellis @proftomellis.bsky.social · May 2

My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑‍🎓 Please RT. It's a great place with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics like synthetic biology. It's also not in the USA. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · Apr 17

Join our lab, as a SLRS/PLRS
@crick.ac.uk /KCL -Synthetic Chemist/Chemical Biologist #chemsky #chembio, to lead project, build teams, support and train, collaborating across my group and more widely, driving forward basic+translational science tinyurl.com/4f4zhw9d closes 29/4! 24month, possible extn

Senior/ Principal Laboratory Research Scientist

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · Apr 9

Researchers at the Crick, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and @unifr.bsky.social have designed a new saltwater filter inspired by the body’s own filtering system.

If this new system can be scaled up, it could be used to help filter seawater into drinking water.

www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-04...

Cell membrane biology inspires design of new saltwater filters

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, King’s College London and the University of Fribourg have developed polymer water channels, similar to commonly used plastics, that can draw salt out of wat...

www.crick.ac.uk

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𝔎𝔦𝔩𝔟𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 𝔤𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔭 @kilbinger-group.bsky.social · Apr 3

The Kilbinger Group at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, is seeking two highly motivated PhD candidates to join our research team.

more information at: kilbinger.net

Kilbinger research group

kilbinger.net

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