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Karges Group @kargesgroup.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🚨
Join our group in Bioinorganic Chemistry to work on the synthesis & biological evaluation of metal complexes for anticancer therapy.
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/8...

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Jeannine Hess @jeanninehess.bsky.social · 15d

🧪 Excited to share our new work on reactive metallo-scaffolds (r-mS)! We combine metal complexes with chemoproteomics to discover new liganding sites across the proteome! Shout out to a great collaboration with GSK! Fantastic team effort 🫶🏻 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Proteome-Wide Target Identification Using Reactive Metallo-Scaffolds (r-mS): A Platform for Metallodrug Discovery

Metal complexes offer unique opportunities as scaffolds in chemical biology and drug discovery, with tuneable geometry, modular coordination environments, and structural features not readily accessibl...

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Ingo Ott @iottgroup.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our latest paper on antiviral metallodrugs is online (open access)! Great collaboration with the team of Luca Ronconi from Galway on gold compounds as protease inhibitors with strong antiviral activity! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Potent inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 proteases PLpro and 3CLpro by selected gold(III)-dithiocarbamato complexes showing strong and selective antiviral activity against HCoV-OC43

Selected gold(III)-dithiocarbamato complexes were identified as potent inhibitors of two critical enzymes involved in the SARS-CoV-2 replication cycle…

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https://isbomc25.sciencesconf.org/ @isbomc25.bsky.social · Aug 28

The first pictures of the conference are online, food science and smiles!

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International Symposium on Bioorganometallic Chemistry 2025 (ISBOMC′25) - Sciencesconf.org

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https://isbomc25.sciencesconf.org/ @isbomc25.bsky.social · Aug 27

What a beautiful sunny day in Paris, perfect for a group picture! (@chimieparistechpsl.bsky.social Library is also a nice setting for an inside group picture).

Group picture at ISBOMC25 in Chimie ParisTech Library

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Ingo Ott @iottgroup.bsky.social · Aug 27

Live on stage @isbomc25.bsky.social : group member Igor Esarev

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Ingo Ott @iottgroup.bsky.social · Aug 27

Very happy about the poster flash presentation of team member Sebastian Türck @isbomc25.bsky.social ! Looking forward to day 2!

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Ingo Ott @iottgroup.bsky.social · Aug 20

See you at ISBOMC 2025 next week in Paris!

https://isbomc25.sciencesconf.org/ @isbomc25.bsky.social · Aug 20

Looking forward to welcoming you next week in Paris!
Follow the account for news about the up-coming International Symposium on Bioorganometallic Chemistry taking place at Chimie ParisTech, August 26th to 29th.

@gassergroup.bsky.social @cariouk.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social

Entrance of Chimie ParisTech with the ISBOMC25 banner

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Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) @gdch.de · Jul 23

Die GDCh geht den nächsten Schritt in Richtung Nachhaltigkeit: Die neu berufene Nachhaltigkeitskommission hat ihre Arbeit aufgenommen. gdch.app/article/nach...

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Ingo Ott @iottgroup.bsky.social · Jul 11

This week the foundation stone of our new pharmacy building at TU Braunschweig was laid! The new pharmacy campus will have a huge impact on research and teaching in medicinal chemistry and all aspects of drug research. Looking forward to it a lot!
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Foundation stone laid for new pharmacy building - TU Braunschweig | Blogs

On 9 July, Technical University of Braunschweig celebrated another milestone in its renovation programme with the symbolic laying of the foundation stone

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Ingo Ott @iottgroup.bsky.social · Jul 2

Many thanks for the opportunity to present about metallodrugs and our research concept at #PJ-academy!

JTKidney @jtkidney.bsky.social · Jul 2

@iottgroup.bsky.social explaining metallodrugs in #oncology at our #PJ-academy - a joined teaching module of PharmD & MD students at the @tu-braunschweig.de.

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Ingo Ott @iottgroup.bsky.social · Jun 18

Happy to see our latest work on anticancer gold organometallics published! We report on a gold alkynyl complex with promising in-vitro and in-vivo activity (open access). Thanks to @gassergroup.bsky.social for the nice collaboration!
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Antiproliferative effects, mechanism of action and tumor reduction studies in a lung cancer xenograft mouse model of an organometallic gold( i ) alkyn ... - RSC Medicinal Chemistry (RSC Publishing) D...

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Ingo Ott @iottgroup.bsky.social · Jun 4

Had a wonderful time at #BioCiudadReal ! Many thanks to Blanca R. Manzano, Gema Durá and all other members of the conference team for the perfect organization and the great hospitality !

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science-bites.bsky.social @science-bites.bsky.social · Apr 21

#chemistry
#chatchemistry
#iteachchem

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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · Apr 10

Nature Communications is looking to hire an organic chemist – more details in the link below #Chemsky #Chemjobs 🧪

Associate or Senior Editor (Organic Chemistry), Nature Communications

Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor (Organic Chemistry), Nature Communications Organisation: Nature Portfolio Locations: Jersey City, London, New York, Philadelphia or Washington DC - hybrid working...

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Ingo Ott @iottgroup.bsky.social · Apr 10

"Silver N-Heterocyclic Biscarbene Complexes: Potent Inhibitors of Thioredoxin Reductase with Anticancer Activity in Vitro and in Vivo." Many thanks to @thebabaklab.bsky.social for the great collaboration! Open access:
aces.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Silver N‐Heterocyclic Biscarbene Complexes: Potent Inhibitors of Thioredoxin Reductase with Anticancer Activity in Vitro and in Vivo

Silver N-heterocyclic carbene complexes in the biscarbene form represent a promising type of TrxR-inhibiting organometallic anticancer drug candidates with activity in vitro and in vivo.

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Ingo Ott @iottgroup.bsky.social · Mar 31

Happy to see group member Igor Esarev presenting a talk on antibacterial silver #bioorganometallics at the Ferrocene Colloquium 2025 ! www.ferrocene19.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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Xile Hu @xilehu-epfl.bsky.social · Mar 20

Great title: the rise of bullshit jobs in universities:-)

Ulrich Hintermair @hintermairlab.bsky.social · Mar 20

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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities

You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a

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Ingo Ott @iottgroup.bsky.social · Mar 11

Thanks to Uli Kortz from Constructor University in Bremen for the opportunity to deliver a talk on #bioorganometallics ! It was great fun to meet many colleagues, researchers and students !

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Ingo Ott @iottgroup.bsky.social · Feb 19

Looking forward to a an exciting conference in beautiful Ciudad Real!

AEBIN - Spanish Association of Bioinorganic Chemistry @aebin25.bsky.social · Feb 19

Exciting news! 🌟@BioCuidadReal25 will take place from June 2-4! Join us for an incredible conference on #BioinorganicChemistry featuring amazing plenary speakers! Christelle Hureau, @iottgroup.bsky.social, Ramon vilar and Petra Heffeter

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Ingo Ott @iottgroup.bsky.social · Jan 31

Is silver the new gold? In this paper we report on silver NHC complexes and their antibacterial mechanism of action. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Modulation of the mechanism of action of antibacterial silver N-heterocyclic carbene complexes by variation of the halide ligand

The antimicrobial properties of silver and silver complexes have been known in medicine since ancient times. However, limitations in stability and solubility have impaired medicinal chemistry and drug...

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Elisa Tomat @elisatomat.bsky.social · Jan 13

📣 Attention #chemsky:
Nominate an emerging leader in Bioinorganic and Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry for the Jonathan L. Sessler Fellowship
📅 Deadline: January 31
All info: www.acs.org/funding/scho...

Please tell all your colleagues on and off 🦋

The Jonathan L. Sessler Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Bioinorganic and Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry - American Chemical Society

American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.

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Sean M. McKenna @seanmckenna.bsky.social · Nov 18

Welcome to Bluesky! I created a starter pack for medicinal chemistry. Please comment/share and let me know if you wish to be added to the starter pack.

go.bsky.app/8JRwAao

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Aditya Basu 👨🏾‍🔬⚗️⌬🧫 @aditya2001.bsky.social · Nov 21

As Bluesky is rapidly emerging as the new online gathering place for chemists (and the scientific community in general), I tried making an INORG CHEM starter pack!
go.bsky.app/9jrY6wU

If your research involves inorganic chemistry of any flavor and I've missed you, please lmk.

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Ingo Ott @iottgroup.bsky.social · Nov 24

Happy to be part of this starter pack! Thanks a lot!

Thorn-Seshold Lab @thornsesholdlab.bsky.social · Nov 17

📯📯 Chemical Biology starter pack 📯📯
140 PIs & groups posting primary research in chemical biology.

Please reskeet (?) & reply to this post if you want to be added!
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Let's make ChemBioSky even greater again!

#realtimechem #FluorescenceFriday #chemsky #chemtwitter #AgentOrange

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