Our growing international community of Nucleic Acid Junction experts & friends at our 2nd intl conference in Reading UK this week. Fabulous exciting science and discussions. Looking forward to next time... and collaborations! @dmonchaud.bsky.social @biometalusc.bsky.social @apoethig.bsky.social

Oral contributions are open for the Intl Coord Chem Conf (ICCC) symposium 'Metallo-supramolecular chemistry meets biology', I'm organising with Valerie Pierre. Apply now to join Makoto Fujita and others and present your research! But be quick...Deadline is 10 March. iccc2026.com/abstract-sub...

Love this photo...non-canonical I-Motif, G-Quadruplex and Junctions DNA-binding evangelists all together! Congrats to Rob Yuan on his fab thesis, thanks to brilliant co-examiner David Shorthouse; great to catch up with Rob's super-talented supervisors @drzoewaller.bsky.social and Stephen Neidle.

Prof. Zoë Waller@drzoewaller.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Congratulations to Rob Yuan for passing his PhD viva! Many thanks to @hannongroup.bsky.social and David Shorthouse for examining!

I'm teaching lego MO diagrams today! Exciting initiative developed by Dr Schnepp and PhD student Isabelle - tactile teaching for different learning styles and visually impaired students. Our talented year 1 students @uobchemistry.bsky.social had lots of fun playing... here they've set up N2 minus.

We bind supramolecular helicates to DNA junctions as lock-and-key and now induced-fit too! Exploring how a helicate's size, shape and symmetry affect structures of #DNAjunctions @jacs.acspublications.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Congratulations Sam, Hugo and Sumit @uobchemistry.bsky.social

What happens when a DNA-junction binding compound is lengthened? Intriguingly, the larger pi surfaces widen the range of junctions targeted! Just out in JBIC -congratulations to authors Sam and Hannah -first paper from her MSc by research studies @uobchemistry.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s007...

Really exciting talks today at the Mechanical Bonds in Biology symposium - great to meet old and make new friends! Thanks to @sgoldup.bsky.social @uobchemistry.bsky.social @charliemcternan.bsky.social @fschaufelberger.bsky.social for organising! Looking forward to the next meeting!

Well done Steve!

Honored to receive the #RSCPrizes Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry. Credit has to go to the hard work and creativity of many outstanding researchers over 10 years at 3 institutions (@qmul.bsky.social, @unisouthampton.bsky.social, @unibirmingham.bsky.social). Short🧵

congratulations Lauren and @pikramenougroup.bsky.social Very well deserved!

Pikramenou Research Group@pikramenougroup.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations Lauren @lozthechemist.bsky.social @uobchemistry.bsky.social for winning a poster prize on your first conference @rsc-photochem.bsky.social #proudsupervisor moment

A thoroughly deserved award winner! Fantastic science, Zoë.

Prof. Zoë Waller@drzoewaller.bsky.social · last yr.

Absolutely delighted to be the recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry Jeremy Knowles Award. This prize reflects both the work of our group and also the support of colleagues, collaborators, mentors and funders along the way. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Proud supervisor moment: PhD student Sam Dettmer from @hannongroup.bsky.social ‪@unibirmingham.bsky.social gives a wonderful lecture at #Bioinorganic 17th ISABC in Sweden (www.isabc2025.com), AND wins a prize for his excellent talk too...Congratulations Sam!

Calling all coordination chemists! ICCC 2026 (Denmark /Sweden) - in Odense next year. Propose sessions on your favourite topics NOW... but be quick! iccc2026.com Great planning meeting last week... Lots to look forward to… See you there!

Great postdoc opportunity at the chemistry-biology interface working with our team and those of Nik Hodges and @pikramenougroup.bsky.social on metallo-drug nanoparticles against cancer. Come and join us in Birmingham and do some exciting interdisciplinary research!

Pikramenou Research Group@pikramenougroup.bsky.social · last yr.

New postdoc position in #interdisciplinary project with biological studies /synthesis of metal-modifield nanoparticles for head-neck cancer with @Nik Hodges and @hannongroup.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ141/r...

Board of Trustees @ias-tum.bsky.social met today. TUM-IAS now 20 years old! 266 Fellows, > 4000 publications, great science and a growing diversity. Congratulations all! So happy to help this fabulous Institute for Advanced Study continue to develop. @tumuenchen.bsky.social

Vive les jonctions d'ADN! Fabulous scientific discussions in Paris with @biometalusc.bsky.social @sebastien-britton.bsky.social @christinecardin.bsky.social @dmonchaud.bsky.social @jlmergny.bsky.social @granzhan.bsky.social and Mark Searcey. Join us next year in UK for Edition 2 of this meeting!

Vázquez López Lab@biometalusc.bsky.social · last yr.

Great success at the first IRN on Nucleic Acid Junctions meeting — inspiring science, engaging discussions, and exciting prospects. Thanks to all, especially @dmonchaud.bsky.social for the leadership! @cnrs.fr @akellett.bsky.social @granzhan.bsky.social #IMAJ1 #ChemSky #DNAjunctions

great work from @pikramenougroup.bsky.social‬ with @dammo.bsky.social on using dental ultrasound to release antibiotics from nanoparticles. Exciting stuff!

Pikramenou Research Group@pikramenougroup.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just out! Importance of silica structure for ultrasound activated antibiotic delivery. Great work Grace Ball @uobchemistry.bsky.social and @dammo.bsky.social Dental School with Physics at Glasgow Uni www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats to lead author @anabecaballero.bsky.social on our new paper about Folate receptor-targeted gold nanoparticles bearing a DNA-binding anthraquinone, just published at www.mdpi.com/2304-6740/13/3/87

An enzyme overexpressed in cancer cells, transforms an inert large supramolecular complex into a DNA Junction Binder! With NAND logic control, and a fascinating role for entropy in controlling binding, read it at doi.org/10.1002/anie.202503683 @uobchemistry.bsky.social

check out this comprehensive and insightful review of lanthanide luminescent complexes in biomedical research from ‪@pikramenougroup.bsky.social‬ and colleagues!

Pikramenou Research Group@pikramenougroup.bsky.social · 2y ago

Interested in luminescent lanthanides for bio-related applications? Check out our review pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... @uobchemistry.bsky.social