Charlie McTernan
@charliemcternan.bsky.social
#UKRIFLF and Group Leader in the Physical Sciences, Francis Crick Institute, Senior Lecturer, KCL. Supramolecular Chemist; Molecular Machines and Capsules; Supramolecular Therapeutics; Peptide Chemistry and Chemical Biology
New preprint from the group is out - tinyurl.com/yyadfcdv - Zhe has been working on anion switchable palladium cage systems, and used them for separating active pharmaceuticals!
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
New preprint from the group is out - tinyurl.com/yyadfcdv - Zhe has been working on anion switchable palladium cage systems, and used them for separating active pharmaceuticals!
Reposted by Charlie McTernan
🚨 Final reminder to submit your abstract for an oral and/or poster presentation for a chance to showcase your research at this year’s MASC meeting (15th–16th Dec 2025) at the Open University, Milton Keynes!
⚠️ Deadline this Friday, 7th of Nov 2025
More details on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ab...
⚠️ Deadline this Friday, 7th of Nov 2025
More details on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ab...
MASC 2025 Abstracts
Abstract Submission Home Programme Speakers Registration and Bursaries Abstract Submission Venue Travel Accommodation Sponsors Abstract submission deadline: Friday 7th November 2025 Please use the …
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November 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🚨 Final reminder to submit your abstract for an oral and/or poster presentation for a chance to showcase your research at this year’s MASC meeting (15th–16th Dec 2025) at the Open University, Milton Keynes!
⚠️ Deadline this Friday, 7th of Nov 2025
More details on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ab...
⚠️ Deadline this Friday, 7th of Nov 2025
More details on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ab...
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I'm advertising a funded opportunity for a postdoc to join the Fielden Research Group for 24 months: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC150/r...
We're looking for a researcher with expertise in supramolecular and/or colloid chemistry to help kick start our ERC-funded project into dynamic emulsions. 😃
We're looking for a researcher with expertise in supramolecular and/or colloid chemistry to help kick start our ERC-funded project into dynamic emulsions. 😃
October 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I'm advertising a funded opportunity for a postdoc to join the Fielden Research Group for 24 months: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC150/r...
We're looking for a researcher with expertise in supramolecular and/or colloid chemistry to help kick start our ERC-funded project into dynamic emulsions. 😃
We're looking for a researcher with expertise in supramolecular and/or colloid chemistry to help kick start our ERC-funded project into dynamic emulsions. 😃
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We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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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...
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
October 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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...
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...
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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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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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September 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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
(1/2)
Registration and abstract submission are now open (key deadlines below)
More on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ho...
#RSC_MASC
#RSC_MASC_2025
(1/2)
Reposted by Charlie McTernan
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👏👏👏
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...
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...
September 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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👏👏👏
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Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer
September 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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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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!
September 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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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📣 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...
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 …
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August 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
📣 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...
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...
Reposted by Charlie McTernan
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...
July 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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...
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🔊 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
Sharing 🙏
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
Sharing 🙏
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
July 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
🔊 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
Sharing 🙏
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
Sharing 🙏
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!
July 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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!
Reposted by Charlie McTernan
June 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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
@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
June 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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
@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
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
@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
June 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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
@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
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
/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
June 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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
/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
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!
June 3, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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!
Reposted by Charlie McTernan
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
June 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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/...
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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 🇯🇵
...but first lets enjoy the excellent programme at ISMSC2025 in Kyoto 🇯🇵
May 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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 🇯🇵
...but first lets enjoy the excellent programme at ISMSC2025 in Kyoto 🇯🇵
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!
May 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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!
Reposted by Charlie McTernan
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....
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
May 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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....
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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🚨📢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...
#AIPs #imine #OpenAccess #ChemSky
doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
May 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🚨📢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...
#AIPs #imine #OpenAccess #ChemSky
doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
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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-...
May 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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-...
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
@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
tinyurl.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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
@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