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
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Oh look, we made a new spinout company! Repeat academic founder Simon Boulton is planning to exploit the weird trick that cancer cells use to keep replicating indefinitely www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-02...
From science to spinout – cutting cancer’s borrowed time
With the launch of ALTx, a new company focussed on exploiting this ability, scientists hope to turn cancer’s borrowed time into a vulnerability.
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February 5, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Oh look, we made a new spinout company! Repeat academic founder Simon Boulton is planning to exploit the weird trick that cancer cells use to keep replicating indefinitely www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-02...
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We need to be shouting about the effects of this on junior researchers from the roofs, writing to our MPs. We are risking a "missing generation" of researchers.
February 1, 2026 at 9:41 AM
We need to be shouting about the effects of this on junior researchers from the roofs, writing to our MPs. We are risking a "missing generation" of researchers.
Our latest collaborative preprint from the group and @kilbinger-group.bsky.social is out - tinyurl.com/3bbrfyhw - we've been looking at creating stably folded, helical, and polyfluorinated transmembrane channels with rates of water transport exceeding Aquaporins. Great to see the manuscript up!
January 16, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Our latest collaborative preprint from the group and @kilbinger-group.bsky.social is out - tinyurl.com/3bbrfyhw - we've been looking at creating stably folded, helical, and polyfluorinated transmembrane channels with rates of water transport exceeding Aquaporins. Great to see the manuscript up!
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Out today in @natchem.nature.com 😃 Huakui, @stefanborsley.bsky.social @benjaminoacid.bsky.social & co illustrate why catalysis-driven motors (like motor proteins) can't use designs based on light-driven motors or molecules-that-rotate-through-multi-reaction-sequences www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Chiral catalysis-driven rotary molecular motors - Nature Chemistry
The structural anisotropy necessary for the powered directional rotation of chemically fuelled molecular motors had previously been provided by chiral fuels or enzymes. Now it has been shown that asym...
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January 16, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Out today in @natchem.nature.com 😃 Huakui, @stefanborsley.bsky.social @benjaminoacid.bsky.social & co illustrate why catalysis-driven motors (like motor proteins) can't use designs based on light-driven motors or molecules-that-rotate-through-multi-reaction-sequences www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We are recruiting! Postdoc positions now open in our laboratory - please come join us in making mechanically interlocked materials for biological applications🧫🛠🔗🧪☘! Applications through advert link below lnkd.in/e7SpdkEQ
Please reach out with any informal inquiries or questions 💬
Please reach out with any informal inquiries or questions 💬
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January 15, 2026 at 1:33 PM
We are recruiting! Postdoc positions now open in our laboratory - please come join us in making mechanically interlocked materials for biological applications🧫🛠🔗🧪☘! Applications through advert link below lnkd.in/e7SpdkEQ
Please reach out with any informal inquiries or questions 💬
Please reach out with any informal inquiries or questions 💬
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Come work with us at the @ciqus.bsky.social We are looking for a PhD candidate with motivation for organic synthesis in the ERC Synergy project “Covalent Chaotropic Membrane Transport for Biotherapeutic Delivery” (CARAMEL). Sharing ❤️ All details here 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/398337
PhD Position in Supramolecular and Organic Chemistry
We are looking to incorporate a PhD candidate (predoctoral contract), with motivation for organic and peptide synthesis, to develop a doctoral thesis at CIQUS – Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ...
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December 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Come work with us at the @ciqus.bsky.social We are looking for a PhD candidate with motivation for organic synthesis in the ERC Synergy project “Covalent Chaotropic Membrane Transport for Biotherapeutic Delivery” (CARAMEL). Sharing ❤️ All details here 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/398337
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When liquids freeze, ions normally grind to a halt — but not in our new materials!
Our latest paper in @science.org shows how organic salts can keep the same ionic conductivity mechanism as they transform from liquid to solid.
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@ox.ac.uk @ajavestro.bsky.social
Our latest paper in @science.org shows how organic salts can keep the same ionic conductivity mechanism as they transform from liquid to solid.
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@ox.ac.uk @ajavestro.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
When liquids freeze, ions normally grind to a halt — but not in our new materials!
Our latest paper in @science.org shows how organic salts can keep the same ionic conductivity mechanism as they transform from liquid to solid.
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@ox.ac.uk @ajavestro.bsky.social
Our latest paper in @science.org shows how organic salts can keep the same ionic conductivity mechanism as they transform from liquid to solid.
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@ox.ac.uk @ajavestro.bsky.social
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Congrats to Dr Aisha Bismillah @anbismillah.bsky.social on receiving the inaugural MASC/WISC EDIA Award 2025!
@wisuprachem.bsky.social
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
@wisuprachem.bsky.social
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
December 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Congrats to Dr Aisha Bismillah @anbismillah.bsky.social on receiving the inaugural MASC/WISC EDIA Award 2025!
@wisuprachem.bsky.social
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
@wisuprachem.bsky.social
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
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Prof Paul McGonigal @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social receives the 2025 Bob Hay Lectureship 🏆 Congratulations, Paul!
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
December 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Prof Paul McGonigal @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social receives the 2025 Bob Hay Lectureship 🏆 Congratulations, Paul!
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
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🚨WISC is excited to announce we are changing our name to Women and Inclusion in Supramolecular Chemistry!
➡️ www.womeninsuprachem.com
#WomeninSTEM
#EDI
#SupramolecularChemistry
#ChemSky
➡️ www.womeninsuprachem.com
#WomeninSTEM
#EDI
#SupramolecularChemistry
#ChemSky
December 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🚨WISC is excited to announce we are changing our name to Women and Inclusion in Supramolecular Chemistry!
➡️ www.womeninsuprachem.com
#WomeninSTEM
#EDI
#SupramolecularChemistry
#ChemSky
➡️ www.womeninsuprachem.com
#WomeninSTEM
#EDI
#SupramolecularChemistry
#ChemSky
Delighted to see our work on dual cavity cages online @chemicalscience.rsc.org - tinyurl.com/yatjzpnc - we explore how subtle changes in peptide sequence and chirality transform cage formation and isomer selectivity, with unexpected results. Congratulations to @benebarber.bsky.social Ellen and Leah!
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Delighted to see our work on dual cavity cages online @chemicalscience.rsc.org - tinyurl.com/yatjzpnc - we explore how subtle changes in peptide sequence and chirality transform cage formation and isomer selectivity, with unexpected results. Congratulations to @benebarber.bsky.social Ellen and Leah!
Great to see our paper on photoswitchable anion channels with the Wallace Lab (KCL) online - congratulations Javid, Kharina, Sam and Adi! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Triply addressable ion channels, and we use these to construct a set of molecular logic gates.
Triply addressable ion channels, and we use these to construct a set of molecular logic gates.
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Great to see our paper on photoswitchable anion channels with the Wallace Lab (KCL) online - congratulations Javid, Kharina, Sam and Adi! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Triply addressable ion channels, and we use these to construct a set of molecular logic gates.
Triply addressable ion channels, and we use these to construct a set of molecular logic gates.
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!
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🚨 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
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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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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...
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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...
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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!