The 2024 MASC group awards are all currently open for nominations. Please consider applying:
MASC Group Supramolecular Chemistry Award
📅 6th Sep
Bob Hay Award Lectureship
📅 6th Sep
MASC Group PhD Thesis Award
📅 1st Nov
Full details👇
We are delighted to announce the 2023 Bob Hay Lecture will be given by Dr Stephen Butler,
@Steve_JButler
from Loughborough University, at the 2023 MASC annual meeting in Birmingham
@MASC_2023
on the 18-19th December 2023. Many congratulations Steve on this award!
We are delighted to announce the 2023 MASC Group Supramolecular Chemistry Award sponsored by
@Matter_CP
goes to Prof. Kate Jolliffe
@kate_jolliffe
from the University of Sydney.
The award lecture will be at the 2023 meeting in Birmingham
@MASC_2023
. Many congratulations Kate!
Join us for a special
#vMASC
talk this Thursday at 2.30 pm (UK) by Prof. Jonathan Sessler (
@JLsessler
) from the University of Texas at Austin on Macrocycle-Based Adventures in Self-Assembly and Functionalized Materials. Register via
Our next speaker in the
#vMASC
series is Stuart Cantrill (
@stuartcantrill
,
@NatureChemistry
) who will be speaking about "The nature of chemistry publishing" on the 17th Sept at 14:30 (UK). Registration is free:
That's a wrap for
#MASCECR
thank you all for joining us
@lborouniversity
we hope you had fun, 120 delegates, 52 posters, 12 ECR talks and 8 prizes...it was a blast!
Many congratulations to Prof. Kate Jolliffe
@kate_jolliffe
from the University of Sydney on receiving the MASC Group Supramolecular Chemistry Award, which is kindly sponsored by Matter by Cell Press
@Matter_CP
Two prize, 6 invited and 7 early-career academics talks and a poster session later and that's a wrap for
#vMASC
! Thank you to the speakers and everyone who participated!
vMASC Returns 28th October 09:30 (UK)!
Please join us to hear Prof. Jeremy Sanders talk about his research, work-life balance, and leadership.
#vMASC
There will be a new Zoom link - please sign up at
Are you an early-career researcher in supramolecular chemistry? Do you want the opportunity to present your research to the international and friendly
#vMASC
audience? Submit your abstract by March 4 via to be in the running!
Very excited to announce that our prize lectures at the RSC MASC annual meeting will be Ross Forgan (
@forganross
, Bob Hay) and Rebecca Spicer (
@bec3345
, Thesis Prize). Congratulations both! Programme for the meeting can be found here:
A very happy 😃 Tim Barendt
@TABarendt
who was presented with some champagne by his Head of Dept Neil Champness
@ChampnessGroup
as a thank you for all his hard work chairing MASC2023. Thank you Tim and everybody else on the organising committee at Birmingham for a superb event!
Join us for this week's
#vMASC
talk on Thursday April 29th (2.30 pm UK) by Hendrik Schröder (
@HendrikSchroe
) from Princeton University who will speak about Mechanically Interlocked Based Made From Peptides. Sign up by Wed at 5 pm (UK):
Next up in the
#vMASC
lineup is a Q & A session by the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) network (
@SupraChem
) this Thursday 1/10 at 11:30 (UK). Don't miss it - register for free here:
Submit your questions: DM
@SupraChem
or
Paul McGonigal
@mcgonigalgroup
from the University of York telling us about the wonders of shapeshifting bullvalene molecules and dynamic control of stereochemistry.
This year’s Thesis Prize is awarded to Zoe Ashbridge (
@ZAshbridge
) from the
@ProfDaveLeigh
group
@UoMChemistry
. Zoe has done lots of work on cool knots during her PhD, including this very elegant approach using Vernier templating:
Next up for
#vMASC
supra seminars is Andrew Heard from
@UoSChemistry
on 'mechanically planar chiral rotaxanes for catalysis'. Talk at 2:30pm (UK) on 18th Feb. Sign up by 5pm on 17th Feb here
The 2021 Thesis Award goes to Andrew Heard (
@Andrewheard1994
) who completed his PhD
@UoSChemistry
in the
@GoldupLab
. Andrew's PhD focused on the synthesis and applications of chiral rotaxanes (). He now works on cages with Jonathan Nitschke
@ChemCambridge
Ivan Aprahamian
@aprahamian
from Dartmouth College with an entertaining and thought provoking lecture on chemically fuelled (driven sorry 😂) hydrazone switches.
We are delighted to announce the RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award goes to Dr Michael Howlett
@mghowlett
whose PhD was undertaken at the University of Oxford with Prof. Stephen Fletcher. Michael's award talk will be at MASC2023 in Birmingham
@MASC_2023
Many congratulations Michael!
Join us for our next vMASC seminar tomorrow (24/11, 09:30 UK time) for two great talks on foldamers and Pillar[n]arenes, from Dr. Arundhati Roy (
@royarundhati20
) from LMU Munich, and Prof. Ogoshi (
@ogoshi_lab
) from Kyoto! Sign up at
Tim Barendt
@TABarendt
chairing and opening our annual meeting at the University of Birmingham
@MASC_2023
. Looking forward to some great science over the next two days
Join us for this week's
#vMASC
talk on Thursday April 22nd (14.30 am UK) by Luis Martinez-Crespo from the University of Manchester who will speak about the Transmembrane Transport of Proline. Sign up by Wed at 5 pm (UK):
We are excited for another year of
#vMASC
talks from a great lineup of speakers! Register via and keep an eye out for the upcoming call for abstracts from early-career researchers
Join us for the next vMASC seminar on 27/4 at 14.30 (UK) - join us for two great talks from Rahul Mukhopadhyay and José Berná
@socumu_lab
! Sign up as usual
And finally, a man who needs no introduction (but we must!).
@JLsessler
is this year's Supramolecular Award winner for his outstanding contributions to the field, from anion binding and transport to functional soft materials, always with a view to real-world applications!
The 2022 Bob Hay Lecture will be given by
@JenniferHiscoc2
from the
@UniKentChem_FS
. Jen' s work focusses on using supramolecular self-associating amphiphiles (SSAs) for therapeutic applications. She has also been instrumental in WISC
@SupraChem
.
The first 2021
#vMASC
talk on Jan 14 (9.30 am UK) will be given by Andrew Tarzia (
@andrew_tarzia
) from Imperial College London on High Throughput Structure Prediction of Metal-Organic Cages. The talk will be recorded and sign up here by Wed at 5 pm (UK):
The Bob Hay Lectureship has been awarded to Guillaume de Bo (
@GuillaumeDebo
) from
@UoMChemistry
. Guillaume does lots of cool stuff with interlocked molecules and mechanochemstry - here's a recent favorite:
Or next vMASC seminar is next Thursday (28/4, 9:30 UK time). We have two great speakers, Jon Beves (UNSW) and Savannah Zacharias (Gothenburg). All welcome!
#vMASC
is partnering with
@Suprachem
for the 1st WISC Workshop. Join virtually for the poster session on Aug 31 and for the great talks on Sep 6-8. Submit your poster/oral presentation abstracts by Aug 2 and your online registration by Aug 22 via
Kim Jelfs
@JelfsChem
from Imperial College London showing how far computational structure prediction of cages and porous materials has advanced and how it can support experimentalists.
We have another exciting talk coming up this Thursday 18/3/21 at 2.30 pm (UK time), as we are joined by Kristen Hawkins (
@mirsten
) from UCL to talk about catalytic supramolecular hydrogels. If you aren't automatically registered you can sign up here:
vMASC Returns 28th October 09:30 (UK) - one week left to sign up - see the link below!
Please join us to hear Prof. Jeremy Sanders talk about his research, work-life balance, and leadership.
#vMASC
There will be a new Zoom link - please sign up at
Remember remember the 5th of November, a stereodynamic rotaxane host! Please join
#vMASC
at 11:30am (UK) for Ellen Jamieson’s talk,
@UoSChemistry
and
@GoldupLab
. Sign up is here: .
Join us for this week's
#vMASC
talk on Thursday April 15th (9.30 am UK) by Lynn Lisboa (
@LynnLisboa
) from the University of
@Otago
who will speak about her work on Switchable Heterobimetallic [PdPtL4]4+ Cages. Sign up by Wed at 5 pm (UK):
A reminder to join us for the next vMASC seminar on 23/2 at 14.30 (UK) - join us for two great talks from Lucia Trevisan and Prof. Michaele Hardie! Sign up as usual
It gives us great pleasure to announce the winners of the 2021 Bob Hay Lectureship and 2021 Thesis Award from the
@RoySocChem
Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry discussion group.
This week vMASC has talks from
and Abbie Scholes (Liverpool)
@AbbieScholes
and Kay Severin (EPFL)
@kay_severin
speaking Thursday 09:30pm (UK). Register at to attend!
We are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s MASC prizes. Before we do, we want to thank everyone who applied for any of these awards. The quality of applications this year was outstanding – you made the committee’s job very hard!
Next up in the
#vMASC
lineup is Marysia Tarnowska (
@supra_marysia
) from the
@ChampnessGroup
at Nottingham, presenting The Synthesis of a Triple-Decker Handcuff this Thursday 24/9 at 14:30 (UK). Don't miss it - register for free here:
We are renaming our PhD thesis prize in memory of Prof. John Fossey who sadly passed away recently. John was instrumental in the career development of many ECRs. It is also fitting that the first award lecture under the new name is being given at his institution of Birmingham.
vMASC 25th November 14:30 (UK) - one week left to sign up - see the link below!
Please join us to hear Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson and Zoe Ashbridge talk about their work!
#vMASC
There will be a new Zoom link - please sign up at
The next talk in the
#vMASC
series is from Fredrik Schaufelberger (
@FSchaufelberger
), speaking about molecular knots on Thursday 19/11 at 2:30 pm (UK). For those not automatically registered please sign up here
Please join us at 1430 on the 25th to hear two great talks:
Zoe Ashbridge: Vernier Template Synthesis of Molecular Composite Knots
Thorri Gunnlaugsson: Synthesis and the study of supramolecular self-assembly structures and materials
Please sign up at:
The annual migration of supramolecular chemists has started. You’ll be able to spot them in Lancaster this year.
Get ready for some amazing chemical display
#masc2018
Join us for our next vMASC (with WISC
@Suprachem
) seminar (27/10, 14:30 UK time).
@JenniferHiscoc2
and
@AnaLeonescu868
will be hosting a panel discussion on building external networks for ECRs - sign up at
Update: we are pleased to announce the new
#vMASC
schedule of speakers for the next 6 weeks with talks from Lisa Thomson (
@Lisathoms0n
), Tom Welton, Marc Lehr, Stefan Borsley (
@StefanBorsley
), Ellen Jamieson and Lisa White (
@Lisajwhite1978
)
The
#vMASC
talks will continue until the end of July in a new format of two talks per week. Please join us for talks from Christian Berac, Tomasz Piskorz, Luke Chambers, Felix Rizzuto, David August, Amy Hall, Demetra Giuri and Emily Meekel in the upcoming weeks.
The second 2021
#vMASC
talk on Jan 21 (14.30 UK) will be given by Aisha Bismillah (
@ANBismillah
) from Dartmouth College, on Controlling Crystallisation and Chirality with ‘Shapeshifting’ Molecules. Please sign up here by Wed at 5 pm (UK):
Join us for the next vMASC seminar - 25th May - at 09.30 (UK) - join us for two great talks from Thomas Nicolas-Garcia
@tnicolasgarcia
and Sophie Beeren
@BeerenLab
Sign up as usual
This week's
#vMASC
seminar has talks from
@IreneBenzop
and
@HuaHuang235
on supramolecular cages. 22nd July at 2:30pm (UK). To join, please register via
📢Registration is now open for the main (virtual) MASC meeting 2020. Please visit: Registration is free but essential (even for attendees of
#vMASC
seminars). See you on the 16th Dec!
The next vMASC seminar on 30th November at 09.30 (UK) will feature a special talk from
@ali_stoddart
, giving insight to the world of publishing from an editor’s POV. Sign up at
Return of the vMASC!
Please join us at 14.30 (UK) on the 27th January to hear two great talks from:
Prof. Amar Flood: Anion Recognition and Assembly
(Indiana University)
John (Jack) Maynard
(University of Geneva)
Please sign up at:
Join us for our next vMASC seminar next Thursday (25/8, 14:30 UK time). We have two great speakers, Jen Heemstra
@jenheemstra
(Washington University) and Maria Rando (Padova). All welcome!
Another very successful editions of our annual meeting. Thanks to
@Supra_Evans
and Nick Fletcher for organising. Thanks all helpers, speakers, sponsors, and attendees. Have a safe journey home and enjoy the break!
vMASC is back - join us on 26th October at 1430 for a panel discussion on Mental Health with
@ZJAyres
@callyhaynes
Louise Burls-Lay and
@reid_indeed
- sign up at
We are pleased to announce that the weekly
#vMASC
talks will be continuing in 2021! We have an exciting lineup of speakers (
@andrew_tarzia
,
@ANBismillah
, Nathan Renier,
@DTPayne_Chem
) to kickoff the year. More details to follow and sign up as usual via
A fantastic award lecture and thesis. Congratulations again Dr Michael Howlett
@mghowlett
on winning the RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award given in honour of John Fossey
Come and talk at vMASC! We're looking for Early Career Researchers in supramolecular chemistry (broadly interpreted) to present alongside leading supramolecular chemists in our monthly seminar series in 22/23. Deadline 31/8, short application form at
Looking forward to our first double bill! Join us for these excellent talks on supramolecular chemistry in biology and catalysis in cages! Registration:
The next talk in the
#vMASC
series is from Tessel Bouwens (
@TesselBouwens
), University of Amsterdam, speaking about the use of pseudorotaxanes to enhance dye-sensitized solar cells on Thurs 26th Nov at 9.30 am (UK). Please sign up here: .
We are pleased to announce the new
#vMASC
schedule of speakers for the next 6 weeks with talks from Lisa Thomson, Tom Welton, Marc Lehr, Stefan Borsley, Ellen Jamieson and Lisa White
Certainly cutting edge stuff from Daniel Maspoch from the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology who tells us about his work to chop up MOFs.
Our next
#vMASC
lecture is from Lisa Thomson from
@UofGChem
who will be Creating Transient Gradients in Supramolecular Hydrogels next Thursday (8th October) at 11:30 (UK). Don't miss it - register for free here:
#AnywhereChem
Ask the
#vMASC
/WISC Careers Panel of Jonathan Faiz (
@ChemPlusChem
), Marion Kieffer (InnoMedica), Chris Wood (MOMM Diagnostics), Andrew Baxter (GSK), Katie Howe (
@Barker_Brettell
), Grace Turner (
@beisgovuk
) and Harry Klein (DHSC) your career questions on
Join us for the
#vMASC
talk on Thursday February 11th (9.30 UK) by Daniel Payne (
@DTPayne_Chem
) from NIMS who will speak about his work on Nanomolecular Singlet Oxygen Photosensitizers. This talk will be recorded and please sign up by Wed at 5 pm (UK):
Join us for the fourth
#vMASC
talk of 2021 on Thursday February 4th (14.30 UK). Nathan Renier (
@renier_nathan
) from Université Libre de Bruxelles will speak about his work 'Exploring Copper(I) Transmembrane Transport'. Please sign up by Wed at 5 pm (UK):