Bitter sweet (butter cream cupcakes a la Chelsea F) farewell to @SandraNurttila who is leaving us after year postdoc in the ThordarsonGroup after absolutely acing it with her supercool catalysis work! Best of luck with your next adventures - we will miss you!!

Great work from Dr. Fayaz Ali Larik here at the #ISMSCPoster #ozchem #chemistry UNSW Science

My first ChemRxiv paper and the results of an extremely productive PhD student Dr. Fayaz Ali Larik who is working with me ThordarsonGroup and Jon Beves on photoswitchable self-assembled hydrogels. #ozchem with @SandraNurttila Lucy Fillbrook Doc Martin chemrxiv.org/articles/prepr…

Proud of #chemistry UNSW Science Chelsea Forest and Caitlin Silva and our review in Peptide Science on dual-peptide functionalised nanoparticles for therapeutic use #peptide #science Wiley Chemistry Congrats Chelsea & Caitlin! #ozchem CBNS dx.doi.org/10.1002/pep2.2…

Super proud of the #ozchem #chemistry ThordarsonGroup UNSW Science and how they managed through a very challenging year. Especially Caitlin and Grace (front centre/right) who have just finished their fantastic Honours project presentations. So happy to get to work with you all.

Ultra-low molecular weight photoswitcable hydrogelator paper is out in Angewandte Chemie Congratulations Dr. Fayaz Ali Larik and everyone else involved in this #ozhcem Jon Beves ThordarsonGroup collaboration including @SandraNurttila Lucy Fillbrook Doc Martin onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Check this one out my 1st PhD paper! Reversible/bidirectional! First example ever to form hydrogel just from a photoswitch, having lowest molecular weight! Sensible/brainy gels! Thanks to Palli Thordarson Jon Beves Lucy Fillbrook Doc Martin @SandraNurttila

What a year indeed! But we got through it. Congratulations to a hard working team!

Our first issue of 2021 is available now. Including 'Indicator displacement assays (IDAs): the past, present and future', a Tutorial Review from Jonathan L. Sessler, Tony D. James, Eric V. Anslyn & Xiaolong Sun Jonathan L Sessler Tony James ➡️ xlink.rsc.org/?doi=C9CS00538B

The newest members of the ThordarsonGroup Joel & Anika #ozchem kick off their Honours projects with (manual) peptide synthesis!

Moderna mRNA vaccine is finally arriving in Australia. It is very similar to the BioNTech SE / Pfizer Inc. #mRNA The main difference is in the lipid nanoparticle (LNP) that deliver the mRNA. This is both in terms of the lipid chemistry and how the LNP's are formed 1/10

Welcome to our new Honours students Alisha and Lachlan! In a long standing ThordarsonGroup tradition they kick off with some peptide synthesis but they will then be moving on with RNA synthesis and other cool UNSW RNA Institute related research! Good luck! #ozchem

ISMSC 2023 will be 25-29 June 2023 in Reykjavík, Iceland. But while you wait for further updates on speakers etc, take a look at Iceland's newest volcano that started erupted earlier today - just a few km's from Fagradalsfjall Volcano that erupted in 2021. youtube.com/watch?v=lgk2fA…

Congratulations to UNSW RNA Institute staff members A/Prof. Megan Lord Megan Lord and Dr Albert Fahrenbach Albert Fahrenbach on being awarded the prestigious ARC Future Fellowships! #FutureFellowship @unsw UNSWEngineering UNSW Science #ozchem #RNA

First speaker announcement: ISMSC2023 Team ISMSC - International Symposium on Macrocyclic & Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC 2023), Reykjavík, Iceland! We have 45 speakers from 18 countries. Updates on abstracts & registration info coming. Palli Thorri Gunnlaugsson & Krishna Damodaran

ThordarsonGroup Christmas Party in Centennial park! No pics of me being demolished in a frisbee game. But food / BBQ (thanks Chef Karrar!), drinks, weather and company was great! Very fortunate to work with this great team! #ozchem UNSW Chemical Society UNSW Science

Royal Australian Chemical Institute Draft submission for the Australian Research Council review, a 🧵 Draft below for #ozchem to use as basis for your own submission. Key points: Q1-Q2: Establish a board of researchers that appoints CEO & sets direction on application & review processes. 1/15 opendatafit.org/static/media/u…

Congratulations to Cameron, Max and the whole Colorado team led by Garrett Miyake Colorado State University on their latest J. Am. Chem. Soc. below. Proud to have been included and be able to help out with this important catalysis study. #ozchem pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Absolutely stunning piece of research by Prof. Matthew Disney Matt Disney Wertheim UF Scripps published in nature on Programming inactive RNA-binders into bioactive degrader. MedChem+RNA=Winning! Disney is on the UNSW RNA Institute Expert Expert Advisory Board. #ozchem #RNA nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our program is now available! A more detailed online version with links to abstracts will be online later this week but you can now see who is speaking when by downloading the PDF from the top of this page here: ismsc2023.org/programme/