Studying the copper distribution in cancer cells with Giulia Veronesi at beam line ID21 @esrf.fr in Grenoble: a really exciting place for science and very cool to see the impact of our synthetic copper ionophores! @lucescostaction.bsky.social #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenInSTEM

We are very happy to organize the 2026 Supramolecular Chemistry Days of the French Chemical Society [JCS-2026] in Marseille on May 28–29. For more information, please check: → @jcs-2026.bsky.social (Bluesky) → jcs2026.sciencesconf.org (website) We hope to meet you soon in Marseille !

We're proud to share the first Cu(I) ionophores that transport Cu(I) cations selectively and that are active in cells! Read our story in JACS: doi.org/10.1021/jacs... Thanks a lot to all colleagues and students from @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social and @ulbruxelles.bsky.social involved in this effort 🎉

An idea I had during my PhD has finally come to fruition with the help of @hennievalkenier.bsky.social . Transporting cAMP and AMP across lipid bilateral using synthetic small molecules, now out in Angewandte onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Want to know more about anion transport across membranes? Make sure to read the Concept Article “The Lucigenin Assay: Measuring Anion Transport in Lipid Vesicles” by Vladimír Šindelář, @hennievalkenier.bsky.social et al. in #AnalysisSensing: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪

📣Job opportunities in Brussels from Jan 2026 🇧🇪 Join our team to help develop new ANION RECEPTORS for phosphate and other oxoanions ➡️ Sensing and transmembrane transport for Environment & Health applications. PhD students: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383323, PostDoc: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383310

Many great scientists are currently present at the 27th Solvay Conference on Chemistry in Brussels. It was a pleasure to listen to the discussions on the advances and future of Chemical Complexity and Emerging Synthetic Methodologies. #SolvayInstitutes #chemsky

The 27th Solvay Conference on Chemistry has just been opened by Prof. Ben Feringa (2016 Nobel prize laureate), and this mornings session will be chaired by Prof. Omar Yaghi, who was awarded the Nobel prize yesterday! 🎉 What a privilege to have the Solvay Institutes in Brussels 😃 #chemsky

🚨Would you like to learn how small volumes can have big implications? 🚨Check out our latest paper 📃on compartmentalised liposome-based nanoreactors that engineered the self-assembly of hybrid materials. @hennievalkenier.bsky.social. Now in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/anie...

Thrilled to share that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant 2025! 🎉@ERC_Research Grateful to all who made this possible: @aarontorreshuerta.bsky.social, Rob Ameloot, @hennievalkenier.bsky.social , Excited to establish the Velasquez & Torres Group@KU Leuven. 🚀 #ERCStG #ERC

Inspired by Amar Flood's cyanostars, former PhD student Lau Halgreen designed these small cyanostilbene compounds. Anurag Singh took over and found them to be great synthetic chloride transporters. Also a big thanks to the other contributors. Read the story in Chem. Eur. J. doi.org/10.1002/chem...

🎉Congratulations to Dr Matus Chvojka👨‍🎓 for passing his PhD defence (co-supervised by Vladimir Sindelar at Masaryk University) and for winning the 2nd Jean-Marie Lehn prize (awarded by the French embassy in Prague and IOCB Tech Foundation for excellent Czech and Slovak Chemistry PhD students) #Chemsky

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 🇯🇵

Thank you very much to all speakers, co-organisers, and participants of the #SolvayInstitutes workshop on "The Interplay of Molecules and Membranes" in Brussels for the 3 days of great discussions! And thanks a lot to the International Solvay Institutes for allowing us to organise this workshop.

After a great first day of scientific discussions, we're getting ready for day 2 of the #SolvayInstitutes workshop on "The Interplay of Molecules and Membranes" in Brussels.

Read all about the anion transport by bambusuril macrocycles in our new OBC paper. Years of hard work by Matus Chvojka and with Vladimir Sindelar have led to this story that explores 8 types of fluorinated substituents, leading to very different anion transport rates. doi.org/10.1039/D5OB...

We were happy to learn that our article about the Lucigenin assay to study anion transport in liposomes (doi.org/10.1002/anse...) is among the top 10 most-cited papers published in 2023 in Analysis&Sensing from @chemistryeurope.bsky.social. #TopCitedArticle

The International Solvay Institutes are hosting an interdisciplinary discussion workshop on the "The Interplay between Molecules and Membranes" from 28-30 April 2025 in Brussels. We still have some spaces available. More information and registration at www.solvayinstitutes.be/event/worksh...

Read all about the transport of inorganic phosphate and phosphate esters by synthetic anion receptors in our article in ChemistryEurope (#OpenAccess @chemistryeurope.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1002/ceur... 🟰 key results from our project funded by @erc.europa.eu and #FNRS at @ulbrecherche.bsky.social.

“Controlling the transmembrane transport of chloride by dynamic covalent chemistry with azines” by Hennie Valkenier et al. pubs.rsc.org/doi/d4s...

Hi all. Great to discover this #ChemSky community, after a few disconnected months 😃