🎓 Huge congratulations to Dr. Axel Sarmiento Fuentes on successfully defending his doctoral thesis! 🥂 📘 “Peptide and Supramolecular Engineering for Delivery and Molecular Recognition” Well done, Áxel — we’re proud of you and excited to see where your next chapter leads! #FondosEuropeos

Many thanks to Dr. Andrew Kellett for his visit to #CiQUS and for sharing his latest research on “Recent Advances in Artificial Gene-Editing and DNA-Targeted Metallodrug Design.” It was a real pleasure to host you and learn from your insightful talk. #RedeCIGUS #FondosEuropeos

The 3WJ nuclease team 💪 @akellett.bsky.social @pepman.bsky.social @ciqus.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social @usc.gal #ChemSky #DNAjunctions

We had the pleasure of hosting @akellett.bsky.social (@dublincityuni.bsky.social) at @ciqus.bsky.social for a great lecture on his latest advances in metallodrugs and artificial gene editing. An inspiring visit that strengthens our scientific collaboration and friendship. #Metallodrugs #ChemSky

We’re excited to host Prof. Andrew Kellett (DCU) @akellett.bsky.social next Friday 24th at @ciqus.bsky.social (11:00 a.m.) for a talk on “Recent Advances in Artificial Gene Editing and DNA-Targeted Metallodrug Design” #ChemBio #ChemSky #DNA #Metallodrugs

#CiQUSintheMedia 🗞 | Un sistema molecular con potencial para recoñecer dianas do ADN asociadas ao cancro: A investigación de Miguel Vázquez, destacada nel Correo Gallego → www.elcorreogallego.es/santiago/202... #FondosEuropeos #RedeCIGUS

Last Sunday at noon, @tvgalicia.bsky.social Telexornal featured a short news piece on our recent @jacs.acspublications.org article (also highlighted as a cover). #DNAjunctions @ciqus.bsky.social @usc.gal Here is the link to it: www.g24.gal/-/un-achado-...

Thrilled to announce our new National Project funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación and the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, focused on #CancerResearch #Metallopeptides #DNAJunctions #ChemicalBiology #SupramolecularChemistry

Albariño, fideuá & the beach🍷🥘 🏖️ with some friends from @ciqus.bsky.social @glowsticks.bsky.social @biometalusc.bsky.social @diegopena.bsky.social @montenegrolabo.bsky.social

🔥 New research from CiQUS makes the cover of Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS): chiral helical polymers meet helicates and chart their path to DNA three-way junctions (3WJ). 🧪 Full story: www.usc.es/ciqus/en/new... #FondosEuropeos #RedeCIGUS

🎨 Our JACS Supplementary Cover is out! A supramolecular story of fibers, peptide helicates, and DNA three-way junctions… 👉 pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/1... #DNAjunction #MyACSCover #ChemSky #SupramolecularChem @acs.org @pubs.acs.org @jacs.acspublications.org

Big news! 🚀 Our new paper is out in JACS! 👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... “Unlocking a Biological Interface of Chiral Supramolecular Helical Polymers” #DNAjunction #SupramolecularChem #ChemSky @acs.org @pubs.acs.org @jacs.acspublications.org

🎉 Honored to share that I’ve been appointed as a new board member of @aebin25.bsky.social at #BioCiudadReal25. Grateful for the trust and excited to contribute to the growth of our vibrant community of spanish bioinorganic chemists. #AEBIN #BioinorgChem #ChemSky

Something big is coming… Soon, we’ll be able to share a story of peptide helicates, helical polymers, and DNA junctions. Stay tuned 😉 #ChemSky #DNAJunctions #SupraChemSky #ChemBioSky

Call for Expressions of Interest – MSCA Postdocs 2025 Join my group at CiQUS to work on “Selective DNA Junction Binders for Targeted Anticancer Therapy”. Deadline: June 15 www.usc.es/ciqus/en/MSC... #MSCA #CiQUS #DNAJunctions #Postdoc #ChemSky #ChemBioSky

Can’t wait to travel to Pavia next month to see my friends. Honored to speak at the Università di Pavia about our latest work on peptide helicates and DNA three-way junctions. #DNAJunctions #ChemSky #ChemBioSky

The best of the best! The core of our community on #DNA #RNA junctions during the first meeting #IMAJ1 including @biometalusc.bsky.social, @sebastien-britton.bsky.social, @christinecardin.bsky.social, @granzhan.bsky.social, Jean-Louis, Mark and many others Thank you again for your participation!

A small gift for @christinecardin.bsky.social — a short video of the beautiful crystal she solved with Mark Searcey A bright fragment of science 🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #IRN_NAC #ChemSky #DNAJunctions

The beauty of DNA junction ligands 😍🧬 #ChemSky #DNAJunctions #IRN_NAC

Especially of course @dmonchaud.bsky.social for all the inspiration and perspiration to get to this point.

Wonderful meeting! Thanks all 🧬

The first IRN on Nucleic Acid Junctions meeting couldn’t have gone any better. Brilliant science, inspiring people, and a perfect atmosphere. Huge thanks to @dmonchaud.bsky.social for making it happen #IMAJ1 #ChemSky #DNAjunctions

One of the many great outcomes of the first IRN on Nucleic Acid Junctions meeting @hannongroup.bsky.social is now active on Bluesky — great to have you here, Mike ;) #IMAJ1 #ChemSky #DNAjunctions

Vive les jonctions d'ADN! Fabulous scientific discussions in Paris with @biometalusc.bsky.social @sebastien-britton.bsky.social @christinecardin.bsky.social @dmonchaud.bsky.social @jlmergny.bsky.social @granzhan.bsky.social and Mark Searcey. Join us next year in UK for Edition 2 of this meeting!

Thank you, Miguel! It was great to have you all here in Paris. It was our first meeting, but it was so exciting and promising! I'm eager to repeat this beautiful experience next year, certainly in the UK! Stay tuned! #DNA #DNAjunction #iMAJ #IRN

Great success at the first IRN on Nucleic Acid Junctions meeting — inspiring science, engaging discussions, and exciting prospects. Thanks to all, especially @dmonchaud.bsky.social for the leadership! @cnrs.fr @akellett.bsky.social @granzhan.bsky.social #IMAJ1 #ChemSky #DNAjunctions

Excited to speak at the 1st International Meeting on Nucleic Acid Junctions (IMAJ#1) in Paris, May 12–14, 2025. Grateful to be part of this great lineup. Thanks to Dr. David Monchaud and team! #IMAJ2025 #DNAjunctions #ChemSky

Inspiring morning at @ciqus.bsky.social with @lsalassa.bsky.social, who showed how flavin photocatalysis can unlock new paths for platinum-based cancer therapies. Brilliant chemistry 🧪, sharp vision 💡 #chemsky #chembiosky

Great talk by Prof. Anna Peacock today at CiQUS! Amazing work on de novo designed metalloproteins as MRI contrast agents. Thanks for the inspiration! @peacockgroup.bsky.social @ciqus.bsky.social #CiQUS #ChemSky #BioinorganicChemistry #MRI

Felicidades y mucha suerte 👊 @diegopena.bsky.social www.elcorreogallego.es/santiago/202...

Exciting news! Our paper “Copper(II) Cyclopeptides with High ROS-Mediated Cytotoxicity” is now published in Bioconjugate Chemistry! 🎉 🔗 Read it here (50 free downloads): pubs.acs.org/articlesonre... Thanks to @pubs.acs.org for publishing our work #ChemSky #Metallopeptides #BioconjugateChem (1/5)

More progress in the mRNA cancer vaccine work. It’s taken a long time to get here!

Just created an Instagram account to share updates on our research group! 🚀🔬 Follow us at @biometalusc to stay up to date with our latest advances in Supramolecular Chemistry & Chemical Biology! 🧪✨

My second-year Chemistry students at @usc.gal successfully obtained 🧡 copper via cementation! A hands-on approach to metal chemistry—reactivity in action! ⚗️🔥 #AcademicSky #ChemSky

🚀 Exciting news! Our paper “Copper(II) cyclopeptides with high ROS-mediated cytotoxicity” has been accepted in Bioconjugate Chemistry! @pubs.acs.org 🎉 More details soon! #Metallodrugs #ROS #BioconjugateChem #MetalPeptides #ChemSky

Beautiful potassium alum crystals grown by my 2nd-year Chemistry students at @usc.gal Precision, patience, and chemistry in action! 🧪✨ #chemsky

Important read. www.science.org/content/blog...

🧨New preprint on ChemRxiv! 📄Together with @felixfreirelab.bsky.social & @glowsticks.bsky.social, we show how a molecule assembly into a helical polymer or a 3WJ-binding helicate via external stimuli. 🔥New paths for supramolecular polymers in ChemBio! 🔗 Read: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... #ChemSky

Come join us for our biannual meeting in Ciudad Real! More info here: www.biociudadreal.es

Celebrating the end of the year with the best @ciqus.bsky.social colleagues and friends 🍾 @diegopena.bsky.social @montenegrolabo.bsky.social @manuelsouto.bsky.social Eduardo Fernández-Megía, Martín Fañanás, Fernando López (and the missing @glowsticks.bsky.social)

Alguien tenía que arriesgarse a quedar mal haciendo esta lista 😊 Como estoy seguro de que me olvido de amig@s y personas que deberían estar aquí, hacédmelo saber en los replies para añadiros. #ChemSky go.bsky.app/5WU81dp

I have just created a starter pack of researchers working in the area of bioactive metal complexes from different perspectives. If you want to be added send me a message :) #chemicalbiology #biometals go.bsky.app/SSuWyTq

Take a look at this fantastic article in Dalton Transactions by @biometalusc.bsky.social and colleagues👇

Check our last paper in collaboration with the research group of Prof. María C. Giménez (colleague at CiQUS) on the influence of the secondary coordination sphere on the magnetic behavior of single ion magnets #coordinationchemistry #molecularmagnetism #singleionmagnets doi.org/10.1039/D4DT...

I have just created a starter pack of researchers working in the area of bioactive metal complexes from different perspectives. If you want to be added send me a message :) #chemicalbiology #biometals go.bsky.app/SSuWyTq

Hi Bluesky! New here and a bit surprised not to see a starter pack dedicated to Chemical Biology so.. here we go! go.bsky.app/DDpDuvo

Hello bsky! My lab at CiQUS develops metallopeptide tools for nucleic acid junctions and G-quadruplexes. We are particularly interested in peptide helicates and DNA-3WJ. Please follow us for more news about our research #DNA #RNA #metallopeptides #chemicalbiology #supramolecularchemistry

Hi DNA/RNA folks! With @granzhan.bsky.social @sebastien-britton.bsky.social @glowsticks.bsky.social and others we are launching an International Research Network (IRN) on nucleic acid junctions #3WJ - Thanks @cnrs.bsky.social Chimie! 1st meeting next year (May 25) in Paris Contact me if interested