vMASC Programme

The full seminar programme for vMASC 2025/26 will be expanded as meetings are confirmed. You can find listings of previous years’ seminars here. (TBC = “To be confirmed”; details will follow as they are confirmed)

Registration is free but essential. Please register here (at least 24h in advance to ensure receipt of the joining link).

Thank you to all our speakers and participants.

DateTime (UK)Speaker(s)Title(s)
25th Sept 20259:30amMuhammad Ghufran Rafique (McGill U.) & Chebrolu Pulla Rao (SRM University AP)“Why nature/We chose phosphates“(MGR) & “Inorganic – Protein Nanomaterials in Sustainable Water Remediation”(CP)
30th Oct 20252:30pmJames M. Gallagher (UC, Berkeley) & Jennifer Hiscock (U. Kent, Canterbury), “Ratcheting synthesis: How to drive chemistry out-of-equilibrium” (JG) & “Can you stop a bullet with protein?”(JH)
27th Nov 20252:30pmCristina V. Craescu (UC, Berkeley) & Fabienne Dumoulin (Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University)“Probing Conformational Dynamics and Attractive NCIs in Supramolecular Catalysis” (CVC) & “Phthalocyanines and other porphyrnoids in supramolecular architectures” (FD)
29th Jan 20262:30pmSubhasis Chattopadhyay (Masaryk University) &Xavi Ribas (QBIS-CAT)“Flexibility-Aided Orientational Self-Sorting into Pd6L8 and Pd12L16” (SC) & “Multipurpose Supramolecular Nanocapsules for Chemistry at the Confined Space” (XR)
26th Feb 20262:30pmMedha Aggarwal (Indian Institute of Science) & Fernanda Duarte (Oxford)“Aqueous Separation of Styrene from Ethylbenzene Using a Water-Soluble Cyclophane”(MA) & TBC(FD)
26th March 20262:30pmAtena B Solea (EPFL) & Bruce Gibb (Tulane)“From nano onions to networks based on B-N bonds: supramolecular chemistry with cyclic trinuclear gold(I) complexes” & TBC(BG)
TBC, April 2026TBCPaulina Molinska (U. Birmingham) & TBC“Directing strategies for Selective Formation of Low-Symmetry Metal Organic Cages”(PM) & TBC
TBC, May 2026TBCAkta Ramkishor Singh (Tata Insitute) & TBC“A spatially-extended coupled cooperative supramolecular system: Emergence of spatiotemporal wave patterns”(AKS) & TBC
TBC, June 2026TBCTBCTBC
TBC, July 2026TBCTBCMASC/WISC 
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