Today brought the end of the #IUPACCHAINS2023 international #chemistry conference in The Hague. A bit different from the usual NWO CHAINS event, as it incorporated the 2023 IUPAC international meeting. As a result, we also had nice contributions from chemists across the globe. Lots of interesting talks, posters and especially also personal interactions - with both familiar faces and new ones. The breadth of topics was impressive, allowing for inspiration and collaboration across disciplines...

My highlights of #IUPACCHAINS2023 were talks by Hiroaki Suga, Timothy Caulfield, Ana Rita Oliveira, Seino Jongkees, Nathaniel Martin, Markus Weingarth, Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt, Peter 't Hart, Kevin Neumann, Ali Tavassoli, Tom Grossmann, Annemieke Madder, Sabine Flitsch, Gerard van Westen and Mark Distefano. #Chemistry #ChemiVerse #ChemicalBiology #ChemBio

#IUPACCHAINS2023 comes to an end. I had an amazing time with six days of exciting science. It was great to meet so many leading scientists, make new connections, learn many new things and get inspired with new ideas for our own research. Thank you to everyone for participating. #Chemistry #ChemiVerse #ChemicalBiology #ChemBio

Congratulations to the poster winners of #IUPACCHAINS2023! The poster sessions were of extremely high quality and I had many great discussions. Also thanks to Julia Pols, Marnix Roseboom, Miriam van der Veer and Asad Halimi for representing our group with their posters.

Interesting talk by Chad Mirkin at #IUPACCHAINS2023. He talked about making and testing inorganic materials in a highly parallel fashion in order to efficiently identify new best-in-class materials. #Chemistry #ChemiVerse #Materials https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c03910

Amazing evening in The Hague after a week of meetings at #iupacchains2023 Thank you to Raychelle for the amazing company and Vavoom Tiki Bar for the amazing cocktails and vibes. #tourism #netherlands #cocktails

Start of final plenary at #iupacchains2023 by Chad Mirkin with introduction by IUPAC president Javier Garcia Martinez

Absolutely inspiring Meet & Great with Timothy Caulfield at #IUPACCHAINS2023. We talked about many aspects of science communication including, how he started to speak out about misinformation, if scientists should leave twitter and how to communicate outside of our scientific bubble. #Chemistry #ChemiVerse #ScienceCommunication

Great talk by Kevin Neumann at #IUPACCHAINS2023. He talked about his group's work on zitterionic polymers as coatings to prevent bacterial biofilms. Exciting chemistry of stable ylides to have a minimal distance between positive and negative charge. #Chemistry #ChemiVerse #Polymers #Antibiotics https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202308971

The last day of #IUPACCHAINS2023 has arrived. Looking forward to the final program points including the Meet and Greet with Timothy Caulfield, the talks by Kevin Neumann and Chad Mirkin as well as the closing ceremony. #Chemistry #ChemiVerse #IUPAC

Day 5 of #IUPACCHAINS2023 comes to an end with a thought-provoking plenary lecture by Timothy Caulfield. Important insights into the exorbitant degree of misinformation in our society, how it effects everyone and what could be done to improve the situation.

Great talk by Annette Beck-Sickinger at #IUPACCHAINS2023. She talked about the power of peptide-based therapeutics. Exciting applications for GPCR biology, for coatings of implants and for drug delivery. #Chemistry #ChemiVerse #DrugDelivery #DrugDiscovery doi.org/10.1039/c9bm01801h

Interesting talk by Wessel Verbeet of the Sylvestre Bonnet group @LED3hub at #IUPACCHAINS2023. He talked about his research in the field of photo-activated chemotherapy. Exciting insights into light-activatable ruthenium complexes. #Chemistry #ChemiVerse #Light https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.3c04855

Great KNCV Golden Medal Award Lecture by Gerard van Westen of @LED3hub at #IUPACCHAINS2023. He talked about his group's work on using computers and AI in drug discovery. Exciting insights into opportunities and current challenges. #Chemistry #ChemiVerse #AI #DrugDiscovery https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0826-5_6

Great talk by Andreas Herrmann at #IUPACCHAINS2023. He talked about his group's work on drug delivery and drug release using ultrasound. Exciting insights on mechanical activation by ultrasound using polymers, nanoparticles, microbubbles and nucleic acids. #Chemistry #ChemiVerse #DrugDiscovery https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-020-00624-8

Gerard van Westen of our @LED3hub is giving his award lecture for his KNCV Gouden Medallie Award at #IUPACCHAINS2023. Interesting insights into the power of computation and AI to accelerate the drug discovery process.

Amazing talk by Seino Jongkees in the "Antibiotics and Antivirals" session of #IUPACCHAINS2023. He talked about his group's work on the RaPID platform to identify antiviral cyclic peptides. Exciting applications to influenza and #SARSCoV2 surface proteins. #Chemistry #ChemiVerse #Antivirals #Peptides https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.2c00040

Interesting talk by Marko Radojković from the Leiden Insitute of Chemistry in the "Antibiotics and Antivirals" session of #IUPACCHAINS2023. He talked about his research on better understanding enzyme evolution on the example of the β-lactamase BlaC.
#Chemistry #ChemiVerse #Antibiotics

Great talk by Halana Vlaming of the LUMC inLeiden in the "Antibiotics and Antivirals" session at #IUPACCHAINS2023. Interesting insights into her work on addressing legionella infections by inhibiting ubiquitin ADP-ribosylation. Exciting screening assay for the underlying enzymes.

Great start to day 5 of #IUPACCHAINS2023. Hiroaki Suga received the van 't Hoff Lectureship Award and gave an inspiring lecture on making large libraries of modified and cyclised peptides for drug discovery. Exciting insights into flexizymes, display technologies and RaPID.