The Gibb Group

@brucecgibb’s, Hank Ashbaugh’s, and Dor Ben-Amotz’s collaborative efforts (with work from brilliant students, of course) is featured on the cover of the July 2020 issue of @NatureChemistry, with an art contribution by @doogiehauserjr! Well done, everyone!

@HennieValkenier @brucecgibb @BusschaertGroup Thank you for coming and sharing your work with us! We’re happy you enjoyed your time here 🤩😊

Thanks a lot to @brucecgibb, Corinne, @GibbGroupLab, @BusschaertGroup and the other organisers for the great #Calix2022 conference in New Orleans. Great science, kind people, and a special city! 😊

@brucecgibb also announced a new joint meeting in the works. The conference focusing on calixarene and cucurbituril chemistry will be held in Israel 🇮🇱 next summer! A passing of the chicken to Dr. Vigalok, who’s helping to organize the meeting, concluded the day 🐓😲 #Calix2022

#Calix2022 has officially come to a close! A bittersweet ending, but we had a fantastic week regardless. Thanks to all of our invited speakers, grad students, and the organizers who made the conference so special 🥰

Last night’s banquet at Oceana Grill was a blast! If you’ve got pics from the night, be sure to tag them #Calix2022. We’d love to see them! 🥂🥘 Thanks to everyone for coming out and making it a night to remember 🫶😊

Today’s the final day of #Calix2022 😢 But on the bright side we’ve still got a great lineup of speakers taking us into the afternoon 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

“Does it explode?…There’s a lot of nitrogens in there” - Dr. Richard Hooley 🤯🧨🤣 directed at Dr. Jong Seung Kim after giving his presentation on triazole-based calixarenes #Calix2022

@LyleIsaacsUMD just presented his group’s research on pillar[n]arene-based hosts for the sequestration of illicit drugs in the body. Their host P6AS was found to effectively sequester meth and fentanyl even after an extended period following administration 😲 #Calix2022

Dr. Werner Nau is currently giving his lecture on using macrocycles with fluorescent dyes to monitor membrane transport. Amphiphilic macrocycles can be used alongside these reporter pairs for transport of impermeable molecules across the cell membrane. 🤓 #Calix2022

Dr. Konrad Tiefenbacher @TiefenbacherLab just gave a super interesting talk on the synthesis of large resorcinarene-like macrocycles based on xanthene. His group has shown how these macrocycles are great for creating deep cavity cavitands and H-bond based capsules. #Calix2022

Day 4 of #Calix2022 began with the presentation of the C. David Gutsche Award. Congratulations to this year’s recipient Dr. Javier de Mendoza!

Dr. Arkadi Vigalok ended our afternoon with a lecture on making sensors from functionalized calixarenes that respond to analytes with a change in fluorescence. His group synthesized a receptor, owing its tunability to substitution with an aromatic acetylene at the rim #Calix2022

Great talk by @JenniferHiscoc2 on supramolecular self-associating amphiphiles. The anionic components of these SSAs have been observed to assemble into different structures depending on their environment. They have also been shown to act as antimicrobial agents! #Calix2022

Yannan Lin gave his talk, describing the synthesis of a hemicryptophane host capable of regulating access and binding of small molecules in organic solvents. His work focuses on developing biomimetic cavities using counter-anion tuning to modulate host-guest affinity #Calix2022😯

Up next, Dr. Elgrishi @ChemNoemie discussed her work on encapsulating fuel-producing electrocatalysts within metallocages, with the goal of measuring the effect on their electrochemical properties. #Calix2022 👀👩‍🔬

Before a quick beignet break☕️, Dr. Liat Avram-Biton talked about her work using GEST NMR to study host-guest systems. She described how GEST can amplify seemingly undetectable NMR signals at low concentrations and provide a way to determine guest exchange rates 😲 #Calix2022

And currently Dr. Mei-Xiang Wang is finishing up his talk describing an improved synthesis of zigzag hydrocarbon nano belts using resorcinarenes as a starting point. He also discussed his group’s synthesis of the first fully conjugated zigzag hydrocarbon belt!

Day 3 of #Calix2022 begins! So far this morning we’ve had the pleasure of hearing virtual talks from Dr. Olivia Reinaud, discussing their work with biomimetic cavities, and Dr. Dong-Sheng Guo who walked us through the use of azocalixarenes as a basis for drug delivery systems.

And for those interested in the work being done by #WISC, more info can be found on their website womeninsuprachem.com 🙌👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 @SupraChem

Continuing the afternoon with a #WISC workshop! Excited to discuss the importance of supporting ALL women in their supramolecular careers. We’re lucky to have WISC board members with us virtually to have a discussion about diversity and equality in the field #Calix2022 @SupraChem

Kicking off Day 1 of #Calix2022! Starting with @JLsessler, discussing the potential material applications of calixpyrroles, and Dr. Enrico Dalcanale, discussing the use of CBs in creating self-diagnostic composites. Looking forward to a week jam-packed full of science 🤩👨‍🔬