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Final prep for #Calix2022 is on the schedule today. T-2 days until the conference kicks off here in the Big Easy!

Presenters of #Calix2022 beware📢 The boss will be wielding the infamously feared time-keeping Chicken 🐓 Make sure your talks are kept within within your allotted time, or face his wrath 😰

#Calix2022 is officially underway! This evening we enjoyed a nice lil welcome mixer to kick off an exciting week of talks from our invited lecturers 🥂

Kicking off Day 1 of #Calix2022! Starting with Jonathan L Sessler, 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 🤩👨‍🔬

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

Up next, Dr. Elgrishi Noémie Elgrishi discussed her work on encapsulating fuel-producing electrocatalysts within metallocages, with the goal of measuring the effect on their electrochemical properties. #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😯

Great talk by Jennifer Hiscock 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

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

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. 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

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

“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

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 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

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 🫶😊

#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 🥰