iCeMS co-hosts ISACS10 to tackle challenges in organic materials and supramolecular chemistry

25 June 2013

The 10th International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences (ISACS10) was held at Kyoto University in Japan from June 18 to 21 and focused on "Challenges in Organic Materials and Supramolecular Chemistry." Launched in 2010, ISACS conferences have served to address challenges facing various facets of chemical sciences such as renewable energy, chemical biology, and physical chemistry and nanoscience. ISACS 10 was hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry together with co-hosts Kyoto University Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and The Chemical Society of Japan.

In building on the success of ISACS6 held in Beijing, China in 2011, ISACS10 brought together talented researchers from across the globe. The symposium featured twenty-six talks by leading experts in the fields of porous, self-assembled and organic materials, medicinal and chemical biology aspects of supramolecular chemistry, and sensing and imaging.

iCeMS Director and ISACS10 committee chair Susumu Kitagawa proclaimed the event a huge success. "We are honored to have co-hosted ISACS10 and commend all of the participants for their active involvement and contributions," Kitagawa said during his closing remarks.

Program

Day 1 (June 18th, 2013)

Speakers	Titles
	Opening Remarks
Session 1: Porous Materials Professor Susumu Kitagawa (chair)
Professor Andrew Cooper* and Graeme M. Day University of Liverpool, UK	PLENARY: Functional organic solids - design or discovery?
Dr Darren Bradshaw*, Jia Huo and Ashesh Garai University of Southampton, UK	INVITED: Colloidal assembly and matrix-assisted growth of metal-organic frameworks
Professor Jovica D. Badjic The Ohio State University, USA	CONTRIBUTED: Gated molecular encapsulation and reactivity
Professor Shuhei Furukawa Kyoto University, Japan	INVITED: Mesoscale materials of coordination frameworks
Professor Lee Cronin University of Glasgow, UK	PLENARY: Networking complex chemical systems

Day 2 (June 19th, 2013)

Session 2: Self-Assembled Materials Nathan Gianneschi (chair)
Professor Makoto Fujita The University of Tokyo, Japan	PLENARY: Presentation title TBC
Professor Hiromitsu Maeda Ritsumeikan University, Japan	CONTRIBUTED: Supermolecular assemblies of designed ionic species
Dr Gustavo Fernandez*, Maria Jose Mayoral, Christina Rest and Vladimir Stepanenko Universität Würzburg, Germany	CONTRIBUTED: Cooperative supramolecular polymerization driven by metallophillic interactions and self-sorting processes
Professor Takanori Fukushima Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japans	INVITED: Non-covalent nanostructures with functional π-systems
Dr George K. H. Shimizu University of Calgary, Canada	PLENARY: Metal organic frameworks for clean energy applications
Professor Alberto Credi*, Serena Silvi and Margherita Venturi Università di Bologna, Italy	PLENARY: Playing with molecular rings and stringss
Dr Oren A. Scherman University of Cambridge, UK	PLENARY: Cucurbiturils at the interface between supramolecular chemistry and materials science
Session 3: Medicinal and Chemical Biology Aspects of Supramolecular Chemistry Professor Thorri Gunnlaugsson (Chair)
Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya The University of Tokyo, Japan	PLENARY: Metal-templated supramolecular design directed toward functional array, space and motion
Professor Shinsuke Sando* and Takeshi Tokunaga Kyushu University, Japan	INVITED: Cell function analysis and control by on-cell supramolecular chemisty
Professor David K. Smith University of York, UK	PLENARY: Self-assembled multivalency - the power of many applied in nanomedicine

Day 3 (June 20th, 2013)

Session 4: Sensing and Imaging Professor Philip Gale (Chair)
Professor Christopher J. Chang　 University of California, Berkeley, USA	PLENARY: Molecular imaging approaches to mapping and studying chemistry in the brain
Professor Pavel Anzenbacher Jr. Bowling Green State University, USA	CONTRIBUTED: Self-assembled photonic crystal core-shell nanoparticles: application in cross-reactive sensors
Professor Vivian W.W. Yam The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong	PLENARY: From discrete molecules to supramolecular assemblies - an interplay of electrostatics, π-π stacking and metal-metal interactions
Professor Eric Anslyn University of Texas at Austin, USA	PLENARY: Supramolecular approached for rapid analysis of EE
Professor Tony D. James University of Bath, UK	INVITED: Exploiting the reversible covalent bonding of boronic acids: recognition, sensing and assembly
Professor Hiromune Ando*, Naoko Komura, Kenichi G. N. Suzuki, Rahul Chadda, Hisae Tsuboi, Taisuke Ikeda, Kenji Tanaka, Hideharu Ishida, Akihiro Kusumi and Makoto Kiso Gifu University and Kyoto University, Japan	CONTRIBUTED: Novel fluorescent glycolipid probe for single molecule imaging of mesoscale domain in living cell membrane

Day 4 (June 21th, 2013)

Session 5: Organic Materials Dr Stephen Goldup (Chair)
Professor Nathan C. Gianneschi*, Miao-Ping Chien, David Hall and Matthew Thompson University of California, San Diego, USA	PLENARY: Enzyme-directed assembly of nanoparticles in tumors
Motonori Watanabe and Professor Tahsin J. Chow* Academia Sinica, Taiwan	CONTRIBUTED: The synthesis of applications on hexacene and its derivatives
Robert Bordoli and Dr Stephen Goldup* Queen Mary University of London, UK	CONTRIBUTED: An efficient chiral auxiliary approach to mechanically planar chiral rotaxanes
Professor Kazushi Kinbara*, Takahiro Muraoka, Kota Adachi, Mihoko Ui, Shunichi Kawasaki, Nabanita Sadhukhan, Haruki Obara, Michel Lagurre, Hidehito Tochio and Masahiro Shirakawa Tohoku University, Japan	CONTRIBUTED: Development of structured oligoethylene glycol analogues with geometrical diversity
Professor Akira Harada Osaka University, Japan	PLENARY: Macroscopic self-assembly and self-healing through molecular recognition
Closing Remarks


ISACS10 Committee Chair and iCeMS Director Susumu Kitagawa (left) and ISACS10 Banner (right)

Day 2 Session Chairs Dr. Nathan Gianneschi (left) and Dr. Thorri Gunnlaugsson (right)

Day 3 Session Chair Dr. Philip Gale (right) and Day 4 Session Chair Dr. Stephen Goldup (right)

Day 1: Audience members