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Nov 13, 2025
Congratulations to Mona and all authors on our accepted article in Journal of Materials Chemistry C, “The effect of enhanced p- p interactions and tail branching on azobenzene surfactant self-assembly” by Mehmoona Zaib, Jonathan M Faber, Ashley P. Williams, Anna Sokolova, Rico Tabor and Kellie Tuck. The link to the preprint version is here
Nov 7, 2025
Congratulations to Julia, Rose and all the School of Chemistry Honours students who submitted their Honours theses today!
Oct 28, 2025
Congratulations to both Julia and Rose on their final Honours talks today. Not long to go before the year is over! All the best for your writing.
Oct 17, 2025
Congratulations to Anjie and all authors on our accepted article in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, “Inhibition of N-type calcium channels by phenoxyanilide analogues” by Anjie S. Bispat, Fernanda C. Cardoso, Mahadhi Hasan, Callum E. Adams, Richard J. Lewis, Peter J. Duggan, and Kellie L. Tuck. The link to the preprint version is here
Oct 7, 2025
Congratulations to Leena and all authors on our accepted article in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, “Strengths, opportunities, challenges and future outlook of bacterial cellulose in cosmeceuticals: A review” by Leena Bhadra, Kellie Tuck, Joanne Tanner and Venkat Gundabala. The link to the preprint version is here
Oct 1, 2025
Congratulations to Neil who submitted his joint Monash-Bath PhD thesis today!
Sept 19, 2025
Excited to be heading off to the Monash Prato Campus for our annual MHELTHERA meeting and associated ‘Summer’ School. Looking forward to catching up with collaborators from HZDR and seeing Parisa.
Sept 16, 2025
A very big congratulations to both Luke and Rachel who attended their PhD graduation today. Very thrilled to be sitting on stage when they received their degrees. Congratulations Dr Luke and Dr Rachel!
Also, congratulations to all the Chemistry students who graduated today.
Sept 10, 2025
Farewell to Parisa who will be spending 12 months at the HZDR – Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf with Dr Manja Kubeil. We will miss you Parisa, but it will be an amazing experience and we can’t wait to see your research findings! We took at group photo before she left and it can be found on the “Photos” page.
Sept 8, 2025
Thrilled to be attending the DART centre launch today, and then the talks that are on over the next couple of days. https://arcdart.org/
Sept 6, 2025
Congratulations to Ganesh and San on the recently accepted article in Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications, " κ-Carrageenan-grafting-copolymers by RAFT polymerization exhibiting CO2 adsorption properties" by Made Ganesh Darmayanti, Kellie L. Tuck, and San H. Thang. The link to the online version is here
Sept 4, 2025
Wonderful news to hear that Sasha, who was a CHM3990 student in the group, was selected to present her research findings “Chemical sensors: An innovative tool for detecting organic pollutants produced in heavy industries” at the prestigious New Leaders Summit 2025 by AusIMM.
Aug 28,2025
Congratulations to Alan and all authors on our accepted article in Coordination Chemistry Reviews, “Improving the optical response of chemosensors through the use of surfactant micelles” by Alan J. Zhou, Brady S. Gentle, Genevieve H. Dennison, Rico F. Tabor, Kellie L. Tuck. The link to the online version is here
Aug 25, 2025
A very warm welcome to Ella Desbrow who is joining the group as a PhD student in the Industrial Transformation Training Centre for the Development of Advanced Radiochemical Technologies (DART). Her project is the “The design and synthesis of novel chelators for diagnostic imaging and radiopharmaceutical purposes” and she is supervised by myself Dr Maggie Aulsebrook (MBI). Welcome Ella!
June 20, 2025
Farewell to Rohan, who has finished his time at Monash Chemistry. Good luck on your next Chemistry journey!
June 11, 2025
All the very best to Parisa, who completed her confirmation PhD milestone today!!
June 5, 2025
Congratulations to both Julia and Rose on their introductory Honours talk– They were both outstanding!
June 4, 2025
Congratulations to Mona who successfully completed her final formal PhD milestone today.
June 3, 2025
Congratulations to Sasha for an excellent CHM3990 project presentation today. All the best with next semester and we hope to see you next year!
May 23, 2025
Alan, Shannon and myself are heading to Kyoto for ISMSC2026. Looking forward to some great talks and wonderful food. Alan and Shannon will be presenting posters.
May 5, 2025
Congratulations to Shannon who successfully completed his final formal PhD milestone today.
Welcome to Karl Anger, a PhD student from HZDR Germany. Karl will be here for 5 weeks.
April 9, 2025
Very honoured and delighted to have a news story about myself released today on the Science Faculty website. The link is here
April 4, 2025
Congratulations to Rose, Julia and all the School of Chemistry Honours students who completed their Honours exams today.
April 2, 2025
Congratulations to Shannon, Dave and all other authors on the recently accepted article in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, "Single-Step Synthesis of a Heterometallic [Cu2PdL4]2+ Hybrid Metal–Organic Coordination Cage" by Shannon Thoonen; Samuel E. Walker; David L. Marshall; Therese M. Fulloon; Samuel Brandon; Alasdair I. McKay; Martin J. Paterson; Kathleen M. Mullen; James D. Crowley; Kellie L. Tuck and David R. Turner. The link to the online version is here
March 26, 2025
Congratulations to Ganesh who has been selected to attend the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. She is only one of 10 ECR researchers from Australia, and only one of three PhD students who will be heading to Lindau, Germany later this year. Wonderful opportunity and very deserved! More info can be found here
March 24, 2025
Welcome to Rohan Walia. Rohan is here from the University of Warwick to do his research internship. Rohan is working on luminescence-based systems for detection of hydrogen sulfide. Rohan we very much hope you enjoy your time with us.
March 21, 2025
Congratulations to Rachel who has submitted her PhD thesis titled “Developing Thiosemicarbazonato Technetium and Rhenium Radiopharmaceuticals for Nuclear Imaging and Therapy” today; supervised by Assoc. Prof. Brett Paterson and myself. Congratulations Rachel!
March 18, 2025
Congratulations to Alan who successfully completed his final formal PhD milestone today.
March 3, 2025
A very warm welcome to Sasha Edwards who will be joining the group for her CHM3990 project. She will be looking at luminescence-based systems for environmental monitoring and toxic chemical. Welcome Sasha!
Feb 25, 2025
Congratulations to Leena (PhD student IITB-Monash) for successfully completing her 1st APS Presentation today.
Feb 11, 2025
A very warm welcome to Julia Debono, and welcome back to Rose Doktorovich – both are doing Honours in the group this year. Julia is synthesising novel chelators for radioligand binding studies, also supervised by Dr Maggie Aulsebrook (MBI) and Rose is investigation the next generation of glycerol non-toxic surfactants, also supervised by Rico Tabor.
Feb 10, 2025
Mona and I are excited to be heading to Padua to attend the PhD Winter School on Green Chemical Synthesis for Circular Economy. Looking forward to some great talks by eminent researchers.
Feb 7, 2025
…and congrats to Shannon on being awarded the Best Talk Award!
Feb 6, 2025
It is a new year and I’m excited to be attending Supramol25 with Alan, Shannon and Shamool. This is the national meeting of the RACI Supramolecular Chemistry Division and this year it is to be held at ANU. Alan will be presenting a poster, and Shannon a talk.
Oct 25, 2024
Welcome back Ina! Ina will be at Monash for 4 weeks undertaking experiments related to her PhD project. She is visiting from HZDR Germany and is funded by a DAAD grant.
Oct 18, 2024
Congratulations to Matt Hudson, who is submitting his CHM2990 project report today. We have really enjoyed having you as part of the group for the last 12 weeks. All the best for your poster presentation next week!
Oct 15, 2024
Congratulations to Parvathy and all authors, on our recently accepted article in the thematic issue “Emerging directions in supramolecular chemistry” in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. Full details are, “Investigation of a Bimetallic Terbium(III)/Cu(II) Chemosensor for the Detection of Aqueous Hydrogen Sulfide”, by Parvathy Mini, Michael R. Grace, Genevieve H. Dennison and Kellie L. Tuck. The link is here.
Oct 11, 2024
A very worthy congratulations to Luke Darveniza for receiving notification that his PhD thesis has been certified by the Monash Chair of Examiners today. Congrats Dr Luke!
Oct 10, 2024
Congratulations to Sam and all authors, on our recently published article in Supramolecular Chemistry, “A systematic study of fluorescent coumarin sensors for the detection of aqueous copper ions and aqueous hydrogen sulphide”, for the special issue of “The 17th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC 2023)” by Samuel E. Walker, Alan J. Zhou, Mason Lam, Edward A. Nagul, Gregory J. Barbante, Spas D. Kolev, Victor J. Cadarso, Kellie L. Tuck. The link is here.
Oct 7, 2024
A very warm welcome to Shamool Fatima who is a joint Monash-Leipzig PhD student. Her project is the “Development of responsive lanthanide-based molecular sensors” and she is supervised by myself and A/Prof. David Turner at Monash and Prof. Bert Kersting at Leipzig.
Sept 12, 2024:
Congratulations to Shannon and Dave, on our recently published article in Coordination Chemistry Reviews, “Discrete metallosupramolecular architectures with amino acids” by Shannon Thoonen, Kellie L. Tuck, David R. Turner. The link is here.
Aug 26, 2024:
Congratulations to Ryan and all authors, on our recently published article in Chemical Engineering Science, “Renewable oleyl based surfactants for application in liquid explosive high internal phase emulsions” by Ryan N. Robson, Jackson E. Moore, Graeme R. Pearson, Rico F. Tabor, Kellie L. Tuck. The link is here.
Aug 25, 2024:
All the very best to Rachel, who will be giving a talk at 17th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (EuroBIC-17) that is being held in Münster from August the 25th – 29th, and then visiting our collaborator, Dr Manja Kubeil, at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) for almost 5 weeks.
Aug 8, 2024:
Congratulations to Rachel Maclean who is an invited speaker at the National Imaging Facility 2024 symposium that is being held today.
Aug 8, 2024:
Congratulations to Sam and Dave, and all authors, on our recently published article in Inorganic Chemistry, “A Reduced-Symmetry Pd2L4 Cage from a Heterotopic Dipyridyl Ligand” by Samuel E. Walker, Nicholas Kyratzis, Diksha U. Sawant, Alasdair I. McKay, Kellie L. Tuck and David R. Turner. The link is here.
July 22, 2024:
A very warm welcome to Matt Hudson, who is doing a CHM2990 project with Dr. Jon Faber, Prof. Rico Tabor and myself this semester.
July 2, 2024:
A very big congratulations to Dr Kusumika Sinha Roy for defended the thesis today as part of the joint IITB-Monash PhD degree. Her thesis is titled "Valorization of Selected Food Waste: Recovery of Anthocyanins and Pectin".
June 11, 2024:
Congratulations to Matt and all authors on our recently published article in RSC Medicinal Chemistry, “N-Sulfonylphenoxazines as neuronal calcium ion channel blockers” by Matthieu Schmit, Md. Mahadhi Hasan, Yashad Dongol, Fernanda C. Cardoso, Michael J. Kuiper, Richard J. Lewis, Peter J. Duggan, Kellie L. Tuck. The link is here.
June 10, 2024:
Congratulations to Ash and all authors on our recently published article in J. Phys. Chem. B, "Salt-Induced Linker Dehydration Modulates Micellar Structure in Ether-Linked Sulfate Surfactants" by Ashley P.Williams, Jonathan M. Faber, Carl Recsei, Liliana de Campo, Tamim A. Darwish, Kellie L. Tuck, Raymond R. Dagastine, and Rico F. Tabor. The link is here.
May 30, 2024:
Congratulations to Rose for her CHM3990 project presentation today – “Lanthanide-based sensors for detection of hydrogen sulfide”.
May 21, 2024:
Congratulations to Ganesh for her 3 minute thesis presentation today – “CO2 - I'll catch you, because I can!”.
May 9, 2024:
Congratulations to Bryan and all authors on our recently published article in ACS Sensors, “Rapid concentration and detection of bacteria in milk using a microfluidic surface acoustic wave activated nanosieve” by Bryan Ang, Thanavit Jirapanjawat, Khai Ping Tay, Dariush Ashtiani, Chris Greening, Kellie L. Tuck, Adrian Neild, Victor J. Cadarso. The accepted article can be found here.
May 6, 2024:
Congratulations to Maddy for your introductory Honours talk today – Excellent talk!
May 3, 2024:
Congratulations to Ganesh and Prof. San Thang on our recently accepted article in Advanced Materials, “Carbon Dioxide Capture by Emerging Innovative Polymers: Status and Perspectives”. The accepted article can be found here.
May 1, 2024:
Congratulations to Rachel who was presented the 2024 RAPHAEL Student Research award at the recent Australian And New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine Scientific Meeting.
April 22, 2024:
A very warm welcome to Parisa Rashid! Parisa is supervised by myself, Dr Maggie Aulsebrook from Monash Biomedical Imaging, and Dr Manja Kubeil from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.
April 11, 2024:
Congratulations to Debarati and all authors on our recently published article in Food Quality and Safety, “Application of On-Pack pH Indicators to Monitor Freshness of Modified Atmospheric Packaged Raw Beef” by Debarati Bhadury, Humayun Nadeem, Maoqi Lin, Jennifer M Dyson, Kellie L Tuck, Joanne Tanner. The accepted article can be found here.
March 11, 2024:
Congratulations to Luke who has submitted his PhD thesis titled “Development of hY1R Specific Peptide-Drug Conjugates for the Treatment of Breast Cancer” for the joint Monash-Leipzig PhD degree; supervised by myself, Assoc. Prof. Brett Paterson and Prof. Dr. Annette Beck-Sickinger. Congratulations again Luke!
March 03, 2024:
Congratulations to Jack and all authors for our recently accepted article in Chemistry–A European Journal; "A Study on Auto-Catalysis and Product Inhibition: A Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution Reaction Catalysed within the Cavity of an Octanuclear Coordination Cage" by Jack C. Dorrat; Christopher G. P. Taylor; Rosemary J. Young; Atena B. Solea; David Turner; Genevieve H. Dennison; Michael D. Ward; Kellie Tuck. The accepted article can be found here.
February 26, 2024:
Welcome to Rose Doktorovich, Rose will be undertaking a third year project unit (CHM3990) with us this semester. She will be investigating lanthanide-based sensors for the detection of hydrogen sulfide. Welcome Rose!
February 19, 2024:
Congratulations to Sam and Shannon (and Dave Turner) for their accepted article “Stabilization of Lantern‐Type Metal‐Organic Cages (MOCs) by Protective Control of Ligand Exchange Rates” in Chemistry–A European Journal, 2024, e202400072.
February 9, 2024:
Congratulations to Alan on giving an oral presentation at the 2nd Australian Rare Earth Meeting (OZRE24). Fantastic presentation, enjoyed by all.
February 6, 2024:
Welcome back to Maddie Houston. Maddie will be undertaking honours in the group, also supervised by Dr Maggie Aulsebrook (MBI). She will be synthesising novel chelates for radionucleotides.
February 1/2, 2024:
Congratulations to Alan and Shannon for presenting their work at Supramol24. Also congratulations to Shannon on winning a poster prize.
January 26, 2024:
Congratulations to Anjie and all authors for acceptance of their article “Inhibition of N-Type Calcium Channels by Phenoxyaniline and Sulfonamide Analogues” in RSC Medicinal Chemistry. The link is here