Prix Guy Ourisson 2017

December 8, 2017March 7, 2018moranlab

Joseph has been awarded the 2017 Prix Guy Ourisson by the Cercle Gutenberg. The prize is awarded each year to one or two top researchers under 40 in Alsace in any field. Yay!

Pierre Braunstein awards the prize on March 2, 2018

Paul, Florent and Shaofei join the group

November 7, 2017September 11, 2018moranlab

The fourth incoming class of PhD students joins the group. Paul Chatelain (MRT fellowship) returned this October to continue his MSc work on protometabolism. Florent Noel (Région Alsace fellowship) and Shaofei Zhang (CSC fellowship) arrived in November to initiate a new project on directed Brønsted acid catalysis. A warm welcome to all three!

Shaofei wins CSC Fellowship

November 7, 2017moranlab

Congrats to Shaofei for receiving a CSC PhD fellowship from the Chinese government!

Florent wins fellowship from Région Grand-Est

November 7, 2017moranlab

Congrats to Florent for receiving a PhD fellowship from the Région Grand-Est!

New publication

October 2, 2017October 3, 2017moranlab

Our paper on the chemical origins of life is published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. We show that more than half of the reverse Krebs cycle can occur without enzymes. Congrats to Kamila, Sreejith, Elodie, Lucas and Guang for an amazing team effort! A free link to the paper is here. The journal’s paywall version is here. Also check out our Behind the Paper blog post on the journal’s web site here.

Our Lab in the News

August 20, 2017October 7, 2017moranlab

Our lab received full-page coverage in two regional French newspapers, Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace and l’Alsace. Check it out!

New visiting PhD student

August 1, 2017moranlab

Welcome to Stefania Musolino, who joins us for three months from Andrew Smith‘s and James Taylor‘s labs in St Andrews funded by an RSC Mobility grant.

Paul wins an MRT fellowship

July 16, 2017moranlab

Congrats to M2 student Paul Chatelain, who has won a PhD fellowship from the French Ministry of Education. Paul will stay in our group for his PhD studies, which officially begin in October 2017.

Three Nobel Laureates speak in Strasbourg

March 6, 2017September 11, 2018moranlab

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, James Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa, all co-recipients of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, gave back-to-back-to-back talks in Strasbourg. Joseph had the pleasure of introducing Jean-Pierre! You can watch the event online.

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New publication

January 16, 2017February 5, 2017moranlab

Vuk, Ed and Eléna’s article on HFIP-assisted dehydrative Friedel-Crafts reactions of highly deactivated benzylic alcohols has been accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. It is Vuk’s first paper from his PhD and Eléna’s last. Congrats!