Congrats to our former PhD student, Sreejith Varma, on being appointed as an Assistant Professor at IISER TVM, starting January 1, 2025. Check out his research page here.
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New publication
Joris and Bora’s paper on the nonenzymatic hydration of phosphoenolpyruvate to 2-phosphoglycerate is accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. It is our lab’s fifth paper in that journal in 2024. The work describes an alternative strategy to search for the conditions conducive to the emergence of a protometabolism. Congrats!
New publication
Max’s paper on beta-aminoarylamine synthesis through dehydrative amination of 2-arylethanols has been accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Congrats!
Émilie wins L’Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science
Recent PhD graduate Émilie Werner has been named as a winner of the Prix Jeunes Talents France 2024 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science. Congrats, Émilie!
New publication
Joris, Emilie and Shunjiro’s account of our lab’s work on the origin of metabolism has been accepted for publication in Accounts of Chemical Research. Congrats!
Dr. Valentyn Pozhydaiev
Congrats to Valentyn Pozhydaiev on successfully defending his thesis! He is the sixteenth PhD student to graduate from the group. Special thanks to jury members Prof. Olga Garcia Mancheño (Münster), Prof. Louis Fensterbank (Collège de France), and Dr. Anis Tlili (Lyon) for being part of the jury.
New publication
Quentin and Robert’s mini-review of our lab’s recent work showing that essential coenzymes (ADP, NADH, PLP) exhibit nonenzymatic reactivity in the presence of metal ions is published in Science Advances. Collectively, the work gives insight into the role coenzymes might have played in a pre-enzymatic metabolism. Congrats to all!
New publication
Valentyn’s paper on tetrahydroquinoline synthesis starting from N-benzylhydroxylamines has been accepted for publication in Chemical Communications. Congrats also to undergraduate author Daniella for her contributions!
Bora joins the lab as a MSc student
Atalay Bora Basar becomes the first graduate student to join our lab in Ottawa. Bora recently finished his BSc at the University of Ottawa. He was a summer student in our lab in Strasbourg in 2023 and was an NSERC USRA student in our lab in Ottawa in summer 2024. He will work on nonenzymatic catalysis of metabolic reactions. Welcome, Bora!
New publication
Cyprien’s paper on developing a method for measuring kinetics of chemical reactions under vibrational strong coupling was accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie. Congrats!
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