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!
Recent PhD graduate, Cyprien Muller, has been selected as a 2024 ISTA-Fellow. The fellowship is given to 10 outstanding recent PhD graduates per year who wish to carry out their postdoctoral research at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. Cyprien will hold his award in the laboratory of Prof. Rafal Klajn. Congrats, Cyprien!
Congrats and farewell to Dr. David Leboeuf, who has been named an independent group leader at LIMA, a CNRS institute at the University of Strasbourg. David was a CNRS research associate in our lab at ISIS for 4.5 years and published 13 papers (so far) in collaboration with Joseph during this time and co-supervised 3 PhD students. We are grateful for his many contributions over the years, both scientific and social. He will be missed. Check out the website of his new team. Best of luck in the next stage of your career and come visit often!
A warm welcome to Noemi Nogal Rodriguez, who joins us from the group of Prof. Andrés de la Escosura at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she worked on supramolecular chemistry and prebiotic chemistry. In our Ottawa lab, Noemi will work on the biosynthesis of coenzymes. Welcome, Noemi!
Congrats to Joris Zimmermann on successfully defending his thesis! He is the fifteenth PhD student to graduate from the group. Special thanks to jury members Prof. Nick Lane (UCL), Dr. Jean-Claude Guillemin (Rennes), and Dr. Claudia Bonfio (Strasbourg) for being part of the jury.
Congrats to Cyprien Muller on successfully defending his thesis! He is the fourteenth PhD student to graduate from the group. Special thanks to jury members Prof. Véronique Michelet (Nice), Dr. Laurence Grimaud (ENS Paris), and Dr. Sami Lahkdar (Toulouse) for being part of the jury.
Congrats to Emilie Werner on successfully defending her thesis! She is the thirteenth PhD student to graduate from the group. Special thanks to jury members Prof. Henning Jessen (Freiburg), Prof. Grégoire Danger (Marseille), and Dr. Claudia Bonfio (Strasbourg) for being part of the jury.
After 12 wonderful years in France, the group will move its main activities to the University of Ottawa, (Canada) where Joseph was recently named a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair. The group will maintain a small lab in Strasbourg until the end of Joseph’s ongoing ERC Consolidator Grant. See the press release here.
Congrats to PhD student Maciej Piejko, who has won a short term fellowship to conduct research at Hokkaido University later this year!
Emilie’s side project on the incorporation of sulfoximines into the aza-Piancatelli reaction has been published in Organic Letters. Our summer student from Heidelberg, Milena Wiegand, contributed to the project during her stay. Congrats to all!
The Moran Research Group 