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!
Max’s paper on beta-aminoarylamine synthesis through dehydrative amination of 2-arylethanols has been accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Congrats!
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!
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!
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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