Congrats to PhD student Maciej Piejko, who has won a short term fellowship to conduct research at Hokkaido University later this year!
Maciej wins a JSPS Fellowship
New publication
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!
Dr. Yannick Geiger joins the lab
A warm welcome to Yannick Geiger, who joins us from the group of Prof. Sijbren Otto at the University of Groningen, where he worked at the interface of systems chemistry and chirality. In our Strasbourg lab, Yannick will work on exploiting aggregation in prebiotic chemistry. Welcome, Yannick!
Robert leaves for TU Munich
Congratulations and farewell to DFG postdoctoral fellow Dr. Robert Mayer, who departs us to become an independent junior group leader at TU Munich. Robert published eight papers in the group, with two still under review. He recently received a Liebig fellowship from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI). See photo below of our lab members sporting Mayer Lab T-shirts. Best of luck with the launch of the Mayer Lab and come visit often!
New publication
Joris and Robert’s paper on the mechanism of the nonenzymatic phosphorylation of pyruvate to phosphoenolpyruvate is published in Chemical Science. The results suggest that a single phosphorylation mechanism could have been sufficient to initiate a self-organized metabolic network. Congrats to all!
Joris wins best talk prize at the Journée des Doctorants
Congrats to Joris Zimmermann for receiving the prize for best talk at the Journée des Doctorants, an annual symposium where PhD students from across the chemical sciences in Strasbourg present their work. Joris spoke about his work on the mechanism of the phosphorylation of pyruvate to phosphoenolpyruvate, recently published in Chemical Science.
Sinan joins as a PhD student
Sinan is the sole member of the tenth incoming class of PhD students to join the group in Strasbourg. Sinan will work on a physical organic chemistry approach to understanding the impact of vibrational strong coupling on chemistry. Welcome, Sinan!
New publication
Emilie and Silvana’s paper on Fe(III)/ADP-promoted phosphate transfer from acetyl phosphate to nucleotide diphosphates to give nucleotide triphosphate in water is accepted in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Thanks to Robert for jumping in with DFT calculations during revisions. Congrats to all!
Robert wins best talk award at the REGIO Symposium
Congrats to Robert Mayer for winning the prize for best oral presentation at the REGIO Symposium in Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Germany. The REGIO Symposium is an annual tri-national conference on organic chemistry held jointly between the universities in the lower Rhine region (Freiburg, Basel, Strasbourg and Mulhouse). Roberts’ talk was on how metals influence the reactivity of coenzymes in the absence of enzymes. Well done!
New publication
Robert’s book chapter summarizing his recent mechanistic work on nonenzymatic analogs of amino acid biosynthesis has been accepted for publication in Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry. Congrats!
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