Noemi and Bora’s paper on using the electric fields generated during electrospray to catalyze a nonenzymatic analogue of pyridoxal vitamer biosynthesis has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The latest example supporting our hypothesis that a nonenzymatic precursor to metabolism could have originated at an aqueous interface bearing a strong electric field. Congrats!
Atalay Bora Basar
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!

