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!
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 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.
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!
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.
The seventh incoming class of PhD students joins the group. Cyprien, funded by the CSC Graduate School, will work on Vibrational Strong Coupling. Emilie, funded by a ENS scholarship, and Joris, funded by an MRT fellowship, will both work on proto-metabolism. A warm welcome to all three!
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