Matthew Powner
@matt_powner
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Professor of Organic Chemistry (University College London).
London, England
Joined September 2015
Our latest paper on origins of peptide biosynthesis, Thioester-mediated RNA aminoacylation and peptidyl-RNA synthesis in water @Nature . Congratulations @jyotisinghUCL, @benj1_t, Daniel, Max & Ken @UCL @UCLChemistry @uclmaps
https://t.co/gWaw7x8eH1
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Looking for a chemistry PhD fellowship? Want to study one of the most exciting and fundamental questions in science? We have a position open for applications right now @UCL @UCLChemistry to study the chemical origins of life:
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PhD Project - Nucleic Acid Coded Peptide Chemistry at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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🦠🌍 A key part of the puzzle to work out how life emerged on Earth may have been found British scientists have identified a crucial ingredient that was present four billion years ago Shows life could have begun in lakes 🌊 https://t.co/30CHFsXJZB
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Researchers have successfully created a compound critical for metabolism in all living cells, which is essential for energy production and regulation.
washingtonpost.com
Researchers have successfully created a compound critical for metabolism in all living cells, which is essential for energy production and regulation.
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A compound vital to all living things has been formed through simple reactions in a lab, suggesting it played a role at the outset of life, finds a new study led by Prof @matt_powner, Jasper Fairchild @UCLChemistry @uclmaps & @drsaidulislam @kclchemistry
ucl.ac.uk
A chemical compound essential to all living things has been synthesised in a lab in conditions that could have occurred on early Earth, suggesting it played a role at the outset of life, finds a new
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Pantetheine, which helps enzymes to work and is found in every organism, can be formed by simple reactions and may have played a role in the origins of life https://t.co/ystWnAbKAD
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Our latest paper Prebiotically plausible chemoselective pantetheine synthesis in water @ScienceMagazine congratulations Jasper Fairchild @drsaidulislam @jyotisinghUCL @DKBucar @UCL @UCLChemistry @uclmaps @KingsCollegeLon
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Selective Synthesis of Lysine Peptides and the Prebiotically Plausible Synthesis of Catalytically Active Diaminopropionic Acid Peptide Nitriles in Water @ucl #Lysine #Peptides #Prebiotic #DiaminopropionicAcid #Nitriles #Water #OriginofLife
https://t.co/NFpbtre2wb
pubs.acs.org
Why life encodes specific proteinogenic amino acids remains an unsolved problem, but a non-enzymatic synthesis that recapitulates biology’s universal strategy of stepwise N-to-C terminal peptide...
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Our latest paper on Selective Synthesis of Lysine Peptides and the Prebiotically Plausible Synthesis of Catalytically Active Diaminopropionic Acid Peptide Nitriles in Water https://t.co/G3HqJS8Na3 great work by @benj1_t @UCLChemistry @ucl @J_A_C_S
pubs.acs.org
Why life encodes specific proteinogenic amino acids remains an unsolved problem, but a non-enzymatic synthesis that recapitulates biology’s universal strategy of stepwise N-to-C terminal peptide...
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Organic chemistry underpins biology and the origins of life, but how it all began remains a fundamental question. Postdoc opportunities in our lab @UCLChemistry @ucl with @SheppardTomD apply now:
ucl.ac.uk
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Fully funded 4-year PhD available in our @matt_powner group & with @SheppardTomD @UCLChemistry or please retweet https://t.co/TKmGxtM1DH
https://t.co/5wMjWmFKCx
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PhD Project - A four-year PhD studentship in Catalytic Peptide Ligation at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Proline & phosphate co-catalysed aldol chemistry @ucl @UCLChemistry @EtnProtomet great work by @alvarofmagalha found here https://t.co/EoLg0j7qOT
@ChemCommun
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News & views https://t.co/oBSWoCJSs9 highlighting our paper @NatureChemistry
https://t.co/madmt3taVf thanks Yingyu Liu & Yajun Wang!
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Our latest paper on prebiotic nucleotide synthesis - delivering selectively WC-base pairing amino-TNA & triphosphorylation in water https://t.co/aE6E2anyX1 by Daniel Whitaker @ucl @UCLChemistry @uclmaps @LeverhulmeTrust @SimonsFdn
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Our latest paper on prebiotic peptide synthesis in water @J_A_C_S
https://t.co/EVVt6GSOwy by @Jyotisi92156474 Daniel Whitaker @benj1_t @drsaidulislam @DrCallumFoden Abil Aliev @SheppardTomD @UCLChemistry @ucl
pubs.acs.org
The prebiotic origin of catalyst-controlled peptide synthesis is fundamental to understanding the emergence of life. Building on our recent discovery that thiols catalyze the ligation of amino acids,...
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A 3-year PhD studentship is available @UCLChemistry to exploit and enhance prebiotic chemical pathways using RNA - a joint project within my group and @matt_powner's Apply by Jan 31st: https://t.co/ppXTlTIk5F
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‘In a way, I hope that I don’t realise what we’re going to do in the next 10 years. Because that will hopefully take us somewhere new, somewhere exciting’ – Matt Powner explains his work investigating the chemical origins of life https://t.co/GBjvneyO34
chemistryworld.com
Matt Powner wants to know if there are chemical rules that govern why certain synthetic strategies are embedded in biology
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Congratulations to 2021 @Blavatnikawards 🇬🇧 Finalist 🏅 in Chemistry, from @UCL, Professor Matthew Powner @matt_powner @uclmaps @UCLChemistry @uclnews #Blavatnik2021
https://t.co/Aedb36tUyf
#originsoflife Chemistry ⚗
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