Thank you, Azrieli foundation, for supporting my research!

A first step towards uniting “genetics-first” and “metabolism-first” theories for life’s origins. The biosynthetic reactions that convert aspartate into orotate, the precursor to pyrimidine nucleobases, occur nonenzymatically in the presence of metals. #prebiotic #OoL

Check our our recent Nature Communications paper on formation of proto-peptides from simple mixtures containing amino acids and mercaptoacids under a wide variety of conditions! nature.com/articles/s4146…

So excited about yesterday's 35th ILASOL (Israel Society for Astrobiology and the Study of the Origin of Life) Meeting, this time with me as the organizer! We were able to bring Loren Dean Williams to Israel as a Keynote speaker and learn about co-evolution of RNA and proteins!

Last week I attended the #physicstolife #Ideaslab in Prague. I was so fortunate to meet so many inspiring scientists, share ideas, and think big! Thank you Stephen Freeland, John Templeton Foundation, Knowinnovation, Klara Hlouchova lab and the other mentors for making this happen!

Thank you FEBS for your support in early-career researchers and for supporting our research. I am very honored to receive the FEBS Excellence Award!

Thank you Azrieli Foundation for supporting healthy habits!

Great News for the OoL Research: The German - Israeli collaboration on The Minerva Center for Studying the Planetary Emergence of Life just got approved for funding by Minerva Stiftung.

I am so honored to be the recipient of the Stanley Miller Award, and so grateful to be part of the ISSOL Society. I am very thankful to my nominators, mentors, and colleagues for their endless support. And what a wonderful #origins2023 conference! x.com/issol_society/…

📢JOB ALERT 📢 We are looking for a postdoc and a PhD student for an European Research Council (ERC) funded project at HUJI on the role of sugars in prebiotic chemistry. Interested in studying the chemical origins of life? Then DM me.

I’m excited to share our new paper published in PNASNews ! 🎉 We explored how prebiotic peptides could have assembled and contributed to the chemical selection of today’s α-amino acid backbone in modern proteins. You can read the full publication here: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…