The University of Padova (Università di Padova) has opened the selection procedure for talented students from China that want to pursue a PhD in Italy with a CSC-scholarship. For those interested in working in my group (bit.ly/3QTXHiL), please contact me via email. RT appreciated

Can a purely chemical system reduces its #errors during #replication? And even "correct" them?. In this latest ChemRxiv we are claiming YES to both questions! doi.org/10.26434/chemr… SijbrenOttoLab Juntian Wu

We have a PhD position on phosphate-driven non-equilibrium assemblies European Research Council (ERC) funded at FIT - Uni Freiburg Universität Freiburg. Deadline for application is 15/01/24. More information can be found here: static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc3928… RT appreciated!

Sijbren and Kayleigh were interviewed by NEMO Kennislink at the occasion of the 70th birthday of the famous Miller-Urey experiment. Check it out if you speak Dutch - or know how to use Google translate!

Fancy doing some shiny new chemistry in a shiny new building? If so, come and join us UoBChemistry 😀 We have fully funded PhD positions available working on…

Generalist versus Specialist Self-Replicators (Sijbren Otto and co-workers) @seilenfranzli Ivana Maric Guillermo Monreal Santiago SijbrenOttoLab @StratinghInst onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

Our newest paper is out!!! Here we show how a replicator system can correct errors during replication. Congrats Omer Markovitch and Juntian Wu 🥳 Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Binding of Precursors to Replicator Assemblies Can Improve Replication Fidelity and Mediate Error Correction (Sijbren Otto and co-workers) #openaccess SijbrenOttoLab Omer Markovitch onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

This study introduces a new mechanism that decreases error rates and corrects errors in synthetic self-replicating systems driven by self-assembly. Angewandte Chemie #chemistry #Science #chemed #Technology #news SijbrenOttoLab Omer Markovitch onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

A little peak into last year's work with Juntian Wu and Armin Kiani in SijbrenOttoLab . You think our replicators are already complex enough? Then brace yourselves, Marcel has put 2-3 of them in competition and we had to make sense of their behaviour... chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Probe the non-enzymatic macrocyclization reaction of benzene-1,3-dithiol in the presence of peptide condensates by reactive Martini simulations, reported by Siewert-Jan Marrink SijbrenOttoLab Chris Brasnett nature.com/articles/s4200…

What can dissipative chemistry bring us? In our recently published paper, we demonstrate the emergence of mechanical function from disspative droplet systems. Nature Chemistry nature.com/articles/s4155…

Simultaneous Formation of a Foldamer and a Self-Replicator by Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamic Covalent Chemistry | JACS Universität München @StratinghInst University of Groningen #Foldamer #SelfReplicator #OutofEquilibrium #Dynamic #Covalent #Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Light-Mediated Interconversion between a Foldamer and a Self-Replicator | Journal of the American Chemical Society Universität München @StratinghInst University of Groningen #Foldamer #SelfReplicator #LightMediated #Interconversion pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Selection for photocatalytic function through Darwinian evolution of synthetic self-replicators bit.ly/4oCH7C1

How to select primitive / synthetic replicators based their photocatalysis? Check out our manuscript just published in Nature Catalysis : nature.com/articles/s4192… Kai Liu SijbrenOttoLab #OoL #Origins #Prebiotic #Evolution