It's my great pleasure to announce that I'm going to start a professorship and research group in Synthetic Microbiology at the University of Regensburg as of this summer. After an exciting 10+ years in the Panke Lab at D-BSSE, ETH Zurich it's time for new adventures! 🧬🧫🔬💻

JACS online: An Artificial #Metalloenzyme Based on a #Copper #Heteroscorpionate Enables sp3 C–H #Functionalization via #Intramolecular #Carbene Insertion University of Basel Ward Group Total Synthesis J. Am. Chem. Soc. Top Science @CHNSci Total Synthesis and Methodology Highlights pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

While everyone gets ready for teaching this fall, I thought I'd share an Olshansky original - Point Group Bingo (PINGO) has been a favorite in my classes! Just show slides of different molecules and have your students ID the point groups via their gameboards. Don't forget prizes!

Anyone interested in joining the Ward group for a PhD? Have a look at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/851522 and x.com/metrazymes for an opening as part of an exciting team of European chemists

Congratulations! also to the Swiss National Science Foundation starting grant...

This Chemical Reviews was guest edited by #NCCRCatalysis PIs Thomas Ward Group and Christophe Copéret Group! The issue focuses on "Bridging the gaps: Learning from Catalysis across Boundaries" - right up our alley! 🧪📑 Read here 👉🏻 doi.org/10.1021/acs.ch… x.com/coperetgroup/s…

We are thrilled to share a new HF-free technology that converts fluorspar to fluorochemicals. Enormous congratulations to the amazing team of chemists who made this recurring dream a reality! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Cal Patel Science Magazine Oxford Chemistry FluoRok

Artificial Metalloenzyme-Catalyzed Enantioselective Amidation via Nitrene Insertion in Unactivated C(sp3)–H Bonds | JACS University of Basel Ward Group Total Synthesis and Methodology Highlights #Metalloenzyme #Enantioselective #Amidation #Nitrene #CHfunctionalization pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Celebrating Rudy Marcus’ 100th birthday ⁦Caltech⁩ ⁦Caltech Chemistry & Chemical Engineering⁩ ⁦The Nobel Prize⁩ . Still loving #chemistry!!

Great collaboration A big thank you to all contributing colleagues/authors/experts and Jo Richers for a superb title page

ever since Lena Barra's work on PLP-mediated catalysis in the biosynthesis of altemicidin, I've been fascinated by PLP. very cool to see this enzymatic pathway intercepted by photoredox-generated radicals!

Hello! 😊 This is Tobias Abele taking over to report from Locarno Film Festival for the next days. 4 scientists from University of Basel and Uni Heidelberg, Maja Illig, floppleton.bsky.social, Michaela Slánská and me, finally arrived at #Locarno76 yesterday and dived into the world of cinema. Stay tuned!

Nice work! ✨ nature.com/articles/s4155…

Congrats to Tobias for the nccr tubo grant!

We have a PhD position opening for a candidate with demonstrated experience in electrochemistry. We are aiming to immobilize various metalloenzymes for small molecule activation. See for example: pubs.acs.org/doi/ful

Now online: News & Views on the Article by Zhi Zou, Thomas R. Ward & co-workers Ward Group University of Basel nature.com/articles/s4416… ($) Microbial cell factories for cycloalkene synthesis by Ru Jiang & Gerard Roelfes Roelfes Group nature.com/articles/s4416… ($)

Large-scale, automated screening and active machine learning can increase the success rate and efficiency of enzyme engineering NEW #ASAP by JeschekLab, Andreas Krause, Ward Group & colleagues Read it here: go.acs.org/a28

Enzyme repurposing of Carbonic Anhydrase and Myoglogin into… ketoreductases. Check out John Hartwig’s paper in Angewandte Chemie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an… And ours in CHEM sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Check out our recent paper on an enantioselective H atom transfer reaction catalyzed by an artificial metalloenzyme. A big thank you to Dongping and Xiang for this inspiring piece of work. nature.com/articles/s4155…

Understatement of the year...