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A busy summer of conferences for the CLASSY partners
It’s conferences time again for the CLASSY partners, who will be busy presenting their latest work with posters and oral presentations at various international conferences starting already this weekend, 26 June 2022. Where will you find the CLASSY partners? At the Gordon Research Conference on Systems Chemistry 26 June – 1 July 2022 in Newry,
The CLASSY consortium meets in Madrid
On the 16th and 17th June 2022, the CLASSY team finally had the opportunity to meet in person again, in sunny Madrid. It was the first in person meeting since the 2019 Kick-off Meeting in Zürich. Fifteen participants, including PIs and early-career researchers from the CLASSY consortium, met at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)
Latest CLASSY publications to kick-off 2022
Did you miss the last publications from the CLASSY consortium? Find an overview of all 2021 publications below, including the latest contribution from the group of Prof. Wolfgang Kroutil at UG now included in the January 2022 issue of Chemical Reviews. Anil Kumar Bandela, Nathaniel Wagner, Hava Sadihov, Sara Morales-Reina, Agata Chotera-Ouda, Kingshuk Basu, Rivka
CLASSY featured in the EU GrantsAccess Science Stories
CLASSY was featured in the EU GrantsAccess Science Stories issue last July, 2021. Prof. Helma Wennemers and PhD candidate Jasper Möhler (ETH), explain the role of their team within the CLASSY project and their contribution in terms of peptide expertise. If you’re curious to hear about their progress in the lab, how they’re collaborating with
CLASSY PhD student awarded Scholarship Fund of the Swiss Chemical Industry (SSCI)
PhD student Alena Budinska was recently awarded a scholarship that supports her research on ”Stereoselective Organocatalytic α-Alkylation of Aldehydes’’ as part of Prof. Helma Wennemers group at ETH Zürich, and through which she contributes to the CLASSY project. The Scholarship Fund of the Swiss Chemical Industry (SSCI) is a joint initiative of ETH Zürich with
New CLASSY publication in PNAS
Exciting news from Andrés de la Escosura’s team at UAM and Gonen Ashkenasy’s team at BGU: their first CLASSY results have just been published in PNAS. Getting one step further towards understanding the processes at the origin of life, the published results reveal a successful attempt at replicating simple nucleopeptide chimeras. The authors identified mechanisms
