Benji Thoma @benj1_t
Platform Lead, SiftrBio. interested in using organic chemistry to tackle difficult problems Joined June 2013-
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Out today in @Nature : nature.com/articles/s4158… One step closer to understanding the origin of protein synthesis !
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Congratulations to Benji Thoma on winning the RSC Chemical Biology poster prize at the 8th Cambridge Symposium on Nucleic Acids #CamNA24 @benj1_t @rsc_chembio
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Have you ever been curious about prebiotic chemistry but didn't know where to start? Start here! Today our Resident Lecturer Dr. Benji Thoma joins us to give an Introduction to Prebiotic Chemistry, with a focus on nucleic acid synthesis! youtu.be/Mi6ybPFtt7w
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Excited to share the first paper from my PhD @JACS_Au. Cysteamine-strecker reaction spontaneously forms peptides in water by highly selective intramolecular thiol catalyst. Thanks to my supervisor @matt_powner and the lab members. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…
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Happy and super excited to share our discovery of a protein fractal! We unravel the surprisingly simple emergence of these marvellous structures and show it might have even been an accident of evolution. Read the full story here nature.com/articles/s4158… Or just stick around 🧵
Awesome work from Jasper, @drsaidulislam @jyotisinghUCL @DKBucar @matt_powner deconvoluting the "weird" structure of pantetheine ! science.org/doi/abs/10.112…
AT does not look at selection "due to chemical kinetics and catalysis" because it is "chemically agnostic". This is the main problem for me
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PDRA opportunity in our group @UCLChemistry to develop & characterise ribozymes that harness primordial chemistries. 28 months, funded by BBSRC & Royal Society; org chem or mol bio background. Apply by 7th August: tinyurl.com/4bhhf2v2
Confusing that this would make acetylfetanyl , but then the result name is actually methadone? Also surely you can't reflux Ac2O at 60
Confusing that this would make acetylfetanyl , but then the result name is actually methadone? Also surely you can't reflux Ac2O at 60
Very happy to see this finally out! Here we interrogate why life codes for some amino acids and not others , through the lens of nonenzymatic peptide synthesis in water 💧 @matt_powner @J_A_C_S pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…
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Fully funded 4-year PhD available in our @matt_powner group & with @SheppardTomD @UCLChemistry or please retweet findaphd.com/phds/project/a… ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/stud…
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Congratulations! Great to see this finally out
Really cool work @JakeAquilina3 !! !
Great to be a part of this work ! We dug deeper into thiol-catalysed peptide ligations and amidine hydrolyses , finding a lovely alpha-regioselective lysine ligation 🧪🔎 (sadly no nitrile emoji )
Great to be a part of this work ! We dug deeper into thiol-catalysed peptide ligations and amidine hydrolyses , finding a lovely alpha-regioselective lysine ligation 🧪🔎 (sadly no nitrile emoji )
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Our latest paper on prebiotic peptide synthesis in water @J_A_C_S pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… by @Jyotisi92156474 Daniel Whitaker @benj1_t @drsaidulislam @DrCallumFoden Abil Aliev @SheppardTomD @uclChemistry @ucl
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