@MFP_Lab
 Hebrew University of Jerusalem
mfplab.huji.ac.il/
Joined January 2022
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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/pnas.25…

Protopeptide backbone affects assembly in aqueous solutions | PNAS

One of the most fascinating mysteries in the field of origins of life concerns the driving force that led to the selection of today’s 20 universal ...

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📢JOB ALERT 📢 We are looking for a postdoc and a PhD student for an @ERC_Research funded project at HUJI on the role of sugars in prebiotic chemistry. Interested in studying the chemical origins of life? Then DM me.
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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! xitter.cf/issol_society/status/1…
ISSOL Society@issol_society4 Aug 2023
And the Stanley Miller Award goes to Prof. Moran Frenkel-Pinter! #issol2023 #origins2023
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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 @MinervaStiftung.
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Thank you @azrielifdn for supporting healthy habits!
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Thank you @FEBSnews for your support in early-career researchers and for supporting our research. I am very honored to receive the FEBS Excellence Award!
FEBS@FEBSnews8 Dec 2022
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 FEBS Excellence Awards! These awards provide €100,000 funding to early-career group leaders working in a FEBS country: more info at febs.org/news/febs-excellenc… #GroupLeader #biochemistry #molecularbiology #cellbiology #biophysics
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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, @templeton_fdn, @knowinnovation, @KlaraH_lab and the other mentors for making this happen!
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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_williams1 to Israel as a Keynote speaker and learn about co-evolution of RNA and proteins!
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Check our our recent @NatureComms paper on formation of proto-peptides from simple mixtures containing amino acids and mercaptoacids under a wide variety of conditions! nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Thioesters provide a plausible prebiotic path to proto-peptides

Nature Communications - One of the early processes enabling the origins of life is thought to be the condensation of building blocks into oligomers and polymers. In this article, the authors report...

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Frenkel-Pinter Lab retweeted
Joseph Moran@MoranLabChem6 Apr 2022
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
Angewandte Chemie@angew_chem6 Apr 2022
A Nonenzymatic Analog of Pyrimidine Nucleobase Biosynthesis (Moran) @MoranLabUdS #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Thank you, Azrieli foundation, for supporting my research!
Azrieli Foundation@azrielifdn3 Mar 2022
From the origins of life to a new approach to pharmaceuticals, Moran Frenkel-Pinter's research @HebrewU explores the processes and potential of #ChemicalEvolution. ow.ly/KYeN50I9bLq
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