Sam Roberts (@samrobe22992890) 's Twitter Profile
Sam Roberts

@samrobe22992890

Current Postdoc in Prof. Shankar Balasubramanian's group in Cambridge working on G-quadruplexes. Also interested in Origins of Life research

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Sam Roberts (@samrobe22992890) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Looking forward to see this one when it is published formally, but for now enjoy some excellent prebiotic peptide bond chemistry

Ben Colville (@colvilleben) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to share the 1st paper from my PhD, online now in Angewandte Chemie! TNA nucleotides can form under the same conditions that give ribonucleotides. Our route selects for the correct threo-isomer using UV irradiation to remove the unwanted by-products: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Nick Green (@nickgreen_chem) 's Twitter Profile Photo

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… Check it out in J. Am. Chem. Soc. - everything you need to know about photochemistry that could have been promoted by the Sun on the young Earth, making the molecules of life! The main text is more attractive than the TOC, I promise :) #prebioticchemistry #ool

Nick Green (@nickgreen_chem) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Check out our @MRC_LMB latest work on the incredible prebiotic chemistry of #RNA 😁 We discovered a #prebiotic reaction that provides both RNA and #DNA purine nucleosides, RNA via an until-now unobserved radical sulfitylation mechanism pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… #originoflife

Saidul Islam (@drsaidulislam) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I have a new chemistry PhD position starting in Oct. 2022. This is a great opportunity to work on the origins of life at King's College London. Please RT and share- it would be a big help to me! KCL Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences ⁦FindAPhD⁩ #chemtwitter ⁦King's Chemistry⁩ findaphd.com/phds/project/o…

Sam Roberts (@samrobe22992890) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It has been a bit of long stretch since my last paper, but now here is our latest work currently ASAP in JACS. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… An alternative method of prebiotic aminoacylation via phosphoramidate chemistry.

Sam Roberts (@samrobe22992890) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It went live today :) Enzyme free aminoacylation of RNA via a phosphoramidate-ester intermediate pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.102…

Sam Roberts (@samrobe22992890) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Just come out in JACS ASAP Chemistry to create loops in RNA under prebiotic conditions pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… So pleased to contribute to this work. Well done Long-Fei Wu Liu Ziwei Szostak Lab

Tom Wilks (@tom_wilks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Bohemian rhapsody for postdocs: Is this a real job? Or more like a PhD? Caught in short contracts No chance of stability Open your eyes Look up to PIs and see I'm just a postdoc I get no sympathy Because I'm easy come, easy go Stress is high Pay is low

Rafał Szabla (@rafal_szabla) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yay! Our most recent article (experiment+theory) about the photochemistry of a potentially prebiotic precursor to RNA nucleotides, 2-thiooxazole, has just been published in PCCP ! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… Matthew Powner Sam Roberts Lauren Bertram CHEM@PWr Politechnika Wrocławska

Yay! Our most recent article (experiment+theory) about the photochemistry of a potentially prebiotic precursor to RNA nucleotides, 2-thiooxazole, has just been published in <a href="/PCCP/">PCCP</a> !

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<a href="/matt_powner/">Matthew Powner</a> <a href="/SamRobe22992890/">Sam Roberts</a> <a href="/LaurenBertram2/">Lauren Bertram</a> <a href="/ChemPWr/">CHEM@PWr</a> <a href="/PWr_Wroclaw/">Politechnika Wrocławska</a>
Jyoti Singh (@jyotisinghucl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Do you want to know why Lysine is a privileged amino acid and about it’s late addition to the code!! here it goes Congratulations šŸŽ‰šŸŽ‰and great work by ⁦Benji Thoma⁩ ⁦Matthew Powner⁩ ⁦Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS)⁩ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Matthew Powner (@matt_powner) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our latest paper on Selective Synthesis of Lysine Peptides and the Prebiotically Plausible Synthesis of Catalytically Active Diaminopropionic Acid Peptide Nitriles in Water pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… great work by Benji Thoma UCL Chemistry UCL J. Am. Chem. Soc.

Sam Roberts (@samrobe22992890) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Why are amino acids assigned to the codons they are? Would the earliest forms of translation needed the decoding centre of the ribosome? Find out in our new preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Meng Su

Sam Roberts (@samrobe22992890) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of giving a talk as part of the PCE3 seminar series. It was livestreamed and you can find it on youtube youtube.com/watch?v=hE1LQq…

Sam Roberts (@samrobe22992890) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm pleased to say our work on codon:anticodon binding at the origins of life on Earth has just been put up online at JACS! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… Thanks Meng Su for including me :)