CLASSY meeting in Nijmegen

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On the 15th-16th November 2022 Huck group was hosting the 8th General Assembly meeting of CLASSY consortium. During the 2-day hybrid meeting partners from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), ETH Zürich (ETH), Universität Graz (UG) and Micronit B.V. (MICRONIT) presented latest research updates and challenges. Miglė Jakštaitė, Tao Zhou and Wilhelm Huck were representing our group. Current and future collaborations were also discussed to reach our challenging milestones. accelopment Schweiz AG (accelCH) gave an overview of our project status and was moderating the brainstorm sessions. It was great to host such incredible teams and share our ideas!

Click here to read more about our recent meeting.

Anual sIMMposium

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During this year’s annual sIMMposium organised by Institute of Molecules and Materials (IMM) at Radboud University Dr. Will Robinson presented his recent study on a prebiotic reaction network and origins of life.

If you still haven’t read the paper, you can find it here.

CHAINS 2022

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The Huck group was well represented this year at CHAINS – the main chemistry conference for chemists in the Netherlands. One of our postdocs, Oliver Maguire, presented his recent work on a prebiotic phosphorylation system for creating phosphorylated molecules critical to the Origins of Life. Many members of the group also presented their work in the poster sessions.

 

More details on Oliver’s work on prebiotic phosphorylations can be found in a recent paper here: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25555-x

CLASSY consortium meeting in Madrid

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CLASSY consortium finally had a chance to meet again in person on June 16-17 in Madrid. This time the meeting was hosted by the group of Andrés de la Escosura from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Miglė Jakštaitė and Wilhelm Huck were presenting and discussing the progress in enzymatic cascade reactions and process optimisation together with partners from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Universität Graz, ETH Zürich, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Micronit B.V.

More information can be found here.

Late Night Conference with Wilhelm Huck – Carol Cleland

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The Late Night Conference with Wilhelm Huck is back again for the final episode on Thursday 2nd June, 20h00 CET!

This sixth and final episode of season 2 of the Late Night Conference with Wilhelm Huck will be streamed live on our YouTube channel Late Night Conference with WH (don’t forget to subscribe & watch our previous exciting episodes!) from Theaterzaal C, where we are excited to have you in our audience!! Get your free ticket here to watch the show LIVE*. Please pay attention – no ticket is needed if you only want to watch the stream on YouTube!

With us will be Carol Cleland, Professor and Director of CU Boulder’s Center of Study of Origins, who will be guiding us through her fantastic research on “What is Life?”!

Carol is Professor and Director of CU Boulder’s Center of Study of Origins and will take us through how we define what is alive. Bring your thinking caps and get ready to participate in the discussion! Join us at Theatrezaal C for this exciting final event of the season and to meet Carol on the big screen & get your questions ready for the live Q&A!

Also don’t miss out our fifth episode of this exciting season. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram, as well as subscribe to our mailing list for the latest updates.

IMM PhD Days

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Last week (May 16-17) two day off-site PhD Days event was hosted by PPIMM (PhD Panel IMM). During the event PhD students within the IMM gave entry-level presentations of their research. Our group was represented by Thijs de Jong and Miglė Jakštaitė. Besides this, PhD students were discussing variety of different topics like collaboration with other research groups and gender and diversity. Moreover, invited speakers gave workshops and lectures about creative thinking, peer review process and scientific writing.

FMS Annual Meeting

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Last week FMS Annual Meeting took place in Zwolle. This year the representative of our group was Thijs de Jong who gave a presentation entitled “Using the formose reaction for reservoir computing”. Many other group members prepared a poster about their research.

Late Night Conference with Wilhelm Huck – Kate Adamala

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The Late Night Conference with Wilhelm Huck is back again on Friday 6th May, 20h00 CET!

This fifth episode of season 2 of the Late Night Conference with Wilhelm Huck will be streamed live on our YouTube channel Late Night Conference with WH (don’t forget to subscribe & watch our previous exciting episodes!) from Theaterzaal C, where we are excited to have you in our audience!! Get your free ticket here to watch the show LIVE*. Please pay attention – no ticket is needed if you only want to watch the stream on YouTube!

With us will be Kate Adamala, Professor of Genetics at University of Minnesota, who will be guiding us through her fantastic research on Building Artificial Cells!

Kate Adamala wants to make life from scratch! As Professor at University of Minnesota working on the origins of life and building a synthetic cell, Kate’s work touches on astrobiology, synthetic cell engineering, and biocomputing. Kate and her team create tiny bioreactors. These have applications in synthetic biology, drug development and biosensing. Join us at Theatrezaal C while we interview Kate on the big screen & get your questions ready for the live Q&A!

Also don’t miss out our fourth episode of this exciting season. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram, as well as subscribe to our mailing list for the latest updates.

*corona rules permitting

Late Night Conference with Wilhelm Huck – Pablo Lanillos

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The Late Night Conference with Wilhelm Huck is back again on Thursday 14th April, 20h00 CET!

This fourth episode of season 2 of the Late Night Conference with Wilhelm Huck will be streamed live on our YouTube channel Late Night Conference with WH (don’t forget to subscribe & watch our previous exciting episodes!) from Theaterzaal C, where we are excited to have you in our audience!! Get your free ticket here to watch the show LIVE*. Please pay attention – no ticket is needed if you only want to watch the stream on YouTube!

With us will be Pablo Lanillos, Assistant Professor at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, who will be guiding us through his fantastic research on Artificial Intelligence!

Pablo Lanillos will be joining us IN PERSON at Theatrezaal C! Imagine a future where robots can perceive and act with their bodies, just as humans do… Pablo will guide us through his fascinating research that aims to bring this to life! Combining artificial intelligence and machine learning, Pablo is inspired by neuroscience to unravel the mysteries of our own self-perception. So why wait? Get your free tickets now to join in our live discussion that will undoubtedly enrich your perceptions too!

Also don’t miss out our third episode of this exciting season. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram, as well as subscribe to our mailing list for the latest updates.

*corona rules permitting

International Dinner

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Last Friday we were together enjoying exotic dishes at the PhysOrgChem International Dinner! We proved that nearly every chemist is also an outstanding cook with 18 dishes from participants, representing around 12 national cuisines! The winner was 🇬🇧Oliver with his delicious Shepherd’s Pie!