Area of research
Molecular Biology · Astronomy and Astrophysics
Research interest
Research interests include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Origins and Evolution of Life, RNA modifications and cancer, and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology.
Potentially prebiotic isocyanide activation chemistry drives RNA assembly
Natural soda lakes provide compatible conditions for RNA and membrane function that could have enabled the origin of life
Molecular Crowding Facilitates Ribozyme-Catalyzed RNA Assembly
RNA‐Catalyzed RNA Ligation within Prebiotically Plausible Model Protocells**
REVERSE: a user-friendly web server for analyzing next-generation sequencing data from <i>in vitro</i> selection/evolution experiments
The Varkud Satellite Ribozyme: A Thirty-Year Journey through Biochemistry, Crystallography, and Computation
In vitro selection of ribozyme ligases that use prebiotically plausible 2-aminoimidazole–activated substrates
Molecular crowding and RNA catalysis
Hachimoji DNA and RNA: A genetic system with eight building blocks
Affinity maturation of a portable Fab–RNA module for chaperone-assisted RNA crystallography
Laboratory evolution of artificially expanded DNA gives redesignable aptamers that target the toxic form of anthrax protective antigen
Crystal structure of the Varkud satellite ribozyme
Spinach RNA aptamer detects lead(<scp>ii</scp>) with high selectivity