Dr. Luis Escobar

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsOrganic Molecular Chemistry,Bioorganic and Biological Chemistry
KeywordsSelf-Assembly, Molecular Recognition, Peptides, Nucleic Acids, Chemical Biology
Honours and awards

2023: Emerging talent in Systems Chemistry by the journal ChemSystemsChem from Wiley

2023: Postdoctoral Research Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain (RSEQ)

Current contact address

CountrySpain
CityTarragona
InstitutionInstitut Catala d'Investigacio Quimica (ICIQ)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Thomas CarellFakultät für Chemie und Pharmazie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2020

Programme(s)

2020Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2024Luis Escobar: Covalent Linkages Used in Prebiotic Chemistry for RNA-Templated Amino Acid Transfer and Peptide Synthesis. In: ChemSystemsChem, 6, 2024, e202400030
2024Ewa Węgrzyn, Ivana Mejdrová, Felix Müller, Milda Nainytė, Luis Escobar and Thomas Carell: RNA-Templated Peptide Bond Formation Promotes L-Homochirality. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63, 2024, e202319235
2023Johannes N. Singer, Felix M. Müller, Ewa Węgrzyn, Christina Hölzl, Hans Hurmiz, Chuyi Liu, Luis Escobar and Thomas Carell: Loading of Amino Acids onto RNA in a Putative RNA-Peptide World. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62, 2023, e202302360
2022Felix Müller, Luis Escobar, Felix Xu, Ewa Węgrzyn, Milda Nainytė, Tynchtyk Amatov, Chun‐Yin Chan, Alexander Pichler and Thomas Carell: A prebiotically plausible scenario of an RNA peptide world. In: Nature, 605, 2022, 279-284