Sam is a postdoc in Prof. John Sutherland F.R.S.’s group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK where he studies the biochemistry of the Origins of Life.
He completed his undergraduate masters in Chemistry at the University of Oxford, followed by a receiving PhD in 2018 for his work at UCL in London in Prof. Matt Powner’s lab working on prebiotic nucleoside synthesis. Sam moved to Cambridge for a brief move away from Origins of Life science, working in Prof. Sir Shankar Balasubramanian’s group on G-quadruplexes in DNA, before starting in the Sutherland lab in 2021. He holds a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK.
Sam will be presenting “RNA Aminoacylation at the
Origins of Life”.
