Professor of Chemistry at Furman University

Greenville, SC
Joined October 2014
Ten+ years. Hundreds of collaborations. Many (many) hours of intense meetings. Thousands of experiments repeated. Countless friendships made. A scientific legacy just beginning to be realized. Congrats team on a job well done! @ibbgatech @GTSciences @GT_CHEM @NSF @NASAAstrobio
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A great first day--amazing talks and some really fabulous discussions with our speakers. Excited to continue this discussion tomorrow! Thanks @VGrassian @SzostakLab @GregSpringsteen and the other non-tweeting speakers! Inspiring science! @ibbgatech @NSF @NASAAstrobio #Origins
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No catalyst? No problem. A new study finds chemical reactions involved in early metabolism on Earth may not have required enzymes to work. With critical contributions from early career astrobiologists, the paper was published in the journal @nature. More: go.nasa.gov/2UxFZUb
A new study published today in @NatureChemistry shows that nearly all the ingredients for a potential forerunner to cellular metabolism could have formed easily from just two simple compounds reacting in water. quantamagazine.org/new-clues…
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Excited to share that our Managing Director, Christine Conwell, is the recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Achievement in Research Enterprise Enhancement Award at Georgia Tech. It is a well deserved honor--Congrats! @CCC0326 @GTSciences @GT_CHEM @ibbgatech @GaTechEnergy
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Congrats to @FurmanU Professor of Chemistry Greg Springsteen and senior Trent Stubbs, who have received a $25,000 early-stage academic startup grant from the South Carolina Research Authority for Aconobolics LLC. @FurmanInnovates #TheFurmanAdvantage news.furman.edu/2020/04/08/f…
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I drew some #NASA funded chemist bros! @GregSpringsteen
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Don't miss the second CCE featured #earlyEarth commentary by Director Hud as a part of the @NatureComms series. The premise of a pre-RNA world opens a whole new universe in #OoL chemistry. @nsf_mps #nsffunded @ibbgatech @GT_Sciences @GT_CHEM disq.us/t/39fb1ci – at Atlanta, GA
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The busy week continues! Learn more about our the inspiration for our chemistry in this commentary by @scrippsresearch PI, Ram Krishnamurthy @nsf_mps #earlyEarth @nsffunded
Experimentally investigating the origin of DNA/RNA on early Earth go.nature.com/earlyearth-2 Just published and featured in our new Early Earth collection
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Video recap of last night’s launch and landing
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Falcon 9 lands on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship and returns to port after delivering the Merah Putih satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit. This mission marked the first re-flight of a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket booster. instagram.com/p/Bmg3v4jlnCN/
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From the lab to the workplace news.furman.edu/2018/06/22/f… via @FurmanNews
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This week on Nature League, @BritGarner introduces a new segment called De-Natured, where she breaks down a recent scientific journal article. The topic? Metabolism of early life! youtu.be/6hA9FkSSjlw
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#BeckmanScholar Julia Nelson @FurmanU publishes: Linked cycles of oxidative decarboxylation of glyoxylate as protometabolic analogs of the citric acid cycle ow.ly/IweY30hQcOf
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#BeckmanScholar Noah Vieira @FurmanU publishes: A trans-bidentate bis-pyridinyl ligand with a transition metal hinge ow.ly/n72G30gtrFE
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Collaboration between @FurmanU and @scrippsresearch unveils plausible prebiotic metabolic cycle. Check it out! #SoCool #NSFfunded #UGresearch #collaboration nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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