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Deepak Thirunavukarasu, Tingjian Chen, Zhixia Liu, Narupat Hongdilokkul and Floyd E Romesberg (2017) Selection of 2’-Fluoro-Modified Aptamers with Optimized Properties. Journal of the American Chemical Society.139, 2892-2895.

Tingjian Chen, Narupat Hongdilokkul, Zhixia Liu, Deepak Thirunavukarasu and Floyd E Romesberg (2016) The Expanding World of DNA and RNA. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 34, 80-87.

Tingjian Chen, Narupat Hongdilokkul, Zhixia Liu, RamkrishnaAdhikary, Shujian S Tsuen and Floyd E Romesberg (2016) Evolution of Thermophilic DNA Polymerases for the Recognition and Amplification of C2’-Modified DNA. Nature Chemistry. 8, 556-562.

Manuel M Müller, Jane R Allison, Narupat Hongdilokkul, Laurent Gaillon, Peter Kast, Wilfred F van Gunsteren, Philippe Marlière and Donald Hilvert (2013) Directed Evolution of a Model Primordial Enzyme Provides Insights into the Development of the Genetic Code. PLOS Genetics. 9, e1003187.

Oral Presentations :

July 4 – 5, 2013
Evolvability of a molten globular chorismate mutase and its thermostable counterpart The 6^th annual retreat of the Biomolecular Structure and Mechanism Ph.D. program, Baar, Switzerland

September 4 – 6, 2009
Evolvability of a molten globular enzyme and its thermostable counterpart The 2^nd annual retreat of the Biomolecular Structure and Mechanism Ph.D. program, Filzbach, Switzerland

Poster presentations :

July 20 – 23, 2013
Evolvability of a molten globular chorismate mutase and its thermostable counterpart The 27^th annual symposium of the Protein Society, Boston, Massachusetts, United states

Sep 13, 2012
Towards computationally designed chorismate mutases The 2012 fall meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society, Zurich, Switzerland

July 23 – 27, 2011
Directed evolution of a simplified chorismate mutase as a model for primordial enzyme evolution The 25^th anniversary symposium of the Protein Society, Boston, MA, United states

June 9 – 10, 2011
An in vivo selection system for evolving highly active/highly stable enzymes EPFL-ETHZ-Tokyo Tech joint symposium on chemistry, bioscience, and biomaterials for bio-eco and bio-med technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

June 26 – July 1, 2010
Evolvability of a molten globular enzyme and its thermostable counterpart The 35^th FEBS congress, Gothenburg, Sweden

Attended workshops :

September 3 – 6, 2013
Next Generation Sequencing – a Practical Course on Technologies, Applications, and Data Analysis Functional Genomics Center, ETH Zurich/University of Zurich, Switzerland

June 24 – 30, 2012
The EMBO workshop on transient kinetic methods Applied to biological macromolecules University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom