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Call for papers: The Development of Bio-orthogonal tools

29 Jul 2021

RSC Chemical Biology is delighted to welcome papers for its latest online themed collection on the ‘Development of bio-orthogonal tools’, guest edited by Professor Chengqi Yi (Peking University, China) and Professor Yan Zhang (Nanjing University, China).

Scope

We would welcome submissions on bio-orthorgonal chemistry, reactions and probes in labeling, manipulating, imaging and sequencing of protein, DNA, RNA and bioactive metabolites.

The deadline for submissions is 30 April 2022.

Promotion of the collection is scheduled for summer 2022, articles will be published online as soon as they’re accepted.

Authors are welcome to submit original research in the form of a Communication or Full Paper. Articles can be submitted via our website: rsc.li/rsc-chembio. We would be grateful if upon submission you would be able to mention that your manuscript is intended for this themed collection in the “notes to the editor” box.

Please note that before a final decision is made, all submissions are subject to an initial assessment to confirm the manuscript’s suitability for full peer review.

If you have any questions about the journal or the collection, please contact the editorial office via chembio-rsc@rsc.org.

With kind regards,

Professor Chengqi Yi

Peking University, China

Professor Yan Zhang

Nanjing University, China

About RSC Chemical Biology

Led by Hiroaki Suga (University of Tokyo), RSC Chemical Biology is dedicated to publishing and disseminating the most exceptionally significant, breakthrough findings of interest to the chemical biology community. All submissions are handled by our experienced and internationally recognised Associate Editors. For more information on the journal, please visit the journal homepage.

As a gold open access journal, there are no barriers to accessing content and your research article will reach an international audience. Please note that the article processing charges are waived until mid-2022, so the journal is currently free to publish in.

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RSC Chemical Biology Advisory Board

19 Jul 2021

New additions to the RSC Chemical Biology Advisory Board!

We are delighted to welcome Professors Lei Liu & Guifang Jia, and Dr Chudi Ndubaku to the RSC Chemical Biology Advisory Board! They join 19 other prominent researchers in the chemical biology field.

Explore the current Advisory Board line-up below. For more information on the Editorial Board, visit rsc.li/rsc-chembio.

	Dr Chudi Ndubaku, ORIC Pharmaceuticals, USA Dr Ndubaku is the Vice President for Drug Discovery at ORIC Pharmaceuticals.
	Professor Guifang Jia, Peking University, China Professor Jia’s research focuses on the functions of RNA modifications in regulation of human diseases and plant development.
	Professor Lei Liu, Tsinghua University, China Research in the Lei group focuses on chemical protein synthesis and its applications to biomedical studies.
	Professor Paul Dyson, EPFL, Switzerland The research in Professor Dyson’s lab centres on organometallic chemistry at the interface with medicine, catalysis and material science.
	Professor Luc Brunsveld, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands Professor Brunsveld’s research interests are focused on chemical biology approaches studying protein-protein interactions, particularly drug discovery and supramolecular signalling systems.
	Professor Peng Chen, Peking University, China Professor Chen’s research focus is to develop novel technologies for protein manipulation in living cells, including protein-based bioorthoganol chemistry and precise protein engineering.
	Professor Donald Hilvert, ETH Zurich, Switzerland The group of Professor Hilvert are using chemical biology tools to understand and engineer proteins for various applications.
	Professor May Khanna, University of Arizona, USA The work of Professor Khanna’s lab looks to combine biochemical and biophysical techniques to target key protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions in neurodegenerative disease.
	Professor Hermen Overkleeft, Leiden University, Netherlands The research of the Overkleeft lab is characterized by the design, synthesis and application of chemical probes in glycobiology and immunology.
	Professor Giulio Superti-Furga, CeMM, Austria The Superti-Furga laboratory addresses the mechanisms by which cells respond to challenges that perturb homeostasis, and how homeostasis can subsequently be restored.
	Professor Xiu -Jie Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Professor Wang’s research interests include developing computational methods to analyze biological data, identifying new non-coding regulatory RNA genes and studying the functions of non-coding RNAs.
	Professor Christopher Chang, University of California Berkeley, USA Professor Chang’s research interests include transition metal signaling, activity-based sensing and artificial photosynthesis.
	Professor Russell Cox, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany The Cox group is interested in understanding and engineering the biosynthesis of natural products by fungi.
	Professor Dorothea Fiedler, FMP Berlin, Germany The goal of the Fiedler lab is to develop new chemical and biochemical tools that will provide a mechanistic picture of inositol phosphate signaling.
	Professor Christian Hackenberger, FMP Berlin, Germany The research projects of Professor Hackenberger’s group focus on understanding how nature generates specific biological function in complex cellular environments.
	Professor Maja K ö hn, University of Freiburg, Germany Professor Köhn’s group explores integrative signaling research on phosphatase chemistry and biology.
	Professor Yamuna Krishnan, University of Chicago, USA Work in Professor Krishnan’s lab aims to build quantitative chemical maps of organelle lumens using the tools of bionanotechnology.
	Professor Elizabeth Nolan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Professor Nolan and her team investigate the chemistry and biology of small molecules, peptides, and proteins that participate in the human innate immune response and host/pathogen interaction.
	Professor Jennifer Prescher, University of California Irvine, USA The research in Professor Prescher’s lab has the aim of crafting novel chemical probes and noninvasive imaging technologies to interrogate cells in their native habitats.
	Professor Christopher Schofield, University of Oxford, UK Professor Schofield aims to define functions for all human ‘2OG oxygenases’ at biochemical, cellular, and physiological level.
	Professor Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School, USA Professor Silver’s research interests include cell programming, therapeutic design, and environment & pathogen sensing.
	Professor Kira Weissman, University of Lorraine, France Professor Weissman is expert in multiple aspects of the biosynthesis of polyketides and related secondary metabolites.