Joseph Moran

@MoranLabChem

Professor @uOttawa, adjunct @unistra; Organic chemistry, catalysis, origin of life. Dad of 3. @moranlabchem.bsky.social

Ottawa🇨🇦 and Strasbourg 🇫🇷 moranlab.com Joined March 2017

3.6K Following 6.5K Followers 5.6K Posts

Latest posts 5

Pinned post

Joseph Moran @MoranLabChem 3d

Metabolism is catalyzed by electric fields within enzymes, but the building blocks of enzymes are made by metabolism. How did this chicken-and-egg situation arise?

Check out our Perspective in @J_A_C_S !

doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6…

pubs.acs.org Electric Field Catalysis and the Metabolic Origin of Life Abstract. Metabolic theories for the origin of life postulate that chemical reaction networks emerged spontaneously from geochemistry and grew more complex

Joseph Moran @MoranLabChem 3d

Several group members and I attended @qomsboc this weekend, organized at U de Montréal. The lectures from students and plenary speakers alike were outstanding.

Special congrats to group members Rosemary Karn and Marcus Vaillancourt for each winning poster prizes!

Joseph Moran @MoranLabChem Jul 19

RIP Rudy Marcus. Never met him but he inspired me, being a fellow Montrealer and NRC postdoc.

Ricardo Matute @rimatute Jul 17

It is with great sadness that I share that Rudy Marcus passed away last night. Rudy was like a father to me, and we will miss him deeply. You will always be in our hearts.

caltech.edu/about/news/cal…
View quoted post on X

Joseph Moran @MoranLabChem Jul 9

Congrats to recent PhD graduate Maciej Piejko for winning the thesis prize from the Fondation Jean-Marie Lehn! Your future is bright!

fondation-lehn.fr/prix-de-these-…

fondation-lehn.fr Prix de thèse 2026 : la Fondation Jean-Marie Lehn récompense deux travaux interdisciplinaires en... La Fondation Jean-Marie Lehn a une nouvelle fois salué l’excellence scientifique en remettant son prix de thèse à deux jeunes chercheurs prometteurs de l’Université de Strasbourg. En 2026, ce sont...

Joseph Moran @MoranLabChem Jun 2

quantamagazine.org/the-dirt-that-…

www.quantamagazine.org The Dirt That Refused To Die | Quanta Magazine Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil for six years, pointing to a metabolic theory for how biology began.