Daniel Dunkelmann

Daniel Dunkelmann is a consultant for Constructive Bio and a Branco Weiss Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam-Golm. Previously, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and completed his PhD in Jason Chin’s group at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Constructive Bio
Thursday
May 08
From Deadlock to Discovery: Expanding Cellular Translation’s Chemical Repertoire
2:30 PM

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3:15 PM

Verify in cvent -- The genetic code has been reprogrammed to encode hundreds of non-canonical amino acids, yet its expansion beyond α-L-amino acids remained constrained for over two decades by an evolutionary deadlock: synthetases cannot be evolved for poor ribosomal substrates, and ribosomes cannot polymerize monomers that synthetases cannot acylate tRNAs with. This deadlock has now been broken with tRNA display, a rapid, scalable directed evolution platform that enables synthetase engineering to acylate tRNAs with diverse non-canonical monomers, independent of ribosomal translation. Join this session for an in-depth examination of this technology's capabilities. The session will trace tRNA's journey from conception to tech transfer and establish tRNA display as the innovation engine for next-generation therapeutics.

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