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Dr. Amanda C. Evans
Research Fellow Specializing in
Chiral Precursors to the
Genome
University of Nice-Sophia
Antipolis,
France
Tél
: +33 (0)4 92 07 61 36
acechem28@gmail.com
Professional Experience
Amanda Evans obtained
a Fulbright Student Fellowship in Germany after completing her B.A. in
chemistry at the Bryn Mawr College, PA, USA. In 2007 she obtained her
PhD in
synthetic organic chemistry in Professor S.V. Ley’s group at the
University of
Cambridge, UK, investigating the desymmetrisation of cyclic
meso-anhydrides
and their derivatisation for use in natural product synthesis. From
2008 to
2011 she has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of
Cambridge
researching organocataylytic polymers, polymer-DNA conjugates,
alternative DNA
architectures and DNA templates for nanoalignment. In 2012 Amanda Evans
was awarded an RSC JWT Jones Fellowship to investigate the origin of
the chirality of the genetic code as a collaborative international
project between the University of
Cambridge, UK and the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis,
France.
Publications
- Giri C.,
Goesmann F., Meinert C., Evans A. C., Meierhenrich U. J.: Synthesis and
Chirality of Amino Acids under Interstellar Conditions. Topics in Current Chemistry,
333 (2013),
41-82.
- Evans A.
C., Meinert
C., Giri C., Goesmann F., Meierhenrich
U. J.: Chirality, Photochemistry and the Detection of Amino Acids in
Interstellar Ice Analogues and Comets. Chem. Soc. Rev. 41 (2012), 5447-5458.
- McKee M.
L., Evans A. C., Gerrard S. R., O'Reilly R. K., Turberfield A. J.,
Stulz E.: Peptidomimetic bond formation by DNA-templated acyl transfer.
Org. Biomol. Chem.
9 (2011),
1661-1666.
- König S. L. B., Evans A. C., Huppert J. L.: Seven
Essential Questions on G-Quadruplexes. Biomolecular Concepts 1 (2010), 197-213.
- Evans A. C., Lu A., Ondeck C., Longbottom D. A., O'Reilly
R. K.: Organocatalytic Tunable Amino Acid Polymers Prepared by
Controlled Radical Polymerization. Macromolecules 43
(2010), 6374-6380.
- Evans
A. C., Skey J., Wright M, Xu W.-J., Ondeck C., Longbottom D. A.,
O'Reilly R. K.: Functional and
Tuneable Polymers Prepared by RAFT
Polymerisation of Polystyrenes. J.
Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem. 47 (2009), 6814-6826.
- Evans
A. C., Longbottom D. A., Matsuoka M., Davies J. E., Turner R.,
Franckevicius V., Ley S. V.: Highly Diastereoselective Desymmetrisation
of cyclic meso-Anhydrides and
Derivatisation for use in Natural Product Synthesis. Org. Biomol. Chem. 7 (2009), 747-760.
- Evans
A. C., Longbottom D. A., Matsuoka M., Ley S. V.: Highly
Diastereoselective Desymmetrisation
of cyclic meso-Anhydrides and
Derivatisation to Mono-protected 1,4-Diols. Synlett. (2005), 646-648.
- Mallory
F.B., Butler K.B., Evans A.C., Brondyke E.J., Mallory C.W., Yang C.,
Ellenstein A.J.: Phenacenes: A Family of Graphite Ribbons. 2. Syntheses
of some [7]Phenacenes and an [11]Phenacene by Stilbene-like
Photocyclizations. J. Am. Chem. Soc.
119
(1997), 2119-2124.
- Mallory
F.B., Butler K.B., Evans A.C., Mallory
C.W.:
Phenacenes: A Family of Graphite Ribbons. 1. Syntheses
of some [7]Phenacenes by Stilbene-like
Photocyclizations.Tetrahedron Lett. 37 (1996), 7173-7176.
Conferences
- Meierhenrich U.J., Evans A., Meinert C., Hoffmann S.V.:
Anisotropy Spectroscopy of Biomolecules. 8th SOLEIL Users' Meeting,
Synchrotron SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France 23-24 January 2013.
- Evans A., Meinert C., Hoffmann S. V., d'Hendecourt L.,
Nahon L., Goesmann F., Giri C., Meierhenrich U. J.: Photochemical
synthesis, chirality and detection of amino acids in interstellar ice
analogues and comets. 21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical
Organic Chemistry, ICPOC21, Durham University, UK, 9-13 September 2012.
- Evans A., Meinert C., Hoffmann S. V., d'Hendecourt L.,
Nahon L., Goesmann F., Giri C., Meierhenrich U. J.: Photochemical
synthesis, chirality and detection of amino acids in interstellar ice
analogues and comets. AbGradCon, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, United States 27-30 August 2012.
- Giri C., Meinert C., Hoffmann S. V., Evans A.,
d'Hendecourt L., Nahon L., Goesmann F., Meierhenrich U. J.: Formation
and chiroptical properties of amino acids in interstellar ice
analogues. 39th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research
COSPAR, Mysore, India, 14-22 July 2012.
- Giri C., Meinert C., Evans A., Goesmann F., Meierhenrich
U. J.: The sojourn of chiral organics from ISM to comets - the COSAC
experiment onboard Rosetta. AstroChem Conference, Kolkata, India, 10-13
July 2012.
- Evans A., Meinert C., Hoffmann S. V., d'Hendecourt L.,
Nahon L., Goesmann F., Giri C., Meierhenrich U. J.: Photochemical
synthesis, chirality and detection of amino acids in interstellar ice
analogues and comets. Astrobiology Science Conference, AbSciCon,
Atlanta, United States 16-20 April 2012.
- Evans A.C., Huppert J.L., Baumberg J.J.: Templated
Au-Nanoparticle Alignment using Heterocyclic Polyamides. SET for
Britain, London UK 8 March 2010.
- Evans
A. C., Longbottom D. A., Matsuoka M., Ley S. V.: Highly
Diastereoselective Desymmetrisation
of cyclic meso-Anhydrides.
Tetrahedron Symposium, Bordeaux, France 2005.
- Evans
A. C., Longbottom D. A., Matsuoka M., Ley S. V.: Highly
Diastereoselective Desymmetrisation
of cyclic meso-Anhydrides.
IUPAC, Nagoya, Japan 2004.
Distinctions
(2012) RSC JWT Jones Fellowship - Univ. Cambridge and
Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis
(2010) Newton Trust Fellowship - Univ. Cambridge
(2008) Murray Edwards College Fellowship and College
Lectureship - Univ. Cambridge
(2002) Industrial Case Award - Univ. Cambridge and Organon Laboratories, Ltd.
(1997) Elizabeth S. Shippen Prize for Science - Bryn Mawr
College, USA
(1997) Fulbright Student Fellowship (Chemistry) - Munich,
Germany
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