Prof. Gonen Ashkenasy
Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), IL
Laboratory for Systems Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
Supervisor DC1 and DC9
Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Chemistry Department at BGU. Supervised >30 graduate students, currently 3 MSc, 5 PhD and 2 postdoctoral researchers. Member of the advisory board for ChemSystemChem and Entropy. Co-founder and organiser of the first Gordon Research Conference series on Systems Chemistry. Pioneer in the studies of replication networks. Authored and co-authored >80 publications.
Selected publications
- Bandela, A. K., Wagner, N., Sadihov, H., Morales-Reina, S., Chotera-Ouda, A., Basu, K., … & Ashkenasy, G. (2021). Primitive selection of the fittest emerging through functional synergy in nucleopeptide networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(9), e2015285118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2015285118
- Maity, I., Dev, D., Basu, K., Wagner, N., & Ashkenasy, G. (2021). Signaling in systems Chemistry: programing gold nanoparticles formation and assembly using a Dynamic Bistable Network. Angewandte Chemie, 133(9), 4562-4567. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202012837
- Maity, I., Wagner, N., Mukherjee, R., Dev, D., Peacock-Lopez, E., Cohen-Luria, R., & Ashkenasy, G. (2019). A chemically fueled non-enzymatic bistable network. Nature Communications, 10(1), 4636. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12645-0
- Chotera, A., Sadihov, H., Cohen‐Luria, R., Monnard, P. A., & Ashkenasy, G. (2018). Functional assemblies emerging in complex mixtures of peptides and nucleic acid–peptide chimeras. Chemistry–A European Journal, 24(40), 10128-10135. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201800500
- Ludlow, R. F., & Otto, S. (2008). Systems chemistry. Chemical Society Reviews, 37(1), 101-108. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CS00117G
