We are excited to see our transcriptome mining paper plushied in BJOC as part of the “young investigators in natural products chemistry, biosynthesis, and enzymology series”! In it, we reassemble 700 public plant transcriptomes to mine potential for side chain crosslinked peptides in plants (burpitides). We found multiple phylogenetic hot… Continue reading…
Josh did a phenomenal job presenting his work on burpitide biosynthesis at the departmental Undergraduate Research Symposium. 24 April 2024
We had a delicious lab brunch to celebrate the end of the semester, Draco’s Thesis defense, and Josh’s graduation! 16 April 2024
Congratulations to Draco from our lab for defending his master’s thesis! He did a fantastic job and we are impressed with all he accomplished! 21 March 2024
We had a potluck for our holiday party. We had dishes from 4 different continents represented and it was all delicious!
For our Fall lab outing, we did escape rooms. Both teams were successful and we celebrated by going out for dinner!
We had a great time at SERMACS with Anshul, Michael, Ayoola, and Draco all giving posters!
Congrats to Draco for defending this Thesis proposal on Sept 25! It went awesome! Also congrats to Michael for completing his departmental seminar on the biosynthesis of rebeccamycin!
Nearly the entire lab attended the American Society of Pharmacognosy 2023 annual conference. We had a great time connecting with colleagues and sharing our research! 25 July 2023
We had a lab lunch to celebrate Brigitte thesis defense and Ayoola’s successful proposal defense! 21 June 2023
