Happy Holidays!

We had our annual holiday party to celebrate the end of a successful year and semester. It is amazing to see how much we have grown in just one year. We are excited to see what 2022 brings for our lab! 15 December 2021

Welcome to Brigitte

We are excited to welcome Brigitte to the lab! She is from Winston-Salem and received a B.S. Chemical Engineering and Chemistry from a joint program between North Carolina A&T State University and Elon University. She just completed her first semester at UNCG as a M.S student with a concentration in… Continue reading…

Welcome to Ayoola

We are excited to welcome Ayoola to the lab! He received Bachelor of Pharmacy and MSc. In Pharmacognosy from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. His Master’s thesis was focused on the evaluation of the memory enhancing property of the aerial part of Motandra guineensis using animal models. Outside the lab… Continue reading…

illustration representing mining

First Paper Published

Very excited to publish our first paper! Congratulations to Keelie on her first paper and thank you to Ajalaye for designing the awesome original art we used as the TOC! A challenge in genome mining is specifically targeting bioactive molecules. In our review, we highlight studies that exploit the wealth… Continue reading…

Congratulations to Keelie

Congratulations to Keelie! This summer she was selected to join the T32 training grant (Innovative Technologies for Natural Products and Integrative Medicine) and last week she successfully completed her literature seminar on colibactin. 22 Oct 2021

Good Luck

We wish Imani luck as she starts her new program in veterinary science at NC A&T. We were so lucky to have her as one of our first lab members! We were also fortunate to have Adun and Maurice spend the summer with usas part of the NC STEM Alliance… Continue reading…

End of Summer

We had a great time our summer cook out. I cannot believe our first year at UNCG is already coming to an end with classes starting next week. So excited to see what our group accomplishes in year 2! 6 August 2021

Welcome to Ethan!

We are excited to welcome to the lab Ethan Underwood! He recently graduated from UNCG and decided to continue on to obtain a master’s degree. In the lab, he is working to discover the biosynthesis of RiPPs in eukaryotes. 09 June 2021

Congrats to Maisha and Imani!

Congratulations to Maisha and Imani for being receiving Undergraduate Research and Creativity Awards to conduct research in the lab this summer! 9 April 2021

Welcome to Kenzie!

We are excited to welcome to the lab Kenzie Stotler! She is currently a freshman in Biology and plans to attend medical school with a goal to become a pediatric oncologist. In the lab, she is working to uncover novel RiPP clusters in human pathogens. 13 Feb 2021