Professor Nick Oberlies and the UNC Greensboro Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will soon say a bittersweet goodbye to visiting Fulbright Scholar Vanida Choomuenwai. The impact of her research grant extends well beyond the six months the Thai chemist has been at UNCG. “Being a Fulbright and working here has opened a thousand doors and opportunities for me in my life,” says Choomuenwai.
UNC Greensboro scientists are among the top 2% most-cited researchers around the world, according to the 2023 Stanford-Elsevier List. While the list doesn’t account for citations in all journals or disciplines, it includes data from nearly 35,000 peer-reviewed journals in the life, social, physical, and health sciences.
Chemistry & Biochemistry brought in $2.9 million dollars during the 2022-23 fiscal year, helping UNC Greensboro set a new record for external research funding.
Students at UNC Greensboro don’t have to wait until graduate school to form close bonds with researchers. The professors frequently take undergraduates under their wing, letting them experience all the practical work of compiling data in the lab and even publishing in academic journals. Lee Phillips, director of the Undergraduate Research,… Continue reading…
Congratulations to Drs. Noemi Paguigan, Diana Kao, Huzefa Raja, Tamam El-Elimat, Cedric Pearce, and Nicholas Oberlies for receiving the Ōmura Award for Best Original Article by the Editorial Board of the Journal of Antibiotics. This award is for their article on the use of mass defect filtering when analyzing fungal… Continue reading…
Congratulations to Drs. Oberlies and Reggio for being named in the top 2% of scientists in the world in a recent study out of Stanford. They are joined by Dean John Z. Kiss of the College of Arts and Sciences and 26 other researchers from UNCG!
Dr. Nicholas Oberlies describes himself as “pretty passionate” about fungi. That may be an understatement. “I could geek out about fungi for hours,” said the UNC Greensboro professor of chemistry and biochemistry. “You could argue that half of us wouldn’t be alive today if it weren’t for fungi.” Fungal cultures have… Continue reading…
Chris Roberts, Biochemistry major and undergraduate researcher in the Oberlies group, is featured in a recent UNCG Research magazine feature article about the MARC U-STAR program. This National Institutes of Health–funded initiative is working to broaden the pipeline of students from underrepresented or economically disadvantaged backgrounds into STEM with the… Continue reading…
Congrats to the Croatt and Oberlies Groups for getting their paper published online! “Our amide dehydration paper is online! Great collaborative work by the Croatt group, including @briefspace , for the method, the Oberlies Group (UNCG) and Cedric (Mycosynthetix) for the peptaibol work, and Joanna (UIC) for bioassay!” https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.8b02422
A huge congrats to Drs. Oberlies (UNC Greensboro) and Pearce (Mycosenthetix) and their collaborators Drs. Colby and Grinstaff (Boston Univ), Dr. Liu (Augusta Univ), and Dr. Colson (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) on their R01 NIH/NCI grant to study the development of a combination therapy that would tackled the problem of… Continue reading…
