News

RiPP Aromatic Side Chain Crosslinking Review Published

We are excited that our review was just published in Nature Chemical Biology. In it we explore the diversity of enzymat strategies…

SIMB Natural Products

We attended the 2025 SIMB Natural Product Discovery and Development in the Genomic Era conference. Not only was the conference great, but…

Holiday Party

We have a few fun lab events to celebrate the holiday and end of the semester. We went to the (cold) science…

Welcome to Sara and Victoria!

We are excited to welcome Sara and Victoria to the lab! Sara is starting as a PhD student after completing her M.S….

Safety is #1 and so are We!

Our lab won the inaugural departmental safety award (and pizza party)! Congrats to everyone for promoting a culture of safety. 8 Nov…

Michael Passes Proposal Defense

Congrats to Michael for passing his proposal defense! We had a lab pizza party to celebrate!   05 Nov 2024

PTC Paper Published in Chem

Out now in Chem , we collaborate with the Piel to discover a prenyltransferase+terpene cyclase fusion enzyme that modifies tryptophans residues in…

N-glycosyltransferase Engineering Paper Published

Out now in ACS Catalysis, we develop a chimeric fusion N-glycosyltransferase for targeted and selective peptide modification, especially in vivo. We use…

Summer Lab Party

We celebrated the end of the semester with a group lunch followed by bowling!   25 July 2024

Transciptome Mining Paper Published

We are excited to see our transcriptome mining paper plushied in BJOC as part of the “young investigators in natural products chemistry,…