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Recipe for Color Changing Slime 140 g (4 oz) Elmer’s glue. Use the regular Elmer’s school glue. Anything else does not seem…
Ayoola proposal defense
Congratulations to Ayoola for passing his dissertation proposal defense! 18 April 2023
Sanath proposal Defense
Congratulations to Sanath for passing his dissertation proposal defense! 15 March 2023
SIMB Conference
We had an awesome time at the SIMB: Natural products conference in San Diego. Not only did we get to hear about…
Holiday Party
We had a fun time at the annual Chekan lab holiday party. We did a potluck with foods from all over the…
Spotlight and Highlights Published
Congrats to Sanath for writing up a spotlight for Angewedte Chemie on the recently published study on the biosynthesis of strychnine by…
Plant Cyclic Peptide Biosynthesis Paper Published!
Our paper on the biosynthesis of cyclopeptide alkaloids and related plant side chain cross-linked cyclopeptides is out now in Angewandte Chemie International…
Welcome to Draco!
We are excited to welcome Draco to the lab! He graduated from UNCG in Spring 2022 and decided to continue on to…
Three Successful Defenses!
Our lab has been filled with success in the last few weeks! Ethan defended his master’s thesis, Keelie defended her PhD proposal…
Plant Cyclic Peptide Biosynthesis Preprint
Check out our first paper up on biorXiv now! Widely Distributed Biosynthetic Cassette Is Responsible for Diverse Plant Side-Chain-Cross-Linked Cyclopeptides https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.15.507631v1 Plant…
