Lena Barra
@barra_lena
Chemist with a keen interest in enzymes and natural products. Tenure-Track Professor @unikonstanz
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https://www.chemie.uni-konstanz.de/ag-barra/ 09-12-2021 07:08:21
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Super proud and honored to having received the LUKS teaching award from the students Universität Konstanz! Much looking forward to continue teaching on enzyme chemistry and biocatalytic applications. ☀️
Springtails are great terpene chemists, but can synthesize also other stuff. See our analysis of 23 species in iScience and their unique cuticular chemistry. It needs organic analysis and synthesis to decipher their compounds. International Society of Chemical Ecology https://doi.o10.1016/j.isci.2024.110416
Very happy to share the final chapter of my postdoc time in the Abe group 東京大学 | UTokyo . Wondering how a PLP-dependent enzyme utilizes NAD and SAM as substrates for a (3+2)cycloaddition to construct azaindane natural products? nature.com/articles/s4192…
Congratulations to LOEWE Centre Translational Biodiversity Genomics Prof. Eric Helfrich on his ERC Starting Grant #ERCStG! 👍🎉The production of complex biomolecules by bacteria for use in medicines is the focus of the COMBINE project. European Research Council (ERC) Helfrich Lab Goethe-Universität ProLOEWE Senckenberg Research
Very excited to share that one of the major projects from my postdoc in the wonderful Piel Lab is out now Chem. An amazing collaboration with the Chekan Lab and Sanath Kandy where we characterized RiPPs with polycyclic isoprene moieties🎉 authors.elsevier.com/c/1jjdi8jWHELG…
Delighted that a collaboration with Satish Nair is now online Nature Chemical Biology Nucleobases are common in biology but not in peptides. In this work, a nucleobase-peptide hybrid is generated from a ribosomal precursor peptide via YcaO domain protein catalysis. nature.com/articles/s4158…
Prof. Andreas Marx, President of Universität Jena, receives the Albrecht Kossel Prize from @gdch_aktuell for his interdisciplinary research on #DNA, #RNA and #Proteins. Congratulations! 🥳 ➡️ uni-jena.de/en/274285/andr…
The #BJOC thematic issue on Young investigators in natural products chemistry, biosynthesis, and enzymology is now complete! 31 contributions from young investigators around the world! Check it out! Beilstein-Institut @beilstein-institut.bsky.social beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/series/129
The thematic issue “Young investigators in #naturalproductschemistry, #biosynthesis, and #enzymology” ed. by Jeffrey D. Rudolf, FLORIDA, Lena Barra, Universität Konstanz & Takayoshi Awakawa, RIKEN, is complete. DL the issue PDF with just one click: 👉 beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/series/12… 💎🔓#BJOC
Happy to share our first independent work just out Angewandte Chemie: Natural methyl analogs of central sesquiterpenes widespread in actinobacteria! Exciting enzyme chemistry. Curious why they exist. A hidden "magic methyl effect" in the terpene world? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…
Congratulations Lena and lab Lena Barra! What a beautiful piece of work to start your independent publication record! Very much looking forward to everything to come from your team over the next decades 👍
Im #Förderatlas 2024 DFG public | @[email protected] schneidet die #UniKonstanz erneut hervorragend ab: t1p.de/wu1cp #DFG
Wir gratulieren! Der #UniKonstanz Chemiker Stefan Mecking erhält die aktuelle Reinhart Koselleck-Projektförderung der DFG public | @[email protected] für sein Projekt „Quantifizierung des Bioabbaus von Polyethylen vermittels katalytischer Methoden“. Weiterlesen 👉 t1p.de/oys5s
Pleased to share our latest work: Chimeric cofactors enable methyltransferase-catalyzed prenylation: Chem cell.com/chem/fulltext/… Kudos to @EnzymeNicoCorn, Arne Hoffmann, Pulak Ghosh and x-less coathors 👏🤩👍
