COSY is an enzyme that plants use to make agriculturally and medicinally important molecules, called coumarins. But how does it work? Graduate student Colin Y. Kim in the Weng lab solved this plant chemistry puzzle after scouring old research papers for clues: wi.mit.edu/news/tracing-p…

🧩 🌱 Whitehead Institute graduate student Colin Kim (Colin Y. Kim) is working to solve the scientific puzzle of how coumarin synthase (COSY), an enzyme that plants use to make agriculturally and medicinally important molecules called #coumarins, does its job. bit.ly/3YvE0yu

Congratulations Joseph Kreitz ! So exciting to see this in publication 🤩

Happy to share our latest MS/MS prediction model, ICEBERG. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2304.13136 Code: github.com/samgoldman97/m… Like our prev. work, ICEBERG is a two step model, but rather than first generating potential subformula, ICEBERG generates chemical substructures. 1/5

Prof Christopher A. Voigt will be the next head of the MIT Department of Biological Engineering. Learn more about Prof Voigt at ow.ly/ZkVT50OSVBp Christopher Voigt

Our work on the biosynthesis of huperzine A, a neuroactive alkaloid from clubmosses, is now published in nature! Beyond pathway elucidation, we make the surprising discovery that carbonic anhydrase-like enzymes are crucial in alkaloid scaffold formation. nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Really enjoyed meeting and chatting science with so many brilliant natural product synthetic biologists Fusion Conferences, thank you!!

My first paper from PhD is out! Polyamines are abundant metabolites that are essential for life. They extend lifespan and play a critical role in many cool processes (see below!). We made a genetically encoded fluorescent reporter for polyamines. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

MCB Researchers Awarded Prestigious NSF Fellowships Ryan Nett Colin Y. Kim Harvard FAS Postdoc Association Rachelle Gaudet Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Harvard University Herbaria Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University mcb.harvard.edu/department/new…

Congratulations to BE PhD Program alum Colin Kim Colin Y. Kim

Loranzie Rogers and Colin Kim Chosen as Hanna H. Gray Fellows by HHMI Colin Y. Kim Loranzie Rogers Nicholas Bellono Ryan Nett María Angélica Bravo Núñez Zuri Sullivan @zombieflied Rachelle Gaudet HHMI Harvard University mcb.harvard.edu/department/new…

Incredibly proud of Dr. Colin Kim (Colin Y. Kim) for being selected as a Hanna Gray Fellow - well deserved! I'm very grateful for everything he does as a part of my lab group. Congrats!!!

Meet the newly named #HannaGrayFellows! 👋 “HHMI is committed to investing in scientists who dare to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our lifetime,” said HHMI Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer Leslie Vosshall. “Our Hanna Gray Fellows are not only exceptional

Postdoc Spotlight: Loranzie Rogers [Bellono Lab] mcb.harvard.edu/department/new… Loranzie Rogers Nicholas Bellono Rachelle Gaudet @zombieflied Ryan Nett

Postdoc Spotlight: Colin Kim Colin Y. Kim Ryan Nett Rachelle Gaudet @zombieflied Nicholas Bellono Loranzie Rogers Jing-Ke Weng Amgen Foundation mcb.harvard.edu/department/new…

Recognizing Excellence in Mentorship: 2025 MCB Mentorship Award Recipients Claire Ang Kara McKinley Colin Y. Kim Amanda Whipple Ryan Nett Rachelle Gaudet Harvard Griffin GSAS HSCRB Harvard University mcb.harvard.edu/department/new…

Today in nature we report a systematic strategy to activate & identify gene sets in plants. We identify 8 new genes from the yew tree's Taxol biosynthetic pathway, enabling us to engineer tobacco with 17- & 20-gene pathways to Taxol precursors baccatin III and dBz-deoxy-Taxol. a