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Thrilled to share our latest enzyme engineering in ACS Chemical Biology! We improved an enzyme involved in #polyketide starter unit biosynthesis and used it to generate polyketide acceptor substrates in vitro. Kudos to Jared and the team of authors! ACS Publications

🔬 At UC San Diego, scientists like Brad Moore–Distinguished Professor at Scripps Oceanography and UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy–are leading the charge to source and develop compounds from nature that are being used to develop the next generation of medicines. 🧵⬇️

Please share this letter from the Coalition for the Life Sciences re termination of ongoing NIH grants. It's a breach of trust betw researchers and govt, bad for trainees, potentially fatal for patients in clinical trials, and diminishes US science. coalitionforlifesciences.org/cls-calls-on-t…

New paper on co-zorbs from my lab. Co-zorbs seem to be a new way for bacteria to get around. Magesh, et al. (2025). Co-zorbs: Motile, multispecies biofilms aid transport of diverse bacterial species. PNAS, 122(6), e2417327122. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Thrilled to learn that our polyketide review article is ranked within the top 10% of most-viewed papers published by ChemBioChem in 2023!

.@umncvm welcomed Dr. Sandra Loesgen (Sandra Loesgen (loesgenlab.bsky.social)) from Whitney Laboratory FLORIDA for a RIDE Seminar on discovering novel compounds from fungi and bacteria. Her global research explores how natural products can lead to therapies for cancer & neurological diseases. z.umn.edu/ad8f

antiSMASH8: The Ocho Manuscript is out! doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk…

Captive-bred axolotl thrives in restored wetlands in Mexico City - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

It is so exciting to be getting started here at the UofT!

Thursday! Episode 92 of #MattersMicrobial! Dr. Valerie DeAnda Torres of the Univ of Florida joined the #QualityQuorum to discuss studying evolution of metabolic pathways in the deep ocean. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! youtu.be/nNcXGmh9CZo?si…

I came to the US as an international student and it changed my entire life — opened so many doors. Harvard ban will impact many US schools as international students will be uncertain about enrolling. Other countries will benefit the most as students now need safer options.

Boston strong

If you are a PhD student in microbial interactions or natural products that is displaced by this political bullshit and looking for a new lab, I have room for one (or potentially two) PhD students in my group in the fall when I move to UW. Feel free to reach out via email.

Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements | Nature Reviews Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4157…

Great to be able to promote the #ISBA2025 Special Collection we are putting together with Microbiology Society - contact me if you wish to submit and thanks also to Microbiology Society for sponsoring the ECR-mentors lunch

Establishing Conserved Biosynthetic Gene Clusters of the Phylum Myxococcota biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

GATOR-GC is out at Nucleic Acids Res !!Check out our new targeted genome mining tool featuring a novel similarity metric to efficiently compare and deduplicate gene clusters. We uncover biosynthetic diversity missed by other genome mining tools academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…

This is how we started implementing the similarity metric (GATOR Focal Scores) and how it actually turned out

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