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#Biosynthesis of AS2077715 & Funiculosin: Pathway Reconstitution & Identification of #Enzymes that Form the All-cis Cyclopentanetetraol Moiety by Yalong Zhang, Eun Bin Go, Bruno Perlatti,Lin Wu,Gerald Bills, Ph.D Masao Ohashi, Yi Tang UCLA Chem & Biochem in J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Congratulations to Hosea, Nelson Group! Wonderful to see Frances Arnold and so many other colleagues and friends at this beautiful event!

Happen to be on the first ever united flight from LAX to Haneda (HND). United Airlines UA39. So excited to be going back to Japan, UTokyo | 東京大学 and see everyone again!

Congrats to Chaitan for receiving the Lacey lectureship at Caltech! So happy to see both of my mentors at the same time. Sarafan ChEM-H Caltech

I am honored to be the new Editor-in-Chief for SIMB society journal JIMB. Our open access journal has a wide scope covering different areas of biotechnology. We look forward to working with you to publish your latest research results! ⚡️⚡️ academic.oup.com/jimb

What is cycloleucine?! Read our preprint to see what it is and how nature makes it! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi… Led by Ph.D Masao Ohashi, Collaborated with Nelson Group

Let's make sake and soy sauce safer! How Fungi Biosynthesize 3-Nitropropanoic Acid: the Simplest yet Lethal Mycotoxin biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Led by Ph.D Masao Ohashi and Work by Colin Johnson UCLA Chem & Biochem

Early Announcement! simbhq.org/np/ Together with Brad Bradley Moore, Jaclyn Jaclyn M. Winter, and Alessandra Eustaquio Lab, We look forward to welcoming you to the 2025 SIMB Natural Product meeting at San Diego! Keynote speaker Prof. Jennifer Doudna! @doudna_lab

A challenging collab with Garg Lab UCLA. Always amazed at what nature can make with simple building blocks! Fragment-Guided Genome Mining of Octacyclic Cyclophane Alkaloids from Fungi pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

We are waiting for you in San Diego for the SIMB Natural Product Conference in Jan 5-8, 2025! simbhq.org/np/ Bradley Moore Eustaquio Lab Jaclyn M. Winter A great line up of 46 speakers (simbhq.org/np/program/) including @doudna_lab. Poster sessions with cash prizes!

Really excited to preprint our work on the biosynthesis of E-64 and the characterization of powerful amide-bond forming enzymes. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Checkout the JIMB issue on Natural Products academic.oup.com/jimb/pages/spe… Thank you authors! Marnix Medema Gilles van Wezel 💙💛 Michael Smanski, Byung-Kwan Cho Hans Renata Shen Lab Dong-Chan Oh, Eustaquio Lab @gerryiidr Hsiao-Ching Lin, Yousong Ding, Rudolf Lab Parkinson Laboratory and Ikuro Abe!

Don's miss upcoming deadlines! Submit your abstract now for the 5th International Conference on Natural Products Discovery and Development in the Genomic Era. Plus, be sure to register by December 9th to avoid the higher, on-site rates in January! #NP2025 buff.ly/3YQNFBO

Registration deadline for the SIMB Natural Product meeting (Jan 5-9, 2025) is December 9th. In addition to our 45 speakers, there are workshops by Pieter Dorrestein on GNPS - UC San Diego and Joint Genome Institute on genome mining! simbhq.org/np/

Join us at UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering!! We are hiring four assistant professors! UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Yuzhang Li 李煜章 Carlos G. Morales-Guio

Registration for 5th International Conference on Natural Product Discovery and Development in the Genomic Era is now open! Collect your registration materials in the Coronado Foyer. If you haven't signed up in advance, you can register on-site. buff.ly/4h5eQ3n #NP2025

In a year with so little to cheer about so far, I am happy to share our manuscript on a copper-dependent halogenase. Unbelievable effort by GS Yorick Chiang and Scientist Ph.D Masao Ohashi at UCLA Chem & Biochem UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering . Thank you to all collaborators and @NIGMS. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Iminium catalysis in natural Diels–Alderase bit.ly/3CFnczW

Join us TODAY for the UCLA Research Showcase on 3/24, 5-7 pm at the American Chemical Society Spring Meeting in San Diego. Meet UCLA community members, explore posters, discuss science, and enjoy refreshments. All ACS meeting attendees are welcome!

Happy to share two recent publications on amide bonding forming enzymes in fungal natural product biosynthesis. UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and UCLA Chem & Biochem nature.com/articles/s4158… pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…