
ARUNIKA EKANAYAKE
@arunikaekanaya1
🇱🇰 PhD @uscchemistry 🇺🇸
Postdoc in @derda_lab 🇨🇦 Electrophiles and GE peptide libraries
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13-08-2018 20:21:01
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What happens when you jam a dyine rod into a tri-peptide? Excited to communicate the hard work of Zoë, Tony, Sorina Chiorean and collaborators including Johan Rosengren ForliLab! #peptide #antibiotics chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…


I don't tweet often, but when I do, it's mostly to fangirl about kick@$$ women in science doing incredible research 😍 Huge congrats to Zoë Adams from The Dawson Group for pushing this through to the finish line 👏🏼 #WeveBeenDiyneToShareThis #MayBeBiasedButZoëIsAwesome

Freshly signed certificates waiting to be awarded! @KatieK94 & I were blown away by the phenomenal research shared this weekend at the Gordon Research Conferences Peptides GRS - can't wait to see what these bright young investigators continue to contribute to our #peptide community 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼


Had an amazing week full to the brim with all kinds of peptide science! Especially enjoyed getting to know the GRS crew and reuniting with PenteluteLab past and present Joseph S Brown and Nina Hartrampf #peptides


Our latest work on tunable electrochemical peptide modifications is out today in Angewandte Chemie!⚡️Big congrats to PhD student Dhanya Dhanya for leading this joint ANU Research School of Chemistry effort between Connal Group and Malins Lab! Check out the article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…


Check out our latest review paper, "Engineering the Enzyme Toolbox to Tailor Glycosylation in Small Molecule Natural Products and Protein Biologics" by Sara Ouadhi, Dulce Valdez, Ifthiha Mohideen, and me! 🎉 Published in PEDS: Protein Engineering, Design & Selection doi.org/10.1093/protei… #glycotime


With the start of the new year, our lab has a new postdoc opening! (>$65-75K salary + benefits based on experience). Past research in nanomedicine, gene delivery, and/or in vivo is a plus. Email your CV to [email protected]. Retweets appreciated. TIA! ☀️


Proud to see Frontier Medicines announce FMC-376, a covalent inhibitor that directly, rapidly, and completely blocks both active and inactive forms of KRAS G12C to overcome non-response and resistance seen with prior generation KRAS G12C inhibitors! Yay!! globenewswire.com/news-release/2…


.Boston College Chemistry's Eranthie Weerapana and Abhishek Chatterjee will receive $1.2 million from the Allen Institute, which supports early-stage research with the potential to reinvent entire fields as 2022 Distinguished Investigators. on.bc.edu/3W8CwJ9


Great paper by Daniel Bak and Eranthie Weerapana in Nature Chemical Biology. They established the use of isoTOP-ABPP to study the occupancy of iron in Fe-S clusters proteome-wide. Interesting applications to identify new Fe-S proteins and study their biogenesis. doi.org/10.1038/s41589…



Team headed by Eric Underbakke Iowa State University used H/D exchange mass spectrometry to dissect the conformational dynamics of the activation complex of non-receptor tyrosine kinase Pyk2 engaged with Src Tania Palhano @un_eric cell.com/structure/full…



Excited to have this review by the group of Chao Zhang in the Isr. J. Chem. special issue honoring Ben Cravatt's Wolf Prize. They describe covalent ligand discovery by target-focused methods as well as global profiling against a complex proteome. doi.org/10.1002/ijch.2…



So glad that I got to invite May Khanna for the Frontiers in peptides and proteins session organized by Canadian Peptide Protein Community at #CSC2023