Heemstra lab members Colin Swenson, Hector Argueta-gonzalez, and @sknutso2 along with the @WWAstroChemLab's Hayley Bunn, PhD Emory University earned their headbands today at Tough Mudder full. Woo! #BiomoleculesOnTheMove #GradStudentsOnTheMove #toughmudder

Ran a pretty cool column on a solvatochromic dye this week #FluorescenceFriday #RealTimeChem #PrideMonth

Grad school doesn't always go as planned but I am where I am and after four years I finally submitted my first manuscript!!

Grateful and proud of this publication and the team that helped move it forward. Hopefully more to come soon!

Congrats to Colin Swenson Hector Argueta-gonzalez Arventh for having your work on bilingual biopolymers highlighted in @nature! nature.com/articles/d4158…

Parlez vous protein? Heemstra Lab teach molecules to speak both nucleic acid and protein languages simultaneously Colin Swenson Jen Heemstra cen.acs.org/biological-che…

Check out my latest paper as part of the ISMS(ISMS) special issue Chemistry@Adelaide Uni of Adelaide Emory Chemistry Emory University JMU Australian Synchrotron pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

Happy #FluorescenceFriday from Tewoderos Ayele, PhD of the Heemstra Lab!

Sometimes we Heemstra Lab members produce beautiful colors for #FluorescenceFriday. Other times Colin Swenson makes this terrifying blob. What do you think it is?

In this Feature Article, Jen Heemstra & Colin Swenson highlight the ability of peptide nucleic acids as peptide mimics, and their untapped potential to encode information in the amino acid sequence 😎 Interested? Read it here ➡️ ow.ly/lnoP50ybKRy

Excited to finally share our latest work out in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! We repurposed an endonuclease enzyme to bind and enrich A-to-I edited RNAs prior to sequencing and doubled our sensitivity. Looking forward to using EndoVIPER-seq to answer new questions! #WeDidIt pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

When your roommates are your lab mates and your office mates, you become quarantine mates Tewoderos Ayele, PhD Steve Knutson Heemstra Lab

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Bit delayed; 2020 was a rough year but we still managed to get out a paper, go check it out! Laser-Induced Chemistry Observed during 248 nm Vacuum Ultraviolet Photolysis of an O3 and CH3NH2 Mixture pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Darts and snacks in the city with the lab. Lots to celebrate as we head into academic yr, not the least of which being recently granted F32 and T32 for Colin Swenson and Olivia Laxton.

Excited to share our work on synthetic,‘artificial’ transcription factors. We present one solution to design non-natural, high affinity, specific and stable synthetic transcriptional repressors (STRs) that compete with MYC or other bHLH TFs for DNA binding nature.com/articles/s4158…

Take a break from doomscrolling and read up on everything you ever wanted to know about Tackling Undruggable Targets with Designer Peptidomimetics and Synthetic Biologics. Fun writing this with Colin Swenson, Guna and Debbie in my lab! pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

That feeling when you slide into your fantasy playoffs x.com/BleacherReport…