Francisco Lobos
@flobosg
Many people asked what was behind this cultural shift towards industry in academia. Decided to dig into the latest U.S. National Science Foundation data on sources of R&D funding to find out. The answer is pretty shocking!
My primary PhD project with Frances Arnold at Caltech is out now in Nature Chemical Biology! Here we show that the β-subunit of tryptophan synthase (TrpB) is a latent *tyrosine* synthase (TyrS), capable of regioselective and irreversible alkylation of phenols to tyrosines. Read more below: