🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Lead researcher Matthias Kretschmer & team from the Kronstad Lab & BrumerLab are cracking the code for a cure to “corn smut” (Ustilago maydis). 🌽🔬 Learn more about their groundbreaking research and recent publication in Science Magazine: bit.ly/3mC3F7Z

A nice way to end the week: Yann & Maria Cleveland's capstone paper from their time in the lab is out today in ACS Catalysis. Yann's original vision plus a little scientific serendipity made this a pretty cool story. Michael Smith Labs UBC Chemistry UBC BioProducts Institute doi.org/10.1021/acscat…

Recently published work 👇by us BBF_Marseille together with BrumerLab for those interested in characterizing/dectecting galactose oxydase activity ! Special Thanks to first authors Eden Kaddouch and Maria Cleveland ! INRAE_International INRAE Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur @_3BCAR Michael Smith Labs pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Our new paper is out! 植物病原糸状菌の形態形成と感染適応戦略 : Science Advances 2022 blog.livedoor.jp/beachan_/archi…

How can we protect food crops from #fungal diseases? Researchers including Jean-Guy Berrin and Yasuyuki Kubo have identified a pair of enzymes that primes fungal pathogens for plant infection that could open new avenues for preventing disease and protecting crops. scim.ag/Yy

#PR_INRAE🧐A pathogenic fungus which smells of lemon? 🍄🍋This unlikely duo is the basis for a major discovery on the toxicity of a crop pest #agroecology ▶️url.inrae.fr/3vzuTk9

Proud to be part of this stellar work led by our colleagues BBF_Marseille (Jean-Guy Berrin, Lafond Michael, Bastien Bissaro) and Yasuyuki Kubo on the critical role of a Copper Radical Oxidase/Peroxidase enzyme pair in fungal phytopathogenesis.

Never heard of Copper Radical Oxidases before? Check out our new review from Michael Smith Labs in #EssaysinBiochemistry (Portland Press) as a primer. These enzymes have a deep biochemical/mechanistic history and newfound roles in fungal, bacterial, & plant biology: doi.org/10.1042/EBC202…

Applications OPEN for a great conference! Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes for Glycan Conversions grc.org/carbohydrate-a… Lots of opportunities for talks from grad students and postdocs! Don't forget to apply to the associated GRC as well!

#enzyme_engineering on Fungal Copper Radical Oxidases Work led by Lafond Michael Radka Koncitikova in collab with BrumerLab Victor Guallar FEBS Press febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fe… #ANR BBF_Marseille @univamu INRAE TRANSFORM FoodBioprodWasteEng @_3BCAR

Yay! The last installment of Hila's endo-glucanase 16 work is out in Plant Direct Journal. Great collab. w/ the Mansfield, Samuels, and Pauly labs. Michael Smith Labs @ubcforestry UBC Botany Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Long story short: We still don't really know what these enzymes do in vivo! doi.org/10.1002/pld3.4…

Great to see another favorite @CAZyDB family, GH31, getting the subfamily treatment, also using Alexander Holm Viborg 's excellent tool, SSNpipe. Kudos to SJ Williams, Nicolas Terrapon, Ethan Goddard-Borger, and team. #SequenceSimilarityNetworks doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.…

Bert & his team called this a pedal bin mechanism... because of the SusD lid opening and closing - as Simon Newstead (Simon Newstead) said in Joshua White's viva "It's more like a flushing toilet!" nature rdcu.be/dd0dy The Astbury Centre @NUBiosciences Wellcome

Check out this special issue on #CAZymes in Biologia, spearheaded by Stefan Janecek, with commentary by Stefan, @BHenrissat (@CAZyDB), and myself: dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11756…

Lots of mentors got a call out in the article but I want to specifically highlight the support from Nicole M Koropatkin @EricCMartens1 Maria Sandkvist @teresa_omeara Matt Foley, PhD Robert Glo13, PhD and all Koropatkin and Martens lab members that made me think of myself as a microbiologist!

Join us next week to hear from the next invited speaker in our MSL seminar series, Dr. Eric Martens! April 17: 3-4pm MSL lecture theatre (room 102) & Zoom Hosted by: Dr. Harry Brumer (BrumerLab) Event details: msl.ubc.ca/event/msl-semi… UBC Dept of Microbiology and Immunology

How eating your oatmeal feeds your #humangutmicrobiome (#Prevotella, #Segatella). Great job by Rosa Lorizolla Cordeiro, Benedikt, and the rest of the team Michael Smith Labs. Thanks also to crystallography guru Filip Van Petegem & quality peer-review Journal of Biological Chemistry.: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.…

Nice to have this collaborative work with Filip Van Petegem showcased by the CanadianLightSource.