Grounds for Science is BACK at Cafenated Coffee Co. in Berkeley on Oct. 4 at 5:30 PM! 😻☕️ Ft. TWO Ph.D. Candidates from College of Chemistry—Dr. Anneliese 💖💜💙 of Miller Lab & Amanda Bischoff of Francis Group 🧪! REG: Grounds-Oct-2022.eventbrite.com/?aff=Twitter

“As soon as I heard her name in Swedish, I sent it, and I got an emoji back immediately — the shocked face emoji 😱. She’s a total rock star, and this is well deserved.”

Join us Nov 17 | 1:00pm PST for a talk that will light up your Thanksgiving dinner with chemistry. Our "foodolgoist" Prof. Matt Francis Francis Group 🧪 will discuss some of the chemistry behind your Thanksgiving favorites. Need to register to attend. bit.ly/3CzgEz0

Tyrosine or bust!!!

Congrats to Paige and the team---Excited to share our latest application of fitness landscaping!

Congrats to Kate Dolph on an excellent Graduate Research Seminar! Kate is a 2nd-year PhD student with the group studying the sequence space of IDP-based surfactants for drug delivery.

Hot off the presses, some antibody modification chemistry with our colleagues at Merck and the Toste Group! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Another Graduate Research Seminar in the books - Congrats to Hannah Martin Hannah Martin on a great talk! Hannah is a 2nd-year in the group studying vaccine design for malignant gliomas.

Thrilled to see this paper online! The hystersis enthusiasm was 💯 initiated by Supraja, and we really enjoyed working with my former Francis Group 🧪 colleague, obermeyergroup.

Chem Bio in the Bay Area (CBBA) day this weekend featuring a talk on MS2 fitness landscaping from Paige Pistono and the lab meeting Carolyn Bertozzi 😎

✨ New C-GEM paper in ACS Central Science! Aminobenzoic Acid Derivatives Obstruct Induced Fit in the Catalytic Center of the Ribosome Congrats to @chon_majumdar, twitterless Josh, Francis Group 🧪, Schepartz Lab, and @cate_lab on a beautiful collaboration pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Come check out our work in the Francis Lab at #ACSFall2023! 🌁🏙🧪🧫

Our colleagues in the degrader field never run out of puns, do they? #ACSFall2023

Check out our review on the current state of biocatalysis. Congrats to the authors. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Happy to share that my final paper from grad school is out in Biochemistry! We investigate how mutations at VLP assembly interfaces affect particle size, stability, and biological function. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

New preprint: "Ribosomal Synthesis of Ketone-containing Peptide Backbone via O to C Acyl Shift" chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi… NSF Center for Genetically Encoded Materials Carly Schissel U.S. National Science Foundation Francis Group 🧪 College of Chemistry Schepartz Lab