BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”

I am off to find some aphids for my catnip fix... pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Me referring to humans: I’m not sure how this person identifies, I will just use they/them pronouns. Gender is a construct anyway. Me seeing a cat: Omg, do you think it’s a girl or a boy? I NEED TO KNOW

We are very proud that our director Sarah O'Connor O'Connor Lab has been awarded the #LeibnizPreis 2023. Congratulations to all awardees!

Engineering the Biosynthesis of Late-Stage Vinblastine Precursors Precondylocarpine Acetate, Catharanthine, Tabersonine in Nicotiana benthamiana | ACS Synthetic Biology. Congratulations Dagny, Prashant, Lorenzo and Benke! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Congratulations to our grad students Brooke @planbiocore and Benedikt FrankeLab on their first review article! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #plantspecializedmetabolism, #genediscovery, #yeast, #benth

Jedzcie ile chcecie. U nas i tak wszystko spalicie. 😉

Tuning plant promoters using a simple split luciferase method for quantifying transcription factor binding affinity biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super happy to see our group's first major work now published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Stellar team work by two great PhD students Ling Chuang and @FlyerShenyu. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Green news, a green optogenetic switch to control protein-protein interaction is finally here! Nature Methods ▶️ Engineering of bidirectional, cyanobacteriochrome-based light-inducible dimers (BICYCL)s nature.com/articles/s4159…

A Suite of Constitutive Promoters for Tuning Gene Expression in Plants pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

We've developed a method to site-specifically introduce chemical modifications *anywhere* on a plasmid 💪 We used this to generate light-activated plasmids 🔦🧬🧪🧫! Preprint led by Khoa Chung Oxford Chemistry UCL Chemistry SynBio CDT tinyurl.com/5fdevtjc

Finally published🎉 Check out our latest publication in collaboration with the group of @nicolabiologist 👇^KV

Great study led by Prashant Sonawane with Dagny Grzech and colleagues from Israel and the UK and others from O'Connor Lab demonstrates how nitrogen gets into the bitter substances of Solanum plants. Read the press release: ice.mpg.de/479921/PR_Grze… Lichman Lab Dagny

Very happy to finally share our findings on the GAME12 transaminase- the key enzyme of steroidal glycoalkaloid biosynthesis. prashant O'Connor Lab AsaphAharoniLab Lichman Lab nature.com/articles/s4158…

Excited to share our preprint about the discovery of a gene cluster for withanolide biosynthesis and elucidation of the first three oxidative steps. 🌿Fantastic team effort with Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Boas Pucker @HeretschPhilipp Marco Herde and Claus-Peter Witte. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In Science Magazine, Marianna Boccia, prashant et al. from the O'Connor Lab present a crucial protein for the biosynthesis of steroidal glycoalkaloids and saponins in Solanum and demonstrate the ecological role of steroidal saponins in plant defense. ice.mpg.de/481730/PR_Bocc…

Super excited to share our new publication in Science Magazine...Brilliant work done by our PhD student Marianna Boccia...Amazing support from O'Connor Lab and Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology...