Move over Bruce Springsteen and Tony Soprano, New Jersey has a new boss and it's name is Streptomyces griseus: the-scientist.com/news-opinion/n…

I look forward to working with my fellow faculty colleagues, staff and upper administration to help our Department grow in both numbers and in stature.

Interesting new study in Cell. A large number of the products of these "small novel genes" look to be RiPPs.

Proud to be an alum of the @Christiansonlab.

Interesting study from Gerry Wright and colleagues on the ancient, evolutionary relationship between glycopeptide antibiotic biosynthesis and resistance in Actinobacteria.. labroots.com/trending/micro…

Awesome work from my colleague Bill Metcalf and his former postdocs Emily Parkinson Laboratory, and with Annette, Andrew, and Kou-San.

I am graced by the presence of our newest Associate Professors. Congratulations to both!!

Drug resistance Klebsiella limit antibiotic entry by constricting the pore of an outer membrane protein drugtargetreview.com/news/48431/how…

Awesome work for the Piel lab on the characterization of two #RiPPs from cultivatable organisms and from a metagenome.

Great new review article from the Moore lab on methods for heterologous expression of microbial natural products.

Work from Gerry Wright's group showing that deleting gene cluster for common antibiotics resulted in identification of new antibiotics. phys.org/news/2019-09-a… via Phys.org

The economic realities of new antibiotics innovationtoronto.com/2019/10/a-chil…

Simply amazing work from Mohamed Donia's lab at Princeton

ChemBioChem #ChemBioTalents (bit.ly/ChemBioTalents): Bo Li UNC-Chapel Hill. The research Bo Li Lab @ UNC focuses on the synthesis & discovery of natural products combining chemical biology, enzyme chemistry, & microbiology. Read their recent work here: doi.org/10.1002/cbic.2…

Here is all the (c)RAGE in enabling secondary metabolite production from biosynthetic clusters in undomesticated bacteria sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/…

"We must redouble our efforts to strengthen infection control procedures in hospitals to reduce the spread of resistant microbes." bit.ly/32q4kN9

Conformational dynamics in NRPS dimodules science.sciencemag.org/content/366/64…

Potential antibiotic alternative discovered within bacteria drugtargetreview.com/news/51780/pot…

Here's some work from our lab on leader peptide recognition during the biosynthesis of #RiPPs pnas.org/content/early/…

Wow! Congratulations to my colleagues Emad Tajkhorshid, Aleksei Aksimentiev and the late Klaus Schulten for the paper in Cell.