Excited as our RAMS (Regolith Adaptive Modification Systems) team presents at the NIAC symposium! Sarbajit Banerjee Natalia Rivera Nicholas Cool @WhiteyCheng Find our poster here web.cvent.com/event/7ac47838… NASA NASA Technology

Tadhg Begley (Chemistry Department) & @Drennan_Lab are organizing the #ASBMB2022 session on enzymology at #ExpBio. They’re inviting “all who are fascinated by how enzymes can use some newly discovered tricks ... & dynamic movements to carry out their chemistry.” asbmb.org/asbmb-today/sc…

Happy to share how the #cyanotoxin aetokthonotoxin is made by toxic freshwater Cyanobacteria. Amazing enzyme work by Sanjoy Adak April Lukowski Rebecca Schafer in J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Please also check out an associated video youtu.be/hFTaP4QlBSo that demonstrates our ongoing NASA #NIAC research on Regolith Adaptive Modification System (RAMS) concept for creating landing pads which support our proposed ideas in the article in Trends in Chemistry

Researchers have determined the biosynthetic pathway for a cyanobacterial toxin known as aetokthonotoxin (AETX). The toxin is made of two tryptophan molecules that are functionalized and then coupled. fal.cn/3mjqA

Excited to share a manuscript from my lab! Fantastic work by graduate students Jason, Sarah Sarah Altman and the entire team Chemistry at Illinois @BeckmanInst! Engineering artificial photosynthetic life-forms through endosymbiosis disq.us/t/475ytp3

Well worth sharing this again. An absolute treasure. Evans' Chem 206 (Advanced/Graduate Organic) notes

Coral terpene biosynthesis has fascinated me for a decade. Corals are animals, and no animals besides a few insects had been proven to produce terpenes besides steroids. Corals are also complex holobionts; maybe it was symbiotic dinoflagellates or bacteria producing them (1/6)

It was fun working with @Orgoogro on this where we achieved near room temperature alkane dehydrogenation by (Brookphos)Ir and displayed the role of sacrificial hydrogen acceptor. Also, my first contribution to the scientific world.

I will be presenting my work at the #ACSSpring2023 Graduate Student Symposium @ACS_DivBioChem. Please stop by the Cabinet (The Westin) if are at #ACSIndy

Our new preprint is online! I am really proud of the team to share our work on #meroterpenoids from #cyanobacteria. Genome mining, heterologous expression, and other #omics. Fun collab between Oregon State COP University of Hawaii at Manoa and #OSUBiochemsitryBiophysics chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Congratulations Anita for an outstanding PhD. This was 10 years in the making and you were brilliant at every step. Thrilled to witness your continued success as you embark on your next endeavor.

Do check this out, my first author paper from grad school.

Happy to share that I have successfully defended my PhD thesis. Thank you Anita You have been a great support all along !!

Phosphomethylpyrimidine Synthase (ThiC): Trapping of Five Intermediates Provides Mechanistic Insights on a Complex Radical Cascade Reaction in Thiamin Biosynthesis NEW #ASAP by Tadhg Begley & colleagues at Chemistry Department Read it here: go.acs.org/9Qe

Joseph Manero Try a whole year of that and then have the same things called against you multiple times in the game and then you have a basic understanding of how we felt