Early Announcement!
simbhq.org/np/
Together with Brad Bradley Moore, Jaclyn Jaclyn M. Winter, and Alessandra Eustaquio Lab,
We look forward to welcoming you to the 2025 SIMB Natural Product meeting at San Diego!
Keynote speaker Prof. Jennifer Doudna! Doudna Lab

Let's make sake and soy sauce safer!

How Fungi Biosynthesize 3-Nitropropanoic Acid: the Simplest yet Lethal Mycotoxin biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Led by Ph.D Masao Ohashi and Work by Colin Johnson UCLA Chem & Biochem

What is cycloleucine?!
Read our preprint to see what it is and how nature makes it!
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…
Led by Ph.D Masao Ohashi, Collaborated with Nelson Group

I am honored to be the new Editor-in-Chief for SIMB society journal JIMB. Our open access journal has a wide scope covering different areas of biotechnology. We look forward to working with you to publish your latest research results! ⚡️⚡️ academic.oup.com/jimb

Congrats to Chaitan for receiving the Lacey lectureship at Caltech! So happy to see both of my mentors at the same time. Sarafan ChEM-H Caltech

Happen to be on the first ever united flight from LAX to Haneda (HND). United Airlines UA39. So excited to be going back to Japan, UTokyo | 東京大学 and see everyone again!

Congratulations to Hosea, Nelson Group! Wonderful to see Frances Arnold and so many other colleagues and friends at this beautiful event!

#Biosynthesis of AS2077715 & Funiculosin: Pathway Reconstitution & Identification of #Enzymes that Form the All-cis Cyclopentanetetraol Moiety by Yalong Zhang, Eun Bin Go, Bruno Perlatti,Lin Wu,Gerald Bills, Ph.D Masao Ohashi, Yi Tang UCLA Chem & Biochem in J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Looking forward to seeing everyone at #NP2023 . I'll share some new #enzymes that expand the space of products accessible to DNA-encoded #chemistry . #directedevolution

Need an idea for a holiday gift?
Try this new Collab with the GOAT.
From RSC: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/ebo…
From Amazon: tinyurl.com/tcabh47a

A new state-of-the-art tool for microED is now available at the CNSI at UCLA! Located at the U.S. National Science Foundation -funded BioPACIFIC MIP, the Thermo Fisher Spectra 300-C optimizes high-throughput performance for microED at multiple electron beam energies:
bit.ly/cnsi-microED-2…
#cnsiatucla

Discovery and Characterization of a Terpene Biosynthetic Pathway featuring a Norbornene-forming Diels-Alderase | ChemRxiv doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

Another collaboration with the godfather Ken Houk

You don't want to miss this with Nelson Group
It will be the best show at ACS.

acsoncampus.acs.org/events/acs-spr…

Congratulations to Ken Houk at UCLA Chem & Biochem for winning the Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry! At ACS meeting!

It was a lot of fun working with Nelson Group and Lee Joon (LJ) Kim at UCLA Chem & Biochem on this project!

Great working with Ken Houk Garg Lab UCLA and fantastic students from UCLA Chem & Biochem on this work. Also thanks to Zhou lab from SIOC! Scientific collaboration has no borders!
nature.com/articles/s4158…

Forbes article on our $47M Series A with The Column Group, 8VC, Two Sigma Ventures forbes.com/sites/leahrose… Help us sequence the world!

Good luck Yang Hai @UCSB_chemistry, looking forward to working with you through BioPACIFIC MIP.

Biosynthesis of the fungal glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase inhibitor heptelidic acid and mechanism of self-resistance - now published in Chemical Science pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Great to be part of this! Thank you Heather D Maynard for getting me involved!