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- May 2024: Congratulations to graduate student Xinhui Kou, who has been selected as the 2024 Stasch Summer Fellow!
- May 2024: Congratulations to graduate student Weijie Xu, who has been selected as a 2024 Patricia A. Fish Summer Fellow!
- March 2024: Graduate student Xinhui Kou presents her work at the Spring ACS Meeting in New Orleans.
- March 2024: Rebecca presents the lab’s work at a symposium on natural products from animals and higher eukaryotes at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s Annual Meeting in San Antonio.
- March 2024: Graduate student Dilip Prajapati has won a prestigious summer internship at Regeneron in analytical chemistry and biotherapeutics development. Congrats Dilip!
- December, 2023: Return of the Holiday Party!
- December, 2023: Xiang (Jimmy) Li graduates from the lab with his PhD. Congrats Xiang!
- November, 2023: Rebecca presents the lab’s work at John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK.
- October, 2023: A former graduate student in the lab, Xinxing Zhang, just started his new faculty position at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Congrats Xinxing!
- August, 2023: Kevin Mai graduates from the lab with his PhD. Congrats Kevin!
- May, 2023: Matthew Gordon graduates from the lab with his PhD. Congrats Matthew and good luck in Germany!
- June, 2023: Return of the River Party!
- May, 2023: Kevin Mai was selected for a 2023 Crow Summer Fellowship. Congrats Kevin!
- May, 2022: Xiang (Jimmy) Li is selected for a 2022 Crow Summer Fellowship. Congrats Xiang!
- May, 2022: Subhradeep Bhar graduates from the lab with his PhD. Congratulations Deep and good luck in Boston!
- December, 2021: Nasser Faghih graduates from the lab with his PhD. Congratulations Nasser and good luck in Chicago!
- December, 2021: Our NIH MIRA grant is awarded so that we can continue our NIGMS-supported work.
- October, 2021: Our NSF grant is awarded on a family of enzymes that modify nematode pheromones.
- May, 2021: 5th year graduate student, Deep Bhar, is selected for a 2021 Sheridan Summer Fellowship. This award will support Deep’s summer research. Congrats Deep!
- February, 2021: Xinxing Zhang, a former PhD graduate of the lab, receives a K99 award from the NIH to support his transition to becoming an independent faculty member. Congrats Xinxing!
- June, 2020: Reopening. The lab reopens after a two-month COVID shutdown. Hurray!!!
- March, 2020: Rebecca presents a webinar for the New York Academy of Sciences meeting, Natural Products: From discovery to therapeutic applications.
- August, 2019: Matt is recognized for his work as a TA at the Annual Departmental Meeting! Matt helped create a new undergrad lab in beta-lactamase biochemistry and Streptomyces natural products.
- July, 2019: Rebecca presents the lab’s work at SIMB’s Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
- June, 2019: Rebecca presents the lab’s work at the International C. elegans Meeting at UCLA.
- May, 4, 2019: Joint Group River Party! May the fourth be with you!
- April, 2019: Rebecca presents the lab’s work at a Symposium on Signaling between Organisms the Spring ACS Meeting
- March, 2019: Likui starts a postdoc position in Cori Bargmann’s group at Rockefeller University. Congrats Likui!
- December, 2018: Joint Group Holiday Party!
- December, 2018: Likui graduates with his PhD. Congrats Likui!
- July, 2018: Rebecca presents the lab’s work at the American Society of Pharmacognosy Annual Meeting in Lexington, KY.
- July, 2018: Rebecca presents the lab’s work at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, United Kingdom
- May, 2018: Rebecca presents the lab’s work at the Canadian Chemistry Conference in Edmonton, Canada.
- April, 2018: Rebecca presents the lab’s work at the Max Plank Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany.
- March, 2018: Joint Group River Party 2018!
- January, 2018: Rebecca presents the lab’s work at the 2nd International Conference on Natural Product Discovery and Development in the Genomic Era in Clearwater, FL.
- December, 2017: Joint Group Holiday Party!
- October, 2017: New website. Our new group website launches.
- September, 2017: Rebecca is promoted! Rebecca is promoted to associate professor with tenure.
- August, 2017: Yuting and Yue graduate! Congratulations to two new PhD’s!
- April, 2017: Rebecca presents the lab’s work at the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.
- December, 2016: Joint Group Holiday Party!
- June, 2016: Likui receives the Ruegamer Award in Biochemistry. Congrats Likui!
- January, 2016: Rebecca receives a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.