News – Butcher Research Group

May, 2022: Xiang (Jimmy) Li is selected as a 2022 Crow Summer Fellow. Congrats Xiang!
May, 2022: Subhradeep Bhar obtains his PhD in Chemistry at UF. Congratulations Deep and good luck in Boston!
December, 2021: Nasser Faghih obtains his PhD in Chemistry at UF. 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 as a 2021 Howard and Brenda Sheridan Summer Fellow. 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.