Preprint alert!! 🎉 Ever struggle to activate a carrier protein? Led by Kenneth Hsu (Haverford '25), the Charkoudian Lab unearthed a novel PPTase from Dictyobacter vulcani 🌋 with remarkable promiscuity (in our case, better than Sfp & AcpS)! Grateful to be an alum of this phenomenal research team 💗

New preprint 🥳 the first of my PhD! We applied metabolic engineering🦠, semi-synthesis👩‍🔬, and biocatalysis🧪 to access & improve the potency of the antimalarial natural product (-)-premarineosin A. I'm so lucky to work with such a creative, interdisciplinary, and fun team that made this all possible!

Are you working on natural products? We’ve just released version 4.0 of the MIBiG data standard and repository! It now includes 3059 biosynthetic gene clusters, thanks to the combined efforts of 288 expert contributors. A thread: (1/8) academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...