I’m sooooo excited to share with you the Bibel lab (in collaboration with the Berndsen lab @kcat-km.bsky.social)’s first preprint! Biophysical and enzymatic comparison of Bacillus safensis and Bacillus subtilis malate dehydrogenase (MDH) enzymes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hey #chemsky!⚗️🧪 Our REU program is accepting applications! Our program covers all areas of chemistry. We'd love to read your application! Info: www.jmu.edu/chemistry/re... App: form.jotform.com/253503904968...

Published some cool papers in 2025 (1/3): Collaborated with some organic chemists to help explain some interesting results in borate-ester synthesis Takeaway from computation: Conformational entropy plays a big role! #ChemSky #UnderGradResearch pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Published some cool papers in 2025 (2/3): Collaborated with a biology DBER expert as well as some chemist colleagues to describe our chemistry REU program, which integrates Deaf/Hard-of-hearing and hearing students #ChemSky #UndergradResearch www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...

The MCC is a great community of teacher-scholars! If you are interested in mixing scholarship with teaching, the MCC team is a great place to learn.

Hey #chemsky!⚗️🧪 Our REU program is accepting applications! Our program covers all areas of chemistry. We'd love to read your application! Info: www.jmu.edu/chemistry/re... App: form.jotform.com/250134000303...

Exciting new work from the undergrads in the lab! You may have heard about pseudokinases, but do you know there are pseudoamylases? We describe the structure and activity of the pseudoamylase BAM9 and how it regulates alpha-amylase activity. 🧪https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/prot.26803