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Joined August 2017
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CDC change the guidelines for COVID testing if you have been exposed while The rich have Rapid testing before parties. thecut.com/amp/2020/08/the-r…
Pre-K in the United States costs about $8,600 per year. President @JoeBiden’s Build Back Better Framework will deliver free, universal preschool for every 3- and 4-year old in America, easing the burden on working families and investing in our children’s future.
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We are celebrating Prof. Kingston’s fabulous career! Thanks for organizing ⁦@carlierlabVT⁩.
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Great postdoc opportunity to work with an awesome mentor in an up and coming natural products lab in Puerto Rico! Check it out:
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You have to love it when a Nobel Prize cites investigating how a natural product works. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Yes, the old concept of gene rott.
Are you relying on E.C. classes for genome annotation? Read this - A significant part of proteins could be in the wrong E.C. class dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…
This is how to speed up the discovery of protease inhibitors in natural product extracts
Native Metabolomics Identifies the Rivulariapeptolide Family of Protease Inhibitors biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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A thread on our latest publication – a publication we worked > 10 years on. 🙃 This project has driven us mad at times. But in the end, it has made it onto the cover of tomorrow’s issue of @ScienceMagazine, so I suppose it was worth it... 😅 science.sciencemag.org/conte… 1/
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Moving forward, both parties need to pay more attention to our growing national debt if there is to be compromise on #transportation, #immigration or other big issues. We must get our spending under control or our debt will have to be borne by our children and grandchildren.
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Jeff Bezos, one of the richest people on the planet, can’t make it to our hearing this week on income and wealth inequality. But I still want to know why he is spending so much to stop workers in Alabama organizing for better wages and working conditions.
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Today, Joe Biden will play his 0th round of golf in his first 53 days in office.
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I guess it doesn’t matter in politics today if you damage the country in an appeal to your base and own self interests. Sad!
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pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs… Please see the result of the Gerwick lab efforts to learn more about this COVID-19 pandemic and the role that natural products might play in developing a new therapeutic, beginning around the stay-at-home orders in Spring 2020.
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For all the assistant professors out there.
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Our next big biomedical problem to solve after Covid#AMR
How very exciting to see young people so engaged with #AMR! It is beyond marvelous to see such enthusiasm from so many! 👏👏👏 #Antibiotics #AntibioticStewardship #FireExtinguishersOfMedicine 🔥 amr.solutions/2020/11/07/you…
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We are having a two half day Southern California mass spectrometry for early career scientists symposium. Open to all topics in mass spectrometry. Abstracts are due very soon but short. Anyone welcome to attend but to present you have to reside in Southern California.
Call for Abstracts over a broad range of #MassSpectrometry topics from Early Career Southern California residents for SoCalMS.org symposium. #Genomics #Proteomics #Lipidomics #Metabolomics #Imaging #Exposome #Environmental #Clinical #Pharma #Therapeutics #Technology
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We are looking for a postdoc with #NaturalProducts chemistry expertize to join our growing team of scientist. Please contact us at [email protected] @pharmacognosy @ActinoBase
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[thread] It's finally here! We used chemical synthesis and cutting-edge cryo-EM to engineer streptogramin antibiotics that overcome an ancient resistance mechanism. The story is out today in @nature, and I'll provide a brief summary here. 1/8
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Join us for another ASP Webinar this Thursday at 4 PM EST. We are featuring some of our industrial partners with Serge Fotso from Corteva and ⁦@iprophage⁩ from Merck Exploratory Science Center! ⁦@LoesgenLab⁩ ⁦@The_Tidge_Lab⁩ ⁦@pharmacognosy⁩ ⁦