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Mel Higgins

@mhiggins237

Biochemist/structural biologist, glycobiology, natural product biosynthesis, sports fan, cats!, 🇨🇦 in the 🇺🇸, she/her

 Tuscaloosa, AL
Joined May 2019
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Received this today. Unfortunately I think they will be disappointed…
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Got into the wrong Uber at the airport but somehow made it to #EMC2024. Looking forward to hearing about all the cool enzymes everyone is working on!
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Great talk Stan!
Lukasz Ciesla (@ciesla_lukasz) profile pictureLukasz Ciesla@ciesla_lukasz1 Sep 2023
Greatly looking forward to @stanlab_bama talk today! Lots of exciting science! 🪰🪰🪰
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New lab website is up! Thanks @dylanmc_42 and @Jake_Hicks1 for putting it together. higgins.lab.ua.edu
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The Higgins lab is hiring a postdoc for an NIH funded project! If you have experience with natural product isolation and/or biosynthesis elucidation and want to join our multidisciplinary team please see our website to apply (higgins.lab.ua.edu)!
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When someone asks where are are from, how do you answer? Where you were born, where you grew up, where you spent the most time, or where you live now? I’m never sure how to answer this question..
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dbCAN@yanbinyin29 Jul 2023
such a great experience to attend the #CAZyme #GRC last week and talk about #dbCAN and other CAZyme bioinformatics tools. Very excited to have met @CAZyDB and other people that I had only known by their names in papers! Here is one slide that many CAZymers want to see! @NFHC_NU
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One perk of attending conferences is tagging on an extra day for some sight seeing and delicious food! #Boston
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So much fun! Great to see everyone :)
Wade Abbott (@sweetmicrobe) profile pictureWade Abbott@sweetmicrobe28 Jul 2023
Lobster 🦞 dinner! GRC CAZymes 2023! #Glycotime
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First lobster dinner at #CAZy #GRC!
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Beyond excited to share that the Higgins lab has been awarded an @NIH @NIGMS #R35 #MIRA to discover novel natural products and biosynthetic enzymes. A huge thank you to everyone who has helped make this happen. We can’t wait to get started!
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Congrats Malena on receiving an URCA award for her poster presentation on hygromycin A biosynthesis!
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Congrats @ciesla_lukasz for being inducted into the National Academy of Inventors!
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Lots of awards to and presentations by the Higgins lab this past week! Honors awards - congrats Brooke and Janique! URCA poster presentations by Brooke, Dylan, Jake, and Malena. And grad student symposium poster presentation by Dylan. Great job everyone!
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Congrats Brooke!
Randall Research Scholars (@UA_RRSP) profile pictureRandall Research Scholars@UA_RRSP15 Apr 2023
Yea! RRS students received many awards at the Biology Department Honors Day. Congrats to Brooke, Ava, Abi, Molly and Lena! @HonorsCollegeUA @UaDeptBSC @UA_AS
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In need of a sugar pick me up and both starbursts packages I opened only have my least favourite flavour ☹️
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What a fabulous conference! Can’t wait for the next one. #NP2023
SIMB (@SIMB_Microbio) profile pictureSIMB@SIMB_Microbio12 Jan 2023
Oh, what a night! What a week! From the incredible opening keynote with @francesarnold to last night's tasty banquet with Phillip Crews, #NP2023 has been an amazing experience. But wait, there's one final session! Check out today's abstract's here: sim.confex.com/sim/np2023/me…
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SIMB@SIMB_Microbio9 Jan 2023
Packed room for @francesarnold's keynote here at #NP2023! It's not every day you get to hear from a Nobel Prize winner.
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Great first day of @SIMB_Microbio #NP2023. Looking forward to the rest the week!
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My lab will be hosting a Summer REU student! Check out bsc.ua.edu/degree-programs/u… for more details and to apply.
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