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History @ UIC

Date
Speaker
Laboratory
Title
09/01/16
​Daniel May
Orjala Lab
Discovery of novel merocyclophanes and their proposed biosynthetic mechanism
09/01/16
​Michael Mullowney
​Murphy Lab
Progress toward the diazaquinomycin A mechanism of action in M. tuberculosis​ ​
10/06/16
Maryam El​feki
Murphy Lab
Assessing the biosynthetic capacity of the cultivatable microbiome from Lake Huron sediment
10/06/16
Jana Braesel, PhD
Eustaquio Lab
From genomes to natural products: Great Lakes derived Micromonospora sp. as a source for novel bioactive compounds ​
11/03/16
Chase Clark
Murphy Lab
Rational design of bacterial strain libraries for drug discovery
11/03/16
Camila Manoel Crnkovic
Orjala Lab
The impact of culture conditions on growth and metabolic profiles of cyanobacteria: a drug discovery point of view
12/01/16
Katherine Zink
​Sanchez Lab
Mechanisms of self defense by a putative monooxygenase in ​Pseudomonas aeruginosa
12/01/16
Kenneth Clevenger, PhD
Kelleher Lab, Northwestern 
Large-scale identification of new secondary metabolites using heterologous expression and metabolomic screening of fungal biosynthetic gene clusters
02/09/17
Maria Sofia Ramos Costa
Murphy & Omarsdottir Lab
Use of MALDI TOF MS to create a taxonomically and chemically diverse Icelandic strain library
02/09/17
​Jessica Cleary
​Sanchez Lab
The Chemistry of Cheese Microbes
03/02/17
Joseph McGraw, PharmD, MPH, PhD
Concordia University Wisconsin
Stealth Adducts, Omega 3 Fatty Acids, and Bacterial Ecological Niches
03/02/17
​Alanna Condren
Sanchez Lab
​A Chemical Study of Bacterial Biofilms: Fighting Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms through the Power of Small Molecules
04/06/17
Bernard Santasiero, PhD
Center for Biomolecular Sciences
X-ray Diffraction Primer
​04/06/17
​Daniel May
Orjala Lab
​A New 16S rRNA Cyanobacterial Specific Primer Set to Probe the Diversity of Environmental Cyanobacteria
05/04/17
Ian Miller
Kwan Lab, UW Madison
Metagenomic Deconvolution for Natural Product Drug Discovery
​05/04/17
Jeongho Lee, PhD
Murphy Lab
OSMAC Method for High-Throughput Screening Microorganism, Combined with MALDI-ToF-MS
09/07/17
Morgan Petrovich
Wells Lab, Northwestern
Antibiotic resistance gene abundances, mobilization, and
co-occurrences with antibiotic production genes in biofilm and
suspended growth wastewater treatment bioreactors
09/07/17
Vanessa Nepomuceno
Murphy Lab
A Streptomyces tendae metabolite inhibits quorum sensing in Group A Streptococcus
10/05/17
Gabriella Szewczyk
Federle Lab
Peptide signaling regulates the expression of a novel biosynthetic gene cluster in the cariogenic bacterium Streptococcus mutans
10/05/17
Peter Sullivan
Orjala Lab
Mapping out Cyanobacterial secondary metabolite production
11/09/17
Camila Crnkovic
Orjala Lab
Isolation and structure elucidation: comparing two different cases
11/09/17
Drs. Jonathan Bisson and Charlotte Simmler
Pauli Lab
An overview of the CENAPT activities
12/07/17
Caroline Birer, PhD
Duplais Lab, UMR EcoFoG
Bacterial microbiota of ant’s cuticle in French Guiana: antibiotic activities and community ecology
12/07/17
Sylvia Kunakom
Eustaquio lab
​Development of a Bacterial Host for Antibiotic Discovery and Production
02/08/18
Maryam Elfeki
Murphy Lab
Assessing the efficiency of cultivation techniques to recover natural product biosynthetic gene populations from sediment
​02/08/18
Jana Braesel, PhD
Eustaquio Lab
Genome mining of the Lake Michigan bacterium Micromonospora sp. B006 for natural product discovery
03/15/18
Rasika Phansalkar, PhD​
Franzblau Lab
Fishing out minor bioactives from Streptomyces
03/15/18
Charlotte Simmler, PhD
Pauli Lab
Exploring the cellular localization and transport of specialized metabolites in sponges​
04/12/18
Christophe Duplais, PhD
UMR EcoFoG
in situ TOF-SIMS MS/MS imaging to localize and characterize biosynthetic intermediates: the case of amazonian wood metabolites
04/12/18
Kyle Mathes
Orjala/
​Eustaquio Labs
Genome Mining of Freshwater Cyanobacteria for Rare Metabolites
05/10/18
Melissa Galey
Sanchez Lab
Small Molecule Interactions from the Cheese Microbiota: Pseudomonas vs. Candida
05/10/18
Samantha Gromek
Marcy Balunas Lab, U Conn
Investigation of Marine Host-Microbe Symbioses for Antimicrobial Compounds
09/13/18
Katherine Zink
Sanchez Lab
New methods for determining absolute configuration in structure elucidation
09/13/18
Chase Clark
Murphy Lab
R coding in IDBac
10/11/18
Brian Guo
CT Che Lab
The Sirenas Biochemometric Platform for Drug Discovery
10/11/18
Andrew Riley, PhD
Riley Lab
Atypical Activity from Atypical Opioids
11/08/18
Alanna Condren
​Sanchez Lab
Exposure to taurolithocholic acid alters biofilm morphology and specialized metabolism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
​11/08/18
Yu 'Tom' Gao, PhD
Gao Lab
Dilu: integrated platform for lipid quantitation
12/06/18
Sylvia Kunakom
Eustaquio Lab
Development of a bacterial host for natural product discovery and production
12/06/18
Valya Petukhova, MSc
Sanchez Lab
Imaging mass spectrometry as a tool for visualization of secondary metabolites from Micromonospora echinospora ssp.
02/07/19
Gordon Luu
Sanchez Lab
Cheese-Rind Microbes: Untargeted metabolomics of complex biological systems
02/07/19
Laura Ioca
Eustaquio Lab
A conserved nonribosomal peptide family affects motility in marine bacteria
02/07/19
Jeongho Lee, PhD
Murphy Lab
Drug discovery from a bacterial colony: antibiotics active against ESKAPE pathogens
02/07/19
Peter Sullivan
Orjala Lab
Application of a phylogenetic-molecular networking strategy to identify laxaphycin type-B secondary metabolites
03/07/19
Tuan Anh Tran, PhD
​Eustaquio Lab
Genome mining approaches towards natural product discovery
03/07/19
Erica Gerlach 
Aldrich Lab
Systematic Diversity-Oriented Synthesis to probe biological performance diversity
04/04/19
Lydia Davis
Orjala Lab
Investigation of sulfur-containing metabolites excreted by cultured Desmonostoc sp. (Cyanobacteria)
04/04/19
Malaika Argade, PhD
Riley Lab
Deconstruction of Galantamine in Pursuit of a Novel Pharmacophore for α7 Nicotinic Receptor
05/09/19
Julia Austin
Burdette Lab
Baicalein is a phytohormone that signals through the progesterone and glucocorticoid receptors
​05/09/19
Jessica Cleary 
Sanchez Lab 
Deep Interrogation of LC-MS/MS data
10/17/19
Britta Rued, PhD
Federle Lab
Response of the S. pyogenes proteome to Rgg2/3 quorum sensing
10/17/19
Taylor Kornfuehrer
Eustaquio Lab
Synthetic biology of polyketide natural products from Streptomyces
11/21/19
Michael Mullowney, PhD
Kelleher and Thomson (NU)
Natural product discovery from large genomic & metabolomic datasets
11/21/19
​Lindsay Caesar, PhD
Kelleher Lab (NU) 
Exploring Fungal Resistance Targets using FAC-MS Technology
02/20/20
Linh Nguyen, PhD
Murphy Lab
​Antibiotic discovery from the Institute of Marine Biochemistry (IMBC) Bacterial Library
02/20/20
Timo Negri
Nadine Ziemert Lab, University of Tuebingen
Discovery of natural products from soil metagenomes
04/09/20
Gordon Luu
Sanchez Lab
Discovery of Ovarian Cancer Biomarkers Using Bottom Up Proteomics
04/09/20
Madi Hennessy
Riley Lab
Investigations of the opioid activity of alkaloids from the traditional medicinal plant akuamma
05/21/20
Sean Romanowski
Eustaquio Lab
Diazaquinomycin Biosynthesis and Self-Resistance
05/21/20
Simone Creed ​
​Riley Lab
Tackling challenges in alkaloid isolation using pH zone refining counter-current chromatography
06/11/20
Evan Rees
Kwan Lab
​(UW Madison)
A million puzzle pieces: Bryozoans, BGCs and building the tools to study them
06/11/20
Shaun McKinnie, PhD
McKinnie Lab (UC Santa Cruz)
Vanadium-dependent haloperoxidase enzymology: variable, versatile and evolvable
07/16/20
Dušan Velickovic, PhD
Anderton Lab (PNNL) 
Preserved and inconsistent spatial-chemical changes of lipids across tomato leaves in response to central vein wounding: hint on the linolenic acid origin
07/16/20
​Antonio Hernandez
Murphy Lab
Exploring Apostle Islands freshwater sponges as a source of antibiotics
08/06/20
Katie Watts, PhD
Watts Lab (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo) 
​Cloning strategies and feeding studies to investigate antibiotic biosynthesis
08/06/20
Julia Austin
Burdette Lab
Mechanism of action for irilone as a potentiator of progesterone receptor signaling
09/10/20
Caleb Anderson
Federle Lab
Tracing the immunomodulatory activity of a quorum sensing regulated biosynthetic gene cluster in Group A Streptococcus (GAS)
09/10/20
Robert Samples
Balunas Lab
​(U Conn)
Finding the needle in the haystack: improved filtering and statistical analysis of mass spectrometry data
10/08/20
Alanna Condren, PhD
Sherman Lab (U Michigan)
Employing mass spectrometry for target identification of HIV Nef-inhibitory plecomacrolides
10/08/20
Brian Murphy, PhD
Murphy Lab (UIC)
Retro talk: Antiproliferative compounds of Madagascar​ (2008)
11/05/20
Nicole Ozawa and Gaby Pinzon-Betancourt
Watts Lab (Cal Poly)
Assessment of intermodular interactions of a deconstructed non-ribosomal peptide synthetase
11/05/20
Matt Bertin, PhD
Bertin Lab (URI)
Retro talk: Integrating 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' approaches in the pursuit of novel microbial natural products (2015)
12/10/20
Hannah Fernandez 
Eustaquio Lab (UIC)
Development of Burkholderia sp. as a Heterologous Host for Natural Product Production
12/10/20
Marcy Balunas, PhD
Balunas Lab (UConn)
Retro talk: Natural products as aromatase inhibitors: identification and structure-activity aspects (2007)
02/04/21
Austin Hopiavuori
McKinnie Lab (UCSC)
​Investigating DabC: A Unique C-C Bond Forming Dioxygenase Involved in Algal Neurotoxin Biosynthesis
02/04/21
Jason Kwan, PhD
Kwan Lab (UW Madison) 
Retro talk: Discovery and Biological Evaluation of Secondary Metabolites from Marine Cyanobacteria (2010)
03/04/21
Jonathan Chekan, PhD
Chekan Lab (UNCG)
Bioinformatic Guided Discovery of New RiPP Natural Products
03/04/21
Laura Sanchez, PhD
Sanchez Lab (UCSC)
Retro talk: Marine natural products: synthesis, niche environments, and chemical probes (2012)
04/08/21
Sam Waterworth, PhD
Kwan Lab (UW Madison) 
Family matters: Functional roles of sponge-associated symbiont families
04/08/21
Roger Linington, PhD
Linington Lab (Simon Fraser U)
Retro talk: Isolation, Characterisation, and Total Synthesis of Secondary Metabolites from Marine Sponges  (2004)
05/06/21
Itzel Lizama-Chamu
Sanchez Lab (UCSC)
Strategizing the hunt for bioactive compounds produced by cheese-rind fungi
05/06/21
Avena Ross, PhD
Ross Lab (Queen's College)
Converging on the biosynthesis of tambjamines: How two different bacteria make the same class of molecule
06/10/21
Cole Stevens, PhD
Steven's Lab (Ole Miss) 
Differential response to prey quorum signals indicates predatory range of myxobacteria
06/10/21
Maggie Sogin, PhD
Sogin Lab (UC Merced)
Sugars dominate the seagrass rhizosphere
07/08/21
Matt Bertin, PhD
Bertin Lab (U Rhode Island)
The Principle Rhode Island Secondary Metabolite (PRISM) Library: a tool for undergraduate training and independent research
​07/08/21
Lydia Davis
Orjala Lab (UIC)
Using cues from nature to unlock analogs of an intriguing scaffold: a study on a Nostoc sp. from Iceland
08/05/21
Erin McCauley, PhD
McCauley Lab (CSUDH)
Challenges to NMR-based structure determination for molecules with hydrogen to heavy atom ratios less than one
08/05/21
Jocelyn Macho 
MacMillian Lab (UCSC)
Boron NMR as a method to screen natural product libraries for novel compounds
09/09/21
Jenny Cordoza
McKinnie Lab (UCSC)
Understanding the unique mechanism of PLP-dependent cyclase GntC in the guanitoxin biosynthetic pathway
09/09/21
Gordon Luu and Mingxun Wang, PhD
Sanchez Lab (UCSC) and Dorrestein Lab (UCSD) 
The Mass Spectrometry Query Language - A flexible way to discover, explore and extract mass spectrometry data
10/07/21
Cat McCaughey, PhD
Sanchez Lab (UCSC)
A System-Wide Stable Isotope Labeling Approach for Connecting Natural Products to Their Biosynthetic Gene Clusters
10/07/21
Katherine Zink, PhD
NIST
Smoke as a matrix for detection of exogenous exhalable cannabis components in recent users
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