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 Elfeki |
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 |
