2024 Schedule
Special Cal Poly SLO research edition - Prof. Katherine Watts Lab!
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Biosynthesis of TLN-05220, a unique polyketide featuring a piperazinone ring Allie Dowdy, Megan Hasbrooke, Natalie Lubinski, Kate Weckwerth Watts Lab Cal Poly San Luis Obispo The mode of action of dithiolopyrrolone prodrugs Rachel Johnson, PhD Li Lab (UNC Chapel Hill) current location: postdoctoral researcher Watts Lab Cal Poly San Luis Obispo |
Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
Special undergraduate research extravaganza SMComm!
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Characterizing BesE: Mysteries of an alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent non-heme iron dioxygenase Chem 161 class (CURE lab) featuring: Kyle, Beau, Surina, Isabella, Cyrus, Charlie, and Edward Exploration of the promiscuous behavior and structure-function of KabC enzymes Melanie Jones McKinnie Lab Investigating the biosynthetic potential of Actinopolyspora mzabensis using Cas12a direct-cloning Gabriel Lefebre McKinnie Lab |
Thursday, Jun. 13, 2024
PSB 240 Seminar starts at 3:00 PM PST |
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Soft Ionization by Chemical Reaction in Transfer-Mass Spectrometry (SICRIT-MS) for microbial metabolomics Allyson McAtamney Sanchez Lab From the bottom of the sea to the depths of the stomach glands: Imaging metabolic interactions between Helicobacter pylori and the human gastric epithelium Benedikt Geier, PhD Amieva Lab Stanford University |
Thursday, May 9, 2024
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
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Natural products as signaling molecules in complex microbiome systems Prof. Marcy Balunas University of Michigan 
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Thursday, Mar. 7, 2024
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
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Unlocking chemical profiles of ant symbiotic Pseudonocardia: a mass spectrometry approach Carlismari Grundmann, PhD Pupo Lab (Universidade de São Paulo) current location: Sanchez Lab Lasso peptides as inhibitors of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system Micah Braly Auerbuch Stone Lab |
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
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Probing the mechanism of selective halogenation by vanadium-dependent haloperoxidases Jackson Baumgartner McKinnie Lab Biochemical investigation of piperazinone biosynthesis in Micromonospora Jennifer Cordoza McKinnie Lab |
Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
2023 Schedule
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Development of bacterial histidine kinase inhibitors and probes for the identification of direct cellular targets Conrad Fihn, PhD Carlson Lab (University of Minnesota) current location: postdoctoral researcher Sanchez Lab Plus end of the year SMComm festivities! |
Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
Special tag team SMComm talk!
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Development of a MALDI-tims-MS screening method for enhanced directed evolution of KabC Alex Tabag, Melanie Jones, Austin Hopiavuori, Robbie Shepherd McKinnie and Sanchez Labs |
Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
Special summer industry internship SMComm!
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Delineating the role of CYP3A4 and CYP3A5 metabolism Cristobal Morfin Lokey Lab (internship at Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA) Annotating NMR and MS/MS data to train a machine learning database Riley Blue MacMillan Lab (internship at Genentech, South San Francisco, CA) |
Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
Special Cal Poly SLO undergraduate research edition - Prof. Katherine Watts Lab!
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Bond formation of amino acids to a polyketide substrate through cloning and expression
Kate Weckwerth and Reese Le Watts Lab Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Learn by cloning: Optimizing Gibson assembly expression and purification of NRPS proteins in the classroom and undergraduate research lab Chris Cummings, Claire Meeds, Sam Catania Watts Lab Cal Poly San Luis Obispo 
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Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
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Plankton chemical ecology: ideas on including zooplankton in harmful algae monitoring
Aubrey Trapp Kudela Lab Discovering the 3D-nality in natural products Prof. Jaime Rodríguez González PRONAMAR Universidade da Coruña, Spain |
Thursday, July 6, 2023
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
Special undergraduate research extravaganza SMComm!
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Developing workflows to effectively probe the Cheese Rind Microbiome for small molecules of interest
Celine Ertekin Sanchez Lab The hunt for novel bioactive natural products in actinobacterial extracts Manasi Natu McKinnie Lab Scrutinizing Indo-Pacific sponges of Verongida order for halogenated alkaloids - the campaign to discover Type III Secretion System inhibitors Samuel Mussetter Crews Lab |
Thursday, June 1, 2023
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
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Squid-Vibrio symbiosis as a model system for natural product applications
Allyson McAtamney Sanchez Lab Study of the bacterial metabolome by mass spectrometry imaging Alexandre Bastin Université de Liège Liège, Belgium |
Thursday, May 4, 2023
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
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Precursor-directed investigation of non-enzymatic natural product scaffolds
Leah Bouthillette MacMillan Lab California algae and their surface associated bacteria Kara Talbott Carlson Lab University of the Pacific |
Thursday, April 6, 2023
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
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Quantification of catecholamines in complex biological matrices
Hannah Lusk Sanchez Lab Mechanistic and structural insights into the PLP-dependent cyanobacterial cyclase GntC Jennifer Cordoza McKinnie Lab |
Thursday, March 2, 2023
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
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How an anticancer molecule gets made: investigation of the salinosporamide biosynthetic pathway
Katherine Bauman, PhD Moore Lab (UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography) current location: postdoctoral researcher Fischbach Lab (Stanford University) |
Thursday, February 2, 2023
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
2022 Schedule
Special winter celebration SMComm!
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Wines from great vintages to wildfire catastrophes: Merging natural products chemistry fundamentals with sensory evaluations to gain a 21st-century perspective
Prof. Phil Crews Crews Lab |
Thursday, December 1, 2022
PSB 240 Doors and seminar start at 3:30 PM PST |
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Screening traditional Chinese medicine botanicals for anticoagulant activity
Dylan Simpson Holman Lab Investigating the substrate-dependent reactions of the dioxygenase DabC in the domoic acid biosynthetic pathway Austin Hopiavuori McKinnie Lab |
Thursday, November 3, 2022
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
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Warning chemicals: Communicating with chemistry
Associate Prof. Brandon Findlay Findlay lab (Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada) |
Thursday, October 6, 2022
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
Special summer industry internship SMComm!
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Method development, deposition, and penetration of botanical actives for hair care
Leah Bouthillette MacMillan Lab (internship at Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, OH) Strain dereplication and prioritization towards diverse microbial libraries Gordon Luu Sanchez Lab (internship at Hexagon Bio, Menlo Park, CA) |
Thursday, September 29, 2022
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
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LaBor of love: A journey to isolating a B-containing natural product and optimizing 1H-11B HMBC
Riley Blue MacMillan Lab Biomimetic total synthesis and investigation of the non-enzymatic chemistry of oxazinin A Rahul Shingare, PhD MacMillan Lab |
Thursday, August 4, 2022
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
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Ub or not Ub - putting together the puzzle
of erythrazole biosynthesis Rebecca Pelofsky MacMillan Lab Assigning mechanism of action to natural products using gene expression platforms established by the HIFAN program Aswad Khadilkar, PhD MacMillan Lab |
Thursday, July 21, 2022
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
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Predicting bioactive natural products from Colombian marine cyanobacteria
Laura Paola Rodriguez Velandia Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogotá, Colombia Sanchez Lab Biosynthesis of guanitoxin: an elusive and lethal organophosphate cyanotoxin Jennifer Cordoza and Austin Hopiavuori (tag-team toxin talk) McKinnie Lab |
Thursday, June 2, 2022
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
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Mass spectrometry imaging of cyclic dimeric guanosine monophosphate and related biosynthetic products in Vibrio cholerae biofilms
Catherine McCaughey, PhD Sanchez Lab Investigating purpuramines as inhibitors of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system Adam Lentz Auerbuch Stone Lab |
Thursday, May 5, 2022
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
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Exploring microbial communities in the Maya underworld in search for novel natural products: How it started, where it's going
Prof. Alejandra Prieto-Davo Prieto-Davo Lab Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
Thursday, April 7, 2022
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
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Leveraging Multidimensional Mass Spectrometry Data for Natural Product Discovery
Gordon Luu Sanchez Lab Intercept and Redirect: Investigating the role of alkyl quinolone modifying vanadium-dependent haloperoxidases (VHPOs) on the microbial battlefield Jackson Baumgartner McKinnie Lab |
Thursday, March 3, 2022
PSB 240 Doors open at 3:30 PM PST Seminar starts at 4:00 PM PST |
Please contact a PI from 'The Group' to speak in 2023-2024.
