Kudos to Parag Das and Nathan Grinalds of the Jiangeng Xue lab! Fantastic work! Dicyanorhodanine-Pyrrole Conjugates for Visible Light-Driven Quantitative Photoswitching in Solution and the Solid State | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

New pape from Megan Megan Lott and the gang on using photoiniferter polymerization and inverse miniemulsion conditions to synthesize ultrahigh molecular weight triblock copolymers! such a slay ACS Macro Journals UF Chemistry Butler Polymer Research Laboratory Brent Sumerlin
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Tyler These bacterial meroterpenoids have been known for a while, but the biosynthesis of their polycyclic skeletons was unknown. Here, both studies use het. exp. to map out the early steps. In ATO, terpene cyclization confirmed in vitro. Challenging systems, fun collaborations!

Here’s the second, on the sesterterpene atolypene. ATO biosynthesis was led by Zengyuan Wang and the Liaobin Dong group, with contributions from Tyler. doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

Pre-print alert 🚨! Two studies on the #biosynthesis of the bacterial #meroterpenoids phenalinolactone and atolypene. Here’s the first on the diterpenoid PLA, led by Tyler Rudolf Lab in collaboration with Sandra Loesgen (loesgenlab.bsky.social) and Liaobin Dong. doi.org/10.26434/chemr…. UF Chemistry

Many congratulations to PhD candidate, Ani Davis, for successfully passing her oral exam!! She is the first member of the Evans Research Group to pass!! We look forward to her continued excellence in the lab and scientific community! Cheers! 🥂

It was a great experience to present my research work on small-molecule photoswitches in the #FloHet2024 conference. Castellano Research Group

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Congratulations to Thisuri Wanniarachchi for successfully defending her dissertation on the structural and functional studies of diverse microbial natural product biosynthetic pathways! We are all proud of you, and though we'll miss you, are excited to see where you’ll go next!

Last week, one or our own, Julie Liang, defended her thesis and achieved her PhD!!! Congrats and great work! She's headed off to Eli Lilly!

Our undergrads did a great job presenting their research at the UF Undergrad Research Symposium! Keep up the great work!

The Prentice lab has a strong showing at the UF Graduate Student Research Day!!! Come on out and see the latest mass spec results! UF Chemistry

Introducing Super Dr. Yinuo Yang, #31 from the Roitberg Group. She taught ANI and us how to do Organic Chemistry ! UF Chemistry

Great collaboration with Nicholas Ellin, Yingchan Guo, and Boone Prentice: introducing extended similarity-based techniques to study correlations in IMS. Just accepted in Digital Discovery: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…
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Another fantastic paper by Julie LIang! (Julie Liang ) She will defend her thesis later today! Good luck and great work!
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Last week UF Chemistry hosted a special seminar on the Tactile Periodic Table Project presented by Dr. Michael Fricke. This is an ongoing project supported by the American Chemical Society Committee on Chemists with Disabilities to raise awareness of what it takes for those 🧵 1/3

Thanks to Lexin Chen, arup mondal, and Alberto Perez we are now in a PRIME position to select better cluster representatives from MD simulations: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Code available at: github.com/mqcomplab/PRIME
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Congrats to Dr. Xizheng Diao (Colin Diao) a recent graduate from our lab that published on spacefight impacts xyloglucan oligosaccharide abundance in Arabidopsis thaliana root cell walls! Great work Colin and keep up the great work! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My first talk at #ACSSpring2024 . Thanks to my PI Alberto Perez, UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences #CLAS_grant #GSCgrant . ACS Biochem and ChemBio UF Chemistry

On top of signing a record deal with Young Money Entertainment this week (Mula), Jared Bowman Jared Ian Bowman (a.k.a. Yung Micelle) also won the ACS POLY Outstanding Poster Award at #ACSSpring2024 !! We're excited, but not surprised. He's that good. Michael Jordan of PISA.

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