Meanwhile I make pennies to synthesize useless natural products. Hard to be happy.

🖤💛🖤💛

We verified the function of a C–S bond forming P450 in griseoviridin biosynthesis for the first time and developed a short chemoenzymatic synthesis of the natural product: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

“He turned on the imager… BANG, he got the band!” (In Mike Breen’s voice of course)

ChemRxiv should start allowing chemists to bet on which journal a preprint is going to end up in

Great to see that Merck has taken interest in this DKR process that we discovered a few years ago. They also expanded the reaction scope to bulkier ncAAs and products with trans (2S,3S) configuration

Check out this chemoenzymatic synthesis of prostaglandins by one of our former postdocs, now Prof. Jian Li; gram quantities of prostaglandins prepared and 100g scale enzymatic Baeyer-Villiger!
nature.com/articles/s4146…

Countess Bathory
youtube.com/watch?v=lPWamH…

A quick little manuscript here where we developed a one-pot method to synthesize a key amino acid motif found in amanitin – chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

First year undergraduates proposing synthesis to isoryanodane diterpenoids and casually citing Herzon's synthesis of myrocin. I didn't even know what JACS is as a first year undergraduate

You either die a click chem reagent or live long enough to see yourself become a nerve agent

Welcome to my fellow FL-to-Houston transplant! #morehirescoming

Metallica

My lab members: we need a new lab cart
Me: say no more

Taylor's Targeted Protein Degradation? or Taylor's Institute of Protein Degradation?

Evolution of an assistant professor

Ten-membered enediyne-producing Micromonospora and Actinomadura to nine-membered enediyne-producing Streptomyces