News

9/2024: Congratulations Andrew for completing the PhD defense - a beautiful talk summarized a lot of challenging and exciting science (soon to be highlighted in several great papers!).

8/2024: Congratulations to Zita on passing her oral exam!

7/2024: Exciting news! Erin received the Cottrell Plus SEED (Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery) Award! Read the departmental announcements here.

6/2024: Welcome to summer undergrads Masin Kearney, Isaac Konu, and Sigrid Real-Aguilar!

5/2024: Amazing news! The Carlson Group was just awarded $2.7 million dollars to fund our research from the NIH!

5/2024: Congratulations to Jacob on passing his oral exam!

3/2024: Congratulations to Larry who has been accepted into the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy Class of 2028 starting this fall!

1/2024: Congratulations to Dani on passing her oral exam!

11/2023: Welcome to three new chemistry graduate students, Jose, Deborah, and Umer! 

11/2023: Congratulations Stephanie on acceptance of her paper, "Penicillin-binding protein redundancy in Bacillus subtilis enables growth during alkaline shock” into Applied and Environmental Microbiology!

9/2023: Congratulations Steph and Deepti for acceptance of their paper, “Modern Materials Provoke Ancient Behavior: Bacterial Resistance to Metal Nanomaterials" into ES Nano!

11/2023: Welcome to three new chemistry graduate students, Jose, Deborah, and Umer! 

11/2023: Congratulations Stephanie on acceptance of her paper, "Penicillin-binding protein redundancy in Bacillus subtilis enables growth during alkaline shock” into Applied and Environmental Microbiology!

9/2023: Congratulations Steph and Deepti for acceptance of their paper, “Modern Materials Provoke Ancient Behavior: Bacterial Resistance to Metal Nanomaterials" into ES Nano!

8/2023: Congratulations Conrad for completing the PhD defense - a great talk about exciting science!

8/2023: Congratulations Hannah L and Adeline on acceptance of their paper, “Cationic Polymers Enable Internalization of Negatively Charged Chemical Probes into Bacteria" into ACS Chemical Biology!

8/2023: Congratulations Deepti and Alessandra for the Cover of ES Nano!

8/2023: Congratulations to Shivani on successful defense of her Master's Thesis in Pharmacology!

7/2023: Welcome to summer rotator Joe da Costa!

6/2023: Congratulations to Jacob on being selected as a trainee for the NIH Chemistry Biology Interface Training Grant!

6/2023: Congratulations Hannah L. on acceptance of her paper entitled, “Activity-Based Probes in Pathogenic Bacteria: Investigating Drug Targets and Molecule Specificity” into Current Opinion in Chemical Biology!

4/2023: Congratulations Adeline, Mani and Kris on acceptance of their paper entitled, “Targeting multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus infection with bacterial histidine kinase inhibitors" into to Chemical Science!

3/2023: Congratulations Dani Rodriguez on being named a recipient of the NSF GRFP!

3/2023: Congratulation to Deepti and Alessandra on publication of their paper entitled, "Complex metal oxide nanomaterials directly generate reactive oxygen species and induce its production in bacteria" in ES:Nano!

2/2023: Welcome to first year biochemistry graduate students Jacob Gillingham and Zita Sárközi!

1/2023: Congratulation to Drew on publication of our paper entitled, "Metabolomics Reveals a "Trimeric" γ-Actinorhodin from Streptomyces coelicolor M145" in ChemBioChem!

11/2022: Welcome to first year chemistry student Dani Rodriguez!

10/2022: Congratulations to Conrad on receipt of the ROWELL Fellowship from the College of Pharmacy!

9/2022: Congratulations former postdoc Mani Goswami - her patent application has officially been awarded and the patent describing the riluzole series of HK inhibitors!

ANTIBACTERIAL AGENTS INCLUDING HISTIDINE KINASE INHIBITORS, U.S. Patent No. 11,452,714 

9/2022: Congratulations Josh, Nate and Kelsie on publication of our collaborative project with the Ambrose and Dessen groups! The paper entitled, “Combined Structural Analysis and Molecular Dynamics Reveal Penicillin-Binding Protein Inhibition Mode with β-Lactones" will appear in ACS Chemical Biology and has been selected for the COVER!

08/2022

Congratulating Alessandra and Hannah L on receipt of the departmental Excellence Fellowship! This is a very competitive award that is given to rising 4th year students. We should all be so proud to have such exceptional colleagues!

Hannah has been awarded the Monsanto Franz - Excellence Fellowship and Alessandra received the Lester C. and Joan M. Krogh - Excellence Fellowship.

07/2022

Congratulations Alessandra on being selected for a travel award from the Division of Biological Chemistry to the ACS meeting next month!

07/2022

Congratulations to Stephanie Mitchell who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled, “Investigating Bacterial Response To Environmental Pressure: Molecular-Level Characterization of Resistance to Engineered Nanomaterials” this afternoon. 

Stephanie has been selected as one of 15 California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) Policy Fellows for the coming year where she will guide science and technology policy development in California and advise decision makers. The CCST is the most established and recognized state-level fellowship and will be an incredible training opportunity for Steph as she enters the science policy field!

06/2022

Congratulations Drew on acceptance of a paper that he contributed to lead by the Pomerantz group entitled, "Development of a single culture E. coli expression system for the enzymatic synthesis of fluorinated tyrosine and its incorporation into proteins,” into the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry.

[6/22] Conrad (Bioorganic) and Andrew (Noble Metal Nanoparticles) are presenting at Gordon Research Conferences this week - always such a fun and thought-provoking experience!

[6/22] Alessandra was awarded Honorable Mention for her talk at the Graduate Student Research Symposium!

[6/22] Congrats to Josh and Kelsie on acceptance of their paper entitled, “Live-cell Profiling of Penicillin-Binding Protein Inhibitors in Escherichia coli MG1655” that was just accepted into ACS Infectious Diseases!

News archive will be updated soon!