A great postdoc opportunity (see link)! If you are interested in marine microbes (coral-associated or otherwise) and natural products chemistry for your postdoc, then Dr. Wendy Strangman and I would be interested in chatting! jobs.uncw.edu/postings/33550

I don't really want to defend her, at all, but that Laura Loomer photo is not real.

Yeah, these are excellent. Had to use one on my moron that had stomach surgery after eating a needle and thread. Even drugged up he consistently got the cone off.

Arguable. But, stringing that into a sentence the way he did out of context in a question about Ukraine, I think it was, comes out sounding quite insane.

Bioactivity Analysis of Secondary Metabolites from Actinomycetes' Isolated from Coastal Sediments www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...#jcampubs

That hurts

I think about Figure 4 more than I'd care to admit www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I've been addicted to Slay the Spire for years now.

We are the Fuhrmann Lab in the Pharmaceutical Biology @unifau.bsky.social Our research focuses on extracellular vesicles 🪩, infection therapies 🦠, plant natural products 🌱 and biomaterials 👩‍🔬. We just joined Bluesky and used to be on X (@FuhrmannGregor)

This is wildly cool--I knew about the assembly-line polyketide synthases (PKSs) where multiple enzymes interact to synthesize these remarkable and complex natural products, but putting them all in one HUGE protein...WOW! 🧪

TCcyrilpedia.bsky.socialSep 4, 2024 12:53pm

'Perhaps the hardest part of this problem is to shift our preconceptions. The size of the PKZILLAs, the researchers say, ‘expands our imagination on the capabilities of enzymes in the construction of complex molecules.’ www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/enor...

Enormous enzymes expand the limits of molecular biology

Identifying the PKZILLAs, used by algae to make toxins, stretched the capabilities of current analytical methods - and the limits of our preconceptions