Emily

Balskus

Harvard University

Chemical Discovery in the Microbial World

Vahe

Bandarian

University of Utah

Discovery and mechanisms of natural product biosynthetic enzymes

Ruma

Banerjee

University of Michigan

Signaling through sulfide

Amie

Boal

Penn State University

Beyond the ferritin superfamily: new chemistry and new scaffolds for dimetal oxygenases

Albert

Bowers

UNC Chapel Hill

Exploring Post-translational Enzymology by mRNA Display.

David

Christianson

University of Pennsylvania

Directing Biosynthesis with Modular Architecture in Terpene Cyclases

Danica

Fujimori

University of California, San Francisco

Understanding Antibiotic Resistance through Directed Evolution of the rRNA Modifying Enzyme Cfr

Ruben

Gonzalez

Columbia University

From fluctuations to function: The role of structural dynamics in translation

Tina

Iverson

Vanderbilt University

Roles of succinate dehydrogenase assembly factors in catalysis

Bo

Li

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Natural product biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Steven

Mansoorabadi

Auburn University

C-ing is Believing: Characterization of a Novel Heme Oxygenase from Paracoccus denitrificans

John

McIntosh

Merck

Biocatalytic cascades applied to nucleoside and nucleotide therapeutics

Doug

Mitchell

UIUC

Peptide Backbone Thioamidation

Bradley

Moore

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Biosynthesis of marine terpenoid natural products

Sarah

O'Connor

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Harnessing the chemistry from plants

Frank

Raushel

Texas A&M University

Biosynthesis of the Capsular Polysaccharide in Campylobacter jejuni

Martin

Schmeing

McGill University

Structures of nonribosomal peptide synthetases and non-nonribosomal peptide synthetases

Kevan

Shokat

HHMI @ UCSF

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