Congratulations to Sarah on her successful MS Thesis defense today!
What’s New?
Presenting our work at the Experimental Biology meeting
I got to present our work on ceramide synthesis at the Experimental Biology meeting in Philadelphia. A great opportunity to catch up with former high school research intern (and co-author on the paper) Hung Nguyen!
Funky new sphingolipid headgroup!
Our collaboration with Kathleen Ryan (UC Berkeley) led to the discovery of a novel anionic sphingolipid in Caulobacter which aids in survival in the absence of LPS. Check out the work on bioRxiv!
Ceramide synthesis paper published at NCB!
Our paper on the independent evolution of bacterial ceramide synthesis went online today at Nature Chemical Biology! This was a tremendous effort by Gabrielle and our amazing collaborators Ziqiang Guan (Duke) and Dominic Campopiano (U. Edinburgh). Check out the paper at https://rdcu.be/cD6p6
Poster winners!!
Congratulations to Lauren (best poster) and Josh (finalist) for their poster awards at the 2021 CCIB Retreat!
Welcome to Chioma
Welcome to Chioma, a 1st year CCIB PhD student, who is doing a rotation in our lab!