Jeremy Baskin
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Click chemist, cell biologist, #chembio & #lipidtime enthusiast, occasional classical pianist (he/him). Also @[email protected]
Ithaca, NY
Joined January 2014
Thrilled to share our latest story @NatureCellBio on a new way to control protein localization without exogenous triggers (e.g., light/rapamycin)—take advantage of endogenous triggers in dividing cells! .Free link: Regular link: 1/4
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🚨New paper in @J_A_C_S! #ExpansionMicroscopy is democratizing access to #superresolution imaging, but it works best on proteins & nucleic acids. What about lipids? Some great tools have emerged, but @BrittMW08 sought ones optimized for lipids: 1/5
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Do you (want to) use whole-plasmid sequencing (e.g. @plasmidsaurus) but are put off by $15/sample? Use SAVEMONEY—@MasaakiU5’s algorithm that lets you mix 6 or more plasmids/sample & computationally de-mixes reads!.How it works: 1/n
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Look what came in the mail today! 🎉At long last, a definitive chemical biology textbook—edited by Howard Hang, @MattRPratt, & @jenn_prescher, w/a deeply personal & powerful foreword by @CarolynBertozzi. Thrilled to have contributed Ch. 16—Bioorthogonal Chemistry, w/Pam Chang!
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Caution for mCherry users: alternate start @ M10 (from internal SD seq.) leads to undesired free FP in constructs w/C-term mCherry fusions, but M10L/Q can fix it. See this 2022 paper: @joachimgoedhart @NathanShaner @Campbell_FPs—thoughts? (h/t @MasaakiU5).
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A big win for click chemistry & bioorthogonal chemistry!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to Bertozzi, Sharpless, & Meldal!!!.
BREAKING NEWS: .The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
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What a cool paper in @NatureCellBio from the Devreotes lab @JohnsHopkins, using new #optogenetics tools to modulate the surface charge of the plasma membrane and understand its role in controlling cell migration pathways in polarized cells!
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Congratulations, @CarolynBertozzi — visionary scientist, inspirational leader, & outstanding mentor to scores of scientists!!!.
Carolyn Bertozzi – awarded the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry – has taken click chemistry to a new dimension and started utilising it in living organisms. Her bioorthogonal reactions take place without disrupting the normal chemistry of the cell.
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🚨New paper! We applied our #bioorthogonal #lipidtime imaging methods with CRISPR screening to discover new regulators of phospholipase D signaling. Thrilled to see this work of Tim Bumpus, Shiying Huang, & @ReikaTei published in @PNASNews: Thread: 1/7
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I'm super honored to have received this award from @ASBMB in recognition of the #lipidtime work from our group! My lecture today at #EB2021 #ExpBio (10:30 am) will be about our chemical tools for shedding light on phospholipid signaling: .
Jeremy Baskin (@basktastic) won the Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in #Lipid Research. Catch his talk, "Chemical tools that IMPACT phospholipid signaling," today at 10:30 a.m. EDT: Learn about his research: #ASBMB2021
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I am deeply honored to receive the @ASBMB Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award! Many thanks to those who have supported our work & critically to my outstanding lab members whom it is such a joy to work with @CornellChem & Weill Institute. Can't wait to share our work @expbio!
Congratulations to Jeremy Baskin (aka @basktastic ) of @Cornell, winner of @ASBMB's Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award for 2020! Details to come about his award lecture at our meeting at @expbio in April in sunny San Diego. Find more winners here:
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I'm honored to receive this award from @ChemBioSociety, which is above all a recognition of the advances in #chembio #lipidtime made by the amazing students and postdocs in our group @CornellChem @weillinstitute!
ICBS Young Chemical Biologist awardees announced!! Leslie Aldrich @Illinois_Alma, Jeremy Baskin @basktastic @Cornell and Nir London @WeizmannScience. we can't wait to listen to their presentation during #ICBS2021!! #chembio
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The final version of our #bioorthogonal #lipidtime method for imaging rapid inter-organelle transport of fluorescent phospholipid analogs is now published — congrats to Lin Luan (@1in_1uan), Dongjun Liang, Dylan Chiu, & @ReikaTei!
🚨New manuscript: interorganelle lipid transport is rapid, & it is hard to directly quantify discrete steps in this network, which are mediated by a large group of lipid transfer proteins working at membrane contact sites between different organelles. 1/2
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First on @ChemRxiv, now just accepted in @ChemicalBiology: Our first foray into #glycotime: galactose analogs for imaging glycosylation in vivo. Congrats to lead author and recent lab graduate @JessDaughtry1 @CornellChem!
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Check our our foray into #optogenetics tools to control lipid signaling, a super cool story led by @ReikaTei, just published online at @JCellBiol! #lipidtime #directedevolution Twitter thread/synopsis follows:
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When you drink 🍺🍷🍸🥂🍹, the unnatural lipid PEth is formed by phospholipase D enzymes. PEth is a biomarker for alcohol consumption. Does it do anything to our cells? We (Weizhi Yu) developed a #lipidtime chemoproteomics strategy to answer this question:
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I found this unexpected, pleasant surprise on the podium at 8:05 am today from my wonderful @CornellChem CHEM 4500/6450 Principles of Chemical Biology students — SPAAC-tacular indeed! What was that molecule called again?? 😉
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🚨The updated version of our ultralow background membrane editor story (❤️ those LOVPLDs!) is now published @ACSCentSci! . 🎉🎉🎉 to @JuliaXL_Li @MasaakiU5 @ReikaTei @weillinstitute @CornellChem #lipidtime #optogenetics .
Our latest membrane editors just dropped — bravo to @JuliaXL_Li who led this study w/@ReikaTei & @MasaakiU5! To learn about how they accomplished this feat of protein engineering and optogenetics, and why it is cool and important, see thread below: 1/n .
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An enzyme that can synthesize aromatic azides! Bioorthogonal no more? 😝 Cool paper in @NatureChemistry by Wenjun Zhang & colleagues @UCB_Chemistry .
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Thrilled to share this story in @JACS_Au, w/lots of new data since the preprint! .2 takeaways: (1) analogs of PC lipids w/different choline structures adopt different organelle localizations & are useful for tracing inter-organelle lipid transport, & 1/2
Our latest in @ChemRxiv: Dylan discovers that subtle structural changes in a series of azidocholine analogs + expression of a promiscuous transporter enables cellular import of charged cargoes (useful!) & selective tagging of lipids in distinct organelles!
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Celebrating the #bioorthogonal #clickchemistry #ChemNobel with a special “Yay for click chemistry!” cake with Carolyn’s academic grandchildren @CornellChem @weillinstitute! Congratulations again, @CarolynBertozzi!!
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Check out our latest lipid #imaging advance: using fluorogenic tetrazine ligation #clickchemistry for real-time imaging of lipid second messenger production AND (non-vesicular!) phospholipid trafficking pathways. Congrats to Harry et al.! #lipidtime.
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Exciting new development at ACS Chem Biol! The journal will now publish Accounts *exclusively* to allow early-career researchers to "highlight their accomplishments & the impact of their research on the chemical biology field." @ACSPublications @ACSBioMed
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Excited to share our latest story in @CellChemBiol: we harness our activity-based imaging of phospholipase D tools (IMPACT) to visualize GPCR-Gq signaling, revealing spatiotemporal regulation of parathyroid hormone receptor signaling! Free link & brief 🧵
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Right after takeoff from ITH, I snapped these gems of @Cornell, Ithaca, & Cayuga Lake. Breathtaking! #iphonephotography
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Thrilled to share our latest #lipidtime study! Why would a lipid kinase need two different sets of adaptors to recruit it to the same organelle membrane, and how does the cell decide which of the two kinase complexes to form? A palmitoylation code! A 🧵:
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The final version of our membrane editor story, led by the indomitable @ReikaTei, is out @NatureChemistry: New since the preprint: data showing lipids made by our editor can control cell signaling pathways. See Reika's tweetorial:
🚨New preprint! We live in a golden age of molecular editing, but as usual, #lipidtime folks always seem to be on the outside looking in. We set out to right that wrong—develop membrane editors, tools for precision editing of lipids in cells. How? Read on:
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It’s go time — super excited to share our progress in #lipidtime #chembio with the home audience @CornellChem @weillinstitute!
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Happy to share this tutorial review in @ChemSocRev co-written with @BrittMW08 @CornellChem and Judith Flores, Roberto Brea, & Neal Devaraj @UCSDChemBiochem — Lipids: chemical tools for their synthesis, modification, and analysis
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🚨Incredible paper @Nature from Pam Chang & 1st AU Sam Scott; must-read for #microbiome, bacterial pathogenesis, & neuro lovers! Punchline: microbial metabolites prevent E. coli infection by activating a dopamine receptor in the gut & perturbing actin. 🤩
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Thank you to the @SloanFoundation for this wonderful honor! I am so grateful to the amazing trainees in my lab for inspiring and motivating me every day. And congratulations to the other #sloanfellow awardees!.
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"Lipids on the move": Thank you to @nchembio for highlighting our latest #lipidtime work using #bioorthogonal chemistry to image rapid, inter-organelle lipid transport, by Lin Luan, Dongjun Liang, and @ReikaTei in #ACSChemBio!
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🚨New preprint! We live in a golden age of molecular editing, but as usual, #lipidtime folks always seem to be on the outside looking in. We set out to right that wrong—develop membrane editors, tools for precision editing of lipids in cells. How? Read on:
My PhD work about the development of super-active PLD (superPLD) by directed evolution, its application to produce bioactive lipid species, and its structural characterization (enabled by collaboration with great scientists @SaketBagde and @jcfromme) is now on bioRxiv! 🎉.
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🚨It's live! Check out the ACS Chem Biol special issue highlighting the rich living history of click & bioorthogonal chemistries from the pages of the journal, to celebrate the 2022 Nobel Prize to @CarolynBertozzi, Barry Sharpless, & Morten Meldal! 🎉 1/n
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The original Staudinger ligation paper was famously led by incoming first-year grad student Eliana Saxon during a summer rotation after senior @CarolynBertozzi group grad students talked themselves out of it b/c it seemed too crazy to work. Not too shabby!
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Hi everyone: take a break from #Alphafold to read our (@ReikaTei's) new #lipidtime review in Curr Opin Chem Biol on using induced proximity tools (optogenetics & small-molecule dimerizers) to manipulate lipid signaling and membrane organization! Free link:
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Speaking of T helper 17 cell research @Cornell: light-controlled immune cell activation! Pam Chang & @bibudha_parasar report in @J_A_C_S a photoactivatable immune modulator to induce Th17 cell differentiation. @CornellPathogen @CornellCFI @CornellChem
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Major #lipidtime paper from @abu_remaileh lab! They discovered the long-sought after enzyme that synthesizes the lysosomal lipid BMP — it is CLN5, whose mutation causes a devastating childhood lysosomal storage disease called Batten disease. Great study!.
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Our latest membrane editors just dropped — bravo to @JuliaXL_Li who led this study w/@ReikaTei & @MasaakiU5! To learn about how they accomplished this feat of protein engineering and optogenetics, and why it is cool and important, see thread below: 1/n .
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Our ethanol-derived #lipidtime chemoproteomics story is published in @ChemicalBiology! Major addition since the preprint: mass spec mapping to ID exact sites of lipid–protein crosslinking w/incredible collaborators @Zhi_Lindsey_Lin @drcmwoo @HarvardCCB!
When you drink 🍺🍷🍸🥂🍹, the unnatural lipid PEth is formed by phospholipase D enzymes. PEth is a biomarker for alcohol consumption. Does it do anything to our cells? We (Weizhi Yu) developed a #lipidtime chemoproteomics strategy to answer this question:
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I am honored that our work on phosphatidic acid signaling has been recognized with an NSF CAREER award. Thank you to the @NSF for the support and to the members of my lab for all their hard work and dedication!.
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Had a blast at @UCB_Chemistry today—check out the vintage photo, w/@jenn_prescher, sporting the classic @CarolynBertozzi group Slow to React jersey! Great to catch up with @MillerChemBio @DanNomura @GroupFrancis @OlzmannLab @christhechang @AlannaSchepartz @SarpongGroup & others!
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🥳 Congratulations to @ReikaTei for winning a Tunis Wentink Prize for graduating PhD students from @CornellChem! Here she is at the department's Graduate Award Symposium presenting her thesis work on using optogenetics and protein engineering to dissect phospholipid signaling:
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It’s with tremendous joy and pride but also some sorrow that we bid farewell to @ReikaTei, scientist extraordinaire and lab PhD #7 @CornellChem @weillinstitute. We wish you the very best of luck in your next adventure @Stanford_ChEMH with @aliceyting!
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Hello, Kyoto! Had a fantastic day of science, food, hot springs, history, culture, and cell culture — the incubators where iPSCs were first produced by Yamanaka are on display @CiRA_KU_E @KyotoU_News. Onto ISBC 2024 in Nagoya tomorrow!!
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🎃 Happy #lipidtime Halloween from our lab! 👻 Scary membrane decorations by @bethylacetate & @RichardYHEudean
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Today we wish a fond farewell to the lab's first postdoctoral scholar, @BrittMW08, who will be starting a position as Assistant Professor at @chemistry_unh this fall. It's impossible to overstate her "impact" on the lab. Goodbye and good luck, Brittany! Pics from over the years:
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Congratulations @chembioBryan on winning the first annual ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award!! 🎉🎉.
🏅 Congrats to Bryan Dickinson (@chembioBryan), winner of the first annual #ACSChemBiol Young Investigator Award!. Read all about Bryan's work and contributions to the field of chemical biology here ➡ @ACS_DivBioChem
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Our latest in @ChemRxiv: Dylan discovers that subtle structural changes in a series of azidocholine analogs + expression of a promiscuous transporter enables cellular import of charged cargoes (useful!) & selective tagging of lipids in distinct organelles!
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Check out the latest #chembio #clickchemistry #microbiome paper from Pam Chang’s lab @Cornell in @ACSCentSci: Chemoproteomic Profiling of Gut Microbiota-Associated Bile Salt Hydrolase Activity 1/2.
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Check out this @nchembio high-“light” 💡 of our latest light-controlled membrane editors paper in @ACSCentSci!
🚨The updated version of our ultralow background membrane editor story (❤️ those LOVPLDs!) is now published @ACSCentSci! . 🎉🎉🎉 to @JuliaXL_Li @MasaakiU5 @ReikaTei @weillinstitute @CornellChem #lipidtime #optogenetics .
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Our #lipidtime study on how differential spacing of fatty acyl PTMs can direct specific interactions and functions of a multiply palmitoylated protein is improved w/new expts & now published in the @J_Cell_Sci Cell Biology of Lipids special issue! 1/2
Thrilled to share our latest #lipidtime study! Why would a lipid kinase need two different sets of adaptors to recruit it to the same organelle membrane, and how does the cell decide which of the two kinase complexes to form? A palmitoylation code! A 🧵:
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Attention #lipidtime #chembio lovers: co-editor @jcslab & I are thrilled to present the Dec 2021 Curr Opin Chem Biol Mechanistic Biology issue, devoted to the chemistry & biology of lipids. Our overview editorial: TOC link & mini-tweetstorm follows: 1/4.
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Great visit to @MSKCancerCenter chemical biology program yesterday — thanks to @David_Lab_MSK & @DBachovchin for hosting my first in-person seminar visit in a long time! Nice view from the 21st floor:
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Epic photo of some of the bioorthogonal team in our “Slow to React” jerseys before a big softball game @UCB_Chemistry!.
Feeling all the feels this morn…Congratulations, @CarolynBertozzi and Profs. Sharpless and Meldal!!! Here’s a throwback photo in honor of #bioorthogonal chemistry. #ChemNobel
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Had a blast at Chem Tools III this week!! Such great science at a phenomenal venue @HHMIJanelia. Thanks to @rhodamine110 @jenn_prescher @ZevGartner for organizing! (Yes, I am wearing a liposome pin — #lipidtime ftw 🤓)
Thank you to everyone joining us @HHMIJanelia for the third iteration of our Chemical Tools for Complex Biological Systems meeting. #chembio #cellsignaling #imaging #cellbio #biochemistry
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What a fun #lipidtime collaboration of @ReikaTei @CornellChem w/@mo_hannes & @DirkTrauner @nyuchemistry: small-molecule photoswitches enable optical control of two different phosphatidic acid signaling pathways! See our study in @ACSCentSci —
Photolipids continue to deliver. And two azobenzene photoswitches are better than one. Optical control of mTOR and Hippo signaling through a wonderful collaboration with @basktastic, @mo_hannes. @MolSwitches @photopharma_lit .
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Our new #ClickChemistry #Lipid #Imaging method (IMPACT) is published in @ACSCentSci—on #ChemNobel day! Congrats Tim!.
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Congratulations & farewell to lab PhD #2, Dr. Tim Bumpus, who has made a major "IMPACT" on PLD signaling. Good luck on your next adventure as a science & tech policy analyst in DC! (Yes, my background is Montreal bagels—to remind Tim, who is from NJ, what good bagels look like.)
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Happy to share our latest review, by @weizhi_yu, on the latest advances in using photoaffinity labeling for probing lipid-protein interactions, in Curr Opin Chem Biol. Many thanks to @TsukijiLab & Neal Devaraj for the invitation!
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Our first preprint! Galactose: 1 of only (~)9 mammalian glycan building blocks; important historically to present-day in glycobiology, immunology, & human health; until @JessDaughtry1's heroic work, refractory to imaging with powerful bioorthogonal approaches. Read on! #glycotime.
Clickable Galactose Analogs for Imaging Glycans in Developing Zebrafish by Jessica Daughtry, Wendy Cao, Johnny Ye & Jeremy Baskin (@basktastic).
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Wow, a hat trick for @CornellChem with the @AmerChemSociety national award announcements — congrats to Justin Wilson, Song Lin, & Todd Hyster @JWilsonLab @songlin_chem @SongLinLab @HysterLab! And congrats to all the other winners too!
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Happy to do our small part in donating PPE to @cayugamed to support their critical work in keeping Ithacans safe, along w/other @Cornell Weill Institute & @CornellBME labs. Thanks to Adnan for (safely) coordinating our lab’s donation! @TompkinsHealth
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🎉HUGE congratulations to my amazing @Cornell colleague Pam Chang @CornellPathogen for winning a Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry! . . For more about her lab's super cool work at the #chembio #microbiome #immunology interface:
Introducing… the winners of this year’s Sloan Research Fellowship! These extraordinary researchers represent some of the most exciting young minds working today—and we are thrilled to support them. Meet the winners here: #SloanFellow
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Time to update the bioorthogonal & click chemistry lecture slides!!! 🥳@NobelPrize.
Always a thrill to give the #bioorthogonal chemistry lecture today in Principles of Chemical Biology @CornellChem — for sure a periodic table socks-worthy day! Hopefully one of these years I’ll get to add the Nobel Prize slide to this lecture to join many others in this course 🤩
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Just saw this great piece in @NatureBiotech with an update on clinical translation of bioorthogonal chemistry in cancer — exciting times!
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Big day for #chembio @CornellChem: it’s our annual student-organized Chemistry-Biology Interface symposium! Thrilled to help welcome @StacyMalaker @Fe_Will26 @pottslab to Cornell for some amazing science and beautiful spring flowers!
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Happy to share our contribution to the Acc Chem Res #lipidtime #chembio special issue: "Imaging and Editing the Phospholipidome", written & w/original graphic art by the multitalented Dylan Chiu! Thanks to @SchultzLabOHSU & Britta Brügger for inviting us!
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@ChemDraw 20 has a useful shortcuts cheat sheet. Check out the bottom: a cheat code for DIFO! #bioorthogonal chemistry is in good company! (NB: if you try it, the code has a few unnecessary up arrows.) h/t @ChemJewett cc @CarolynBertozzi @jenn_prescher @EllenSletten #teamoctyne
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It’s #lipidtime and @UCSDChemBiochem week @CornellChem! Super fun to host Neal Devaraj for seminar today — and look who showed up early for his visit next week @ibudin!!
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Can I get a big #chemtwitter “thank you!!” to @StephanHacker2 for his awesome curation of the #chembio literature? 🙏 🙏 🙏.
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Another reason to eat protein-rich diets: Pam Chang's lab at @CornellPathogen reports in @PNASNews that the gut #microbiota converts tryptophan into metabolites that strengthen the gut epithelial barrier & protect against colitis. #microbiome Synopsis: 1/
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Congratulations to Adnan Shami Shah for winning a Tunis Wentink Prize, the highest award for PhD students from @CornellChem, for excellence in research & academics! He will present his thesis research at tomorrow’s Wentink symposium. Here’s a #tbt photo. Bravo, Adnan! 👏 🎉
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Huge congratulations to our very own @CornellChem & @weillinstitute superstar almost-PhD-graduate Xiaofu Cao on her commencement ceremony today — and stay tuned for news on her upcoming thesis defense!!
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Always a thrill to give the #bioorthogonal chemistry lecture today in Principles of Chemical Biology @CornellChem — for sure a periodic table socks-worthy day! Hopefully one of these years I’ll get to add the Nobel Prize slide to this lecture to join many others in this course 🤩
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Glycans are sweet,.Nucleic acids—they’re fine. Proteins are interesting,.But nothing beats #lipidtime!. #ValentinesDay #badpoetry.
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Huge congratulations to newly minted Dr. Jessica Daughtry @JessDaughtry1, our lab's first Ph.D. graduate, for passing her B exam (@CornellChem thesis defense) today! When you leave us at the end of the semester, there will be big shoes to fill.
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Excited for Pam Chang’s talk on deciphering the chemical crosstalk of host-gut microbiome interactions! @CornellPathogen @CornellCFI
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Had a blast yesterday visiting @scrippsresearch, the birthplace of click chemistry (& other cool stuff too). Very inspired after wonderful meetings w/@pengwuTSRI @HuangMia @_chrisgparker_ @Michael_A_Erb @xzhang85, Howard Hang, Jeff Kelly, & Barry Sharpless—that place is rockin'!.
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Phenomenal talk today @CornellChem by @ibudin — innovative methods for imaging membrane biophysics and lipid transport and roles of unique lipids in helping membranes stay fluid in the extreme pressures of the deep ocean! #lipidtime
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