dr. g. e. kenney is probably in lab

(...I've got the same name on the blue site. There're quite a few bioinorganic chemists, chemical biologists, microbe-wranglers, natural product collectors, and enzyme enthusiasts there already, and "starter packs" if you want to (re)find people easily...)

We're hiring a postdoc! Have (or expect to soon have) a PhD in a biochem/structural bio related discipline? Interested in studying bacterial copper usage and transcriptional regulation? Apply here: wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Mi…

🥼🧪Our opening for a research technician is now live! 🌟🌟We'd love to have you join us. Apply here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/…

...and if you're interested in microbial chemical biology but are looking for something on the West Coast instead, the Dassama Lab is also hiring.

If you're interested in microbial chemical biology and looking for a research technician position, the Kenney Lab at Pitt is hiring. You'd be working with weird new (metallo)enzymes, weird microbes, and weird new natural products. Fill out an app here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/…

@RosenzweigLab @SmithLabUMBC @lmkdassama ...man, that pink office was one of my first memories of the lab. I feel adrift in this strange new world... (Looks very nice though - hope Team Rosenzweig loves the new digs!)

@SmithLabUMBC @lmkdassama Nope!

#LabUpdate New lab. New tshirts.✨

@danudwary @MWMullowney @satriaphd This looks exciting! How tied are results going to be to antiSMASH/etc. detection / will we be able to fish up BGCs using custom parameters? Just asking as someone who keeps finding themselves in the dark corners of the natural product biosynthesis world...

(Keep an eye out for our paper on some fun - if occasionally frustrating! - compounds and enzymes in what will hopefully be the not-exceedingly-distant future!)

While I'll really miss working with @PallasChou as she heads off to @ChemSysBio, she finished up with a bang: telling the entire graduating Harvard class (!!!) about how amazing enzymes are!

@hualiang2018 @YaleMicroPath @YaleWestCampus Congrats! I loved getting to hear about your work at the MSI symposium - absolutely reach out if you ever want to chat about microbial metal homeostasis!

I’m thrilled to share that I will be joining @YaleMedin the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis @YaleMicroPath and the Yale Microbial Sciences Institute as an assistant professor. The Pi lab will open doors this September on the beautiful @YaleWestCampus.

antiSMASH: now with more methanobactins! (not that i'm not excited for other reasons too, of course.)

Super psyched to see this (and its companion paper) finally make make it out! Lovely protein structures, crazy natural product biosynthetic pathways, and a glimpse of how the enzyme family as a whole operates - what's not to like?!

@thecopperdoctor A related classic: "Whoops, there was an issue with the fraction collector valve and the protein is all in the waste? Just reload the superloop (and dilute, if the waste had imidazole)..."

...submitted my first batch of faculty apps last night, and I'll admit it feels a little surreal. OK, a lot surreal.

@ZachReitzPhD @MraDll @ActinoLab Though I totally understand the impetus, "NRPS" has been associated with a single type of enzyme system for so long that it seems potentially confusing to use this nomenclature for very different enzymes. (The PKS terminology parallels also fall apart for types IV & V.)

@MraDll @ActinoLab Oops thanks, I misread tRNA-independent and -dependent. The scheme is interesting, and I'm all for abolishing the name NIS. I find types I to III compelling, but this sentence is correct: "one may object that [type IV] would become quite large and perhaps too heterogenous".

not ribosome, not NRPS, but a secret third thing

@ZachReitzPhD ...I don't think it would be inaccurate to say that there was a certain amount of pain involved, no. "I mean, it (very) eventually drove me to learn how to use R!"

@kenneylab Thank you! I hope it was accurate to call your original methanobactin genomic work "painstaking"? I remember commiserating about drawing gene clusters by hand...

An excellent summary of current strategies for metallophore genome mining (with some important words of caution about the limitations of existing tools.) There's still no real replacement for spending a bunch of time staring at genomes, unsurprisingly!

@SmithLabUMBC @thecopperdoctor Oh _no_. What an absolute nightmare!

A postdoc position is available in our lab @LehighChem, studying bacterial copper acquisition and regulation! Experience in biochemistry, X-ray crystallography and/or microbiology preferred. #chempostdoc

I'll be presenting in tomorrow's session - tune in for my stories about investigating new enzyme families (particularly those involved in natural product biosynthesis), and stay for biochemistry talks from several other fellows!