Benjamin T. Blackburn

We have had a big two weeks in the Mevers lab 1. Paige successfully defended her PhD! 2. Both Joe and Arden passed their prelim exams! 3. Our latest publication is out! This one features @BTBChem with collaborations with @AjoFranklinLab and Hassoun lab! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Grateful to this all star cast for making my fist session chairing experience an awesome time! Fantastic science and wonderful people!! #ASP2023

Amazing first day of ASP2023! Three amazing talks by @VTChemDept graduate students - @Lois_K_Kyei, @BTBChem and Cole Gannett - and posters by Karla, Paige, Zak, Carla, and @GroupLowell. Wonderful science with a fun group! Excited for the rest of the week!

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Congratulations to both @Lois_K_Kyei and @BTBChem for passing their qualifying exams in the past week! Well done!

Fun evening with the the trainees in the Mevers and Lowell labs. Axe throwing is a bit more challenging than we thought it would be but so much fun!

Ran the Hokie Half marathon yesterday. Here is a picture of me and the Hokie bird at the finish. #GoHokies 🏃 🦃

Emily Mevers @MeversLab giving a great talk on one of my favorite topics, marine microbial chemical ecology 😀. Such a cool project!

I presented my first research poster ever at the 2022 American Society of Pharmacognosy annual meeting yesterday. I am studying electron shuttling compounds that come from natural sources like bacteria and plants. Very excited to see where this project goes! #ASP2022 🌿🧪

Shout out to those presenting posters today! Benjamin from our group and Austin, Cole, and Suzzudul from the @GroupLowell! We are having a blast at #asp2022. @pharmacognosy