Ratmir Derda

Remember The Glycans: Consideration of Glycans in Evaluating the Threat of Mirror-Image Life Forms science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… by 32 #glycobiology PIs @ChemicalBiology @CarolynBertozzi @GlyCosmos @peterseeberger @daniel_bojar @FeiziTen @Lowarylab @sjwill99 et al #RememberTheGlycans

"Later but Better" -- nice title for this highlight of our work (thank you, Guoqing Jin!) nature.com/articles/s4157…

Wow

To distract everyone from the devastating NIH news, I recommend reading this Mirror Image Life discussion in Science magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… or popular press cbc.ca/radio/thecurre… and our view on this topic: TLDR: do not forget about Glycans! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congrats to GlycoNet Investigator, Dr. Matthew Macauley from @Ualberta, the 2025 X-Chem Research Excellence Award winner! His work on Siglec-glycan interactions is advancing immune system research. Read more: canadianglycomics.ca/glyconet-inves… #glycotime #Glycoimmunology #Immunology

Next at #SFG2024 @RatmirDerda talks about is liquid arrays to study glycan-lectin interactions, e.g., effect of ligand density on Siglec binding or effect of high expression of a lectin on a cell line. Also detection of glycan ligands or lectins binding to tissues in a mouse.

Congratulations to Kejia Yan @yantwohappyyyy the lead on the most complex and comprehensive @acsJACS publications from @derda_lab to date. Big thanks to @48HourDiscovery and Dustin Maly Lab for their contribution. See "late stage reshaping" paper at doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4…

@prof_west @Fritschner He died, like so many young men of his generation, he died before his time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364.

Just realized all four actors publicly support Harris-Walz

@CellChemBiol publication of Liquid Lectin Array (LiLA) led by Guilherme Meira Lima (scholar.google.com/citations?user…) PhD Student from @derda_lab and co-authors from @MatthewMacaule4 Lab, @glycocode (Lara Mahal), Raymond Lai et al, now in cell.com/cell-chemical-…

I finally know how it feels like to own a Ferrari. Every morning my email goes from 0 to 60 unread emails in 2.4 seconds.. sends shivers down my spine

@LabRullo @gia_glyco @SCecioni @UMontreal @glycocode excellent choice indeed!

@gia_glyco @SCecioni @UMontreal @glycocode great choice!

Introducing our Keynote Speakers for GIA2024! First up is @SCecioni from @UMontreal, who will be sharing his work on Chemical Approaches to Illuminate Glycan Recognition and Processing. We are so excited to have him at #GIA2024! @glycocode #glycotime

DNA-encoded, Liquid Glycan Array (LiGA) and its application to cell-surface profiling is out in @NatureProtocols . Big thanks to @miratsojitra for leading the effort and @MatthewMacaule4 + members of Macaluley Lab and @derda_lab ! rdcu.be/dXaNJ

@jenheemstra "emotionally prepare for things to not always go as planned" -- this such an eloquent way to describe how I feel almost every day =)

In research, we don't necessarily want to expect to fail, but we can plan for failure. We can: -build cushion in our project timeline for unexpected challenges -think about what might go wrong and how we'll troubleshoot -emotionally prepare for things to not always go as planned

Calling all Chemical Biologists in Canada and beyond. Submit your abstracts to the Canadian Society Conference (CSC) in June 2024. Deadline Extended to Feb 6. Check out the Chemical Biology session organized by myself and Fred Menard (UBC) cheminst.ca/conference/can…

@mbogyo @VergentBio congrats!

Phase II clinical trial data just reported for our covalent cathepsin probe by @VergentBio. Exciting! businesswire.com/news/home/2024…

@LabRullo @GavinCTsui do it!! great idea man...

@GavinCTsui this is super cool old friend ! Does it retro eliminate ? This could be a useful electrophile for protein affinity labeling asp/glu professor .....

Turns out carboxylic acids can add to gem-difluoroalkenes under simple conditions. See our new paper: Addition of Carboxylic Acids to gem-Difluoroalkenes for the Synthesis of gem-Difluoromethylenated Compounds | Organic Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

@Dawson_Group @stromgaardlab @ChristianAOlsen looking great!! Both of you..

@stromgaardlab Had a great time with all my #peptide friends in Copenhagen! Thanks for sharing your legendary view! @ChristianAOlsen

Great to have @Dawson_Group visting at home in the ‘Carlsberg city district’ and dinner at Aamanns

@derda_lab is taking a fresh look at molecular discovery: why always start from zero, if you can start from one? Check out the paper led by Kejia Yan @yantwohappyyyy on late stage reshaping of pre-discovered molecular landscapes, now on BioRxiv doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

@Malins_Lab @NitscheLab @ANUChemistry Awesome Job Christoph!!

Congrats to my colleague Christoph @NitscheLab @ANUChemistry for bringing home the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Advancing Research!!💪🤩 Truly well-deserved, and a great way to close out the year at the VC's garden party! 🍾

Apologies: ran out of characters: BIG thanks to @MatthewMacaule4 Lab @JameZeynab + Eddie @glycocode Lara Mahal, Claire Yang+Justine Lai in Raymond Lai's Lab (UofA Oncology), Gisele Monteiro, super-alumnus @miratsojitra and of course, the fearless leader: Guilherme Meira Lima