Lakshitha Perera, Ph.D.

It was definitely a day to cherish! Thank you @UFChemistry! I will miss you too, but I shall not forget!! Until I see you all soon again, farewell to my dearest Gator Family! Dr. Perera signing off! On to my next adventure! #Grateful #Gator #PhinallyDone #UF #Chemistry

Checked my schedule tomorrow to find a time for a meeting. Following are times of meetings already on my calendar: 10.00a.m.-11.00a.m.; 11.00a.m.-12noon; 1.00p.m -2.00p.m.; 2.00-3.00p.m. (which I probably will skip); 2.30-3.00p.m. (double booked); 3.00-4.00p.m. 🥹😫💁‍♂️

And who knows? Maybe this dream will one day come true! In any case, this guy has been a Gator at a far young age than we both had. He was born a Gator, Raised on Gatorland, been to 3 conferences and two defenses before he was even 1! 💙🧡🐊 @UF #FutureGator #GoGators

Today is my son's daycare's Future College T-shirt day! And guess what he chose to wear 😉 Madhushi and I were blessed with him when we were both in grad school @UFChemistry, and he has grown up so fast! Sent us both down the memory lane of good old days!

We join @SecRubio in congratulating the people of Sri Lanka on 77 years of Independence and reaffirm the United States' commitment to addressing our shared challenges and to promote a free, open, and secure Indo Pacific region. Read his full message: state.gov/sri-lanka-nati…

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on our #NIH funded Human Virome Project. This postdoctoral position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the development, validation, and deployment of cutting-edge experimental methods for virome enrichment, detection, identification, and quantification from complex biological samples. See more details at the Science Careers posting (jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/668672/pos…) and on our lab website (ismagilovlab.caltech.edu/positions) #Caltech #postdocposition

Having an awesome boss is a blessing!!! But it does make your guilty when you mess something up! 😅 Even when he is super chill with it! #Grateful 🙏

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

When you've been working hard for a while at a stretch, but still don't feel tired and are excited to go back to work the next day, you know you are in the right place, working with the right people! ❤️ One word to say it all! #Grateful #GamazonLab @VUMC_Medicine @VUMCgenetics

@MASumanthiran @anuradisanayake @sajithpremadasa For someone whose entire political ideology is based on racistic motives, the irony in this post is just uncanny! Just read the last sentence of this very post, but this time, do it slowly!

Congratulations @anuradisanayake for an impressive win, achieved without recourse to racial or religious chauvinism. Our thanks to the Tamil People in the North and East who voted for @sajithpremadasa rejecting others on #ITAK advice and showed the difference in the electoral map

@UFChemistry @RKCastellano @UF_CLAS Congratulations 🎊🎉

@UFChemistry @adrian_roitberg Congratulations Prof. Roitberg!! 🎉🎊

FINAL WEEK: CEVR Retreat 2024 Registration and abstract submission closes THIS FRIDAY, 9/6 See our website for registration and abstract submission details: medschool.vanderbilt.edu/evresearch/eve… See you there on September 20!

That "fun" feeling of scrolling down your "pinned" emails, two entire mouse wheel rolls to find a specific email you needed to reply! 🥴

Very proud of this work, long time coming! The future is here.

Gets to work early to finish some work!Forgets the laptop charger! Going back home to get it back! Yeiiii!!!

#UF #Gator #VUMC #Mentor #Mentee #Biomed #Grad #GatorAlumnVsFutureGator @Proud

This Rockstar just completed his postbac research training and will soon be joining @UF Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to pursue his Ph.D.! As one of the mentors and a Gator Alumni, I am extremely happy and proud of all your accomplishments Curtis! Best of luck!

Researchers are releasing a web tool to help chemists pick substrates. They think that if the tool is widely used, it will make substrate selection less biased and enable more meaningful comparisons between different reaction protocols. cen.acs.org/synthesis/Free…

New article from our "Computational methods for protein design" special collection! By @CompBioLab_IQCC (@IQCCUdG). The shortest path method (SPM) webserver for computational enzyme design academic.oup.com/peds/article-a…