Smith Ayoola Babalola

Mit did a great job presenting his research at the annual departmental undergraduate symposium! Everyone loved his pie analogy 🥧

@ChekanLab Congrats Mit.

Congratulations to Ayoola @smith_ayoola for passing his dissertation proposal defense yesterday! It's been exciting to see his enzyme engineering project succeed!

@ChekanLab Thanks to your guidance and support Dr. Chekan

Congrats to @sanathrajkk0 for successfully passing his PhD proposal defense! 🎉🎉Awesome job!!

Beyond excited for our first paper to be published! Congrats to @stella_lima33 @EthanU99 @mikepasquale77 Brigitte, Imani, Tyler, and Cody!

We had an awesome time at #NP2023 @SIMB_Microbio and got to visit SIO!

Out now, we use bioinformatics+metabolomics to uncover a plant biosynthetic cassette responsible for diverse cyclic peptides. We apply this to find new NPs in Coffea. Finally, we reconstitute the first enzyme activity for a split BURP peptide cyclase! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

As part of the 40th anniversary of @TrendsinBiotech, we spotlight an achievement in NP production. In 2013, Paddon et al reported 25g/L fermentation of artemisinic acid coupled with synthetic steps to yield the essential antimalarial drug artemisinin. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We have an opening for a NIH-funded postdoc in the lab! Our research focuses on the discovery and engineering of new RiPP natural product biosynthetic pathways using bioinformatic and in vitro approaches. See details below. #chempostdoc