Craig A Townsend

@fried_lab @JohnsHopkins I this great news Stephen. Congratulations!

My promotion and #tenure is now official @JohnsHopkins. Just feeling really happy and grateful for my students, colleagues, family, and friends. You've made the last 7 years in #Baltimore some of the best in my life! 😁

@lab_shen @Kalkreuter @guichun98 @nchembio This is a real step forward Ben. Congratulations.

We are excited to finally publish the unprecedented biosynthetic origins of enediyne natural products: iodinated polyynes! This transformative discovery is a huge milestone for these clinical antitumor antibiotics. @Kalkreuter @guichun98 @nchembio nature.com/articles/s4158…

Yesterday Stevie Wonder received an Honorary degree from Hopkins and the Peabody, and gave us a song to a cheering ovation. The genius of his name is correct.

Former Group Member Brenda Wilson was in town to receive an award from the @ASMicrobiology as her highly regarded "Bacterial Pathogenesis: A Molecular Approach " heads to a new edition. We posed for a picture with her pbk for non-experts written with her son! How cool is that?

@yang2biocat Congratulations Yang

We publish our second paper on pyridoxal biocatalysis in Nature: We repurposed PLP-dependent threonine aldolases to catalyze radical C-C coupling reactions that are not known in either organic chemistry or enzymology: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Check out our recent News & Views by Anna Vagstad and @danirichterfl highlighting an article by @Nairlab_UIUC. Unusual LanM architecture enables the biosynthesis of dehydrazoles nature.com/articles/s4158… #RiPPs #NaturalProducts #Enzyme

@piel_lab @AnnaVagstad @BroderickLabFeS Congratulations Anna!

Congrats to @AnnaVagstad bringing this amazing story to the finish line! Thank you to everyone involved from @BroderickLabFeS for the fantastic collaboration! If you are interested in the enzymatic mechanism of peptide epimerization by rSAM, make sure to read it.👇

Year-End Kudos. Especially to former Group member Doug Cohen and his team mates at Vertex for seeing thru to FDA approval the first CRISPR-based therapy for a genetic disorder— sickle cell disease‚ a landmark. Congratulations and to all who have made advances in 2023

@yitang_ucla @SIMB_Microbio @OxfordJournals Congraulations Yi. I am sure you will do a great job.

I am honored to be the new Editor-in-Chief for @SIMB_Microbio society journal JIMB. Our open access journal has a wide scope covering different areas of biotechnology. We look forward to working with you to publish your latest research results! ⚡️⚡️ academic.oup.com/jimb

@fage_chris @I2BCParisSaclay @Challis_Group @lewandowskilab @Jenner_Lab @MergaertP @SylvieLautru Congratulations Chris. Best wishes starting up your lab.

It's official: I'll soon be joining the Microbiology Department at @I2BCParisSaclay as a group leader! Endless thanks to those who supported me in this endeavour, especially: @Challis_Group @lewandowskilab @Jenner_Lab @MergaertP @SylvieLautru Muriel Gondry & Olga Soutourina!

@piel_lab @Microbio_ETH Congratulations Joern! May it be the first of many happy reunions. It's as much for your inspired and grateful students as for you to see each other again.

What a great day we had yesterday! Thank you so much to everyone who joined the 10-year anniversary (in person and remote) of our lab being @Microbio_ETH. It was so heartwarming to see where life took former lab members and great to connect former and current #pielies.

Looking forward to serve on the @JACS_Au Early Career Advisory Board in the upcoming year! #OpenAccess #BiologicalChemistry

We are delighted to announce the 2023 JACS Au Early Career Advisory Board! Each year, we appoint new members to this board, seeking perspectives from, and providing advice and guidance to, emerging independent scholars. Check out the list: go.acs.org/5lW

@NicoleGaudelli And don't forget the 100% overall yield

I’ve always enjoyed working along the interface of chemistry and biology and here I report my second natural product total synthesis: Isabella Ruth 💕 born May 20th, 2023.

@NicoleGaudelli Good sentiment risk takers!

Why is it that when there are difficult decisions to make, people often choose unhappiness over uncertainty? I have found that taking the uncertain path has typically led to the greatest yields in happiness over time. Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.

@basicchemist @BookerMan_PSU @psu_chemistry @PSUScience Congratulations Hayley!

@BookerMan_PSU @psu_chemistry @PSUScience Thanks Squire!

another standout from the Booker lab!! Congratulations Hayley @basicchemist !!!! So well deserved!!! @psu_chemistry @PSUScience

@Masschelein_Lab @JACS_Au Congratulations. JACS needs your expertise.

@smhusain2018 @J_A_C_S Thanks Syed!

@CATLab20 @J_A_C_S Congratulations! this is another awesome work by @CATLab20

Appearing today in @J_A_C_S. Connecting the dots to a biogenetic proposal for anthraquinone-fused enediyne biosynthesis: doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3… Remarkable rearrangement and oxidation chemistry — and a simple, efficient synthetic model. Congratulations Paramita and Serena!

@jjanetzko @J_A_C_S There is a lot to appreciate in the syntheses of KCN, SJD and AGM and now to contrast a greatly different concept and solution emerging from the shadows by the GOAT natural product chemist. Thanks for seeing.

@CATLab20 @J_A_C_S My PhD advisor studied calicheamicin for her PhD work, and KCN’s synthesis of it is still one of my favourites in this book he signed for me 😍

@FreundlichGroup @J_A_C_S Thanks Joel. Not easy.

@CATLab20 @J_A_C_S Congratulations to you and your lab, Craig!