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2025-06-28
Triennial "Ribosome" meeting took place in Pacific Grove, CA on 22-27 of June bringing together the leading scientists in the field of protein synthesis. The research from our lab was represented with four posters and two talks.
2025-03-26
A new paper in collaboration with the groups of Gerard Wright (McMaster University) and Yury Polikanov (UIC) is published today in Nature! Lariocidin, the first lasso peptide targeting bacterial translation and a promising new lead for antibiotic development, is in the news today. Congratulation to all authors!
Original publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08723-7
Nature News and Views; Nature News; Nature Review Microbiology Research Highlight; UIC Today Article; Nature Podcast;
2025-03-11
We are happy to welcome Mandisa (Mandy) Timba as a new PhD Candidate in the lab! Best of luck with your future projects.
2024-10-16
Congrats to Weiping, Chaetana, and Alena with the new paper on apidaecin-like peptides diversity hidden in the insect genomes just published in EMBO Reports!
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44319-024-00277-5
2024-09-04 - 2024-09-09
Together with colleagues from Yury Polikanov's Lab we have been presenting our research at the 2024 Translational control meeting at Cold Spring Harbour, NY, USA.
2024-07-23
A new paper "Macrolones target bacterial ribosomes and DNA gyrase and can evade resistance mechanisms" is published in Nature Chemical Biology! Another great collaboration with the lab of Prof. Yury Polikanov at UIC. Congrats to Alena, Dorota, and Faezeh.
2024-07-11
The researches from the lab took part in the Annual Day Camp for children organized by Chicago Park District. Together with scientist from Murphy lab Shura, Clemence, and Max performed the experiments in physics and chemistry with the future researches.
2024-07-02
A new paper "Sequence diversity of apidaecin-like peptides arresting the terminating ribosome" is published in Nucleic Acids Research! Congratulations to Weiping and Chetana!
2024-06-16
Lab volleyball season has just started at the North Beach!
2024-03-05
Dorota again won in the "Best savory dish" category at CBS Potluck. Congratulations from the team! We are all looking forward to taste new masterpieces by the Chef!
2024-02-15
Congratulations to Dr. Maxim Svetlov with a publication in Science! Joint effort of Myers (MIT) and Polikanov (UIC) labs on the antibiotic cresomycin.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adk8013?af=R
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