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  2017 group photo
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  May 2016 group photo
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  Wilfred's 50th birthday party, April 2016
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  2016 Chemistry Department annual holiday poster contest
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  July 2018 HHMI renewal party
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  October 2018 group photo

Welcome! Bienvenida! 欢迎！वेलकम ! welkom!

The general goal of our research is to understand enzymatic transformations that are of environmental or pharmaceutical importance. We utilize both synthetic organic chemistry and molecular biology techniques to reach this goal, and have two current project areas in our laboratory: lantibiotics and phosphonate antibiotics.

Recent News

• 2019/02/12 Congratulations to Chunyu ‘Layla’ Wu for winning a Winter 2019 UIUC Department of Biochemistry Travel Grant.
• 2019/01/14 New paper in eLife: congratulations to Silvia Bobeica,  Dr. Liujie Huo, Nuria Mazo, and Martin McLaughlin.
• 2018/12/24 New paper in ACS Infect. Dis.: congratulations to Chunyu ‘Layla’ Wu, Subhanip Biswas, and Dr. Chantal Garcia De Gonzalo.
• 2018/12/20 New paper in Org. Biomol. Chem.: congratulations to Drs. Despina Bougioukou, Chi P. Ting, Spencer Peck, and Subha Mukherjee.
• 2018/12/10 Congratulations to Dr. Zhengan Zhang for earning his PhD.

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