Robert Huigens
@HuigensRob
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On a discovery mission at UGA! We are working to improve the way life-threatening disease is treated using synthetic chemistry and biology! Let's get it done!
Joined February 2019
Not my area…but chemistry is an art…gotta love it!.
Chemists synthesize a new allotrope of carbon
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RT @ChemistryNews: Chemists synthesize a new allotrope of carbon
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In a new study led by Oxford University's Department of Chemistry, chemists have demonstrated the synthesis of a cyclocarbon that is stable enough for spectroscopic characterization in solution at...
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Congrats to Dr Eli Levit for completing his PhD today! Dr Levit has done great work related to our indole alkaloid ring distortion program - we hope to have several of his papers out in the next few months!. PhD #8 & counting
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Making new discoveries by day with my lab - working to build a farm and keep these gentle giants happy and fed by night!. Putting your dreams into motion is a full time gig!
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RT @cenmag: By putting a carbon atom in place of a core oxygen, chemists constructed an opioid that blocks pain with less respiratory depre….
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By putting a carbon atom in place of a core oxygen, chemists constructed an opioid that blocks pain with less respiratory depression in mice
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Check out our collaborative preprint now out in bioRxiv with the Lemos lab!. Zinc-Enhanced Activity of an Antimicrobial Halogenated Phenazine Against Streptococcus mutans and Other Gram-positive Bacteria.
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Halogenated phenazine (HP) compounds have shown promise as antimicrobial agents, particularly against biofilm-associated Gram-positive pathogens. Among these compounds, HP-29 demonstrates potent...
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The Eddy lab at UF just killin’ this cover art!.
The cover featuring our recent fragment binding study is now out @ ACS Chem Bio: Huge thanks to the talented Ivo Kabelka from @CarlssonLab for creating this beautiful cover art.
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Outstanding work here!.
Check out our latest publication aligning the MRSN panel biofilm and mucoid phenotypes to the genotypes in @Nature_NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes!. Special thanks to my collaborators on this work @EpiDemiLogos and @OlayaRendueles !!.
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Trying to focus and do my job (purchasing new equipment for the lab). and I come across this!. @KCGOrtiz - are you kidding me! LOL!. Ok, back to work. small world, folks!. Chromatography | Teledyne LABS
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Very exciting to share this one!. Check out our latest publication regarding our indole alkaloid ring distortion program!. Very excited to continue this exciting work! . More to come!!! The team is getting busy now!!!.
On the front cover of this week's issue is work from @HuigensRob & co on chloroformate-mediated ring cleavage of indole alkaloids leads to re-engineered antiplasmodial agents, check it out👇. 📍@UF
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Pumped to give a talk to the home crowd Dawgs!.
New seminar alert! 🚨 Join us on Monday, Nov. 4th for a seminar with @HuigensRob of @UGAPharmacy. We hope to see you there! #UGAVetMed #VetDawgs .__. For the full seminar schedule, visit our website. 🔗 in bio.
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PI experiment of the day…pull broken adapter stuck in perfectly good $200-plus column out of broken glassware box…use the lost art of intense continuous tapping to dislodge the broken glassware from the column…give a victory “yes!!” Then share ninja lab secret with trainees…
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I am excited to announce that our lab will be moving to the University of Georgia. We are searching to hire postdocs who share our passion for natural product inspired discovery, organic synthesis, chemical biology & eradicating bacterial biofilms!.
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I am a little behind here, but bravo to Zhan, Han, & colleagues for an outstanding review article!. Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2022, 15, 133. We need more of this!.
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Solid selection here!.
🏆 Meet Betsy Parkinson, winner of the 2023-24 Exceptional Early Career Teaching Award. This @purduescience professor excels both in and out of the classroom. Learn more. ⬇️.
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Future graphical abstract?! Let’s make this happen!!.
The “Josh” balloons are giving a real “Big Brother is watching vibe” (book reference: 1984 by George Orwell)
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Hergenrother lab - always inspiring!. Keep up the great work @PaulHergie!.
A new antibiotic drug kills pathogenic gram-negative bacteria while sparing beneficial microbes in the mouse gut, #ILLINOIS researchers report. ▶️
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With Professor Dan Whitehead at UGA’s Southeastern Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery Symposium yesterday! A great time to catch up with friends and colleagues!
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