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This is the official lab account for the Natural Products Research Lab of Dr. Lesley-Ann Giddings at Smith College.
Northampton, MA
Joined June 2015
We are excited to continue sharing our work on acid rock drainage microbes in our new paper--Isolation and Genome Analysis of an Amoeba-Associated Bacterium Dyella terrae Strain Ely Copper Mine From Acid Rock Drainage in Vermont, United States
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Looking for a 2-year teaching and research postdoc in natural products? Then this opportunity is for you: (Applications will be reviewed starting Mar 24th).
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š Join Our Lab at Smith College as a Postdoctoral Fellow! š. Are you passionate about pushing the boundaries of natural product research in extreme environments? We invite you to apply here: #PostdocOpportunity #NaturalProducts #academictwitter.
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RT @Chem_Diva: Congratulations to @dwphillips1, the first African American woman to be elected to serve as president of the 148 year old soā¦.
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The chemistry department at Smith College, the largest women's college in the United States, is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor with research interests at the intersection of biochemistry and physical chemistry. See link for more details:
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RT @pharmacognosy: Are you interested in performing research in the area of natural products? Are you excited about the use of natural compā¦.
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RT @IceMicrobes: Canāt stop thinking about glaciers, Ocean Worlds and exotic brines? .Same here ā come join us @icemicrobes! We are seekingā¦.
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The NSF and NIH have now finally admitted to racial bias in grant funding. The question is nowāāwhat are these funding agencies going to do about it?
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A great research opportunity for Black, Indigenous, and LatinX undergraduates interested in natural products research!!! Please spread the word. Feb/Mar 1st rolling deadline.
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We just read the ACS Publications Diversity report and we knew the numbers were this bad but it actually hurts to see it in writing. We have to do better. Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day!
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RT @Marine_Drugs: Review: Extremophilic Fungi from Marine Environments: Underexplored Sources of Antitumor, Anti-Infective and Other Biologā¦.
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And another one (DJ Khaled voice)! Check out our latest in-depth review on the natural product treasures that can be found in marine fungi.
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Check out our latest paper characterizing a broadly specific N-hydroxylase involved in making the iron-chelating drug desferrioxamine B!!!.
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Two of us from Smith College are on this list! @916ice @smithcollege. Many thanks to those who took the time to highlight Black excellence in science.
With this final list, @CommofScholars and @phdgprotein86 hope to dismantle the myth that outstanding Black scientists make up a small percentage of the scientific community. Read more in Cell Mentor:
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And another one!!!. Our data article on the metagenome and metatranscriptome of microbes at the Ely Mine Superfund site:
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Our new paper! Cover art by Daniel TetrĆ©ault ā20. Featuring research done by former undergraduate Giddings lab members Katherine Morillo ā18 and Kieran Bhave ā20.
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1st characterization of a microbiome & transcriptome at Ely Copper Mine, an EPA Superfund site! Could this metal-polluted environment be a source of new drugs? Could metal resistance genes help us find new antibiotics? Read to find out.
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RT @ChemistryMIT: Lesley-Ann Giddings (PhD '11) is an Assistant Professor @smithcollege where @TheLabOfGiddy bioprospects extreme environmeā¦.
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