sarahoconnor.org A group of chemists and biochemists trying to understand how and why plants synthesize complex natural products.

Joined October 2012
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Hi everyone: Ithe O'Connor lab has moved to Bluesky. Follow us @oconnorlab.bsky.social
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1/2. Chris Walsh was a constant source of inspiration – and remains so today. Here, I especially enjoyed his thoughts on the future of chemical biology: "Not Forecasting the Future: Rose Garden Philosophizing" sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1002/i…

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We are looking for an ambitious PhD fellow to work on beneficial plant-microbe interactions. We offer an inspiring and international research environment at the Science Faculty, UCPH. Apply at employment.ku.dk/all-vacanci… Please RT #PhDposition @KU_PLEN @cpsc_ucph #sciencejobs

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The O'Connor Lab celebrates our 20th year in 2023. We are planning a celebratory symposium and party on 6 October 2023. More details will follow in the coming months.
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If you want a refresher in basic organic chemistry- check out these videos my dad made while he was teaching at Rutgers- vimeo.com/search?q=Professor…

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Very cool structural biology PhD project on how bacteria sense their environment ice.mpg.de/402115/Project-61
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O'Connor Lab Alum Jakob Franke is looking for a PhD student in his lab in Hannover in the area of Natural Products. uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/5…

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This article made me think (again) about our current (totally bananas) publishing system. experimentalhistory.substack…

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Engineering the Biosynthesis of Late-Stage Vinblastine Precursors Precondylocarpine Acetate, Catharanthine, Tabersonine in Nicotiana benthamiana | ACS Synthetic Biology. Congratulations Dagny, Prashant, Lorenzo and Benke! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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Molecules that I (we) have known and loved.
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Thanks to O’Connor group members past and present.
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Chloe’s 2022 Group Photo. Find yourself in the Where’s SOC
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The future mass spec room
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If you ever wondered what Jena is like, here is a very cute video. youtube.com/watch?v=MM1Fraww…

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Happy Halloween.
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Very cool work about calcium waves in plants from my former JIC colleague
Diffusion and bulk flow of amino acids mediate calcium waves in plants | Science Advances. science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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