In the Parkinson lab, we focus on the discovery of novel bioactive natural products from cryptic biosynthetic gene clusters found in soil dwelling bacteria.
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Honors Biology students learning about how Microbes in our soil produce useful antiobiotics. Practices such as serial dilution, sterile technique and micro-pipetting are also being applied in this unique learning experience with @ParkinsonLab! @jeff_principal@LSClafayette
Parkinson Lab had a great time volunteering at the Children's Museum Indianapolis! We isolated soil bacteria, did candy chromatography, and saw some dinosaurs @TCMIndy@PurdueChemistry
🏆 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. ⬇️
We are thrilled to release 3,000 more genomes on the NPDC Genome Portal (npdc.rc.ufl.edu)! This week, we are also launching new filter and search functionalities to improve your experience. Please take a moment to fill out our NPDC survey here: forms.office.com/r/6yWxZDVww…
Our paper on the nanoRAPIDS platform is out in @CommsChem. The analytical pipeline nanofractionates 10 ul complex culture extract into 384 wells and then determines high-res mass and bioactivity of all peaks.
doi.org/10.1038/s42004-024-0…
Congratulations to all our 2024 @PurdueScience Faculty and Staff honorees including executive assistant Jackie Butram! Here are the other honorees in Chemistry and the college: purdue.edu/science/about/fac…
Move over titin... introducing PKZILLA as the largest protein in life that makes one the largest nonpolymeric compounds in biology, the marine polyether toxin prymnesin. Congrats to @photocyte & @VikShende and rest of team! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…