I'm very excited to share that my research group has been awarded 3 new major grants this summer, an NIH MIRA, an NSF single-investigator, and another NSF with the Ralph Kleiner Lab. These focus on fluorescent nucleosides and RNA chemical biology. New group photo too! Yay team! 🥳

Call for Abstracts: An oral symposium on Synthetically Modified Nucleosides and Nucleic Acids on October 26, 2025 at the @calacs.bsky.social‬ Western Regional Meeting in San Jose! Apply, share widely, and DM or email me with questions. wrm2025.org/index.php/pr...

Check out our new article in @chemsci.bsky.social, "Single-molecule detection of oligonucleotides using the fluorescent nucleobase analogue ABN", just out today! Congrats to the student authors and a big thanks to my collaborators, Anita Jones and Youngkwang Lee.
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I’m excited to share that the San Diego State University College of Sciences is hiring a Tenure Track/Tenured Assistant or Associate Professor in Translational Science, broadly defined, to begin Fall 2025. For full details and to apply, see <https://apply.interfolio.com/162439>.

I'm exited and honored to be an invited speaker at #CABSCon9 at CSU Fullerton today! Thanks to Prof. Stevan Pecic for the invitation.

I’m super excited to share something totally different from my research—my band’s first EP! Big 🙏 to my bandmates Pat Shanley and Ryan Woempner. Check it out! It's on the other major streaming services too. open.spotify.com/album/1gZBUA...

This Thanksgiving, the Purse Lab would like to thank our friends at Pfizer La Jolla for selecting us to receive research support as a part of their Green Chemistry Awards program. Special thanks to Dr. Paul Richardson! This helps to support new student initiatives in nucleosides chemistry.

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