Congrats to Florian, Stone and Sam for publication of Part 1 in our collaboration with Laura Bohn's lab to explore the pharmacology of GB18, a Galbulimima alkaloid that we identified as a novel opioid in 2022.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00573

Bittersweet graduation this year.

These two earned their PhDs working to understand components of traditional medicine (Salvinorin A and the GB alkaloids), each earned a Science paper and graduated in 4y.

Now they are highly skilled scientists with Merck and Janssen, trained with federal funds.

Now some nice cottony rain clouds to quench the fires.

Saturdays at the lab. Paper reviews, free Farmers Open seats.

The most important reagent was teamwork!

If you like total synthesis and Wordle, check out Synthordle, a retrosynthetic analysis game created by Shenvi Lab associates Kevin Zong (GS 2) and Jonah Luo (HS sophomore!).
shenvilab.github.io/Synthordle/
Easy problems for Sophomore OChem, hard problems for advanced practitioners.