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Wendy Strangman
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Associate professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Looking forward to reading all your science posts! #natural_products #chemistry #metabolomics #chemical_ecology #oceanography #chemsky #nat prod #secmet
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Scientists have discovered a new class of compounds in a disease-causing fungus, Aspergillus flavus, that the group says show potential as antileukemia drug candidates. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
New class of anticancer compounds found in fungus
Asperigimycin modified with lipid chain slows proliferation of leukemia cells
cen.acs.org
June 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
#broaderimpacts. Great afternoon working with UNCW MarineQuest high school students on antibiotic discovery from coral microbiomes @uncw-cms.bsky.social . Part of our most excellent collaboration with Blake Ushijima’ s group @vibriosoup.bsky.social .
June 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Some good news for coral for a change! Exciting new research by one of my favorite collaborators! @vibriosoup.bsky.social 😁
June 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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If you are a PhD student in microbial interactions or natural products that is displaced by this political bullshit and looking for a new lab, I have room for one (or potentially two) PhD students in my group in the fall when I move to UW. Feel free to reach out via email.
May 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Amazing!
A gene-editing treatment used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases #NBTNewsBeat www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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A gene-editing treatment used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases #NBTNewsBeat www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Sometimes science looks glamorous - like heading out for field work in the Florida Keys - but most of the time it’s long days in lab and a few nights on an air mattress collecting overnight data points. Hats off to our awesome team of students and postdoc! #NSF #oceanscience @uncw-cms.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I am thrilled to share after years of work/procrastination that the MassQL manuscript is finally published in @natmethods.nature.com - "A universal language for finding mass spectrometry data patterns". This was an team effort from all co-authors that helped shape MassQL and how it could be used.
May 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Farewell DISCOvery group party for our visiting Brazilian PhD student Ana Capote. It’s been an awesome and productive 6 months. We’re going to miss her for sure!
April 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
So fun helping at the NC #STEM Expo @uncw-cms.bsky.social this weekend. Had an awesome crew from our DISCOvery lab and amazing volunteers talking about marine natural products and making “antibiotic producing bacterial cultures” out of jello and sprinkles 😀.
April 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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UNCW Represents at #ASLO2025 with a strong showing of departments, faculty, students and research. Biology & Marine Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Earth & Ocean Sciences, Physics & Physical Oceanography and Applied Coastal and Ocean Sciences, Ph.D! uncw.edu/academics/ma...
April 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
We had a great time at our first #ASLO25 ! Great to talk about our #NSF funded DOM cycling work, learn about amazing science, and for my awesome grad student Courtney Clevenger and postdoc Lydia Davis to meet some of the marine science community. Strong showing by @uncw-cms.bsky.social !
April 1, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Last year we hosted an amazing PhD student, now Dr. Evelyn Assis de Andrade, from Brazil. Out of an 8-month stay in our group, she’s now published 4 papers!! including this most recent one on quality control for the Kalanchoe genus: analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
March 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
From samples to publication. Excited for my super talented @uncw-cms.bsky.social grad student Courtney’s first collaborative paper on toxic cyanobacterial blooms in urban storm water ponds. Great team! Out now in Harmful Algae:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Enjoying the wins when we can: Big day today @uncw celebrating accomplishments including the launch of our new PhD program in pharmaceutical chemistry. Over 150 attendees and over 50 students presenting research posters. Keynote speaker Dr. Chris Senanayake, CEO of TCG GreenChem. Such a great day!
March 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
We spent the first half of UNCW’s spring break @uncw-cms.bsky.social in the Florida Keys collecting sponges and algae for our DOM cycling experiments looking at a small slice of the future of ocean nutrition.
March 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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The Rising Impact of Coral Research at UNCW is highlighted by our Research & Innovation Department in this feature on the preservation and restoration of one of the world’s most vital marine organisms. @vibriosoup.bsky.social

uncw.edu/news/researc...
UNCW's Rising Impact on Coral Research
UNCW's faculty are advancing coral reef conservation with groundbreaking research on coral spawning, restoration and genetic resilience.
uncw.edu
February 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In between the waves of devastating news, sometimes it’s nice to bask in the cleansing joy of a grad student’s first paper. Out today: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Bulk of the work by @vibriosoup.bsky.social on new #coralprobiotics species. We just did the pigment analysis 😊.
February 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If anyone knows an awesome marine chemist looking to make a change, my department at UNC Wilmington is hiring a distinguished (full) professor of marine chemistry ( broadly defined) . Related government/ industry equivalency will also be considered. Join us! jobs.uncw.edu/postings/34225
Carl B. Brown Distinguished Professor in Marine Science
The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry in the College of Science and Engineering invites applications for The Carl B. Brown Distinguished Professorship in Marine Science. This position is a tenure...
jobs.uncw.edu
February 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Spreading the gospel of “better living through chemistry “ #ACS today with my awesome students. Felt really good to get an injection of science enthusiasm.
February 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
For all my science friends who need a smile this week ❤️
February 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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American Bar Assoc
𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘞𝘦 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸. 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘺𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴, 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘺
The ABA supports the rule of law
It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...
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February 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This could be a really helpful resource:
February 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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One of the kindest and most interesting scientists I have known, Julian Davies, passed away. I had some remarkable conversations with him. Watch this seminar, and you will see what I mean. RIP, Julian.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjdb...
Dr. Julian E. Davies, University of British Columbia
YouTube video by UW-Madison Department of Biochemistry
www.youtube.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Unlocking hidden treasures: the evolution of high-throughput mass spectrometry in screening for cryptic natural products

Brett Covington & Mohammad Seyedsayamdost

@natprodreports.bsky.social

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Unlocking hidden treasures: the evolution of high-throughput mass spectrometry in screening for cryptic natural products
Covering: 1994 to 2024Historically, microbial natural product discovery has been predominantly guided by biological activity from crude microbial extracts with metabolite characterization proceeding o...
pubs.rsc.org
January 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM