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Welcome! We are part of the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Department of Chemistry, and the Microbial Sciences Institute at Yale University. We use chemical and biological tools to study enzymes and other proteins that shape host–microbe dynamics in gastrointestinal infections.

News

Anna's paper reporting an affinity-based depletion strategy for the antioxidant ergothioneine is online

March 10, 2025

Congratulations to Anna on her research article in Cell Chemical Biology reporting a new approach to metabolite depletion using a bacterial ABC transporter, applied to study...

Congratulations, Dr. Seminara!

March 3, 2025

Congratulations to Anna on a great thesis defense!

Zhe's review on microbial metabolism of host-derived antioxidants is online

January 2, 2025

Congratulations to Zhe on her review article in Current Opinion in Chemical Biology describing microbial biotransformations of redox-active metabolites that influence...

Welcome, Botao!

November 1, 2024

We are delighted to welcome postdoc Botao Cheng to the lab. Botao completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry with Dr. Wen Liu at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, where he...

Zhe is awarded a 2024 Leslie H. Warner Postdoctoral Fellowship

July 31, 2024

Congratulations to Zhe on receiving a Leslie H. Warner Fellowship from the Yale Cancer Center!

Renuka is awarded an NIH F31 Fellowship

July 29, 2024

Congratulations to Renuka on receiving an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the NIAID!

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