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SUMMARY:Joint ChemBio & ChemE e-seminar by Prof. Wenjun Zhang (UC Berkeley
 ): Discovery\, Biosynthesis and Functional Study of Natural Products
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/faculty/cbe/zhang\nSeminar titl
 e: Discovery\, Biosynthesis and Functional Study of Natural Products\n\nAb
 stract: Natural products are important small molecules widely used as dru
 gs\, pesticides\, herbicides\, and biological probes. In addition to the b
 iotechnological and pharmaceutical applications\, many natural products ar
 e used by their producing organisms to access information about both the i
 ntracellular physiological status and extracellular environment\, and cont
 rol complex cellular processes such as virulence\, morphological different
 iation\, stress response\, nutrient acquisition\, and defense. Zhang lab i
 s interested in new bioactive small molecule discovery\, understanding the
  intriguing enzymology and programming rules underlying natural product bi
 osynthesis\, designing pathways toward combinatorial natural product biosy
 nthesis\, probing the activity and/or function of natural products\, and d
 eveloping new research toolkits to promote the aforementioned research. In
  this presentation\, our recent efforts in identifying new bioactive natur
 al products from human oral microbiome will be discussed. In addition\, I 
 will discuss our biosynthetic study for unique functionalities found in na
 tural products\, such as an N-hydroxytriazene pharmacophore conserved in t
 he triacsin family of natural products. \n\nSpeaker's Bio: Wenjun Zhang 
 is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular E
 ngineering at University of California Berkeley and the Charles R. Wilke E
 ndowed Chair in Chemical Engineering. She did her doctoral training with Y
 i Tang at UCLA and her postdoctoral training with Christopher T. Walsh at 
 Harvard Medical School before joining UC Berkeley in 2011. She is the auth
 or of 80+ scientific publications and received awards such as Pew Scholar 
 (2012)\, NIH Director’s New Innovator (2015)\, Sloan Research Fellow (20
 16)\, American Cancer Society Research Scholar (2017)\, Presidential Early
  Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019)\, etc. Zhang Lab is broa
 dly interested in natural product discovery\, biosynthesis\, engineering\,
  and biological studies.\n\nLab website: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/wzg
 rp/publication.htm\n\n 
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/66146029243
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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