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Joined July 2009
Take a break from doomscrolling and read up on everything you ever wanted to know about Tackling Undruggable Targets with Designer Peptidomimetics and Synthetic Biologics. Fun writing this with @ColinSwenson, Guna and Debbie in my lab! pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021…
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Excited to share our work on synthetic,‘artificial’ transcription factors. We present one solution to design non-natural, high affinity, specific and stable synthetic transcriptional repressors (STRs) that compete with MYC or other bHLH TFs for DNA binding nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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Darts and snacks in the city with the lab. Lots to celebrate as we head into academic yr, not the least of which being recently granted F32 and T32 for @ColinSwenson and Olivia Laxton.
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Bit delayed; 2020 was a rough year but we still managed to get out a paper, go check it out! Laser-Induced Chemistry Observed during 248 nm Vacuum Ultraviolet Photolysis of an O3 and CH3NH2 Mixture pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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HUGE congratulations to our peptide nucleic acid exec extraordinaire, @ColinSwenson, on defending his PhD!!! Cheers to your bright future at @UChiChemistry and beyond xx 🎃🎉
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When your roommates are your lab mates and your office mates, you become quarantine mates @Tewoderos14 @MrSteveKnutson @HeemstraLab
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In this Feature Article, @jenheemstra & @ColinSwenson highlight the ability of peptide nucleic acids as peptide mimics, and their untapped potential to encode information in the amino acid sequence 😎 Interested? Read it here ➡️ ow.ly/lnoP50ybKRy
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Sometimes we Heemstra Lab members produce beautiful colors for #FluorescenceFriday. Other times @ColinSwenson makes this terrifying blob. What do you think it is?
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Happy #FluorescenceFriday from @Tewoderos14 of the Heemstra Lab!
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Parlez vous protein? @HeemstraLab teach molecules to speak both nucleic acid and protein languages simultaneously @ColinSwenson @jenheemstra cen.acs.org/biological-chemi…
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Congrats to @ColinSwenson @ChemHector @arventhv for having your work on bilingual biopolymers highlighted in @nature! nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Grateful and proud of this publication and the team that helped move it forward. Hopefully more to come soon!
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Grad school doesn't always go as planned but I am where I am and after four years I finally submitted my first manuscript!!
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Ran a pretty cool column on a solvatochromic dye this week #FluorescenceFriday #RealTimeChem #PrideMonth
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Heemstra lab members @ColinSwenson, @ChemHector, and @sknutso2 along with the @WWAstroChemLab's @BunnHayley @EmoryUniversity earned their headbands today at @ToughMudder full. Woo! #BiomoleculesOnTheMove #GradStudentsOnTheMove #toughmudder
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That feeling when you slide into your fantasy playoffs xitter.cf/BleacherReport/status/…
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Colin Swenson retweeted
FIRST LOOK: The blueprint for Donald Trump's wall
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