Latest Li Lab News

March, 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Drake Crawford for successfully defending! We wish you all the best in Kingsport, TN as a PhD scientist!

March, 2024

Congratulations to Dr. William Simke for successfully defending! We wish you all the best in Nashville, TN as a postdoc at Vanderbilt!

February, 2024

Congratulations to Alexis for passing her oral exams! We are proud of you!

January, 2025

Welcome graduate students Gabby Beal, Chiara Licata, Jordyn Wilson, and Felicia Baerje to the Li Lab!

August, 2024

Welcome post-doc Sohan Hazra to the Li Lab!

April 20, 2022

Welcome graduate student Olivia Steiner to the Li Lab!

April 15, 2022

Great job, Professor Bo Li, for your invited presentation at UW Madison!

April 9, 2022

Lots of fun at the UNC Science Expo where we separated "small molecules", extracted anthocyanins from blueberries, and gave tours of our lab!

April 6, 2022

Congratulations to L. Henry Bryant for successfully defending his Biology Department Undergradutate Honor's Thesis! One Step closer to graduation!

March 9, 2022

Congratulations to Drake Crawford for successfully presenting his third year seminar!

January 12, 2022

Congratulations to Will Simke for successfully presenting his third year seminar!

January 10, 2022

Welcome post-doc Ryan Mull to the Li Lab!

November 29, 2021

Welcome graduate student Caitlin Vitro to the Li Lab!

November 19, 2021

Congratulations to Jon Patteson, Andrew Putz, Will Simke, Henry Bryant and collaborators from the R. David Britt lab at UC Davis for their paper in Science in which they discovered the biosynthesis of a novel copper containing antibiotic, Fluopsin C, from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. You can read the paper in Science magazine here!

November 12, 2021

Congratulations to Gina Morgan, Drake Crawford, and our collaborators in Jeff Aubé lab for their paper in ACS Chemical Biology outlining the biosynthesis of seven heterocycles produced by the pvf gene cluster from Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1!. You can read the paper in ACS ChemBio here!

September 1, 2021

Congratulations to Torhera Durand for her acceptance into the Chemical Biology Interface Program!

August 27, 2021

Congratulations to Jon Patteson for successfully defending his thesis! Best of Luck at Merck!

August 3, 2021

Congratulations to Rachel (Max) Johnson, Andy Chan, Caylie McGlade, Breanne Hatfield, and our collaborators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for their paper in JACS examining the mode of action of the hybrid antibiotic thiomarinol! You can read the paper here!

May 1, 2021

Welcome graduate student Torhera Durand to the Li Lab!

January 28, 2021

Congratulations to Ashley, Gina, and Katie for their paper characterizing the secretome regulated by PVF! You can read the paper in ACS Chem Bio.

October 2, 2020

Congratulations Dr. Gina Morgan on successfully defending her thesis! We wish her the best of luck at Oerth Bio.

June 25, 2019

Congratulations to Drake Crawford and Will Simke for obtaining a T32 Biophysics Training Grant Fellowship!

July 14, 2020

Congratulations to Gina for her paper characterizing the N-oxygenase in PVF biosynthesis! You can read the paper in Angewandte here!

May 1, 2020

We welcome our new post-doc, Dr. Qiang Guo, to the lab!

April 25, 2020

Welcome new first year grad students Drake Crawford and Will Simke to the lab!