Latest Li Lab News

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!

June 25, 2019

Congratulations to Jon and Adam for their paper discovering the Pseudomonas aeruginosa natural product azabicyclene! You can read the paper in Org Lett here!

June 3, 2019

Congratulations to Gina, Ashley, Kevin, and Savannah for their paper on deciphering the PVF NRPS specificity! You can read the paper in Biochemistry here!

April 15, 2019

We welcome new graduate student Xiaoyan (Betty) to the lab!

April 10, 2019

Congratulations to Andy for successfully defending his thesis! Good luck in Gerry Wright's lab!!

March 14, 2019

Congratulations to Ashley for successfully defending her thesis! We look forward to seeing what you'll accomplish in Doug Mitchell's lab!

January 29, 2019

Congratulations to Kevin, Andy, and Erinn for their paper rediscovering the farnesyl transferase-inhibitor Pepticinnamin! You can read the paper in ChemBioChem here!

January 7, 2019

Congratulations to Dr. Erinn O'Neill for successfully defending her thesis! We'll miss you, and good luck at Agilent!

December 7, 2018

Congratulations to Andy and Eli for their paper studying DTP antibiotics chemistry and mode of action! You can read the paper in Chemical Research in Toxicology here!

December 1, 2018

We welcome new graduate student Rachel Johnson (number 2) to the lab!

September 20, 2018

Congratulations to Erinn, Jon, and Eli for their paper discovering bacterial molecules that suppress plant immune response. You can read the paper in P.N.A.S. here! This work was also highlighted on UNC's website

August 7, 2018

Congratulations to Ashley and Gina for their discovery of N-oxygenated compounds produced from the widespread pseudomonas virulence factor pathway. You can read their paper here

June 20, 2018

We welcome new graduate students Adam and Katie to the lab!

June 13, 2018

Congratulations to Jon for earning a Ralph Bost fellowship!

June 5, 2018

Congratulations to Rachel for earning a Clare Boothe Luce fellowship! You can read more about this competetive award here.

June 1, 2018

We bid farewell to our undergrads, Martina and Savannah, as they graduate UNC and pursue their career endeavors. Thanks for all your contributions to the lab through the years!

May 21, 2018

Congratulations to Jon and Zach for their paper characterizing the biosynthesis of methoxyvinvylglycine. You can read the paper in Angewandte here.

January 1, 2018

The lab wishes a farewell to Eli, and thanks her for her hard work in the lab. We wish her good luck in her future endeavors in Italy!

November 7, 2017

Congratulations to Jon, Wenlong, Rachel, and Kevin, on their paper in Biochemistry identifying the biosynthesis of the antibiotic, bicyclomycin. You can read the paper here.

October 5, 2017

Bo has been awarded an NIH New Innovator Award! This award is granted for high risk, high reward projects. Many thanks to the NIH, and congratulations to Bo! You can read more about this on UNC's website.

July 15, 2017

Bo has been awarded a 2017 NSF CAREER award, a prestigious award given to early-career faculty who serve as academic role models in research and education. Many thanks to NSF, and congratulations to Bo!

April 7, 2017

Congratulations, Martina Knechel, for earning a summer undergraduate research fellowship!

March 30, 2017

Congratulations, Andy Chan, for being awarded the Smithwick fellowship!

January 19, 2017

Congratulations, Andy Chan, on his paper in PNAS identifying the mode of action of the class of antibiotics, dithiolopyrrolones. You can read the paper here. This paper was also featured in C&E News.

January 7, 2017

Welcome new Li Lab member, Elisabetta Massolo!

December 1, 2016

Welcome new Li Lab member, Rachel Johnson!

October 14, 2016

Bo has been named one of this year's winners of the Packard fellowship in science and engineering, awarded to the nationa's most innovative early-career scientists. Thank you to the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and congratulations to Bo! You can read more about it on UNC's website.

June 25, 2016

Bo has been named one of this year's Rita Allen Foundation Scholars. This award is given to early-career biomedical scholars studying cancer, immunology, and neuroscience. Thank you to the Rita Allen Foundation, and congratulations to Bo!