Wendy Strangman

New class of anticancer compounds found in fungus Asperigimycin modified with lipid chain slows proliferation of leukemia cells

Scientists have discovered a new class of compounds in a disease-causing fungus, Aspergillus flavus, that the group says show potential as antileukemia drug candidates. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪

#broaderimpacts. Great afternoon working with UNCW MarineQuest high school students on antibiotic discovery from coral microbiomes @uncw-cms.bsky.social . Part of our most excellent collaboration with Blake Ushijima’ s group @vibriosoup.bsky.social .

Some good news for coral for a change! Exciting new research by one of my favorite collaborators! @vibriosoup.bsky.social 😁

If you are a PhD student in microbial interactions or natural products that is displaced by this political bullshit and looking for a new lab, I have room for one (or potentially two) PhD students in my group in the fall when I move to UW. Feel free to reach out via email.

Amazing!

Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

A gene-editing treatment used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases #NBTNewsBeat www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

Sometimes science looks glamorous - like heading out for field work in the Florida Keys - but most of the time it’s long days in lab and a few nights on an air mattress collecting overnight data points. Hats off to our awesome team of students and postdoc! #NSF #oceanscience @uncw-cms.bsky.social

I am thrilled to share after years of work/procrastination that the MassQL manuscript is finally published in @natmethods.nature.com - "A universal language for finding mass spectrometry data patterns". This was an team effort from all co-authors that helped shape MassQL and how it could be used.

Farewell DISCOvery group party for our visiting Brazilian PhD student Ana Capote. It’s been an awesome and productive 6 months. We’re going to miss her for sure!

So fun helping at the NC #STEM Expo @uncw-cms.bsky.social this weekend. Had an awesome crew from our DISCOvery lab and amazing volunteers talking about marine natural products and making “antibiotic producing bacterial cultures” out of jello and sprinkles 😀.

UNCW Represents at #ASLO2025 with a strong showing of departments, faculty, students and research. Biology & Marine Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Earth & Ocean Sciences, Physics & Physical Oceanography and Applied Coastal and Ocean Sciences, Ph.D! uncw.edu/academics/ma...

great talk!

We had a great time at our first #ASLO25 ! Great to talk about our #NSF funded DOM cycling work, learn about amazing science, and for my awesome grad student Courtney Clevenger and postdoc Lydia Davis to meet some of the marine science community. Strong showing by @uncw-cms.bsky.social !

Evelyn presenting her research at the 2023 American Society of Pharmacognosy annual meeting

Last year we hosted an amazing PhD student, now Dr. Evelyn Assis de Andrade, from Brazil. Out of an 8-month stay in our group, she’s now published 4 papers!! including this most recent one on quality control for the Kalanchoe genus: analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

first of the data is coming in now and looks SO exciting!!

From samples to publication. Excited for my super talented @uncw-cms.bsky.social grad student Courtney’s first collaborative paper on toxic cyanobacterial blooms in urban storm water ponds. Great team! Out now in Harmful Algae:
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Enjoying the wins when we can: Big day today @uncw celebrating accomplishments including the launch of our new PhD program in pharmaceutical chemistry. Over 150 attendees and over 50 students presenting research posters. Keynote speaker Dr. Chris Senanayake, CEO of TCG GreenChem. Such a great day!

We spent the first half of UNCW’s spring break @uncw-cms.bsky.social in the Florida Keys collecting sponges and algae for our DOM cycling experiments looking at a small slice of the future of ocean nutrition.

UNCW's Rising Impact on Coral Research UNCW's faculty are advancing coral reef conservation with groundbreaking research on coral spawning, restoration and genetic resilience.

The Rising Impact of Coral Research at UNCW is highlighted by our Research & Innovation Department in this feature on the preservation and restoration of one of the world’s most vital marine organisms. @vibriosoup.bsky.social

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In between the waves of devastating news, sometimes it’s nice to bask in the cleansing joy of a grad student’s first paper. Out today: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Bulk of the work by @vibriosoup.bsky.social on new #coralprobiotics species. We just did the pigment analysis 😊.

position closes Feb. 27th

feel free to DM me with questions.

associate professors will also be considered (and hired at full professor rank)

If anyone knows an awesome marine chemist looking to make a change, my department at UNC Wilmington is hiring a distinguished (full) professor of marine chemistry ( broadly defined) . Related government/ industry equivalency will also be considered. Join us! jobs.uncw.edu/postings/34225

Spreading the gospel of “better living through chemistry “ #ACS today with my awesome students. Felt really good to get an injection of science enthusiasm.

For all my science friends who need a smile this week ❤️

The ABA supports the rule of law It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...

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𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘞𝘦 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸. 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘺𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴, 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘺

This could be a really helpful resource:

YouTube video by UW-Madison Department of Biochemistry Dr. Julian E. Davies, University of British Columbia

One of the kindest and most interesting scientists I have known, Julian Davies, passed away. I had some remarkable conversations with him. Watch this seminar, and you will see what I mean. RIP, Julian.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjdb...

Unlocking hidden treasures: the evolution of high-throughput mass spectrometry in screening for cryptic natural products Covering: 1994 to 2024Historically, microbial natural product discovery has been predominantly guided by biological activity from crude microbial extracts with metabolite characterization proceeding o...

Unlocking hidden treasures: the evolution of high-throughput mass spectrometry in screening for cryptic natural products

Brett Covington & Mohammad Seyedsayamdost

@natprodreports.bsky.social

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