Loesgen Lab

Loesgen Lab

@loesgenlab.bsky.social

Natural Products Chemistry group at the Whitney Laboratory, University of Florida, working on natural products based drug discovery and chemical ecology.

625 Followers 88 Following 22 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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Gator Nation Giving Day

Support the UF Whitney Lab today on Gator Nations Giving Day- with its mission to train tomorrow’s scientists, conserve and restore marine ecosystems, and support cutting edge science! givingday.ufl.edu/pages/whitne...

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4 months ago
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Saving science by the sea As funding for science tightens across the United States, attention has turned to pressures faced by universities and biomedical research institutions. An often overlooked part of the nation’s science...

Editorial in Science last week highlighting the importance of marine labs in light of the current funding issues: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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4 months ago
University of Florida - Details - Assistant/Associate Professor in Marine Bioscience

Marine Biosciences Assistant/Associate Prof job at University of Florida explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... [for MNP folks, this is where Sansa Loesgen @loesgenlab.bsky.social is based]

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5 months ago

Join us at the UF Whitney Lab! Focus on research in a new brand new building!!

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7 months ago
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Great posters at #ASp2025! Thanks ASP, Whitney lab for travel support! #proudPI

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7 months ago
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The Rudolf and Loesgen Labs had a great 2025 beach Day! 5th time at the UF Whitney Lab!

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1 year ago
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Very excited for this paper- a new zebrafish screen for analgesics, works for natural products extracts. Open Access! More on ‘behavior-guided’ isolation to come! Thanks to the Strother team for a wonderful collaboration! @ UF WhitneyLab authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Total Synthesis of Chalaniline A: An Aminofulvene Fused Chromone from Vorinostat-Treated Fungus Chalara sp. 6661 Chalaniline A, an aminofulveno[1,2-b]chromone derivative previously isolated from a vorinostat-treated ascomycete Chalara sp., was prepared in nine steps from orcinol (3,5-dihydroxytoluene). In a key ...

Very excited to see another molecule discovered by @LoesgenLab being synthesized! Congrats to the Blakemore lab- thanks for the collaboration! Stay tuned for some awesome activity! Congrats to Oh-Seok Kwon! @Whitney_Lab @UFChemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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1 year ago
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Very proud of Erin Marshall and Bastien Petit to present at ICNPR 2024 in Krakow, Poland. Cool bugs, chemistry, metabolomics, and neuro activity! Cant wait for ASP 2025! @LoesgenLab @Whitney_Lab @UFChemistry @pharmacognosy

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1 year ago
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The 4th annual Beach Day by the Rudolf and Loesgen Labs was a great success. This year with a boat tour, surfing, and pau hana! @Whitney_Lab @UFChemistry @LoesgenLab @LabRudolf

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Exciting to be at the 7th International Cassiopea Workshop in Key Largo! #Cassiopeabase #Corals @LoesgenLab talks by @femontesanto @mrkmccauley and truly yours! Thanks @momedinamunoz and @aohdera for the invite! Proud to present @Whitney_Lab @UF

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1 year ago
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Fungal endophytes from Thalassia testudinum show bioactivity against the seagrass pathogen, Labyrinthula spp. Thalassia testudinum has undergone die-offs in the past century due to seagrass was�ng disease caused by Labyrinthula sp. Litle is known about how seagrasses resist Labyrinthula infec�ons, but metabol...

Once you become a Floridian, you have to save the manatees! Work by Annika Jagels @LoesgenLab Whitney_Lab, UFChemistry in collaboration with Uli Stingl UF_MCS. 'Fungal endophytes from Thalassia testudinum show bioactivity against the seagrass pathogen'_ www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

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2 years ago
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Loesgenlab team at FloHet! Check out posters and connect! #FloHet2024 #NaturalProducts #ProudPI

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2 years ago
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Federica flew to Santiago de Chile and then Punta Arenas in southern Chile. She met our colleagues at the Instituto Antártico Chileno (INACH) and was outfitted and trained for the Antarctic Summer ;) January 16th, she flew to King George Island, Villa Las Estrellas, Antartica! 🐧 What an adventure!

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2 years ago
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Florida - Chile - Antartica! 🇺🇸 🇨🇱 🧊We are so excited for postdoc Federica Montesano from @LoesgenLab, @Whitney_Lab, @UF to join our Chilean Collaborators for Antartica Expedition ECA60 INACH 1621 to study Antarctic Fungi, Bacteria, Microbiomes. Safe travels & happy sampling!

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2 years ago
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Excited to host Christine Salomon today at 6pm
at the Whitney Lab for her public lecture "Battle for the bats - development of treatments for White Nose Syndrome". Join us in person or via zoom: calendar.ufl.edu/whitney-lab/... #NaturalProducts #DrugDiscovery

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2 years ago
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Exciting to be a small part of this work by Mark McCauley, Samantha Koda, and Dave Duffy at the UF Whitney Lab!
Why does the Environmental DNA community rely on mitochondrial DNA? We have evidence that nuclear DNA should not be overlooked! authors.elsevier.com/c/1iKvGB8ccy...

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2 years ago
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Check out the amazing video for our director's search!

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2 years ago

We are looking for the next Whitney Lab Director with a bold vision for marine sciences. Learn more about UF's Whitney Laboratory here and apply by January 20th 2024! JOIN US at the beach for cutting edge science! 🐊 😎 🔬 Pls spread the news! youtu.be/ifH2xVXx9F4?...

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2 years ago
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Join a growing research community with a new lab in 2025!

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2 years ago

The Whitney Lab is a multidisciplinary, marine research institute @UF. We address fundamental questions from neuroscience to evolution; from cell physiology to developmental and system biology, biomechanics, and behaviors; from chemistry to drug discovery and environmental health!

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JOIN US! Excited too chair the search for our new Director - we seek an innovative leader with a bold and inclusive vision for the future of #MarineBiology @Whitney_Lab. Apply by January 2024 here bit.ly/3um0kBe #UF #Hiring #NowHiring #HigherEd #TenureTrack #Professor

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2 years ago
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Second day @sacnas #2023NDiSTEM! See the UF booth for @Whitney_Lab training options. Open positions on several levels from postbacc, technicians, to grad students and postdocs! Talk to me about Natural Products Chemistry and the American Society of Pharmacognosy!

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