Dr Laura Sanchez

Having a blast #ASP2025 refreshed after catching up with friends and celebrating science

We’re pleased to share a significant development in the lawsuit challenging the rescission of MOSAIC and other NIH grants. MOSAIC grants support scientists from a wide range of backgrounds in transitioning to research careers. The First Circuit has denied the government’s motion for a stay pending appeal and formally granted ASM’s motion to file an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs. In a 34-page opinion, the court found that the government is unlikely to prevail on its argument that the case belongs in the Court of Federal Claims rather than federal district court. The court also affirmed that the grant cancellations are subject to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act and cast doubt on the government’s ability to justify the terminations under the arbitrary-and-capricious standard. The court acknowledged the serious consequences of abruptly canceling scientific research grants and emphasized that the public’s interest is aligned with the plaintiffs. The government may now seek an emergency stay from the Supreme Court, and ASM is prepared to continue its legal actions at that level. We will keep our community informed about the next steps in the legal process. This is a promising moment: our strategy is gaining traction and sending a clear signal about the importance of fairness, transparency and due process in federal research funding decisions.

Some good news from @asm.org about their efforts to fight unlawful grant terminations, such as MOSAIC

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Seeing between the lines: matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging advances for microbial interactions This review delves into the technical advancements of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI) applications f…

Seeing between the lines: matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging advances for microbial interactions

-in Curr Opin Microbiol from @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social
#Microbiota_thematic_issue

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ZiemertLab The Ziemert lab is interested in the evolution and distribution of bacterial secondary metabolites. These bioactive compounds are especially important in human medicine as the chemical scaffolds are t...

Check out the Ziemert Lab’s new YouTube channel
m.youtube.com/@ZiemertLab
We’ve uploaded short tutorial videos on how to use our tools for genome mining and natural product discovery.
Thanks Semih, @martinaadamek.bsky.social @turgutmesut.bsky.social ! #GenomeMining #SecMet #naturalproducts

‘Need for speed: high throughput’ – mass spectrometry approaches for high-throughput directed evolution screening of natural product enzymes Covering: 2015 to 2024 Mass spectrometry (MS)-based methods have been implemented extensively for enzyme engineering due to their label-free nature, making them suitable for screening a wide range of…

🔓Read a #OpenAccess review by @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social‬ et al. from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social‬ in our MS Metabolomics themed collection covering mass spectrometry approaches for high-throughput directed evolution screening of natural product enzymes #secmet #natprod

Scientific Glassblower Position Title: Scientific Glassblower Job Group: Professional & Scientific Required Minimum Qualifications: High school diploma or equivalent and 5 years of related experience Preferred Qualifica...

#chemsky 🧪 ISU Department of Chemistry is hiring a scientific glassblower. Thrilled we are hiring for this position given the impending retirement of our current glassblower. isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Tenured!

It’s been a remarkable six years at UC Santa Cruz full of many unexpected obstacles but even more triumphs! I’m incredibly proud of the phenomenal team that we’ve assembled and am excited to have the continued opportunity to grow and share our collective successes!

What? Some good news on a Friday?

Parent Fellowship Notices of Funding Opportunities are up!

F30, F31, F32, F33

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The Extraordinary Benefit of Nature’s Chemistry to Health, Society, and the Economy The connection between humans and Nature’s chemistry is astonishing and built into the very fabric of our genetic code. In this Perspective, we focus on bioactive molecules from microbes, plants, and ...

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Two good follows for this evening

@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
@ianlmorgan.bsky.social

Two of the leaders at NIH who wrote the #BethedaDeclaration and are standing up and speaking out for all of us.

@standupforscience.bsky.social

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 4 tenure-track positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemjobs

Hope everyone made it home safely after #ASMS2025. Thanks all for making it another fun conference. Planning for #ASMS2026 San Diego started at 7:30am this morning. Don’t forget to fill in the post-conf survey when you get it. More ice cream and fruit? @asms.org

Group photo of participants at the 2nd Annual RCSA Fellows Conference in a desert garden landscape.

2nd Annual #RCSAFellows Conference is underway in Tucson! Congrats to 2024 & 2025 Fellows, and thanks to our speakers, Facilitators & advisors for giving their time and advice so generously to help prepare these outstanding postdoctoral scholars for the faculty search process and the professoriate.

UMN Medical school meeting with grim news from President Cunningham; federal grant pullbacks will result in 100’s of job losses. U will try to facilitate “respectful transition” but the losses will be in the 100’s 😳

This will be a dark 4 years for universities

Congrats Carli and Jason on your #ASMS2025 awards!! 🥳😎🤩 @ucscscience.bsky.social

Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article) Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants

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Dr Luu did a great job sharing our recent collaboration with @robbieshepherd.bsky.social check out the preprint for separating constitutional isomers from #MSImaging #Timaging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ASMS2025

You should check out Owl Bar if you get a chance!! It’s right around the corner from Brewer’s Art (I lived a block from Brewers Art in grad school). Owl Bar is an old speakeasy!

I love not having to make decisions about where to eat 💁🏽‍♀️ also super cool building too

Thanks for the social media recommendations @willfondrie.com we had our group dinner at Brewer’s Art last night! Excellent brews and tasty food 😋🤤 #ASMS2025 #Sluglife

While vibes are lower than normal at science conferences these days, its still nice and refreshing to catch up with friends. Introduced the lab to their Grandpapa #ASMS2025 #Sluglife @nlkproteomics.bsky.social

Group dinner @asms.org #sluglife #asms2025

The Spaceflight MS display at #ASMS2025 is so cool!

Wow, a record breaking number of the Nesvizhskii lab members attending #ASMS2025! 9 posters, 3 evening workshops, and one Bioinformatics Hub on #FragPipe. Plus multiple collaborative posters with other groups. See you in Baltimore! PS. Below is our recent group photo, including all those attending

Check us out at #ASMS2025 at our posters, Carli is also speaking during the Tuesday Night Young Mass Spectrometrist workshop @ucscscience.bsky.social
Find me if you want a sweet Sanchez Lab logo sticker

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.

It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Congrats to Dr. Austin Hopiavuori for giving a masterful dissertation seminar today and being McKinnie lab PhD #2! Austin has done phenomenal work on biosynthetic non-heme iron enzymes and helped quarterback our inaugural CURE lab last year. Incredibly proud of you Dr. Hopiavuori!

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Huge congrats to Dr. Jackson Baumgartner for completing his PhD dissertation seminar this afternoon! Jackson was an inaugural lab member and has done a phenomenal job exploring VHPO enzymology! Incredibly proud of all your achievements Dr. Baumgartner and thanks for being PhD #1 from McKinnie lab!

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Amanpour and Company

David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏

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