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Check out our research featured in UConn Today “Fishing for New Antibiotics”

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Alfredo Angeles-Boza

Kim Krieger from UConn Communications did a wonderful job at making our work interesting to the general public. You can read the article here

Thanks NSF-MCB

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Alfredo Angeles-Boza

NSF will be funding our work on antimicrobial peptides! Thanks to NSF-MCB-1715494!

Congrats Jasmin on the BSAC Grant Award!

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Alfredo Angeles-Boza

Jasmin Portelinha will be spending the summer at Durham University working with the Cobb group (https://www.dur.ac.uk/chemistry/cobb.group/). Congratulations Jasmin!

NSF Career Award

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Alfredo Angeles-Boza

UConn Today published a nice article on Alfredo’s NSF Career Award

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Posted on May 8, 2017 by Alfredo Angeles-Boza

Our collaboration with the He group has been feature in Wiley’s ChemistryViews

Enzyme-Mimicking Metallofoldamers

Our review with the Pellois Group (Texas A&M) has been accepted!

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Alfredo Angeles-Boza

Congrats Daben!

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Alfredo Angeles-Boza

Congrats to John on his Inorg Chem paper! Now out as an ASAP

Sam’s Biochemistry paper was just accepted

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Alfredo Angeles-Boza

Congrats to Sam on his paper on the tunicate peptide Clavanin A!

2nd place at Halloween Lab Door Contest

Posted on October 31, 2016October 31, 2016 by Alfredo Angeles-Boza

We got second place! Great job everybody!

 

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Daben’s latest paper has been accepted in Biochimie! Congratulations Daben!

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Alfredo Angeles-Boza
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