We have had a lot of fun writing a review on the current status of natural product databases with Marnix Medema and Satria Kautsar from Wageningen. It is out now in Natural Product Reports. Congratulations to Jeff, who is the lead author on our side. DOI: 10.1039/D0NP00053A

Our article describing the creation and distribution of a new MALDI mass spectrometry database for identification of Burkholderia and related genera is out today in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. This started as an undergraduate coop project, so warmest congratulations to Julienne, and to the mentors Claire, Mercia and Jake. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00354-20

We have started the year with two papers in the area of global health drug discovery. Firstly, a paper from Dennis with collaborators from UC Merced and Ohio State University on amino acyl t-RNA sythetase inhibitors in Leishmania. Secondly, a mode of action story featuring salinipostin A, a compounds for our lab from 2015. This was led by Euna Yoo and the Bogyo lab, and features former student Chris Schulze, and postdoc Kenji Kurita. Congratulations to all. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007983

After two years of effort by a large team of international collaborators, the Natural Products Atlas has now been published in ACS Central Science. Warm congratulations to everybody involved in this important and impactful project. You can find the article here.

The Royal Society of Chemistry has featured the Natural Products Atlas in their general interest magazine, RSC World. You can find the details on this article here.

The next publication from our ongoing collaboration with the Gries and Britton labs of wasp natural products chemistry was published today in the Journal of Natural Products. Congratulations to all who participated in this discovery, structure elucidation and total synthesis effort.

The Natural Products Atlas has reached a milestone of 500 registered users. Many thanks to all those who have contributed to its development. If you are interested in exploring the world of microbial natural products chemistry, you can find the Atlas at www.npatlas.org

Jake has published his lead work with Joao, Dasha and Kenji on a new generalizable strategy for isolating priority organisms from environmental samples. This report opens up a new avenue of investigation for the group, centered on bacteria of the genus Burkholderia. Congratulations to all on a significant achievement.

Dennis and Jessie have been collaborating with the Payne group in Australia to screen a series of natural product analogues synthesized by their team. The results of the synthesis and screening have just appeared in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. Congratulations to the whole team!

Turns out today was ugly sweater day in the lab. Nobody told the boss, but then he wears an ugly sweater almost every day so he fit right in. Happy holidays from The Linington lab!

Joseph Egan from our lab has been awarded a prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral fellowship to support his work on NMR-based metabolomics for natural products. Congratulations to Joe on this fantastic achievement.

Think that all raw NMR data should be required for publication of natural product structures? We do, and so do 71 other scientists in the field. Check out Joe's latest paper in Natural Product Reports where we contributed a section to a large review on the value and need for raw NMR data to support transparent and accurate research in this area.