Webinar Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Tri-I community)
Friday, May 28, 2021
Emily Balskus, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
Deciphering the Human Microbiota with Chemistry
Recommended Readings:
Empirical Articles
Silpe, Justin E.; Balskus, Emily P. (2021). Deciphering Human Microbiota-Host Chemical Interactions. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE. 7 (1): 20-29
Carlson, Erik S.; Balskus, Emily P. (2019). The mysteries of macrocyclic colibactins. NATURE CHEMISTRY. 11 (10): 867-869
Wilson, Matthew R.; Jiang, Yindi; Villalta, Peter W.; et al. (2019). The human gut bacterial genotoxin colibactin alkylates DNA. SCIENCE. 363 (6428): 709-eaar7785
Volpe, Matthew R.; Wilson, Matthew R.; Brotherton, Carolyn A.; et al. (2019). In Vitro Characterization of the Colibactin-Activating Peptidase ClbP Enables Development of a Fluorogenic Activity Probe. ACS CHEMICAL BIOLOGY. 14 (6): 1097-1101
Zha, Li; Wilson, Matthew R.; Brotherton, Carolyn A.; et al. (2016). Characterization of Polyketide Synthase Machinery from the pks Island Facilitates Isolation of a Candidate Precolibactin. ACS CHEMICAL BIOLOGY. 11 (5): 1287-1295
Review Papers
Koppel, Nitzan; Rekdal, Vayu Maini; Balskus, Emily P. (2017). Chemical transformation of xenobiotics by the human gut microbiota. SCIENCE. 356 (6344)
Wilson, Matthew R.; Zha, Li; Balskus, Emily P. (2017). Natural product discovery from the human microbiome. JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY. 292 (21): 8546-8552
Balskus, Emily P. (2015). Colibactin: understanding an elusive gut bacterial genotoxin. NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS. 32 (11): 1534-1540