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The Linington lab is focused upon contemporary applications of marine natural products chemistry to biological problems. We are interested in developing new methodologies in the areas of marine microbiology, chemical probe design and neglected infectious disease drug discovery. The research in this lab lies at the interface between chemistry and biology and aims to apply the traditional techniques of natural products drug discovery to novel target systems with the dual aims of identifying lead compounds for orphan diseases and furthering our understanding of basic biological processes in these organisms. Our growing library of unique natural products extracts provides a rich resource for the discovery of novel chemotypes with potent and selective biological profiles.

News
09.12.09 Our latest review on antimalarial MNPs has appeared in Future Medicinal Chemistry
09.22.09 Congratulations to Kelly and Chris who have become scientific divers
08.17.09 Our latest paper discussing an ongoing collaboration with researchers from UCSD has appeared in Nature Methods
05.20.09 Our latest paper discussing an ongoing collaboration with researchers from UCSD has appeared in Analytical Chenistry
05.14.09 Congratulations to Laura who has won a three year NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
04.17.09 Laura has been featured in the latest edition of the ASP newletter. Find here profile here
04.08.09 Marine natural products and the screening center have been featured on CNBC
03.18.09 We have been featured with the screening center on the KQED radio program Quest.
QUEST on KQED Public Media.
02.26.09 Our latest paper has been featured on the homepage of JNP. Click here for a screenshot
02.17.09 The department journal club problem sets are now online. You can find them here
02.16.09 Congratulations to Kelly for winning a scholarship to participate in the 2009 CfAO/ISEE Professional Development Program
01.16.09 Congratulations to Kelly for winning a scholarship to participate in the 2009 re-SELT education workshop series
01.14.09 Welcome to our newest graduate student Gabriel Navarro
01.02.09 Congratulations to Kelly and Laura for receiving Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Educational Awards to attend the Keystone Symposium on Drug Discovery for Protozoan Parasites
12.31.08 Our latest paper appears today in the ASAP page of the Journal of Natural Products
12.26.08 Our lab and the Screening Center are featured today in Wired Science. Check out the article here.
11.12.08 Kelly receives her SCUBA qualification- well done!
09.20.08 Welcome to our newest graduate student Chris Schulze
05.02.08 Navid and Chris presented at the ACS Undergraduate Research Symposium in Santa Clara
02.15.08 We have been selected to receive a UCSC Non-tenured faculty development award
02.01.08 We have been awarded an American Society of Pharmacognosy Research Starter Grant
01.12.08 Our latest paper appears today in the Journal of Natural Products.