Christian McRoberts | Williams Lab @NC State

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Reprogramming the biosynthesis of natural products

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Christian McRoberts

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Accessing non-natural small molecules via synthetic biology

The Williams Lab uses a combination of enzyme engineering, metabolic engineering, microbiology, synthetic biology, and organic chemistry, to access various non-natural small molecules and natural products for drug discovery and chemical biology.

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Prof. Williams is a member of the Comparative Medicine Institute at NC State, the BIT Program Training Faculty, the Microbiology Training Faculty, and the Genomic Sciences Initiative Training Faculty.

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We are always looking for talented undergraduates, graduates, and postdocs to join the group! Please contact Gavin Williams for more details. Review our group brochure Williams Lab Brochure 2020

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Recent Publications

Engineering of a Malonyl-CoA Ligase for Production of Fluorinated Polyketide Extender Units
Targeted Enzyme Modifications Enable Regioselective Biosynthesis of Fluorinated Polyketides
Current State-of-the-Art Toward Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Polyketide Natural Products
Development of Genetically Encoded Biosensors for Reporting the Methyltransferase-Dependent Biosynthesis of Semisynthetic Macrolide Antibiotics
Protein engineering for natural product biosynthesis and synthetic biology applications

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