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Professor Alison Narayan

In this episode, Dan and Jackie talk to Alison Narayan, from the University of Michigan’s Life Sciences Institute and Department of Chemistry.

We talked broadly about the field of “biocatalysis,” about her DNA synthesis project with the JGI to explore flavin monooxygenases, and what we all need to do in the future to figure out how to make predictions about the functionality and chemical capabilities of enzymes. Also, the Prodcast formally declares its opposition to candy corn.

Catch up on previous Natural Prodcast episodes here.

Show Notes
  • “Enzyme Library-enabled Chemoenzymatic Tropolone Synthesis”, (preprint) ChemRxiv. 2023. doi: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-lvngd
  • “Enabling Broader Adoption of Biocatalysis in Organic Chemistry”, ACS AU. 2023. doi: 10.1021/jacsau.3c00263
  • “Deciphering the evolution of flavin-dependent monooxygenase stereoselectivity using ancestral sequence reconstruction”, PNAS. 2023, 120, e2218248120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2218248120