Please celebrate with us for Emil Thomsen, PhD (and honorary Dr. Pinto, pictured)! We are so proud of you, ET, and we are wishing you success and happiness in the future. 

Congratulations to Katie Smithey for presenting at the Southern California Undergraduate Research Symposium at UC Irvine in August 2024. We're proud of Katie's hard work in our lab and of the impressive progress she's made in this project. 

Big congrats to Dr. Parker Stow for defending his thesis and earning his PhD. We miss you already!

Congrats to Christina and Jeff for their latest publication in ACS Chemical Biology: C-Diazeniumdiolate Graminine in the Siderophore Gramibactin Is Photoreactive and Originates from Arginine, 2022. Read it using the links below!

ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry, sponsored by Strem Chemicals (part of Ascensus Specialties), is awarded to Alison Butler, University of California, Santa Barbara. Recipients will be honored at the awards ceremony on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, in conjunction with the ACS Spring 2023 meeting in Indianapolis. Congrats, Alison!

The National Academy of Sciences has elected Alison Butler as a new 2022 member.

Christina Makris was the Inorganic Chemistry Poster Prize Winner at the ACS Inorganic Division 65th Anniversary Symposium (4/4/22). Great work, Christina!! 

Alison has been named one of the 2022 Chemical Pioneers by the American Institute of Chemists!

Emil's Ruckerbactin paper has been published in the Journal of Natural Products!

"Ruckerbactin Produced by Yersinia ruckeri YRB Is a Diastereomer of the Siderophore Trivanchrobactin Produced by Vibrio campbellii DS40M4"

Well done, Emil.

Congratulations Jeff for for finishing your PhD during the pandemic!  Best wishes from all of us in your new job!

Congratulations to Jeff Carmichael for winning a 2021 Graduate Student Association (GSA) Excellence In Teaching Award!!  Jeff also received the 2015-16 UCSB Academic Senate Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, and in the same year, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.  So Jeff has won all 3 teaching awards eligible for graduate students at UCSB.  Wow!  Way to go Jeff!  CONGRATULATIONS.

Christina cruised through the Butler Lab's first Zoom Candidacy Exam!

Congratulations, Christina!!

Our PNAS paper, Genomic Analysis of Siderophore β-Hydroxylases Reveals Divergent Stereocontrol and Expands the Condensation Domain Family, by Zachary L. Reitz, Clifford D. Hardy, Jaewon Suk, Jean Bouvet, Alison Butler, has appeared!

Way to go Zach, with help from Cliff, Jaewon and Jean! 

Elements of Marine Bio-Organic Chemistry: From Vanadium to Iron

Alison gave a GRIT (Ground Breaking Research, Innovative Technology) at UCSB today to the summer interns. Check back for the link to UC TV to her talk

The list of all the 2019 GRIT talks is listed here: https://www.noozhawk.com/article/ucsb_summer_sessions_presents_new_season_of_grit_talks

Aneta presented a poster at the international Metallomics conference in Poland: "Iron Acquisition in Vibrio Species"

This June 7th talk was given to a general audience of graduate students in the library.

Congratulations Alison for winning this award!!

We're all very excited on Alison's induction into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences!

Congratulations, Alison!!

Ambiguity of NRPS Structure Predictions: Four Bidentate Chelating Groups in the Siderophore Pacifibactin: Clifford D. Hardy and Alison Butler

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.8b01073

Aneta Jelowicki cruised through her candidacy exam.

Congratulations, Aneta!

Alison has received a 2019 ACS Cope Scholar Award.

Nice collaboration with Hiroaki Naka and Margo Haygood

Amphi-enterobactin commonly produced among Vibrio campbellii and Vibrio harveyi strains can be taken up by a novel outer membrane protein FapA that also can transport canonical Fe(III)-enterobactin

Naka, H., Reitz, Z.L., Jelowicki, A.L. et al. J Biol Inorg Chem (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00775-018-1601-5

in the special JBIC issue for Alison Butler: Papers in Celebration of Her 2018 ACS Alfred Bader Award in Bioorganic or Bioinorganic Chemistry

Cliff's review article on ß-hydroxyaspartic acid in siderophores has appeared online in JBIC.

https://ucsb.box.com/s/w09vwhcih5zusd4ao7tqd6x97oyl03ms 

DOI: 10.1007/s00775-018-1584-2

in the special JBIC issue for Alison Butler: Papers in Celebration of Her 2018 ACS Alfred Bader Award in Bioorganic or Bioinorganic Chemistry

Catechol oxidation: considerations in the design of wet adhesive materials, Greg P. Maier, Christopher M. Bernt and Alison Butler.

Biomaterials Science 2018,6, 332-339   DOI: 10.1039/C7BM00884H

Electron-withdrawing substituents slow the rate of
oxidation of substituted catechols by O2: a Hammett
analysis.

Zach Reitz was one of the 11 students and postdocs selected to give a talk at the 1st Annual Student Southern California BioInorganic Symposium at UC Irvine December 2, 2017:   More than 100 students, postdocs and faculty attended.  The symposium, organized by Professor Jenny Yang (UCI), was a tremendous success.

Zach's talk on "Genomics-based Expansion of a Natural Combinatoric Library of Siderophores" was well received!

Congratulations Zach!  Well done, but not surprising!!

C&E News announced today that Alison Butler has been awarded the 2018 ACS Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry.

This national award given by the American Chemical Society (ACS) is sponsored by the Alfred R. Bader Fund to recognize outstanding research accomplishments at the interface between biology and organic or inorganic chemistry.

CanBIC6 is the 6th Georgian Bay International Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry which was held May 23-27, 2017 on the Georgian Bay, north of Toronto.

Plenary title: “Elements of Marine Bioinorganic Chemistry: from Microbes to Mussels”

The evening music performances feature Katie Stillman (violonist and member of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, London) and MiaoMiao Yu (pianist, London).

The 8th Asian BioInorganic Chemistry Conference (ASBIC8) was a fantastic meeting held in Auckland, New Zealand December 5-9, 2016.

Jeff Carmichael was recognized with the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at the annual departmental award ceremony June 10, 2016.  Way to go, Jeff!

Congratulations to Dr. Springer.  He successfully defended his thesis.

Steve's paper, "Peroxidative Oxidation of Lignin and a Lignin Model Compound by a Manganese SALEN Derivative," is accepted to ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

Stephen Springer's paper, "Magnetic susceptibility of Mn(III) complexes of hydroxamate siderophores (Authors: S.D. Springer and A. Butler) has been published in the special issue of J. Inorg. Biochem. covering EUROBIC12 in Zurich (August 2014).
Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2015, 148, 22–26; doi:10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2015.04.015

Michelle Kem defended her thesis on December 10th!  Well Done!! and Congratulations!!

Hannah has started her postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Professor Kimberly Beatty, a former undergraduate in the Butler lab!

Alison finished her term as President of SBIC. She continues on as a member of the SBIC Council as Past-President for 2014-2016.

Alison Butler, professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry, was named to the 2012 Class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society.  Congratulations Alison!