Professor Laura Kiessling joins the Advisory Board

Welcome Prof Kiessling to RSC Chemical Biology!

 

 

We are delighted to welcome Prof Kiessling to the Advisory Board of RSC Chemical Biology.

Professor Kiessling received an Sc.B. degree in chemistry at MIT, where she performed undergraduate research in organic synthesis with Professor Bill Roush. She received a Ph.D. degree in chemistry at Yale University for her research with Stuart L. Schreiber. She was an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow with Peter B. Dervan at California Institute of Technology. She then joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she became the Steenbock Professor of Chemistry, the Laurens Anderson Professor of Biochemistry, and the Director of the Keck Center for Chemical Genomics. In 2017, she returned to MIT as the Novartis Professor of Chemistry.

Professor Kiessling is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Academy of Microbiology, the American Philosophical Society, and National Academy of Sciences. She is the founding Editor-In-Chief of the journal ACS Chemical Biology . She is an author of over 140 peer-reviewed journal articles, and an inventor on more than 28 US patents. She has advised approximately 100 graduate students and postdoctorates. Alumni from her research group are contributing through their positions as faculty members of distinguished research universities, medical schools, and colleges and as research scientists at innovative start-up companies, leading corporations, and government laboratories.

 

About RSC Chemical Biology

Led by Hiroaki Suga (University of Tokyo), RSC Chemical Biology is dedicated to publishing and disseminating the most exceptionally significant, breakthrough findings of interest to the chemical biology community. All submissions are handled by our experienced and internationally recognised Associate Editors. For more information on the journal, please visit the journal homepage.

As a gold open access journal, there are no barriers to accessing content and your research article will reach an international audience. Please note that the article processing charges are waived until mid-2022, so the journal is currently free to publish in.

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A mechanistic study on the cellular uptake, intracellular trafficking, and antisense gene regulation of bottlebrush polymer-conjugated oligonucleotides

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Welcome Lingyin Li to the Editorial Board!

We are delighted to introduce Lingyin Li as an Associate Editor for RSC Chemical Biology!

 

Dr. Lingyin Li is an associate professor in the Biochemistry Department at Stanford School of Medicine. She is also a faculty fellow at the Sarafan ChEM-H Institute and a core investigator at the Arc Institute. She attended the University of Science and Technology of China, where she majored in Polymer Physics at the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Institute, and earned a bachelor of engineering degree. Dr. Li obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the mentorship of Dr. Laura Kiessling. She then sought her postdoctoral training in biochemistry and cancer immunology at Harvard Medical School with Dr. Tim Mitchison. Dr. Li joined the faculty at Stanford School of Medicine in 2015. Her lab has focused on the chemical biology of the cGAMP-STING pathway and harnessing it for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Dr. Li has been honored with several prestigious awards including the C&En News Talented 12, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry.

 

About RSC Chemical Biology

Led by Hiroaki Suga (University of Tokyo), RSC Chemical Biology is dedicated to publishing and disseminating the most exceptionally significant, breakthrough findings of interest to the chemical biology community. All submissions are handled by our experienced and internationally recognised Associate Editors. For more information on the journal, please visit the journal homepage.

As a gold open access journal, there are no barriers to accessing content and your research article will reach an international audience. Please note that the article processing charges are waived until mid-2022, so the journal is currently free to publish in.

 

RSC Chemical Biology is now indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), PubMed Central, Scopus and Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index.  Find out more about the journal and submit your work at rsc.li/rsc-chembio

 

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Photoreactive bioorthogonal lipid probes and their applications in mammalian biology

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Methyltetrazine as a small live-cell compatible biorthogonal handle for imaging enzyme activities in situ

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Efficient synthesis and replication of diverse sequence libraries composed of biostable nucleic acid analogues

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Photo-induced telomeric DNA damage in human cancer cells

 

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Introducing Jin Zhang to the team!

We are delighted to introduce Jin Zhang as an Advisory board member for RSC Chemical Biology

 

Dr Jin Zhang received her PhD in Chemistry from University of Chicago in 2000.  After completing her postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Roger Tsien at UC San Diego, she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2003. She was promoted to Professor of Pharmacology, Neuroscience and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2013. In 2015 she moved back to UC San Diego and is currently Professor and vice Chair in Department of Pharmacology. She is also a member of the Moores Cancer Centre and an Affiliate Professor in Departments of Bioengineering and Chemistry & Biochemistry at UC San Diego. She co-directs the Centre for Cell Signaling San Diego with Dr Alexandra Newton. Research in her lab focuses on developing enabling technologies to probe the active molecules in their native environment and characterizing how these active molecules change in diseases including cancer. Dr Zhang is a recipient of Biophysical Society Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award (2009), NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (2009), John J. Abel Award in Pharmacology (2012), Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry (2012), NCI Outstanding Investigator Award (2015 and 2022), Novartis Global Scholar Award (2021), Robert R. Ruffolo Career Achievement Award in Pharmacology (2022) and the Protein Society Christian B. Anfinsen Award (2022). She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2019 and a Fellow of American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics in 2021 (FASPET). Dr Zhang also received UC San Diego Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring in 2019 and Outstanding Graduate Student Mentoring Award in UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering in 2022. Dr Zhang will be receiving the Carolyn Cohen Innovation Award from the Biophysical Society in 2023.

About RSC Chemical Biology

Led by Hiroaki Suga (University of Tokyo), RSC Chemical Biology is dedicated to publishing and disseminating the most exceptionally significant, breakthrough findings of interest to the chemical biology community. All submissions are handled by our experienced and internationally recognised Associate Editors. For more information on the journal, please visit the journal homepage.

As a gold open access journal, there are no barriers to accessing content and your research article will reach an international audience. Please note that the article processing charges are waived until mid-2022, so the journal is currently free to publish in.

 

RSC Chemical Biology is now indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), PubMed Central, Scopus and Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index.  Find out more about the journal and submit your work at rsc.li/rsc-chembio

 

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Call for papers – Medicinal Chemistry Small Molecule Probes

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RSC Chemical Biology is delighted to welcome papers for its latest online themed collection on ‘Medicinal Chemistry Small Molecule Probes’, guest edited by John Spencer (University of Sussex, UK), Gemma Nixon (University of Liverpool, UK), and Miraz Rahman (King’s College London, UK).

Contributions are welcome which investigate general medicinal chemistry, chemical probes for imaging, proteomics, protacs, fragment-based drug discovery, covalent binders, chemical tools for protein profiling and activity modulation, and natural product inspired medicinal chemistry and chemical biology.

The deadline for submissions is 1 June 2023. Submit your work to the collection now!

Promotion of the collection is scheduled for late 2023, with articles published online as soon as they’re accepted.

Authors are welcome to submit original research in the form of a Communication or Full Paper. Articles can be submitted via our website: rsc.li/rsc-chembio. When submitting your manuscript, please mention that it is intended for this themed collection in the “notes to the editor” box. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions for both the journal and the scope of the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed collection is not guaranteed.

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About RSC Chemical Biology:

Led by Hiroaki Suga (University of Tokyo), RSC Chemical Biology is dedicated to publishing and disseminating the most exceptionally significant, breakthrough findings of interest to the chemical biology community. All submissions are handled by our experienced and internationally recognised Associate Editors. For more information on the journal, please visit the journal homepage.

As a gold open access journal, there are no barriers to accessing content and your research article will reach an international audience. Articles accepted for publication in this themed collection will have their article processing charges waived.

RSC Chemical Biology is now indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), PubMed Central, Scopus and Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index. Find out more about the journal and submit your work at rsc.li/rsc-chembio.

New themed collection on ‘Development of bio-orthogonal tools’

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We’re pleased to announce that a new themed collection from RSC Chemical Biology has now been published online.

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Guest-edited by Chengqi Yi (Peking University, China) and Yan Zhang (Nanjing University, China), this collection highlights work on bio-orthogonal chemistry, reactions and probes in labeling, manipulating, imaging and sequencing of protein, DNA, RNA and bioactive metabolites.

The article line-up is provided below. All articles in RSC Chemical Biology are open access and free to read.

Editorial

Introduction to ‘Development of bio-orthogonal tools’
Yan Zhang and Chengqi Yi
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2022, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB90045A

Reviews

Labeling and sequencing nucleic acid modifications using bio-orthogonal tools
Hui Liu, Yafen Wang and Xiang Zhou
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2022, 3, 994–1007, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB00087C

Imitate to illuminate: labeling of bacterial peptidoglycan with fluorescent and bio-orthogonal stem peptide-mimicking probes
Huibin Lin, Chaoyong Yang and Wei Wang
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2022, 3, 1198–1208, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB00086E

Papers

A library of Rhodamine6G-based pH-sensitive fluorescent probes with versatile in vivo and in vitro applications
Benton Swanson, Margaret Durdan, Miranda Eberle, Seth Woodbury, Ava Mauser, Jason Gregory, Boya Zhang, David Niemann, Jacob Herremans, Peter X. Ma, Joerg Lahann, Megan Weivoda, Yuji Mishina and Colin F. Greineder
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2022, 3, 748–764, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB00030J

Methyltetrazine as a small live-cell compatible bioorthogonal handle for imaging enzyme activities in situ
Diana Torres-García, Merel A. T. van de Plassche, Emma van Boven, Tyrza van Leeuwen, Mirjam G. J. Groenewold, Alexi J. C. Sarris, Luuk Klein, Herman S. Overkleeft and Sander I. van Kasteren
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2022, 3, 1325–1330, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB00120A

We hope you enjoy this new themed collection from RSC Chemical Biology.