Tal-Gan Research Group

2024

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December 17, 2024

Congratulations Clay and Keely! Clay was awarded the Department of Chemistry TA of the Year Award and Keely was awarded the Department of Chemistry Research Mentor of the Year Award!

Congrats to both of you on the very well-deserved recognitions!

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December 17, 2024

Congratulations Mona and Murali. Their joint paper with the Borotto lab entitled “Development of Urea-Bridged Cyclic Dominant Negative Pneumococcus Competence-Stimulating Peptide Analogs” was just accepted for publication in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry! Woohoo!

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December 10, 2024

Congratulations Uttam. His paper entitled: "Designing highly potent side-chain lactam-bridged cyclic competence-stimulating peptide (CSP)-based quorum sensing modulators in Streptococcus oligofermentans” was just accepted for publication in ACS Infectious Diseases! Great Job Uttam!

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December 4, 2024

Congratulations Alec. Her joint paper with the Zhu group from the Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering entitled: "Highly Active Carbon-Platinum-Based Nanozymes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Immunoassay Application” was just accepted for publication in ACS Applied Nano Materials! Way to go Alec!

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November 10, 2024​

Welcome to Angela Wang - the new undergraduate student who joined the lab.

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November 1, 2024​

Welcome to Morgan Yeager - the new graduate student who joined the lab.

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August 29, 2024​

Welcome to Christopher Yeh - the new PREP undergraduate student who joined the lab.

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May 16, 2024

Congratulations Alec, Clay and Mona for receiving Chemistry Department Scholarships! Alec and Mona received the 2024 Chemistry Graduate Scholarship while Clay received the 2024 Jerry and Betty Wilson Chemistry Scholarship.

Congratulation to all!

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May 3, 2024

Congratulations Oscar for receiving the 2024 MARC NEVADA Award!

Well deserved!

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May 2, 2024

Congratulations Ripon Chandra Bhowmic! Ripon successfully defended his Master's dissertation titled "Studying the Competence Regulon Quorum Sensing Circuitry in Streptococcus mitis" Way to go Ripon! 

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2023

 

November 7, 2023

Congratulations Tahmina and Clay. Their paper entitled: "Developing Multi-Species Quorum Sensing Modulators Based on the Streptococcus mitis Competence-Stimulating Peptide” was just accepted for publication in Journal of Biological Chemistry! Way to go!

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November 1, 2023

Welcome to Oscar Liu - the new undergraduate student who joined the lab.

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October 31, 2023

Congratulations Alec and Clay for receiving Chemistry Department Scholarships! Alec received the Chemistry Graduate Scholarship while Clay received the Hyung Kyu Shin Graduate Scholarship.

Congratulation to both! Well deserved!

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September 18, 2023

Congratulations Mingzhe, Clay and Ryan. Their paper entitled: "Noncanonical Streptococcus sanguinis ComCDE Circuitry Integrates Environmental Cues in Transformation Outcome Decision” was just accepted for publication in Cell Chemical Biology! WOW! What an achievement!

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Jul 21, 2023

The Tal-Gan lab was just awarded a $552,000 research grant from the Chemistry of Life Processes Program in the Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation (NSF CLP; CHE-2316599) to support our studies focused on elucidating the interplay between the ComRS and the ComABCDE quorum sensing circuitries in Streptococci. Woohoo!

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Jun 1, 2023

Welcome to Jenelle Anderson - the new graduate student who joined the lab.

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Feb 16, 2023

Congratulations Tony.  His collaborative paper with the Dramsi lab at Institut Pasteur titled: “Gallocin A, an atypical two-peptide bacteriocin with intramolecular disulfide bonds required for activity” was just accepted for publication in Microbiology Spectrum! Congratulations Tony!

 

2022

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Nov 30, 2022

Congratulations Dr. Tahmina Milly!! Tahmina successfully defended her dissertation titled "Elucidating the Role of Quorum Sensing (QS) and Developing QS Modulators for Streptococcus pneumoniae and Its Close Commensal Relative, Streptoccoccus mitis"! Way to go Tahmina! Hard work paid off! 

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Nov 14, 2022

Congratulations Dominic, Uttam, Murali and Crissey. Their paper entitled: “Peptoid-Peptide Hybrid Analogs of the Enterococcus faecalis Fsr Auto-Inducing Peptide (AIP) Reveal Crucial Structure-Activity Relationships” was just accepted for publication in ChemBioChem!

Way to go! This one took a while – thanks for all the hard work over the years!

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Oct 27, 2022

Congratulations Tahmina. Her review paper entitled: “Targeting Peptide-Based Quorum Sensing Systems for the Treatment of Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections” was just accepted for publication in Peptide Science!

Way to go Tahmina!!! On to the next one 😊

 

Oct 14, 2022

Congratulations Mona for being awarded the Chemistry Department Scholarship! 

Way to go Mona! Well deserved!

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Sep 30, 2022

Welcome to Joseph Pagan and Robbin Singh - the new undergraduate students who joined the lab.

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Sep 18, 2022

Congratulations Alec, Tony, Mingzhe, and Clay! Their paper entitled: “Investigating the Streptococcus sinensis competence regulon through a combination of transcriptome analysis and phenotypic evaluation” was just accepted for publication in Microbiology!

Way to go!

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Jul 11, 2022

Congratulations Alec and Mona! Their review paper entitled “Modulating streptococcal phenotypes using signal peptide analogs” was just accepted for publication in Open Biology!!!

Way to go Alec and Mona!!!

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Jun 28, 2022

Congratulations Tahmina and Alec! Tahmina was awarded the Department of Chemistry Researcher of the Year Award and Alec was awarded the Department of Chemistry Mentor of the Year Award!

Congrats to both of you on the very well-deserved recognitions!

 

Jun 23, 2022

Welcome to Keely Rodriguez - the new graduate student who joined the lab.

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May 4, 2022

Congratulations Clay for being awarded the 2022 Gene and Carla LeMay Scholarship from the Chemistry Department!

Great job Clay, well deserved!

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Apr 29, 2022

Congratulations Tyler Torres! Tyler successfully defended his Master's dissertation titled "Identification and characterization of novel quorum sensing systems through the scope of interspecies interaction in Streptococcal species" Way to go Tyler! Very well deserved!

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Apr 15, 2022

Congratulations Murali! His second collaborative paper with the Lau group entitled: “Pharmacological Evaluation of Synthetic Dominant-Negative Peptides Derived from the Competence Stimulating Peptide of Streptococcus pneumoniae” was just accepted for publication in ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science! You are rocking it Murali! Woohoo!

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Apr 14, 2022

Congratulations Alec for being awarded both the Outstanding Graduate Student Award and the Outstanding Graduate Service Award!!!

WOW, Way to go Alec! Well deserved!

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Apr 7, 2022

Congratulations Murali! His collaborative paper with the Lau group entitled: “Attenuating the Streptococcus pneumoniae Competence Regulon using Urea-Bridged Cyclic Dominant Negative CSP Analogs” was just accepted for publication in Journal of  Medicinal Chemistry! Way to go Murali! Keep up the great work!

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Feb 10, 2022,

Welcome to Steven Tata - the new Post-Bacc student who joined the lab.

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Jan 27, 2022

Congratulations Tahmina and Murali! Their collaborative paper with the Bertucci group entitled: “Optimizing CSP1 Analogs for Modulating Quorum Sensing in Streptococcus pneumoniae with Bulky, Hydrophobic Nonproteogenic Amino Acid Substitutions” was just accepted for publication in RSC Chemical Biology!

Way to go Tahmina and Murali! All your hard work paid off!

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Jan 07, 2022

Congratulationa Raihan! His collaborative paper with the Leitner group entitled “The origin and impact of bound water around intrinsically disordered proteins” was just accepted for publication in Biophysical Journal! 

Congratulations Raihan! Great job!

2021

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Nov 24, 2021

Congratulations Ryan! His paper entitled: “Elucidating the Role and Structure-Activity Relationships of the Streptococcus oligofermentans Competence Stimulating Peptide" was accepted for publication in ACS Chemical Biology! Way to go Ryan! Great Work!

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Nov 3, 2021

Congratulations Dr. Ryan W. Mull! Ryan successfully defended his dissertation titled "The Development of Peptide-Based Alternative Approaches to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacterial Infections"! Way to go Ryan! Very well deserved!

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Oct 19, 2021

Congratulations Alec for being awarded the very prestigious Dean's Merit Scholarship from the Graduate School!!! Well deserved Alec!

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Oct 15, 2021

Congratulations to Alec, Ryan and Tahmina for receiving Chemistry Department Scholarships!

Alec received the Jerry & Betty Wilson Chemistry Scholarship, and Ryan and Tahmina both received the Chemistry Graduate Scholarship.

Congratulations to them all! Well deserved!

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Sep 17, 2021

Welcome to Anju Basnet & Ripon Chandra Bhowmic - the new graduate students who joined the lab.

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Sep 13, 2021

Welcome to Dr. Uttam Ghosh - the new postdoctoral researcher who joined the lab.

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July 22, 2021

Congratulations Ryan! He has been offered a postdoctoral position with Bo Li’s group at UNC Chapel-Hill! 

Well deserved Ryan!

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June 1, 2021

Welcome to Clay Renshaw - the new graduate student who joined the lab.

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Apr 30, 2021

Congratulations to Yftah for being awarded the 2021 College of Science Hyung K. Shin Excellence in Research Award!

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Apr 26, 2021

Congratulations Tahmina for being awarded the  UNR Graduate IM Access Grant!!! Well deserved Tahmina!

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Apr 21, 2021

Congratulations Alec for being awarded the Milton Glick Memorial Scholarship for Spring 2021  from the Graduate Student Association, UNR !!! Well deserved Alec!

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Mar 23, 2021

Congratulations Alec! She received an honorable mention for her GRFP application to NSF! Although not funded, an honorable mention by the GRFP program is a BIG DEAL!!!! Way to go Alec!

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Feb 28, 2021

Congratulations Tahmina! Her collaborative paper with the Bertucci group at Moravian College entitled: “Harnessing multiple, non-proteogenic substitutions to optimize CSP:ComD hydrophobic interactions in group1 Streptococcus pneumoniae" was accepted for publication in ChemBioChem! Way to go Tahmina! Great Job!

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Jan 19, 2021

Congratulations Murali! His review entitled: “Strategies to Attenuate the Competence Regulon in Streptococcus pneumoniae" was just accepted for publication in Peptide Science!

Great job Murali, keep up the good work!