Research

Uncovering How Negamycin Is Made: Key Enzymes Behind a Promising Antibiotic and Genetic Disease Treatment

Negamycin is a powerful antibiotic that may also help treat genetic diseases. Prof Katherine Ryan and her research group have found it’s made using two special enzymes: one (NegB) makes a rare form of lysine, and another (NegJ) creates a unique nitrogen–nitrogen bond, helping build the drug and guiding the search for similar compounds.

Events

Jun 26 2025 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Padmapriya Srinivasan
UBC Chemistry (Mehrkhodavandi Group)
Jun 26 2025 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Olivia Adamczyk
UBC Chemistry (Schafer Group)
Jul 11 2025 - 8:00am to 5:00pm

News

Congratulations Seiya Ota!

Congratulations to PhD student Seiya Ota from the MacLachlan group for winning the Chemistry Excellent Poster Award at the 19th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and...

From Lab Bench to National Honour: Nasseri Wins Governor General’s Gold Medal

When Seyed Amirhossein Nasseri began his graduate studies at UBC, the destination wasn’t entirely clear—but the direction was.

“I didn’t always know what I wanted to research,” Nasseri recalls. “What I did know was that I was most drawn to...