Drugs From Dirt

Enrolling interested teachers

Wed, 06 Dec 2017 14:43:00 +0000

The DFD program is interested to work with a school teacher or a college professor to develop a curriculum around this Citizen Science project. If you are a school teacher and interested in this, please reach out to us at drugsfromdirt@gmail.com. We are looking forward to be working with you on this. A summer internship is available.

The DFD team

We're back!

Wed, 29 Nov 2017 08:00:00 +0000

We are delighted to announce that the new version of the Drugs From Dirt website and program are now up and running. A new team has taken over the project. As the program resumes, and the analysis is conducted we will release the data little by little as it comes. Stay tuned!

The DFD Team

Bacterial natural product biosynthetic domain composition in soil correlates with changes in latitude on a continent-wide scale

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 08:00:00 +0000

The Rockefeller University laboratory of genetically encoded small molecules led by Dr. Sean Brady succesfully published another study in the prestigious scientific journal PNAS. The results of this study were also featured in an article by Andrea Du Toit in Nature Microbiology Reviews as a research highlight, as well as in the November 2017 TERN eNewsletter in Australia.

References

Lemetre, C., Maniko, J. et al. Bacterial natural product biosynthetic domain composition in soil correlates with changes in latitude on a continent-wide scale. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1710262114 (2017)

Urban park soil microbiomes are a rich reservoir of natural product biosynthetic diversity

Thu, 20 Oct 2016 10:00:00 +0000

A new research article by Dr. Sean Brady and his team at the Rockefeller University laboratory of genetically encoded small molecules has been published in the prestigious scientific journal PNAS focusing on the biosynthetic diversity of bacterial natural products across different urban parks in the New York City area. The study suggests that deeper investigation of the local microbial environment could potentially yield a higher success rate for the characterization of new natural products. This research study was also featured in an article by the Wall Street Journal.

References

Charlop-Powers, Z. et al. Urban park soil microbiomes are a rich reservoir of natural product biosynthetic diversity . Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1615581113 (2016)