丹尼尔可能

教师
  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry

丹尼尔·梅

教育:

Bachelor of Science: Major: 医学杂志ogy, Minor: Chemistry (2013) Alma College, MI

Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacognosy (2018) University of Illinois at Chicago, IL

教学领域:

I’ve always loved learning about the interconnectedness of nature. 作为一名本科生 student, I attended a small liberal arts college similar to 九州娱乐官网 so that I could obtain an interdisciplinary education. While taking my intro chemistry courses, I struggled to connect the abstract concepts I was learning to the natural 我周围的世界. It wasn’t until I took a Chemistry of Medicinal Plants course that I began to fully appreciate the importance of basic chemistry concepts and how they applied to the topics I was most interested in. I love teaching because I can help undergraduate students make similar connections and discover a passion for chemistry in the topics they find most interesting. I believe that teaching students to critically read and understand scientific literature is essential so they can explore what piques 他们的好奇心. Teaching at 九州娱乐官网 also allows me to communicate one-on-one with my students and provide the type of interdisciplinary and personalized education I received during my undergraduate studies.

研究:

Natural products 研究 is highly interdisciplinary and encompasses organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, chemical ecology, microbiology, botany, marine biology, bioinformatics, 生物化学等等! Natural product 研究ers strive to identify, characterize, and untangle the biological activities of the vast diversity of compounds produced 被生活. As a natural product chemist, I study the natural products (small molecules) produced by bacteria associated with honeybee hives and native bee nests. 学生 研究ers in the May Lab use chemical and biological techniques such as NMR, mass spectrometry, chromatography, bacterial culture, DNA extraction, PCR, and bioinformatics to discover and study natural products that could be used to treat brood diseases 在蜜蜂. This 研究 will help to improve the health of essential pollinators and to conserve our native bee species. I love talking with students about my 研究 and am always looking for new students to join my lab for either semester or summer 研究. If you are interested in learning more about natural products 研究 or joining the lab, please email me to schedule a meeting!

The May Lab is located in Toll Science Center in room S218. We have shakers, thermocyclers, a centrifuge, fume hoods, a vacuum manifold, and will be obtaining an HPLC for natural 产品隔离. Across the hall, we have access to an NMR spectrometer, a mass spectrometer, and rotary evaporators.

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5月,维. S.*; Kang, H.S.*; Santarsiero, B.D.; Krunic, A.; Shen, Q.; Burdette, J.E.; Swanson, S.M.; Orjala J., Ribocyclophanes A-E, Glycosylated Cyclophanes with Antiproliferative Activity from Two 文化d Terrestrial Cyanobacteria, J. Nat. 刺激. 2018, 81 (3), 572-578.

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5月,维. S.; Chen, W.; Lantvit, D. D.; Zhang, X.; Krunic, A.; Burdette, J. E.; Eustaquio, A.; Orjala J. Merocyclophanes C and D from the 文化d Freshwater Cyanobacterium 念珠藻属 sp. 10110年(UIC), J. Nat. 刺激. 2017, 80 (4), 1073-1080.

Crnkovic C.M.; 5月,维.S.; & Orjala J., The Impact of 文化 Conditions on Growth and Metabolic Profiles 淡水蓝藻 J. :. Phycol. 2017, 30 (1), 375-384.

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邀请报告:

A Sticky Situation: Fighting American Foulbrood with Natural 刺激ucts from the Beehive, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Chemistry Department Seminar, October 28, 2022

Chemical Weapons in Escovopsis, The Fungal 寄生虫 of Fungus-Growing Ants, American Society of Pharmacognosy Younger Members Symposium, August 11-13, 2020

Matching Biosynthetic Gene Clusters to Their Natural 刺激ucts in Cyanobacteria, Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 8月12日至16日, 2018

Secondary Metabolites from Freshwater Cyanobacteria: Structure Elucidation, Biosynthesis, and Bioactivity of Merocyclophanes C and D, MIKI Medicinal Chemistry Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 7-9, 2017

A Bioinformatic and Metabolomic Strategy to Discover Natural 刺激ucts from Cyanobacteria, Alma College Life Sciences Seminar Series, Alma, Michigan, November 30, 2017