Zach Reitz @ZachReitzPhD

A sidero-10 among siderophores 🦠 @UCSB postdoc | Bioinformatician | Bioinorganic chemist | they/them 🏳️‍🌈 @zachreitz.bsky.social zreitz.com Santa Barbara, CA Joined May 2022

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Zach Reitz @ZachReitzPhD

a year ago

We thought we knew the biosynthesis of desferrioxamines, but some key players were missing! In S. coelicolor, desferrioxamine B biosynthesis involves DesG and DesH, encoded in a second BGC. Studying the iron starvation regulatory network was the key!

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a year ago

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Holly Moeller, @mixotrophe at other places too @mixotrophe

a year ago

We're hiring a postdoc to work on tree-ectomycorrhizal mutualisms! We are looking for someone interested in working empirically (experimentally or w/ field observations). While some project ideas are listed, we welcome all other ideas in this system, too! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02772

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Zach Reitz @ZachReitzPhD

a year ago

antiSMASH > save as PDF > Illustrator did not go as expected. Feel like I'm being mocked.

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Zach Reitz @ZachReitzPhD

a year ago

Cool cool, my first time being plagiarized. To add insult to injury: I looked at the genome, and it doesn't even have the gene cluster 🤦

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Zach Reitz @ZachReitzPhD

2 years ago

There are several natural product conference deadlines this month! Directing Biosynthesis (today!), Marine NP GRC/GRS, ICNPR 2024, and PSE Bioactive NPs. Don't miss out: tinyurl.com/NP-events

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Fabrizio Alberti @AlbertiFabrizio

2 years ago

💊🧬 To all working on Natural Products 🧬💊 The #CBNP17 Symposium is taking place at @uniofwarwick on 4-5 July, back-to-back with #DBVII. We are accepting abstracts for talks and posters, particularly from ECRs. Find out more and register here warwick.ac.uk/naturalproducts

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Holly Moeller, @mixotrophe at other places too @mixotrophe

2 years ago

As Prof. Priyanga Amarasekare's heartbreaking saga at UCLA drags into another year, I've compiled a thread of articles written about the situation. My sardonic take: Some people didn't like to be accused of racism and decided to destroy her career over their hurt feelings. 1/21

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Zach Reitz @ZachReitzPhD

2 years ago

Are you running antiSMASH across many genomes? Check out multiSMASH, my simple wrapper that streamlines comparative BGC analyses by parallelizing antiSMASH runs and tabulating the results. Runs BiG-SCAPE too! WIP, so feedback and bug reports appreciated. github.com/zreitz/multism…

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Zach Reitz @ZachReitzPhD

2 years ago

"interestingly" and "importantly" drive me crazy, but "it should be noted" is worse

Keith Hornberger @KRHornberger

3 years ago

"interestingly" and "importantly" drive me crazy, but "it should be noted" is worse

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Zach Reitz @ZachReitzPhD

2 years ago

Thankful that I spent the last hours of 2023 with friends who ask me to explain silicon vs silicone and the saturation / rancidization of oils

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Zach Reitz @ZachReitzPhD

2 years ago

Do any DNA clustering/dereplication tools work directly on .gbk files? Or do I have to write something to convert to fasta -> dereplicate -> map back?

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Zach Reitz @ZachReitzPhD

2 years ago

Looks like an amazing summer school! "Microbial Specialised Metabolites: From Genomes to Biological Functions" jic.ac.uk/training-caree… (PS, obligatory plug for the list: tinyurl.com/NP-events)

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Zach Reitz @ZachReitzPhD

2 years ago

So happy that I got to play a part in finding the first known lanthanophore, methylolanthanin! I'm most excited by the totally unexpected and unprecedented 4-hydroxybenzoate (in blue). We think this "worse" chelator may have evolved to get enough Ln while avoiding Fe toxicity.

Cecilia Martinez-Gomez @CeciMGLab

2 years ago

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Zach Reitz @ZachReitzPhD

2 years ago

I need to track down an E. coli mutant that's negative for all siderophore production, ideally paired with the enterobactin-only parent (i.e. no ybt/iuc/iro). Anyone have a freezer stock and willing to share? For logistic ease, looking for BSL-1 strains and a US source.