Seminar: Genomics-guided discovery of peptide natural products in microbes and plants
Roland Kersten, Ph.D., Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT
Dr. Kersten will present how genome mining in the microbial and plant kingdoms can enable discovery of new natural product chemistry and underlying biochemistry for potential pharmacological applications.
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Speaker
Roland Kersten is a postdoctoral associate of Prof. Jing-Ke Weng’s lab at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT. He has a diploma in biochemistry from Free University of Berlin, Germany. He completed his PhD in 2013 from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, under joint supervision of Prof. Pieter Dorrestein (Skaggs School of Pharmacy, UCSD) and Prof. Bradley Moore (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD) focusing on mass spectrometry-guided approaches for natural product discovery from microbes. In his postdoctoral research, Roland is developing gene-guided approaches for discovery and diversification of natural products from plants.