Welcome to the Hartman Lab
We are pursuing several different areas of cancer chemical biology research. We have developed technology for the creation of diverse unnatural peptide libraries for the discovery of peptide inhibitors for protein-protein interactions. We also working on developing new methods for light-enabled drug delivery of cancer therapeutics and fluorescent sensors for detection of hydrogen sulfide. Visit our research overview and publication pages for more detailed information about these projects.
We have a postdoctoral position available. |
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Recent Group News.
August 2023. Check our cool new paper in Nature Communications! It focuses on understanding codon reading at a deep level and using this knowledge to break codon degeneracy. July 2023. Bipasana Shakya successfully defends her PhD thesis! She's off to Genentech. May 2023. Estheban and Anthony did the heavy lifting on a work surrounding anew cysteine-cyclizable amino acid, p-chloropropynyl phenylalanine. This work is now published in ChemBioChem. May 2023. Gigi Kerestesy defends her masters thesis. Way to go Gigi! March 2023. The lab's new ACS Chemical Biology paper on cell permeable peptides is now out! Great work by Nick, Kara, Chelsea and others. November 2022. Cal McFeely defends his PhD! Solid work, Cal. He's headed to Merck in their mRNA display group. October 2022. Cal McFeely's paper is accepted in NAR. September 2022. Kara Dods successfully defends her PhD Thesis. Way to go, Kara! She will now re-enter medical school to finish her MD/PhD. August 2022. Estheban Franco successfully defends his PhD Thesis. Great work, Estheban! He's off to Brandais for a postdoc. July 2022. Alba Gutierrez-Diaz joins the lab. May 2022. Estheban's paper involving spontaneous peptide cyclization was published in Chemical Communications. May 2022. Bipa's paper on hyperaccurate ribosomes is published in ACS Synthetic Biology. April 2022. Chelsea Makovsky successfully defends her candidacy exam. Great Job, Chelsea. December 2021. We have a new grant from the Gilbert Family Foundation! September 2021. Matt's review on E. coli aminoacyl tRNA synthetases is published in ChemBioChem and was designated as a Very Important Paper. July 2021. We have received a new NIH grant to study in vitro translation with non-canonical amino acids! January 2021. Chelsea Simek joins the lab. January 2021. Koushambi Mitra's review on silicon phthalocyanine compounds and their uses is accepted in Org. Biomol. Chem. Nice work Koushambi! November 2020. Graduate Student Anthony Le passes his candidacy exam. Way to go Anthony! September 2020. Gigi Kerestesy joins the lab. May 2020. The Lab's paper on competitive in vitro selections with mRNA displayed libraries is accepted as an ACS Editors Choice article in ACS. Combinatorial Science. May 2020. Graduate Student Bipasana Shakya passes her candidacy exam. Well done Bipasana! November 2019. Graduate Students Cal McFeely and Estheban Franco pass their candidacy exams. Great work, Guys! August 2019. Anthony Le joins the lab. July 2019. Emil Iqbal's paper on the development of mRNA displayed alpha-helical peptide libraries is published in Chemical Communications. April 2019. Pat Dupart's and Koushambi Mitra's paper on release of a highly potent doxorubicin analog with light is accepted in Chemical Communications. |
Group information:
Our research lab is located in the Massey Cancer Center Building on the MCV campus at VCU.
Group meetings are held Thursday @ 2:00 pm. Prospective graduate students and undergraduates are encouraged to attend our group meetings.
Our research lab is located in the Massey Cancer Center Building on the MCV campus at VCU.
Group meetings are held Thursday @ 2:00 pm. Prospective graduate students and undergraduates are encouraged to attend our group meetings.