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Congratulations to Irazema, Dillan, Cesar, Bennett, and George for a great new paper out on supramolecular mechanochemistry. Our results show that the guest molecules in molecular capsules assembled in the solid state tumble in a liquid-like fashion within the confines … Continue reading →

October 18, 2018 Two papers from the Purse Lab appeared online on this day. It’s the first time in the history of our lab that we have had two papers published on the same day. They’re publications number 26 and … Continue reading →

The Purse Lab has a new paper out in Chemistry—A European Journal. Lead authors Kristine Teppang, Ray Lee, and Dillon Burns, along with Ben Turner, Melissa Lokensgard, and collaborator Andy Cooksy have studied how base pair and stacking changes the fluorescence … Continue reading →

Purse Lab PhD student Michael Coste is working with our collaborators in the Sohl Lab (SDSU) and Siqueira-Neto Lab (UCSD) to develop new inhibitors of Zika virus replication. Our first publication on this project is now available online at Antimicrobial … Continue reading →

Byron Purse gave a talk titled “Rational Design of Brighter, More Responsive Fluorescent Nucleosides” at the Fluorescent Biomolecules and their Building Blocks (FB3) conference at the University of Glasgow, 6/30–7/3, 2018.

We’re thrilled to share the news that the Purse Lab has just been awarded another NSF grant! Our new award, titled “Next-Generation Fluorescent Nucleosides and Structure-Photophysics Relationships“, supports a research program from 2018–21 focused on creating and studying fluorescent modifications … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Purse Lab undergraduates Sara Journey, Kristine Teppang, Cesar Garcia, and Shaylyn Brim for leading a study on mechanically induced molecular capsule assembly, showing that their solid state synthesis methods enable the entrapment of guest molecules that cannot be … Continue reading →

This fall semester, the Purse Lab is thrilled to welcome Ani Shalamberidze and Misho Dgebuadze from SDSU’s Georgia campus. Ani and Misho are spending this semester in the group, performing research on a new design of fluorescent nucleoside analogues. It’s … Continue reading →

The Purse Lab has been awarded National Science Foundation funding for our project on fluorescent nucleoside analogues! Our award number CHE-1709796 supports a project titled, “Bright and responsive fluorescent nucleosides from structure-photophysics relationships.” We’re thrilled to have NSF support for … Continue reading →

Kristine Teppang has been an undergraduate researcher in the Purse Lab since 2014 and just graduated with her B.S. degree from SDSU. Her outstanding work has resulted in one published paper, one newly submitted manuscript, and the ACS Division of … Continue reading →