Wen Zhu Lab

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A special congrats to @ChemistryFsu's Wen Zhu, who was celebrated in the April 2026 Faculty and Staff Briefs!

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Our new 2026 lab group photo!🎉

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Congratulations to Sarai Faulkner, who has been selected to receive this year's Katherine Blood Hoffman Excellence Awards!🎉🎉

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We got to see our undergrad, Avery, perform in the FSU circus! It was amazing 🎪🎪

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Four undergraduate researchers presented three posters today at two fantastic campus events: the Undergraduate Research Symposium and the WIMSE Research Symposium. We couldn’t be prouder!!

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New preprint! We report the characterization of a radical SAM enzyme in the bacterial pathogen, Moraxella catarrhalis. A fantastic collaboration with the Britt Lab and de Crécy-Lagard Lab. https://t.co/YknNh5ddRD

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February is Rare Disease Month 💜 In collaboration with @LabTakagi, we show that conformational remodeling underlies activity loss in an asparagine synthetase variant causing asparagine synthetase deficiency, a rare neurometabolic disease.
👉 https://t.co/00RIeuGwKT
#RareDisease

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Happy holidays from the WZhu Lab!🎄

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It’s winter break. Happy Holidays!

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Snapshot of the microscope view of plaque assay results, which is a quantitative test for baculovirus titer.

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Our tree is extra special this year! We decorated it with publications from all six labs on our floor. Cheers to a year full of hard work and discoveries!

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Happy Thanksgiving!!

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A fire at the Seminole Social apartment complex has left some PhD students at Florida State University without a home. Please consider donating or sharing to support them during this difficult time. Thank you for your kindness and generosity. https://t.co/TfScAX5rtI

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Wen Zhu, Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (@chemistryfsu) presented “Identifying a Tunnel-Gating Residue in Human Asparagine Synthetase” at the American Chemical Society’s Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition in Palm Harbor. 🧪🧑🔬🧬

#FSU #FSUFaculty

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Official warm welcome to Sarai, a first year PhD student who joined our lab this semester 👩‍🔬😊

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We had a great time at the Tallahassee Science Festival today! The kids learned what an amino acid is and made a keychain or bracelet corresponding to the chemical formula of an amino acid.👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬

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#RareDiseaseThursday Mutations in SMPD1 disrupt acid sphingomyelinase, leading to Niemann-Pick disease type A, a devastating lysosomal storage disorder. Lipids accumulate in cells, causing neurodegeneration, hepatosplenomegaly, and failure to thrive in infancy.

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It's National Chemistry Week! 🧪 To celebrate, @FloridaState graduate students are hosting an event on Saturday, Oct. 25, at the Dr. B.L. Perry Jr. Branch Library from 10-11:30 a.m., featuring science demonstrations and hands-on activities for kids and families!

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Check out our latest preprint on an unexpected mechanism of a potent ASNS inhibitor: Cryo-EM reveals how ASX-173 inhibits human asparagine synthetase to activate the integrated stress response https://t.co/6iFIFIZ5x0

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Passionate about enzyme structure, function, and dynamics, and applying that knowledge to drug discovery? 💊🧬🧫🧪 We’re recruiting a Postdoc!
Come join us! Apply: https://t.co/tpuK3R42BA
#PostdocJobs #Biochemistry #Enzymology #Metalloenzymes #ProteinDynamics