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Victoria Marando

@vicmarando.bsky.social

Chemical biologist Post Doc - Walker Group @ HarvardMicro PhD - Kiessling Group @ ChemistryMIT 🇨🇦 (go leafs go) (she/her)

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Stephanie Smelyansky @ssmelyansky.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Excited to share that my first first author paper is now out in @pnas.org ! We show that we can use oxaziridines to label thioether containing glycans in Mtb. Using this approach we could visualize key glycans during model infection! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Laura Kiessling @laurakiessling.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Lead author @ssmelyansky.bsky.social spearheaded a strategy to label a single sulfur-containing glycan called ManLAM on the cell envelope of the bacteria that cause #TB. news.mit.edu/2025/new-mol... or here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪 #glycotime @mitchemistry.bsky.social

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New molecular label could lead to simpler, faster tuberculosis tests

MIT chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest pathogen. This labeling could lead to simpler, faster TB tests.

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tcwarner.bsky.social @tcwarner.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

First post here! To inaugurate this account, I'd like to share my recent work, now published in JACS. Intercepting a Mycobacterial Biosynthetic Pathway with Covalent Labeling | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Intercepting a Mycobacterial Biosynthetic Pathway with Covalent Labeling

The mycobacterial cell envelope plays both infectious and protective roles. Understanding its structure is crucial for unlocking the molecular basis underlying these functions. Studying glycans, the p...

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 12/02/2025

Well said @dereklowe.bsky.social. Academia produces two vital products: (1) knowledge, and (2) human capital that knows how to use it. If we can’t train enough young creative US scientists to fulfill biopharma industry needs… “I think they're being short-sighted, because fear does that to you.”

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