Christopher J. Thibodeaux
Assistant Professor
Chemistry
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, McGill University (2016 – current) NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois (2013-2015) in the lab of Wilfred A. van der Donk Institute for Genomic Biology Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois (2011-2013) in the lab of Taekjip Ha Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin (2003-2010) in the lab of Hung-wen Liu B.S. with majors in Biochemistry and Plant Biology, and minor in Chemistry, Louisiana State University (1998-2002)
Research Interest
biochemistry, analytical chemistry, biophysics, molecular biology, and bioinformatics
Publications
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C. J. Thibodeaux, T. Ha, and W. A. van der Donk. A price to pay for relaxed substrate specificity: A comparative kinetic analysis of the class II lanthipeptide synthetases, HalM2 and ProcM. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 17513.
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K.-S. Ju, J. Gao, J. R. Doroghazi, K.-K. A. Wang, C. J. Thibodeaux, S. Li, E. Metzger, J. Fudala, J. Su, J. Zhang, J. P. Cioni, J. Lee, B. S. Evans, R. Hirota, D. P. Labeda, W. A. van der Donk, W. W. Metcalf. Discovery of phosphonic acid natural products by mining the genomes of 10,000 Actinomycetes. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2015, 112, 12175.
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C. J. Thibodeaux, J. Wagoner, Y. Yu, W. A. van der Donk. Leader peptide establishes dehydration order, promotes efficiency, and ensures fidelity during lacticin 481 biosynthesis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 6436.
