Congrats to Dr. Camille Rubel who (in the words of Donna Blackmond) gave a “scary good” thesis defense to kickstart Halloween. Camille’s thesis research spanned electrochemistry to methods development and took her from San Diego, CA, to Lyon, France, and back. Congrats on a stellar body or work, Dr. Rubel!

As per annual tradition, the Engle lab gathered to show off our pumpkin carving skills, eat tasty food, and enjoy the fall weather in San Diego. We welcomed friends, family, and lab alumni from near and far for a fun afternoon of Halloween-themed festivities.

We joined forces with the lab of Prof. Michael Erb, star postdoc Dr. Jamie Schaum, and a team of chemical biologists in and outside of Scripps Research on a study detailing how to leverage high-throughput chemistry to convert existing ligands for proteins of interest into molecular glues. In this study, we were able to put our new pre-catalyst, Pd(COD)(DQ), to good use in a challenging C–N coupling reaction. Congrats to all of the co-authors on a great collaborative study!

For a link to the pre-print in BioRxiv, click here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.30.615685v1