Bioinorganic Chemistry Lab @VTChemDept Interested in biological and energy sciences from an inorganic chemistry perspective.
Blacksburg, VA
Joined February 2018
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Very excited to announce that we will be moving to Virginia Tech! We’re thankful for the amazing years @uncg_chem where the Hematian Group got started. We look forward to starting the next chapter @VTChemDept in July! Lots of opportunities for PhD students and great things to come!✨@virginia_tech
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Shabnam Hematian has joined the HokieChemistry Family as a new associate professor!🎉
Learn more: chem.vt.edu/news/chemdeptart…
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Setting new records is hard.
Our X-ray laser has done it again – a new record for the shortest high-energy pulses ever generated by an X-ray free electron laser. These “hard” attosecond X-ray pulses clock in at mere billionths of a billionth of a second: stanford.io/4jyWyvJ
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We’re proud to announce that Harry B. Gray and Jay R. Winkler have been named Citation Laureates 2026 by @ClarivateAG! Their pioneering research in Chemistry is shaping the future of science.
#CitationLaureates #CitationLaureates2026
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The FY 2027 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition is now open. Learn more and apply: brnw.ch/21x5cGo
📷: Charlotte Geary/NSF
ALT The entrance to the U.S. National Science Foundation building.
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We've also got DIC Young Investigator winner Lauren Feden with @HematianLab presenting from 5:00 - 5:20 PM in Rm. S104b (McCormick Place Convention Center)! Go Lauren!
#vtchem #ACS #ACSFall2026
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Congrats to Adrian Figg (@SEE_adrian_figg) on this fascinating work and his many awards!! @VTChemDept @VT_Science news.vt.edu/content/news_vt_…
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🗓️ Three months ago today #Iran shut off access to the global internet. While connectivity has now largely returned, metrics indicate that users still face heavy filtering, similar to the interim period between the January protests and the start of the war.
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⬇️ #Iran's internet blackout is now in its 86th day as the population remains in digital darkness after 2040 hours.
While access to the global internet remains largely cut during peace talks, select whitelisted users project a synthetic view of Iranian life to the outside world.
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Very proud of our latest work in @J_A_C_S. Our group is becoming increasingly interested in synthetic models for ubiquitous molybdenum enzymes, and this work on C–H hydroxylation sets a new research path for us to follow!
doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c03753
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US study found that English professors got much better student evaluations than maths professors.
"Professors teaching quantitative courses are far more likely not to receive tenure, promotion, and/or merit pay when their performance is evaluated against common standards."
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Announcement: Postdoctoral and graduate student positions are available in the Duke University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, in the Yokoyama Lab. sites.duke.edu/yokoyamalab/
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Excited to share that @VirginiaTech chemist Adrian Figg is named one of @cenmag’s Talented Twelve!
Catch the profile: shorturl.at/IHcol
#CENT12 #vtchem #innovation #globaldistinction
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Registration is now OPEN for the 2026 MERCURY Conf. on Computational Chemistry @ Virginia Tech (July 20)! 🎉 Undergrads: share your work + network with experts in the field, plus free "Docking w/ Python" workshop!
Deadlines: 6/16 (reg) & 7/10 (abstracts)
mercury26.molssi.org/
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We discovered two P450 enzymes AscB/MmsB, catalyze a Tyr-C3-Trp-N1 cross-link and hydroxylation at Trp-C5 in the YxWxH motif. Interestingly, only AscB can catalyze additional Trp-C4-His-Nτ, generating a fused cyclophane RiPPs | Organic Letters
doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.…
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Synthetic biologist Reza Kalhor (@kalhorlab) recently received the $250,000 President’s Innovation Award, which recognizes early- to mid-career faculty at @JohnsHopkins who are translating breakthrough discoveries into real-world solutions.
bme.jhu.edu/news-events/news…
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🗓️ Exactly two months ago on 28 February, #Iran was thrown into digital darkness as authorities cut off access to the global internet.
Metrics show the blackout is now entering its 60th day after 1416 hours despite regime efforts to introduce tiered access for privileged groups.
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Fantastic news! SURA + @virginia_tech will team up to manage Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (@JLab_News). Our new venture, SURATech, will great opportunities in science and engineering for the Commonwealth and nation. @VT_Science news.vt.edu/content/news_vt_…
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Our new Nature paper—joint work with Seok-Yong Lee’s lab—reveals how an antifungal inhibits fungal β-1,3-glucan synthase and how resistance arises.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
#Nature #DukeUniversity #Antifungal #Echinocandin #StructuralBiology
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Getting the dose on new research💊
The Center for Drug Discovery recently held a poster session, where researchers showcased their innovative findings!🔬🙌
ALT Groups of girls talk with one another in front of their posters.
ALT Three guys laugh, smile, and talk with one another in front of posters.
ALT A woman shares her research poster with others.
ALT A bird's eye view of the event, showing people walking around and talking with one another about their posters.
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Excited to share our work through Faculty Nutshell Talks youtube.com/shorts/D4HuruQ8h… via @YouTube
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Millions are still effectively held hostage without access to the internet.
It has now been 49 days.
This is what this barbaric regime does to pretend it still has control. Access to a free and open internet without censorship or VPN barriers should be a basic human right.
And the I.R. regime has been violating it for years.
#DigitalBlackOutIran
⌛️ The internet shutdown in #Iran has now entered its 49th day after incident hour 1152. International connectivity remains low, around 2% of ordinary levels, despite some users gaining partial access to the Google search home page, as was also observed in the January blackout.
