The Dorrestein Lab would like to announce the following positions:

Post-Doctoral position, Dorrestein laboratory

Post-Doctoral position or Junior Research Technician, Dorrestein laboratory

Senior Research Technician, Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry, UCSD Biomarker Discovery and Diagnostic Center


August 2008
August Update:
Dorrestein in the news: The Scientist.

The Dorrestein Lab would like to announce the following positions:

Post-Doctoral position, Dorrestein laboratory

Post-Doctoral position or Junior Research Technician, Dorrestein laboratory

Senior Research Technician, Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry, UCSD Biomarker Discovery and Diagnostic Center


July 2008
July Update:
We would also like to announce the following positions:

Post-Doctoral position, Dorrestein laboratory

Post-Doctoral position or Junior Research Technician, Dorrestein laboratory

Senior Research Technician, Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry, UCSD Biomarker Discovery and Diagnostic Center


June 2008
June Update:
We would also like to announce the following positions:

Post-Doctoral position or Junior Research Technician, Dorrestein laboratory

Senior Research Technician, Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry, UCSD Biomarker Discovery and Diagnostic Center


May 2008
May Update:
The Dorrestein Lab would like to congratulate our US Grants Recipient Elaine Tsang!
We would also like to announce the following positions:

Post-Doctoral position or Junior Research Technician, Dorrestein laboratory

Senior Research Technician, Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry, UCSD Biomarker Discovery and Diagnostic Center


April 2008
April Update:
The Dorrestein lab like to thank the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for its support!

Dorrestein Lab in the news:

United Press International, Scientists look to the ocean for new drugs.

Scenta, Scanning the oceans.

The Cheers.org Magazine, Novel Techniques may strengthen search for new marine medicines.

Science Daily, UC San Diego researchers eliminate drug discovery bottleneck.

EurekaAlert!, UC San Diego researchers eliminate drug discovery bottleneck.

Jacobs School of Engineering, Researchers Eliminate Drug Discovery Bottleneck.

Science Daily, Sharpening The Search For New Marine Medicines With Novel Techniques.

RSC Publishing, Mapping the therapeutic secrets of the sea.

Genetic Engineering & biotechnology News, Proteomics Breaking News.

Science Centric, UC San Diego researchers eliminate drug discovery bottleneck.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Researchers Sharpen Search for New Marine Medicines with Novel Techniques.

UC Newsroom, Researchers sharpen search for new marine medicines with novel techniques.

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, The Beckman Young Investigators Award Recipients.

March 2008
March Update:
The Dorrestein lab would like to announce two positions:

Post-Doctoral position or Junior Research Technician, Dorrestein laboratory

Senior Research Technician, Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry, UCSD Biomarker Discovery and Diagnostic Center


Feburary 2008
Feburary Update:
The Dorrestein Lab would like to congratulate our two US Grants Recipients, Elaine Tsang and Wei Zheng!


January 2008
January Update:
The Dorrestein Lab would like to welcome our newest lab members.


January 2008
January Update:
The Dorrestein Lab would like to wish you a Happy New Year!


December 2007
December Update:
The Dorrestein Lab would like to welcome our new lab members!


November 2007
November Update:
The Dorrestein Lab would like to congratulate our US Grants Recipients, Elaine Tsang, Cindy Wu, and Wei Zheng!


October 2007
October Update:
The Dorrestein Lab would like to thank Dr. Pierre Chaurand from Vanderbilt University for his wonderful talk "Molecular Imaging of Tissue Sections by MALDI MS"


September 2007
September Update:
The Dorrestein Lab would like to congratulate Dario Meluzzi on being named an ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Scholar for 2007-2008.


August 2007
August Update:
The Dorrestein Lab is excited to announce the MALDI imaging system is up and running.


July 2007
July Update:
The Dorrestein Lab extendes a great big welcome to the newest lab members! Cindy Wu (undergraduate)
Candie Bautista (summer STARS student)


June 2007
June Update:
The Dorrestein Lab would like to congratulate Wei Zheng on his American Chemical Society Student Summer Fellowship. Way to go Wei!


May 2007
May Update:
The Dorrestein Lab would like to congratulate our two US Grants Recipients, Sara Weitz and Wei Zheng!
We would also like to thank Abhishek Chatterjee from Cornell University for his wonderful talk describing what he has uncovered on the scavenging of a co-factor (NAD) to make a thiazole containing secondary metabolite.
Additionally we welcome Elaine Tsang as the newest member of our lab.


April 2007
April Update:
The Dorrestein Lab is happy to note our lab HPLC is fully opperational (Thanks David!).


March 2007
March Update:
The Dorrestein Lab would like to extend a great big thank you to Paul Straight from Harvard Medical School for his informative talk on the unusual behaviors of Nonribosomal peptide synthase and Polyketide synthase clusters from B. subtilis.


Feburary 2007
Feburary Update:
The Dorrestein Lab is excited about our new addition, our Nanomate had been installed and is beautiful!


January 2007
January Update:
The Dorrestein Lab is happy to report our FTMS is now fully operational.


December 2006
December Update:
The Dorrestein Lab extendes a great big welcome to the newest lab members!
Sara Weitz (undergraduate)
Scott McDonnell (Researcher)
David Gonzalez (Graduate Student)
Dario Meluzzi (Graduate Student)


November 2006
Dr. Pieter Dorrestein joined UCSD as of September 1, 2006. He holds appointments in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Departments of Pharmacology, Chemistry and Biochemistry. His lab will connect microbial genomics and proteomics for the discovery of the functional roles of orphan genes that produce natural products of therapeutic value. In addition to this, he aims to elicidate the functional roles of post-translational modifications with particular empasis in their biosynthesis and involvement in antibiotic resistance. Dr. Dorrestein is proud to have the most advanced mass spectrometric tools on the UCSD campus in his laboratory to achieve this goal.