The Horsman Lab Exploring microbial chemistry

Welcome to the Horsman Lab!

We’re a research group at Wilfrid Laurier University trying to understand microbial biosynthetic chemistry.

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Awarded Best Paper of 2024!

Congratulations Minghui for winning best paper of 2024 in FEMS Microbiology Letters for “Discovery of a glyphosate oxidase in nature”!

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Welcome Milad Iranshahy!

Milad is a fantastic natural products chemist joining us from Iran and we are very lucky to have him! Milad will be working on our NFRF-funded project looking into the capacity of viruses to encode natural products. Exciting times!

Review on Phosphoenolpyruvate Mutase

Our new review on phosphoenolpyruvate mutase is out in ChemBioChem!

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Congratulations Walton!

Congratulations to Walton for his poster prize at the Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference in Chicago this weekend!

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