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Geoffrey Horsman
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Latest papers
Stuffed Epimerase Domains of Pyochelin Biosynthesis are Defunct Methyltransferases
Biochemistry · 2025
Discovery of a glyphosate oxidase in nature
FEMS Microbiology Letters · 2024 · senior author
Abstract 1559 "Stuffed" Epimerase Domains in Pyochelin-like Natural Product Biosynthesis may be Defunct Methyltransferases and not Catalytically Required for Activity
Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2024
Latest funding
- $15,000
Novel chemoenzymatic difluorination platform
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $250,000
Do viruses encode natural products?
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $216,000
Exploring microbial biosynthetic pathways
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
49 publications.
Stuffed Epimerase Domains of Pyochelin Biosynthesis are Defunct Methyltransferases
Trey A. Ronnebaum, Kathleen M. Meneely, Geoff P. Horsman, Thomas Edward Prisinzano, Audrey L. Lamb
Discovery of a glyphosate oxidase in nature
Minghui Ma, Afshan Ardalan, Adrian Van Dyk, Trevor C. Charles, Geoff P. Horsman
Abstract 1559 "Stuffed" Epimerase Domains in Pyochelin-like Natural Product Biosynthesis may be Defunct Methyltransferases and not Catalytically Required for Activity
Kathleen Meneely, Trey A. Ronnebaum, Geoff P. Horsman, Thomas Edward Prisinzano, Audrey L. Lamb
An inventory of early branch points in microbial phosphonate biosynthesis
Siwei Li, Geoff P. Horsman
Phosphoenolpyruvate Mutase‐Catalyzed C−P Bond Formation: Mechanistic Ambiguities and Opportunities
Josseline S. Ramos‐Figueroa, David R. J. Palmer, Geoff P. Horsman
Construction of an Alternative NAD + De Novo Biosynthesis Pathway
Yong Ding, Xinli Li, Geoff P. Horsman, Pengwei Li, Min Wang, Jine Li, Zhilong Zhang, Weifeng Liu, Bian Wu, Yong Tao, Yihua Chen
Initiating polyketide biosynthesis by on-line methyl esterification
Pengwei Li, Meng Chen, Wei Tang, Zhengyan Guo, Yuwei Zhang, Min Wang, Geoff P. Horsman, Jin Zhong, Zhaoxin Lu, Yihua Chen
An inventory of early branch points in microbial phosphonate biosynthesis
Siwei Li, Geoff P. Horsman
Biosynthetic access to the rare antiarose sugar via an unusual reductase-epimerase
Yijun Yan, Jing Yang, Li Wang, Dongdong Xu, Zhiyin Yu, Xiaowei Guo, Geoff P. Horsman, Shuangjun Lin, Meifeng Tao, Sheng‐Xiong Huang
Kanamycin-induced production of 2′,3′-cyclic AMP in Escherichia coli
Da‐Cheng Wang, Jianzhao Qi, Wenbo Han, Jin‐Ming Gao, Geoff P. Horsman
Novel chemoenzymatic difluorination platform
Principal investigators: Horsman, Geoffrey GP
Keywords: biocatalysis; chemo-enzymatic synthesis; enzymes; flourine; green chemistry; metabolism
Do viruses encode natural products?
Principal investigators: Horsman, Geoffrey
Keywords: bioinformatics natural products virology biosynthesis microbiology
Exploring microbial biosynthetic pathways
Principal investigators: Horsman, Geoffrey
Keywords: phosphonates; biosynthesis; enzymology; bacteria; gene clusters
Mass Spectrometry for Dissecting Phosphonate Tailoring of Bacterial Cell Surfaces
Principal investigators: Horsman, Geoffrey
Mass spectrometry for dissecting phosphonate tailoring of bacterial cell surfaces
Principal investigators: Horsman, Geoffrey
Keywords: biochemistry, microbiology, phosphonates, enzymology, metabolism, pathway mass spectrometry
Biodegradation of the most commonly used herbicide on earth
Principal investigators: Charles, Trevor
Dynamic Light Scattering Device for Molecular Characterization
Principal investigators: Suits, Michael
Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography (FPLC) System for Protein Purification
Principal investigators: Horsman, Geoffrey
Investigating Microbial Natural Product Biosynthesis
Principal investigators: Horsman, Geoffrey
Investigating Microbial Biosynthetic Capacity
Principal investigators: Horsman, Geoffrey
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Geoff Horsman and Geoffrey Horsman: 49 shared papers
- Lindsay Eltis and Geoff Horsman: 11 shared papers
- Lindsay Eltis and Geoffrey Horsman: 11 shared papers
- Michael Blades and Andrew Jirasek: 8 shared papers
- Lindsay Eltis and Antonio Ruzzini: 7 shared papers
- Lindsay Eltis and Stephen Seah: 6 shared papers
- Lindsay Eltis and Nathan Lack: 5 shared papers
- Michael Blades and Lindsay Eltis: 3 shared papers
- Nathan Lack and Geoff Horsman: 3 shared papers
- Nathan Lack and Geoffrey Horsman: 3 shared papers
- Michael Suits and Joel Weadge: 3 shared papers
- Michael Suits and David Zechel: 3 shared papers
- Stephen Seah and Geoff Horsman: 3 shared papers
- Stephen Seah and Geoffrey Horsman: 3 shared papers
- Leonard Foster and Lindsay Eltis: 2 shared papers
- Antonio Ruzzini and Geoff Horsman: 2 shared papers
- Antonio Ruzzini and Geoffrey Horsman: 2 shared papers
- Michael Suits and Geoff Horsman: 2 shared papers
- Michael Suits and Geoffrey Horsman: 2 shared papers
- Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb and Trevor Charles: 2 shared papers
- Joel Weadge and Geoff Horsman: 2 shared papers
- Joel Weadge and Geoffrey Horsman: 2 shared papers
- Michael Blades and Geoff Horsman: 1 shared paper
- Michael Blades and Geoffrey Horsman: 1 shared paper
- Leonard Foster and Antonio Ruzzini: 1 shared paper
- Leonard Foster and Geoff Horsman: 1 shared paper
- Leonard Foster and Geoffrey Horsman: 1 shared paper
- Lindsay Eltis and Andrew Jirasek: 1 shared paper
- Michael Suits and Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb: 1 shared paper
- Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb and Joel Weadge: 1 shared paper
- Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb and Geoffrey Horsman: 1 shared paper
- David Palmer and Geoff Horsman: 1 shared paper
- David Palmer and Geoffrey Horsman: 1 shared paper
- Trevor Charles and Geoff Horsman: 1 shared paper
- Trevor Charles and Geoffrey Horsman: 1 shared paper
- Andrew Jirasek and Geoff Horsman: 1 shared paper
- Andrew Jirasek and Geoffrey Horsman: 1 shared paper
- David Zechel and Geoff Horsman: 1 shared paper
- David Zechel and Geoffrey Horsman: 1 shared paper
- Department of Biology
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Okanagan - Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics
- Department of Chemistry
- Other
Co-authors at University of Waterloo, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Geoff Horsman
Faculty
49 shared papers, latest 2025
Lindsay Eltis
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
11 shared papers, latest 2012
Stephen Seah
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
3 shared papers, latest 2007
Nathan Lack
Faculty
3 shared papers, latest 2009
Michael Suits
Chemistry and Biochemistry
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Joel Weadge
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Antonio Ruzzini
Department of Veterinary Microbiology
2 shared papers, latest 2012
David Zechel
Department of Chemistry
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Michael Blades
UBC Chemistry
1 shared papers, latest 2005
Leonard Foster
Michael Smith Laboratories
1 shared papers, latest 2012
Robin Turner
Michael Smith Laboratories
1 shared papers, latest 2005
David Palmer
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Trevor Charles
Department of Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Andrew Jirasek
Okanagan - Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics
1 shared papers, latest 2005
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