Leveraging the NPDC Strain Collection for Natural Product and Drug Discovery

Visit the Natural Product Discovery Center at UF Scripps for a description of our unique resource: a collection of 125,000+ bacterial strains and 75,000+ fermentation extracts. In the Shen Lab, we take a multi-disciplinary approach to leveraging this collection to address the grand challenges in natural product and drug discovery, biosynthesis, and engineering in the genomics era.

Ben Shen, Ph.D. with Staff Scientist Dong Yang, Ph.D.
Ben Shen, Ph.D. with Staff Scientist Dong Yang, Ph.D. Photo by Scott Wiseman