Image Caption: Specialized Metabolism
Mentoring the next generation of scientists and leaders; Unraveling pathways for engineering plant-based pharmaceuticals; Understanding enzyme mechanisms; Analyzing metabolites with state-of-the-art analytical equipment; Breeding mint with novel essential oil characteristics; Developing mathematical models to quantify pathway flux; Discover pathways for aroma volatile biosynthesis; Evolution of chemical diversity across plan lineages
Lange Laboratory News
Work by IBC faculty Lange and Croteau featured in editorial article in Chemical and Engineering News
Chemical and Engineering News, the flagship news magazine of the American Chemical Society, publishes an article on efforts to unravel the biosynthesis of paclitaxel, a leading anticancer drug.
Mark Lange presents at PAG33, the world’s largest ag-genomics conference
Mark Lange gave an invited talk on the biosynthesis of cannabis aroma constituents.
Lange Laboratory members presenting at Terpnet 2025 Conference
Mark Willis (Senior Research Associate) presents a poster and Mark Lange gives an oral presentation at the Terpnet 2025 conference in Brisbane, Australia.
Lange Laboratory members presenting at PSNA 2025 Conference
Jannelle Andrews (Graduate Student) and Mark Lange give oral presentations, while Tyler Dabritz (Graduate Student) presents a poster at PSNA 2025, the Annual Conference of the Phytochemical Society of North America in Toronto, Canada.
Mechanism for unusual essential oil composition in mint revealed
A team led by IBC faculty Mark Lange published the outcomes of a genome-wide association study in New Phytologist.
Mark Lange collaborates on taxol biosynthesis paper published in Nature
Collaborative work with the Sattely laboratory at Stanford University unravels the entire pathway toward baccatin III, the industrial precursor to the anticancer drug taxol®.
M.Sc. Graduate Kaylie Barton
Kaylie Barton, graduate student in Lange laboratory, successfully defends M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations, Kaylie!
Jeremy Boutin receives Chancellor’s Award
Jeremy Boutin, graduate student in the Lange laboratory, received the Chancellor’s Award distinguished leadership.
