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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
How does an enzyme distinguish between nearly identical molecules?
A new JBC paper, spearheaded by graduate student Jannelle Andrews of the Lange Laboratory, tackles this question by uncovering the molecular determinants of substrate specificity in mint pulegone reductase.
Three CAHNRS faculty named to the Washington State Academy of Sciences
Three CAHNRS faculty named to the Washington State Academy of Sciences
WSU biochemist elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
WSU biochemist elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
How does nature create “left-handed” or “right-handed” molecules from a starting material that has no handedness at all?
That question motivated a newly published study, developed by the teams of IBC faculty Lange and Raugei, in ACS Catalysis on the determinants of stereoselectivity in monoterpene synthases.
Mark Lange presents at the WSU/UW Joint Cannabis Research Symposium
WSU/UW Joint Cannabis Research Symposium took place on May 15, 2026, in the Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center on the Pullman Campus.
Mark Lange presents at the Spring 2026 meeting of the American Chemical Society
Mark Lange gives a featured presentation on the origin of aroma volatiles in cannabis.
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.
