The Avalon Lab kicked off World Oceans Month by participating in a beach cleanup by @surfrider.org! 🌊🧹 We were excited to gather outside the lab to help care for our local coastline and ecosystems while giving back to the community. Proud of everyone who participated in making a positive impact 💙🌱

Huge congratulations to two Avalon Lab undergraduates, Julian Masloub and Nayoung Chung, for presenting their research at the 2026 Undergraduate Research Symposium at University of California, Irvine! 🎉🔬

📢 Check out this pub from the Avalon Lab! Congrats to Julian Masloub and Professor Avalon on their publication in Journal of Natural Products: “Diversity in Structure and Function: How Cyanobacterial Metallophores Reveal a Broadening Perspective of Microbial Metal-Chelators.” 🧪🌊

🌊💙 Art meets marine science @UC Irvine! Through cyanotype printmaking, students will explore the hidden beauty and drug-discovery potential of cyanobacteria. Free, hands-on, and open to all students. 📸🧪 Sunlight. Chemistry. Cyanobacteria. Pre-registration required: forms.gle/v65ccqY2YoDG...

Meet our PI, Dr. Nicole Avalon, Asst. Professor at UCI’s School of Pharmacy & Pharm. Sciences! Formerly a Mayo Clinic PA & researcher, she now leads research in natural products chem and neurotherapeutics. From genome mining to marine ecology, her lab turns ocean chemistry into future medicines. 🌊🔬

Welcome to the Bluesky page for the Avalon Lab! Currently located at UC Irvine, we explore marine natural products in pursuit of discovering novel neurotherapeutics. Keep up with our lab through our social media posts! Learn more about the Avalon Lab through the Linktree in our bio :)