Albeb received his undergraduate degree in Biology major in Microbiology at the University of the Philippines Los Baños and Masters degree in Marine Science specializing in Marine Biology at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He started his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry in 2020 at the University of Utah and finished in 2024. His dissertation involved the discovery and mechanisms of shipworm symbiont-derived antibiotics. Currently, he is working on discovering bioactive natural products regulated by cyclic-di-GMP in Streptomyces. When he’s not in the lab, you can usually find Albeb exploring nature, on the badminton court, or playing his guitar.
Miller BW, Lim AL, Bailey J, Cleofas MJB, Lacerna N, Altamia MA, Seale JT, Robes JMD, Naka H, Manoil C, Haygood MG, Schmidt EW, Concepcion GP. Butuanimides, Fatty Acid Synthesis-Inhibiting Antibiotics from Symbiotic Bacteria. ACS Chem Biol. 21, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.6c00130
Moos PH, Carey AF, Joseph J, Kialo S, Norrie J, Moyareke JM, Amof A, Nogua H, Lim AL, Barrows LR. T cell populations are negatively correlated with natural killer and macrophage cell populations in aspirate samples of peripheral lymphadenopathies. Virulence. 17, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2026.2624191
Lim AL, Miller BW, Fisher MA, Haygood MG, Barrows LR, Schmidt EW. Differential membrane lipid disruption by lipopeptide antibiotics, colistin and turnercyclamycins. Nat Commun. 17, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-68681-0
Moos PH, Carey AF, Joseph J, Kialo S, Norrie J, Moyareke JM, Amof A, Nogua H, Lim AL, Barrows LR. Description of bacterial RNA transcripts detected in Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected cells from peripheral human granulomas using single cell RNA sequencing. Virulence. 16, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2025.2547326
Lim AL, Miller BWM, Lin Z, Fisher M, Barrows LR, Haygood MG. Resistance mechanisms for Gram-negative bacteria-specific lipopeptide, turnercyclamycins, differ from that of colistin. Microbiol Spectr. 2023. 11, e02306-23. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.02306-23
Laude JMM*, Picart MRD*, Lim AL*, Tun JO*, Ramones CMV, Relin KFB, Chicote MO, Belen ED, Ratnayakeo R, Matthews J, Luesch H, Salvador-Reyes LA, Concepcion GP. Moringa oleifera compounds from seeds and extracts from leaves: anticancer and cancer chemopreventive properties: preparation of leaf extract-based herbal syrup. SciEnggJ. 2023. 15, 192-227. https://doi.org/10.54645/FKTG97181
Lim AL, Moos P, Pond CD, Larson EC, Martins LJ, Szaniawski MA, Planelles V, Barrows LR. HIV-1 provirus transcription and translation in macrophages differs from pre-integrated cDNA complexes and requires E2F transcriptional programs. Virulence. 2022. 13, 386-413. https://doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2022.2031583
Miller BW, Lim AL, Lin Z, Bailey J, Aoyagi KL, Fisher MA, Barrows LR, Manoil C, Schmidt EW, Haygood MG. Shipworm symbiosis ecology-driven discovery of an antibiotic that kills colistin-resistant Acinetobacter. Cell Chem Biol. 2021. 18, 1628-1637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2021.05.003
Paguigan ND, Yan Y, Karthikeyan M, Chase K, Carter J, Leavitt LS, Lim AL, Lin Z, Memon T, Christensen S, Bentzen BH, Schmitt N, Reilly CA, Teichert RW, Raghuraman S, Olivera BM, Schmidt EW. The tunicate metabolite 2-(3,5-diiodo-4-methoxyphenyl)ethan-1-amine targets ion channels of vertebrate sensory neurons. ACS Chem Biol. 2021. 16, 1654-1662. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.1c00328
Paguigan ND, Tun JO, Leavitt LS, Lin Z, Chase K, Dowell C, Deering-Rice CE, Lim AL, Karthikeyan M, Hughen RW, Zhang J, Peterson RT, Reilly CA, Light AR, Raghuraman S, McInthosh JM, Olivera BM, Schmidt EW. Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor partial antagonist polyamides from tunicates and their predatory sea slugs. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2021. 12, 2693-2704. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.1c00345
Larson EC, Lim AL, Pond CD, Craft M, Cavuzic M, Waldrop GL, Schmidt EW, Barrows LR. Pyrrolocin C and equisetin inhibit bacterial acetyl-CoA carboxylase. PLoS One. 2020. 15, e0233485. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233485
- Lacerna NM, Miller BW, Lim AL, Tun JO, Robes JMD, Cleofas MJB, Lin Z, Salvador-Reyes LA, Haygood MG, Schmidt EW, Concepcion GP. Mindapyrroles A-C, pyoluteorin analogues from a shipworm-associated bacterium. J Nat Prod. 2019. 82, 1024-1028. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.8b00979
