The Zechel lab is the grateful recipient of an NSERC Discovery Grant worth $300,000 over 5 years! This was awarded to our grant proposal entitled “From Genes to Molecules: Mining Microbial Genomes for New Enzyme Reactions”. We are equally excited that our proposal was one of the few to be selected for a Discovery Accelerator Supplement worth $120,000 over 3 years! Many thanks goes to our collaborators and students who invested sweat and tears into our often quixotic projects, as well as to NSERC for investing in the next chapter of our research.