Congratulations to Drs. Ryan Mahling and William Hacker for successfully defending their theses this fall.
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Please join Dr. Marc Wold, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Honors Advisor, in congratulating the Fall 2020 Biochemistry Honors graduates and their research mentors for a job well done. JADE MILLER - Inhibition of RAD52 in BRCA2-Deficient Cancer Cells Mentor: Maria Spies JACOB LAM - Activating Transcription Factor 4 Controls Mitochondrial Morphology and Metabolism in Skeletal Muscle Mentor: E. Dale Abel; Antentor Hinton, Jr.
Drs. Lori Wallrath, Professor of Biochemistry, and Arlene Drack, Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, received a generous philanthropic donation to establish the Wallrath Research Fund. This gift will support the joint research project between Dr. Wallrath and Drack which is focused on the generation and characterization of fruit flies that possess a mutation of a form of retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic blinding eye disease. The goal of this project is to allow researchers to better understand the disease and open new avenues for therapies. Part of the gift will support a graduate student focused on basic science research under the tutelage of Drs. Wallrath and Drack. The donor family has a strong interest in furthering vision research and hopes that their philanthropic support can help lead to new treatments for these types of rare genetic eye conditions in the future...
Dr. Ashley Spies, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Science Experimental Therapeutics, has been awarded an NIH R01 grant for his project entitled, "Dialing down caspase-7 through allosteric control: An integrated approach." Congratulations Dr. Ashley Spies!
Dr. Sean Tompkins, who completed his PhD with Dr. Eric Taylor, publishes his first author paper in Cell Reports. The article is entitled, "Disrupting Mirochondrial Pyruvate Uptake Directs Glutamine into the TGA Cycle away from Glutathione Synthesis and Impairs Hepatocellular Tumorigenesis." Dr. Tompkins is currently doing residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Illinois Chicago. The article can be found here . Congratulations Dr. Tompkins!
Department of Biochemistry collaborates with Department of Physics at UNI
Department of Biochemistry holds 11th Annual Retreat
Dr. Joseph Walder awarded The Distinguished Friend of the University Award.
Congratulations to our Summer 2020 Biochemistry Graduate
Marc Wold co-authored an article titled “A slipped-CAG DNA-binding small molecule induces trinucleotide-repeat contractions in vivo” that was published in, and featured on the cover of, the February, 2020 issue of Nature Genetics (volume 52, issue 2, page 146).