Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The Wittmann and Khorana Scholar awards are given to a male and female Biochemistry major, respectively, recognizing their exceptional understanding of biochemistry and its value to society. Nick Shaw won the 2020 Professor H.G. Wittmann Scholar Award. Nick did research in the Wallrath lab.  After graduating, he will be continuing to perform research in the […]

Benjamin Hinz, a Biochemistry undergraduate in the Wallrath laboratory, received a Summer ICRU Fellowship. He will be performing on-line research focused on the genetics of rare muscular dystrophies caused by mutations in genes encoding nuclear envelope proteins. Congratulations Benjamin!

Department of Biochemistry 2020 Publications since April 30, 2020 Tiwari, M. Lopez-Redondo, L. Miguel-Romero, et al., The SrrAB two-component system regulates Staphylococcus aureuspathogenicity through redox sensitive cysteines, PNAS (2020), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921307117 Zhang, H. T. Rube, C.A.

Six students presented at this year’s Undergraduate Honors Program. This year marks the sixteenth year for the Gene F. Lata Undergraduate Research Symposium and first Virtual symposium. The speakers this year were: OLUMAYOKUN (MAYO) AKINBO – Implications of Tyrosine Kinase 2 in Lacrimal Gland Disease in a Mouse Model of Sjögren’s Syndrome Mentor: Scott Lieberman […]