Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Jacintha Thomas, a Research Assistant in Dr. Lori Wallrath’s lab, was featured in the May 7th UIHC publication called “The Loop”. During the COVID-19 shut down, Jacintha divides her time between the adjacent laboratories of Lori Wallrath and Arlene Drack (Ophthamology and Visual Sciences). Jacintha has been instrumental in maintaining valuable mice and fruit fly […]

Brian Krueger, Associate Vice President, Technical Director, R&D, LabCorp and a 2009 PhD graduate of the Department of Biochemistry, has been at the forefront of COVID-19 DNA testing. On January 12, 2020, China published the first DNA sequence of the coronavirus genome from patients with COVID-19. By March 16, 2020, in unprecedented record time, Dr. […]

Francesca Spencer, graduating senior in Biochemistry and Italian at the University of Iowa, is coauthor of a paper appearing in Nature Scientific Reports. She collaborated with a group of scientists and students from the University of Keele, U.K., led by Dr. Jamie Pringle, and helped analyzing data from a  very long study (longest globally, starting […]

Will Hacker, a Biochemistry Graduate Student in the Elcock lab, has been awarded the Graduate Research Excellence Award. This award is given to one graduate student in each broad discipline area. The Graduate Research Excellence Award honors students in terminal degree programs conducting research and scholarly activity that is recognized as highly original work and […]

Arpit Sharma, a 2018 Biochemistry PhD student in Dr. Eric Taylor’s lab, recently published an article in Science. The article is entitled, “Finding community during a pandemic.”   Congratulations Arpit!