Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Vijay Kamalumpundi, an undergraduate in the Taylor Lab, has been award an ICRU summer fellowship for a project entitled, “Metabolic Gradients in Mouse Liver Metabolism.” Vijay will test whether mitochondrial metabolism is different between lobes of the mouse liver, and whether there are unique metabolic gradients within each lobe. Understanding this question will be helpful […]

Jill Hauer, who studied in Dr. Michael Schnieder’s laboratory as an undergraduate and is now a Genetics PhD student with Dr. Richard Smith, received an NSF Graduate Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards fellowships to outstanding graduate students based on their demonstrated potential for significant achievements in science and engineering. Read more about […]

Congratulations to Nicholas McCarty, who received the 2017-2018 Fulbright-Imperial College London Award. Imperial College London, located in West Kensington, offers one award annually for a student to pursue a one-year Master’s degree in science, engineering, or medical subject. Nicholas will spend his Fulbright year completing a Master of Research (MRes) in Systems and Synthetic Biology, […]

Eric Taylor, PhD, has been named Director of the Fraternal Order of the Eagles Diabetes Research Center (FOEDRC) Metabolomics Core Facility. This facility will expand existing metabolomics capabilities at the University of Iowa, which until now has been offered through the High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (HRMS) Facility located in the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Taylor’s deep, multidisciplinary […]

Congratulations to Postdoctoral Fellows Po Hien Ear (Brenner Lab) and Adam Rauckhorst (Taylor Lab) who were two of the three poster winners at the 2016 FOE Diabetes Research Center Retreat held on December 10, 2016, for their posters entitled “Nicotinamide riboside promotes maternal and neonatal health benefits” and “Novel mechanisms regulating mitochondrial glutamine metabolism,” respectively.

Professor Marc Wold has been awarded the 2016 John P. Long Teaching Award in the Basic Sciences, which recognizes outstanding career-level teaching contributions by the basic science faculty. Following in the footsteps of Arthur Spector (1999), Peter Rubenstein (2001), Madeline Shea (2009) and Daniel Weeks (2011) this was the fifth time a biochemist has claimed […]

Lacy Barton, a 2014 PhD with Dr. Pamela Geyer, has been named the winner of the 2016 Clarence Berg Award. The Berg Award is given biennially in honor of our former Professor Clarence P. Berg to the graduate student who demonstrates “scholarship, integrity, cooperativeness, consideration and a willingness to help others.” Lacy was also recently named […]

The 2016 Biochemistry @ Iowa newsletter is hot off the presses and available for download. Alumni and friends should receive a hard copy in the mail this week. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please send your contact information to biochem@uiowa.edu. While you are at it, feel free to send […]

Andrea Diaz, an undergraduate studying in Maria Spies’ laboratory, was offered a full-time position with Clorox Co. as a scientist in the company’s research and development department after interning with the company this past summer. Andrea credits her campus involvement and work experience with giving her the opportunities and skills she needed to make the […]

Tingting Duan, a Biochemistry PhD student mentored by Dr. Pamela Geyer, was awarded second place in the Art in Science Competition by voters attending the Iowa Microscopy Society Fall Symposium. Her image of a tetis carpet “[drew] out beauty on an extremely small scale.” The goal of the Iowa Art in Science Contest is to […]