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Dr. Charles Brenner stepping down as chair of Department of Biochemistry
Congrats Spring 2020 Biochemistry PhD Graduates
Hannah Campbell receives 2020 Subramanian Thesis Award
Three Undergraduate Students Awarded 2020 Rex Montgomery Scholarships
Brianna Lupo and Francesca Spencer awarded Montgomery Scholar’s Prizes
The Whittmann and Khorana Scholar awards
Benjamin Hinz awarded Summer ICRU Fellowship
Department of Biochemistry 2020 Publications
16th Annual (and 1st Virtual!) Gene F. Lata Undergraduate Research Symposium
Jacintha Thomas featured on UIHC “The Loop”
Brian Krueger at forefront of COVID-19 DNA testing
Francesca Spencer coauthored a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports
Will Hacker awarded Graduate Research Excellence Award
Arpit Sharma publishes article in Science
Nicholas Luedtke awarded Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Dr. Pam Geyer elected to the AAAS Electorate Nominating Committee
Article co-authored by Marc Wold featured on the cover of Nature Genetics
Dr. Kris DeMali receives NIH MIRA grant
Alicia Salvi awarded NIH F31 Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Dr. Ernesto Fuentes awarded CCOM Innovation Research Grant
Drs. Lori Wallrath and Benjamin Darbro awarded NIH R21 grant
Dr. Marc Wold inducted into Wall of Scholarship
Dr. John Dagle receives Distinguished Alumnus Award
Dr. Brenner awarded Mary Swartz Rose Senior Investigator Award
Dr. Madeline Shea awarded Carver College of Medicine Collegiate Teaching Award
Dr. Marc Wold awarded Carver College of Medicine Faculty Service Award
Biochemistry undergraduates featured in Dare to Discover campaign
Dr. Susan Wente recognized as an ASCB Fellow
Dr. Brandon Davies featured in ASBMB Today
Paula Valiño Ramos featured on UIowa news
Dr. Ernesto Fuentes is awarded a NIH grant
Gillian DeWane named recipient of the Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship
Jose Rios-Monterrosa receives Arthur A. Spector Award for Basic Biomedical Research
Dr. Lori Wallrath receives 2019 Summer Research Fellowship Outstanding Mentor in Basic Science Research
Colleen Caldwell recipient of UI CCOM Trainee Scholar Travel Award
Dr. Pamela Geyer recognized on August 2019 dean’s list for notable and novel scientific awards
Margaret Ketterer awarded 2020 Mary Jo Small Staff Fellowship Award
Dr. Bryan Allen appointed to be leader of the cancer center’s Experimental Therapeutics program
Sean Tompkins (Taylor Lab) publishes thesis in Cell Reports
Dr. Charles Brenner researches potential new treatment of a childhood brain cancer
Dr. Shelia Baker featured on KCRG
Dr. Charles Brenner recognized on July 2019 Dean’s List
10th Annual Biochemistry Scientific Retreat Award Winners
Congrats Summer 2019 Biochemistry PhD Graduates
Dr. Charles Brenner featured in Noon News
Joseph Laird featured in Carver College of Medicine press release
Dr. Arpit Sharma Publishes in eLife
Drs. Maria Spies and Ashley Spies receive a seed grant award
Dr. Lori Wallrath Awarded 2019 SROP Mentoring Award
Tyler Weaver and Kyle Powers Co-winners of 2019 Subramanian Thesis Award
Dr. Charles Brenner Receives NIH R01
Michael Hayes receives the 2019 Marion Dave Francis Innovator Award
Lalita Oonthonpan Publishes in The Journal of Clinical Investigation Insight
Congrats Spring 2019 Biochemistry PhD Graduates
Dr. Bryan Allen Named Recipient of the J.W. Osborne Award
Guowei Qi named 2019 Goldwater Scholar
Samantha Mackin and Ian McElree awarded Montgomery Scholar’s Prizes
Three Undergraduate Students Awarded 2019 Rex Montgomery Scholarships
Dr. Brandon Davies Named as Junior Associate Editor of the Journal of Lipid Research
15th Annual Gene F. Lata Undergraduate Research Symposium
Article by Colleen Caldwell, Marc Wold, and Maria Spies featured on the cover of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Cole Kitzman Recieves Ishan Jain Travel Award
Dr. John Dagle Named Recipient of the Tow Humanism in Medicine Award
Lacy Barton Featured in Damon Runyon Video
Ashley Segura-Roman – Callen Prize Winner
Alumna Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse named Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at KUMC
Juanita Limas Featured on UNC Webpage
Congrats Fall 2018 Biochemistry PhD Graduates
Dr. Pamela Geyer Elected to the Board of Directors of the Genetics Society of America
Dr. Madeline Shea Elected as AAAS Fellow
Dr. Price receives 2018 CCOM Collegiate Teaching Award
Hannah Campbell awarded the People’s Choice Award for Three Minute Thesis challenge
2018 Biochemistry Newsletter now available
Samuel Trammell receives the 2018 Marion Dave Francis Innovator Award
Jennifer Bays awarded the 2018 Subramanian Thesis and 2018 Clarence Berg Awards
Highlights of the 9th Annual Biochemistry Retreat and 70th Anniversary
Congrats Summer 2018 Biochemistry PhD Graduates
Dr. Ernesto Fuentes takes over as Director of Graduate Studies after Dr. Daniel Weeks 17 years of service
Brittany Ripley Receives AHA Predoctoral Fellowship.
Hannah Campbell Recieves AHA Predoctoral Fellowship
Undergrad Alum Receives Prestigious HHMI Gilliam Fellowship
Genetics Society of America Spotlights Lacy Barton, PhD
Tingting Duan Featured on the July Cover of Genetics
Dr. Fuentes receives NIH R21
Alumna Dr. Rainbo Hultman will join INI and the Dept of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics in January 2019
Alumna Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse named Interim Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at KUMC
Biochemistry major Amy Evans wins a Fight for Sight 2018 Summer Student Fellowship
Spring 2018 Wallrath Lab Accomplishments
Dr. Weeks appointed the Harold A. Myers Professor in the Basic Sciences
Biochemistry Senior Laura Fischer Featured in The Daily Iowan
Tien Thuy (Jane) Nguyen Awarded the Hancher-Finkbine Undergraduate Student Medallion
Two Biochemistry Students Recognized by the Honors program as Honors at Iowa Scholars
14th Annual Gene F. Lata Undergraduate Research Symposium
Kelli Sylvers Receives AHA Predoctoral Fellowship
Biochemistry Alum, Tristram Parslow, receives CCOM Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement
Five Undergraduate Students Awarded 2018 Rex Montgomery Scholarships
Preston Anderson Publishes in Cell Stem Cell
Dr. Dieckman awarded Nebraska EPSCoR First Award
Michael Schnieders receives 2018 Scholar Advocate Award
Marc Wold receives 2018 Honors Advising Award
Department of Biochemistry’s 70th Anniversary Celebration & 9th Annual Scientific Retreat
Dr. Schnieders receives NSF CAREER Award
Adam Rauckhorst receives ADA grant
Dr. Price receives NIH MIRA grant
Dr. Sarah Hengel Awarded Grant
Dr. Andrew Norris receives new NIH R01
Dr. Shea’s Biophysical Society Blog “Making the Most of the Annual Meeting: Tips for First-Timers”
Congrats Fall 2017 Biochemistry PhD Graduates
Dr. Weeks receives 2017 CCOM Faculty Service Award
Dr. Fuentes receives 2017 CCOM Collegiate Teaching Award
2017 Biochemistry Newsletter now available
Miles Pufall received Donald D. Dorfman Award
Ryan Sheldon receives F32 award
Elizabeth Boehm receives 2017 Subramanian Thesis Award
Highlights of the 8th Annual Biochemistry Retreat
Congrats Summer 2017 Biochemistry PhD Graduates!
Madeline Shea receives Biophysical Society’s Emily M. Gray Award
Samuel Trammell receives special Graduate Deans’ Distinguished Dissertation Award
Dr. Sheila Baker promoted to Associate Professor
Colten Lankford receives multiple travel awards to attend FASEB summer conference
2017 IDT & Smith-Gehring Graduate Fellowships
Rachel Harder receives Women in Science and Engineering Scholarship
Elizabeth Boehm receives 2017 Marion Dave Francis Innovator Award
Tim Collingsworth Recieves CIRTL Fellowship
Nicholas McCarty receives 2017 Montgomery Scholar’s Prize
Nicholas McCarty receives Fulbright Award
Biochemistry Undergrads Present at Latham Science Engagement Initiatives Project Engage Showcase
2017 OVPRED Award Winners
13th Annual Gene F. Lata Undergraduate Research Symposium
Kris DeMali receives 2017 Honors Thesis Mentor Award
Peter Rubenstein receives Michael J. Brody Service Award
Taylor Lab wins FOEDRC Research Day scientific poster awards
Kyle Nilson receives Most Outstanding Entry for the CCOM Health Sciences Research Week Poster Competition
Biochemistry Alumnus Billy Hudson receives the Protein Society’s 2017 Carl Brändén Award
Vijay Kamalumpundi receives ICRU summer fellowship
Former undergraduate earns NSF Graduate Fellowship
Nicholas McCarty-Fulbright-Imperial College London Award
Eric Taylor named Director of FOEDRC Metabolomics Core Facility
FOEDRC Retreat Poster Winners: Po Hien Ear and Adam Rauckhorst
Marc Wold awarded the 2016 JP Long Teaching Award
Lacy Barton wins 2016 Clarence Berg Award
2016 Biochemistry Newsletter now available
Undergraduate in Maria Spies lab turns internship into job offer at Clorox
Tingting Duan won second place in the Art in Science Competition at the Iowa Microscopy Society
Brenner lab’s clinical trial on the effects of NR in humans shows the compound safely increases levels of important cell metabolite
Davies and Taylor awarded FOEDRC Pilot & Feasibility Grants
Maria Spies lab publishes in PNAS
Grant Young Receives Ponsetti Award for Research in Orthopedics
Highlights of the 7th Annual Biochemistry Retreat

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