Congratulations to the Pufall lab for their new 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation! "The effect of transcription factor binding on UV lesion accumulations"
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Lori Wallrath, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, was awarded a three-year grant from the Muscular Dystrophy Association to study genetic modifiers of LMNA-associated muscular dystrophy. Congratulations!
Lori Wallrath (BMB) was appointed as the new Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics and Bryan Phillips (Biology) was appointed as the new Associate Director. Together, they will build upon the strong program that Daniel Eberl (Biology) has directed since 2008. Congratulations to you both!
Congratulations to Drs. Sheila Baker, Brandon Davies, Kris DeMali and Ernesto Fuentes for being selected for Iowa MADE Grants! Iowa MADE, Iowa M edical A dvances, D iscoveries, and E xplorations, Grants are possible due to the generosity of the Walder Charitable Foundation.
Congratulations to the recipients of the best poster awards at the 2023 75th Anniversary and Scientific Retreat! Undergraduate: Katie Piaszynski (Geyer lab) Research Intern: Isa Perales (Geyer lab) Graduate Student: Rebecca Splitt (DeMali lab) and Nathan Mohar (Wallrath lab) Postdoc: Kelli Davie, PhD (Davies lab)
Congratulations to Andrew Kalenkiewicz and Lucy Langmack for being selected to receive the 2023 Lois Gehring Graduate Student Scholarships! These awards honor the most meritorious Biochemistry and Molecular Biology graduate students based on academic and research achievements in the past year. The awards were presented at the 2023 75th Anniversary and Scientific Retreat.
Congratulations to Nathan Mohar, a Genetics Graduate Program student in the Wallrath lab, for being selected for two awards at the 2023 Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Retreat! Best Oral Presentation Best Poster Presentation
Congratulations to our labs with new publications! Michael Schnieders lab with first-author BME graduate Rae Corrigan: "A generalized Kirkwood implicent solvent for the polarizable AMOEBA protein model." Corrigan RA, Thiel AC, Lynn JR, Casavant TL, Ren P, Ponder JW, Schnieders MJ. J Chem Phys. 2023 August. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0158914 . Maria Spies lab with first-author postdoc Dr. Paras Gaur: "Single-Molecule Analysis of the Improved Variants of the G-Quadruplex Recognition Protein G4P." Gaur P, Bain FE, Honda M, Granger SL, Spies M. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 June. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms241210274 . Sheila Baker lab with first-author staff member Dr. Shivangi Inamdar: "Photoreceptor Ion Channels in Signaling and Disease." Inamdar SM, Lankford CK, Baker SA. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27681-1_39 . Adrian Elcock lab with first-author staff member Dr...
The Pufall lab has announced a new publication in Haematologica. The publication "IL6Myc mouse is an immunocompetent model for the development of aggressive multiple myeloma" can be viewed online at https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2022.282538 . Congratulations!
The Ashley Spies laboratory and first-author BMB alumni, Dr. Kathryn Hobbs, announced a new publication in Chemistry . The publication "Allosteric Tuning of Caspase-7: Establishing the Nexus of Structure and Catalytic Power" can be viewed online at https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202301621 . Congratulations!