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Carl Frieden’s lab is working on protein folding, aggregation, intrinsically disordered proteins, fluorescence methods and fluorine NMR.
 
 

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Faculty Promotion

James W. Janetka, Ph.D., has been promoted to research associate professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics.
 

 

John Robinson and Jay Rammohan from Sigma Lunch
2012 – Sigma-Aldrich Fellowship Luncheon

John Robinson, 2011 Sigma Fellow, and Jayan (Jay) Rammohan, the 2010 Sigma Fellow, were recently honored at a luncheon that included Rakesh Sachdev, Sigma Aldrich President and CEO, Kirk Richter, Sigma Aldrich Vice President and CFO, Dean Larry Shapiro, and a number of WUSM faculty members. Sigma Aldrich Corp. gives the BMB Dept. a generous donation annually to support graduate education in memory of Nobel Prize winner and former BMB Dept. member Dr. Gerty Cori. Jay is a 2nd year student in the Computational and Molecular Biophysics graduate program; John is a 1st year Biochemistry student. More
 


Research Awards

James Janetka has received a new one year grant award from the Washington University’s Bear Cub Fund for his research entitled "Design and synthesis of C-mannosides to treat UTIs".

Featured Publications

Shu, Q., Crick, S.L., Pinkner, J.S., Ford, B., Hultgren, S.J. and Frieden, C. The E. coli CsgB Nucleator of Curli Assembles to beta-sheet Oligomers that Alter the CsgA Fibrillization Mechanism. PNAS (E-pub ahead of print.) (2012).