February 27th, 2018 – Michael Greenberg, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, received a two year, Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research grant award from the March of Dimes for his work entitled “Understanding Congenital Heart Disease from the Ground Up”.
February 26th, 2018 – Weikai Li, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, along with Jayne S. Weiss, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, LSU Health Sciences Center received a new two year, grant award from the National Eye Institute for his research entitled “Structural basis of Schnyder corneal dystrophy”.
2018-02-27 – Gerald Dorn, Ph.D. – Washington University in Saint Louis – “Mitofusin agonists – from peptides to small molecules to drug” (more…)
Su Z., Wu C., Shi L., Luthra P., Pintilie G.D., Johnson B., Porter J.R., Ge P., Chen M., Liu G., Frederick T.E., Binning J.M., Bowman G.R., Zhou Z.H., Basler C.F., Gross M.L., Leung D.W., Chiu W., & Amarasinghe G.K. (2018). “Electron Cryo-microscopy Structure of Ebola Virus Nucleoprotein Reveals a Mechanism for Nucleocapsid-like Assembly.” Cell. 2018 Feb 22;172(5):966-978.e12. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.009. (Abstract)
Reddy D.N., Singh S., Ho C.M.W., Patel J., Schlesinger P., Rodgers S., Doctor A., & Marshall G.R. (2018). “Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of stable β6.3-Helices: Discovery of non-hemolytic antibacterial peptides.” Eur J Med Chem. 2018 Apr 10;149:193-210. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.02.057. Epub 2018 Feb 20. (Abstract)
2018-02-15 – Jean Chung, Ph.D. – University of California, Berkeley – “Molecular mechanisms of signaling proteins on membrane surfaces probed by diffusional dynamics” (more…)
Catherine is a graduate student in the Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology program. She is doing her PhD thesis work in the lab of Dr. Greg Bowman. Catherine is pursuing questions involving how mutations interact to affect the biophysical properties of proteins and how those interactions ultimately affect protein evolution. (more…)
2018-02-13 – Andrew Carter, Ph.D. – MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology – “Transporting cargo over long distances: insights from dynein/dynactin structures” (more…)
2018-02-08 – Juan Mendoza, Ph.D. – Stanford University – “Expanding the functional landscape of cytokines through protein engineering” (more…)
2018-02-06 – Fred Hughson, Ph.D. – Princeton University – “Chaperoning SNARE Assembly to Control Membrane Fusion” (more…)