On The Cover of ChemMedChem
ChemMedChem selected Dr. Laurel Mydock-McGrane’s image from the journal article, Antivirulence Isoquinolone Mannosides: Optimization of the Biaryl Aglycone for FimH Lectin Binding Affinity and Efficacy in the Treatment of Chronic UTI, Jarvis, C., Han, Z., Kalas, V., Klein, R., Pinkner, J.S., Ford, B., Binkley, J., Cusumano, C.K., Cusumano, Z., Mydock-McGrane, L., Hultgren, S.J. and Janetka, J. ChemMedChem 11:367-373 (2016) to be on the cover of their February 17th issue. Dr. Mydock-McGrane is in the laboratory of Dr. Jim Janetka.
On October 27th, the medical students held a ceremony to honor the faculty that exhibited exemplary teaching skills from the 2014-2015 school year. Dr. Linda Pike is the course master for the first year students’ Molecular Foundations of Medicine course. Congratulations Dr. Pike! 
Congratulations to Nicole Fazio for being selected for the 2015 MilliporeSigma Fellowship in memory of Dr. Gerty Cori. Nicole is a graduate student in the Computational and Molecular Biophysics program. She is doing her PhD thesis work in the lab of Dr. Timothy Lohman. The MilliporeSigma award provides funds for educational expenses.
The Department welcomes Dr. Michael Greenberg, who started as an Assistant Professor on August 1. The Greenberg lab focuses on the generation and transduction of forces by molecular motors, with an emphasis on human disease. The lab uses an array of biochemical, biophysical, and cell biological techniques to probe the function and regulation of these motors over a range of scales that extends from single molecules to tissues. Currently, the lab is studying the molecular basis of heart failure. 
Dr. Joshua Sokoloski in Dr. Timothy Lohman’s lab has been awarded a two year postdoctoral fellowship from the American Cancer Society for his research entitled “Helicase-driven reorganization of single strand DNA binding proteins on DNA”.
