Adam Zlotnick appointed Distinguished Professor
Distinguished Professor is the most prestigious appointment offered to honor faculty whose outstanding scholarship, artistic or literary distinction or other achievements have won significant recognition by peers.
Choi laboratory published a new paper in RNA
Entitled 'High-resolution RNA tertiary structures in Zika virus stem-loop A for the development of inhibitory small molecules'
Distinguished Professor Stephen Bell receives NIH $2.8M award to help unravel mysteries of disease-causing DNA folding errors
This $2.8 million award from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences is to investigate the DNA folding machinery inside cells.
New paper from the Pikaard Lab published in Science Advances
The new study reports the complete sequences for the two Arabidopsis NORs and how active and silent ribosomal RNA genes are distributed throughout the NORs.
Nikolai Prokhorov and Marc Morais published a new manuscript in Nucleic Acids Research
New manuscript entitled "Biophysical and structural characterization of a multifunctional viral genome packaging motor." This work was done in collaboration with Carlos Catalano's lab at UC Denver.
Another year of delicious cookies at the second annual Biochemistry Holiday Cookie Bake-Off!
Over 30 students, faculty, and staff submitted their best cookies to be judged. The top three submissions were awarded prize packs.
Niu laboratory published a collaboration paper in Nature Communications
entitled “ssDNA accessibility of Rad51 is regulated by orchestrating multiple RPA dynamics”. The paper is co-authored by Dr. Jiangchuan Shen.