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February 26, 2019
Dr. Meredith Skiba receives ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Meredith Skiba, recent graduate of the Smith Lab !
January 25, 2019
Nils G. Walter, Ph.D. Featured in The University Record Faculty Staff Spotlight
Nils G. Walter is the founding director of the Single Molecule Analysis in Real-Time Center.
January 22, 2019
Congratulations to Justin McNally, Ph.D.
Justin McNally of Pat O’Brien’s lab successfully defended his thesis, “Kinetic Analysis of Human DNA Ligase III”, on January 16, 2019.
January 22, 2019
Congratulations to Thomas Jurkiw, Ph.D.
Tom Jurkiw of Pat O’Brien’s lab successfully defended his thesis, “Mechanism and Specificity of Human DNA Ligase I” on January 17, 2019.
November 28, 2018
Dr. Romila Mascarenhas receives an American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship!
Congratulations to Romila Mascarenhas on being awarded an AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship on her first submission!
November 12, 2018
Yuqi Wang receives American Heart Association Fellowship!
Congratulations to Yuqi Wang on her Fellowship awarded by the American Heart Association
November 12, 2018
Liu Liu receives American Heart Association Fellowship!
Congratulations to Liu Liu on her Fellowship awarded by the American Heart Association
November 11, 2018
Tom Jurkiw of the O’Brien Lab co-authors a paper in The Journal of Clinical Investigation
Biallelic mutations in DNA ligase 1 underlie a spectrum of immune deficiencies
September 14, 2018
Minor "Jud" Jesser Coon Jul 29, 1921 - Sep 5, 2018
September 12, 2018
Congratulations to Wallace Chan, Ph.D.
August 30, 2018
Congratulations to Meredith Skiba, Ph.D.
July 23, 2018
Congratulations to Dave Turner
Recipient of the 2018 Endowment of the Basic Sciences Teaching Award in Biological Chemistry.
July 3, 2018
Elizabeth Abshire has received a 2017-2018 Endowment for the Development of Graduate Education (EDGE) Award from the Endowment for the Basic Sciences (EBS) in the Medical School
Elizabeth is a member of the Trievel and Goldstrohm laboratories and is studying Nocturnin, a ribonuclease that has been implicated in the regulation of lipid metabolism, skeletal development, adipogenesis, and obesity in mammals.
June 26, 2018
Ruma Banerjee, Ph.D. to Receive the 2019 ASBMB-Merck Award
Congratulations to Ruma Banerjee, Ph.D. who will be receiving the 2019 ASBMB-Merck Award.
June 19, 2018
Elizabeth Abshire and Jennifer Bohn Co-author article in Nucleic Acids Research
The structure of human Nocturnin reveals a conserved ribonuclease domain that represses target transcript translation and abundance in cells.
June 6, 2018
Congratulations to Greg Dodge, Ph.D.
May 23, 2018
Smith Lab Publishes Article in ACS Chemical Biology
Janet Smith, Ph.D. , and her colleagues characterized the specific chemical pathway the bacteria use to begin building this molecule.
April 19, 2018
Dr. Sojin An of the Uhn-Soo Cho lab publishes research article in Structure Journal
Dr. Sojin An of the Uhn-Soo Cho Lab publishes an research article in