July 23, 2018
Congratulations to Dave Turner
Recipient of the 2018 Endowment of the Basic Sciences Teaching Award in Biological Chemistry.
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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 a research article in
April 13, 2018
Congratulations to Grace Kroner for successfully defending her thesis!
Grace Kroner, of the Peter Freddolino lab, successfully defended her thesis, “Regulation
April 5, 2018
Beth Rousseau receives NSF fellowship
Congratulations to Beth Rousseau on fellowship awarded by the National Science Foundation!
February 16, 2018
Yan Zhang Lab publishes paper in Molecular Cell
A Cas9 protein discovered in meningitis bacteria can act as precise “scissors” for both types of genetic material, cutting at a desired spot guided by CRISPR RNAs.
February 6, 2018
Ryan Baldridge Receives 2018 Dale F. Frey Breakthrough Scientists Award
Ryan Baldridge Receives 2018 Dale F. Frey Breakthrough Scientists Award for Damon Runyon Cancer Research
December 11, 2017
Jerry Menon Retirement Symposium set for April 20, 2018
Dr. Jerry Menon will be retiring soon and the Biological Chemistry Department along with the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department would like to celebrate his stellar 48-year academic career at the University of Michigan on April 20 th , 2018 with a symposium.
November 21, 2017
Michigan Medicine enters drug discovery collaboration with AstraZeneca in Chronic Kidney Disease
Drs. Jeanne Stuckey (Dept. of Biological Chemistry and LSI) and Ray Trievel (Depts. of Biological Chemistry
November 21, 2017
Congratulations to Neil Marsh on recently being named an AAAS Fellow
Seven University of Michigan faculty members are among 396 newly elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
These scientists and engineers were chosen as AAAS fellows by their peers for their "efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished,"
November 20, 2017
Current and Former Biochem Students Publish Article in Nucleic Acids Research
Current Department of Biochemistry Ph.D. candidate Jen Bohn and former students Jamie Van Etten, Ph.D
November 17, 2017
Cathy L. Drennan, Ph.D., Awarded Bicentennial Alumni Award
CATHY L. DRENNAN
Professor of Biology and Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor and Investigator
October 24, 2017
Congratulations Ursula Jakob
Please join me in congratulating Ursula Jakob who has joined the
October 17, 2017
Justin McNally Awarded Best Poster at 37th Annual Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference
Justin McNally , a PhD student in Biological Chemistry, was awarded the ACS Chemical Biology Sponsored “Best Poster” Award at the
October 16, 2017
Sojin An publishes an article in eLife
Sojin An, Ph.D. of the Dr. Uhn-Soo Cho Laboratory publishes an article in eLife. "