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'
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.
New paper from the Choi lab published in Nucleic Acids Research (Binding of microRNA-122)
The Choi lab published a new article in Nucleic Acids Research, entitled “Binding of microRNA-122 to the hepatitis C virus 5’ untranslated region modifies interactions with poly(C) binding protein 3 and the NS5B viral polymerase” This work was in collaboration with Dr. Stan Lemon lab at UNC.
Bochman Lab receives grant to purchase a mass photometer
The Bochman lab received an equipment supplement award to their NIH grant (R35 GM1333437) to fund the purchase of a Refeyn mass photometer.
New paper from the Choi lab published in Nucleic Acids Research
The Choi lab published new article in Nucleic Acids Research, entitled “Structural basis for cloverleaf RNA-initiated viral genome replication.”
Dr. Bochman wins Research Impact Award
On September 1, 2023, Matthew Bochman, Associate Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, received the IU Food and Agrarian Systems Natural Sciences Research Impact Award for his research on fermentation science.
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.
Lilly Recruitment April 10th
A representative from the Indianapolis pharmaceutical company Lilly will host a meeting on April 10th in the Biology Building.
Congratulations to MLS students that have been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honors society.
~40% of our graduates are members of Phi Beta Kappa!
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