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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.
Yu Lab's pathogens study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The work, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, introduces a potential game-changer in the fight against intracellular pathogens responsible for causing devastating infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, malaria and chlamydia.
New paper from the Choi lab published in Nucleic Acids Research
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.
Kennadi Shumaker wins pumpkin carving competition
Two trainers in the Biochemistry Graduate Program, Drs. Julia van Kessel and Matt Bochman, hold a pumpkin carving competition for their labs each October.
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.
Dr. Zlotnick awarded four year $1.97M NIH grant
Dr. Zlotnick awarded a four year $1.97M NIH grant to study and regulate assembly of HBV capsids.
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.
Biochemistry Graduate Program Spring 2023 Reception
Congratulations to all of our graduate students on another successful year!
New paper from the Ziarek lab is published in Cell Reports
The Ziarek lab published a new article in Cell Reports, entitled “Ligands selectively tune the local and global motions of neurotensin receptor 1 (NTS1)”.
Edward Sarrain is awarded a National Cancer Institute F31 research fellowship
Edward Sarrain, a fourth year PhD candidate at Hengyao Niu’s lab, has been awarded an NIH National Cancer Institute F31 fellowship.
C-Trap installed!
An IU team led by the Bochman lab was awarded an S10 High-End Instrumentation grant from the National Institutes of Health for the purchase of a Q-Trap from LUMICKS.
Nora Gibes wins "Best Oral Presentation" award
Fourth year student, Nora Gibes, wins a "Best Oral Presentation" award.
Bochman lab receives another equipment grant
The Bochman lab was awarded an equipment supplement from the NIH to purchase four new Cerillo Stratus plate readers.
Congratulations to our graduate students who successfully defended!
Congrats to Caleb Starr, Matthew Jordan, Haley Jordan, Austin Dixon
Tucker Shriver is awarded a two-year NIDA Integrated Training in Drug Abuse Research Fellowship
Tucker Shriver, a second year student in the Ziarek lab, is awarded a two-year NIDA Integrated Training in Drug Abuse Research Fellowship.
Department of Biology awards inaugural Sagalowsky Family Endowed Professorship in Biology
The Sagalowsky Family Endowed Professorship in Biology has been awarded to Heather Hundley, an associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Biology at Indiana University in Bloomington.
IU biologist investigating important signal-blocking compounds that could be key to ‘disarming’ deadly bacteria
Julia van Kessel, an associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, has been awarded by The National Institutes of Health $2,030,527.
Patrick Laughlin is awarded a Quantitative Chemical Biology Graduate Fellowship
Patrick Laughlin is awarded a Quantitative Chemical Biology Graduate Fellowship.
Bochman lab awarded $800,000 equipment grant
A team of IU and IUSM researchers led by Matt Bochman was recently awarded an S10 High-End Instrumentation Grant from the National Institutes of Health to purchase a C-Trap from LUMICKS.
Tariq Hussain wins an award for his poster at the FASEB Virus Structure and Assembly Conference
Student Tariq Hussain won an award for his poster at the FASEB Virus Structure and Assembly Conference.
Biochemistry Retreat this Saturday, April 30th
Details for the Biochemistry Retreat at the Monroe Convention Center.
Stephen Bell is honored as distinguished professor by IU President Whitten
“The investigations of Stephen Bell have strengthened our understanding of the origins of life. Chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, Stephen is a global leader in chromosome biology through his study of organisms living in extreme conditions.”
New work from Steve Bell’s lab published in Nature Communications
The lab of Stephen Bell have published a new article in Nature Communications, entitled "The combined DNA and RNA synthetic capabilities of archaeal DNA primase facilitate primer hand-off to the replicative DNA polymerase."
Visiting Biotechnology PhD student, Renan Piraine, with the Bochman lab at IU authored two fermentation science papers
Renan Piraine, a visiting Biotechnology PhD student from the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil, successfully defended his thesis in 2020 and authored two fermentation science papers (located in MDPI and ScienceDirect) with the Bochman lab at IU.
Door Pharmaceuticals, a company founded by MCB faculty member Adam Zlotnick, presented a paper at the International HBV Meeting
Door Pharmaceuticals, a company founded by MCB faculty member Adam Zlotnick, presented a paper at the International HBV Meeting (September 21, 2021). Members of the Door team showed that a small molecule that binds the HBV core protein could suppress HBV production. The Door team speculates that the molecule acts by inhibiting transcription of viral RNA.
Ziarek lab award $1.25 million R35 grant
Josh Ziarek’s lab has been award a $1.25 million R35 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of dynamics in GPCR and arrestin allostery.
IU among top 100 worldwide universities granted U.S. patents
Indiana University ranked 53rd in the "Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents 2020," a report published by the National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association.
The Zlotnick lab published in Nature Communications
A team from the Zlotnick lab, led by student Zhongchao Zhao, showed how a deliberately re-engineered capsid protein subunit could be used to control assembly and disassembly, even making “holey” capsids. In Zhao et al (2021) “Asymmetrizing an icosahedral virus capsid by hierarchical assembly of subunits with designed asymmetry.” Nat Commun. 12:589
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