News

Congratulations to Seok-Yong Lee, PhD, for his promotion to Professor with tenure, effective 1 July 2020. Please read more about the outstanding research on membrane transport proteins that is happening in the Lee Laboratory by visiting his website. 

Congratulations to Brady Travis for receiving the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) for promising predoctoral students to develop into productive independent research scientists.

In Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Dr. Seok-Yong Lee & Ying Yin wrote a review paper to describe structural features of TRMP8 that underlie distinguishing functions in its unique cooling-compound sensing of TRPM8 making it unique compared to TRPV1 and other TRP channel members. Read more

Biochemistry leadership makes statement on what the department can do to fight racism and promote an inclusive environment.

Postdoc, Dr. Ping Dong, receives fellowship to study how an ion channel mutation causes epilepsy and movement disorders.

The Yang Lab's new discovery gives insights into the function of TMEM16F CaPLSase in trophoblast fusion and placental development. Read more

How do human cells deal with stressors and nutrient depletion? Drs. Pei Zhou, Ashley Chi, and team solved the mystery when they discovered the inner workings of MESH1. Read more

Haoran Pang and the Yokoyama Lab's work on the catalytic mechanism of MoaA is published in JACS. Read more

At this year’s NIH FDA Glycoscience Research Day, Duc Huynh won an award for his abstract that highlights the role of O-GlcNAc modification in regulating the degradation of intermediate filaments, at the substrate level and at the E3 ligase adaptor. Watch the video from research day.

Hashim Al-Hashimi, PhD, wins 2020 National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology.  Watch him receive the award during the recorded ceremony at 28:28 minutes.