Dr. Aaron Pawlyk received his PhD in 2001 in the lab of Dr. Donald Pettigrew. He is a Program Director at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Heatlh. His job responsibilities include oversight of grants going to universities, scientific management of large NIH-funded consortia, and providing… Read More →
Dr. Julian Avila-Pacheco
Dr. Julian Avila-Pacheco received his PhD in 2012 in the lab of Dr. Tim Devarenne. He is a research scientist in the Metabolomics Platform of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Julian works on developing methods for the analysis and interpretation of metabolomics data generated using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS). He works… Read More →
Yuan Zhi
Yuan Zhi is a 5th year student conducting research in the lab of Dr. Frank Raushel. He is interested in understanding how a carbohydrate transportation and metabolism related pathway play a role in Salmonella colonization in the gut of cattle. He has received three InnoCentive Winning Solvers Awards totaling $11,500. In August Yuan will be attending… Read More →
Natalie Garza
Natalie Garza is a third-year graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Vishal M. Gohil. The goal of her project is to identify and characterize proteins involved in regulating intracellular copper transport to the mitochondria. The identification of these pathways will allow for better treatment options for metabolic disorders associated with copper deficiency. Natalie has… Read More →
Borja Barbero Barcenilla
Borja Barbero Barcenilla is a 4th year PhD student in the lab of Dr. Dorothy Shippen. He is investigating the moonlighting functions of telomere associated protein on Arabidopsis thaliana. He placed second in the oral presentation at the 20th annual Student Research Week (SRW). Borja is a former NCAA Division 1 athlete and holds records… Read More →
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Awards Ceremony
On September 13, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences held their College Awards Ceremony. The ceremony consisted of the recognition of new, promoted, and tenured faculty, presentation of awards, 2018 special recognition, and recipients of National and University-level awards. In the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, we had one new faculty member and six… Read More →
NMR Facility Officially Relocated
The relocation of the 600 superconducting magnet from the old to the new Biomolecular Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) facility has been completed. The magnet successfully reached the field of 14.1 Tesla and is currently in the stabilization phase. The Biomolecular NMR facility has been in the works for several years – and it is finally… Read More →
Best Poster Award in ICORS 2018
Congratulations to Charlie Farber, 2nd year PhD student in Dr. Dmitry Kurouski’s Lab, for winning the best poster award at ICORS 2018 Conference in Korea. ICORS is the International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy that is held every other year in Asia, Europe and America. This year, around 900 scientists came from all different parts of… Read More →
NIH Fellowship Winner
Congratulations to Natalie Garza, who has recently been awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship from the NIH. These prestigious and highly competitive fellowships are given to very few students every year. The purpose of this fellowship is to support the health-related research of predoctoral students from population groups that have been shown to be… Read More →
Gohil Lab discovers a potential therapy for disorders of copper metabolism
Exciting new research from the Gohil Lab shows that elesclomol, an investigational anti-cancer drug, can be repurposed for the treatment of copper metabolism disorders. This finding published in a recent issue of PNAS is of high biomedical significance as inherited mutations that prevent copper delivery to a critical mitochondrial enzyme result in fatal infantile disorders… Read More →