Emory Department of Biochemistry

Please join us on Thursday, December 12, for a seminar by Zachary Wood, PhD. Topic: "How Nature Harnesses Entropy to Tune Protein Function".

Please join us on Thursday, December 5, for a seminar by Alyssa Panitch, PhD. Topic: "Promoting Tissue Healing and Regeneration Using Biomimetics and Drug Delivery".

Please join us on Thursday, November 14, for a seminar by Britt Glaunsinger, PhD. Topic: "Oncogenic herpesviruses manipulate RNA destruction and synthesis machinery to control gene expression".

Please join us on Thursday, November 7, for a seminar by Manuel (Manny) Ares, PhD. Topic: "A balance between pre-mRNA load and splicing capacity is essential for cell viability".

Please join us on Thursday, October 31 for a seminar by Matthew Gentry, PhD. Topic: "Perturbed monosaccharide metabolic channeling impacts CNS disorders and cancer".

Please join us on Friday, October 25 for a special seminar by Rakhi Rajan, PhD. Topic: "Structure-based protein engineering to improve the DNA cleavage fidelity of CRISPR-Cas genome tools"".

Please join us on Thursday, October 17 for a talk by Mingyi Xie, PhD. Topic: "Regulation of small non-coding RNAs".

Please join us on Thursday, October 10 for a talk by Juan Perilla, PhD. Topic: "Discovery with the computational microscope: from molecules to phenotypes".

Congratulations, Dr. Xu Liu, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, who received an NIH grant, "Multifaceted Regulation of Mineralocorticoid Receptor Transcriptional Activities." reporter.nih.gov/search/s7piGUl… @xuliu1983

New work in @npjAMR from @skhoshn and colleagues highlights novel #antivirulence molecule sinefungin🍄 (1/5) nature.com/articles/s4425…

Congratulations to Yunrong Gao, Sara Espinosa, Bo Liang, for their paper, "In Vitro higher-order oligomeric assembly of the respiratory syncytial virus M2-1 protein with longer RNAs," in the Journal of Virology. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv…

Please join us on Thursday, October 3 for a talk by Sebla Kutluay, PhD. Topic: "Efficient Packaging of HIV-1 Genomes by Heterologous RNA-Binding Domains".

Please join us on Thursday, September 26 for a talk by Daryl Klein, MD, PhD. Topic: "Structural Regulation and Antibody Development for Oncogenic Receptors: Towards Novel Cancer Therapeutics".

Congratulations, Dr. Patel! #ResearcherAppreciationDay med.emory.edu/about/faculty/…

Each year for Researcher Appreciation Day, the Faculty Recognitions Committee organizes an opportunity for all faculty to nominate School of Medicine colleagues who are performing groundbreaking research. View the '24 Researcher Appreciation Day honorees! brnw.ch/21wMDGI

Congratulations, Dr. Xu Liu! @xuliu1983 @EmoryMedicine

Please join us on Thursday, September 19 for a talk by Lei Li, PhD. Topic: "Chemoenzymatic Strategies to Expand the Glycospace".

RNA Salon Seminar, September 20, 2024. @CharlesBNader #RNA

Dr. Blerta Xhemalçe Joins Biochemistry faculty as Associate Professor, September 2024. The Xhemalçe lab studies how epigenetic modifications regulate the expression of genetic information from DNA to RNA to proteins. Also joining lab: Brandon Chiou, ​Yi-Ru Li, Joshuah Nguyen.