Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

On Mar 12, we welcome Dr. Robert Eoff from the Univ of Arkansas for Medical Science as an invited speaker presenting "Translesion Synthesis-Mediated Control of Persistent Single-Stranded DNA: Discovering New Partnerships that Minimize Genomic Vulnerability".

The Krupina laboratory is seeking a post-bacc research intern. More information and the application is available online at jobs.uiowa.edu/research/view/….

Next week we welcome Dr. David Kast from WashU Medicine as an invited speaker presenting research on "Organelle Dynamics in Metabolism and Immunity". This seminar is open to the public and we hope you can attend!

On Feb 26, we welcome Dr. Rui Zhao from the Univ of Colorado Anschultz as an invited speaker presenting research on "Mechanisms and Modulation of 5' Splice Site Recognition". This seminar is open to the public and we hope you can attend!

The Mandala laboratory is seeking a post-bacc research intern. More information and the application is available online at jobs.uiowa.edu/research/view/….

Congratulations to Grace Ciampa for passing her dissertation defense! Grace completed her PhD studies in Dr. Long-Sheng Song's lab.

This week we welcome Dr. Bradley Webb of West Virginia Univ. as our next seminar speaker. Dr. Webb will present 'Cell Biology of Metabolism: Structural & Functional Insights into a Glycolytic Enzyme' on Thurs, Oct 9. Join us for this exciting exploration into cellular metabolism!

Congratulations to Drs. Rachel Kehrberg and Kris DeMali for their recent publication! Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.ceb.…

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This week we are excited to host Dr. Judith Simcox of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as part of our visiting speaker series. Dr. Simcox is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry and will be speaking on "Functional characterization of plasma lipids."

Today we welcome Dr. Melissa Jurica as an invited speaker in for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Dr. Jurica will present a seminar on "Exploring intron recognition by U2 snRNP with spliceosome inhibitors".

Shoutout to @JoeDean669022, who wrapped up his summer undergraduate research with an wonderful poster on ADSL in non-small cell lung cancer. Thank you for a summer of hard work and dedication! @IowaBiochem @GVSU

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We are excited to welcome Dr. Patrick Oakes of Loyola University Chicago as our first guest seminar speaker of the year. Dr. Oakes will present a seminar on "Adhesions are strain sites - the role of LIM domain proteins in sensing and transducing cytoskeletal forces."

Dr. David Price has announced another publication in Viruses! Congratulations!

Congratulations to Dr. Zach Frevert for his publication in Nature Communications!! Way to go!!

Congratulations to Jordan Riley for a successful MS Thesis Defense!

Excited to welcome @JoeDean669022, a rising Biochem senior from @GVSU, to @pedley_lab and @IowaBiochem as a Biochem Summer Research Fellow! Joe will be investigating the allosteric regulation of metabolic processes in disease.

Congratulations to Drs. Masayoshi Honda and Mortezaali Razzaghi for their co-first author paper in Nature, "The RAD52 double-ring remodels replication forks restricting fork reversal"!

Terrific discussions about nuclear receptors and the design of new selective agonists with collaborator Doug Kojetin ⁦@VandyBiochem⁩ and Lucy Langmack ⁦@IowaBiochem⁩ during his visit this week!