Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Congratulations to Sydney Walker on successfully passing her PhD Thesis Defense!!

Congratulations to David Price on a new publication in Molecular Cell! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S10…

Congratulations to Dr. Sheila Baker and Karina Kruth for their recent publication in the Journal of Neurochemistry! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jn…

Congrats to 4th-year PhD Candidate Sarah Jordan for being selected for the 2025-2026 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award by the @uiowa Council on Teaching!! Well done!

Congratulations to 1st-Year PhD Candidate Nathan Clack for receiving a US National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship!!

Congratulations to our undergraduates selected for honors awards this year!!

On Tuesday, April 28th, we celebrated the research accomplishments of our undergraduate students at the Gene F. Lata Undergraduate Research Symposium. Also pictured are Paul and Lori Lata. Thank you to everyone who attended to support our students!

Congratulations to our faculty who were recognized by the 2026 graduating class of undergrads for making a difference in their lives at Iowa!!

A very exciting day for the Krupina Lab — our Nikon W1 SoRa spinning disk super-resolution microscope is being installed right now! Can’t wait to start using it for experiments and to see what we discover with it.

Our next seminar speaker is Dr. Michael Lagunoff of the Univ of Washington on April 9. He will present "Alteration of Cellular Metabolism and Lipids by the Oncogenic Virus, KSHV" at 10:30am in 2117 MERF. Welcome Dr. Lagunoff! Co-hosts are Drs. Miles Pufall and Jessica Tucker.

Today we are celebrating Nick Hammons's successful thesis defense! Congratulations Nick!

Today we celebrate a successful thesis defense by Logan Dawson! Congratulations!!

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.…