Drexel Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Excited to share work started by Lorela Ciraku @loriciraku and completed by Emily Esquea @esqueaemily & Riley Young @_riley_young_ @DrexelMcbg & collaborators ACSS2 regulates ferroptosis in an E2F1-dependent manner in breast cancer brain metastatic cells biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to Dr. Strochlic! 🎉 @ToddStrochlic A fantastic educator at @DrexelMedicine

Drexel @DrexelMCBG @Drexelmed PhD student Riley Young @_riley_young_ presented part of her thesis research as a short talk at @CSHL August 2024 Mechanisms and Models of Cancer Conference in Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Big Congrats to Kalisse🎉 Kalisse Horne @afrogenomics @DrexelMcbg received Administrative Supplements to Promote Diversity from NIH-NIA🤩 She is doing her PhD studies related to the biology of aging and cancer @NoguchiLab2004 @DrexelBiochem @DrexelMedicine @Drexel_med_grad

Exciting research being done by Dr. Reginato @LabReginato and Dr. Dick targeting brain mets @drexelmed with collaborator Dr. Simone @NickiSimone4 @KimmelCancerCtr drexel.edu/news/archive/2…

Congratulation to🥳Dr. Emily Esquea @esqueaemily who defended her PhD thesis last week #proudpi 🏆@drexelmcbg @Drexel_med_grad @DrexelMedicine

Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬 Roshni Kadam @DrexelMcbg MS candidate Friday, June 28, 10:30 AM NCB Room 11101 Investigating the functional role of highly structured regions in lncRNA SChLAP1 using CRISPR/Cas-based deletion analysis Mentor: Sri Somarowthu, PhD @DrexelBiochem

Students @Drexel_med_grad @DrexelMedicine having a great time at the AGE 2024 @americanaging conference in Madison, WI 🥳🥂 Luisa Abadia @DrexelMcbg , Britney Black @DrexelCancerBio , Kalisse Horne @DrexelMcbg and Nick Guzman @DrexelBiochem More pictures to follow 🤩

Well done Nima 🤩 🤩 🤩 GRADUATE COLLEGE OUTSTANDING MENTORSHIP AWARD 🥳 🥳 🥳 drexel.edu/graduatecolleg… Nima Sarfaraz, PhD Candidate Drexel @DrexelMcbg Program Mentor: Dr. Michael Bouchard @DrexelBiochem @DrexelMedicine Drexel University College of Medicine

Big congrats to Emily 🎉 🎉 🎉 GRADUATE COLLEGE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARDS - Expanding the Impact of Research 🧬 🧬 🧬 drexel.edu/graduatecolleg… Emily Esquea, PhD Candidate Drexel @DrexelMcbg Program Mentor: Dr. Mauricio Reginato @LabReginato @DrexelBiochem @DrexelMedicine

Excited to share this new work by excellent graduate students @esqueaemily @loriciraku @_riley_young_ @DrexelMcbg @DrexelMedicine with collaborators @NickiSimone4 @mzspectrum frontiersin.org/journals/pharm…

Congratulations to Giang Le Minh, PhD, BHAD Program ‘23 @GiangLeMinh2 @DrexelMedicine for Receiving the 2024 Amedeo Bondi, PhD, Endowed Graduate Award for excellence in research performance during the training experience working in the lab of Dr. Mauricio Reginato @LabReginato

Women are underrepresented in leadership roles in academic medicine. An article in @PhillyInquirer highlights how the Hedwig van Ameringen @ELAMProgram has worked for decades to make change: bit.ly/3v1xTsS

MCBG Seminar 🧬🧬🧬 Thursday, February 22, 2024, 1 PM Dr. Celeste Simon Professor, Scientific Director, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine Can Tumor Metabolism be Exploited for Therapeutic Benefit?

Excited to host Dr. Cornelius Taabazuing @taabaman @BB_UPenn @PennMedicine for our department seminar series next Monday at 1 pm @DrexelMedicine

MCBG Seminar 🧬 🧬 🧬 Thursday, February 8, 2024, 1 PM Mihyun Oh, PhD Candidate Advisor: Dr. Srinivas Somarowthu @DrexelBiochem @DrexelMcbg @DrexelMedicine Structural characterization of the long non-coding RNA SChLAP1

Looking forward to hosting Dr. Brian Capell @briancapell @PennEpiInst @PennCancer for our departmental seminar series next Monday @DrexelMedicine at 1 pm.

Structure of vancomycin bound to D-Ala-D-Ser @IUCrJ doi.org/10.1107/S20522… @DrexelMedicine @DrexelBiochem @NIAIDNews @NIAIDFunding @NIH @ENERGY #vancomycin #antibiotic #resistance #supramolecular #macromolecularmachine #drugdiscovery #molecularrecognition @IUCr #openaccess

MCBG Seminar 🧬🧬🧬 

 Thursday, January 25, 1 pm @DrexelMedicine Dr. Yong Xiong Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry Yale University School of Medicine Modeling nuclear entry of HIV capsid Student host: Mihyun Oh, PhD candidate, @DrexelMcbg @DrexelBiochem

MCBG Seminar 🧬🧬🧬 @DrexelMcbg Thursday, January 18, 2024, 1 PM Emily Esquea @esqueaemily PhD Candidate Advisor: Dr. Mauricio Reginato @LabReginato @DrexelBiochem @DrexelMedicine Targeting Metabolic Vulnerabilities in Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis