Karras Lab

Excited to share our latest story @MolecularCell @MDAndersonNews the discovery of HSP90-buffered mutations in BRCA1, led by postdoctoral trainee Dr. Brant Gracia and PhD student Xing-Han Zhang cell.com/molecular-cell…

Excited to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! Deep thanks to my amazing team, mentors, collaborators, and colleagues! Looking forward to the next chapter of discoveries and growth opportunities!

Delighted to share that our proposal to study Hsp90's role in therapy resistance in head and neck cancer is now awarded! Thank you to CPRIT for supporting this work.

Delighted to share our new preprint. HSP90 buffers mutations in BRCA1, thus influencing cancer predisposition. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Delighted to share our new story is out in Science. Find out how industrial yeasts got their duplicated genes, here @ScienceMagazine : #tab-contributors" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Delighted to share our new story "Protein-folding chaperones predict structure-function relationships and cancer risk in BRCA1 mutation carriers" in Cell Reports. Read our publication here: cell.com/cell-reports/f…

We are excited to share a preprint of our work: Protein-Folding Chaperones Predict Structure-Function Relationships and Cancer Risk in BRCA1 Mutation Carriers biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

we are excited to share a preprint of our work Ethanol Drives Evolution of Hsp90-Dependent Robustness by Redundancy in Yeast Domestication! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Postdoctoral trainees are major drivers of research and innovation. It's been a pleasure to work with Upasna Thapar and Nick Economos, in a great collaboration with Peter Glazer. Please read our publication here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.… #PostdocAppreciationWeek @Karras_Lab

Our work on mechanisms of DNA triplex-mediated gene editing is published! PMID: 35988651 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Georgios received the Kleberg Innovator Award from The Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation. We thank you for your support!

Congratulations to Brant Gracia for being awarded the Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) F32 Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship for his postdoctoral work!

Engineering human cell lines is now as easy as engineering yeast! nature.com/articles/s4146…

SMC Complexes Are Guarded by the SUMO Protease Ulp2 Against SUMO-Chain-Mediated Turnover biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

SMC Complexes Are Guarded by the SUMO Protease Ulp2 Against SUMO-Chain-Mediated Turnover biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_cellbio

Racism is everyone’s problem genestogenomes.org/racism-is-ever… via @GeneticsGSA

Congratulations to Anna Tanaka on her admission to Medical School at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine!

Congratulations to Youssef Sabha on his admission to Graduate School at Rutgers University!

Congratulations to Hatim Amiji on receiving the Frederick B. Rudolph Award for Outstanding Senior student from RICE University!

Congratulations to Dipak Patel on his admission to Graduate School at Baylor College of Medicine!