Department News 2021

October 2021, New Award: Assistant Professor Dr. Bo Liang Receives SOM Hidden Gem Award.

September 2021, New Publication. Congratulations to the Dunham lab and the Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy Core for their publication in Nucleic Acids Research titled "Oxidation alters the architecture of the phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase editing domain to confer hyperaccuracy". Their beautiful high-resolution structure of the small protein PheRS showed drastic changes due to oxidation that aptly explains the changes in the activity of oxidised PheRS.

September 2021, NAS Honor. Dr. Christine M. Dunham Named a Kavli Fellow by National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

September 2021, Promotion. Dr. Christine M. Dunham Promoted to Professor of Biochemistry.

July 2021, Promotion. Dr. Sohail Khoshnevis is promoted to Assistant Professor of Biochemistry.

July 2021, New Grant Award. Dr. Xu Liu in the Ortlund Lab received the 2021 American Heart Association Career Development Award.

July 2021, New Publication. Congratulations to Dr. Filipp Frank, Dr. Xu Liu, and Prof. Ortlund on their recent publilcation in PNAS, “Glucocorticoid receptor condensates link DNA-dependent receptor dimerization and transcriptional transactivation.”

July 2021, New Grant Award. The Liang Lab is awarded the 2021 American Lung Association Innovation Award.

May 2021, New Grant Award. Postdoc Brandon Franklin Young in the Liang Lab Named 2021 Burroughs Wellcome Fellow of the Postdoctoral Enrichment Program (PDEP)

January 2021, New Grant Award. Congratulations to the Ortlund Lab on being awarded a Lilly Research Award Program (LRAP) grant from Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals to pursue the structure and function of LRH-1 modulators.