Department of Biochemistry

News Highlights

September 2024, New Postdoctoral Fellow, Yuqing Wang, is welcomed to the lab. 

September 2024, Paper published. Congratulations to Yunrong Gao, PhD, Sara Espinosa, and Bo Liang, PhD, for their paper, "In Vitro higher-order oligomeric assembly of the respiratory syncytial virus M2-1 protein with longer RNAs," published in the Journal of Virology.

April 2024, Research Specialist Sara Espinosa Garcia gave an oral presentation on RSV M2-1 at the 17th Southeastern Regional Virology Conference (SERVC 2024) in Atlanta, GA. 

April 2024, High school student researcher Seohyun Park decided to go to Georgia Tech for his college adventure. 

April 2024, High school student researcher Eric Xu received acceptance from Georgia Tech, Emory, Johns Hopkins, and Brown University. 

April 2024, Research Specialist Nicole Rayyan accepted a position in the CDC. 

March 2024, Former undergraduate student and current Research Specialist Nicholas Keung was accepted to the master's program at the University of Southern California (USC), UC San Diego (UCSD), and Columbia University. 

March 2024, Former undergraduate student and current Research Specialist Vu Ngo got multiple graduate school offers from Cornell, Rice, and the University of Michigan, and he decided to go to Michigan for his Ph.D. graduate studies. 

February 2024, Research Specialist John Blankenhorn decided to go to Georgia Tech, our neighbor across the town, to pursue a Ph.D. starting in the fall of 2024. 

December 2023, Paper published. Congratulations to the Liang Lab for their publication in Nature titled “Structures of the promoter-bound respiratory syncytial virus polymerase”. 

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Active Funding Support

  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences/National Institutes of Health (NIGMS/NIH)
  • National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health (NIA/NIH)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases /National Institutes of Health (NIAID/NIH)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • The Start-Up Fund, Emory University