Karen Davis

Walter Chazin, Director, Molecular Biophysics Training Program Molecular Biophysics Training Program (MBTP) Director Walter Chazin will sit down with students to gather feedback on the training program and seminar series. The meeting is scheduled for the regular seminar time slot on Tuesday, March 7, at 12:20pm in… Read More

Top, L to R: Amy Kendall, Mintu Chandra Bottom, L to R: Will Wan, Lauren Jackson Does your protein of interest show favored orientations in cryo-EM? Or perhaps one specific region is poorly resolved relative to another? If so, consider looking into this recent publication from Amy Kendall, Mintu Chandra,… Read More

Allison Walker and John Yang Allison Walker and John Yang, both assistant professors of chemistry, have each been awarded a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to continue their groundbreaking research. MIRA provides support for a… Read More

Ivette Perez, Iverson Lab Congratulations to Ivette Perez, of the Iverson Lab, for being named the 2023 recipient of The Karpay Award in Structural Biology. “I am honored to have been selected for this award,” Ivette said. Ivette joined the Iverson lab in the spring 2019,… Read More

Galina Lepesheva, Jarrod Smith Did you know that the cytochrome P450 enzyme family is one of the largest found in nature? These enzymes are found in all domains of life and catalyze electron transport for diverse processes like sterol biosynthesis and the activation/detoxification of drugs. Drs. Galina… Read More

Steven Damo, Jamaine Davis, John Yang CSB faculty Steven Damo, Jamaine Davis and John Yang were recently recognized for their work in promoting diversity and inclusion in science, Alzheimer’s research and computational enzyme design. Fisk University Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Life and Physical Sciences, Steven… Read More

Diego del Alamo Have you been itching to use AlphaFold to study your protein of interest? You can “model” your study after the work of Diego del Alamo, of the Mchaourab and Meiler labs, who recently published a study of an APC transporter using… Read More

Katherine Paulin, PhD Have you ever wondered how cells keep their DNA safe during replication? Does solving biochemical puzzles from protein structures interest you? Then you should read the new findings from the Eichman and Cortez labs. In their paper published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry… Read More

Some might say that Will Wan, assistant professor of biochemistry, is “one of our own.” Will completed his PhD at Vanderbilt University in the CSB lab of Gerald Stubbs, professor of biological sciences, emeritus. Will began his scientific studies at Binghamton University earning… Read More

Jarrod Smith Jarrod Smith, research associate professor of biochemistry, successfully submitted an S10 proposal to purchase twenty GPU compute nodes, each consisting of four NVIDIA “A6000” GPUs and 64 Intel “Platinum” CPU cores, and has received an award of nearly $600,000. This will be combined with up to $100,000 in… Read More