The Yeates laboratory and collaborators have designed protein molecules that self-assemble to form molecular cages with dimensions in the mid-nanometer range. The recent work, published in Science on June 1, brings to fruition a strategy proposed by Yeates and his former graduate students more than ten years ago. A second publication co-authored by Yeates in […]

Proteins are generally unstable, and as a result are usually shipped and stored at regulated temperatures, which increases costs. Heather Maynard and graduate students Rock Mancini and Juneyoung Lee synthesized a polymer to covalently attach to proteins that stabilizes the biomolecules to environmental stressors. There are a lot Food and Drug Administration approved protein-polymer conjugates […]

We are happy to announce that Ken Houk has been awarded the 2012 Robert Robinson Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). This award is for contributions to organic chemistry made by a researcher after the age of 55. The award was presented for Ken’s “inspirational and insightful development of the distortion/interaction theory of […]

Professor Sabeeha Merchant is the recipient of a 2012 Humboldt Research Award. These awards, granted by the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation to scientists from around the world, are aimed at fostering collaborations with German scientists. With support from this award, Professor Merchant will be spending her sabbatical this year at the Max Planck Institute in […]

Joan Valentine has been admitted as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. An announcement about the Honorary Fellows, along with a list of the 2011 five new Fellows, can be found at RSC site.