The 2023 Summer Seminar Series, organized by the Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA), showcases talks by alumni, faculty, and current graduate students. Join us for the seminars every Friday afternoon from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Dongwon Yoo Seminar & Conference Hall – Young Hall 4222. Please note that there will be no seminar […]

Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology (BMSB) graduate students Andrew Goring (Clubb/Loo groups) and Alexander Stevens (Zhou group) have been awarded prestigious Whitcome Pre-doctoral Fellowships in Molecular Biology for 2023-24. The fellowship will provide them support in the form of tuition/fees, a monthly stipend and travel funds. About Andrew Goring Andrew Goring (pictured above left) received […]

Professor Keriann Backus has been named a recipient of the 2023 Breakthrough Science Initiative Award from the Ono Pharma Foundation to support her research on chemoproteogenomic approaches to guide immunomodulatory therapeutics. Backus will garner $900,000, plus funding for indirect research costs, for a total grant exceeding $1 million. The highly competitive awards program is designed […]

Professor Ken Houk and Cram Teacher Scholar Dr. Huiling Shao are part of an international team of researchers who have succeeded for the first time in using structural editing to insert a four-membered molecular ring into a larger, aromatic ring, creating a structurally complex bicyclic ring system.  The team published this new strategy in the […]

We are excited to share a special video with messages from our faculty, congratulating our recently graduated Ph.D. students! As a tradition that started in 2020, these video messages have become a great way for our faculty to express their appreciation to our graduating Ph.D. students.

Graduating doctoral student Shreya Patel (Tolbert group) has been awarded an NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPS-Ascend) to support her work on nanoscale optical materials at Northwestern University. The purpose of the MPS-Ascend program is to support postdoctoral Fellows who will broaden the participation of members of groups that are historically […]

Graduate student Yi Xiao (Sean) Jiang (Eisenberg group) is a winner of the 2023 Brain Diseases Award from the UZH Foundation for his “excellent discovery of TMEM106B as the component of the FTLD amyloid fibrils”.  UZH Foundation awards the yearly prize (10,000 Swiss Francs) to a Ph.D. student for outstanding contributions to non-clinical basic research […]

Chemistry graduate student Caitlyn Fick (Srivastava group) has been chosen by the UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF) program to teach a lower-division seminar titled, “PFAS, pesticides, and plastics: how revolutionary chemistry has changed our past and future”. Fick’s course, which she will teach either during the Winter or Spring Quarters of Academic Year […]