Stefani Lucarelli and Matt Larson – May 2017
Stefani Lucarelli and Matt Larson win Biochemistry Department Undergraduate Summer Research Awards. Congratulations Stefani and Matt!
Andy DeLaitsch – April 2017
Andy DeLaitsch wins the top prize in the “DNA, RNA, chromosomes and gene regulation” category at ASBMB 2017. Congratulations Andy!
Yuichiro Nomura – June 2016
Yuichiro Nomura joins the lab as a new postdoc and Nimu Sidhu (graduate student) joins the lab. Welcome Yuichiro and Nimu!
Andy DeLaitsch – May 2016
Andy DeLaitsch wins a Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Andy!
Allison Didychuk – April 2016
Allison Didychuk wins the Louis and Elsa Thomsen Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations Allison!
Check out our latest paper – January 2016
“Structural requirements for protein-catalyzed annealing of U4 and U6 RNAs during di-snRNP assembly” in Nucleic Acids Research!
NSMB Paper – Eric Montemayor et al. – May 2014
Check out our latest paper, “Core structure of the U6 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein at 1.7 angstrom resolution”.
Here is a graphic of the amazing structure:
Boyer Award – Eric Montemayor – January 2014
Eric Montemayor wins the University of Wisconsin-Madison Biochemistry Department Boyer Award for Outstanding Postdoctoral Studies in Biochemistry.
Rotation Student – Megan Dowdle – September 2013
The lab welcomes Megan Dowdle, 1st year IPiB student, to the lab for her first rotation. Megan graduated from the University of Missouri in 2013 with a B.S. in Biochemistry.
Graduation – Katie Mouzakis – June 2013
Katie Mouzakis has passed her thesis defense. We are pleased to have her stay as a post-doc before starting as an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at Fort Lewis College in August.