WELCOME to the GARDNER LAB
Welcome to the Gardner Lab in the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center‘s Structural Biology Initative. Explore a bit here to learn more about who we are, what we work on, and why we think this is important. Follow us on Twitter at @nmrkaygee, and comments/questions always welcome at kgardner@gc.cuny.edu. Thanks!
KG – 4/23
Congrats: Malvin – E. Olshansky Award
Congrats to Malvin Forson, a first year CUNY GC Biochemistry Ph.D. student in the lab, for being recently awarded a E. Olshansky Graduate Merit Award from the CCNY Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry! This merit-based award supports incoming graduate students with both support directly to them and the supporting laboratory. [...]
Congratulations, Dr. Jim Xu!
Congrats to Xingjian (Jim) Xu for an outstanding PhD defense talk and Q&A on April 21, wrapping up his degree work in the GC Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry. Stellar combination of biophysical & biochemical approaches – HDX-MS / MST / EM / NMR / X-ray diffraction – to answer some [...]
Welcome Carol!
Welcome to visiting postdoc Carolina Matos, joining the lab for a year's stay. With FAPESP fellowship support, Carol, a postdoc with Carlos Ramos at UNICAMP in São Paolo, is combining biophysical and biochemical approaches to study chaperone/client interaction. Meet Carol and the rest of the group at https://kglab.ws.gc.cuny.edu/current-lab-members/!
Welcome Malvin!
Welcome to new CUNY GC Ph.D. student Malvin Forson, joining the lab for his dissertation work. Malvin, a native of Ghana, is a first year student in the GC's Biochemistry Ph.D. program and has a broad set of professional and personal interests. Meet Malvin and the rest of the group [...]
2023 Protein Society Stein & Moore Award
Beyond honored to receive the 2023 Stein & Moore Award from the Protein Society at this July's society meeting! This award recognizes the sustained impact of my group's research in the general field of protein science, our favorite corner of the fields of biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology. I am [...]
2023 BPS Biophysics of Health and Disease Award
Very proud to receive the 2023 Award for the Biophysics of Health and Disease from the Biophysical Society at this year's society meeting! This award recognizes a long-running project in my lab and our collaborators to develop a small molecule drug targeting hypoxia inducible factor 2 (HIF-2), leveraging biophysical [...]