Congrats to Joey Closson for his outstanding PhD defense talk and Q&A on June 18, capping his dissertation work in the GC Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry. Joey's dissertation work substantially advanced aspects of the lab's investigations into the Hypoxia Inducible Factors (HIFs), principally by cryo-EM and biochemical investigations of larger HIF complexes that form on [...]
Congrats to Jimmy Siclari for his outstanding PhD defense talk and Q&A on Dec 5, wrapping up the work required for his Ph.D. in the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology subprogram within the GC Ph.D. Program in Biology. Starting his dissertation research in the midst of lab lockdowns in Spring 2020, Jimmy conducted a [...]
Congrats to Danielle Swingle for her outstanding PhD defense talk and Q&A on Sept 27, wrapping up the work required for her Ph.D. in the GC Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry. Danielle's done a great job blending biochemistry, biophysics, and a slate of structural biology methods to advance our studies of bacterial two-component signaling systems [...]
Congrats to Matt Cleere for an outstanding PhD defense talk and Q&A on Nov 17, wrapping up the work required for his Ph.D. in the GC Ph.D. Program in Biology. Matt brought yeast to the lab, merging his experience and passion for the Awesome Power of Yeast Biology (TM) with the lab's long-standing tradition [...]
Final things to highlight in the summer of 2023 are ones I'm particularly proud of, including anniversaries of the lab's founding 25 years ago in the Department of Biochemistry at UT Southwestern and joining the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center 10 years ago, plus receiving the Stein and Moore Award from The Protein Society [...]
Congrats to Roksana Azad for an outstanding PhD defense talk and Q&A on Aug 24, wrapping up the work required for her Ph.D. in the GC Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry. With what is turning into the lab's magic mix of biophysical & biochemical approaches – HDX-MS / cryo-EM / NMR / in vitro and [...]
Thinking back to being a kid growing up in California, I remember summers being a time of rest, relaxation, and squirreling around with a backpack on – places like here, here and here. Good times! In 2023, not a kid any longer = summers are time to move things along, start new ideas, or reflect [...]
In our latest J. Biol. Chem. paper, we share some of our latest findings from a fantastic team led by Igor Dikiy and Danielle Swingle, who investigated how strongly homology across related proteins really translates into fundamental aspects like regulatory mode and quaternary structure. Starting from bioinformatics searches looking for proteins related to a [...]
Welcome to new postdoctoral researcher Soumendu Boral, joining us after getting his Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur earlier this year with NMR-based studies of the structural and dynamic basis of protein splicing mediated by the Spl DnaX intein. Thrilled to have you join us here in New York!
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, Malvin!