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Mentor and mentee won awards!

                    

Congratulations to SeHee for winning the Robert K. Brinton Award in Chemistry and to her undergrad student, Michelle, for winning the Outstanding Contribution to the Undergraduate Class Award from UC Davis Department of Chemistry!

New paper in NAR

Great job Alex and co-authors on their new publication “Asymmetric dimerization of adenosine deaminase acting on RNA facilitates substrate recognition”. Read the full text here

Graduation of our undergrad stars!

Shannon Lu

 

We want to congratulate Shannon for completing her B.S. in a major in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a minor in Japanese! We also want to wish her the best in graduate school at the University of Chicago as an Eckhardt scholar! Good luck Shannon, we’ll miss you!

Michelle Luo

 

Congratulations Michelle for completing her B.S. in Chemistry! We also want to wish her the best in graduate school at Yale University! Good luck Michelle! Keep in touch, we’ll miss your energy!

Luan Nguyen

We want to congratulate Luan for completing his B.S. in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior! We want to wish him the best of luck as he applies to medical school! We will miss you!

Graduation of Dr. Leanna Monteleone!

We want to congratulate Leanna on her virtual graduation and completing her Ph.D.! We also want to wish her the best at her new Post Doc position at UCSF starting this Fall. Enjoy the city and new science, Leanna!

 

 

Two new papers available online!

Two collaborative papers were published recently:

Congrats to Cody on this collaboration with the Doudna lab here.

And to Leanna on this collaboration with the Heemstra lab here.

Great work everyone!

2020 Larock Undergraduate Research Conference

Michelle and Shannon both gave excellent talks at this year’s virtual Larock conference. The conference also featured keynote speaker and lab alumna Dr. Nicole Schirle-Oakldale, who recieved her M.S. in pharmaceutical chemistry in 2010.

Great job, Shannon, who was awarded Best Presentation in chemical biology session II.

Graduation of Dr. Cody Palumbo!

We want to congratulate Cody for his virtual graduation for completing his Ph.D.! We also want to wish him the best at his new position as Scientist in Juno Therapeutics at Seattle! Enjoy the weather and outdoors bud!

Shannon Wins “Best Poster”!

Following in her mentor’s footsteps (Miller Symposium 2019 Best Poster winner), Shannon took home the award for Best Poster among the undergraduates at the 2020 Miller Symposium. Nice work, Shannon!

2020 Miller Symposium

This year’s Miller symposium was a success, with a talk from our very own Dr. Peter Beal, and poster presentations by graduate and undergraduate students in the group.  Thanks to keynote speaker Dr. Jennifer Doudna for a wonderful talk, and for joining us for a photo!

New ChemBioChem paper

Congrats to Cody and co-authors on their paper “Versatile 3′ Functionalization of CRISPR Single Guide RNA”. This collaborative work with Dr. David Segal’s lab began as part of Cody’s T32 training grant. Read the full text here!

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