Department of Biochemistry

BCBP/MSM Retreat Research

Fall 2025

Date

Name

Topic

09/14/2025

Alberto Santos 

Yihan Shao LAb

“Cysteine to serine protease-like mechanism of HtDLH: a new perspective of plastic cleavage”

Logan Calderone

Pandelia Lab

"How Cyanobacteria Use Tryptophan: Bald Eagle Toxins and Smelly Molecules"

August Krueger

Theobald Lab

"Forensic Spectroscopy: The Case of the Missing Peaks"

Benjamin R. Morehouse

Assistant Professor, UC Irvine

"Ringing the alarm: cyclic nucleotides mediate bacterial immunity against phages"

09/15/2025

Nick Berg
Ivanovic Lab







“Functional studies of Influenza aggregation with flow virometry”

Jiahua Chen

Pandelia Lab

“Identification of a Promiscuous Metal-Binding Site in HBV HBx and an Fe-S Cluster as Its Authentic Cofactor”


John Xu

Bradshaw Lab

“Conformational selection controls activation of a serine/threonine phosphatase”

Brandon Singh

Ting Lab

“Insight into FtmOx1 through substrate analogs”

Nida Farheen
Gelles Lab

“Multiple bound TFs increase residence time of Mediator on DNA”

Monifa Fahie

Kardon Lab

“Friend or Foe: How an intrinsically disordered protein alters the behavior of a mitochondrial unfoldase”

Sydney Clifford

Bradshaw Lab

“Druggable control of p38 MAPK through cellular phosphatases”

 

Richard Van

Yihan Shao Lab

“Unraveling DNA Hydrolysis: Computational Strategies for Enzyme Catalysis”

 

Fall 2024

Date

Name

Topic

09/15/2024

Will Ellenburg

Oprian Lab

Anti-Markovnikov cyclizations in sesquiterpene  cyclases 

Bo Kim And Hannes Ludewig

Kern Lab

All Roads Lead to Regulation: The Evolution of Non Receptor Tyrosine Kinases 

Trent Quist

Pandelia Lab

Proteolytic Porcine Polyprotein: Investigations in metal  binding 

Alex Macneil

Theobald Lab

Is Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction Accurate At All?

Jay Tang

Professor of Physics and Engineering, Brown University

Active Matter Research on Biological Entities: A physics  student lost in the studies of filamentous phages,  protein filaments, human neutrophils, and bacteria Professor of Physics, and Engineering, Brown University

09/16/2024

Mackenzie Patterson

Kern Lab

Asking adenylate kinase about evolvability using in  vivo selection 

Luying Pan

Pandelia Lab

A fungal hydrolase as a model for dissecting plant and  human dNTP catabolism 

Cori Posner

Kardon Lab

State selective degradation by mitochondrial CLPXP

Rishika Baral

Bradshaw Lab

How a cyclic-di-AMP phosphodiesterase triggers S.  aureus biofilm formation 

Adrielle Cusi

Duclos Lab

Motility and coarsening of active droplets driven by  actin polymerization 

Ian Murphy

Rogers Lab

Single-particle tracking of DNA origami-enzyme  conjugates in the presence of their substrate

Madhurima Roy

Rogers Lab

Controlling polymorphism in DNA origami assemblies  of a Schwarz

Nida Farheen

Gelles/Kondev Lab

Cooperative mediator recruitment: a plausible  mechanism for transcriptional synergy

Nick Berg

Ivanovic Lab

‘Clumpotyping' Influenza: Using C1q-Antibody  Aggregation to Predict Ab Binding Epitope

Rob Blaustein

Associate Vice President, Merck

Development of an oral macrocyclic peptide to treat  high cholesterol: from bench to bedside 

Associate Vice President, Merck