BCBP/MSM Retreat Research
Fall 2025
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09/14/2025 |
Alberto Santos Yihan Shao LAb |
“Cysteine to serine protease-like mechanism of HtDLH: a new perspective of plastic cleavage” |
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Logan Calderone Pandelia Lab |
"How Cyanobacteria Use Tryptophan: Bald Eagle Toxins and Smelly Molecules" |
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August Krueger Theobald Lab |
"Forensic Spectroscopy: The Case of the Missing Peaks" |
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Benjamin R. Morehouse Assistant Professor, UC Irvine |
"Ringing the alarm: cyclic nucleotides mediate bacterial immunity against phages" |
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09/15/2025 |
Nick Berg |
“Functional studies of Influenza aggregation with flow virometry” |
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Jiahua Chen Pandelia Lab |
“Identification of a Promiscuous Metal-Binding Site in HBV HBx and an Fe-S Cluster as Its Authentic Cofactor” |
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John Xu Bradshaw Lab |
“Conformational selection controls activation of a serine/threonine phosphatase” |
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Brandon Singh Ting Lab |
“Insight into FtmOx1 through substrate analogs” |
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Nida Farheen |
“Multiple bound TFs increase residence time of Mediator on DNA” |
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Monifa Fahie Kardon Lab |
“Friend or Foe: How an intrinsically disordered protein alters the behavior of a mitochondrial unfoldase” |
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Sydney Clifford Bradshaw Lab |
“Druggable control of p38 MAPK through cellular phosphatases” |
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Richard Van Yihan Shao Lab |
“Unraveling DNA Hydrolysis: Computational Strategies for Enzyme Catalysis” |
Fall 2024
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Date |
Name |
Topic |
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09/15/2024 |
Will Ellenburg Oprian Lab |
Anti-Markovnikov cyclizations in sesquiterpene cyclases |
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Bo Kim And Hannes Ludewig Kern Lab |
All Roads Lead to Regulation: The Evolution of Non Receptor Tyrosine Kinases |
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Trent Quist Pandelia Lab |
Proteolytic Porcine Polyprotein: Investigations in metal binding |
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Alex Macneil Theobald Lab |
Is Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction Accurate At All? |
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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 |
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09/16/2024 |
Mackenzie Patterson Kern Lab |
Asking adenylate kinase about evolvability using in vivo selection |
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Luying Pan Pandelia Lab |
A fungal hydrolase as a model for dissecting plant and human dNTP catabolism |
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Cori Posner Kardon Lab |
State selective degradation by mitochondrial CLPXP |
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Rishika Baral Bradshaw Lab |
How a cyclic-di-AMP phosphodiesterase triggers S. aureus biofilm formation |
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Adrielle Cusi Duclos Lab |
Motility and coarsening of active droplets driven by actin polymerization |
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Ian Murphy Rogers Lab |
Single-particle tracking of DNA origami-enzyme conjugates in the presence of their substrate |
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Madhurima Roy Rogers Lab |
Controlling polymorphism in DNA origami assemblies of a Schwarz |
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Nida Farheen Gelles/Kondev Lab |
Cooperative mediator recruitment: a plausible mechanism for transcriptional synergy |
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Nick Berg Ivanovic Lab |
‘Clumpotyping' Influenza: Using C1q-Antibody Aggregation to Predict Ab Binding Epitope |
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Rob Blaustein Associate Vice President, Merck |
Development of an oral macrocyclic peptide to treat high cholesterol: from bench to bedside Associate Vice President, Merck |