Congratulations to Jared Rutter
@rutterlab.bsky.social who was recently named a 2026 Fellow of ASBMB @asbmb.bsky.social ! www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...
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Congratulations to Jared Rutter
@rutterlab.bsky.social who was recently named a 2026 Fellow of ASBMB @asbmb.bsky.social ! www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...
A huge congratulations to Brenda Bass @bbass.bsky.social for her Lifetime Achievement Award from the RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social! She is being recognized for her "groundbreaking discovery of A-to-I editing and outstanding contributions to this field."
Congratulations to Adam Hughes for being awarded the 2026 Outstanding Educator Award for Health Sciences Graduate Students for his commitment to creating a culture of exceptional education in the University of Utah Health community!
The Keynote Speaker for #SLAM2026 is Dr. Rutter (@rutterlab.bsky.social) from the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute! Full program slam26.asip.org
@uofubiochem.bsky.social #LiverResearch #LiverDisease #LiverCancer
Congratulations to Joe Aruscavage (Bass lab @bbass.bsky.social ) for winning the Outstanding Career Researcher Award from the RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social for his exceptional contributions in advancing the field of RNA!
www.rnasociety.org/outstanding-...
Happy to share a new preprint exploring the unusual biochemistry of a "weirdly" diverged cytochrome c in malaria parasites that exemplifies a lineage common to many apicomplexan parasites. @uofubiochem.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social @uofutahcihd.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Starting the 2026 with excellent news! Congratulations to graduate students Queren Alcantara (@queren-alcantara.bsky.social) and James Carrington for receiving the AHA Predoctoral Fellowship! @ahascience.bsky.social @uofubiochem.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social 🔬🧪🌟
Don't miss today's talk by Dr. Shan Zha!
Honored to have one of my immunofluorescence images featured in @nature.com November’s best science images!!! Thank you @nature.com and their photo team (Fred Schwaller & Katie Kavanagh) for the highlight! 🧪🔬👨🏾🔬 @rutterlab.bsky.social @uofubiochem.bsky.social
Check it out! go.nature.com/4pGzlr9
On Thursday Dec 11th Dr. Shan Zha from Columbia University will give a Biochemistry Seminar entitled "From Breaks to Barrier, the Expanded Roles of Ku and its Friends in Primate Evolution." 12pm in HSEB 2600!
Figure showing that EP4 localizes to primary cilia of ASCs.
Mark Lee @guacamarklee.bsky.social and Keren Hilgendorf @uofubiochem.bsky.social discover that prostaglandin E2 inhibits adipogenesis through the cilia-dependent activation of ROCK2.
#JCSciliaSI
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Malaria Parasites are Full of Wildly Spinning Iron Crystals. Scientists Finally Know Why.
Fascinating research from @sigalalab.bsky.social @uofubiochem.bsky.social w cool implications. New inspiration for nanobots?!
And-epic science writing from Sophia Friesen! healthcare.utah.edu/newsroom/new...
How do cancer cells use the nutrients to grow and how can that knowledge lead to better care? Gregory Ducker, PhD, studies the metabolism of cancer. @duckerlab.bsky.social aims to uncover new ideas for future therapies & ways to make current treatments even more effective. @uofubiochem.bsky.social
Don't miss today's talk by Dr. Frances Arnold at 4pm!
Join us for next week's James & Kathleen McCloskey Bioscience Endowed lecture by Nobel Laureate Dr. Frances Arnold (CalTech) entitled "Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life." Thurs 10/23 4pm in the Skaggs Auditorium!
Don't miss today's talk by Dr. Derek Applewhite at 12pm!
It was a pleasure to host these speakers for our 2025 #Postdoc Rising Stars event! Great science and terrific symposium. @uofubiochem.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social
Please join us for the Biochemistry Seminar Series on Thurs Oct 9th at 12pm in HSEB 2600. This week's talk will be given by Dr. Derek Applewhite @applewhitederek.bsky.social, Professor of Biology at Reed College and is titled "The regulation of non-muscle myosin II contractility”
Don't miss the Postdoc Rising Stars Symposium and Keynote address today and tomorrow!
Very excited to welcome these #postdoc speakers to our annual @utah.edu Rising Stars Symposium cohosted by @uofubiochem.bsky.social and Med Chem @uuhsresearch.bsky.social with keynote address by Ryan Watts at Denali
Just a couple days away from the 2025 Postdoc Rising Stars Symposium! Don't miss this series of talks on the cutting edge of Cell Biology, Chemical Biology and Computational & Multiscale Analysis, and a keynote by Ryan Watts (Denali Therapeutics)!
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#ASBMB26's keynote speaker is Wesley Sundquist: Co-chair of the department of biochemistry at @uofubiochem.bsky.social, ASBMB fellow and one of Time's 100 most influential people of 2025. Don't miss his speech at ASBMB 2026!
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#HIV #StructuralBiology #ProteinDesign
Don't miss today's Biochemistry Seminar by our own Matt Miller on "Getting it Right: How Do Cells Ensure Accurate Chromosome Inheritance?" 12pm in HSEB 2600!
Don't miss today's thesis defense by Ping Guo at 11am!
Don't miss today's talk by Dr. James Olzmann!
We're thrilled to announce the 2025 Postdoctoral Rising Stars Symposium cohosted @uofuhealth.bsky.social by @uofubiochem.bsky.social and MedChem with keynote by Ryan Watts at Denali Therapeutics
Join Ping Guo (English Lab) on Fri Sept 12 from 11am – 12pm at the EIHG Auditorium as she presents her Ph.D. Thesis Defense – From Opioid to Nopioid: Mu-opioid Receptor Pharmacogenomics Cracks the Code of Opioid Resistance.
On Thurs Sept 11, Dr. James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social will give a talk on "Cellular lipid homeostasis: From lipid droplets to ferroptosis." 12pm in HSEB 2600!
Don't miss today's thesis presentation by Supraja Ranganathan at 12pm!
On Thurs Aug 28th, Supraja Ranganathan (Bass Lab) will defend her thesis entitled "Dynamics of viral replication and innate immune responses in C. elegans." 12pm in EIHG!
