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Elise White (Woodson lab) wins Poster Prize at 2025 Regulating with RNA Meeting

Elise White (Woodson lab) wins Poster Prize at 2025 Regulating with RNA Meeting

Congratulations to Elise White for receiving the Poster Prize at the 2025 Regulating with RNA in Bacteria and Archaea Meeting in Strasbourg, France! Her poster highlighted groundbreaking research on how the RNA chaperone activity of the bacterial Hfq protein is driven by fast dynamics at the Hfq-RNA interface, featuring results from single-molecule FRET, 19F NMR, and molecular […]

Sanim Rahman (Wolberger lab) awarded NCI F31 Predoctoral Fellowship

Sanim Rahman (Wolberger lab) awarded NCI F31 Predoctoral Fellowship

Former PMB student Sanim Rahman received an F31 fellowship from the National Cancer Institute.

Neil Wood (Fried lab) Participates in AAAS CASE Workshop

Neil Wood (Fried lab) Participates in AAAS CASE Workshop

The week of April 6th 2025, Neil Wood took part in the AAAS Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (CASE) workshop. He was one of 4 Hopkins PhD students selected from many applicants for this 4-day workshop to learn about the legislative process (with emphasis on federal research funding), and basic skills to advocate for science […]

Justin Nguyen receives honorable mention for the GRFP!

Congratulations, Justin!

Cyril Cook Wins Award at 2024 Gordon Research Conference

Congratulations to PMB Student Cyril Cook, for receiving 1st place for his poster entitled Assembly Thermodynamics of a Bivalent Heterotrimer in the Notch Signaling Pathway, at the July 2024 Gordon Research Conference for Notch Signaling in Development, Regeneration, and Disease 2024 Gordon Research Conference. Cyril, a member of the Barrick Lab, was one of four first-place winners at GRC. […]

Elise White Awarded NIH F31 Fellowship!

Please join us in congratulating rising 3rd-Year PMB student Elise White, in the Woodson Lab, who was awarded the highly prestigious F31 Fellowship from the NIH this week! This is awesome news, and a huge accomplishment! We’re so proud of you Elise!

Congratulations, Dr. Alma Plaza-Rodriguez!

Dr. Alma Plaza-Rodriguez presented her thesis seminar entitled “Modeling Contractility Kit-Mediated Mechanoresponsiveness​ and Cytoskeletal Network Assembly”, and in doing so has now completed all requirements of her PhD program. Congrats, Alma!

Alma Plaza-Rodriguez – Biophysical Society Award Winner!

Alma Plaza-Rodriguez – Biophysical Society Award Winner!

Congratulations to Alma Plaza-Rodriguez who was a recent winner of the 2023 Student Research Achievement Award Poster Competition at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting

Tanya Nesterova NSF GRFP!

Tanya Nesterova NSF GRFP!

Congratulations to Tanya Nesterova who was recently awarded an NSF GRFP fellowship! In Dr. Jian Liu’s lab, Tanya writes Brownian dynamics simulations to determine how different proteins spatiotemporally regulate bacterial cell division.

Congratulations, Dr. Mark Petersen!

Dr. Mark Petersen presented his thesis seminar entitled “Thermodynamic Stability, Cooperativity, and the Partly Folded States of Semiautonomous Repeat Proteins” Congrats, Mark!