Congratulations to Amanda Qu for being awarded a 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Amanda is currently a second year student in Doug Barrick’s lab. Yay Amanda!!!
Congratulations Amanda!
News & Announcements Archive
Congratulations to Mel Nune!
PMB student Mel Nune won the Young Investigators’ Day Alicia Showalter Reynolds Award! This award is provided by the Dean’s Office of the School of Medicine, and recognizes the research of outstanding Ph.D. students across the School of Medicine. Mel will be recognized at an awards ceremony on April 6th.
Congratulations to PMB student Mayukh Chakrabarti
On his first-author publication in the journal Structure, entitled “Allosteric Activation of PI3Ka Results in Dynamic Access to Catalytically Competent Conformations.”
Congratulations Amy!
Congratulations to Amy Fernandez for being awarded a 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Amy is currently a second year student in James Berger’s lab. Her fellowship is titled “Structural and mechanistic studies of molecular crosstalk in the bacterial primosome.” Way to go, Amy!!!
Karen Fleming Receives Sharona Gordon Award for Promoting Equity and Diversity in Science
Professor Karen G. Fleming (center) was announced as the first recipient of the Sharona Gordon Award by the Society of General Physiologists for her efforts as a leader in identifying & communicating problems that affect scientific environments such as unintended bias and lack of diversity in science. Professor Fleming was the first ever to receive […]
Congratulations Dr. Henry!
Henry successfully defended his thesis, entitled “Elucidating general effects of bilayer hydration and mechanical forces on β-barrel membrane protein energetics” on Jan. 13. Congratulations Dr. Henry! […]
Biophysical Society Announces Taekjip Ha and Cynthia Wolberger as 2020 Society Fellows
Cynthia Wolberger, PhD and Taekjip Ha, PhD are part of the amazing faculty here in the Program for Molecular Biophysics. We are proud of their achievements, impressed by the work they have done, and are excited that they are getting the recognition they most definitely deserve.
Karen Fleming wins Provost’s Prize for Faculty Excellence in Diversity
Congratulations to PMB faculty member Karen Fleming who was selected as the 2019 recipient of the Provost’s Prize for Faculty Excellence in Diversity. Dr. Fleming was recognized for her efforts to support gender equity in STEM fields. Read her nominee statement which captures her “aspirations for the next generation of #WomeninSTEM.”
Cynthia Wolberger elected to the National Academy of Sciences
PMB faculty member Cynthia Wolberger is among an elite group of researchers from around the US to be elected into the National Academy of Sciences. Membership to the NAS signifies a sustained level of scientific discovery at the highest level. Congratulations Cynthia!
De La Cruz awarded an NSF predoctoral fellowship!
Second-year PMB student Ana De La Cruz was awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Her proposal, entitled “Single cell gene profiling of host-microbe interactions”, was among a small group selected for funding from over 2000 applicants. Congrats Ana!