Yang Liu successfully defended his thesis “Regulatory circuits to program Zymomonas mobilis metabolism for cellulosic advanced biofuel production” on July 30. Congratulations! He plans to return to China at the end of September.
grad students
Welcome to Expery
Expery Omollo has joined our lab as a graduate student in the Integrated Program in Biochemistry (IPiB) program. Welcome!
Biochem/Micro 917 journal club switching to Zoom
Weekly meetings of Biochem/Micro 917 (Regulation of Gene Expression Advanced Seminar journal club) will continue to be held virtually until further notice, but beginning September 8, they will be held via Zoom (previous meetings were …
New graduate student
Bailey Marshall joined our lab as a graduate student in the Cellular and Molecular Biology (CMB) program. Welcome!
Biochem/Micro 917 journal club to be held online until further notice
Per the directive to provide alternative delivery of classes through at least April 10, weekly meetings of Biochem/Micro 917 (Regulation of Gene Expression Advanced Seminar journal club) will be held virtually via Webex. A link …
Welcome to Junqiao!
Junqiao Zhu has joined our lab as a graduate student. He will be co-mentored by Dr. Landick and Dr. Aaron Hoskins. Welcome!
Congratulations and farewell to Beth
Beth Shen successfully defended her thesis earlier this week, and is moving on to a postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of Joseph Mougous at the University of Washington Department of Microbiology in Seattle. We will …
Congratulations and farewell to Indro
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Indro Ghosh! New opportunities await him in Seattle. We will miss you!
Manuscript on RNA polymerase clamp movements published online
A paper based on Michael Bellecourt’s thesis work was published online in the Journal of Molecular Biology today. Congratulations! The full text is available here (link opens in new tab): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2019.01.003
Manuscript on the elemental mechanism of transcriptional pausing published online
Our lab’s paper on the elemental mechanism of transcriptional pausing was published online in eLife today. Congratulations to Jason, Tatiana, and Rachel! The full text is available here (link opens in new tab): https://elifesciences.org/articles/40981