Junqiao Zhu has joined our lab as a graduate student. He will be co-mentored by Dr. Landick and Dr. Aaron Hoskins. Welcome!
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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
Welcome to Christine and welcome back to Jason!
Christine Hustmyer and Jason Saba have joined our group this winter as graduate students. Welcome (back)!
Manuscript on using OptSSeq to maximize isobutanol production rate published in Metab Eng
Indro Ghosh’s manuscript titled “OptSSeq explores enzyme expression and function landscapes to maximize isobutanol production rate” was published today in Metabolic Engineering. This paper is based on his doctoral thesis research. Congratulations! The full text …
2018 Post-Initiation Activities of RNA Polymerases meeting
Our lab group will be well represented at the 2018 Post-Initiation Activities of RNA Polymerases meeting at the Mountain Lake Lodge in Pembroke, Virginia. Michael, Yu, Christi, Kayley, and Alex will be attending the meeting …
Beth Boudreau will present at Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting
Beth Boudreau will give a talk next month at the Phage Meeting in Madison on RNAP pause stimulation by H-NS family proteins.
Kotlajich et al. paper on H-NS published online at eLife
Matt Kotlajich’s paper on how H-NS stimulates pausing and Rho is online at eLife. Congrats to Matt, Daniel, and Beth!