February 19, 2019
Our collaborative paper with Skaar and VanNieuwenhze groups describing the characterization of a calprotectin-induced peptidoglycan remodeling enzyme, ZrlA, appears in Cell Reports. Congratulations to Zach and Jiefei!!
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January 29, 2019
Our collaborative paper with the Winkler and Hermosa groups describing the solution structure and physiological characterization of a domain of a key pneumococcal cell division protein, FtsX, appears in mBio. Congratulations to Britta snd Katie, and all of our collaborators.
October 18, 2018
A paper co-authored by Daiana, Fidel, Katie, My Le and Hongwei Wu entitled “Tuning site-specific dynamics to drive allosteric activation in a pneumococcal zinc uptake regulator” is accepted for publication in eLife. Congratulations to all!!
October 18, 2018
Brenna receives the Provost’s Travel Award for Women in Science to attend at the 2019 Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference and Seminar. Congratulations Brenna!
October 1, 2018
Brenna presented her research during our first Fall 2018 QCB Evenings event organized by the trainees of QCB training program.
September 18, 2018
Hui Peng’s manuscript entitled “Thioredoxin profiling of multiple thioredoxin-like proteins in Staphylococcus aureus” is accepted for publication in Frontiers in Microbiology. Congratulations to Hui and her collaborators Jon Trinidad and Alex Zhang!
September 18, 2018
Brenna passes her Ph.D. candidacy exams in Chemistry! Congratulations!!
July 12, 2018
Dr. Hui Peng has left the group for good! After presenting a poster at the Thiols GRC in Spain July 15-20, she’ll return home for a bit and begin her postdoctoral appointment in the Hulleman group in the Departments of Ophthalmology and of Pharmacology at UT-Southwestern September 1.
June 28, 2018
Daiana’s paper entitled “Functional role of solvent entropy and conformational entropy of metal binding in dynamically-driven allostery” and co-authored with Katie and Hongwei Wu, with help from former student Greg Campanello and Giovanni Gonzalez-Gutierrez, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
June 15, 2018
Hui Peng is now Dr. Hui Peng, after successfully defending her dissertation work in Biochemistry. Congratulations Hui!