News


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 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!


May 15, 2018

Matthew Jordon is recipient of a one-year trainee fellowship by the Steering Committee of the Training Program in Quantitative and Chemical Biology (QCB).  Congratulations Matthew!!


April 30, 2018

Jiangchuan and Brenna’s paper on sensing reactive sulfur species in Enterococcus faecalis appears in ACS Chemical Biology. Congratulations to them and all of our collaborators on their work!