February 2019

We bid adieu to Sam Whedon, who starts his postdoc in the Cole Labs in Harvard Medical School in March. Calvin brought a cake from 85degrees, and College Inn supplied the beer, whiskey and nachos. Nice surprise here; our paper in Journal of Biological Chemistry 2014 (Dhall et al.) was cited as a milestone in […]

December 2018

Dr. Elizabeth Tyson heads to UW Bothell as an instructor. She will guide young minds in conducting organic labs in the most effective manner. We wish her all the best!

August 2018

Our collaborative effort with the Ong and Zheng labs at UW Pharmacology appears in Cell. Great job in establishing conditions for large-scale nucleosome preps for COMPASS enzymology– Calvin (2nd year at UW Chemistry and the Molecular Biophysics Training Program) and Abhinav (post-doctoral scholar at Boston Children’s and Harvard Medical School). The COMPASS core complex

June 2018

Dr. Paul Lawrence heads to his new position as Assistant Professor in Physical Sciences at Keystone College in PA. The second person from our lab (Aurea Chu claims 1st place) to start an independent teaching career. Here is what BYU had to say about their favorite graduate: Congratulations to our newest philosopher, Dr. Samuel David […]

February 2018

Patrick Shelton makes the news at CEM corporation. Check out his “blue steel” approach to peptide synthesis. Patrick’s original MEGA approach was also highlighted in a technical bulletin by CEM.              

January 2018

We welcome new graduate students, Marissa Parker (research with Jared Lewis, U Chicago) and Nina Michael (research with Virginia Cornish, Columbia) to the lab. Its a great time to be a Chemical Biologist!

October 2017

Patrick wins a UW Department of Chemistry Travel Award to present his MEGA-exciting results at Western Washington University in Spring 2018.  

August 2017

Abhinav’s story on LSD1 stimulation by SUMO is published in ACS Chemical Biology. The first of a series of studies uncovering the biochemical connection between SUMO and gene-activating histone modifications. And,  Abhinav was “Spotlighted”!    

July 2017

Sam Whedon is awarded a full scholarship to attend the Genetic Code Expansion Workshop at Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR. Huge thanks go out to Prof. Ryan Mehl and his team for organizing the workshop and also funding Sam’s participation! We are exploring the world of synthetic chemical biology- one stop codon at a time.