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.
June 2017
Congratulations Dr. Caroline E. Weller! Off to her next adventure in sunny (?) San Fran.
March 2017
Sam Whedon wins a Travel Award to the American Peptide Society Conference in Whistler, British Columbia, to present his work on selenocysteine-based probes for deubiquitylating enzymes. Congratulations, Sam!
February 2017
A cyclic peptide inhibitor bound to the enzyme Trypsin Patrick’s first paper is accepted for publication in JACS. Congrats Patrick and Caroline! A MEGA success indeed.
January 2017
Artwork from O’Reilly Science Art. Esha Upadhyay Calvin Jon Leonen Lorena Lea Perkins Join the group as first year graduate students. Welcome folks! Lorena and Calvin worked with us over the Summer Quarter and Esha worked with Abhinav in the Fall Quarter before officially joining the lab.
December 2016
Abhinav heads to Harvard Medical School to postdoc with Professor Yang Shi. He will be missed and we wish him many snowy Boston winters!
October 2016
The department votes to promote C.C. to the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure. The official announcement from UW will be in September 2017 so don’t hold your breath anyone. Lab celebrates in style with chocolate cake, nachos and beer at the College Inn. Thanks to everyone who contributed toward the many projects we have delved […]
Older News
July, 2011: Our youngest member, Adam Miller Chatterjee, arrives in Seattle. August, 2011: AD’s review is published in ACS Chem. Biol. August, 2011: Hike to Denny Creek. November, 2011: CC presents our work at Pacific Lutheran University. January, 2012: KS is accepted for graduate school at UW Chemistry. January, 2012: CC presents our work in […]