2023 Lab News Archive

December 2023

Congrats to grad students Rajat Jha and Candice Armstrong for passing their lit reviews this month! Next stop: candidacy!!

The lab welcomes its newest undergraduate researcher Christian Taylor!

November 2023

The lab was pleased to host the visit of Prof. Carol Manhart of the Temple University Department of Chemistry!

September 2023

The whole lab attended the IBBR Early Career Symposium, and Misti was selected to give a talk! Way to go!!

The lab welcomes new undergraduate researcher Jeanne Ngo!

August 2023

The lab welcomes Chemistry & Biochemistry rotation student Nimalee Jayasekera!

Aaron attended the Cell Biology of Metals GRC in Mt. Snow, VT!

July 2023

Alexander and Chioma's paper on metal-sensing two-component systems was just accepted in Biochemistry! Great job you two! Read the paper here.

Misti, Mark, Alexander, and Aaron all attended the 2023 ACA National Meeting in Baltimore, MD! Aaron gave a talk, Mark and Alexander presented posters, and Alexander won a prize for best power! Way to go you all!!

Congratulations to Candice and Rajat for passing their lab prospectuses! They did excellent!

The lab welcomes Chemistry & Biochemistry rotation student Kyle Davis!

May 2023

Aaron gave a talk at Structural Biology Day at IBBR!

The lab attended FCBIS 14 at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy where Mark and Alexander presented posters and Alexander was selected to give a flash talk! Way to go!

Congratulations to undergrad Chioma Iheacho who will be undertaking a summer research opportunity at Columbia University!

Congratulations to undergrad Darryn Greene for being accepted to the UMBC LSAMP program!

The lab bids a heartfelt "good-bye" to undergrad Toluwani Akinselure who is heading off to graduate school at Drexel University! You'll be missed!!

April 2023

Aaron received the CNMS Carl S. Weber Teaching Award!

Aaron also gave a seminar in the Dept. of Biological Sciences at UMBC.

March 2023

So pleased to have our recent work showing that ATE1 is an [Fe-S] protein highlighted in the UMBC news! Read the article here.

The lab was pleased to host MIT and HHMI Prof. Cathy Drennan as the inaugural speaker of our HHMI Gilliam DEI seminar series. We were also pleased to welcome MIT Gilliam Fellow Sheena Vasquez as a fellow trainee accompanying Prof. Drennan.

Aaron, Alexander, Mark, and Misti all attended DiscoverBMB 2023 in Seattle, WA! Alexander and Mark both presented posters while Aaron gave a talk and moderated the Post-translational Modifications and Protein Function session. Great job, everybody!

February 2023

The lab welcomes undergraduate researchers Darryn Greene and Ayomide Oduwole!

Aaron visited the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for a visit and a departmental seminar.

January 2023

Verna's collaborative paper showing that ATE1 is an [Fe-S] protein was just accepted in Nature Communications. CONGRATULATIONS! Read the paper here. 

The lab welcomes GPILS rotation student Ian O'Keefe!