2020 News

12/22/2020

Excellent news to wrap up 2020: SBU Biochemistry Program has been awarded SEVEN-year accreditation by American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)!

10/23/2020

Congratulations to Anna Hu and Audrey Bui for co-winning the Excellent Undergraduate Poster Presentation Award at Rustbelt RNA Virtual Meeting this year! Claire Schaef also presented her research as a poster.

See News Release HERE.

7/28/2020

Audrey Bui presented an iPoster titled "The role of a splicing regulator, Serine/Arginine-rich 45, in innate immunity in Arabidopsis thaliana" at the Plant Biology Worldwide Summit 2020 online.

7/13/2020

Congratulations to Erin McNell and Nick Jodush for achieving ASBMB certifications with distinction. Excellent job ! :)

5/31/2020

Anna Hu presented a poster titled "Understanding the dynamic interplay between SR45 and AtSAP18 in Arabidopsis thaliana" at the 2020 RNA Meeting online.

5/27/2020

Congratulations to Erin McNell for being accepted into the competitive American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Honor Society for 2020. See News Release HERE.

5/15/2020

Xiao-Ning Zhang received a Martine Grant for project titled "A one-day retreat for SBU Dual Enrollment Course instructions on Continuing Course Development" for FY2021.

Xiao-Ning Zhang received a Keenan Grant for project titled "Support SBU science faculty from different departments to increase awareness and build capacity for working with diverse student populations" for FY2021.

5/1/2020

Congratulations to Erin McNell and Nick Jodush for their outstanding presentations on their biochemistry research projects via zoom during COVID-19 pandemic! They did a fantastic job despite all the obstacles that COVID-19 has brought to their last semester.

1/21/2020

Welcome new lab members: Arden Bui (freshman), Prajna Vootukuri (freshman) & Cindy Huang (freshman).

1/11-16/2020

Xiao-Ning Zhang gave a talk titled "Quantitative proteomics reveals tissue-specific preferences for a splicing regulator, Serine/Arginine-Rich 45, in Arabidopsis thaliana." at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference XXVIII at San Diego, CA.