October 2025
Our work probing the molecular determinants of Ty1 retrotransposon restriction specificity in yeast is published in PLOS Genetics! Congratulations to Hope undergraduate Justin on becoming a published author!
Link to the paper:
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1011898
July 2025
Beckwith lab students presenting their research at the Schaap Chemistry Symposium.
Summer 2025
Lab fun during SHARP 2025! Kayaking with the biology program, sampling all the ice cream/froyo/frozen custard shops in Holland, hosting President Scogin and Provost Griffin in the lab.
December 2024
The Beckwith Lab wraps up our first semester of research at Hope! Student researchers Katie and Ava worked on the Ty1 prion-like domain project and generated data that Dr. Beckwith presented in a seminar at Hope College in December.
March 2024
The Beckwith Lab website launches! We unveil our lab logo depicting a jumping gene in the shape of a "B" within a hexagon, recalling a virus capsid (in Hope College colors!).