Hall Research Group - Publications & Presentations

Student Presentations

April 2025, “Optimization of Overexpression Conditions and Evaluation of Enzymatic Activity for the Enzyme Chimera-Ligninase”, Jennifer Ieong* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2025 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2025, “Exploring the Function of P30646, Characterization of a Previously Undescribed Xylulose Kinase”, Jaren Obia* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2025 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2025, “The Comparison Among the Accuracy of Online Machine Learning Algorithms and How They Correlate with Raw Student Data”, Mia Schumann* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2025 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2025, “Legionnaires’ Disease: A Trojan Horse Lurking in Water”, Logan Knaack*, Denis Sehic, Trent Silvers, Laura Salazar and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2025 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2025, “Characterizing a Putative Novel Glucokinase”, Alyssa Brant,* Ethan Larsen* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2025 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2025, “Unveiling P76586: A Potential Galactokinase?”, Logan Knaack*, Jennifer Ieong* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2025 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2025, “Analysis of the Catalytic Function of Protein Q8DN35”, Mia Schumann*, Elizabeth Joe* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2025 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

July 2024, “Biochemical characterization of protein 3r8e as a glucose kinase”, Dalton M. Dencklau* and Bonnie L. Hall, MERCURY Consortium Conference, Merced, CA.

July 2024, “Unveiling the Function of P30646 as a Xylulose Kinase: A Biochemical Investigation”, Jaren C. Obia*, Chaunice V. Figueiredo, Laura A. Rusch-Salazar and Bonnie L. Hall, MERCURY Consortium Conference, Merced, CA.

April 2024, “Biochemical characterization of protein 3r8e as a glucose kinase”, Dalton M. Dencklau* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2024 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2024, “Determining the Function of Q8DN35”, Halie Marean*, Andrew Hamilton* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2024 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2024, “Overexpression of PETase”, Chaunice Figueiredo*, Isabelle Juhler, Lucas Kramer, and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2024 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2024, “Enzyme engineering for improved biofuel production from plant sources”, Brooklyn Mills* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2024 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2024, “Optimizing PET Plastic Biodegradation”, Lucas Kramer*, Isabelle Juhler* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2024 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2024, “Two Student-Designed Case Studies for use in the Undergraduate Biochemistry Classroom”, Isabelle Juhler* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2024 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

July 2024, “Unveiling the Function of P30646 as a Xylulose Kinase: A Biochemical Investigation”, Jaren C. Obia*, Chaunice V. Figueiredo*, Laura A. Rusch-Salazar and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2024 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

March 2024, “Enzyme engineering for improved biofuel production from plant sources” Brooklyn Mills* and Bonnie L. Hall, DiscoverBMB 2024, San Antonio, TX.

March 2024, “Optimizing PET Plastic Biodegradation” Lucas Kramer*, Isabelle Juhler and Bonnie L. Hall, DiscoverBMB 2024, San Antonio, TX.

March 2024, “Two Student-Designed Case Studies for use in the Undergraduate Biochemistry Classroom”, Isabelle Juhler*, Swati Agrawal and Bonnie L. Hall, DiscoverBMB 2024, San Antonio, TX.

April 2023, “Biochemical characterization of protein 3r8e as a glucose kinase”, Dalton M. Dencklau*, Michel P. Evertsen, and Bonnie L. Hall, DiscoverBMB 2023, Seattle, WA.

April 2023, “Undergrads Understanding RNR Using 3D Modeling”, J.E. Berry*, S. Costansi, N. Dodo, E.M. Snetselaar, J.C. Obia, C.P. Ward, E.N. Joe, L.A. Rusch Salazar and B.L. Hall, DiscoverBMB 2023, Seattle, WA.

April 2022, “Protein Function Explorer: Generating Exploratory Machine Learning Models to Predict Protein Function”, Dalton M. Dencklau* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2022 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2022, “Facilitating PETase for More Practical Use”, Sarah M. Jordan*, Aidan W. Martindale and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2022 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2022, “Function of 1ZBS protein”, Christopher J. Hatch* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2022 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2022, “Lipid droplets understood through student designed 3D printed models of the seipin protein complex”, Brooklyn D. Mills*, Mia E. Schumann*, Isabelle G. Juhler*, Lucas D. Kramer*, Maximillian J. Rodriguez-Situ* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2022 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2022, “Characterization of the 3r8e Protein, a Novel Glucose Kinase”, Dalton M. Dencklau*, Michel P. Evertsen* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2022 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2022, “Characterizing Putative Kinase 3HDT and its Potential Substrates”, Autumn C. Forrester*, Jesse D. Rothfus* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2022 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.

April 2022, “Inquiry of the Function of 1ZBS”, Sabrina Bennett* and Bonnie L. Hall, Spring 2022 Scholarship Symposium, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA

April 2022, “Lipid droplets understood through student designed 3D printed models of the seipin protein complex”, Isabelle G. Juhler*, Brooklyn D. Mills*, Lucas D. Kramer*, Mia E. Schumann, Maximilian J. Rodriguez-Situ, Bonnie L. Hall, ASBMB Annual Meeting 2022, Philadelphia, PA. DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2022.36.s1.r4303

May 2021 “Educational Tools for Drug Discovery and Design Focusing on the SARS‐CoV‐2 Main Protease nsp5”, Dalton M. Dencklau, Michel P. Evertsen, Isabelle G. Juhler, Kallista A. Larson, Alexa S. Pinos, Jesse D. Rothfus* and Bonnie L. Hall, PDB50 Symposium, Virtual

April 2021 “Engineering the PETase Enzyme for More Efficient Degradation of PET Plastic”, Allison Rupert*, Trang Khong*, Amanda Duplan, Robin Fenton and Bonnie L. Hall, ASBMB 2021 Annual Meeting, Virtual. DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.S1.04655

April 2021 “Educational Tools for Drug Discovery and Design Focusing on the SARS‐CoV‐2 Main Protease nsp5”, Dalton Dencklau*, Michel Evertsen*, Isabelle Juhler, Kallista Larson, Alexa Pinos, Jesse Rothfusand Bonnie L. Hall, ASBMB 2021 Annual Meeting, Virtual

Publications

Koeppe, JR, JD Dattelbaum, BL Hall, SA Mills, E Offerdahl, MJ Pikaart, R Roberts, A Sikora and PA Craig (2025). “Expanding the BASIL CURE”, The Biophysicist 6(1). https://doi.org/10.35459/tbp.2024.000273

Hall, B L and S. Agrawal (2024) “Biomolecular visualization tools cross paths, join hands at an ASBMB meeting”. ASBMB Today. Jan 2024. https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/education/012224/biomolecular-visualization-tools-at-asbmb-meetings

Beckham, JT, DR Dries, BL Hall, RM Mitton-Fry, S Engelman, C Burch, R Acevedo, PS Mertz, D Vardar-Ulu, S Agrawal et al. (2024) “Seeing Eye to Eye? Comparing Faculty and Student Perceptions of Biomolecular Visualization Assessments”. Educ Sci 14, 94. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14010094

Hall, BL and R Roberts (2022) “Why We Take Undergrads to Research Conferences”. ASBMB Today. Nov 2022. https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/opinions/110822/taking-undergrads-to-research-conferences

McDonald, AR, R Roberts, JR Koeppe and BL Hall. (2021). “Undergraduate structural biology education: A shift from users to developers of computation and simulation tools”. Curr Opin Struc Biol 72: 39-45, DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2021.07.012.

Zimmerman, JAO, M Fan, B Doumbia, A Neyman, JH Cha, M Thomas, B Hall, M Wu, AM Wilson and MA Pufall (2021). “Deacylcortivazol-like pyrazole regioisomers reveal a more accommodating expanded binding pocket for the glucocorticoid receptor”. RSC Med Chem 12: 203-212, DOI: 10.1039/D0MD00278J.

Lubin, JH, C Zardecki, EM Dolan, C Lu, Z Shen, S Dutta, JD Westbrook, BP Hudson, D Goodsell, JK Williams, M Voigt, V Sarma, L Xie, T Venkatachalam, S Arnold, LHA Alvarado, K Catalfano, A Khan, E McCarthy, S Staggers, B Tinsley, A Trudeau, J Singh, L Whitmore, H Zhen , M Benedek, J Currier, M Dresel, A Duvvuru, B Dyszel, E Fingar, EM Hennen, M Kirsch, AA Kahan, C Labrie-Cleary, S Laporte, E Lenkeit, K Martin, M Orellana, M Ortiz-Valvarez de la Campa, I Paredes, B Wheeler, A Rupert, A Sam, K See, SS Zapata, PA Craig, BL Hall, J Jiang, JR Koeppe, SA Mills, MJ Pikaart, R Roberts, Y Bromberg, JS Hoyer, S Duffy, J Tischfield, FX Ruiz, E Arnold, J Baum, J Sandberg, G Brannigan, SD Khare and SK Burley (2020). “Evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 proteome in three dimensions (3D) during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic” Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 2021: 1-27, DOI:10.1002/prot.26250.

Sikora, A, SM Irby, BL Hall, SA Mills, JR Koeppe, MJ Pikaart, SE Wilner, PA Craig and R Roberts. (2020). “Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic by the Biochemistry Authentic Scientific Inquiry Lab (BASIL) CURE Consortium: Reflections and a Case Study on the Switch to Remote Learning”. J Chem Educ 97(9): 3455-3462, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c00729.

Burley, SK, Y Bromberg, P Craig, S Duffy, S Dutta, BL Hall, BP Hudson, J Jiang, SD Khare, JR Koeppe, JH Lubin, SA Mills, MJ Pikaart, R Roberts, V Sarma, J Singh, JA Tischfield, L Xie, and C Zardecki. (2020). “Virtual Boot Camp: COVID‐19 evolution and structural biology”. Biochem Mol Biol Educ, 2020; 1– 3. https://doi.org/10.1002/bmb.21428.

Roberts, R., Hall, B., Daubner, C., Goodman, A., Pikaart, M., Sikora, A. and Craig, P. (2019), Flexible Implementation of the BASIL CURE. Biochem Mol Biol Educ, 47: 498-505. doi:10.1002/bmb.21287.

Hall, BL, KD Watson and T Covey (2019) “Resources for Teaching Medicinal Chemistry”, ACS Symposium Series, v1318 Technology Integration in Chemistry Education and Research (TICER), Chapter 9, pp 131-142.