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May 2025 - Our Cancer Research Camp for motivated high school students is about to start (June 2). Due to high demand, this year we will offer two sessions. Looking forward to it!!!
April 2025 - Our new paper on AML was published in ACS OMEGA. For more information please check the link.
April 2025 - Two of our sterling undergraduate students presented their work at the annual Pacific Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference (PURCC). Angela and Josh, you did a great job!!!
April 2025 - The Lab's findings on D-Dopachrome Tautomerase are presented at the 11th International MIF Symposium
April 2025 - Congratulations to George for his promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure!!!
11th International MIF Symposium: April 27th – April 30th, 2025
The MIF community meets at Louisville, KY
Groups from North America, Canada, Europe and other places meet to discuss the latest discoveries in the field. Such an exciting meeting!
Mar 2025 - Newly designed T-shirts for the lab members
Mar 2025 - The Pantouris lab attends the 26th West Coast Structural Biology Workshop, Pacific Grove, CA.
Congratulations to Aliyah for giving a talk!
Feb 2025 - The Pantouris lab attends the BPS2025 in Los Angeles, CA.
Congratulations to Aliyah for presenting a poster .
Dec 2024 - A Christmas dinner for the Pantouris group took place with a lot of food and Karaoke
Nov 2024 - Our paper on tautomerase superfamily is published. Read it here
July 2024 - A new paper just published in JBC. You can read more about it here
June 2024
Our lab has successfully hosted another summer camp. Through the "Finding a Cure for Cancer" program , we have trained over than 60 high school students. For more information, please click the link shown above.
May 2024
Congratulations to Dr Andrew Parkins who has successfully defended his PhD thesis.
Next stop: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Harvard University) for Postdoctoral studies!!!
May 2024 - Our paper is published: "The C-terminal Region of D-DT Regulates Molecular Recognition for Protein-Ligand Complexes" Check it here
March 2024 - A new paper is out. You can read more about it here
December 2023 - Christmas Dinner with the group
September 2023 - Banana Bread Baking Competition within the lab
August 2023
Our lab attends ACS Fall 2023 in San Francisco
Congratulations to Andrew, Jasmine, Chris, Aliyah, Lauris, and Jakob for presenting posters!
June 2023
Our lab is hosting another BBQ with plenty of tasty food
June 2023
New STAR Protocol for the lab!
"Protocol for purification and enzymatic characterization of members of the human macrophage migration inhibitory factor superfamily"
Click here to read it
June 2023
Our lab has successfully hosted a summer camp for high school students. The program is called "Finding a Cure for Cancer" and aims to train students about cancer research.
May 2023
Congratulations to Andrew for his new protocol paper!
"A novel enzymatic assay for the identification of 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase modulators"
May 2023
Read our new educational paper published in Journal of Chemical Education !
"Hands-On Methods to Educate High School Students about Cancer Research"
March 2023
Our lab published a paper in Analytical Chemistry!
February 2023
Check our new paper published in Biophysical Journal!
More info about the paper can be found here.
February 2023
Andrew presented his work in 2023 Annual Biophysical Society Meeting. Great Job Andrew!!!
February 2023
Congratulations to Andrew for Publishing a paper in Structure, a Cell Press Journal!
More info about the paper can be found here.
Our lab and IJMS are launching a special issue on "Structure–Function Relationships of Novel Immunomodulatory Proteins in Cancer". For more information please check this link. Papers are welcome!
November 2022 - The lab is in the Christmas Spirit
November 2022 - The lab is in the Christmas Spirit
September 2022 - Lab BBQ
September 2022 - Lab BBQ
February 2022
February 2022
February 2022
Andrew presents his work on Protein Dynamics at the Biophysical Society Conference 2022, held in San Francisco
February 2022
A new paper in Front Mol Biosci.
Spring 2022: Jasmine joined our group as a PhD student
Welcome Jasmine !!!
December 2021
Check the new paper in JCI!
"MIF but not MIF-2 recruits inflammatory macrophages in an experimental polymicrobial sepsis model"
September 2021
Congratulations to Andrew for his new paper!
"The N-terminus of MIF regulates the dynamic profile of residues involved in CD74 activation"
Chris joined our PhD program under the guidance of Drs. Tsai and Pantouris
Welcome Chris!
Jonathon Knittel
Jonathon Knittel
Jasmine Vargas
Jasmine Vargas
Spring 2021: Jonathon and Jasmine joined our lab as Stauffer fellows.
Welcome in!
October 2020: Read the new paper in Acta Crystallographica Section D
August 2020: New paper on MKP5 "An allosteric site on MKP5 reveals a strategy for small-molecule inhibition". Read the paper here
August 2020: Sunset in Stockton - captured outside of our lab!
June 2020: Check our new paper , published in Cell Chemical Biology
March 2020: Congratulations to Leena and Jona for receiving the UOP College research fund award for students!!!
January 2020
Andrew Parkins joined our group as a graduate student.
Welcome Andrew!!!
November 2019: Our book chapter entitled "Elucidating the role of an immunomodulatory protein in cancer: From protein expression to functional characterization" is now published in Methods in Enzymology
October 2019: A new paper on macrophage migration inhibitory factor-2 (MIF-2) selective inhibitor is published in J. Biol. Chem - EDITORS' PICK!
September 2019: University of the Pacific welcomes the new Professors https://collegeofthepacific.wordpress.com/2019/09/16/meet-the-new-professors/
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