News Briefs

News Briefs

04/15/26

– BB News Winter 2026

01/05/26

– Elisar Barbar Celebrates Professor George Barany's Half Century in Science

12/31/25

– BB News Fall 2025

12/30/25

– Welcome from Department Head

12/01/25

– Congratulations to Kari van Zee for recieving the OSU Loyal Philanthropic Partner Award!

10/24/25

– $2M Grant Awarded to the Clark Lab

10/22/25

– BB Awarded $1.3M for Molecular Biophysics Training Program

10/12/25

– What's New with BB - Summer 2025

09/30/25

– BB News Summer 2025

08/06/25

– Making science more accessible

06/18/25

– Abraham Kpirikai is the 2025 Matthews Fellowship Recipient!

04/30/25

– 2025 BB Student Awards

01/10/25

– What's New With BB - January through March 2025

12/31/24

– BB News Fall 2024

12/11/24

– Biochemistry and Biophysics outreach efforts 2023-24

09/30/24

– BB News Summer 2024

07/11/24

– Joline Nguyen and Hannah Long are the 2024 Mathews Fellowship Award Recipients

05/31/24

– BB News Winter 2024

11/22/23

– OSU NMR & Biophysics Symposium - Dec 13, 2023 (one day symposium)

11/21/23

– New work sheds light on SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus packaging

10/30/23

– Job Opening: Instructor

09/18/23

– Job Opening: Assistant Professor Position in Neurodegenerative / Infectious Diseases

12/08/22

– Structures of Methanomethylophilus alvus Pyrrolysine tRNA-Synthetases Support the Need for De Novo Selections When Altering the Substrate Specificity

12/08/22

– Multivalency, Autoinhibition, and Protein Disorder in the Regulation of Interactions of Dynein Intermediate Chain with Dynactin and the Nuclear Distribution Protein

12/08/22

– Generating Efficient Methanomethylophilus alvus Pyrrolysyl-tRNA Synthetases for Structurally Diverse Non-Canonical Amino Acids

12/08/22

– Accessing Isotopically Labeled Proteins Containing Genetically Encoded Phosphoserine for NMR with Optimized Expression Conditions

12/06/22

– Multivalent Binding of the Hub Protein LC8 at a Newly Discovered Site in 53BP1

11/09/22

– Dr. Adrian Gombart speaks at International Symposium!

11/03/22

– Celebrating International Week!

06/15/22

– Moriah Mathis is the 2022 Mathews Fellowship Award Recipient

06/06/22

– BB Graduate Student, Kyle Nguyen, to be a panelist in the ASBMB Education & Professional Development Committee’s “Insider Perspectives” series

04/12/22

– Continuum dynamics and statistical correction of compositional heterogeneity in multivalent IDP oligomers resolved by single-particle EM

04/12/22

– Enhanced Top-Down Protein Characterization with Electron Capture Dissociation and Cyclic Ion Mobility Spectrometry

04/12/22

– Dave Hendrix brings new tradition to BB: BeaverHenge

04/12/22

– The Freitag Lab at the International 31st Fungal Genetics Conference

03/04/22

– BB Spotlight: Research and Administration Awards

11/10/21

– Congratulations Dr. Aayushi Manchanda!

11/10/21

– Congratulations Dr. Heather Masson-Forsythe

11/10/21

– Maria Clara Franco featured by FASEB

11/10/21

– Isabelle Logan named to the SfRBM Trainee Council

10/18/21

– BB Summer Camp Success!

10/18/21

– Breaking Down Barriers for Remote Learning

09/30/21

– BB News Summer 2021

09/10/21

– OSU Scientists Win $1M+ for Ocean Studies

08/10/21

– Transient Tertiary Structures of Disordered Dynein Intermediate Chain Regulate its Interactions with Multiple Partners

07/06/21

– Sanjay Ramprasad is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Christopher and Catherine Mathews Graduate Fellowship

06/21/21

– Compound Derived from Hops Shows Promise

06/15/21

– BB News Spring 2021

05/21/21

– Kyle Nyguen & Franco Lab Featured in ASBMB Today

05/21/21

– BB Graduate Student Heather Masson-Forsythe on SciArtsRUs: Dissertation Dancin’ Docs

04/27/21

– Maja Engler, OSU’s newest Fulbright Scholar

04/27/21

– BB Spotlight: Research, Teaching, & Advising Awards

04/27/21

– Recent loss of the Dim2 DNA methyltransferase decreases mutation rate in repeats and changes evolutionary trajectory in a fungal pathogen

04/27/21

– Mehl & Cooley Labs funded for 4 years

04/27/21

– Multivalent binding of the partially disordered SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid phosphoprotein dimer to RNA

04/15/21

– Assembly of multivalent regulatory complexes in hippo signaling will be funded by the NSF for 4 years in the amount of 820K

04/07/21

– Department Head, Elisar Barbar, featured on KOIN6 - Research into the nucleocapsid protein of SARS-CoV-2

04/07/21

– Heather Masson-Forsythe in the local news!

03/31/21

– BB News Winter 2021

03/22/21

– OSU Biophysical Society Student Chapter

03/22/21

– Structural characterization of the self-association domain of swallow

03/22/21

– Have a good & safe Spring Break!

02/23/21

– Check out the latest publication from the Hendrix group!

02/23/21

– The Coalition of Graduate Employees was in negotiations with the university for six months to try to establish on-demand testing on campus

02/12/21

– Exciting Spring Term Course Offerings

02/12/21

– Dimerisation of the PICTS complex via LC8/Cut-up drives co-transcriptional transposon silencing in Drosophila

02/04/21

– Yorkie-Warts Complexes are an Ensemble of Interconverting Conformers Formed by Multivalent Interactions

01/31/21

– BB News Winter 2020-2021

01/25/21

– BB Biochemistry Club

01/25/21

– BB Graduate Student Association (GSA)

01/25/21

– Structural Biology Journal Club

01/25/21

– TikTok Queen Heather Masson-Forsythe featured in the International Business Times

01/25/21

– Dr. Fritz Gombart was interviewed with WBBM Radio & Fox 32 Chicago

11/26/20

– BB News Winter 2020

10/09/20

– Oregon State Working to Better Support Black Community

10/02/20

– BB News Fall 2020

08/28/20

– Study: Vitamins C, D May Help Immune System Fight COVID-19

08/03/20

– Brittany Lasher has been selected as the 2020-21 Christopher and Catherine Mathews Graduate Fellow

07/31/20

– BB News July 2020

06/24/20

– Congratulations to the BB and BMB Class of 2020!

06/02/20

– Isabelle Logan Awarded P.F. and Nellie Buck Yerex Graduate Scholarship

06/02/20

– Kayla Jara Bestowed the Herbert F. Frolander Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistants

06/01/20

– Live Chat with The Great Courses and Dr. Kevin Ahern

05/31/20

– What's New with BB, May 2020

04/27/20

– Dr. Colin Johnson and Johnson Lab NSF Proposal Awarded Funding for 3 years

04/20/20

– The dynein light chain 8 (LC8) binds predominantly "in-register" to a multivalent intrinsically disordered partner.

04/13/20

– Learn about COVID-19

03/30/20

– What's New with BB March 2020

03/09/20

– Emerging Features of Linear Motif-Binding Hub Proteins

02/07/20

– What's New with BB, February 2020

01/27/20

– Snacking Disrupts Biological Clock, Dopamine Levels, Scientists Say

01/14/20

– The LC8-RavP ensemble Structure Evinces A Role for LC8 in Regulating Lyssavirus Polymerase Functionality

12/20/18

– Congratulations Kevin Ahern and Indira Rajagopal on retirement

10/06/17

– Computational Biology Camp 2018

10/20/15

– BB alum Jeremy Cutsforth-Gregory named a 2018 OSU Alumni Association Fellow

10/09/15

– Combating rising textbook prices with high quality open access resources

08/31/15

– Teaming up in BB/BI 315 to reveal mechanisms of kinetochore complex formation

08/17/15

– Reaching out to excite middle schoolers about biochemistry and biophysics

08/07/15

– Revealing new principles of protein structure and folding