News Briefs

News Briefs

07/11/24 – Joline Nguyen and Hannah Long are the 2024 Mathews Fellowship Award Recipients

02/15/24 – Welcome from Department Head

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

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 – 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 – Dave Hendrix brings new tradition to BB: BeaverHenge

04/12/22 – The Freitag Lab at the International 31st Fungal Genetics Conference

04/12/22 – Enhanced Top-Down Protein Characterization with Electron Capture Dissociation and Cyclic Ion Mobility Spectrometry

04/12/22 – Continuum dynamics and statistical correction of compositional heterogeneity in multivalent IDP oligomers resolved by single-particle EM

03/04/22 – BB Spotlight: Research and Administration Awards

11/10/21 – Isabelle Logan named to the SfRBM Trainee Council

11/10/21 – Maria Clara Franco featured by FASEB

11/10/21 – Congratulations Dr. Aayushi Manchanda!

11/10/21 – Congratulations Dr. Heather Masson-Forsythe

10/18/21 – BB Summer Camp Success!

10/18/21 – Breaking Down Barriers for Remote Learning

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

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 – BB Spotlight: Research, Teaching, & Advising Awards

04/27/21 – Multivalent binding of the partially disordered SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid phosphoprotein dimer to RNA

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 – Maja Engler, OSU’s newest Fulbright Scholar

04/27/21 – Mehl & Cooley Labs funded for 4 years

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 – Heather Masson-Forsythe in the local news!

04/07/21 – Department Head, Elisar Barbar, featured on KOIN6 - Research into the nucleocapsid protein of SARS-CoV-2

03/22/21 – OSU Biophysical Society Student Chapter

03/22/21 – Have a good & safe Spring Break!

03/22/21 – Structural characterization of the self-association domain of swallow

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

01/25/21 – BB Biochemistry Club

01/25/21 – TikTok Queen Heather Masson-Forsythe featured in the International Business Times

01/25/21 – BB Graduate Student Association (GSA)

01/25/21 – Dr. Fritz Gombart was interviewed with WBBM Radio & Fox 32 Chicago

01/25/21 – Structural Biology Journal Club

10/09/20 – Oregon State Working to Better Support Black Community

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

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

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

03/09/20 – Emerging Features of Linear Motif-Binding Hub Proteins

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