Tania and Phoebe at the Southside Science Fair

Explaining DNA and RNA with paper models at the Southside Science Fair

Alexis defended her thesis!

Quantrell award for undergraduate teaching

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago-announces-2023-winners-quantrell-and-graduate-teaching-awards#phoeberice

More New Funding!

NIH R35 :  Machinery of the Microbial Mobilome

 

 

New Funding!

UKRI/BBSRC-NSF/BIO: Developing large serine integrases as tools for constructing and manipulating synthetic replicons

In collaboration with with Dr. Femi Olorunniji

https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/faculty-of-science/pharmacy-and-biomolecular-sciences/femi-olorunniji

 

Our NAR Breakthrough Paper is now on-line!

Structural basis for topological regulation of Tn3 resolvase.

Montaño SP, Rowland SJ, Fuller JR, Burke ME, MacDonald AI, Boocock MR, Stark WM, Rice PA.Nucleic Acids Res. 2022 Sep 14:gkac733. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac733. 

Phoebe elected as a Fellow of AAAS

https://chicagomaroon.com/33106/news/2021-aaas-fellows-share-experience-scientific-research/

Paper accepted! See how an old Pol learned a new trick.

A novel DNA primase-helicase pair encoded by SCCmec elements.

Bebel A, Walsh MA, Mir-Sanchis I, Rice PA.Elife. 2020 Sep 18;9:e55478. doi: 10.7554/eLife.55478. Online ahead of print.

Covers Covers Covers!

Phoebe’s phage win 2nd prize!  (in a very small art contest)

MLK day of service Jan 2018