by dankrochmal | Jul 16, 2022 | News, Personnel
Karolina came to us from Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, Poland as a part of Fulbright’s BioLAB program and will stay with us for a year! Karolina will spend her internship on structural characterization of RNA-antibody complexes to gain better...
by dankrochmal | Jun 30, 2022 | News, Publication
Structural Basis for Fluorescence Activation by Pepper RNA Pepper is a fluorogenic RNA aptamer tag that binds to a variety of benzylidene-cyanophenyl (HBC) derivatives with tight affinity and activates their fluorescence. To investigate how Pepper RNA folds to create...
by dankrochmal | May 27, 2022 | Awards
Huge congratulations to Allison who just received Danute Nitecki Graduate Fellowship! Wishing you more successes on your PhD journey!
by dankrochmal | Mar 18, 2022 | Graduations
Huw just defended his PhD thesis! Congrats on your outstanding work on the crystal structure of Pepper RNA aptamer. We’ll miss you greatly and wish you all the best going forward!
by dankrochmal | Feb 11, 2022 | News, Publication
In January 2022 our group published a new paper in Nature Chemical Biology, where we describe a first crystal structure of a self-alkylating ribozyme along with some insights on the mechanism of reaction. Structural basis for substrate binding and catalysis by a...
by dankrochmal | Sep 25, 2021 | Graduations
Christina just defended her PhD thesis on her work on the structure of Programmed −1 Ribosomal Frameshifting Element from SARS-CoV2! Congratulations and all the best for you going forward!
by hcrees | Sep 14, 2021 | Publication
The programmed −1 ribosomal frameshifting element (PFSE) of SARS-CoV-2 is a well-conserved structured RNA found in all coronaviruses’ genomes. By adopting a pseudoknot structure in the presence of the ribosome, the PFSE promotes a ribosomal frameshifting event near...
by dankrochmal | Sep 1, 2021 | Awards
Congratulations to Dan Krochmal, who has been awarded the BSD Dean’s International Student Fellowship!
by dankrochmal | Aug 1, 2021 | Personnel
Say hi to Dan Krochmal – our new PhD student! Dan Krochmal graduated with master’s degree from Jagiellonian University in Poland and visited the Piccirilli Lab in years 2017-2018 as a laureate of the Polish-American BioLAB program. Dan will be working on...
by dankrochmal | Aug 1, 2021 | Personnel
We’re happy to have a new PhD student in our ranks – say hi to Allison Brink! Allison graduated from Grinnell College and she will be working on atomic structure of Hovlinc ribozyme. Welcome!
