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...