On Friday April 13th, 2012, Alison Dewald presented her thesis “Lipid reconstitution and functional characterization of outer membrane Opacity-associated (Opa) proteins of Neisseria”. Her private defense followed and her committee approved her PhD degree with minor revisions to her written document. The lab and Alison’s thesis committee celebrated with champagne afterwards.

On April 12th, the third year chemistry graduate students presented their research at the annual poster event. Ryan Lo presented his poster entitled “Effects of detergent, ionic strength, and temperature on the quality of beta-barrel membrane protein NMR spectra”

On Wednesday April 11th, 2012, Brett Kroncke presented his thesis “Nitroxide Spin Label Motion on Helical Membrane Proteins”. His private defense followed and his committee approved his PhD degree with minor revisions to his written document. The lab and Brett’s thesis committee celebrated with champagne afterwards.

The Huskey Research Exhibition is an annual event which provides a forum for all graduate students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Architecture to publicize their research. In addition, the event rewards students presenting superior research. The 12th Annual Huskey Research Exhibition occurred on March 21, 2012. This year, [...]

Identification and removal of nitroxide spin label contaminant: Impact on PRE studies of α-helical membrane proteins in detergent published this month in Protein Science was highlighted “In This Issue” by the journal.

The Columbus laboratory moved to beautiful new space on January 3, 2012. Here are some pictures of the new space.

This semester Jennifer Martin and Ashton Brock joined the laboratory as first-year graduate students. Jen’s research focuses on Opa proteins and Ashton’s research investigates the effects of detergents on the structure and function of membrane proteins. Undergraduate Elleansar Okwei also joined the lab and is working with Dr. Carol price on determining the function of [...]