Author: cacastan

Over the summer, the lab received two awards: a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award towards work on a ubiquitin-like protein, and an ALS Association starter grant for work on the ubiquilin protein, known to mediate both proteasome-mediated degradation and autophagy processes in the cell. See the full story here!

Freshman Yona Lei has just received a SU Biology fellowship to conduct summer research in our lab. Congratulations Yona!

Our sophomore, Ismael Gonzalez, has just won a prestigious LSAMP (Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation) fellowship to conduct research in our lab over the summer. Congratulations Ismael!

Our work on K27-linked diubiquitin chains was just published in Structure! Read the paper here.

Carlos Castañeda (SU) and Stewart Loh (SUNY-Upstate) have teamed up together to collaborate on an exciting project to design inhibitors of p53 and Mdm2 interactions. Mdm2 is a ubiquitin ligase that ubiquitinates p53, a tumor suppressor protein whose dysfunction is common in nearly all cancers. In December 2015, Carlos and Stewart received an $100,000 2-year […]

We welcome Yona to the lab; she is a first-year undergraduate student in biochemistry and biomedical engineering. She also has recently been accepted into the prestigious Honors Program! Congratulations.

Tongyin is a new first-year Chemistry PhD student, who will be joining the lab. Welcome!

We have a new paper out on linkage-specific conformational ensembles of non-canonical polyubiquitin chains in PCCP (Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics). Click here.

Alex has been accepted into the WiSE-Future Professionals Program. Congratulations Alex!

Ismael Gonzalez has joined the lab. He is a sophomore at SU, and is interested in both neuroscience and biochemistry. Welcome!