Lab News

This summer, we say goodbye to postdoc Sarasi and lab technician Bridget as they move on to new exciting stages of their lives and scientific careers. We will miss them dearly and wish them the very best! Despite an AQI of 160 due to Canadian wildfires, we had a great lab outing to celebrate Sarasi […]

The Beveridge and Castañeda groups join our expertise in IM-MS and UBQLN2 to explore the conformational changes of intrinsically disordered proteins in response to conditions that promote or inhibit LLPS. Check out this work here.

At their first in-person Gibbs, Sarasi and Bridget represented the lab well with a talk and a poster presentation on their exciting work while enjoying the beautiful weather in great scientific company. Way to go!

Carlos greatly enjoyed being at the beautiful Cavtat, Croatia, talking all things ubiquitin and making new friends. Many thanks to the organizers for the invitation to share our work on how different ubiquitin chains modulate UBQLN2 phase separation.

We had the pleasure of hosting Sarah and Omar, two rising seniors from a local high school, over last month. We are thoroughly impressed with their knowledge and enthusiasm to learn. We will miss their energy but wish them the best of luck with their last year in high school and college!

Carlos is very excited to be at the beautiful Les Diablerets, sharing our work and discussing all things disordered with old and new friends.

We are very excited to see this story finally out after peer review. Employing multiple complimentary biophysical methods, we determined the molecular origins by which different polyUb chains impart distinct effects on UBQLN2 LLPS. Check out the story here!

Congratulations to Julianna!!

Sarasi and Billy spent the week in the beautiful Porto, Portugal to immerse themselves in biomolecular condensates in cell function, aging and disease. Thanks PhasAGE for organizing this wonderful workshop!

Congratulations to Sarasi for winning a travel award to present her work on how HOTag6-Ub affect UBQLN2 LLPS. Thanks Tanja Mittag for inviting Carlos to talk about our work polyUb chains and UBQLN2 LLPS. Lots of wonderful discussion and potential collaborations!