Lab News

Chemistry graduate student Tongyin Zheng’s recent work on Ess1 in collaboration with Steve Hanes’s and Michael Cosgrove’s labs at SUNY-Upstate Medical University has been accepted in Communications Biology!

Amber joined the lab as our research technician after completing her MS in Biology from Syracuse University.

Welcome to Sarasi, who joined our lab in January 2021. Sarasi recently completed her PhD from University at Albany in Albany, NY.

Tongyin gave a great talk on his Ess1 story (stay tuned!) at the first ever virtual GIBBS meeting. Congratulations! Carlos, Tongyin, Yiran, Peter and Thuy got to listen to some cool science and catch up with old friends and colleagues.

Our review titled “Structure, dynamics and functions of #UBQLNs: at the crossroads of protein quality control machinery” is out today in BiochemJournal! Congratulations to co-first authors Tongyin and Yiran! Read the review here.

We are excited to have Peter Raymond-Smiedy, a biology Ph.D. student, in our group.

Holly did an amazing job defending her master’s thesis on the driving forces of UBQLN2 LLPS. Best of luck with your future endeavors. We will miss having you in the lab!

Graduating senior Julia Riley won the Slepecky prize, Best Honors Thesis in Science and Engineering, and Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence in Student Research! Jules will be pursuing a Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania.

We are extremely excited for the opportunity to continue investigating the role of UBQLN2 phase separation in protein quality control and how UBQLN2 mutations affect this process. We will study UBQLN2 condensates both in cells and in vitro using multiple techniques, including live cell imaging, super resolution microscopy, NMR, SAXS and SANS. Read more about […]