Congratulations to our faculty and staff who were recognized by graduating seniors for making a positive difference in their lives during their time at the University of Iowa!

Congratulations to Nathan Mohar (Wallrath Lab) for his first author publication titled 'The influence of a genetic variant in CCDC78 on LMNA-associated skeletal muscle disease' recently published in IJMS!

We are excited to welcome Dr. Amy Whitaker from Fox Chase Cancer Center as our final seminar speaker of the spring term. Dr. Whitaker will speak on 'APE1: A DNA Repair Swiss Army Knife' on Thursday, May 2nd at 10:30am.

Congratulations to my colleagues on their election as AAAS Fellows! University of Iowa Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Kevin Campbell Molecular Physiology
Micheal Feiss Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Bob McMurray Psychology at The University of Iowa
Lori Wallrath Lori L Wallrath Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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Congratulations to Dr. Lori Wallrath for being elected to the Class of 2023 Fellows of @AAAS! This honor recognizes Dr. Wallrath for her 'distinguished contributions to the fields of heterochromatin function and nuclear envelope biology in development and disease.'

Please join us for the 20th Annual Lata Undergraduate Honors Symposium celebrating the research accomplishments of our undergraduates and congratulating graduating seniors on the final presentations of their research projects. 👏👨‍🎓👩‍🎓

It is a coffee break week!

UIowa Research University of Iowa Public Health Hardin Library for the Health Sciences @UIowa UIowa Molecular Medicine Graduate Program UI Graduate College UI Graduate Student Senate Graduate & Professional Student Government UIowa Genetics Graduate Program Department of Microbiology and Immunology UI Immunology UIowa - Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology UIowaNeuroPharm University of Iowa Postdoc Association (UIPDA)

I am delighted to be joining Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in January 2025 as an Assistant Professor! My group (@pedley_lab) will investigate the cellular mechanisms that regulate nucleotide metabolism to understand how these processes become dysregulated to drive disease. UI Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Geyer on being selected to receive the 2024 JP Long Teaching Award in the Basic Sciences! This award recognizes a basic science faculty member who emulates Dr. Long's devotion to education, teaching, research and service to the University.

We are excited to host Dr. Abhinava Mishra of @mcdbucsd for the @iowabiochem Research Seminar series on Thurs, Apr 11. Dr. Mishra will present 'From Drosophila to a human immunodeficiency and enhanced cancer cell immunotherapy: Hyperactive Rac stimulates cellular cannibalism'.

Many thanks to our graduate students for their contributions to the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology! You are appreciated! 💛🖤

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Congratulations to M. Ashley Spies' lab, whose work was selected for the July 2023 cover of Chemistry-A European Journal! To read the associated article, visit doi.org/10.1002/chem.2….

We are pleased to have Dr. Alexey Soshnev be our first seminar speaker for Spring 2024! Alexey was a trainee in the lab of Dr. Pamela Geyer at Carver College of Medicine and will be presenting his research 'Connected Landscapes: Chromatin Mechanisms of Cancer and Pluripotency' on March 28.

Huge congratulations to Harrison!! It has been fantastic working with him over the past 5 years and I will be forever grateful that he moved to CU Anschutz Medical Campus with me from Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

This week we are excited to have Dr. Brian Parks of UW–Madison share his research on 'Using Genetics to Guide Biochemical Studies of Uncharacterized Genes in Metabolic Disease.' Thursday, November 30, 10:30am in 2117 MERF. #biochemistry #molecularbiology

Next week we welcome Dr. Mark Hedglin of @pennstate as our next guest speaker! Dr. Hedglin will present 'Close Encounters of the Damaging Kind: How the Human DNA Replication Machinery Accommodates Chemically-modified DNA' on Thursday, Nov 16, 10:30am in 2117 MERF.