Biochemical characterization of Msp1 ATPase, done by graduate student Dom Castanzo, is out now- "The AAA+ ATPase Msp1 is a processive protein translocase with robust unfoldase activity" pnas.org/content/early/…

Very excited to share some of my work in Britt Glaunsinger's lab on an enigmatic protein involved in herpesviral genome packaging, the result of a great collaboration with Andreas Martin Lab, Stephanie Gates, Lisa Strong, and the twitterless Matt Gardner. [1/10]

Fantastic thread by Allison Didychuk detailing our collaboration with Britt Glaunsinger’s lab looking into viral proteins involved in herpesviral genome packaging

Out now- our review with Kylie Walters (she/her) group: Proteasome interaction with ubiquitinated substrates: from mechanisms to therapies Erika Lopez Alfonzo febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

And now it's out 🎉! Big thanks to the reviewers and editors eLife - the journal who helped us improve this story about a long-enigmatic herpesvirus protein required for viral genome packaging. Britt Glaunsinger Andreas Martin Lab Stephanie Gates Lisa Strong and Matt Gardner elifesciences.org/articles/62261

Glad to see this work now in eLife - the journal elifesciences.org/articles/62261 Congrats Allison Didychuk Britt Glaunsinger Stephanie Gates Lisa Strong and Matt Gardner

We are so excited to announce that lab member Diego Ramos Ortiz has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! #Congratulations @NSFGRFP #NSF #NSFGRFP

New preprint alert! Exciting smFRET measurements of the 26S proteasome. “Ubiquitin modulates 26S proteasome conformational dynamics and promotes substrate degradation.” Congrats to authors Erik, Zaw, Jared Bard and Ken! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Time for #DinoOfTheWeek! Which one is your favorite?

We started a fun project to catalog all our plasmids. Usually, this is very laborious because some are huge and in low copy numbers. Pretty cool though, shout out to plasmidsaurus for helping me accidentally find an insH10 E. coli transposon insertion outside of my plasmid ORFs!

Check out this post doc opportunity in the lab of Andreas Martin at UC Berkeley linkedin.com/jobs/view/2746…

Congrats to Andy on a successful @HHMINEWS renewal! We were finally able to celebrate all our accomplishments together with some bubbly UC Berkeley MCB Berkeley Biophysics

Great first day of talks at the UC Berkeley MCB BBS retreat, with solid Martin lab representation with a fantastic talk by Erika Lopez Alfonzo

I am over the moon to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri Mizzou in Jan 2023!🥰🥳🤩

We are so proud of Stephanie Gates and excited to see her lab grow!

We are excited to welcome Paula Ana Paula Vargas Ruiz to the lab for her PhD studies Berkeley Biophysics 🎉🍾

Congratulations to Cameron on his paper on the mechanisms of cdc48's ubiquitin chain requirements and the role of Ufd1 on ubiquitin linkage specificity. Check out his beautiful work here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Martin Lab members at the ##cshlubiq 2023 meeting! Andy gave a great talk and Santi & Erika presented their 26S proteasome research at the poster sessions. Great science talks, time with colleagues, and lobster! #ourproteincaneatyourprotein #ubiquitin #proteasome