Happy Monday! Next up for our member spotlights we have our Social Chair, Leon Palao III! He is a 2nd year student in BBCB Graduate Group and is mentored by Kenji Murakami and Yi-Wei Chang. His favorite spot on Penn's campus is Penn Park! And, he loves SACNAS's community outreach!

Meet the author: Kenji Murakami BBCB Graduate Group UPenn Dept of Biochem & Biophys cell.com/molecular-cell…

Our new study led by BBCB Graduate Group grad students Jose J. Gorbea Colón, PhD & Leon Palao III combining cryo-EM single particle analysis and single particle cryo-ET to understand the structure and activity of transcription pre-initiation complex on a divergent promoter! cell.com/molecular-cell…

A great new review from our amazing BBCB Graduate Group PhD student Leon Palao III, highlighting the use of combining cryo-ET and single particle analysis to investigate structurally heterogeneous DNA-protein assemblies! authors.elsevier.com/a/1iN48,LqArQC…

Humbly sharing my first author paper, Structure of Hir histone chaperone complex. (yeast version of HIRA) Collaborative work from Murakami Lab, Marmorstein Lab, @GarciaLabMS, @TriggerLoop and thanks for Brady Johnston's MolecularNode. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… open access.

7-year collaborative work between the Marmorstein Lab, @GarciaLabMS, Kamil K, and my labs finally came out!

Congrats @TriggerLoop and Murakami Lab on transcription start site scanning and contributions from everyone’s favorite general transcription factor TFIIH academic.oup.com/nar/article/do…

We finally identified a residue critical in TSS scanning through a collaboration with Kamil K. academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

Wonderful work from the Tsai lab Tsaikl, revealing mechanism of the Mediator kinase!

Our postdoc Chun Yang got awarded this year's S. Walter Englander Prize for Postdoctoral Research from UPenn Dept of Biochem & Biophys. It's a nice combination of biochemistry and cryo-EM as well as yeast genetics from the Kaplan lab @TriggerLoop . (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39287137/)