The sun has set on the 2024 Utah Postdoc Rising Stars Symposium. Wishing everyone safe travels home!

Very proud of our SACNAS Utah Chapter officers for stepping up to co-organize this important event.

Great news ... but a stable model has to be found ... and I don't feel that we should give @NIAIDFunding a free pass on this. I am still puzzled that one would cut funding to something we urgently need and replace it with something few of us have asked for or need for.

Encouraging applications to this exciting event!

Thrilled to see Kade's paper on iron acquisition by #malaria parasites published PNASNews. U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry UofUMDPhD @NIGMS UofUtah.CIHD parasitesrule University of Utah Health pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

We appreciate the highlight! U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry UofUtah.CIHD UofUMDPhD #malaria parasitesrule

Fantastic paper by postdoc Aldo Garcia Guerrero unraveling mechanisms for #heme attachment to cyt c and c1 in the ETC of #malaria parasites is now out Infectious Diseases U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry UofUtah.CIHD pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

One more month to apply for our fourth annual Graduate Student Rising Stars symposium! U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry U of U NUIP See attached flyer for information -- note, we are extending the deadline to December 30th to allow turnaround after some mid-December conferences 😁

Thrilled to announce the final version of this epic study now out eLife - the journal, led by Amanda Mixon Blackwell and with @thegoldberglab #malaria UofUtah.CIHD BWFUND Genomics Summer Research for Magnificents - UofU U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry UtahBioscience elifesciences.org/articles/100256

Lab lunch to send off Amanda Mixon Blackwell, who rides off into the Plasmodium sunset to start new postdoc adventures studying human neurogenetic disease

Wes Sundquist U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry University of Utah Health and team's discovery of the structure and importance of the HIV capsid is a basis for this incredible advance. Congratulations to all teams involved! healthcare.utah.edu/newsroom/news/…

Welcome back, Judi!

Looking forward to this symposium next month, including Erica Hastings from my lab U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry

It was fantastic to have these visitors here last week and hear about their exciting discoveries!

Very proud of PhD student Erica Hastings who gave a talk and poster at the American Physical Society meeting on collaborative work to understand hemozoin crystal motion in #malaria parasites U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry UofUtah.CIHD UofU3i Burroughs Wellcome Fund Paper coming soon!

Thanks to #ACSInfectiousDiseases for featuring our work on cyt c biogenesis in #malaria parasites on the front cover! U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry UofUtah.CIHD pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Really fantastic to see basic science and its translational impact featured so prominently! Congratulations to Wes for the phenomenal discoveries (and as my department chair!).

Thrilled to announce a new collaborative preprint from PhD student Erica Hastings unraveling the nature and mechanism of fascinating hemozoin crystal motion inside #malaria parasites U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry UofUtah.CIHD Burroughs Wellcome Fund Physics of Parasitism parasitesrule biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happening today! Physics of Parasitism parasitesrule U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry UofUtah.CIHD #malaria biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to lab members Aldo García-Guerrero and Erica Hastings for winning the @uofubiochem Evelyn Bruenger and Marjorie Riches Gunn Awards for Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Research Excellence, respectively! #malaria UofUtah.CIHD University of Utah Health