My Purdue Biological Sciences BIOL 533 #MedMicro class did an outstanding job on their posters today! Students were assigned articles extending from class content. They also designed a "next experiment" based on their article & evaluated if #AI helped refine the expt. Purdue University

Excited to share our latest study in PLOS Genetics "Acetylation of the yeast Hsp40 chaperone protein Ydj1 fine-tunes proteostasis and translational fidelity". Thanks to lab members Siddhi Omkar Megan Mitchem and Courtney Shrader for their hard work 🔥journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

Mattoo lab closing out the semester with our holiday party. Thank you to this amazing group and all our supporters/well wishers who make lab and research so meaningful & fun! Purdue University Purdue Biological Sciences Purdue Biochemistry

Congratulations, Jay Akridge!!

Merry Christmas! I ended the work year fighting a bad cold, w/ a cough that lingered on forever… so much so that my family gave me the gift of lozenges this Xmas 🤣 Gives a whole new meaning to Deck the “Halls”! Wishing you happy holidays & good health! Purdue University

It was spring 2020. I was a professor and had recently learned I’d successfully been awarded early tenure. At the tail end of a series of talks at other universities, a colleague had invited me to give a seminar at a stellar department that was an unusually great fit for my

Thrilled to announce Dr. Mehdi Mollapour Mehdi Mollapour PhD as our new CSSI President (2025–2026) and Dr. Adrienne Edkins BioBRU Lab as President-Elect (2027–2028)! Huge thanks to Dr. Lea Sistonen Sistonenlab for her dedicated service as Immediate Past President. bit.ly/4gCGEfB

🙏🙏🙏Honored and humbled. Huge Congratulations to BioBRU Lab and a big thank you to Sistonenlab for all her hard work. Looking forward to the exciting journey ahead!

I'm so thrilled to (re)join the team Science Friday. Ira gave me my first gig in journalism 20 years ago‼️ So this feels like a homecoming. It also feels like a really good time to be focused on bringing people trustworthy (and fun) science news.

“Future scientific innovation requires the transformative power of philanthropy.” We're honored to be mentioned in this PNAS editorial as an example of philanthropy's role in supporting the next great scientific breakthroughs. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Is this real, or is it excessive AI hype? New paper claims that an AI foundation model achieves experimental-level accuracy in predicting gene expression even in previously unseen cell types." I'll read the paper, but don't believe it for a second nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our collaboration w/ Greg Anderson lab, describing work of my postdoc Radhika Bhaumik. We delineate the roles of pili in establishing S. maltophilia biofilms, notorious for nosocomial infections. Purdue Biological Sciences Purdue Biochemistry sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I am thrilled to say that our work is now online Cell ! I've analysed protein structures for quite some time, but Robb Mallik, who co-led this work, took these analyses to yet another level - 🧵👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

It's Valentine's Day and Professor Tony Hunter has been "going steady" with Salk for 50 years now. On Feb 21, join us in celebrating his half-century legacy at the Salk Institute. Lab alumni, colleagues, and other luminaries will share their science, memories, and tributes to

In the #PurdueOneHealth Series, here’s coverage of our collaborative effort focused on protein misfolding and disease. Purdue Biological Sciences Purdue Biochemistry Purdue Life Sciences

The God of War joins the innate immunity lexicon. ARIES Domains: Multi-motif interferon (IFN) inducing signaling domains found in all known IFN-inducing pathways. febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fe…

This #InternationalWomensDay and everyday, we celebrate the inspiring women in our HF community who continue to push boundaries and shape a brighter future for science.💫

Big congrats to #HFScout Joseph Mougous on his new position at Yale University!

Out Now! Host AAA-ATPase VCP/p97 lyses ubiquitinated intracellular bacteria as an innate antimicrobial defence bit.ly/4jebHzK #Microbiology #Antimicrobial #Bacteria

🗳️Results of the 2025 ASBMB election are in! ☑️Please join us in congratulating our new president, secretary, Council members and committee members. ow.ly/biaV50WgiA8