Love seeing the DEI Office featured here! Slam dunk of a team, and they've been so warm and responsive anytime I've reached out. Highly recommend connecting with them ecals.cals.wisc.edu/2023/09/18/mee…

Our paper on a DNA-bridging histone variant from archaea is out! Great collaboration with Remus Dame lab!! When AF2 predictions and biochemical data support a tetramer, but the crystal structure shows a dimer conformation ... nature.com/articles/s4200… Remus T. Dame @SammyBoterhammy

Tomorrow night, grad students will compete in our Three Minute Thesis semi-finals by explaining their research in three minutes or less. Come cheer on your friends, colleagues, and students Wednesday, Oct 25 from 4 - 6 pm in Memorial Union (TITU). grad.wisc.edu/professional-d…

Transcription-driven DNA supercoiling activates bacterial chromatin at a distance biorxiv.org/content/10.110… An innovative view on how H-NS binds to the DNA (check figure 6). Thanks to our coworkers from Seville (Maritoñi Sanchez Romero, Rocio Fernandez) and to Philippe Bouloc.

“The questions people are asking in science aren’t easy. If they were easy, they’d be answered,” says graduate student Kim Huggler. “Hard questions mean that you have to come up with creative solutions.” morgridge.org/story/rising-s… #RisingSparks #FearlessScience

Excited for tomorrow's seminar by Dr. Elizabeth Campbell! Nov 28 at noon in 1211 BSB.

An analysis of AlphaFold protein structure predictions shows that while in many cases the predictions are highly accurate, there are also many instances where the predictions or parts of predicted structures do not agree with experimental data. @TerwillTom nature.com/articles/s4159…

Excellent work from ⁦@rkoszul⁩ & ⁦olivier espeli⁩ labs. They showed transcriptional induced domains in bacteria and proposed that they are the primary building blocks of bacterial chromosome folding nature.com/articles/s4159…

Save the date for our Three Minute Thesis Final Competition, where grad students will talk about their research in non-specialist terms. The competition takes place Friday, Feb. 16 at 10 am in the DeLuca Forum at the Discovery Building. grad.wisc.edu/professional-d…

I am super excited to share that my first manuscript with Ci Ji Lim on protecting fragile protein complexes from air-water-interface damage during cryo-EM plunge freezing is in preprint! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We have multiple openings for research technicians in my lab caolaboratory.org @UTSWNews. #newPI Please see below for detailed job descriptions. Please RT. Thank you! 🙏jobrxiv.org/job/ut-southwe…

CoQ10 is a very hydrophobic molecule with poor bioavailability. In this new study, led by Laura Steenberge, we build on prior work to show that the much more soluble CoQ4 is sufficient to rescue diverse CoQ functions and can be targeted to mitochondria. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.…

Ecstatic to share that I will be defending my Ph.D. in Biochemistry on June 4th at 1:30 CT. Please let me know if you would like to join the seminar virtually and I will send a streaming link via DM. Excited to share my post-Ph.D. plans soon!

I am so excited that my thesis defense is coming up in two weeks (May 30th at 10 AM CT)! Please message me if you would like a live stream link 🧬

Please join us on June 4 for Christine Hustmyer's PhD thesis defense! Christine Hustmyer's research in the LandickLab focused on the roles the bacterial chromatin protein H-NS plays in gene silencing. Learn more: ipib.wisc.edu/2024/05/23/ipi…

Our review is finally published! Thank you to all the people that contributed to this work, specially to first author Sokrich (not on X) @BuryMone #GenomeBiologyI2BC I2BC Paris-Saclay #BacterialGenomeOrganization onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mm…

Had a great experience writing a chapter for my thesis dedicated to a general audience. I compared my research to my other passion: the Indy 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway 🧬🏁. Bacterial RNA polymerase travels faster than a race car, but both encounter obstacles that keep the race exciting 😀

An article talking about ‘Future directions of the prokaryotic chromosome field’. This vision article resulted from of a workshop organized at Lorentz Center onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mm…